spiderfarmer

To be fair Claude has educated me on numerous vulnerabilities in my legacy code. I imagine I’m not the only one.

Yes, tax the rich AND increase wages.

My wife has the first gen Microsoft Surface laptop.

We have, by accident, rediscovered the touch feature multiple times because every time we stop using it and forget it’s there.

Opportunity doesn't pay my bills.

What if we didn't just tax them, but made the whole system fairer so money was distributed more evenly even without the government as a middle man?

Increase wages.

Being (exorbitantly) rich in the USA buys you many things.

For example, if it doesn't buy you full on immunity, it buys you lawyers other people can't pay. And if they mess up, your wealth will buy you a pardon.

Also, it automatically buys you a whole clique of people who will defend you online (for free!), by telling criticasters their opinions don't count because they're jealous or not smart enough, because they automatically assume rich people are brilliant and only to be admired and envied. Musk and Thiel are pretty clear examples.

And let's not forget, he was stupid enough to end up with massive amounts of debt despite his network, his education and his starting capital. Once the USA was stupid enough to elect Trump, every foreign agency must have had him in their crosshairs.

All so Trump can say to his feeble followers "I invented that term".

It's like trying to make "fetch" happen by executive order.

...to you.

Can we pin your comment as proof that some HN commenters need a joke explained in a peer-reviewed paper?

Not everyone. I’ve been a solo entrepreneur since 2015. Developing stuff now feels like I can unwrap a present every day.

I never cared about the social aspects of it other than releasing the odd plugin I developed.

My social life is entirely offline.

Plenty of welders made weaponry that killed babies and none of the famous DIY Youtubers spoke out against that either.

I have always blamed Chinese AI operators for the hundreds of thousands of residential proxy requests I receive each day, but there's no way to be sure.

They absolutely dwarf real traffic if left unchecked (I blocked all countries outside my target area).

Probably because of the Nazi salutes.