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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
So let the people build enough to make houses being stores of wealth useless rather than engage in more govt control.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Safety is also an issue https://www.repairerdrivennews.com/2024/10/30/byd-atto-3-rec... > Mercedes’ i5 received the best score from Euro NCAP for driver-assistance functions, and BYD’s ATTO 3 receiving the
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Is there any data, not anecdotes, that H1B drags wages or working conditions down? US Tech has the highest salaries world.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Most data doesn't support that the dream is over: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N https://www.statista.com/statistics/184266/educational-attai... There are some downside l
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Because good students don’t cram. It is not optimal. Understanding the underlying structure is much easier than surface-level cramming.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Total number of publications or even citations is not a good metric to measure success in any competitive field.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Good students are immune to variations that are discussed in the paper. But most academic tests may not differentiate between them and the crammers.
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Induced Demand Debunked(urbanreforminstitute.org)
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
1. He is not hoarding it like Scrooge McDuck in a vault. 2. If the government squanders tax payer money all over the world, isn't it morally bad to give that money to the govt. when you can legally keep it?
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Not really. 1. Most Americans are not paycheck-to-paycheck. It is what politicians constantly say depending on whether they are in power or not. https://old.reddit.com/r/AskEconomics/comments/1dbpaag/do_
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
> Tiktok, Ltd is a company operating in the US, with a solid, real US presence. Either the conduct of the company violates local, state, or federal law and the company should be prosecuted accordingly, or it doesn't and they should
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
1. Yeah, that's not my argument. My main argument is that there is a false equivalence drawn between US and CCP govts. That's not what a straw man. 2. Apparently, you take the original argument US and CCP are equivalent seriously
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
> Facebook help Trump get elected in 2016 through the whole Cambridge Analytica fiasco This comment is FUD though. Did FB do it intentionally?
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
> Notably, TikTok never squarely denies that it has ever manipulated content on the TikTok platform at the direction of the PRC. Bytedance is a part of CCP.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
So no evidence. Got it. Ironically, for anti-ban folks Meta is by default assumed guilty despite evidence unlike TikTok which is given the benefit of doubt despite evidence [1,2,3]. [1] https://www.cnn.com/2023/06&#x2F
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
> You're arguing against the import of very low margin labor-intensive physical goods No. I am arguing against the import of low margin labor-intensive physical using forced labor and resulting in actual harms 1. Actually harmful pr
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Is there any evidence that Meta directly lobbied for the ban?
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Disinformation is bad from any source, but it is much worse if it comes from a foreign adversary govt. Also, the US acts against misinformation from with US too. https://www.npr.org/2024/06/26/nx-s1-5003970&#x
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
No they don't. By PPP, China comes out #1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Facebook != Cambridge Analytica
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
This was not about privacy. This is about CCP using disinformation to sway populations in a democratic country.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
TikTok isn’t getting banned. PRC control of TikTok is getting banned. TikTok can survive by selling to a company outside of the US.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
https://mishtalk.com/economics/purchasing-power-parity-silli... GDP PPP is meaningless for both geopolitical power and what it means for the average citizen. The average citizen in EU is much better than the one in Chi
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Nobody is disputing that. Just because we have gone to the Moon doesn’t imply we are at Mars.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
By this logic, US should wisen up and go protectionist/isolationist against China (ban TikTok, tariffs on cheap products to make them on par with US goods with better environmental and labor regulations) and EU (no more subsidizing the
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
> We hold AI to a pretty high standard of correctness, as we should, but humans are not that reliable on matters of fact, let alone on rigor of reasoning. I never understood this line of reasoning. 1. Humans can't run faster than 30
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Because he doesn’t have the power to do that.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Quantity of papers is really not a good measure. > that'll mean foundation model companies can only bank on the thin facade of product. The “facade” of product tested in the real world in the hands of millions or billions is better
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Japan is an ally and a democratic nation with much less unfair trade practices. So, not an issue.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
I am American. I operate in reality. The reality in which China imposes any and all kind of barriers on American businesses while we can't do the same. That has to change. Tariffs are one way to enforce fairness (similar labor/env

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