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New comment by aianus in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

aianus — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:17:04 +0000

I bet someone said the same thing about an email or an IM vs a handwritten letter at some point in the past but here we are.

New comment by aianus in "How to earn a billion dollars"

aianus — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:06:39 +0000

The driver makes more than Uber does on (almost?) every ride. So they did.

New comment by aianus in "Is This the Dawn of the Tokenpocalypse?"

aianus — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:44:28 +0000

If you genuinely refuse to use AI for any part of your job in 2026 you are the moron.

Of course, you can go too far in the other direction but that's not what your comment is describing.

New comment by aianus in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"

aianus — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:55:03 +0000

Canada just gives you a fixed amount of cash every year for the sales tax that they estimate that you paid on a regular amount of consumption (HST credit) which solved that problem.

I don't think it's fair that someone who earns $400k and spends $400k is paying roughly the same taxes as someone earning $400k and spending $100k. You should pay more taxes the more luxurious your life is, not the more productive you are.

New comment by aianus in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

aianus — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:59:21 +0000

Grading assignments just punishes people that don't cheat on their homework. It's worse than worthless, it actively helps the worst students.

New comment by aianus in "For the first time in history, more Americans are moving to EU than vice versa"

aianus — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:13:52 +0000

Yeah, pretty much. You can make enough money in 10-15 years in tech in America to last a lifetime in Europe, even without the remote job.

New comment by aianus in "OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS"

aianus — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:23:20 +0000

A semi-skilled English-speaking customer service agent in PH makes less than $700 a month to put this into perspective.

Working abroad is a totally reasonable proposition compared to working in the Philippines.

New comment by aianus in "The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs"

aianus — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:09:24 +0000

Working from the beach is much more enjoyable than working from a cubicle in Toronto in January all work tasks being equal.

Much cheaper too, ridiculously enough.

New comment by aianus in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

aianus — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:32:50 +0000

MyFitnessPal takes a lot of clicks to log one meal, I can just use natural language with openclaw.

New comment by aianus in "I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years"

aianus — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 06:04:06 +0000

There is no way a condo would continue to cost $2500/mo in a world where there isn't a concentration of well-paid office jobs in that location.

New comment by aianus in "Israel Strikes Oil Facilities in Iran"

aianus — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 03:45:22 +0000

NK is safe from invasion because of conventional artillery pointed at Seoul.

That's why they were able to develop nuclear weapons in the first place.

New comment by aianus in "Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video]"

aianus — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 07:45:09 +0000

Coke in Singapore is a different recipe with less sugar.

New comment by aianus in "If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?"

aianus — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:44:57 +0000

Sure but price to income has never been lower if you're willing to move and work remotely (or retire on investment income) somewhere cheaper.

If you want to live in the best real estate in the world and expect to continue doing so when you have no job, that's not going to happen. If you're willing to adapt and spread out you can live better and freer than ever in a hypothetical world where AI has taken most jobs.

New comment by aianus in "If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?"

aianus — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 07:41:47 +0000

Rent/mortgage would be dirt cheap if you didn't have to live near a job.

New comment by aianus in "High-income job losses are cooling housing demand"

aianus — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 07:41:49 +0000

No, labor mobility means YOU can take a better job across town that pays 20% more without causing your rent to triple.

New comment by aianus in "High-income job losses are cooling housing demand"

aianus — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 07:18:42 +0000

"Newcomers" to the rental market include every person who already lives in that city and hasn't moved out of their parents' house yet. Why should they be penalized even more for not being born sooner?

New comment by aianus in "High-income job losses are cooling housing demand"

aianus — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 05:00:03 +0000

If they print enough money your other assets will go up (maybe enough to buy a house that has stayed flat in nominal terms)

This is basically the situation with housing in Canada actually, it's been down/flat in nominal terms since 2021 but if you owned US stocks during that time while waiting to buy then Canadian real estate is now much more affordable to you.

New comment by aianus in "Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?"

aianus — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 09:57:05 +0000

As a thought experiment would you not feel (much) poorer if houses suddenly cost >$5 million tomorrow and you didn't own one yet? Even if everything else cost the same? Even if everything else cost the same and your net worth went up $100k?

New comment by aianus in "Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?"

aianus — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 09:43:46 +0000

To add to that, an unemployed 28 year old living with his parents in the house that they own is a "homeowner" in most of these homeowner stats.

New comment by aianus in "Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening"

aianus — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 09:19:07 +0000

Someone needs to allocate capital, might as well be someone that has done it successfully in the past.