Texas has no income tax. It makes up the difference with sales tax and an unusually high property tax.

That seems nice. I'm not sure why some guy says on a different comment "People think TX is some libertarian utopia because it has no personal income tax on a W2 salaried person, but do the full cost of living comparison with property taxes and other taxes, vs what you would calculate as a total in states that do have income taxes (such as OR).".

For reference, I pay about 0.1% property tax (live in Romania), while income tax is about 43%. For $100 I make, I get to take home $57, forget all the "you're only paying part of tax, employer pays another. No, I pay everything because without me there's no income, I can't believe some people still fall for "Out of $100 I take home $1 but I live in a tax paradise because I only pay 1% tax although company pays 98%. But that's the company, not me".

So while the level of income tax is definitely nothing I'm happy about, at least once I draw a net salary, it stays on me. At least I don't have to rent my own apartment from the state after I already paid an arm and a leg to the bank for it in real estate mortgage. Same goes for land and I mean arable land, of which I own some 10 hectares (well shared with my 2 brothers). Not only I'm not losing money on it, I actually get subventions for cultivating it (again, outsourced, I'm not working it myself but lending it to someone who does it, while the terrain retains / increases in value - never in the history of humanity has arable land in a viable area decreased in value over time).

"A 10-hectare (about 24.7 acres) piece of land in Texas typically costs between $40,000 and $430,000, depending heavily on the location and region." says Google AI. Well, where I live it's around $100k. At least I wouldn't sell it for less, not that I would sell it. If I sell it, I have money for a day then inflation and bad investment makes it disappear. Not to mention that it's a highly asymmetric market: I can sell the land in no time but even if I have money, A LOT OF MONEY, people won't sell. Maybe for 3x-5x the market value, some might be tempted. Which suddenly raises my non-liquidation value of the land to about how much it values in Texas.

Income tax scales to your income, so you can always pay it. No income, no tax. Property tax is unforgiving.

Given the backlash amongst gamers against AI, how does being an “AI gaming” company work?

It only works if one measures their success in Twitter likes.

I look forward to this and the new technology that advances for Ai gaming.

>Given the backlash amongst gamers against AI, how does being an “AI gaming” company work?

They are delusional or know nothing about how development works. I can promise you there's not a single major game studio left out there not leveraging AI in significant parts of their workflows at this point.

Brown dogs chase cars != all dogs chase cars. And especially, != black dogs chase cars.

80s hobbiest programmers are GenX, and maybe most execs are GenX, but that doesn’t mean both groups share the same opinions.

Slop, and with nothing new to say. The “something” is the AI bubble.

Specifically, they have an opt-in request and an associated toggle in Settings for using Siri conversations to improve their AI.

I think this is AI. It’s not as bad as some, but it’s got that breathless enthusiasm and drones on and on without ever quite getting to its point.

Pretty sure it's edited AI. Honestly for dry stuff like this it's okay, if a bit tiring at the end.

Pangram flags it. It also talks about "quietly" and "the gap". It's AI.

AI is fine in itself. The only question are the numbers correct. I'm not sure how to validate them. The facts count the most important. The second is the article readable without being too wordy or any other such problems.

Problem is, if they didn’t put in the effort to write the article, how can I trust that they put in the effort to verify the facts?

Not to mention that the article is terribly verbose and never gets to its point (by the time I gave up, that is, quite a long way through). Writing is how you organize your thoughts, and it’s not been done here.

It’s not even edited, pangram rates it 100% bot-authored.

Yes, a lot of obvious tells.

It’s not contradictory if it can change the world without being something software engineers specifically can work with.

There’s no shilling here. The person who posted the link isn’t the person who wrote the blog.

He is in the HN ingroup of whenever he posts a blog, a prominent HN mod or poster with 1 billion karma will inevitably post it, and so it goes.

It's sort of like the music industry.

Does poster karma boost the post in any way?

I don't believe HN boosts their algo but I think people recognize posters like celebs. I recognize tosh, simonw, etc.

Also it's an easy way to farm karma. The pelican guy posted a pelican, let's upvote it? It's at least a bit of psychosis / mass effect in this.

For what it's worth, I like the pelicans but just making an observation

> It's at least a bit of psychosis

I know semantic shift is inevitable, but can we put the brakes on this one at least a little? This doesn't even connect to the original meaning.

Fair enough. Hivemind, mass effect, happy to have a replacement word in this case.

Let me propose: HNmind.

Good one!

Your parent comment reads like AI slop, so you may not be as good at editing as you think. Worth thinking about the impression you’re conveying about yourself.

Yeah I completely gave up after a paragraph of overly wordy AI garbage.

There's no way just writing it out would have been worse

Why would you guess that? “Prediction is hard, especially when it’s about the future.”