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ahs1on I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them

hmm, how about just being able to infer the features of a cable by it's physical form factor? oh wait...

ahs1on The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing

> For regular people to own a gun that you can actually use in California, (not LEOs or certain other people), you either needed to have inherited them or bought them from the cartels.

or, you can just break these stupid, unenforceable laws and buy out of state or just "uncastrate" it yourself.

no idea why so many people get their panties in a twist everytime California passes an unenforceable law. they're unenforceable.

ahs1on The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing

because gun control isn't about guns, it's about control

ahs1on TikTok's algorithm exhibited pro-Republican bias during 2024 presidential race

what about the other apps?

ahs1on Insiders Tell How IT Giant Favored Indian H-1B Workers over US Employees

and it's not Cisco?

ahs1on Linux from Scratch Version 12.0

nice! i'm currently running LFS 6.7, any good reasons to update?

ahs1on The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is being extended through May

donated, thanks

ahs1on Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?

edit: self-avowed socialists

ahs1on Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?

>Move to South East Asia instead.

No thanks, I prefer to live in a free country.

>"a rural state" sounds like all the worst bits of living in the US.

I don't have the level of contempt for my fellow Americans that you have

ahs1on Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?

Apolitical answer:

Markets prefer political stability. Average annual S&P 500 returns are around ~7% adjusted for inflation, but ~12% when a President is in his second term.

Political answer:

A Trump loss would be presumably be to one of the self-avowed socialists running which would certainly crash the markets.

Furthermore, even without a market crash, a socialist implementing mark-to-market capital gains taxation while also doubling the long-term capital gains rates (15% to 32% for me) would drastically slow down my march towards $1,000,000.

ahs1on Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?

> My advice would be work hard, save your money, travel when you can to better locales to improve your social life, but with the eventual goal of permanently moving out when you've saved enough. If you pick your destination within the USA well, dating prospects will improve greatly, and if you look worldwide (and can overcome the language and immigration issues), it could improve dramatically. The Bay Area will seem like a bad dream.

I just created my HN account to emphasize this point. After 4 years in the Bay Area, I've come to the same conclusion. I've been saving money for 9 years now & should be at the $1,000,000 mark within 2 years. First 5 years of saving in Los Angeles got me to $200,000, and the last 4 years have pushed me to $700,000. Assuming Trump is re-elected, my portfolio should hit the $1,000,000 mark within two years.

A million bucks isn't much here, but its a sizable nest-egg in most places in America. Saving money in the Bay Area is much easier to do than anywhere else. I plan to move to a rural state as soon as I get to a million. The misery of living here has to end at some point.