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by skybrian 5mo ago
I think it’s a good point that these taxes don’t apply to most people. Another reason they don’t apply is that most people save for retirement using retirement accounts. But nothing in the article implies that these wealth taxes apply to mo
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by skybrian 5mo ago
I’ve read news reports about those jobs and they do sound very bad. But as for being exploited, I’m certain that I wasn’t.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
I learned pretty quickly that money in Silicon Valley has nothing to do with getting what you "deserve" after a co-worker sold a domain name at the height of the dot-com bubble and retired on the proceeds. Sometimes people get luc
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Yes, if you're treated well. It was a fair deal. More than fair, generous. I can't point to anything I did that was worth so much. You seem surprised? Do you know how things (sometimes) work in Silicon Valley?
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by skybrian 5mo ago
It would be ungrateful to complain after earning enough in stock options and RSU's to retire early. (It sounds like the union got a great deal for these workers, though.)
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by skybrian 5mo ago
If you're not tied to the ecosystem, why not switch to Deno?
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Seems like you left out the "millionaire next door." There are a lot of people who want to save up enough money to retire. Some of them want to retire early. This doesn't involve any mansions or extravagant living, but it doe
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by skybrian 5mo ago
It's a delay. The question is how long? Doesn't seem unfixable.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Seems like a Macbook Neo would be far better than a computer at any price from 15 years ago? What would it have taken to build an equivalent computer?
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by skybrian 5mo ago
That sounds plausible. Not a trader so I wouldn't know. Saying at least a little about what's actually wrong with it seems more useful than just saying it's slop, which gives me very little info over just a downvote.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Maybe the guidelines should be changed? Something about: don’t complain about comments just because they’re AI.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
I don’t see why it’s AI, but even if it is, it’s better than most human comments so the complaint should be downvoted.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Prices do go down for electronics: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/price-changes-consumer-go...
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On an iPad, the first link is to a prompt to install an app.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Why more secure? I see that Deno has WebSockets, but I've never used them: https://docs.deno.com/api/web/~/WebSocket
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by skybrian 5mo ago
I'm not sure what you mean by forced substitution.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Any design already exists as a possibility, so it could be said to be both invented and discovered, depending on how you look at it.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
A national average (which is what an inflation rate is) can only do so much. It's going to include people who spend very different amounts on housing, probably not much like the situation where you live.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Somehow, wages tend to go up, though: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
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It means they actually clicked the link. That's what you're supposed to do!
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Sometimes I use chatgpt thinking mode for searches when I expect there will be a lot of noise. "What are some in-depth reviews for <some book I've heard of>" Have you tried explicitly asking for links to primary sources
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by skybrian 5mo ago
For Uber, paying the driver is unavoidable (for now) so this isn’t a good comparison at all. A better comparison is with how much PC costs went down during the 80’s due to IBM clones and Moore’s law.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
I’m paying API prices for my hobby coding due to the coding agent I use. So far I’ve switched from Opus to Sonnet to GLM 5.1. Looks like it’s about 25% of the cost and quality seems good enough so far. I think competition is going to keep c
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Let’s say it’s voluntary and it only applies to whichever class of stock you designate, which can be non-voting. You use it for employee stock or to sell stock to investors who want a tax-free investment. I think investors would pay more fo
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by skybrian 5mo ago
One thing that might help is closing loopholes around unrealized capital gains. Suppose that, as an alternative to taxing capital gains on its stock, a startup could deposit 20% of issued stock into a sovereign wealth fund? For a company wi
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by skybrian 5mo ago
UBI could be done a lot of different ways, but it's a natural fit with progressive taxes. A UBI funded by taxes makes taxes more progressive. It's somewhat like the standard tax deduction, except you still get it if you don't
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It’s either this or using the “royal we” when we talk about the code “we” wrote together.
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by skybrian 5mo ago
Smokers don’t seem to be under any illusions about whether it’s bad for them? When people have conflicting desires, I think what even counts as “self-interest” gets complicated. Often people are acting at cross-purposes to some of their des
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by skybrian 5mo ago
It’s a bit hard to tell what’s interesting about the language itself. On the website, the standard library lacks a table of contents, but you can see what it has here: https://github.com/xs-lang0/xslang.org/tree&#x

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