Hacker News: mitxela

New comment by mitxela in "Restaurant Delivery Payment-Skimming Campaign"

mitxela — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 03:52:08 +0000

A type of AI psychosis LARP

New comment by mitxela in "Restaurant Delivery Payment-Skimming Campaign"

mitxela — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 03:51:16 +0000

You work for a company? Why hasn't your company sued Google for creating this problem yet?

New comment by mitxela in "Restaurant Delivery Payment-Skimming Campaign"

mitxela — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 03:48:23 +0000

A large company's report system is designed to distract you from complaint paths that work and are expensive for the company to deal with (lawsuits) and make you complain to /dev/null instead.

New comment by mitxela in "GitHub's new Git storage architecture"

mitxela — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 03:46:59 +0000

Welcome to the new AI future, where everyone is insane and reality doesn't matter.

I'm starting to think AI isn't a productivity machine, but rather a machine for hypnotising people into the false belief of productivity.

New comment by mitxela in "GitHub's new Git storage architecture"

mitxela — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 03:45:40 +0000

You could also just ban people who spam you and consume immense amounts of server time. Or make them pay for the server time.

New comment by mitxela in "UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power"

mitxela — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 18:27:44 +0000

Military forces never had any problem running extra reactors to acquire their material.

New comment by mitxela in "UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power"

mitxela — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 18:26:11 +0000

Or renewables. I remind you that nuclear power is completely economically unviable today because it is the single most expensive way to generate power. Even with Trump rolling back safety regulations, it's still too expensive when solar panels are 10 cents per watt, nuclear is 50, and the amount of backup storage to offset the unreliability does not bridge that gap.

New comment by mitxela in "UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power"

mitxela — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 18:24:16 +0000

Now by selling them uranium!

New comment by mitxela in "French national assembly votes 0.055€/GB internet tax"

mitxela — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 18:23:53 +0000

The US prints the world reserve currency. It can easily, and does hugely, export its inflation to other countries like the ones in Europe.

New comment by mitxela in "French digital tax may kill VideoLan non-profit"

mitxela — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:27 +0000

Just lower the rent then.

New comment by mitxela in "French digital tax may kill VideoLan non-profit"

mitxela — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The deficit consistently decreases when democrats are in power and increases when republicans are in power.

New comment by mitxela in "French digital tax may kill VideoLan non-profit"

mitxela — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 11:59:06 +0000

Oh look another numbered spam account. How much do you get paid to persist with this? I want some of that moolah too.

New comment by mitxela in "French lawmakers approved a tax of €0.055 for every gigabyte of internet traffic"

mitxela — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 11:58:21 +0000

Better yet, just stop giving them so much money that they become billionaires.

New comment by mitxela in "French lawmakers approved a tax of €0.055 for every gigabyte of internet traffic"

mitxela — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 11:57:59 +0000

Another comment said it was just some posturing addition to a budget that's already guaranteed to be rejected. Which one is true?

New comment by mitxela in "French national assembly votes 0.055€/GB internet tax"

mitxela — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 20:18:53 +0000

So Europe is about to collapse?

New comment by mitxela in "French digital tax may kill VideoLan non-profit"

mitxela — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 20:15:34 +0000

It's extremely common that when a right wing government transitions to a left wing government, the left wing government notices it has insane unpayable debt and tries a bunch of desperate things to repay it.

Mamdani had the same problem but was luckily able to negotiate practicable payment plans on NYC's debt.

Also I believe it's much easier to solve well intentioned stupidity than to solve malice.

New comment by mitxela in "French digital tax may kill VideoLan non-profit"

mitxela — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 20:14:11 +0000

Couldn't they just admit the problem with capitalism is that you run out of other people's money, and then stop giving all the tax money to billionaires, and then there'd be enough money left for everyone else?

The french government is who decided the french government has to pay all that money, they can just decide differently.

New comment by mitxela in "French digital tax may kill VideoLan non-profit"

mitxela — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 20:13:17 +0000

Laffer curve is about percentages (and also irrelevant below 80-90% and irrelevant if you think government shouldn't be a business). Taxing people with zero money millions of dollars isn't even on the curve, it's just a completely separate bad thing.

The separate internet tax on the other hand, that's about 1000% of the cost of internet, and a 1000% tax is definitely on the wrong side of the laffer curve. They are essentially banning the internet.

New comment by mitxela in "French digital tax may kill VideoLan non-profit"

mitxela — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 20:11:44 +0000

Nitter link: https://twiiit.com/videolan/status/2116229135919919278

How can I see an English translation?

New comment by mitxela in "StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month"

mitxela — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:58:43 +0000

and back when SO started, that either hadn't happened yet or nobody was aware of it. Posting on the internet was a positive experience.