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I'm not a tax lawyer, so take this with a grain of salt, but yes, I think they were trying to close loopholes, but did so sloppily. Read the text ( https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/…

Yeah, good point. And I think you could probably make a fair case that the choice of where to apply that sort of ugly anti-democratic violence and subversion probably reflected cul…

I don't think this is true of "proposals" in the plural. This is arguably true of the California ballot measure due, allegedly, to sloppy drafting. But this isn't a fundamental asp…

For a long time, I've wanted a way to do realtime family/friend location sharing with e2ee. So I finally built one! Some details: - The protocol uses a Signal-style double-ratchet …

I'm sort of torn on this stuff. On the one hand, I suppose modern personal computers often have a lot of excess compute, so for lightweight inference tasks it makes sense to utiliz…

What's ironic about your statement is that it's this exact belief--that founders should remain in control--that has led to the widespread adoption of dual class shares, in which fo…

The book "Limitarianism" seems relevant: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/21/limitarianism-...

I think those are unrelated dynamics. AI isn't causing people to use fewer apps. (Well, it might be, in a different way: you don't need the Yelp app if you can just ask ChatGPT whe…

The article is referencing this paper, btw: https://www.nber.org/papers/w35275 . As I commented on the Ladybird thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48410252 ), this is an…

Also, this paper seems relevant: https://www.nber.org/papers/w35275 "Writing Code vs. Shipping Code: Productivity Effects Across Generations of AI Coding Tools" As the FT summarize…

I think this is the key point. A few years ago, if I send a complex PR that compiles and passes tests, that implies a certain amount of time and cognitive investment on my part. It…

I don't disagree with the desire for more inherently secure architectures, but I don't think it's the most relevant issue here . You're always going to have to trust some core same…

If "we" = "the USA": 1. I think the examples I linked to are real , in the sense that they were both a) CIA funded (or boosted) and b) are broadly credible cultural output. 2. Voic…

What I think many of the jaded comments about how "it was ever thus" miss is what it means that American soft power is reduced to AI slop. During the Cold War, the CIA famously fun…

Looks neat! I don't mean to be dumb, but it's hard to find docs on how Hyperdrive works. The Hyperdrive github just links to https://docs.pears.com/building-blocks/hyperdrive/ , wh…

That's what https://verifiableintent.dev/ is for, right? Though I also think this is, in a sense, a poorly specified problem: without remote attestation (as with FIDO Security Keys…

No, using Inbox should be just as safe as using Gmail. I don't recognize that exact notification text, but I suspect you're seeing the notification mentioned here ( https://support…

Hi, Gmail engineer here. This isn't specific to Inbox; we have limits in place for all accounts (documented here: https://support.google.com/a/answer/1366776 ). You can probably un…