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by skybrian 4mo ago
Farms are mostly just businesses nowadays. Either they're heavily automated (and capital intensive) or they hire farm workers to do the work. Or both.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
My understanding is that local governments often get more in tax revenue than they spend on additional services. Which explains why they want to do it. Example: https://wjla.com/news/local/loudoun-county-virginia-t
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by skybrian 4mo ago
This article looks AI-written but I doubt it increased anyone’s paycheck. I wouldn’t expect productivity to increase paychecks all that quickly except in special cases like that memory factory in South Korea. Higher productivity sometimes e
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by skybrian 4mo ago
Why would they lose tax revenue? I imagine these small cities gain tax revenue, but this doesn’t really drive NIMBY politics.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
I think you mean in Safari?
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by skybrian 4mo ago
Dividends and stock buybacks are equivalent except for the tax consequences. Money is flowing from the company to investors. If, say, the government had 20% of the stock and sold it into the buyback to remain at 20%, that's similar to
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by skybrian 4mo ago
Maybe an LLM could be used to check for this :)
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by skybrian 4mo ago
If the US government got nonvoting shares in startups along with VC's then that could bring in lots of revenue from capital gains without calling it "taxes." If it were in return for a tax break then they might even do it vol
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by skybrian 4mo ago
Much like Tor this seems like a grey area. I'm conflicted on whether Tor is a good thing and have no interest in hosting content that I can't read.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
I’ve bounced off Vite because I don’t see a big advantage over esbuild. (I also use Deno.) What do you find useful?
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by skybrian 4mo ago
If companies play nice, people will stop making stuff up about them? I don’t believe that for a second, and it’s a poor excuse for making stuff up.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
Yes, Google could do a lot of things, in theory. Doesn’t mean they’re doing it.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
What are talking about? Android Device Verification has nothing to do with what websites browsers can access.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
Websites should have an easy way to check whether the connecting device has a child lock turned on. We don’t need to identify the person using the device at all. It should be up to parents to make sure their kids use device that are locked.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
I understand not being happy about what Google is doing, but it seems like F-droid can’t be trusted not to heavily spin things.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
Looks like it’s the same price on Fireworks AI? https://fireworks.ai/blog/kimi-k2p7-code I don’t know much about them but they did a deal with Microsoft in March: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/
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by skybrian 4mo ago
Perhaps some kind of mixer could be put in front of the micropayments system.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
They weren't getting the $20 / month from users who bounce off. Seems more likely that subscriptions, advertising, and microtransactions will coexist.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
Depends what you compare it to. If the alternative is buying a subscription to get past a paywall, it might be better?
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by skybrian 4mo ago
Maybe, if you also get a raise. But there might be better ways to get a raise than hoping it will happen due to inflation.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
Inflation usually results in the central bank raising interest rates and thereby discouraging new loans for new projects, to try to prevent further inflation. Maybe you could win if you’re leveraged using fixed-rate, long-term loans and you
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by skybrian 4mo ago
If it gets off the ground it will attract SEO, but the people running agents will have incentives to use a better search engine, or maybe even whitelist known good domains. Think of it as a gullibility tax. AI is currently pretty gullible b
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by skybrian 4mo ago
If you compare say, the Go language specification for an assignment statement [1] to Salt's explanation of its let statement, there is a big difference. Salt's docs lean heavily on "it works like you would expect from other l
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by skybrian 4mo ago
Where in California is that?
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by skybrian 4mo ago
This looks pretty impressive but it’s all AI-generated (or written in a similar style) and therefore the documentation is lacking. There is a language specification [1][2] but it lacks coherence. I think the way to improve it would be to tr
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by skybrian 4mo ago
Wait, what? That makes no more sense than suing Walmart or Costco for having preferred suppliers. If you don’t trust Walmart’s buyers to buy groceries for you then you can shop somewhere else. Similarly here.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
Micropayments have always suffered from an early adopter problem because it’s difficult to convince ordinary users to pay for web pages. But if a big company, perhaps one of the AI labs, started paying websites using this system then it mig
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by skybrian 4mo ago
More productive companies earn more revenue and can offer more compensation to try to get better workers. That's why software engineering pays more than many other occupations. It's not because they're nice. But for this to w
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by skybrian 4mo ago
I don't think that's the goal? If we got to the point where no service hosts the majority of accounts, that would be a pretty good milestone.
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by skybrian 4mo ago
Yes, AT proto is about making data available to the public via replication. There's no privacy at all, but it's useful for some things. Hacker News comments don't have any privacy either. There's another protocol in the

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