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> Most of Manhattan apparently has <1% annual property tax, and the eclectic sometimes regressive way it's calculated in NYC is suggestive of corruption. While NYC has never lacked for rot …

True. OTOH, the great majority of potential modern-day homeowners lack the necessary strength, dexterity, aptitudes, attitudes, skills, tools, time, timeframe, etc. to DIY a real fixer-upper.

Zzz. Any street food vendor understands where the hungry people are at, how to get past the various barriers to them buying from him, how to encourage repeat business, etc. Well ...maybe make that …

Notice how the article rates Flint absolute worse for Maintenance Affordability. Then mostly ignores that problem. And that Detroit is both #2 for Housing Affordability and second-worse for maintena…

Maybe HN should ban words matching "surpris" from Titles? Even if you are clueless about the international arms trade - South Korea has maintained a huge military for the past 70-ish years, …

Do some reading on all the 1000X-worse abuses of police power which are sadly routine in America. Banana cars getting pulled over for selfies is a massive improvement.

> Governments should have zero control over speech and zero ability to impose consequences on speech... Perhaps you are an "absolute" free speech absolutist, but does that include: - Swat…

What might Barrons' position be on the United Fruit Co's 1954 "speCial Investment Action" in Guatemala? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27…

In theory , I don't see any particular reason for AI-generated ads to be specially labeled as such. But two rules I would suggest: - If ads, products, or whatever claim to be AI-free, then the …

> When security researchers want to understand what a modern processor is really doing with the kind of detail that determines whether attacks like Spectre and Meltdown are possible, they usually …

Nice...but no mention of the how the rubber's cost compares to traditional sources, nor per-acre yield, nor other factors. It'd be nice to assume that their investors are rational. But lot…

The crap that U&L are pulling existed long before AI. And are very easy to do, at scale, without AI. Biggest downside might be that the PHB's and minions at U&L couldn't include &q…

Ignore the "AI" clickbait. What matters is that U&L are charging different customers very different prices for the same ride, and playing games with fake discounts. Which are both slea…

The article talks about a variety of mechanical props, painting, chains, concrete and such over the decades. And about recent droughts and heat waves stressing the tree. But no mention of local auth…

Communities (on-line or off-line) of people who share your disorder, and maybe health care professionals who see many patients with your disorder.

Sounds just like https://xkcd.com/303/

> ... couldn't get a job except in teaching. Or nursing, or a fair number of other career tracks. Perhaps as important, there were plenty of smaller and family-owned firms. In many of those,…

I'd assume it's pruning to make only the best-paying (to Google) restaurants visible.

> “That’s the sort of thing they could have access to, funded by the Gulf coast coalition, so long as they honor their end of the obligation..." How does that differ from "is theoreticall…

The occasional saintly individual aside, no political elites - anywhere, ever - actually care about the good of their countries. They're usually willing to give lip service. And seriously prete…

If you're in any sort of engineering or management role - it might be better to focus on how the defective design of his airplane ended his military career that day. Just when America's nee…

> ... because apparently there's many more Israeli startups working on medical research, green technology and world peace. > If there are, they certainly would do no harm in being more voca…

The subtitle is more informative - > While companies in the US chase smaller footprints, there are a lot of new large reactors going up in China. And the third-to-last para answers the headline que…

Just contemplate who is building major facilities in central and southern Texas, and the potential for poetic justice.

> GM has partnered with Peak Energy to develop next-generation sodium-ion battery cells, but they’re not going into EVs – they’re for grid-scale energy storage projects. GM Ventures is making a str…

Maybe re-read the article? For an NPR piece, it's loaded with specific attributions and named names, of people pushing "Chinese influence operation" theories. Or do you mean evidence o…

Only far enough to know that the article is a bunch of short anecdotes. HN's comments include quite a few longer & better ones.

> About the Report > Endgame: The State of the Russian Economy is Kiel Report No. 9 (June 2026) and includes the following [6 articles by various authors] There is a huge market for academic-ton…

Some, somewhat, depending on circumstances. But that doesn't much matter - because deterring other children is not a major motivation for the "sentence 'em as adults!" crowd.

Yes, but low information quality is even worse than low information density. If I happen to know the subject well, and the article contains glaring errors, obvious omissions, or miserable fudges - …