Hacker News: conanbatt

New comment by conanbatt in "Lobbyists begin chipping away at Biden’s $80B IRS overhaul"

conanbatt — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 20:52:48 +0000

I am not american.

New comment by conanbatt in "Lobbyists begin chipping away at Biden’s $80B IRS overhaul"

conanbatt — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 20:52:16 +0000

I pay taxes in the US and I am not allowed to vote, so the phrase applies specially to me and 25% of the California population.

New comment by conanbatt in "Lobbyists begin chipping away at Biden’s $80B IRS overhaul"

conanbatt — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 20:50:52 +0000

There's no need, you can do it today from within any country by living with cash.

New comment by conanbatt in "Lobbyists begin chipping away at Biden’s $80B IRS overhaul"

conanbatt — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 20:48:58 +0000

Intuit is not the owner of the IRS filing process.

New comment by conanbatt in "Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone?"

conanbatt — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 19:26:26 +0000

Those are consulting companies, not tech companies.

New comment by conanbatt in "GitHub India's entire Engineering team is fired"

conanbatt — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 04:04:41 +0000

Go long argentina :)

New comment by conanbatt in "Binance sees $2B in outflows as troubles compound"

conanbatt — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 04:00:00 +0000

The one redeeming quality of crypto is that you can only lose your holdings if you give them to someone else.

New comment by conanbatt in "Disney begins laying off 7k employees"

conanbatt — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 20:21:07 +0000

> It's got nothing on Turning Red [1], though. $20M on a $175M budget. Whoof.

Turning Red was surely a hit on Disney+. Hard to see from the consumer side what the impact was, but disney+ is a money machine and the can easily double the price.

New comment by conanbatt in "America’s online privacy problems are much bigger than TikTok"

conanbatt — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 00:36:54 +0000

Probably so, but while you are thinking of those details, a country that sends people to gulags and internment camps is collecting data at scale of important people, their families and the people that work around them.

I personally struggle understanding adults installing this app at all, and the fact that it targets mostly oblivious youngsters is pervasive.

New comment by conanbatt in "Remote work is starting to hit office rents"

conanbatt — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 21:57:02 +0000

If anything it increases company profits, why would companies give the rent money back to employees?

New comment by conanbatt in "Americans lost a record $10.3B to online scammers last year, FBI says"

conanbatt — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 17:07:16 +0000

I understand Zelle / irreversible payment situations. But the bank knows who this is, its not an untraceable scam.

Why does it survive?

New comment by conanbatt in "Gitlab loses one-third of its value after company issues weak forecast"

conanbatt — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 01:38:28 +0000

2.5k doesn't pay 1 day of a developer in a top-of-market startup.

New comment by conanbatt in "Work less, get more done: Analytics for maximizing productivity (2009)"

conanbatt — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 06:28:31 +0000

> Would my salary be higher if I become more productive? No

Absolutely yes!

New comment by conanbatt in "Turkey’s earthquakes show the deadly extent of construction scams"

conanbatt — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 22:41:22 +0000

Government does not build housing at all.

New comment by conanbatt in "Turkey’s earthquakes show the deadly extent of construction scams"

conanbatt — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 16:39:56 +0000

It cuts both ways. What about the homeless person dying in the cold because he can't afford shelter due to sky high building requirements - is that included in the building code enforcement rules?

New comment by conanbatt in "Yes, Crypto Is All a Scam"

conanbatt — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 14:20:30 +0000

The runners of the system are the abusers

New comment by conanbatt in "Cash only in Berlin"

conanbatt — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 18:48:32 +0000

Sounds great. I have a business proposition for you.

I will pay you 1000 dollars for the right of taking every single asset you have if at any point it is proven you haven't paid all your corresponding taxes.

This is free money for you and your sense of justice. I can send a contract as soon as today.

New comment by conanbatt in "Cash only in Berlin"

conanbatt — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 19:44:38 +0000

Are you sure you have always paid all your taxes?

New comment by conanbatt in "Cash only in Berlin"

conanbatt — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 01:00:48 +0000

It makes the whole difference. the harder it is to do, the less they do it. If not, why would they care?

New comment by conanbatt in "Cash only in Berlin"

conanbatt — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 20:44:42 +0000

That's what the people collecting the taxes want you to believe.