Hacker News: kmos17

New comment by kmos17 in "Tariffs, Saving, and Investment"

kmos17 — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 11:36:34 +0000

There are some important caveats to that logic: - the share of the budget spending from these worker cuts is minuscule, even the overall cost of all federal worker is a small percentage of spending, the bulk of spending is in entitlements and defense + debt repayment from deficit spending (which tax cuts always increase) - if tariffs work at making manufacturing come back to the US then the tariff revenues will decrease since fewer products will be imported, and while they are in effect they are a tax increase which will slow down economic activity since they will directly affect consumer spending (unlike a tax increase on high earners would)

New comment by kmos17 in "Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news"

kmos17 — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:07:22 +0000

Just did one spanish video, worked really well. The interface is simple enough and easy, great start. It would be great to have a translation appear after completing the words, and maybe a way to save words.

New comment by kmos17 in "Not OK Cupid – A story of poor email address validation"

kmos17 — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:26:32 +0000

venmo does it too

New comment by kmos17 in "The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide"

kmos17 — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 11:32:45 +0000

The U.S. goods trade deficit with Canada was $63.3 billion in 2024, a 1.4 percent decrease ($926.9 million) over 2023.

source: https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/americas/canada#:~:text=C...

And again what will be gained? What is the problem exactly you think our genius president will fix?

Canadians are massively boycotting the US, in addition to being the US’s largest export market they are the number one source of tourism to the US.

Canada is the top source of international visitors to the United States, with 20.4 million visits in 2024, generating $20.5 billion in spending and supporting 140,000 American jobs. A 10% reduction in Canadian travel could mean 2.0 million fewer visits, $2.1 billion in lost spending and 14,000 job losses.

All this is just dumb and reckless, but not surprising coming from a business man who managed to bankrupt casinos

New comment by kmos17 in "The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide"

kmos17 — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 07:10:54 +0000

It’s an understatement to say Canada is extremely displeased at this, it will cost the US billions in lost trade and tourism. And for what? The trade deficit if you take out oil exports from Canada to the US is actually in favor of the US. Many American jobs will be lost because of this.

That trust and relationship will not be rebuilt easily, you vastly underestimate the damage and cost that will come from all the ill will being generated.

Words from a president are not just words, they carry weight, but now that tariffs are actually in effect we can see plain as day the first part of him carrying to execution his reckless and completely senseless ideas.

New comment by kmos17 in "43% of student-loan borrowers who owe payments haven't resumed making them"

kmos17 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 02:37:20 +0000

Because she thought that her payments were still suspended seems the obvious answer.

New comment by kmos17 in "FDA meeting to pick next winter's flu shot is canceled, in ominous sign for US"

kmos17 — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 05:04:50 +0000

Vaccines reinforce natural immunity.

So to be clear you’re arguing let’s kill a whole bunch of people to “increase” the population’s strength, although you express some mild concern about the “cost” of doing that? Is that the argument here?

New comment by kmos17 in ""Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order"

kmos17 — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 05:53:53 +0000

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New comment by kmos17 in "Musk appears at White House defending DOGE's work but acknowledging mistakes"

kmos17 — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:59:11 +0000

So we now have an unelected, un-appointed civilian who is the richest man in the world in the oval office telling us how he is tearing it all apart, while the guy who was actually elected is just seating there, and people think this is normal?

New comment by kmos17 in "Show HN: Built a site to find London's best art exhibitions"

kmos17 — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:30:36 +0000

Great job, love the simplicity. On mobile would be nice if the choice of places was collapsible or maybe in a modal? Another place to add is Camden Art Center https://camdenartcentre.org

New comment by kmos17 in "Measles outbreak erupts in one of Texas' least vaccinated counties"

kmos17 — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 12:54:10 +0000

An announcement about the importance of vaccination duh! oh wait..

New comment by kmos17 in "A Coup Is in Progress in America"

kmos17 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 03:09:52 +0000

The fog of propaganda is pretty deep to write those word to defend a man who did exactly that: tried to extend his power through illegal means. He failed last time, he is far more likely to succeed now. And yes his means are again illegal, we don’t elect kings, there are still rules to follow.

New comment by kmos17 in "NIH hit with freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring"

kmos17 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:21:58 +0000

In theory yes, in practice in the US today it’s becoming more and more of a fantasy. I hope we can get back there one day, we have the constitutional framework to do so, but the current system is running fast in the opposite direction, one party is rabidly embracing deregulation which will exacerbate these negative points, and the other one failed to live up to its ideals because the entire political class depends on lobbying dollars and was too busy focusing on performative agendas.

New comment by kmos17 in "NIH hit with freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring"

kmos17 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 04:28:54 +0000

Not everything needs to be profit generating, government funded research is how we get breakthroughs with very wide ranging benefits, especially when we are talking about advances in medicine. Profit making will often have the opposite effect by incentivizing the protection of existing monopolies, fake innovations to protect patentable revenue streams, and anti competitive regulatory capture.

New comment by kmos17 in "The Future of Htmx"

kmos17 — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 18:57:30 +0000

Greatly appreciate this philosophy and what htmx brings to the table. It is very simple and quick to pick up, and the longterm stability and simplicity are major advantages for web development.

New comment by kmos17 in "Reflections"

kmos17 — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 03:13:23 +0000

Allegedly, attaining AGI will get them out of the Microsoft deal (if I understood correctly on a recent Pivot episode).

Notice the lawyerly « AGI as we have traditionally understood it »

New comment by kmos17 in "Comparing AWS S3 with Cloudflare R2: Price, Performance and User Experience"

kmos17 — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 01:06:30 +0000

thanks for sharing, that’s a good data point in comparing those services.

New comment by kmos17 in "Comparing AWS S3 with Cloudflare R2: Price, Performance and User Experience"

kmos17 — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 01:04:40 +0000

In my experience the AWS waf and ddos mitigation are really expensive (min $40k per year contract) and are missing really basic ddos handling capabilities (last I evaluated it they did not have the ability to enforce client js validation which can be very effective against some bot networks). Maybe it has evolved since but Cloudflare enterprise was cheaper and more capable out of the box.

New comment by kmos17 in "Trump vows 25% tariff on all products from Mexico, Canada, 10% on China imports"

kmos17 — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 13:14:38 +0000

Maybe you should look up what is traded within nafta. You think a 10% increase on cars or construction is not a big deal eh?

New comment by kmos17 in "Trump vows 25% tariff on all products from Mexico, Canada, 10% on China imports"

kmos17 — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 11:52:05 +0000

So basically this is a national sales tax that will increase inflation in the US.