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Same.

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.

thank you.

we were testing bionic reading’s claim. they make no claims to only working when reading challenges are present.

i made the dataset publicly available. all the distributions are approximately normal.

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?

thanks marc! appreciate the kindness.

ps- philly native here :)

thanks rasul!

on an individual basis, there is some evidence that reading with your "best" font may have a meaningful impact on reading speed with no loss of comprehension. but you could probably unlock these gains by simply switching from, say, arial to garamond (i made that up for illustrative purposes), rather than implementing this complex font style.

i got that feedback a lot after initially posting the experiment:

> Since posting this experiment, I've received a lot of side comments along the lines of, "Well, of course I don't expect Bionic Reading to work for most people, but for [my subpopulation], it really works." If that were the case, we might expect to see disproportionate benefits for those participants who read faster with Bionic Reading than for those who read faster without Bionic Reading. Let's look at how many participants read faster with each font and their average speed gains.

there might be some specialized effect on folks with known reading problems, but bionic reading makes no claims to specifically work for those people but rather the whole population so that's what we decided to test.

nice to meet you, Nick! shooting you an email now :)