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New comment by throwaway667555 in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

throwaway667555 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:44:01 +0000

Crawler and Google Scholar and Google Books.

New comment by throwaway667555 in "AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt"

throwaway667555 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:16:01 +0000

The pertinent comparison in valuations is debt vs equity, not debt vs cash as you noted.

New comment by throwaway667555 in "When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure?"

throwaway667555 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:21:03 +0000

You learn something new every day.

New comment by throwaway667555 in "When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure?"

throwaway667555 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:20:11 +0000

Without explanation, you think power plants aren't "the grid" that's being strained?

New comment by throwaway667555 in "When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure?"

throwaway667555 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:50:17 +0000

They buzz loudly and increase leukemia.

New comment by throwaway667555 in "When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure?"

throwaway667555 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:42:55 +0000

Data centers increase strain on the grid, so their supply lines do too.

New comment by throwaway667555 in "The Structural Barriers to AI Lawyers"

throwaway667555 — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:04:44 +0000

The good thing is new law usually references old law and explains why it has evolved so I wonder if arranging the law in chronological order will help the LLM follow the thread.

New comment by throwaway667555 in "The Structural Barriers to AI Lawyers"

throwaway667555 — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:00:54 +0000

Precedent in law is like discovery in science. It advances the boundary of human understanding so a probabilistic regurgitator will have trouble applying it without treatise roadmaps.

New comment by throwaway667555 in "Trade Dollars with other startups. Book it as revenue"

throwaway667555 — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:17:45 +0000

When comparing promises between businesses to pay versus promises between businesses to perform services, it is irrelevant that fiat currency is a federal reserve note rather than, say, bottle caps. Irrelevant.

New comment by throwaway667555 in "Trade Dollars with other startups. Book it as revenue"

throwaway667555 — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:34:04 +0000

You can't put your finger on it because money is merely an accumulator and medium of exchange of economic performance. The performance of services in exchange for other services without money is a perfectly valid economic exchange that can and should be booked to revenue of each of the parties, if actually performed.

Loans without any economic performance of services generate circular meaningless cash flows yeah, but that's not the case when services are actually performed.

Loans are promises to pay. Business deals are promises to perform services or deliver goods. The difference is easily lost in the details even for accountants and economists.

New comment by throwaway667555 in "Spam in conversational replies to blog posts"

throwaway667555 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:49:43 +0000

I agree, anecdotally I noticed a big uptick coincident with the comment hiding feature and with the Q4 2025 leap forward in LLM quality.

New comment by throwaway667555 in "Spam in conversational replies to blog posts"

throwaway667555 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:00:13 +0000

This also is absolutely rampant on reddit in the past months.

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