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> That's why I think few politicians currently understand how to convert between wealth and income taxes. You can tell from the way they talk about the subject that they don't unde…

> In the median case, US state politicians talking about adding a "mere 1%" wealth tax are talking about causing the residents of their state to have the highest taxes in the world…

> It's clear that politicians don't get this from the way they talk about a "mere 1%" wealth tax. None of them would speak of adding a "mere 20%" to the income tax rate, even thoug…

> It is a pity we don't hear more about the truly brilliant researchers. Reason? What is the value of that other than entertainment? And it's not in the interest of companies to ma…

Damn this is like a variation of the Streisand Effect [1] I am not involved in this industry so I never heard of the company or the youtuber before reading this. I am tempted to bu…

This is exactly true. Very similar reactions when in the mid 80's in typesetting the purists said also it's not real. (I was in the business back then and remember it well. Anyway …

For one thing comments here appear to apply to the quality and issues today not potentially going forward. Quality will change quicker than anyone expects. I am wondering how many …

Have been following Trump since the 1970's. This is a negotiating tactic of his and actually it's a somewhat common negotiating tactic that many people follow when in a negotiation…

The issue here with the negativity is that it appears to ignore the potential tremendous upside and tends to discuss the downside and in a way that appears to make as if it's lurki…

> I'm a bit shocked to see so many negative comments here on HN. Very generally I suspect there are many coders on HN who have a love hate relationship with a tool (claude code) th…

Your website (luniv.tech) is (for lack of a better way to put it) 'all over the place'. You are (from what I can tell) a 1 person operation. Nothing wrong with that. But you should…

I recognize that this wasn't your decision but I would say having that HN Christmas banner (or any religious holiday banner) is a form of proselytizing. (Not disagreeing with what …

HN puts the Christmas banner and alternating colors. I am curious what percentage of HN community celebrates Christmas vs. not at all, another religion, or born Christian but doesn…

That is such utter bs it's amazing that Microsoft PR thought that somehow that shows anything of benefit to the suffering users.

Could be crackpots or could be regular people who are so frustrated they express themselves that way. And the truth is if the 'Bill Gates' had to deal with this frustration himself…

There is this tendency to phrase questions (or statements) as "when did 'we' ". These decision are made individually not centrally. There is no process in place (and most likely th…

I am not a programmer, but I have used awk since the 1980's. And normally I would read this type of info or really many things about typical unix tools. I've done a small amount of…

Claude didn't interpret the prompt correctly. It could have come to the same conclusion w/o privacy concerns. For example if I asked the same question and the handle was 'boatlover…

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Install claude code to do that: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-code

> "Reading stuff freely posted on the internet" is also very different from a business having machines consume large volumes of data posted on the Internet for the purpose of gener…