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by jppope 4mo ago
I don't really see that many ads to be honest. I'm not on social media (except HN), I use Adblock, plus I just don't consume a lot of the media that the general population does. I totally understand what the article is about
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by jppope 4mo ago
Beautiful poem. Well said and hard cutting
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Ask HN: Why would people in town be upset about a datacenter being installed?
4 points by jppope 4mo ago|6 comments
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by jppope 4mo ago
Ask for better. Find a way to make things better. Find a way to make things better for others. ... but appreciate what you have too
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by jppope 4mo ago
My Dad used to cover a territory in the Northeast where he was on the road for up to 2 weeks at a time. Sometimes we'd see him just long enough for him to grab a haircut and remember everyone's names in the right order. Everyday h
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by jppope 5mo ago
this is the key fact. If a wealth tax were enacted and a responsible group were endowed with the money we might reap some value from a wealth tax. Giving American Politicians more tax money is like giving a heroine addict more heroine.
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by jppope 5mo ago
> intentionally obscuring the fact that the vast majority of people would pay ~no wealth tax or unintentionally forgetting that the vast majority of people would pay ~no wealth tax. I consider this fine, because proponents of a wealth ta
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by jppope 5mo ago
Just going to put this here to open up discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
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by jppope 5mo ago
The wealth tax argument actually is because our current 2 party political system is set up to where politicians effectively "pay" their corporate constituency with their discretionary spending, which has increased the national deb
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by jppope 5mo ago
> Wealth accumulates with no input once established. This is incorrect, historically you'll pay a ~2%-3% loss via inflation if you keep your money in cash. If you invest (making it capital) in bonds or securities then you will see a
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by jppope 5mo ago
Can you substantiate why that would work in this case? From a fundamental perspective it looks like the AI companies (and Spacex) are looking to take advantage of the fact that no one is paying attention to increase the price of the stock d
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Ask HN: How to make the best of the Mega IPO/ Index fund debacle?
4 points by jppope 5mo ago|3 comments
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by jppope 5mo ago
I'm confused how the strategy works in the long run. If fewer people are incentivized to build websites on novel topics, there will be less content in general and less training data... plus AI overview results see less ad conversions a
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by jppope 5mo ago
well done! flipped to 1 4 5 just to see what would happen and it didn't miss a beat (literally and figuratively).
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by jppope 5mo ago
Nope. Software was my second career - I was a high performing sales person before software. Sales was fun, and I liked it, but it was a lot of work to stay in that Top 10%. I would have no problem leaving if something better came around, an
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by jppope 5mo ago
Most of the high profile basketball players you can think of do this - obvious ones are Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and Lebron James - as I remember it Lebron has even written up plays from time to time during critical games (evidence: ht
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by jppope 5mo ago
Maybe its just me, but $950M seems a lot of money to invest in a "company". Had to check my assumptions though so I looked up what the lower end of GDP for a country is and sure enough they have American Samoa, Dominica, and Tonga
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by jppope 5mo ago
I think the point is sound but the author is selling the fictional executives ("decision makers") short. Design research will inevitably always lead to a place thats reductive, nostalgic, and average (i.e. https://nothi
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Taking Credit for the Idea(jonpauluritis.com)
2 points by jppope 5mo ago|0 comments
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by jppope 6mo ago
High risk behavior such as drinking, drug use are all down. they spiked then dropped like a rock especially in Gen Z
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by jppope 6mo ago
I have claude and cursor. I enjoy cursor. It has shortcomings but its a strong product.
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Ask HN: Are there any engineering orgs that use incentives?
3 points by jppope 6mo ago|7 comments
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by jppope 6mo ago
the name is very sticky too. I can't imagine not calling people taking the blame meat shields now
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by jppope 6mo ago
I was curious why this didn't come up in the article
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by jppope 6mo ago
> Methanol poisoning stories in the news almost exclusively result from people trying to sell denatured or industrial alcohol Pretty sure this was a relic of prohibition right? The feds would contaminate ethanol with methanol to keep peo
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by jppope 6mo ago
In my opinion you are mostly right. I lived in a Detroit suburb when the city's population dipped below 1M, which was a big deal at the time. 1M was a federal funding floor or something like that so they were literally rounding up home
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by jppope 6mo ago
The book was good but I struggled to finish it. You as a reader are encouraged to read because the ideas are so good but then it becomes hard to endure through to whatever resolution was waiting. For those unfamiliar, it will feel something
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by jppope 6mo ago
thats the game though. Elon is selling a "slice of the future" and everyone starts having FOMO... the result is a P/E ratio of 300 or whatever crazy number. We will all agree that the company isn't worth that, but theres
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by jppope 6mo ago
Maybe I'm wrong here, but if they are charging money for those tokens... aren't these bugs a breach of contract?
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Demolishing the Oldest House in Nevada(jonpauluritis.com)
2 points by jppope 6mo ago|0 comments

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