Hacker News: rcpt

New comment by rcpt in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

rcpt — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:56:14 +0000

I would pay a premium to buy actual wine grapes instead of the boring green spheres that usually show up in the grocery store

New comment by rcpt in "Does Georgism work? Five years later"

rcpt — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 02:52:58 +0000

The problem is that the issue is rarely LVT vs market-rate property taxes.

It's usually up against some insane shit like Prop 13

New comment by rcpt in "Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations"

rcpt — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:08:54 +0000

Amazingly unhinged response to the automated bird picture frame.

New comment by rcpt in "The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution"

rcpt — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 01:13:08 +0000

Public comment is bad. It gives people with time to comment far more power than those who can't. It's one of the major reasons we can't building housing or high speed rail.

New comment by rcpt in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"

rcpt — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:56:13 +0000

I am surprised that Alpoge wasn't using Anthropic.

New comment by rcpt in "Reflections on Americans' Net Worth"

rcpt — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:52:52 +0000

I think you are mixing up a couple of things.

Income to rent ratio, which is what this thread is about, varies geographically. Rent eats 30-40% of income in prestige cities like NYC or SF or LA. It's only 25% in Kansas City or Columbus.

You seem to be thinking about overall cost burden over time.

New comment by rcpt in "Reflections on Americans' Net Worth"

rcpt — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 02:47:42 +0000

That's not really true. Rent to income ratio varies quite a lot

New comment by rcpt in "Reflections on Americans' Net Worth"

rcpt — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:25:05 +0000

And based on this comment section we get seriously offended when you point it out.

New comment by rcpt in "Reflections on Americans' Net Worth"

rcpt — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:23:38 +0000

Housing is expensive in our prestige cities, but that's true in much of the world.

New comment by rcpt in "Reflections on Americans' Net Worth"

rcpt — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:22:40 +0000

> downsizing in the current market basically means that you pay way more for way less

Can you elaborate on that? It's pretty common for people to sell their 4 bedroom family house and retire to Florida. But it's not "way more for way less"

New comment by rcpt in "Reflections on Americans' Net Worth"

rcpt — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:20:32 +0000

Really? Given you're on this site I imagine you know at least some technical people. And for the most part we're all very well off.

New comment by rcpt in "Algorithmic rent-pricing litigation expands under new state and local laws"

rcpt — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 06:16:24 +0000

I don't think that's true. Prop 13 for example is priced into the market. Buyers bid higher because their taxes are frozen. This doesn't take decades to correct.

Market reactions are instant. Once the policy is fixed we don't have to wait for a generation

New comment by rcpt in "Algorithmic rent-pricing litigation expands under new state and local laws"

rcpt — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 06:14:05 +0000

> prices for land go down, which means it is cheaper to build

By this logic San Francisco should be one of the cheapest places in the world to build

New comment by rcpt in "Oceans hit highest temperature on record"

rcpt — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:56:00 +0000

The federal government is paying energy companies to cancel plans to build wind farms:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e1vg0gjl5o

Yes we're still building renewable energy, but goddamn is our government making it hard.

New comment by rcpt in "Oceans hit highest temperature on record"

rcpt — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:52:57 +0000

I'm sure that figure is accurate. And the other person in this thread who commented "the entire energy consumption of two Swedens or half a Thailand" is probably also accurate.

It's not about accuracy, it's about the units people choose when having these discussions

New comment by rcpt in "Oceans hit highest temperature on record"

rcpt — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:49:36 +0000

It's an unspoken rule in the data center debate that every metric is completely batshit.

Doesn't matter what side you're on, it's always "enough water to irrigate 27 soccer fields" or "as much energy as 1/5th of the average hamburger"

New comment by rcpt in "'The Nerd Reich' tracks the 'unmasking of Silicon Valley's true politics'"

rcpt — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:26:50 +0000

Larry Fink exists. Wow I've just "unmasked" the true politics of banking.

New comment by rcpt in "'The Nerd Reich' tracks the 'unmasking of Silicon Valley's true politics'"

rcpt — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 21:04:27 +0000

Aside from Elon and some crypto weirdos (if crypto even counts as tech) most of leadership went for Kamala in 24.

Today of course it's difficult because if you don't give Donnie a gift basket he blows a temper tantrum and hits you with tariffs.

New comment by rcpt in "'The Nerd Reich' tracks the 'unmasking of Silicon Valley's true politics'"

rcpt — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 21:02:04 +0000

> union

The Teamsters went for Trump in 24. Having a union doesn't mean you're immune from facism.

New comment by rcpt in "Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results"

rcpt — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:16:26 +0000

Look at the paper. There's a floor to mental work. Even if it's a nickel, having to make that decision is enough friction to kill the whole deal