charliea0

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by charliea0 8mo ago
I assume it's to make it harder for competitors to train on Claude's Chain-of-Thought.
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by charliea0 1y ago
That's a very fair point. :)
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by charliea0 1y ago
Given all of that, the unemployment rate is still only 4.5%.
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by charliea0 1y ago
The largest contributor to the shrinking middle class has been more and more people are moving into the upper class. You can look at Pew's survey here: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2015/12/09
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by charliea0 1y ago
We should just set a number of H1Bs and auction them off.
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by charliea0 1y ago
The unemployment rate in the information-technology job market is 4.5%?
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by charliea0 1y ago
To make this concrete, suppose that Elon Musk never immigrated to the US. SpaceX and Tesla are never founded, or are founded in some other country. The American electric car market is never kickstarted, none of the American employees of Spa
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by charliea0 1y ago
I hire a programmer to code my app, SuperConnect++. I charge $0.99 to download the app. People buy the app if it's worth more than $0.99 to them. If 150,000 people buy the app, then I have ~$150,000 of revenue. I can pay a programmer $
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by charliea0 1y ago
A better perspective is that the median H1B holder created $100k+ worth of value for some US company. Salaries are lower than the value you create, or else your employer would stop paying you. There could be some rare edge case where you ar
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by charliea0 1y ago
I'd only really be worried about barriers to entry and composition. One limit on wages is $ of value / hour. If AI makes existing programmers more efficient, then you would expect total wages to go up. If AI makes it easier for fo
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by charliea0 1y ago
We can definitely offer subsidies for manufacturing in the US - we've already gotten TSMC to open several fabs.
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by charliea0 1y ago
I think punishing interest rates are better than an equity stake. As Intel's rally shows, having the government as your equity holder is actually amazing for investors.
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by charliea0 1y ago
The government should avoid bailing out big, uncompetitive corporations. If the government is acting as lender-of-last-resort in some crisis, then it should demand senior debt to that it gets paid back before any shareholder.
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by charliea0 1y ago
If a lawful order is enjoined by a district court, you can appeal to higher judges. If the higher judges agree with the district court, then you can appeal to the Supreme Court. If the Supreme Court agrees with the district court, then the
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by charliea0 2y ago
Is there any justification for this beyond increasing Google's ad revenue?
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by charliea0 2y ago
You can remove carbon from the atmosphere for $1000 per ton. That would be a reasonable emission tax.
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by charliea0 2y ago
I think the point is that human demand isn't the limiting factor. Americans having trouble making rent, paying for groceries, and healthcare indicates that they need more - not that neoliberalism is a solution to anything.
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by charliea0 2y ago
Home health and personal care aide is the largest employment category in the US. As other sectors become more efficient, you can direct more people into healthcare, entertainment, etc.
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by charliea0 2y ago
The US still has a big manufacturing sector and it has an unemployment rate of 3.5%. It could definitely absorb a small number of displaced workers. I think the bigger problem is that folks often take wage cuts whenever they change sectors
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by charliea0 2y ago
Slavery is horrifically evil. Ending it freed 4 million people from daily robbery, abuse, and a life of subsistence poverty. Banning slavery eliminated massive dead weight loss. Slavery used violence to force labor from people below the cle
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by charliea0 2y ago
I think the ports will just pass along the cost. Whatever bargain the union strikes will be uniform across all of the ports and so they won't be able to undercut one another.
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Pig-Kidney Transplant Patient Dies – no indication transplant caused death(wsj.com)
7 points by charliea0 2y ago|1 comments
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by charliea0 3y ago
This whole discussion is kind of silly. 7T is 8% of global gdp. If your thing needs 7T of investment to happen, then it’s not going to happen.
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by charliea0 3y ago
I drink a lot of acidic sodas, but I've never had a cavity as an adult.
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by charliea0 3y ago
So that American consumers can benefit from possibly better or cheaper foreign software?
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by charliea0 3y ago
Seems difficult to ban TikTok alone without violating the First Amendment. If you more generally banned exploitative data practices then you’d interfere with other social media companies as well.
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by charliea0 3y ago
Really, the issue is the people who vote for the politicians? If voters supported radical climate policy then elected officials would implement it.
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by charliea0 3y ago
I’d go read Andy Grove instead. High Output Management is eye-opening for leadership in any kind of organization.
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by charliea0 3y ago
There’s something very depressing when your credential for teaching people how to be a successful entrepreneur is that you created a popular course on “how to be a successful entrepreneur.”
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by charliea0 3y ago
If you hire someone for 100k per year and it turns out they only contribute 50k per year, then you lose a minimum of 25k over those six months. As a business you're more risk-averse in offering high salaries since it costs more when yo

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