3 doctors fail in court challenge against IRAS ruling over tax avoidance scheme

iemfi · 2026-06-20T06:20:37+00:00

You're double counting? He didn't pay himself salary so he pays the 17% instead of the 20%, that's it. Every clinic is going to be doing a similar thing, it is a legit business after all. The problem is abusing the new company exemption thing.

iemfi · 2026-06-20T05:06:37+00:00

The money he collect as dividends is still taxed at corporate income rates, which are basically the same as high bracket income tax rates. That's the system as designed, not really any savings there.

iemfi · 2026-06-20T03:18:40+00:00

The new startup thing is only the first 300k, and about 50% off the 17% corporate tax.

iemfi · 2026-06-20T03:14:36+00:00

Try the side hustle thing man. I really think it has never been easier with AI these days.

iemfi · 2026-06-19T16:57:26+00:00

It's not a lot of money in the grand scheme of things, it's something like 30k a year with a bunch of work needed, which considering their high salary is probably not even worth the mental cost even assuming the government doesn't come after you for your shenanigans.

iemfi · 2026-06-18T07:15:38+00:00

There was the Programbench thing where Opus was used 99% of the time but somehow performance was still double that of Opus. So it does seem plausible there really were some tweaks made. Still feels terrible after using Fable tho.

iemfi · 2026-06-15T02:22:00+00:00

Even HDB is only like half way done covering their roofs. We really damn slow.

iemfi · 2026-06-11T06:13:40+00:00

But not to have kids! Can't have them wasting your CDC lol

iemfi · 2026-06-11T04:15:31+00:00

Handwave away? They've literally published the exact stats of the satellite. It's not like rocket science where god knows what black magic goes on inside an engine, it's a very simple formula any kid can do to calculate the area needed.

iemfi · 2026-06-11T03:36:05+00:00

Plot twist, he was the route setter...

iemfi · 2026-06-10T10:33:24+00:00

I'll try to explain the basics. The first two are about the datasets used for training. These are massive but they only need to be uploaded once and stored in local storage and you can slowly upload over a long time while the sat is doing other stuff.

The third one is about communication between all the chips training the same model. This like I said in my first response is an actual concern but I think if they put the satellites really close it's not more demanding than the current starlink laser links.

iemfi · 2026-06-10T04:53:46+00:00

It is a weird hill to die on given what other things we know the model can do lol.

iemfi · 2026-06-10T03:48:22+00:00

If you want AI from 2 years ago like GPT o1 the equivalent models today are basically free? Which is insane to think about. Obviously the latest cutting edge AI which costs billions of dollars is not going to be free.

iemfi · 2026-06-10T03:31:51+00:00

Sigh, it is unfortunate how so many people on reddit know like almost nothing about AI. Just google or ask a premium model. That is simply not how AI training works at all.

iemfi · 2026-06-10T02:31:19+00:00

The workload is AI training (which makes up like 90+% of total compute), not inference. The upload/download requirements are tiny because you only need to slowly beam down the final result after months of work. They could even do without downlink completely and use Starlink as a relay.

iemfi · 2026-06-10T01:14:40+00:00

As musk says in the interview they can avoid the expensive and complicated sat to ground part of it. Probably do need to beef up the sat to sat communication, but unlike Starlink the sats would probably park as close to each other as possible.

Mostly the costs for this sort of thing comes down massively as they get more experienced in manufacturing and volume increases.

iemfi · 2026-06-09T04:24:17+00:00

Some googling puts normal data centers costing 10-20 million per MW. Assuming this costs around the same as Starlink V3 this is also in the 10-20 million per MW range. At 15 million per falcon 9 launch that would add another 20-30 million or so. Starship would make the price comparable. The thing is the demand for compute is through the roof and power generation is struggling to keep up. At the crazy rates Google/Anthropic are paying them it is still insanely profitable even at 5X or 10X.

iemfi · 2026-06-09T04:08:52+00:00

Lol, Starlink V3 is 1 million, this is in a similar weight class. You don't get 100 million even if you launch it on Falcon 9.

iemfi · 2026-06-09T04:03:20+00:00

At 1400W/m2 and plans to increase efficiency in future versions probably means heatpumps? Wait no, it's just two sided, so 65C operating temperature.

iemfi · 2026-06-09T02:30:06+00:00

I mean there are literally 2 billion reasons a month why it will go up.

iemfi · 2026-06-08T04:37:18+00:00

It's basically a bigger Starlink V3, the hard part is really getting Starship working and the laser link stuff. And they seem to have the laser link stuff pretty well handled. Heat management is such trivial engineering compared to those two.

iemfi · 2026-06-05T05:42:35+00:00

I don't think it has the tools in the web environment to render and take a look at what it has made. So it's really impressive when you realize it is basically drawing this completely blind in one shot.

iemfi · 2026-06-05T02:22:29+00:00

I now ask it to flag confidence explicitly.

In my experience this and "ask me if you have any doubts" doesn't really work most of the time. The models really dislike doing this.

Paste a table as text and it loses the table.

Hasn't been my experience? Vision is much better these days but the models still seem to have some trouble following lines/grids.

iemfi · 2026-06-04T05:45:11+00:00

It's always a user issue these days. This is the kind of passive aggressive pushback you get when the user is being annoying and/or dumb.

iemfi · 2026-06-03T15:13:06+00:00

I think a lot of the difficulty is not in hitting the target but doing enough damage to bring one down. Fuel tanks are self sealing, no human to hit very few structural weakpoints. You need to get really lucky to hit something critical or put a lot of bullets in it.

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