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New comment by howeyc in "Ask HN: Spending Tracking Tools"

howeyc — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 13:19:59 +0000

I just put everything in one file. Over 15 years worth of transactions in a single ledger file ordered by date.

New comment by howeyc in "Resolving a mysterious problem with find"

howeyc — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 15:41:14 +0000

if you want file names matching a pattern, no need for grep:

find . -name '*.py' -iname '*pattern*'

for filenames that have content matching pattern, no need for find:

grep -r --include '*.py' -l -i pattern .

no need for pipes, xargs, etc.

New comment by howeyc in "America's Space Force Is Preparing for the Risk of War"

howeyc — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 19:58:57 +0000

Easy, relax the requirements, and find work that isn't physically demanding. I'm sure there are a few "paper pushers" at the DoD.

New comment by howeyc in "America's Space Force Is Preparing for the Risk of War"

howeyc — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 19:55:49 +0000

A person with a gun shooting stuff isn't the only part of defense spending. I'm not sure if this is the point you were even making.

New comment by howeyc in "America's Space Force Is Preparing for the Risk of War"

howeyc — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 19:53:10 +0000

1. Federal min wage would be a good place to start.

2. Uh, the same as now? Just because you work for the government doesn't mean you earn min eage. I'm pretty sure Generals make more than $15k per year.

3. People that have jobs spend money in the economy to buy things. Private sector economy benefits from this.

4. You would have to do tasks to get paid. It's a job if you want it. Not forced. The idea is to curb unemployment.

New comment by howeyc in "America's Space Force Is Preparing for the Risk of War"

howeyc — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 14:24:55 +0000

US Defense spending is a US employment program. I really wish we would drop the pretense and just make it a full employment jobs program. Anyone that wants to work should be able to get a job.

The private sector can then get employees by paying above the minimum wage offered by the defense department job program.

New comment by howeyc in "Unrealized Gain Tax–A Coming Sea Change in FY2025 Budget Proposal?"

howeyc — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 19:21:31 +0000

I'm not talking about the economy failing. I'm talking prices. What do you think happens to asset prices when there are only sellers (everyone with wealth has to sell). You think poor people will have enough cash to keep prices up?

When Elon sold in his latest Tesla round the stock tanked 30% over a couple months. Repeat for Bezos, Gates, etc.

New comment by howeyc in "Unrealized Gain Tax–A Coming Sea Change in FY2025 Budget Proposal?"

howeyc — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 16:11:15 +0000

Imagine step 2 to realize the insanity. That household likely doesn't have disposable income that is greater than 25% of their unrealized cap gains, so what do they do?

1. Hope they can get a low interest loan to pay their taxes?

2. Sell some assets. Think about what will happen to your 401k balance as wealthy people all over the US are forced to sell stocks. It will not be pretty.

New comment by howeyc in "Ly: Display Manager with Console UI"

howeyc — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 20:06:34 +0000

If you don't switch between window managers is there any point in having a DM?

Why not just login and run "sway" or "startx"

New comment by howeyc in "The Stripper Index: An unorthodox recession measurement"

howeyc — Thu, 02 May 2024 12:52:07 +0000

I think it has more to do with OnlyFans.

New comment by howeyc in "Anatomy of a credit card rewards program"

howeyc — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 17:05:25 +0000

Also doesn't need to be decentralized or an existing crypto currency to solve those issues.

For example, central banks are exploring smart contracts for international payments. https://www.bis.org/press/p240403.htm

New comment by howeyc in "The U.S. Government Will Soon Spend More on Interest Payments Than Defense"

howeyc — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:03:01 +0000

This is correct. Interest payments go into bank accounts. Some of that money gets spent into the economy, some stays and gets reinvested into more treasuries.

There's a reason real GDP growth is higher than it's usually been, money is being injected into the economy via interest payments.

New comment by howeyc in "The U.S. Government Will Soon Spend More on Interest Payments Than Defense"

howeyc — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 13:58:47 +0000

I said real wage growth.

You likely thought I said nominal wage growth.

Or maybe you learned something new today.

New comment by howeyc in "Ask HN: What is the current driver of tech layoffs?"

howeyc — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 21:37:21 +0000

Even though the annual government deficit is almost 7% of GDP, essentially injecting stimulus into the economy, wall st analysts are convinced high interest rates will cause a recession. CEOs have responded by slashing forecasts and employees to appease wall st.

New comment by howeyc in "Greedflation: Corporate profiteering 'significantly' boosted global prices,study"

howeyc — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 00:31:56 +0000

Because we all know corporations were keeping prices and profits low before COVID because it's good for PR. After COVID they said screw the PR let's be greedy now.

New comment by howeyc in "Choose your own IP"

howeyc — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 21:32:25 +0000

If I had to guess, it's probably the NAT hole-punching or use of tailscale servers as an intermediary.

If you signed up for a $5 VPS to forward packets you probably would have been fine.

New comment by howeyc in "Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)"

howeyc — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 15:02:51 +0000

Thanks for mentioning this.

I think the killer feature is compatibility with existing grep command line switches. Not needing to learn a whole new set of options is quite nice.

New comment by howeyc in "Ask HN: Which DNS service do you use for your computer's network settings?"

howeyc — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 15:25:08 +0000

I use unbound, with a bunch of local IP/hostnames, then forward to mullavad dns for adblock.

New comment by howeyc in "French equality watchdog finds 90% of online pornography abuses women"

howeyc — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 13:20:11 +0000

In other news, French authorities have decided that Hollywood movies should be banned for displays of murder, which is against French law. The "contracts" of the actors is immaterial as murder is illegal in France.

New comment by howeyc in "Keystroke timing obfuscation added to ssh(1)"

howeyc — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 18:33:44 +0000

I would assume that doesn't work well for text editing.