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

dmurvihill — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:48:08 +0000

The Uber drivers created that value and should get those billions, not Travis Kalanick.

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

dmurvihill — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:44:30 +0000

What's missing is that the billion-dollar value is based on the expectation of exploiting the employees/customers/environment to achieve profit in the future.

New comment by dmurvihill in "How to Earn a Billion Dollars"

dmurvihill — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:43:24 +0000

Luckily, billionaires don't have to worry about that.

New comment by dmurvihill in "Extinction-Level Capitalism"

dmurvihill — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:33:02 +0000

That's why they're so keen to build out all these data centers; the massive capex is their only conceivable moat. Whether all those additional parameters actually make a competitive difference is still an open question.

New comment by dmurvihill in "The redistribution of housing wealth caused by rent control [pdf]"

dmurvihill — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 05:03:08 +0000

Collecting rent maps exactly to that definition.

New comment by dmurvihill in "The redistribution of housing wealth caused by rent control (2023) [pdf]"

dmurvihill — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 05:01:18 +0000

I don't mind ending the type of construction that's recently been occurring.

New comment by dmurvihill in "ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware"

dmurvihill — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:25:34 +0000

The payload yes, the exploit hopefully not.

New comment by dmurvihill in "The redistribution of housing wealth caused by rent control (2023) [pdf]"

dmurvihill — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:23:33 +0000

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New comment by dmurvihill in "The redistribution of housing wealth caused by rent control (2023) [pdf]"

dmurvihill — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:22:06 +0000

I mean, it's no SF, but Minneapolis definitely has an affordability problem. Every major city does.

New comment by dmurvihill in "The redistribution of housing wealth caused by rent control (2023) [pdf]"

dmurvihill — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:19:31 +0000

Sure, when you kick out all the poor people, the city definitely does look richer.

New comment by dmurvihill in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

dmurvihill — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:04:29 +0000

This is a leadership failure. People who want to do a good job always get fired for taking too long.

New comment by dmurvihill in "No right to relicense this project"

dmurvihill — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:17:51 +0000

The burden of proof is completely uncharted when it comes to LLMs. Burden of proof is assigned by court precedent, not the Copyright Act itself (in US law). Meaning, a court looking at a case like this could (should) see the use of an LLM trained on the copyrighted work as a distinguishing factor that shifts the burden to the defense. As a matter of public policy, it's not great if infringers can use the poor accountability properties of LLMs to hide from the consequences of illegally redistributing copyrighted works.

New comment by dmurvihill in "I canceled my book deal"

dmurvihill — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:08:30 +0000

Short: Elements of Style, Strunk and White. Comprehensive: Chicago Manual of Style

New comment by dmurvihill in "Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work"

dmurvihill — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:08:40 +0000

Got this kind of crap from multiple tickets I filed with GitHub

New comment by dmurvihill in "Engineers who dismiss AI"

dmurvihill — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:04:34 +0000

"People say that you should not micro-optimize. But if what you love is micro-optimization... that's what you should do." -Linus

New comment by dmurvihill in "Engineers who dismiss AI"

dmurvihill — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:02:51 +0000

It's gotten ok now. Just spent a day with Claude for the first time in a while. Demanded strict TDD and implemented one test at a time. Might have been faster, hard to say for sure. Result was good.

New comment by dmurvihill in "Engineers who dismiss AI"

dmurvihill — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 20:52:35 +0000

This is exactly how I feel about engineers who dismiss Vim.

New comment by dmurvihill in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"

dmurvihill — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 22:04:15 +0000

Let’s see it then

New comment by dmurvihill in "Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools"

dmurvihill — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:07:12 +0000

You can really track the progression of Krazam's career based on what videos he puts out

New comment by dmurvihill in "Is it a bubble?"

dmurvihill — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:01:53 +0000

I'm quite sure that can be done, if you jack up the price and pare down requirements enough. The question is, would the result be useful.