This is simply not true. Says my lawyer and CPA. And every other CEO/CFO I've talked with.
Same.
Readit Newshoodwink commented on The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs qz.com/tech-layoffs-tax-c... · Posted by u/booleanbetrayal
Not if they are contractors. That's the point the parent commenter was making. All the reasons you list make it so they need to do so, instead of "hiring" them directly.
It doesn’t matter if the foreign workers are contractors or employees. The expense is considered R&D and must be amortized over 15 years. I’ve dealt with this personally since 2023 for my company working with a legion of tax consultants. There’s no loophole here, I assure you.
Met my cofounder on HN in 2017. We’ve since been working on a consumer saas app called Readwise
for past 6 years.
hoodwink commented on My 20 year career is technical debt or deprecated blog.visionarycto.com/p/m... · Posted by u/spo81rty
That's like calling a chair you built 10 years ago "technical debt" because it can eventually break.
No, it's just a fucking product you made. The fact it has to be maintained doesn't mean it is "debt", it's just like any other asset.
You don't get to your car and think "that's technical debt". There is nothing technical about it. It's a tool with maintenance needs.
The difference is choosing worse now to get it faster, that's technical debt.
thank you.
It would be interesting to ask people after the test:
Have you been diagnosed with, or do you believe you have, dyslexia, ADHD, visual impairment, or other reading challenges?
It would also be interesting to ask people if they felt it was easier to read with the new tech or the old way. Speed is one metric, but subjective impressions of reading ease are also relevant.
we were testing bionic reading’s claim. they make no claims to only working when reading challenges are present.
Excellent experimental design and analysis!
Is there a way for me to buy you a coffee (or some cash equivalent)? I'd love to incentivize such rigor in online discourse.
An obvious way is to try out readwise ;) but I mostly read online articles and (pirated) books, so I'm not sure I'm a good use case.
these might be the kindest words i've ever gotten in a hacker news thread so thank you! :D
we've actually built an app for reading articles and ebooks (and RSS and PDFs and email newsletters and Twitter threads): https://readwise.io/read
still in private beta but we'll be entering public beta before summer is over!
Why they didn't test for comprehension of the text?
This is a huge flaw of this study
> tl;dr. Actually no, the results will probably not surprise you. After analyzing data from 2,074 testers, we found no evidence that Bionic Reading has any positive effect on reading speed.
I've seen a lot of viral social media posts about bionic reading recently and this is the very first time I've ever seen anyone mention reading speed. Everything I've seen is selling bionic reading for greater reading comprehension and focus. Never mentions speed.
Granted the article measures reading comprehension too (though I'd have some doubts about the methodology of 3 MCQs on a PG article - this part of the test didn't seem high on the author's priority list).
Did the authors just waste a lot of their time because they didn't pay attention to the claims or are we just in very different bubbles?
giant hero section on bionic-reading.com:
"Did you know that your brain reads faster than your eye?"
title of bionic-reading.com:
"Faster. Better. More focused. Reading."
does "faster" not refer to speed to you or something?