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by chibg10 8y ago
Eh, how do you define collectivist? Ever tried to get on a Chinese subway or stand in a Chinese queue? I'm not sure you can compare e g. US and Chinese collectivism unidimensionally.
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> So even a relatively small lead in consumer-facing firms will seem much larger than it actually is. No? Leading consumer brands are a lot bigger than B2B brands for the most part because B2C in the aggregate economy has to be bigger
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by chibg10 8y ago
It's an Elon Musk outfit; misinformation is in its DNA.
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by chibg10 8y ago
You don't need the Whole Foods app. Just go to your Amazon app, go to the shopping cart, and click "Whole Foods Code." Note: you may have to link your phone number to your Amazon account at the link below before this works:
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by chibg10 8y ago
I think it's even simpler than this: most people learn their primary skillsets when they are young, and start businesses when they see large opportunities for themselves. Because most people learn their skills when they are young (and
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Caterpillar (who initially was their biggest client and went as far as to buy a stake in the company) dumped them within the last year or two. Which doesn't exactly reassure me that they're creating real value.
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I find the ACLU's statement wholly unsatisfying. There is a tradeoff here: is unquestionable racism against Asian-Americans justifiable to increase advance African-American participation in higher education? There is also surely a lega
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by chibg10 8y ago
What social programs are Amazon (or any other employer of low-wage laborers for that matter) fighting against?
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This is misguided. Your tax dollars aren't subsidizing Amazon -- they're subsidizing everyone who pays Amazon's wages or lower. If the market value of labor has fallen below the threshold needed to live an acceptable (as judg
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by chibg10 8y ago
I don't work in the Valley, but in my large Facebook-analogous Seattle tech company my experience reflects his. I actively (and successfully) avoid discussing politics at work (I'm closest to a classic liberal fwiw). My company lo
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by chibg10 8y ago
What empirical evidence are you referring to that says rich people aren't investing their money? And if it is the case that they are indeed investing, where do you suppose China's investment-centric economy is getting capital from
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by chibg10 8y ago
It has begun, just not in America. American unskilled labor isn't competitive except for jobs that are difficult or impossible to offshore (e.g. construction, landscaping, agriculture), so American capital trickled into emerging market
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>Progress is much farther along than I expected. I had thought this as well, but the more I think about it the more I'm questioning how far along the bots actually are. They're excellent at teamfighting. No doubt about it. But
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by chibg10 8y ago
While there are certainly broader insights to be made, one tidbit I think I noticed that interested me had to do with Axe. Between the two games, we saw Axe played by both the human team and the AI team. When played by the humans, blink-cal
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by chibg10 8y ago
I don't think so. It's quite easy to imagine that a computer would outperform humans in strategies that require precise execution and coordination in teamfights. In fact, it's not specific to OpenAI; even the built-in Dota bo
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by chibg10 8y ago
Actually, I think the housing price expectations discrepancy is probably a function of where you live vs where the GP lives. Inflation-adjusted housing prices haven't actually risen all that much outside top-tier cities. http:/&#
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by chibg10 8y ago
This type of playstyle adjustment by Pain is just standard Dota strategy tbh. When your team is losing teamfights, you avoid teamfights unless you know you have an imminent advantage (terrain, towers, initiation, numbers, etc.). A big part
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by chibg10 8y ago
> Once OpenAI Five defeat 3-4 pro teams convincingly, it could be presumed from the observation above that they will defeat any other top teams within a year at most, if sufficient resources are used for improving the AI. An exception is
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by chibg10 8y ago
Really, I'm not entirely sure why the G-8, the G-20, or even just EU + US + Japan + SK doesn't just do this as a group. It's not like China has a feasible retaliation option if they did, and it's certainly not going to r
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by chibg10 8y ago
Man, if this doesn't highlight the potential threat of a large Google China business then I don't know what does. How does Google plan to both serve the Chinese market and maintain uncensored non-Chinese search engines which mostl
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Moreover, there IS a huge conflict of interest on Google's part as far as its users' privacy goes. Suppose China becomes a significant part of Google's business in a number of years. Does anyone familiar with China doubt that
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by chibg10 8y ago
To me, WeWork seems like a business model that works great when the economy is growing and terribly when the economy is shrinking. I assume the the draw of selling a 10-20 year lease is that it mitigates the business cycle risk for the prop
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by chibg10 8y ago
This is getting downvoted (perhaps due to the rough tone) but there's a lot of truth to it. It's part of a larger phenomenon that isn't limited to investing as well. I think a lot of inexperienced outside observers of China f
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by chibg10 8y ago
I agree with you, but I wonder how much of (imo tiresome) antics are part of an intentional strategy. Deserved or not, Musk has an enormous fanbase because of his showmanship/public persona/whatever. My hunch is that this is net p
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by chibg10 8y ago
This misses the point I think. The issue is less that he used Twitter, and more that it's illegal for a CEO to manipulate the stock price by (potentially in this case) making misleading and/or false claims. If Musk e.g. didn'
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by chibg10 8y ago
I had always assumed the default user behavior was to use Alexa to add things to your cart when you realized you ran out of e.g. paper towels. I've used it that way since I bought it and I've been satisfied so far with the conveni
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by chibg10 8y ago
I'm fairly certain most Googlers (as with other FAANGM employees) aren't living paycheck-to-paycheck and, even if they were, you can carry out a job search while you're still employed at Google. I would expect that most Googl
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This might be an overgeneralization in this case... While generally true for developing be developed countries, are you actually familiar with China's infrastructure development practices? If one thing is for sure, it's that there
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by chibg10 8y ago
I hear the bogeyman of "short-termism" brought up a lot here, but how accurate is this characterization of investor behavior actually? The best performers in today's market are decidedly not short-term focused. Amazon and N
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by chibg10 8y ago
Ehhh, I think you're fudging the causality here and reading your own incorrect perspective into the article. Recessions hit the lowest rungs of the economic ladder hardest, and those same rungs are last to fully get in on the recovery.

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