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claudiulodro commented on Ask HN: How are most people converting HEIC to jpg?    · Posted by u/par
par · a day ago
I have this selected, but if I take a photo and upload it straight to google drive, it uploads as HEIC.
claudiulodro · 20 hours ago
I simply live with this, but if I need to download it in a compatible format from Google Drive, I just screenshot the photo from Google Drive instead of downloading it. That solves the problem for me but from a different direction.
claudiulodro commented on Just 0.001% hold 3 times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds   theguardian.com/inequalit... · Posted by u/robtherobber
DrProtic · 9 days ago
Using your logic, a person in debt living in a nice house driving a nice car is worse than a homeless person without any debt.

Another example of your logic, any MD with a huge student debt is worse off than pretty much everyone in undeveloped world?

Or a person with a business loan but a successful business.

claudiulodro · 9 days ago
Real estate, automobiles, credentials/degrees, and businesses are all assets that would counterbalance their debt. (Credentials and degrees are not liquid, but you'd be hard pressed to argue that a doctor's license isn't worth many dollars).

The much more likely situation is a person with no assets or money and some credit card debt. Indeed, a person with simply no money is better off than such a person.

claudiulodro commented on $27,000 a Year for Health Insurance. How Can We Afford That?   nytimes.com/2025/12/10/op... · Posted by u/ilamont
monospaced · 9 days ago
In Germany a couple of two software developers would earn above the threshold of ca. 70k EUR per year each and therefore pay each around 15.000 EUR per year, which would be higher than the number given in the article ($27.000 for a family in US vs. around $35.000 in Germany currency converted). This applies for the public insurance where adults each have to be insured but kids are included for free.

People with lower incomes pay proportionately less, government employees and high earners can also switch to private insurance where they get much better service but for non-government employees this comes with risks and has to be done at a younger age.

claudiulodro · 9 days ago
You're comparing what appears to be the MAXIMUM cost of German health insurance with the AVERAGE cost of US health insurance.
claudiulodro commented on High-income job losses are cooling housing demand   jbrec.com/insights/job-gr... · Posted by u/gmays
bravetraveler · 19 days ago
Desperate for lights, petty punishment, hard to tell. Point being... keeping options open has rarely done poorly. Doesn't feel like the time to commit. Not convinced it ever will.

edit: I hear someone now, "If that happens to you, sell the house!"... I'd like to stick with one career, thanks.

claudiulodro · 19 days ago
I did it the other direction -- I bought a relatively cheap house, and if the winds of change come, I would rather get a different career than location! Two different equally valid perspectives IMO, as long as you're not dependent on having a particular career in order to make your house payments.
claudiulodro commented on Entrepreneurs don't have a special gene for risk, they come from families with m (2015)   qz.com/455109/entrepreneu... · Posted by u/fanf2
JohnFen · a month ago
While I don't think that entrepreneurs have a "special gene for risk", this article is extremely misleading. It's looking just at the moneyed class of entrepreneurs and declaring that "entrepreneurs come from backgrounds that provide a lot of resources".

But there's another, much larger, group of entrepreneurs that don't come from such a background at all. I've had the good fortune to get to know and work with quite a lot of successful entrepreneurs and I'd say about 25% of them came from a "moneyed" background. The rest were just regular people with regular backgrounds who were obsessive about starting businesses.

claudiulodro · a month ago
> I'd say about 25% of them came from a "moneyed" background. The rest were just regular people with regular backgrounds who were obsessive about starting businesses.

This is a very similar point to the article though -- the moneyed class is much smaller than 25% of the population, so they are disproportionately represented in even your anecdotal sample. To be clear, that doesn't mean that regular people can't make it though!

claudiulodro commented on Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?    · Posted by u/urnicus
claudiulodro · a month ago
Super late to the party, but Dale Harris Cash Register is a free Point of Sales TUI program that has been maintained by Dale since the 90s[1]. The website is pretty great too. He originally made it for his locksmith/key business. He has a gallery of people using it in the wild [2]. I've always wanted to have some sort of business where it makes sense to use it!

[1] https://keyhut.com/pos.htm [2] https://keyhut.com/posphoto.htm

claudiulodro commented on OpenAI, Jony Ive struggle with technical details on secretive new AI gadget   arstechnica.com/ai/2025/1... · Posted by u/apparent
grim_io · 2 months ago
There is no hardware format I can imagine that would make sense for something like this.

Maybe that's just my limited imagination, but since no one has made anything useful in this space...

claudiulodro · 2 months ago
A fob on a lanyard would work well I think. It would be nerdy as hell, but in a practical sense, it's better than carrying around another phone-like thing or wearing something on your face.
claudiulodro commented on How the AI bubble ate Y Combinator   inc.com/sam-blum/how-the-... · Posted by u/davidw
bilekas · 3 months ago
"How paid subscriptions ate the spread of information" I can't subscribe to another site and seems the archive link is not working for me either. Would love to read it though because while YCombinator just follows where they see the money being, AI has really seen the majority of investment recently. https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/industry/investing Just doing a search for "AI" its clear there is a preference. Maybe for good reason though. If I could read the article that is.
claudiulodro · 3 months ago
> "How paid subscriptions ate the spread of information"

The "irony" here is that news organizations are moving to gate their content precisely because that's the only effective technique for preventing AI crawlers from ingesting it all ...

claudiulodro commented on Ask HN: How to be ambitious/hungry again?    · Posted by u/Poomba
throwmeaway222 · 3 months ago
You're not the same person. Life has its way of automatically adjusting priorities in your life for you. It's part of the journey.
claudiulodro · 3 months ago
I'd also add that the industry is not the same as when the iphone came out. When I was younger I wanted to do shareware games like iD and Apogee, and I'd still be down to do that if it was a thing any more. But you have to meet the market where it's at if you want an actual viable business. I don't have a ton of hunger for starting an b2b SaaS, and I'd bet the OP doesn't either.
claudiulodro commented on MAGA declares war on the property tax   urbanproxima.com/p/maga-d... · Posted by u/viajante1882
tzs · 4 months ago
There is no US state without property tax. Maybe you are thinking of income tax (Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming) or sales tax (Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon)?
claudiulodro · 4 months ago
While not a whole state, there are municipalities with no property tax e.g. Thorne Bay in Alaska:

> Thorne Bay is a Second-Class City within an unorganized borough on Prince of Wales Island.

> Thorne Bay does NOT LEVY PROPERTY TAXES.

> https://thornebay-ak.gov/land/

You get what you pay for as far as services are concerned though.

u/claudiulodro

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