I do this, more or less, for my small law firm. Employee and client information are stored in Recfiles and accessed with GNU Recutils. Adding or changing is a pull request, and all sorts of GitHub actions run. Works pretty well!
Readit Newshkhanna commented on Instacart (YC S12) director fired for Democratic congressional campaign wapo.st/3KXI35L... · Posted by u/hkhanna
To please Trump, Instacart fired my pregnant wife Lisa in a cowardly and cruel way because she dared to run for office as a Democrat. Instacart's leadership will try to obfuscate what happened, but Lisa has the truth on her side. I am so proud of her for fighting back.
hkhanna commented on The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers wired.com/story/oral-hist... · Posted by u/rendx
a16z and certain Sequoia partners specifically supported this during the 2024 election.
If haphazard, cruel dismantling of state capacity bothers you, avoid raising money from venture capital firms that supported it.
hkhanna commented on IRS head says free Direct File tax service is 'gone' theverge.com/news/717308/... · Posted by u/microsoftedging
> Every elected Democrat I know is willing to enact those if Citizens United is overruled.
I don't want to be rude, but I don't believe you. I also have seen the polling and the country does not believe it as a whole. Democratic voters also don't believe it either. If you personally have an income >150K you are likely completely insulated from real Americans. The perception is that the Democrats care more about Israel and their donors than the country. Only 8 percent of Democrats are supportive of Israel but almost 90% of Dem senators are (I made this number up, the rest are real).
edit: the Republicans are publicly grifting, lest you think I like the Republicans. My overarching point is that ~60% of American's don't own homes and are completely uninvested in this country. They have completely given up, or are in a state of giving up. The Republicans and Democrats are extremely vile reptilian grifters who sold out this country.
I get it, your perspective is totally fair. Part of the reason Democrats care only about donors (the Israel lobby is one of those donors) is because of the influence of money in politics, which is a direct result of Citizens United. If they don't care about their donors, they lose. The incentives are pretty straightforward.
There were great campaign finance laws on the books, but Republican-appointed judges have steadily eroded those over the years, culminating in Citizens United. We have to overrule that awful case if we are to ever have working campaign finance laws in this country again. There's only one way to overrule that case, and that's with Democrat-appointed judges. Those judges typically do not answer to donors and so don't have the same incentives you've identified.
hkhanna commented on IRS head says free Direct File tax service is 'gone' theverge.com/news/717308/... · Posted by u/microsoftedging
There simply is no alternative. Normal people must be completely blackpilled like me. The Democrats have an approval rating the lowest in Decades. None of these people are "working for [us]". Everyone is captured and this country is over. I really mean this. As part of the working class, we all feel this way.
This can be fixed with sane campaign finance laws. Every elected Democrat I know is willing to enact those if Citizens United is overruled. And every Democratic-appointed Justice on the Supreme Court would vote to overturn Citizens United. I know it sounds trite, but voting for Democrats again and again, flawed as they are, for generations, is the only way we're going to get out of this mess.
hkhanna commented on Pi calculation world record with over 202T digits storagereview.com/news/st... · Posted by u/radicality
>As pi never repeats itself, that also means that every piece of conceivable information (music, movies, texts) is in there, encoded.
It is somewhat shocking that again and again this logical fallacy comes up. Why do people think that this is true? It doesn't even sound true.
Isn't it a property of infinity? If pi goes on infinitely without repeating itself, every possible combination of numbers appears somewhere in pi.
It's sort of like the idea that if the universe is infinitely big and mass and energy are randomly distributed throughout the universe, then an exact copy of you on an exact copy of Earth is out there somewhere.
This property of infinity has always fascinated me, so I'm very curious for where the logical fallacy might be.
hkhanna commented on Launch HN: PointOne (YC W24) – Automated time tracking for lawyers · Posted by u/jeremybenmeir
This is a really hard problem, and kudos to you for trying to tackle it. Time tracking narratives can be so different from practice area to practice area and also as a function of the size of the firm.
Often, it also comes down to the idiosyncrasies of the client and their org structure! I wonder if part of the solution will include using the actual invoices sent to a client to train how future invoices to that client should be prepared.
Good luck to you!
This is crony capitalism and both the political parties are fine with it
Imho, the fact that you can probably guess which party is which is some evidence that the cliche that both parties are the same isn't really true anymore.