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New comment by throwaway667555 in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

throwaway667555 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:00:15 +0000

Companies will often state a subsidiary is wholly owned by the ultimate parent regardless of which tier the subsidiary is at. The Thunderbird subsidiary could be under the Firefox subsidiary and the statement would still be true.

New comment by throwaway667555 in "How to defer US taxes"

throwaway667555 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:35:11 +0000

Lenders have an amount of capital that they need to invest and earn returns -- they're generally not in the business temporarily so they don't want their capital back. And when the loans are secured by hard assets, e.g. publicly traded stocks, there's little risk of default so long as the price stays up. In times of rising stock prices, there's little to no reason for a debt holder (lender) to exit their positions at maturity. Rather roll and continue taking the return (interest).

New comment by throwaway667555 in "How to defer US taxes"

throwaway667555 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:04:18 +0000

When the cash flow from the assets exceeds interest expense, you've cashed out the assets without incurring tax on your appreciated position and you can afford to pay the interest. As for principal, debt is largely not paid back these days, especially large bespoke debt secured by liquid and well-defined assets. The debt holders (lenders) get paid back after death of the borrower or they continue rolling the position and collecting their return (interest income). The only question in the lender's mind is how much leverage to grant on the underlying assets, e.g. blue chip stocks, and what to do in a liquidity crunch when rolling.

New comment by throwaway667555 in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

throwaway667555 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:24:23 +0000

Look at the CPI chart and draw a trend line ignoring recent years. You'll see we're living under 2034 price levels currently.

New comment by throwaway667555 in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

throwaway667555 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:16:26 +0000

Congress can act to pay back the economically harmed party, the consumer. They won't because we live in an oligarchy.

New comment by throwaway667555 in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

throwaway667555 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:11:48 +0000

Economically it is a direct redistribution of wealth. In crisis times, Congress acts swiftly to cure wrongs against corporations. What about this wrong against every single household?

New comment by throwaway667555 in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

throwaway667555 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:54:22 +0000

I'm gonna have a stroke. The Congressional Budget Office found that consumers paid 70-80% of the tariffs, totaling more than $1000 per household. Where is my refund?

New comment by throwaway667555 in "TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)"

throwaway667555 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 06:39:51 +0000

It's so easy that one man creates an Excel 1040 every year. See https://sites.google.com/view/incometaxspreadsheet/home

New comment by throwaway667555 in "Wall Street is worried the private credit bubble will burst"

throwaway667555 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 02:58:24 +0000

A credit facility is a lengthy and detailed agreement that certainly includes checking for other debt and checking for liens on the collateral. Liens are usually documented by a UCC filing which is public information.

New comment by throwaway667555 in "Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say"

throwaway667555 — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 13:05:08 +0000

The logo and interior design was s--t.

New comment by throwaway667555 in "OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems"

throwaway667555 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 18:06:22 +0000

It's not round tripping. Economically Nvidia is investing property is OpenAI. It's not investing nothing, far from it.

New comment by throwaway667555 in "A little-known Microsoft program could expose the Defense Department to hackers"

throwaway667555 — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 01:09:11 +0000

Chinese engineers call the US escorts on Teams and tell them what to copy & paste into US government cloud terminals. The Chinese don't see the screen or touch the keyboard attached to the government cloud so they "don't" break the letter of the law.

New comment by throwaway667555 in "A little-known Microsoft program could expose the Defense Department to hackers"

throwaway667555 — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 01:04:36 +0000

I think you mis-read the article. Chinese engineers are operating US government cloud computers by proxy. The Chinese just don't see the computer screen. A US grunt copies & pastes the Chinese's commands into the system during a Teams call.

New comment by throwaway667555 in "A little-known Microsoft program could expose the Defense Department to hackers"

throwaway667555 — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 01:03:22 +0000

Chinese engineers are operating US government cloud computers by proxy. The Chinese just don't see the computer screen--a proxy copies & pastes their commands and reads back the results.

New comment by throwaway667555 in "'Gwada negative': French scientists find new blood type in woman"

throwaway667555 — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 14:29:11 +0000

"nothing more" is an incorrect statement. The science is inconclusive, as science most often is.

New comment by throwaway667555 in "Launch HN: Modernbanc (YC W20) – Modern and fast accounting software"

throwaway667555 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 22:09:09 +0000

You can play Doom in an Excel spreadsheet.

New comment by throwaway667555 in "Launch HN: Modernbanc (YC W20) – Modern and fast accounting software"

throwaway667555 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 21:24:00 +0000

I believe client accounting firms, and probably companies themselves, would appreciate standardized accounting workpapers such as a loan amortization schedule, salary accrual schedule (to accrue salaries daily based on historical rates), depreciation schedule, and more. If you think of categorizing transactions as not only putting them in their final resting place (an account) but also as tagging them with special attributes (e.g. the attribute of needing to be accounted for in an aforementioned schedule), you'll have a killer innovation IMO. Many will tell you the dream of standardization is unrealistic but accounting methods are finite and a majority are well defined. You don't have to cover all use cases to win the hearts and minds of most who will see the value in prebuilt, integrated worksheets. Just an opinion from a client accounting manager who loves tools and applied theory.

New comment by throwaway667555 in "Launch HN: Modernbanc (YC W20) – Modern and fast accounting software"

throwaway667555 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:44:03 +0000

Wow, nice start. Integrated spreadsheets are a killer feature. Do any other accounting systems offer that? I think MS Dynamics does.

New comment by throwaway667555 in "New York Public Library ends all late fees"

throwaway667555 — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 00:59:00 +0000

This can be solved by NYPL having a silent policy to replace presumed-stolen books after X time passes. This spending mustn't be so large that it nixes the no-late-fee policy, I suppose.

New comment by throwaway667555 in "Why Intermittent Fasting Isn’t Effective or Healthy"

throwaway667555 — Sat, 15 May 2021 20:20:22 +0000

This is a 7 hour feeding window