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New comment by gnopgnip in "Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once"

gnopgnip — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:06:53 +0000

The guides mention govdeals. But I don't see them, for instance the UC davis bike auctions are not included.

New comment by gnopgnip in "When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems"

gnopgnip — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:01:37 +0000

If you profit at sports betting they limit your bet size severely

New comment by gnopgnip in "Waymo Safety Impact"

gnopgnip — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:07:25 +0000

This perspective makes the statistic even more impressive. Every day driving they interact with probably thousands of people who are impaired in some way and manage to drive safely far more often

New comment by gnopgnip in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

gnopgnip — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 03:09:58 +0000

Dr Horton is the largest builder in the US. In q3 2025 they had a 21.8% gross margin.

New comment by gnopgnip in "Bucketsquatting is (finally) dead"

gnopgnip — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:41:47 +0000

I thought it worked the other way, you can have multiple accounts with the same username as long as they have different passwords

New comment by gnopgnip in "Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft"

gnopgnip — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 03:25:13 +0000

Also copyright can protect something normally not eligible when the author chooses what information to include and exclude

New comment by gnopgnip in "eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update"

gnopgnip — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:52:05 +0000

Buy for me bots results in more returns, cancellations, item not as described and other problems ebay and sellers have to deal with

New comment by gnopgnip in "Ask HN: How to make my website exist for 100 years?"

gnopgnip — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 07:39:13 +0000

If you had the same goal ~25 years ago what would you have done? Are those top options still around or bankrupt, have their prices and services changed dramatically?

New comment by gnopgnip in "There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape"

gnopgnip — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 04:49:25 +0000

I see more vape litter on the beach than bottles and cans. The deposit is part of why that is

New comment by gnopgnip in "AI is a business model stress test"

gnopgnip — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 02:19:12 +0000

Most businesses would not double their use if the cost dropped by half. There are other bottlenecks, not price elastic

New comment by gnopgnip in "AI is a business model stress test"

gnopgnip — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 01:52:08 +0000

If they were twice as efficient, you would only need to run half as many and spend less.

New comment by gnopgnip in "Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension"

gnopgnip — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:25:15 +0000

What country does Anna’s archive operate in?

New comment by gnopgnip in "Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

gnopgnip — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 20:50:45 +0000

They basically did that though for basic usage. Not activating windows only stops you from changing the background and removes the watermark for activation.

New comment by gnopgnip in "Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades"

gnopgnip — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 03:19:49 +0000

The 6000 sq ft home in Omaha. The $10m+ home in Laguna Beach. Plus purchasing the home next door as overflow

New comment by gnopgnip in "Addiction Markets"

gnopgnip — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 06:06:37 +0000

There is a big difference with a physical product. It’s harder to get in over your head and go bankrupt

New comment by gnopgnip in "Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?"

gnopgnip — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 21:11:05 +0000

I work for an MSP, mostly with small to medium companies. Licensing costs went up a ton when broadcom acquired vmware. They went up a ton more this year with minimum core counts, current licensing costs are roughly $20k a year minimum. They might hike the price again, even medium businesses that see some value in avoiding an expensive migration want to avoid this uncertainty. Basically they don't want to deal with small and medium sized businesses. I'm sure large businesses are facing price hikes too but I don't have experience with that.

If you are on a perpetual license you can put the management vlan on a network not connected to the internet if it wasn't already and realistically this buys a few years. You will not be able to patch, eventually auditors will not accept that. For the rest not on perpetual licensing, when the licensing expires you will not be able to power on machines, if they reboot they stay off.

About half of clients we are migrating to hyper-v. Most are already running windows servers. There are some differences but hyperv covers the important features and the licensing is basically already included. Beeam makes the virtual to virtual move a lot easier, this is what most of our customers use for backups

For a good chunk they are migrating to azure or another hosted environment. If you don't have a main office with a file server or some more demanding line of business apps this is a pretty easy move.

A few are going to nutanix. Or more of expanding nutanix.

New comment by gnopgnip in "TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)"

gnopgnip — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:19:30 +0000

Because of the Norquist tax pledge. Many politicians are opposed to any tax increase, including anything that makes paying taxes easier

New comment by gnopgnip in "Silver trades to $50 an ounce"

gnopgnip — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:24:45 +0000

Dollar is down~11% ytd. Silver is up 76%

New comment by gnopgnip in "SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades"

gnopgnip — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 05:49:13 +0000

Except the property taxes aren't based on the actual price paid. The tax assessment and appeal system is more prone to corruption than most states.

New comment by gnopgnip in "iPhone Air"

gnopgnip — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 07:58:41 +0000

You can generate images on an iphone now with “draw things”