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panzagl··on The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level
So if I buy and sell Pokeman cards I shouldn't have to pay any tax because WotC pays corporate taxes?
panzagl··on Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
I don't know what Cold Harbor means in a Meta context, but its interesting that its named after the battle that exemplified Grant's strategy of attrition during the American Civil War. I suspect it means waves of engineers ground down against the defenses of OpenAI/Anthropic in the hopes of eventually finding a crack. Might be best to get out while you can.
panzagl··on Who's the smartest corvid?
Montana is home to the Crow Reservation so it might be indigenous.
panzagl··on Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'
It's the Innsmouth look.
panzagl··on MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production
Ah yes, the classic Mac user on Hacker News that thinks they're a tech guy. :-)
panzagl··on The real cost of owning a home
Or your office/building manager at work.
panzagl··on Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
Bambu had its requirement to go through their servers since before the Ukraine war, though it has gotten progressively harder to work around.
panzagl··on Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys
As far as I can tell the main crime Palantir commits is actually delivering what it's asked for, instead of just stringing the government along like the other contractors do.
panzagl··on Books are not too expensive
The other thing missing is that a 1960's hardback is a much higher quality item than most modern hardbacks- sewn binding, nicer paper, better cover materials, etc. Hard covers today are cheaply made from inferior materials.
panzagl··on Books are not too expensive
The real problem is books are too cheap- as in cheaply made perfect bound pieces of shit with a bit of cardboard glued on that don't open correctly filled with nasty lightweight textureless bleached paper covered with mis-registered text and blobs of ink from under-maintained presses. We're being charged a premium for a demonstrably inferior product.
panzagl··on The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?
Maybe it's only this way in my suburban US area, but no.
panzagl··on Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0
I think the main thing he's produced using Gas Town is Gas Town itself.
panzagl··on Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
This article is like a cockroach in a restaurant dining room. Azure has one, GCP/AWS does not.
panzagl··on The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner
Unplug fax, no one gets benefits that day, simple fix and the office's day just got a little easier. What was already printed goes in the shred bin.
panzagl··on The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild
0.5% is like the literal definition of a rounding error.
panzagl··on Full Disclosure: A Third (and Fourth) Azure Sign-In Log Bypass Found
Ah, so you're worried about the review team being misrepresented, not that Azure is shit.
panzagl··on Full Disclosure: A Third (and Fourth) Azure Sign-In Log Bypass Found
It's only libelous if it's not true. This vulnerability says otherwise.
panzagl··on Full Disclosure: A Third (and Fourth) Azure Sign-In Log Bypass Found
In those types of reviews/audits, documentation is the first indicator of whether a security organization has their act together. It's about building a trust relationship between the accreditor and contractor that will have to endure for years, as nation-state level actors throw their resources at finding vulnerabilities. MS couldn't do this or couldn't be bothered to do this. So shit documentation -> shit security processes and operations -> shit security -> shit cloud product in a government context. So the title wasn't that much of a stretch.
panzagl··on Honda is killing its EVs
Quick google math says you get 6 tires from a barrel of oil vs roughly 20 gallons of gas. Unless EVs mean you change tires every 300 miles or so I think we're good.
panzagl··on The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure
Rockets with unrestricted flow are called bombs.
panzagl··on The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure
> More and more promising treatments are accumulating in the pipeline, fueled by an explosion of new therapeutic modalities, ranging from mRNA to better peptides and more recently, by AI.

If the pipeline is backed up you put a bigger pipe in place, not get rid of it and hope some of the resulting flood goes where you want.

panzagl··on US Job Market Visualizer
There are a lot of education and curriculum companies pitching basically this- replace those 'expensive' teachers with aides making minimum wage as all they need to do is recite curriculum and help them log in to be evaluated.
panzagl··on Lost Doctor Who Episodes Found
Risk or benefit?
panzagl··on Lego's 0.002mm specification and its implications for manufacturing (2025)
> My kids have a photographic memory of each of those special pieces and which set they came from.

Read the whole sentence- this is clearly an informal use of 'photographic memory' to indicate that his kids are really into Lego and keep track of details in the way only kids can.

panzagl··on To understand our fascination with crystals, researchers gave some to chimps
The study was in Spain- do European countries have the same sort of backlash to this stuff? Is there a province in Spain that has the equivalent to 'the senator from Indiana' that is the stereotypical anti-NSF figure in US politics? Genuinely curious about this.
panzagl··on MacBook Neo
Well, exactly. A lot of comments in this thread are 'these will take back the education market' when in reality it will just slightly extend it to a slightly lower income demographic than the upper middle class districts that use Apple now.
panzagl··on MacBook Neo
There are schools where close to 100% of the kids are qualified low income.
panzagl··on Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging
I hate to break it to you, but Millennials aren't a younger generation anymore...

though I'm not sure they drank any more than the 2-3 generations that proceeded them.

panzagl··on How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
Probably a US high school, where off-campus lunch is usually reserved for older students.
panzagl··on AI needs to augment rather than replace humans or the workplace is doomed
> I expected more/better from folks who digest mathematical proofs and Arxiv papers for funsies

Hate to break it to you, but the real hard problems are in the humanities.

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