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New comment by zorak8me in "Ask HN: AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?"

zorak8me — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:04:08 +0000

Providing instruction and context doesn’t seem like a “workaround”.

New comment by zorak8me in "NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9"

zorak8me — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 22:16:32 +0000

That's a convenient wave of the hand, isn't it? "Oh it will eventually break" is just entropy, and can be applied to anything.

New comment by zorak8me in "Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter"

zorak8me — Fri, 12 May 2023 21:05:02 +0000

My feed is no longer related to my interests and I don’t know how to get it back on track. That and losing the confidence that the blue check posting is actually someone relevant. Really kills the enjoyment for me.

New comment by zorak8me in "Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news"

zorak8me — Thu, 11 May 2023 22:44:11 +0000

Yes! Can you make a plug-in that reads articles and replaces headlines with the story lead (aka what the headline would have been 30 years ago)?

New comment by zorak8me in "AI is upending the freelance world"

zorak8me — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 23:25:58 +0000

“ without the limitations of…bias”

Human writers also have a hard time recognizing and acknowledging their own bias, so I guess this is pretty spot on.

New comment by zorak8me in "How can I prevent my site from being a free dataset for LLMs?"

zorak8me — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 19:27:23 +0000

I’ll give that a shot; - AI learns what’s on the site - Visitors stop coming to the site, because the information is now freely available in parsed/summarized form from the AI - Blogger stops posting because there are no visitors - AI stops learning because there is no new content

New comment by zorak8me in "Twitter Blue breaks EU consumer law by showing prices without tax"

zorak8me — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 12:37:21 +0000

It’s newsworthy! The current story being told in tech is that we can lay off significant parts of the workforce with no impact. Following this, the resulting failures are generally hidden or otherwise non-obvious.

New comment by zorak8me in "Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegotiable price"

zorak8me — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 03:25:01 +0000

Re: bestbuy “showrooming” issues, I think they actually figured out how to make it a value driver for them, whereas it killed others. It’s a great place to look at products, and they price match so you can walk out the door with the product instead of waiting.

New comment by zorak8me in "Ask HN: Why people on HN disclaim “EDIT: ” even for the smallest edits?"

zorak8me — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 14:43:13 +0000

If sometime in your thread identifies the typo/minor issue and you edit, then it is common courtesy to call out the edit.

New comment by zorak8me in "Western megadrought is worst in 1,200 years, intensified by climate change"

zorak8me — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 01:22:58 +0000

Just want to call out - Pre-Colombian North America had a population around 60 million.

New comment by zorak8me in "Tax details of US super-rich allegedly leaked"

zorak8me — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 22:34:37 +0000

It functions like income when they treat it like an average person treats their income. Spending on their home, their car, travel, etc. They’re using the loan to avoid taking income or realizing gains.

But yeah, I would be down for a more sensible sales tax situation. I’m sure there are a hundred ways to skin this cat.

Edit: ways

New comment by zorak8me in "Tax details of US super-rich allegedly leaked"

zorak8me — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 22:25:42 +0000

A mortgage is not a personal loan.

New comment by zorak8me in "Tax details of US super-rich allegedly leaked"

zorak8me — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 21:59:27 +0000

It certainly seems to have elicited emotions from some readers.

New comment by zorak8me in "Tax details of US super-rich allegedly leaked"

zorak8me — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 21:57:22 +0000

One solution- if someone is taking out personal loans that function like income, let’s tax it like income. If someone really wants to live on 80k a year, that’s fine. But if they’re reporting 80k income but spending 10M, maybe they should be paying their fair share on that.

Edit- this has the benefit of completely avoiding the issue of unrealized gains and sticks to the issue of income...

New comment by zorak8me in "Tax details of US super-rich allegedly leaked"

zorak8me — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 21:50:44 +0000

I am confused. They were clearly discussing unrealized gains as wealth throughout the article. What am I missing here?

New comment by zorak8me in "House Costs Just $20k-But It’s Nicer Than Yours"

zorak8me — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 16:10:56 +0000

> If you go out to the middle of nowhere, you can get huge, and amazing, homes for less that $100k (because no one wants to live there).

Median home prices in flyover country start at $100K (West Virginia) and max out around $300K (Colorado, Nevada, etc.). "Huge and amazing" is probably 3x that.

New comment by zorak8me in "Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to sea-level rise as much as predicted"

zorak8me — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 14:43:01 +0000

> Acid rain was mitigated via extensive, global efforts to regulate the pollution emissions that caused it.

Excellent point. Big problems are solvable with the right level of effort.

New comment by zorak8me in "Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to sea-level rise as much as predicted"

zorak8me — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 14:39:51 +0000

The publication of this article seems to suggest that legitimate criticism and questions are in fact quite welcome.