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DidISayTooMuch | 2 years ago | on: Meta's Reality Labs loses record $4.65B ahead of Apple's Vision Pro launch

Oh yes, just burn all the money so they can use it as a tax write-off?

Does anyone really know how these tax write-offs work? People just use the term without any clear understanding.

Meta like any sane company out there will probably use every rule to avoid (not evade) paying tax. Thats good for the shareholders. But this isn't one such measure, it's mostly R&D expenditure.

DidISayTooMuch | 2 years ago | on: Long Covid is associated with cognitive slowing

Not sure if others have experienced this, but you tend to forget nouns (object names, names of people, places, etc) after getting hit with COVID. I googled about this and something called "anomic aphasia" came up.

I often caught myself saying "that thing" many times because I couldn't recall the names of even basic objects or street names, etc after getting hit with Omicron.

Just curious if others have experienced this as well.

DidISayTooMuch | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do AI chatbots develop personalities?

Characters in book don't write their own dialogs, they are merely projections of the authors. But AI chatbots are non-deterministic and come up with dialog of their own. Of course, you can say they are trained on large corpus of texts and all they are doing are just predicting the next token in the series. But yet, why do they seem like they have distinct personalities? The prediction algorithm is working in such a way that it's creating a sense of personality. How is this happening?

DidISayTooMuch | 5 years ago | on: Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research (2015)

From the article:

"An experiment that created a hybrid version of a bat coronavirus — one related to the virus that causes SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) — has triggered renewed debate over whether engineering lab variants of viruses with possible pandemic potential is worth the risks...."

"..Simon Wain-Hobson, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, points out that the researchers have created a novel virus that “grows remarkably well” in human cells. “If the virus escaped, nobody could predict the trajectory,” he says..."

DidISayTooMuch | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Thinking of leaving California. Should I vest my options while here?

Thanks for the reply. I was not hired as remote employee. Was hired in CA. So lets say that I got 10,000 stock options (strike @ $1.00) that vests over 4 years. 3 of those years I have been in CA and 1 year in Texas.

Let's assume my company goes IPO in 2024 (it's a lottery, I understand), and assume each share is worth $10.00. Which means my 10,000 shares will be worth $100,000.

So I will owe tax on 7500 of those shares to CA? Because I've been there 3 out of those 4 years? That is ($10.00 - $1.00) * 7500 = $67500 of my income will be taxed by CA? And remaining amount will be taxed by Texas?

Even if I move to Puerto Rico, where there are no capital gains, I still owe CA taxes?

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