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New comment by zeroonetwothree in "New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC"

zeroonetwothree — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:51:45 +0000

Perhaps. Homes are not zero sum though so it’s also possible there will be fewer first homes.

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC"

zeroonetwothree — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:50:56 +0000

Wealth is not income. Most of the world has zero or negative wealth so these types of calculations are kind of silly.

A better comparison would be imagine 1.6% of the earth having 50% of the valuable minerals. But that’s roughly what it actually is!

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC"

zeroonetwothree — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:47:42 +0000

How do I sign up for this magical 25% “effective tax rate”? Last year mine was 46% and that’s only counting income tax (state + federal).

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC"

zeroonetwothree — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:37:02 +0000

“almost”?

Petition Against Meta's Model Capability Initiative

zeroonetwothree — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:19:18 +0000

Article URL: https://mcipetition.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185806

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden"

zeroonetwothree — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:59:20 +0000

Doesn’t it cost much more than BW? I don’t really understand if the main complaint is people worrying about losing the free option (which hasn’t even happened)

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden"

zeroonetwothree — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:57:26 +0000

What did they pull exactly? Nothing has changed about the product except for a small price increase (but free version is still great)

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

zeroonetwothree — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:53:57 +0000

The placement at the bottom of pricing is always where it was. Nothing has changed

They did raise the price to $20 (but the free version is still amazing). But that’s still really cheap and pretty much all services have gone up in price in the past 10 years (inflation)

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

zeroonetwothree — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:53:37 +0000

They mentioned in an update that they accidentally removed “always free” text during a website update and put it back quickly. Seems the article was written in the intervening period

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden"

zeroonetwothree — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:51:34 +0000

Literally nothing has been taken away from BW yet, it’s all just speculative for now

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

zeroonetwothree — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:51:00 +0000

I really don’t think a UI redesign is the intended meaning of enshittification. BW has had by far the best free option for password management since I started using them 8 years ago.

Do I like the UI changes? Eh it’s not my favorite but I don’t use it that often to care.

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

zeroonetwothree — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:49:21 +0000

I don’t understand why people post incorrect statements that are trivial to check

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

zeroonetwothree — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:47:44 +0000

Bitwarden hasn’t “enshittified” anything. It’s all entirely speculative

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

zeroonetwothree — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:56:47 +0000

Practically speaking it’s rarely cost efficient to vibe code your own all compared to buying. It might cost $100-200 in tokens alone and then there’s the time cost, maintenance, etc. Paying $10/month is cheaper.

I’ll only make an app if there’s nothing else comparable out there (surprisingly common)z

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

zeroonetwothree — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:54:54 +0000

It was always the hard part, hence why experienced eng get paid 5-10x what new grad do. It’s not because they type faster.

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]"

zeroonetwothree — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:13:33 +0000

Facebook didn’t adopt mercurial until something like 2014? And before that used svn -> git

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]"

zeroonetwothree — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:13:19 +0000

You can use all the normal hg commands at Meta. It’s a regular mercurial repo from the standpoint of a user

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]"

zeroonetwothree — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:11:24 +0000

I’ve used both in parallel for 10 years or so. They are very similar, I find no problem switching back and forth

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "Judge bars Kars4Kids from broadcasting 'misleading' ads in California"

zeroonetwothree — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:39:43 +0000

I’ve donated cars to them twice and I’ll be honest I don’t really care. It was convenient for me to not have to deal with selling it and I got a minor tax benefit.

I guess if I knew I might have picked a different charity though. But it’s not something I’d spend a lot of time worrying about.

New comment by zeroonetwothree in "Judge bars Kars4Kids from broadcasting 'misleading' ads in California"

zeroonetwothree — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:37:00 +0000

The religious disclosure requirement feels like it may be a 1st amendment violation. Also perhaps even the rest of it as “compelled speech” (why does the judge decide how they fix their ads?) is it typical for charities to disclose exactly how they use their funds in ads? I don’t think I’ve ever seen that.

I agree the ads shouldn’t be misleading of course.

Next you’ll tell me that UNICEF isn’t exclusively saving starving orphans in Africa.