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what··on 10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years
We don’t really tax real estate. That’s why all the old farts pay $1000/year in property taxes on a home that’s worth millions. Do you propose taxing them on the actual value of their homes?
what··on 10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years
Raising the income tax rates aren’t going to help though. The ultra wealthy you want to tax have (basically) no income to tax. Are you proposing to institute a wealth tax?
what··on 10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years
> and nobody wants to do anything to cap its costs such as means testing or straight up lowering the amount it can pay out

Yes because everyone paid into it and wants their money back with interest as promised? This isn’t weird.

what··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Okay. So all that opposition turnout disappeared in 2024? Where did they go? Were they so disappointed with the alternative that they just decided to just stay home (effectively a vote for Trump)?
what··on Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
> bugs

There are no bugs, just happy little accidents.

what··on U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels
Why is that report so heavily redacted?
what··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
> because they thought he was better than the alternative

There has to be a large number of these? Or how do you explain voting him out and then back in?

what··on Have an LLC
Um, it implies that if you’re “doing business” in California, you are required to register there? “Doing business” has a specific definition, any single member LLC where that member lives in California qualifies.
what··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
If it was genocide, why would you spare the farmers? Doesn’t really make sense.
what··on Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat
Put a sweater on instead of running the heat. Maybe I’m just an old fart.
what··on Have an LLC
This is kind of California specific. There isn’t really a work around if you’re “doing business” in California.
what··on Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
It sounds like he probably forgot about them until his trader friends brought up nvidia. Otherwise why would he go digging through his documents upon being reminded?
what··on Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
He’s not complaining about the options he exercised, rather the ones he didn’t and would now be worth a billion.
what··on Have an LLC
If you live in California, you likely have to register in California. So you really only have one option, unless you want to register in two places. You’ll also have to pay at least $800/year for the pleasure.
what··on Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe
There’s something wrong with you.
what··on When did Google get so weird?
Yes, sure, it’s to be social. But if someone asks a stupid trivia question, then just give them the answer. You’re not starting a discussion with a stupid trivia question. You are truly weird.
what··on When did Google get so weird?
Yes, I hate this. The old knowledge panel was way better.
what··on When did Google get so weird?
>It's like when you're in the pub and and someone asks "who was that guy who was in the movie where…?" you can either chat with your friends and have a good time or be a buzzkill who opens up IMDB and says "Humphrey Bogart".

I don’t really understand this. Someone wants an answer not a chat about how you don’t know?

what··on Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe
Half the country being fat and not wanting to take responsibility?
what··on Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe
This has to be the most retarded thing I’ve read all year. There is nothing physical about writing a test for 4 hours.
what··on Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe
Focusing is mental activity, not physical.
what··on Ask HN: Hypothesis: Cellular providers are deprioritizing voice calls?
This doesn’t make sense. Are you suggesting I start a telecom so I can offer pay as you go?
what··on Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe
Not being able to focus for 4 hours seems like a bigger problem. But it’s also entirely orthogonal to your distinction of “teaching the test” vs “actually educating”. You can’t teach people to focus for 4 hours.
what··on Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe
Being fat is a moral failing though? It’s also not portrayed that way, see the entire body positivity/healthy at every size movement.
what··on Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe
Seems conflicting. If they’re “actually educating” the students, they should know the material and have no problem on a test?
what··on One Month Without AI
I’ll be honest, I can’t really quantify it. But the immediate stink is the nonsensical documentation and code comments it spits out. They’re completely unintelligible. I think when I see those I’m predisposed to think everything else going to be equally low quality. I usually just bounce, but when I don’t I just have a really hard time understanding wtf is going on with the code.
what··on One Month Without AI
You can almost immediately smell the stink of Claude on a codebase. Maybe there’s nothing “wrong” with the code (it must work, right?) but it’s somehow incredibly off putting.
what··on What happens when you analyze your favorite college football team like the CIA?
Okay. So how accurate is it?
what··on Ask HN: Hypothesis: Cellular providers are deprioritizing voice calls?
Still, you used to be able to preload $5 of minutes/sms onto a phone and it would last until you used it up. I don’t want a monthly fee.
what··on Ask HN: Hypothesis: Cellular providers are deprioritizing voice calls?
It seems like everyone is missing the “pay as you go” aspect. I don’t want to pay $15/month. I want plop down $X and pay per minute/sms until it runs out.
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