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Re:French digital tax may kill VideoLan non-profit on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:21PM (#50310305)
Quite terrifying that this appears to be a sincere comment. Do you really believe billionaires pay even near the top marginal rate? It’s well established that once you reach the very very top of fortunes, the effective tax rate starts going down.

https://www.ipp.eu/publication/note-ipp-n92-quels-impots-les...

Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @03:05PM (#50122956)
A BYD seagull offers this and is 10k€ in Spain
Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @01:48PM (#50075747)
No, that’s why they don’t do it that way.
Re:Programming Isn't Special on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:02PM (#50024386)
It’s a print of a piece of art.
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:56PM (#50008380)
That’s liberalism not racism.

(In the economical sense, not in the political sense)

Re:Best LLM for every budget, updated daily on Thursday September 24, 2026 @10:57AM (#49831547)
I do, 3-4$ a month of deep seek is enough for my usage
Re:Cherenkov Radiation - traveling faster than light on Friday September 11, 2026 @06:19AM (#49656026)
He obviously meant the title of the HN post? Why not straight up say that the article title is different and avoid the passive aggressiveness.
Re:Elevators on Saturday August 01, 2026 @06:43AM (#49133122)
I live in a 20 stories building with only two elevators, 4 3-bedrooms apartments per floor. And I don’t think I ever had to wait more than a couple minutes.
Kind of crazy to put “Complete” in the post’s title then.
The mandate stipulates that they can get minimum wage, I wouldn’t call that a “regular” wage, and certainly not a livable one.
Re:98% Isn't Much on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @09:26AM (#48817487)
Yeah but as long as they’re not public services, the business can just decide to not serve these clients. There’s no recourse possible for these clients.
Re:A global workspace in language models on Monday July 06, 2026 @06:36PM (#48811405)
I tried o3, 5.3 instant and 5.5 high and they all found it instantly with search disabled.
Re:Who Are the Fire-Tamers? on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @11:56AM (#48734567)
Traiteur does mean caterer in France, but the way the word is constructed also implies “someone who treats”, to treat is traiter and traitement is treatment, so it’s weird that only traiteur lost that meaning.
It was also played live for Fête de la musique in Paris last Sunday.
Re:GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2 on Saturday June 20, 2026 @07:09AM (#48608338)
If it’s a market, wouldn’t the incentive be to lie about knowing and thus to keep the hallucinations?
Or you know, stop somewhere else ?
My 500$ KEF Q150 setup sound like the band is here when I close my eyes. The sound will be shaped more by the acoustics of the room than by the actual speakers anyway.
The experiment compared .wav files directly ripped from the cd to these same files played through copper/banana/mud.

So yes, the “good” audio is good.

Re:Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk? on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @03:52AM (#46868364)
This still isn’t true for Twitter like platforms like the ones OP mentioned, you see only posts from people you follow, in chronological order. If it’s not on by default, you can very easily turn it on from the main screen, and from my experience it never reverts.