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bdangubicon New York passes pied-a-terre tax

We already do that.

- Bob Menendez (Senator)

- Randy Cunningham (Congressman)

- William J. Jefferson (Congressman)

- James Traficant (Congressman)

And a bunch more at more "local" level...

bdangubicon Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country

it is (unfortunately) quite the opposite, if you see what he supports there is a high likelyhood of that not happening.

bdangubicon Incident with Actions and Pages

Feels like Github Actions is UP should on the front page (when it happens) at this point. Down is no longer front page worthy

bdangubicon Hawaii just found a way around Citizens United. Other states are following

people are corporations. I hardly exist as an individual in america. I do not own anything, my company does (my company employs only me and soon my daughter when she is of age), I do not buy anything, my company does. I don’t have phone service or internet service or practically anything under my name. and my company (me) has about the same rights as you, an individual, except of course a lot more cause capitalism be capilizing :)

bdangubicon Ferrari Luce – Designed with Jony Ive

to this day, I play 90’s EDM almost exclusively while working

bdangubicon Software Engineering at the Tipping Point

I would rather vax my entire body than put google in my home

bdangubicon We Built Secure, Scalable Agent Sandbox Infrastructure

https://tenor.com/view/dj-khaled-another-one-point-wisdom-yo...

bdangubicon Elon Musk is going all-in on an unproven technology

how do I go all in on a bunch of things but never produce any products but then also build some mediocre products and then become the richest person on the planet?! :)

bdangubicon DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

yup - good read: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-efficiency-moat-why-c...

bdangubicon Software Engineering at the Tipping Point

> They'd revolt en-masse if their…

who is revolting? still waiting for an example of this ficticious, unfortunately often-cited fantasy… if the example is C compiler no one uses (no one even spent serious time trying to make it work either) the bar is waaaay to low for your line of thinking IMHO

bdangubicon Software Engineering at the Tipping Point

C compiler written by AI is used somewhere to compile production code?

bdangubicon 25 years, 793,199 fashion records: non-White models 4.5× more likely plus-size

short bald guys with $$$ can get any woman they want, short bald women, not so much :)

bdangubicon 25 years, 793,199 fashion records: non-White models 4.5× more likely plus-size

just as soon as we start judging male looks like we do female we’d get on this

bdangubicon Software Engineering at the Tipping Point

example? or this is theoretical?

bdangubicon Software Engineering at the Tipping Point

it could and likely will but it’ll be in the news for a day tops and the world will move on to the “next thing.”

bdangubicon Software Engineering at the Tipping Point

it absolutely doesn’t. most software is shitty and buggy. I know, have seen 30 years worth of it. just now we can write the shitty and buggy a lot faster.

ask anyone that has been in the industry for awhile and they will tell you the same thing. a lot of crowd on HN write as if human-written code is any good and while there are always exception, on average, most software is shitty. if I had a dollar for every time I met someone writing software for “X” saying “dude, if you knew what I know you’d never use/do/… X” I’d be a very rich man

bdangubicon Software Engineering at the Tipping Point

the public is so used to good quality software that they are in for rude awakening :)

bdangubicon Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence

https://noqta.tn/en/news/polsia-ai-autonomous-company-30m-fu...

$1m ARR in 30 days :)

bdangubicon FBI director's Based Apparel site has been spotted hosting a 'ClickFix' attack

President himself has several

bdangubicon Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card

AI codes, AI tests, AI verifies, in a Ralph Loop ( https://github.com/snarktank/ralph ) :)

bdangubicon Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence

> This is literally the same with every single technological development.

yup, there are a lot of successful companies today not using the internet :)

bdangubicon Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence

100%

bdangubicon Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence

not using it at all is no longer an option, companies that are not using it at all will die slow/fast death but death nonetheless.

bdangubicon The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics

they are not failing, our Socialist President provides billions in handouts for Farmers so they gonna be just fine

bdangubicon Shunning AI is the human choice

> It really isn't going anywhere

It might not be going anywhere cause it is already everywhere and has nowhere else to go :)

bdangubicon Ask HN: How to make the best of the Mega IPO/ Index fund debacle?

never buy index funds. this is what wealthy will tell you but none of them own index funds. how many of sp500 companies are doing great these days, growing, profitable…? 5% maybe. my financial well-being has dramatically changed since I stopped buying index funds 9 years ago. bunch of “smart” people will tell you “oh this is risky, bla bla” and it sure might be but while you might end up “rich” with index funds you won’t get wealthy. I will never again spend a penny in index funds (I am self-employed and manage my own i401k)

bdangubicon Google Declaring War on the Web

the cool thing, google is much like meta, the kids see it as something boomers are using. my daughter is 12, whenever I say “google it” she says “that’s very, very funny Dad, you are fun guy.” it’ll take some time until boomers are off google as well (my usage of google is probably at 30% of where it used to be) but their days of “this is where you go to ‘search’” are numbered

bdangubicon There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going

didn’t say that :)

bdangubicon Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE

Ray20 gonna pay taxes or go to Federal Prison

bdangubicon Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit

you pitch this and next election cycle you will out as soft on crime which is why this can only ever go (significantly) into the opposite direction unfortunately