ripjaygn (u/ripjaygn)

ripjaygn commented on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys

cyberax · 9 days ago

> Can you imagine raising $288 million from VCs for a software application while delivering so little?

What? You're imagining VCs caring about pizza money? Should I mention, perhaps, the AOL-TimeWarner merger? Or maybe AT&T buying DirecTV for $50B and essentially giving it away for $8B?

Heck, I was a part of an utterly failed project with a $150m budget (in 2005), in a large European company.

> For the main system they're also using COBOL, which has no Date data type, causing issues even in 2025.

And? They haven't missed a single payment day in all their existence, moving data between multiple types of media. While working with staff levels that won't even qualify as "skeleton" in plenty of companies.

ripjaygn · 9 days ago

> Heck, I was a part of an utterly failed project with a $150m budget (in 2005), in a large European company

Was it a just a somewhat complex CRUD app like the SSA example or most govt IT projects? Or were you guys trying for something more complicated and innovative and failed?

ripjaygn commented on California unemployment rises to 5.5%, worst in the U.S. as tech falters sfchronicle.com/californi... · Posted by u/littlexsparkee

rezonant · 16 days ago

> it's becoming unusable if you as much dare to criticize democrats.

Is this situation right now really "unusable"? Aren't you overreacting just a tad? People might disagree with you, I'd hope you'd be able to have a conversation without getting upset.

ripjaygn · 16 days ago

> Is this situation right now really "unusable"?

Quite literally unusable because I got blocked by HN from commenting for more than two hours coz of all the politically motivated downvotes. If you have the right politics, keep commenting!

> I'd hope you'd be able to have a conversation

See above, literally not able to have one because I dared to criticize Democrats for their actions and inactions that led to tech job losses for over two years.

> People might disagree with you

I'm open to arguments but looks like people disagree with the facts that I am bringing forward, so they're downvoting to suppress them to lower visibility and to discourage me from participating on here.

It's like on Reddit when you state a plain fact 'Musk founded SpaceX' in reply to a highly upvoted comment that said 'Musk bought all this companies' and get heavily downvoted and even permanently banned in large subs by highly biased moderators.

This place is turning into yet another BlueSky or Reddit where facts don't matter and only a one sided political narrative is pushed at all times. Don't think it's worth engaging. I don't want to be in a place where my comments are deemed so terrible that I get max downvoted and then unable to comment for several hours.

Ironically, such controlling behavior and shutting down of facts, criticism of one side and conversation is leading more and more people to vote for the other side. I am now ashamed of being a lifelong liberal and won't vote democrat till people change this obnoxious partisan behavior on platforms like this one.

ripjaygn commented on California unemployment rises to 5.5%, worst in the U.S. as tech falters sfchronicle.com/californi... · Posted by u/littlexsparkee

rezonant · 16 days ago

No need to repeat yourself. Why are you getting so worked up? I think we'd all like to understand what the hold up was on these bills, but let's base that in supported facts, not partisanship.

As stated above, it was 14 to 13 by party lines in this committee, and that's a negligible difference.

ripjaygn · 16 days ago

Two bills were passed with zero Republican votes in 2021 and 2022 by Democrats, the repeal could've been included in either if democrats wanted.

> As stated above, it was 14 to 13 by party lines in this committee, and that's a negligible difference

There were only 27 members in the committee. So all the Democrats on the committee voted against the repeal and all the republicans voted for the repeal.

How is that a negligible difference? That's a massive maximum difference between the parties, in fact it was impossible to have a higher difference.

ripjaygn commented on California unemployment rises to 5.5%, worst in the U.S. as tech falters sfchronicle.com/californi... · Posted by u/littlexsparkee

Terr_ · 16 days ago

Among other possible attempts(?) that touched on the issue, here's one in 2024 that Republicans blocked in the Senate, where they "filibustered" it by voting "nay" on cloture.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/118-2024/s230

> Why didn't the Democrats

Alternate question: Why didn't the Republicans do something in the years before 2025 to fix the problem they created and which tech-company lobbyists absolutely told them about?

ripjaygn · 16 days ago

That wasn't a clean bill, it had a bunch of other stuff in it, 86 pages long.

Democrats could've passed a bill that only included the repeal of the R&D changes, which they didn't coz they didn't want to.

Edit: rate limited coz of politically motivated downvotes, I am done here.

ripjaygn commented on California unemployment rises to 5.5%, worst in the U.S. as tech falters sfchronicle.com/californi... · Posted by u/littlexsparkee

rezonant · 16 days ago

So that would be this Finance committee right?

> The Senate Finance Committee roster for the 118th Congress includes 14 Democrats and 13 Republicans, with three new GOP members recently appointed.

> https://tax.thomsonreuters.com/news/senate-finance-finalizes...

Hardly an unbeatable majority for Democrats on this committee. Especially since research and development is one of the main reasons taxation on higher income classes is effective: The idea is you'll be taxed if you want to take it as profit, but if you advance the state of the art, innovate, or create new technology then you can deduct that. The high tax rates of the US post WWII up to Reagan worked so well because of this combination: It was incentivized for businesses to reinvest their profits into R&D, since they'd hopefully be able to scale their profits if the R&D was successful.

I think it's not as clear cut as "the Democrats" or "the Republicans" here-- especially since there would probably be a requirement that the shortfall be made up in some other way in order to balance the effects on revenue.

ripjaygn · 16 days ago

> I think it's not as clear cut as "the Democrats" or "the Republicans" here-- especially since there would probably be a requirement that the shortfall be made up in some other way in order to balance the effects on revenue

For the 10th time in this thread, the repealing bill DID NOT need to be revenue neutral since it had Republican support, all it needed was 60 votes in the Senate. Reconciliation only applies if a yearly budget bill can get at least 51 votes but not 60.

Sorry, I feel like I am taking crazy pills. I stated the same in another comment and was downvoted. I know HN is liberal biased but it's becoming unusable if you as much dare to criticize democrats.

ripjaygn commented on California unemployment rises to 5.5%, worst in the U.S. as tech falters sfchronicle.com/californi... · Posted by u/littlexsparkee

AnimalMuppet · 16 days ago

If you passed it in the first place, and counted on repealing it before it would have taken effect, and failed to do so, then I blame you for passing it in the first place.

ripjaygn · 16 days ago

Why wouldn't you also blame the Democrats though?

They had the chance to repeal it before it would have taken effect.

Why do they get zero blame on here?

ripjaygn commented on California unemployment rises to 5.5%, worst in the U.S. as tech falters sfchronicle.com/californi... · Posted by u/littlexsparkee

apical_dendrite · 16 days ago

There are special rules called reconciliation that allow one party to pass a bill with just a majority. It can be used only once a year (hence why everything was packed into the big beautiful bill) and there are very complex and technical rules around what it can be used for.

So to answer your question, Republicans repealed it with zero Democratic votes because they included it in the once-a-year reconciliation bill. The bill that you are linking to would not have met this criteria.

ripjaygn · 16 days ago

It had Republican support so it would've gotten the 60 votes in Senate without needing to get reconciliation. It didn't even get a vote because the Democrats stopped it from proceeding with their control of the Senate. Their policy is all about higher taxes on corporation and high income individuals so it tracks.

ripjaygn commented on TikTok is back in the App Store theverge.com/news/612768/... · Posted by u/scarface_74

grg0 · 7 months ago

Can somebody educate me on why Trump would be interested in not enforcing the ban at this point, given that he was the first to propose it? That 1.5M followers really worth it?

ripjaygn · 7 months ago

Because it's unpopular. Polls show the vast majority don't want TikTok banned.

ripjaygn commented on TikTok is back in the App Store theverge.com/news/612768/... · Posted by u/scarface_74

drewbug01 · 7 months ago

> so there is broad bipartisan support for more time to find an acquirer, including Biden saying he won't enforce it on the last day in office.

It’s tempting to view this as “support”, but a simpler explanation is that it was just pragmatic to wait one additional day for the incoming administration to carry out enforcement actions.

That one-day delay was neither a miscarriage of justice nor was it a political statement. It was just timing.

Really, we should ask why on earth congress decided that the 19th of January was the deadline.

ripjaygn · 7 months ago

> It’s tempting to view this as “support”, but a simpler explanation is that it was just pragmatic to wait one additional day for the incoming administration to carry out enforcement actions

The Biden administration was specifically looking for ways to keep TikTok running during the last days.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/biden-administrat...

Only 25% of democrats want TikTok banned. The Biden admin didn't want to be blamed for shutting down TikTok.