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New comment by ajmurmann in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

ajmurmann — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:26:27 +0000

The pen example makes sense if the intermediary were to ship the pen as part of the final product but not if the pen is simply used to draft designs of the final product. It seems that this designation would prohibit using the pen anywhere in the process which doesn't really make sense.

New comment by ajmurmann in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

ajmurmann — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:18:37 +0000

Some political power is probably unavoidable, no matter the system and no matter the wealth distribution. We can do lots of things though to weaken that effect. Obvious options range from a simple campaign finance reform to more impactful things like sortition or election by jury.

New comment by ajmurmann in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

ajmurmann — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:58:56 +0000

You are confusing money and wealth. We can all be richer. The vast majority today has riches that a medieval king could have never dreamed of. Exotic fruits year around. Magic devices. Healthcare that goes beyond anything medieval people could have imagined.

Yes, unlike economics, politics is zero-sum. The solution to that is to fix the political system, not to destroy the things that are working great.

New comment by ajmurmann in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

ajmurmann — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 01:28:08 +0000

I'm pretty certain Henry George would be very happy with pigovian taxes like a carbon tax as well.

Income tax it's definitely something he'd not prefer because it reduces incentive to do something we want you to do. Better to tax windfalls and undesirable things

New comment by ajmurmann in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

ajmurmann — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 01:21:50 +0000

Why care about wealth disparity at all as long as everyone is better off? If I offered you to double your real wealth but also Bezo's real wealth, would you reject that offer just because wealth disparity went up?

New comment by ajmurmann in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

ajmurmann — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 01:13:37 +0000

Retirees are not on fixed income and haven't been for decades. Social Security gets adjusted for inflation. 401ks grow. https://www.slowboring.com/p/seniors-arent-living-on-fixed-i...

New comment by ajmurmann in "GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks"

ajmurmann — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:59:53 +0000

If users value support so much, you should start a competitor with excellent support. I suspect though that very few users are willing to pay the additional cost.

New comment by ajmurmann in "GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks"

ajmurmann — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:02:11 +0000

From having worked at abd four startups and massive companies, the company being massive actually might make some things harder.

New comment by ajmurmann in "GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks"

ajmurmann — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:46:19 +0000

We know that coding agents have been pushing GH to its limits. Scaling is hard - especially staff. Maybe they aren't trying to scale support but I think it's reasonable to give them the benefit of doubt here, given what we know publicly

New comment by ajmurmann in "GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks"

ajmurmann — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:41:58 +0000

Prioritization and escalation exists in most companies. I guarantee you that once an issue hits the HN front page, even engineers who might have totally different talks will get involved. (Never worked at GH or have talked to anyone there in years but this is how everything works pretty much everywhere)

New comment by ajmurmann in "GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks"

ajmurmann — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:36:16 +0000

It might not be a willingness issue as much as a bandwidth issue.

New comment by ajmurmann in "What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals"

ajmurmann — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 03:57:52 +0000

Is there any country where this works? AFAIK the safest countries have consistent but not draconical enforcement. The US has pretty harsh enforcement for a western country but it's very inconsistent and not timely enforced.

New comment by ajmurmann in "What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals"

ajmurmann — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 03:11:05 +0000

I know you are being facetious but the community Jurerê Internacional in Florianópolis has done exactly that to great success: https://youtu.be/dA_UYNGvDxc

New comment by ajmurmann in "What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals"

ajmurmann — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:51:03 +0000

The issue in the US is that punishment is comparatively harsh but relatively few criminals are punished and punishment is usually quite delayed. Studies show that timely, consistent punishment is much more effective.

New comment by ajmurmann in "What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals"

ajmurmann — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:47:37 +0000

I always thought the same logic should be applied to corruption by any kind of official. No matter if politician, judge or police officer - their crimes should be punished 10- or even 100-fold because the real damaged is undermining the entire system.

New comment by ajmurmann in "Can you tell which images are AI-generated?"

ajmurmann — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 01:04:25 +0000

I didn't get the zoom bug but zooming in to look at it and zooming out to get back to the buttons to practically the entire 10s

New comment by ajmurmann in "Introducing System One Models and Jev"

ajmurmann — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:27:25 +0000

You can set privacy requirements and define an allow list. To me the main value prop is that I get one bill for all models and can quickly try new models without signing up anywhere or changing my code. Oh! Also you can pass an array of models and if the first provider is down it automatically falls through to the next provider. More useful than it should be...

New comment by ajmurmann in "Apple Watch Series 12"

ajmurmann — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:07:23 +0000

I used to have my phone on a strap around my arm. Even that stopped working

New comment by ajmurmann in "Apple Watch Series 12"

ajmurmann — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:58:38 +0000

Are people serious about endurance sport actually a big market?

New comment by ajmurmann in "iPhone Duo"

ajmurmann — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:51:30 +0000

Best are websites that in order to be "mobile friendly" make it impossible to pinch-zoom images