Hacker News: neilcj

New comment by neilcj in "AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link"

neilcj — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:38:34 +0000

> the payment processor (who deals with sales taxes rather than income taxes) should worry about the taxability of the transaction rather than the tax status of the recipient

A donation is not a sale of a good or service. This is not a question of sales tax collection.

New comment by neilcj in "Congress Wants You to Pay $130 a Year Just to Drive an Electric Car"

neilcj — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:02:21 +0000

Speak for your Tesla. My i3 weighs slightly less than my partner's Mini Cooper.

New comment by neilcj in "Trying for 1 month but can't learn pixel art still"

neilcj — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:16:30 +0000

Marx's labor theory of value very much still assumes a product of that labor to embody its value.

New comment by neilcj in "The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent"

neilcj — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:37:25 +0000

Shocking display of economic illiteracy or warmed up Goldwater propaganda?

New comment by neilcj in "DHS keeps trying and failing to unmask anonymous ICE critics online"

neilcj — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:48:10 +0000

Not sensitive enough to change behaviors, unfortunately.

New comment by neilcj in "Office app has changed to copilot and now I can't open files"

neilcj — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:02:09 +0000

Strong New Coke vibes.

New comment by neilcj in "How Postmodernism Killed Great Literature"

neilcj — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 16:03:43 +0000

Same with making the title of a Barthes essay a cornerstone of the argument.

New comment by neilcj in "PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program"

neilcj — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 21:35:19 +0000

Almost hourly, I am reminded that Jimmy Carter had to put his unprofitable inherited peanut farm in a blind trust.

New comment by neilcj in "The road that killed Legend Jenkins was working as designed"

neilcj — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 23:32:59 +0000

> You can't just build a road without maintaining it.

Sure you can, just look at Indiana.

New comment by neilcj in "Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification""

neilcj — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 20:32:46 +0000

The law reads like it applies to platforms required to do the checks rather than third party service providers.

New comment by neilcj in "US AI Action Plan"

neilcj — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:49:53 +0000

Don't regulate it except to push political goals sure seems like a recipe for success.

New comment by neilcj in "Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube"

neilcj — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 23:00:00 +0000

In your analogy, YouTube is the paperboy and the video producer is the newspaper.

New comment by neilcj in "Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic"

neilcj — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 17:41:22 +0000

Switching to desktop version of the site seems to work in all the major mobile browsers!

New comment by neilcj in "Germany ready to block Google Maps for patent infringement"

neilcj — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 13:10:49 +0000

The source, Florian Mueller, is an "analyst" for both Oracle and Microsoft, so take this with mountains of salt.

New comment by neilcj in "15-Year-Old Student's Ed Reform Plan"

neilcj — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:53:13 +0000

Where are the Googlers qualifying for SNAP?