Slate is coming in at around 175 inches..

If your payroll ends up being about the same, after 5 years it all evens out in the sense that you will be expensing 100% of your payroll each year (but the expensing will be 20% from each of the prior 5 years).

If your payroll is quickly growing You experience the problem on all payroll growth.

If your payroll is decreasing, you get a tax benefit. Your outgoing cash is less, but you are getting deductions from prior year expenses.

Your not taking into account the time value of money. You always want to expense sooner.

Additionally, having to wait 4 additional years to deduct that 80% is a huge drain on capital.

Combine this with higher interest rates and the effect is essentially pouring sand into the gears of the tech industry.

No, it's always strictly worse because you could have bought bonds or deployed the capital in some other way with that money.

Sure if you big enough to ride out 5 years but if your a hungry struggling bootstrapped startup, this can be game over.

I have this anxiety for sure. I cant even picture her face.

Touching objects for me doesnt help, though looking at pictures does. Ive tried to get her to make scrapbooks for every year we have been together with explanations and stories, but no luck so far.

She remembers what we both were wearing the day we met.

I have aphantasia, SDAM, and face blindness.

Like the author i rely on mental models (I wrote a book called visual models for software requirements), Im good at getting to the heart of things and am constantly organizing information so I can remember the principle.

I do get anxiety about not remembering people once they pass away. I might only remember a few things about them. But when I look at pictures I can often times remember all kinds of details. I think some of the information is there, it just isnt retrievable.

Im bad at networking, when I go to events lots of people know me, but I have no idea who they are. Im waiting for glasses with cameras that will identify people for me and go over their background.

Aphantasia is supposed to be rare, but I think many engineers have it. At least at my company it seems more prevalent than it is supposed to be in the general population.

In some ways it is a gift. I barely remember traumatic events, but unfortunately I dont really remember amazing events either.

> I do get anxiety about not remembering people once they pass away.

Have you tried remembering how their presence felt/feels? Consciously identifying the feeling that a loved one "carried" was an important part of a recent grieving I went through.

I have aphantasia now and I miss being able to visualize anything at all.

I have the opposite of face blindness and subconsciously process every face but I have lethonomia (cannot remember people's names). Years ago, I was once riding my bicycle from campus at probably 21 mph / 30 kph and recognized the brother of a lab partner when they were completely to the side of me and 75' / 22 m away in profile after seeing a photo of them once. I'm probably not as good as I once was due to a TBI.

I have aphantasia and probably SDAM. I can barely remember my own life.

Ive been waiting for years for glasses that can scan someones face, tell me who they are, and give me interesting points about them (kids' ages, wifes name, what they do etc).

It is very common for me to be around town and have people come up to me and say my name, and I dont recall ever having met them before.

On the plus side I live in today and dont dwell on the past. It is like a superpower for happiness.

SDAM="severely deficient autobiographical memory".

I've got SDAM, I guess? Although, I object to the characterization. I view other people as being neurotically obsessed with remembering their past and their hurts. If I want to remember something, I take a picture, and write a short (or long!) note about it, and that's enough for me to remember (read: reconstruct) a narrative about that event.

I'm a pretty deep pessimist, as well, so I'm pretty happy with my life, all the time. Drives my wife bonkers.

> On the plus side I live in today and dont dwell on the past. It is like a superpower for happiness.

This is true on many levels.

4:10 @ The Woman Who Could Not Forget - Jill Price

https://youtu.be/SoxsMMV538U

Perfect Memory = Perfect Inability to Forgive | House M.D.

https://youtu.be/dohQfI3u2lc

I have experienced similar. A while ago I had some memory issues due to severe insomnia over weeks. It certainly sucked but the memory loss part wasn't so bas as I basically just felt happy often, not even remembering little annoyances.

It's kind of a double edged sword in my opinion because it's not really affordable to always be in that state.

Joan Rivers had a marvelous remedy for this.

When someone says to you "We've met" and you're drawing a blank, look them in the eye and say "Yes!... but WHERE?"

... and they'll take it from there.

when you punish drug use with prison, it is better for it to be legal.

I have mostly kindle books now, around 600. I sort them by recent and reread the oldest. It takes me about 10-12 years to go through all my books.

I still have about 50 or so physical books and Im starting to convert the ones I can to kindle.

Im red green colorblind. When wearing my enchroma, some things I thought were brown are actually very red.

On the other hand green lights lose their green.

On a day to day basis I can functionally see red and green, but sometimes when a red or a green is next to a brown I cant distinguish them.

And versions of red that regular people might have a hard time distinguishing would be impossible for me to distinguish.

I upgrade when I need to. Im still running a 2015 macbook pro (I have two that I rotate if I have an issue with one). I have this version because of all the ports, then the M chips didnt have the virtualbox support I needed. I regularly use the SD card port (gopro) and hdmi ports.

Now that the M chips have virtualization and the laptops actually have ports Ill probably upgrade at some point, but I actually dont need to. One of my laptops could break completely and I would just migrate to the working one.

I keep my phones until I drop them or until they get too slow. I use samsung phones as I dont like the usability of apple phones (no T9 dialing) or the way icloud, photo storage, etc work. How do you get pictures off your phone into folders? It is annoying that the iphone cant mount as a drive.

I have a dell t3500 desktop (2012?). I have maxed out the ram, upgraded the cpu, and have large SSD drives. It is fast enough for what I do on windows which is just running blue iris these days.

I have plastic casio gshock watch with atomic time updates and solar. I think it is 10-12 years old.

I drive a 13 year old truck and my wife an 8 year old minivan. I do want an electric car but hate all the computerization of the dash. A friend imported an electric car from china and the controls are basically like a golf cart.

another friend converts classic cars into electric cars and I might be willing to convert an old truck to electric.

I definitely dont downsize, but I only upgrade when a usability issue makes me upgrade.

> How do you get pictures off your phone into folders?

Just plug it into a computer. iPhones mount as a digital camera and will let you copy your photos easily. It’s also possible to copy files onto an iPhone through USB but that requires a supported app to be installed.

NFL was a non profit up until 2015ish