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New comment by metabagel in "Life During Class Wartime"

metabagel — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:06:48 +0000

This was one of the effects of the 90% rate for the highest tax bracket. It incentivized reinvesting money into the economy, rather than taking profits.

New comment by metabagel in "Life During Class Wartime"

metabagel — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:04:14 +0000

> Studies routinely show that 30-40% of food stamps are sold for pennies on the dollar to pay for drugs or other unnecessary things.

There are zero studies which show this.

New comment by metabagel in "Life During Class Wartime"

metabagel — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:50:54 +0000

I think you're seeing a segment of the homeless population and assuming that it represents the whole. It's likely that you encounter homeless people in your daily life and don't recognize them as being homeless.

New comment by metabagel in "Maladaptive Frugality"

metabagel — Fri, 01 May 2026 05:19:12 +0000

It really depends on whether you enjoy looking for bargains or not. If you don’t, then it feels like you are working, only you’re not getting paid.

New comment by metabagel in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

metabagel — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:23:19 +0000

I share vacation photos using Polarsteps. It’s quite nice.

New comment by metabagel in "3.4M Solar Panels"

metabagel — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:58:54 +0000

You're looking at the rooftop solar arrays heatmap. Page down for arrays and panels heatmap.

New comment by metabagel in "You don't need advice from editors on rejected manuscripts"

metabagel — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:55:50 +0000

In my opinion, it's relevant to Card's credibility. If he shows poor judgement in one area, why would I want to listen to his opinion on something else, even something which is considered to be in his wheelhouse? Poor judgement is poor judgement.

New comment by metabagel in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

metabagel — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:51:36 +0000

Sure, but our employers weren't selling our intermediate contributions to third parties in the past.

New comment by metabagel in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

metabagel — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:48:08 +0000

I recall that being in my employment contract.

The Corporation

metabagel — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:46:08 +0000

Article URL: https://thecorporation.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865279

Points: 2

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New comment by metabagel in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

metabagel — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:45:34 +0000

Right.

https://thecorporation.com/

New comment by metabagel in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

metabagel — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:31:45 +0000

> Starship won’t compete with F9, or BO because it is fully reusable and cost less than either.

Currently, this is not the case. Not fully reusable, and not costing less than F9 or BO.

New comment by metabagel in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

metabagel — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:19:30 +0000

How much of that are they sinking into Starship?

New comment by metabagel in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

metabagel — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:16:05 +0000

C'mon, you know they're talking about Starship.

New comment by metabagel in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

metabagel — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:15:00 +0000

low earth orbit

New comment by metabagel in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

metabagel — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:04:11 +0000

Heat gun? This isn't the type of consumer-friendly battery replacement which the EU is looking for.

New comment by metabagel in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

metabagel — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:57:35 +0000

You could drop the first sentence without losing anything other than an unnecessary insult.

New comment by metabagel in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

metabagel — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:52:43 +0000

I think that could be true for some engineers. I'm skeptical it was true for the majority.

New comment by metabagel in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

metabagel — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:48:07 +0000

Sure, but the Watt steam engine was invented 250 years ago, which is the point.

New comment by metabagel in "Apple App Store threatened to remove Grok over deepfakes: Letter"

metabagel — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:02:55 +0000

Let's be clear that Democrats support democracy and the democratic process. Republicans support oligarchy and a new gilded age of robber barons.

If government actually funded news in the public interest, it would mean that Democrats were in charge. Sure, Republicans could always cut funding or pressure publicly funded news if they returned to power. It would be our job to make sure that didn't happen. Publicly funded media can't work under corrupt Republican administration.

But, it's also true that commercial media is being bent under pressure from the Trump administration. Republicans will try to break anything which they perceive as limiting their power. Your narrow focus on publicly funded media seems to miss that big picture.