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by chillacy 6y ago
I hope this is satire. Every totalitarian government says that censorship is for the people's protection. Then the government gets to decide what is or isn't misinformation. A population with good critical thinking skills is neces
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by chillacy 6y ago
From the other point of view of having worked for US software companies all my life, I think the developer market is fucked up in the rest of the world because talented developers are getting criminally underpaid.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Off the top of my head, the Cato human freedom index isn't the same thing as "free speech" the OP mentioned, and while Europe I think strikes a balance very well its rights to guarantee its citizens a happy life, the US in pa
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by chillacy 6y ago
Not just that, even companies willing to play ball and censor information for the local laws end up being operated with local partners like Apple's iCloud (run by AIPO Cloud (Guizhou) Technology Co. Ltd).
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by chillacy 6y ago
This plays right into China's narrative. Now the arrest of Meng Wanzhou (Huawei CTO) starts to look a bit less principled and a bit more like a piece of realpolitik. I think it's definitely justified in the sense that it's un
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by chillacy 6y ago
I'm glad Snap figured out a way to profitability (and what do I know as an outsider looking in), but they don't have as much good demographic info as say Facebook, so they can't for instance show men's shaving ads to men
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by chillacy 6y ago
Such an odd decision... they had an app for private communication (the value prop was "you can be yourself when your parents and boss aren't in the audience") and tacked on the supermarket tabloids and celebrity news.
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by chillacy 6y ago
You don't need one but there's some indication that they do use it as input into their models: https://www.tiktokbeautiful.com/
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by chillacy 6y ago
Ah I was confused because your suggestion of "Taiwain had" implies that they no longer have it, whereas they do have it but no longer use it. So technically this should be the sentence: > Also, Taiwan has a huge speaker array p
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by chillacy 6y ago
I have a friend who started a bar in the past 2 years and his landlord reduced his rent to 0 during the peak of the pandemic. He's still afloat. He also said that if his landlord had charged him his full rent or would want the full ren
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by chillacy 6y ago
Around 10 years ago I wrote a mac app and put it on the mac app store, no amount of marketing spend seemed to drive sales up significantly to be break-even, but conversely even with no marketing, it makes on average $10 a day (less the appl
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by chillacy 6y ago
That's exactly what I'm saying. If you run my proposed scenario on a hypothetical rent of $10k a month then it becomes "which is greater 80% of 10 or 100% of 0" do you want $8,000 or $0". "You might as well get
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by chillacy 6y ago
Keeping a tenant at 80% rent is still better than having no tenant at 100% rent. If business are having a few quarters of negative profitability, why can't the same happen to commercial real estate?
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by chillacy 6y ago
That sums everything I've read from him. He has genuinely good and unique ideas but over time he's spent more and more time trying to dunk on his enemies. I had actual difficulty making it through some of his more recent books.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Afaik they still have it, but it isn't used to blast propaganda anymore (just play music for tourists). I haven't found any more recent news articles saying it was removed or taken down, and wikipedia doesn't mention its remo
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by chillacy 6y ago
Well the US banned Kinder Eggs. I don't necessarily like it but the US has a history of protectionist trade laws.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Reminds me of wartime psy-ops: Airborne leaflet propaganda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_leaflet_propaganda Also, Taiwan has a huge speaker array pointed at mainland china which blasts propaganda: https:&#x2
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by chillacy 6y ago
This is sort of similar to tarrifs no? The government selectively (through lobbyists and deals) picks which types of things are taxed (sometimes to unprofitability). Other things are banned entirely. Not saying Kinder Eggs would be missed a
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by chillacy 6y ago
But in game theory at least, tit-for-tat is a pretty successful strategy.
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by chillacy 6y ago
I noticed that "maintaining civilizational state" is.. to be generous.. simply a state of narrative. The imperial system is definitely over, Xi wears a suit and tie and there are no legions of eunichs running the country. Though f
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by chillacy 6y ago
Reminds me of a Taleb article I read: Most Intolerant Wins https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
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by chillacy 6y ago
> which is that it discourages people from working The OP mentioned nothing about that, do you mean "my main concern around UBI"? FWIW I've never seen a UBI study that has actually found a statistically significant decreas
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by chillacy 6y ago
You might find interesting experiments on housing in Asia. Specifically Singapore has a housing subsidy system such that basic housing is subsidized to be affordable for all. In China land is rented from the government on a lease. This does
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by chillacy 6y ago
There's an often-shared image of the excitement of a technology looking like a V shape, with a valley of disappointment following a big media hype. I wonder if that's why the Bill Gates quote rings so true: "Most people overe
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by chillacy 6y ago
> A rape that obviously happened? Shove it in people’s face and they’ll admit it’s an outrage, just as they’ll admit factory farming is an outrage. But they’re not going to talk about it much. There are a zillion outrages every day, you’
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by chillacy 6y ago
Yes, there's no one thing in that documentary but a collection of things which you could chalk up to "differing cultures": * The scene where the plant operators from China dump a bunch of waste improperly * The scene where th
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by chillacy 6y ago
I always find it curious how easy it is for beliefs seem to line up so smoothly along party lines... even unrelated ones like economic policy and religion all seem to line up in a very clean way in the US. Is there another universe where al
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by chillacy 6y ago
To the question in general: watch American Factory on Netflix for a good documentary on the efforts of spinning up a US based factory. Basically this company found that American workers were more expensive, had higher safety standards, and
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by chillacy 6y ago
Specifically: Local production saves Apple 22% import duty. That's a huge savings! If "Made in India" is anything like "Made in China" then it just involves bringing parts from other countries for final assembly, no
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by chillacy 6y ago
They're still being made by Foxconn, so all that manufacturing expertise is still there. In the long run my guess is that this knowledge will start to trickle to more local manufacturers. This seems like a great deal for India: threate

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