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New comment by trylfthsk in "I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall"

trylfthsk — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:37:16 +0000

A point against: if someone was an early adopter in a community that urbanized over 30 years, in effect the increased value means their future ownership at present rates requires the collective subsidy of their neighbors. Young families subsidizing the elderly in this way is a huge issue in tax burden disparity where I live.

New comment by trylfthsk in "I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall"

trylfthsk — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:30:04 +0000

Why not just subsidize this directly then?

New comment by trylfthsk in "Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked"

trylfthsk — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 06:14:09 +0000

Also a graduate of NOLS WEMT, and it was one of the best-run educational experiences I've been through (Including Undergrad, Masters, professional development, etc).

Highly, highly recommend paying them a visit - truly a special organization, though I've neglected trying out one of their proper expeditions.

New comment by trylfthsk in "Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked"

trylfthsk — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 06:02:05 +0000

I'm midway through a similar journey - jumped from engineering to fire then into armed forces. At the back of my head I can always go back to the office, but the passage of time guarantees the reverse is much harder.

To anyone that has even thought of something more outside an office, try it so long as you're physically able. Compensation is one thing, but the experience for me has been priceless.

New comment by trylfthsk in "Show HN: Factorio but with unreliable components"

trylfthsk — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:22:02 +0000

Same feedback - conditional probability until you eventually straight pipe a 100% reliability sorter to the solution. I think one workaround is to have a max reliability for the level - say 95% - requiring actual infrastructure in the long run.

New comment by trylfthsk in "New farm bill would condemn pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates"

trylfthsk — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:37:29 +0000

Not entirely convinced that outside the torment nexuses used in industrial meat farming, natural suffering is any lesser sans humanity.

New comment by trylfthsk in "Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level"

trylfthsk — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 04:22:54 +0000

40mg Rosuvastatin + 10mg ezetimibe + leqvio did this precisely for my n=1.

New comment by trylfthsk in "Google runs Israel's ads: 'There is food in Gaza'"

trylfthsk — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 22:51:11 +0000

Is anyone surprised when YouTube shows a million "you won't believe this one simple trick involving lemon juice to reverse diabetes" type ads?

I'd be shocked if now was the time to have standards of any sort.

RAGBRAI is the oldest, largest and longest recreational bicycle touring

trylfthsk — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 12:52:58 +0000

Article URL: https://ragbrai.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44624754

Points: 5

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New comment by trylfthsk in "Every part on a bicycle is safety critical"

trylfthsk — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 01:23:19 +0000

Topical, with RAGBRAI just around the corner. I'm constantly awed at just revolutionary the bicycle seems to be from an industrialization perspective. To me, bicycles and smartphones are two real thick lines to draw on when the world became something different.

New comment by trylfthsk in "Caffeine induces age-dependent brain complexity and criticality during sleep"

trylfthsk — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:22:08 +0000

As much as I like to scientifically validate my drug dependency, is the EEG work here really that much more rigorous than a polygraph? I see a lot of domain specific terms like "FOOOF algorithm", filtering signal spectra etc. and the geist of my schooling asks me whether the elephant is wiggling its trunk.

New comment by trylfthsk in "June Huh dropped out to become a poet, now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022)"

trylfthsk — Thu, 08 May 2025 13:23:55 +0000

I can understand his distaste for the indefinite, but does he actually make a strong case for the opposite?

To me this reads as claiming "making fragile choices is good", which outside of very niche situations I'd say is bad advice: like telling a college basketball player to not waste time outside of practice and later watching him go undrafted in the pros.

New comment by trylfthsk in "108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring"

trylfthsk — Thu, 01 May 2025 15:03:20 +0000

This does make me wonder what kinds of secrets can and can't be kept; on the face of it, that a critical bit of insider information would be kept for oral transmission at particular times (something like a mystery cult) leads me to think that keeping such a secret is at least possible.

At the same time, people love gossip.

Of course, the only secrets we know from the past were by definition not exactly well-kept.

New comment by trylfthsk in "Darwin's children drew all over the “On the Origin of Species” manuscript (2014)"

trylfthsk — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 02:28:34 +0000

Thank you for this; surprised I haven't heard much about him prior, since I've been digging into political economy lately.

Specifically, his notes on consumption / full employment are refreshing - it never sits right with me that the goal of economic policy at a high level is so often at odds with doing things in a "smart" way (measuring projects in jobs created, for example).

New comment by trylfthsk in "The Dead Planet Theory"

trylfthsk — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 05:31:09 +0000

Is it worth the effort for any individual poster though? The unreachable segment (read only, doesn't comment) which already makes up the vast majority of audience is practically un-engageable. Among commenters, there's the blend of low-effort 'this'-type posts, soliloquizers (though possible therapeutic for the poster), and lizardman-constant/flame type reactions. It seems that in most venues, the effort to read through all comments and find anything valuable to engage with has a low social ROI.

New comment by trylfthsk in "Hermit guardian of Budelli dies after three decades on paradise island"

trylfthsk — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 07:41:57 +0000

Reminds me vaguely of the end of brave new world in that living there would be to some a prison and to others paradise, and I'm not quite sure which bucket I'm in (or how to find out)

New comment by trylfthsk in "What adults lost when kids stopped playing in the street"

trylfthsk — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 01:58:11 +0000

Growing up in one felt like prison. That is, until I started getting away on my bike. Until I got hit by a car.

New comment by trylfthsk in "FAA investigating how counterfeit titanium got into Boeing and Airbus jets"

trylfthsk — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:03:37 +0000

Fraud is bad, generally.

New comment by trylfthsk in "A flat map with the least error possible: The Gott-Goldberg-Vanderbei projection"

trylfthsk — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 17:57:25 +0000

I'm partial to the Pierce Quincuncial [0] projection myself. Actually, any conformal projection that tiles really.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peirce_quincuncial_projection

New comment by trylfthsk in "Tax consequences of WIN95 team members keeping a piece of software for testing"

trylfthsk — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 12:53:03 +0000

My least favorite taxes right now are those that apply based on location.

In theory, my tax return requires about 4 extra states and a few cities, and a bunch of state registrations, and my payroll provider doesn't support the operations; so the net result is a Helleresque fever dream.

In practice, I never leave home on paper.