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Except that billionaires don't hold cash but assets. And they did not necessarily pay taxes on the value of those assets. The idea that billionaires have vaults of cash in mountain…

The point of a tax is to steer society, not to compute some sort of equivalence. Billionaire wealth has increased by way more than the 5 % mentioned over the last couple of years. …

Will check out keyd and wtype, thank you for the pointers! If you don't mind, could you go into a little more detail on your journey? What do you use it for? What roadblocks did yo…

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Yes. It's a conditional probability. P(W | You're a sucker) = 0.5

Fun project. The article is a bit light on details. I find it astonishing that a project like this runs into performance issues. I would have liked to learn more about what these r…

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I think some of these obstacles are documented here. https://github.com/isene/ClaudeCode I found the asm skill file quite interesting. Gives a glimpse into a world I didn't know st…

A uni prof of mine insisted on hosting the work group's SourceSafe repo on his laptop. You could not commit changes when he was out of the building.

For the name: Use something with amber in the name.

Maybe you could try to find somebody to take over or help you maintain it?

Can be explained with one word: Inequality. America being rich is a smokescreen. Some Americans are very rich. Most are not. The very rich Americans are not sad, actually.

I'm not a native English speaker, so I don't really have much of an opinion about LLM writing. It probably doesn't stand out to me that much. Your reply made me curious though, so …

I liked this series of lectures on Youtube. Compilers - Alex Aiken | Stanford https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEAYkSg4uSQ3yc_zf_f1G... Mentioned in another comment, but with…

> Autistic person writes article describing a mismatch between communication styles of autistic people with non-autistic people. > HN commenters express their anger about the writi…

Totally missed that. Thank you!

What happened to Andreas Kling?

Why?

Agree about the latency requirement. There's https://kyutai.org/stt , which is very low latency. But it seems not as hackable.

It's not AI, it's AI companies, at the behest of their stewards and owners. People with money have been competing with you for your assets for a long time. And they will keep outco…

Yes, but, you see, guns are merely tools. If you give these guns to the right people, they will actually create more work for the doctors, and everybody wins.

A couple years ago I wanted to design a custom Nonogram as a birthday present. We had a photo of the giftee and pixelated it. But how do you make sure the Nonogram is uniquely solv…

I know what you mean, but there is bitrot. I'm currently trying dwm. Zero out of the three patches I downloaded from the website applied successfully. I'd call that bitrot. Not sur…