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961.
by chillacy 7y ago
Might be useful to distinguish between cash transfer and printing money. In this case the economic resources are coming from outside Kenya.
962.
by chillacy 7y ago
Some countries do have a wealth tax. But in practice it hasn't worked nearly as well as it should in theory, and a lot of European countries ended up canning their wealth taxes.
963.
by chillacy 7y ago
It is pretty slow though. The most comfortable thing I've found is buying a China Unicom or China Mobile SIM card in Hong Kong which lets you access full speed, uncensored internet in mainland China.
964.
by chillacy 7y ago
> U.S. life expectancy is basically going up in linear fashion. But if you look at expenditures, we used to spend a few percentage points of GDP on healthcare, and now it’s about 18%. So we’ve gone up to 18%, and we’re not even boosting
965.
by chillacy 7y ago
I think this is true only if your definition of a free market is what the US likes. After all there are a lot of restrictive laws needed to set up this "free market", like patents, trademarks, etc. Not to mention subsidies and tar
966.
by chillacy 7y ago
Last time I was in France the touristy shops all took Chinese payment apps, I was pretty surprised, but it makes sense given all the tourists from China.
967.
by chillacy 7y ago
Low effort ascii art was a mainstay on digg back in the day, I think moderation is more key.
968.
by chillacy 7y ago
I'm a big fan of micromobility but I see scooters and the eletrics being better to own than to rent. They're much smaller than a bike, and can be carried on a bus to handle the last 1-5 miles between a bus stop and the destination
969.
by chillacy 7y ago
In the common model for inflation MV=PQ that would match with low V, or "velocity of money"
970.
by chillacy 7y ago
Yea but even if some cases are net beneficial, part of the whole "rule of law" thing is to avoid that.
971.
by chillacy 7y ago
I don't recall a prediction of laws against this in The War on Normal People. He does mention the changing nature of jobs (most newly created jobs are gig or contract) in the past few years though, and what that means for worker stabil
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by chillacy 7y ago
The overton window is slow, we've known about global warming for decades now and haven't done much. Galvanizing people around automation has got to be that difficult at least.
973.
by chillacy 7y ago
I must be doing a poor job at being a human, given that I have passed the opportunity to activate my opioid receptors several times in my life so far (leftovers from surgeries).
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by chillacy 7y ago
The scary part is how to resolve disputes over geoengineering. What if China decides to make the Gobi desert farmland but downwind it makes California the new Sahara desert?
975.
by chillacy 7y ago
PG has a pretty good essay on this: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html?viewfullsite=1
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by chillacy 7y ago
> social media based personality profiles It's not based on social media likes, it's a literal 5-factor psychology personality survey [1]. [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-personality-test-ca...
977.
by chillacy 7y ago
I was a bit underwhelmed, while some of the voter suppression stuff was pretty abhorrent, I thought building personality profiles and launching targeted ads was pretty mundane at the end of the day. The next level of discussion that interes
978.
by chillacy 7y ago
Employees at least get paid, knowledge workers sign over their intellectual property in exchange for a salary. There is no concept of data ownership, but there could be something similar. Imagine companies having to license your data and pa
979.
by chillacy 7y ago
Yup, that's where I first encountered the idea.
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by chillacy 7y ago
> Out of the approximately 10,000 news stories you have read in the last 12 months, name one that.. allowed you to make a better decision about a serious matter affecting your life, your career, your business – compared to what you would
981.
by chillacy 7y ago
It turns out advertising is still more profitable than charging users.
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by chillacy 7y ago
Markets work best when there is transparency: for instance adding MPG to car labels helps "the market" make good choices by informing customers at the point of sale. The law which dictates an MPG sticker is "the government ge
983.
by chillacy 7y ago
I guess I'm still one outrage behind when CNN and Warren were complaining about the Trump Biden ads (which was technically a candidate ad).
984.
by chillacy 7y ago
> Just approximate the current scenario against previously successful strategies and pursue that strategy. Just about sums up business school.
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by chillacy 7y ago
I think we should just accept that humans and computers will be good at different things. Otherwise when AlphaStar 5 walks on stage and smiles at the camera we'll be criticizing its use of fuel cells instead of digesting food.
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by chillacy 7y ago
Are new strategies more important in SC2 than go/chess? From the blog it seems like the AI learns from self-play so if it doesn't come up with a strategy, it won't know how to counter it. But that seems like it should apply t
987.
by chillacy 7y ago
I don't think the AI learns from pixels (nor does it move through mouse/kb commands), it has direct API access to the game. Nonetheless it is impressive.
988.
by chillacy 7y ago
Most people speculate it's to account for losses from harassment where it somehow finds easier to overprobe than bother with more defense.
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by chillacy 7y ago
I remember it also built like 8 observers in one match, supposedly because the AI was so good at sniping them (and it trained on itself).
990.
by chillacy 7y ago
Why is this myth still repeated? TV networks are forced to air misinformation by law: https://www.thebalancecareers.com/should-tv-stations-ban-fal... This movement to get social media to enforce misinformation is a new one.

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