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Re: Ask HN: What is everyone in SF talking about?

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Post by tim-tday »

Jcowell wrote: post #5
KerrAvon wrote: post #3

Aside from sportsball, AI and deranged [tb]illionaire behavior is basically it. edit: autocorrect

Curious to hear more about the deranged behaviors

Zuck thrashing: spending billions on the metaverse. Admitting it failed, spending billions more. Firing a bunch of people. Spending insane amounts to hire sexy name ai people. Instituting total surveillance to train ai to replace people. Then giving that AI away for free online with no real explanation. (I guess the order of those two things should be reversed, but they don’t make any more sense in that order either)

Elon (do we even need to do this one?) the horse thing should be enough.

Ellison’s quest to defeat death, young blood transfusions and weirder shit.

Brin fighting tooth and nail against paying taxes (I guess it’s not deranged for one’s wealth and power to activate to protect itself, it just makes him look like a petulant child)

Re: Ask HN: What is everyone in SF talking about?

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Post by robocat »

rcpt wrote: post #21
trescenzi wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dangerous to whom exactly?

Anyone who's not able to populism their way into a cash blast for their org. I am not a billionaire. But I don't want to risk losing my job or moving out of state so that the dialysis people can cash a paycheck.

Apparently the leading cause of needing dialysis is diabetic nephropathy. Who gets the blame for diabetes these days? Are they taxing the bastards that push sugar?? Does anyone get a tax rebate if they choose to eat well and exercise regularly to avoid diabetes?

On topic: if voters shift to a scarcity mindset (shifting higher on the Belief in a Zero-Sum Game BZSG scale), California's growth might become as economically dynamic as Bulgaria or Romania.

Re: Ask HN: What is everyone in SF talking about?

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Post by khurs »

ivewonyoung wrote: post #48
khurs wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looked it up and says it applies to Private companies only, so not Google. i.e. to stop those deliberately undervaluing. And in addition there is a provision allowing people to appeal if they can show that a valuation is overstated.

> Looked it up and says it applies to Private companies only, so not Google. i.e. to stop those deliberately undervaluing. That's not true. Private companies have a different valuation method, but public companies like Google are absolutely included.

link to source? As think you are mistaken

Re: Ask HN: What is everyone in SF talking about?

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Post by ivewonyoung »

khurs wrote: post #53
ivewonyoung wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It actually would be 122.5% for Doordash's founder, not 5%.

thank you for providing a link to support your hard to believe claim...

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-05-06/a-prop...

Re: Ask HN: What is everyone in SF talking about?

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Post by nianderwallace »

khurs wrote: post #54
ivewonyoung wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Looked it up and says it applies to Private companies only, so not Google. i.e. to stop those deliberately undervaluing. That's not true. Private companies have a different valuation method, but public companies like Google are absolutely included.

link to source? As think you are mistaken

from https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/state/california-weal...

  Under the initiative, “For any interests that confer voting or other direct control rights, the percentage of the business entity owned by the taxpayer shall be presumed to be not less than the taxpayer’s percentage of the overall voting or other direct control rights.”

  ...Together, for instance, Larry Page and Sergey Brin own about 11.3 percent of Alphabet (Google) but control 52.3 percent of voting rights. Similarly, Mark Zuckerberg owns about 13.6 percent of Meta but has 61.0 percent voting control.
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