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stevenalowe

772 karma · joined April 1, 2014

consultant, software architect/developer, musician, science fiction, author, ex-ThoughtWorker, Xoogler, retired
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stevenalowe··on Antimatter has been transported for the first time
Unclear on the size of the apparatus require to secure the 92 anti-protons - did it occupy the entire truck?
stevenalowe··on Mark Zuckerberg Is Building an AI Agent to Help Him Be CEO
He needs one to help with ethics, not administration
stevenalowe··on Ask HN: Apple terminated our dev account over a rogue employee
The lack of empathy in the comments is appalling. This could happen to anyone, and the inability to reach a human to fix it is extremely poor customer service.
stevenalowe··on Wikipedia RFC on banning LLM contributions
ChatGPT says thats ok, it doesn’t trust Wikipedia anyway
stevenalowe··on Ask HN: Using AI voiceover and animated cartoon for YC application product demo?
Only if it’s bad - and it probably will be
stevenalowe··on Peter Thiel Fears the Antichrist Is Coming
He’s already here, in the White House
stevenalowe··on Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act
This is key:

‘The “child safety” rhetoric masks a competitive strategy that shifts liability from platforms to operating system makers.’

stevenalowe··on What If We Stopped Chasing Fast Hardware and Optimized for Existing Hardware?
The outcome will be stagnation of design. Design for dinosaurs, go extinct
stevenalowe··on Show HN: An addendum to the Agile Manifesto for the AI era
The proposal elevates team learning above delivering working software, which is contrary to the point of any programming job. Expect to be fired, a lot.
stevenalowe··on Trump now Selling National Security Briefing Membership
Selling access to national security data without background checks, what could go wrong?

More likely, this is a pitch for suckers to sign up for a propaganda mailing list.

stevenalowe··on Starbucks founder leaving Seattle for Florida amid controversial wealth tax
Looks like coincidence, i doubt a move like this was done in haste
stevenalowe··on Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens
Disagree. Prevention of many things via broad immunity seems superior to alleged multiple alleged Cures
stevenalowe··on Zero Point Energy
Actual paper [0] makes no mention of ZPE in the abstract, but still interesting

[0] https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/l8y7-r3...

stevenalowe··on Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens
Intranasal, no jabs
stevenalowe··on Lawmakers Want DoD Investigated for Biblical 'Armageddon' Claims
Perhaps the speaker was bucking for a Section 8?
stevenalowe··on Trump says US will have a role in choosing Iran's next leader
Yes, once.
stevenalowe··on Claude Code for Everyone
Tutorials, not free Claude code
stevenalowe··on AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
I wonder how the AIs’ answers might change if explicitly informed that they would not survive a nuclear exchange
stevenalowe··on Ask HN: What do I do now that software engineering is dead?
Imagine the carnage and pushback if electric power tools misbehaved like LLMs…
stevenalowe··on Dutch Lawmakers Approve a 36% Tax on Unrealized Crypto, Stock, and Bond Gains
both of these assertions are false - buyers cannot be guaranteed, and liquidating large chunks of stocks et al can have catastrophic effects on the stock price and general stock market.

they also do not address my main point which is this would be a tax on "gains" that do not exist, based on speculative valuations that cannot be guaranteed. The proposal itself defies logic; "unrealized gains" is an oxymoron!

extreme but not impossible scenario: someone builds an apartment building near your house, suddenly your house is "worth" ten times as much but no one will buy at that price so you sell your house for much less (just coincidentally to someone politically connected) and yet still owe taxes on a "gain" that was not actually possible to realize

In this specific instance, it's easy to see how large untimely stock/crypto fluctuations could lead to similar situations. That is a foreseeable disaster; there would be unforeseeable ones as well over time.

Band-aids such as limiting tax liability to not exceed the actual sale price of the asset will not help; the tax can easily cause the destruction of the wealth it seeks to collect, and not just for the one large shareholder.

This is a door that should not be open; it is disappointing to see this Dutch action is just a replacement for an existing illogical tax, so sadly too late for the Netherlands.

stevenalowe··on Trump orders agencies to identify and release government files on aliens
'Trump said... he will direct ...agencies to begin the process...'

no deadline, no clear deliverables = no progress, just "appearing busy"

stevenalowe··on Sanders and Newsom become adversaries over push to tax California billionaires
Why is a Vermont politician meddling in California issues?
stevenalowe··on Dutch Lawmakers Approve a 36% Tax on Unrealized Crypto, Stock, and Bond Gains
Taxing imaginary gains on anything - land, stocks, crypto, comic books, etc - is illogical class envy.
stevenalowe··on The United States Is Southern Now
From the title I thought the article was about how Southern bigotry and religion had taken over the government… but it’s about economics.
stevenalowe··on [dead]
Maybe not have a childlike waifu, kinda creepy
stevenalowe··on Immigration officers assert power to enter homes without a warrant
So, face masks, no IDs, no badges, no real warrant, no reasonable probable cause, and no due process, what could possibly go wrong?
stevenalowe··on SpaceX will attempt to reach Mars by the end of 2026
Nope just thinking about what’s best for the planet
stevenalowe··on How to Make Your Product the AI's Answer, Your Content an AI Citation
Link goes to YC login page
stevenalowe··on New York proposal requires 3D printer manufacturers to prevent gun printing
This is how guns become a free speech issue
stevenalowe··on SpaceX will attempt to reach Mars by the end of 2026
That is great news if they going to leave Musk there
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