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by dm_ 3mo ago
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/initiatives/pdfs/25-
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by dm_ 3mo ago
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 culturally chauvinist and racist ideas about which cultures w
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by dm_ 3mo ago
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 aspect of wealth taxes; it's a choice.
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Show HN: "Where" is an open source E2EE realtime location sharing app(where.af0.net)
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by dm_ 3mo ago
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 utilize it. On the other hand, it will always be true that da
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by dm_ 3mo ago
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 founders maintain control while ceding a majority of
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by dm_ 3mo ago
The book "Limitarianism" seems relevant: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/21/limitarianism-...
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by dm_ 3mo ago
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 where to get lunch.) It's rather the case that
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by dm_ 3mo ago
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 empirical result that s
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by dm_ 3mo ago
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 summarizes, > They found an explos
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by dm_ 3mo ago
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 seems likely that I wouldn't invest that if I didn&#
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by dm_ 3mo ago
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-privilege code--a browser renderer is
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by dm_ 3mo ago
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. Voice of America was a real media outlet wi
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by dm_ 3mo ago
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 funded all sorts of cultural endeavors, but much of t
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by dm_ 4mo ago
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/ , which links back to the gi
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by dm_ 4mo ago
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), nothing prevents a human from conne
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by dm_ 11y ago
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.google.com/a/answer/6260
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by dm_ 11y ago
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 understand why this is necessar