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New comment by slackfan in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"

slackfan — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:38:10 +0000

No tax base rate is ever adjusted for inflation. What planet are you from?

New comment by slackfan in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"

slackfan — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:23:32 +0000

Just like the federal income tax was only targeted at the top 5% of the population when implemented.

Inflation is cumulative.

New comment by slackfan in "New York Passes Tax on the Ultra-Wealthy"

slackfan — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:13:36 +0000

What they also have described is a dacha.

New comment by slackfan in "AI is too expensive"

slackfan — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:51:23 +0000

> If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month...

This blog is too expensive too.

New comment by slackfan in "Actually, democracy dies in H.R."

slackfan — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:52:14 +0000

We've said this for years, but were shouted down (by the HR class).

New comment by slackfan in "Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation"

slackfan — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:18:10 +0000

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New comment by slackfan in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

slackfan — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:35:20 +0000

Banksy is very much regime art.

New comment by slackfan in "Linux 7.0 Broke PostgreSQL: The Preemption Regression Explained"

slackfan — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:16:30 +0000

Code quality does not care about your feelings.

New comment by slackfan in "Networking changes coming in macOS 27"

slackfan — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:31:46 +0000

It's had it since before version 10.4, though it wasn't fantastic, I'll give you that.

New comment by slackfan in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

slackfan — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:51:54 +0000

If you haven't stared at a wall deciding whether to continue living or not - you have not lived. No trivialization here.

New comment by slackfan in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

slackfan — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:39:49 +0000

Concern bait is still bait, considering I've worked in the healthcare system enough to know you're adamantly incorrect about both the cost and availability of psychiatric care. Unfortunately I also know that attempting to convince you otherwise is a mug's game.

New comment by slackfan in "'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win Polymarket bet"

slackfan — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:28:52 +0000

Counterpoint, why are we measuring temperature on what is basically a giant radiator?

New comment by slackfan in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

slackfan — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:28:07 +0000

I realize that you're baiting, but it's just a google search away. We're at about 10%, vs some EU countries' 13-14%. Considering that - it's highly unlikely that anybody who needs access to SSRIs does not have it.

New comment by slackfan in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

slackfan — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:29:24 +0000

Our per-capita SSRI consumption is lower than more than a few EU countries'.

Also sadness is a natural and ok state of being. Being a gronked out happy zombie is unnatural and should be suspect.

New comment by slackfan in "Email could have been X.400 times better"

slackfan — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:41:48 +0000

However did we live during the era of the White Pages phone directory.

New comment by slackfan in "GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry"

slackfan — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:03:16 +0000

pseudoanonymous means not anonymous. /thread

New comment by slackfan in "France's 'Secure' ID agency probes breach as crooks claim 19M records"

slackfan — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:55:30 +0000

Hey! Hey! Where the "Government Digital ID is secure guys!" crowd at?

New comment by slackfan in "EU age verification app hacked, 2 minute How to posted"

slackfan — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:06:52 +0000

Implementing this is fascist.

New comment by slackfan in "Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages"

slackfan — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:22:12 +0000

There's a lot of autodidact researchers out there that existed before AI, and AI-assisted, their research and output has sped up significantly. To call them a bot is to mildly put, miss the forest for the trees.

New comment by slackfan in "I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to"

slackfan — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:03:47 +0000

Please stay in your concrete box and never leave.