Hacker News Reader

fundaThreeon Changes since congestion pricing started in New York

I live in DC

fundaThreeon Changes since congestion pricing started in New York

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratfucking

I honestly have no clue what beef you have with me, or if you even disagree, but thanks for calling me cool.

> What was the reason she gave for not ratfucking it a second time?

Still waiting on an answer that it seems you might be capable of providing rather than acting like a dick

fundaThreeon Changes since congestion pricing started in New York

Fair, I guess I have no clue who on earth would willingly opt into driving into New York in the first place.

fundaThreeon AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms

What is an "advanced" algorithm? How do you differentiate this from other algorithms?

fundaThreeon Henry James's family tried to keep him in the closet (2016)

> I think you should strive for definitive proof

I think only mathematicians and computer scientists can deliver this.

fundaThreeon Changes since congestion pricing started in New York

> She delayed it by 6 months because she thought it would hurt some candidates in House elections

Did she think that New Jersey residents vote for New York candidates? Do you have a link to the narrative?

fundaThreeon Git Bug: Distributed, Offline-First Bug Tracker Embedded in Git, with Bridges

TUI?

EDIT: "rich terminal users interfaces"

fundaThreeon How friction is being redistributed in today's economy

> There is such a thing as negative value, if you do something that is a commodity poorly, then you are actively less valuable relative to competitors that do a good job of the same thing.

I think negative value would look something like bombing someone. Negative relative-[commodity-]value does not imply negative value.

Also, software is not a commodity at all. There's no cost to reproducing it.

> You can' charge anyone extra for doing this commodity stuff right.

I'm not sure what you mean by "commodity". I think you mean "commonplace" or something like that.

fundaThreeon Changes since congestion pricing started in New York

I thought Hochul ratfucked this initiative for no apparent reason. What was the reason she gave for not ratfucking it a second time?

fundaThreeon The most valuable commodity in the world is friction

> It's not a commodity and it's not valuable.

Commodities only have the commodity-value (i.e. price); actual value (i.e. something's worth/weight/utility/what something means to you) is unrelated to commodification. Most valuable things in your life likely have no meaningful commodity value. Very much including the concept of friction.

If only commodities are "valuable", the word has lost all value.

fundaThreeon US vs. Google Amicus Curiae Brief of Y Combinator in Support of Plaintiffs [pdf]

It's not the deciding factor yet. You can bet the IP hammer is going to swing in again once the big players have been decided just to keep the small players out.

fundaThreeon There's a national egg crisis, and one company is making a lot of money

> The other piece of "evidence", Cal-Maine's quarterly P/L, is also useless, for all we know they decided to invest in less capital equipment than previously in Q3 2025

There's no serious moral or value distinction here; if you insist on pointing fingers you can, but at the end of the day the profits we see celebrated come with higher costs, and the continuing-to-increase wealth inequality in this country confirms that not everyone sees the benefit.

> You know what the trouble is, Brucey? We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guy's pocket.

fundaThreeon Henry James's family tried to keep him in the closet (2016)

> I earnestly feel like that's our modern language coloring our reading of it.

You are reading modern language. Sexual identity was already a thing at this point in history and had been for several decades.

fundaThreeon Henry James's family tried to keep him in the closet (2016)

> They always feel slightly like academics reading into things too much when it's totally possible they were meant platonically or like a brotherly type of love.

Why on earth are you looking for definitive proof of specific claims when it comes to history? That just seems like a fool's errand.

fundaThreeon The number of new apartments is at a 50-year high, but states expect a slowdown

> TX builds over 2x more per capita than CA.

Ok, but this comes at the severe detriment of having to deal with the Texas government. Why not just move out of the country at that point?