haizhung

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by haizhung 10d ago
Return of your capital is not important than return on your capital; and if you as a bond buyer are worried that the government can’t pay back your loan at all, you will increase the interest rate on it.
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by haizhung 11d ago
IMHO this is an effect of the exponentially increasing wealth inequality. We are allowing a tiny elite to hold a larger and larger fraction of the overall wealth, while workers, middle class AND the government are losing more and more of th
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by haizhung 23d ago
Hell im taking shortcuts now as a fully grown adult; just because it is so _so easy_, and I absolutely see my skills atrophy. It’s terrible.
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by haizhung 25d ago
This assumes that people on a UBI just chill at home and play video games the entire day, which was disproven in about every experiment that was ever run on this. It’s human to want to contribute to society; and people use UBI mostly to get
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by haizhung 27d ago
Since I didn’t see it on the page; here’s a shorter summary of the whole story that cuts to the point: https://rutgerbregman.substack.com/p/i-think-this-is-the-cra...
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by haizhung 27d ago
You could carbon tax it, and give people immediately back the equivalent of what they would lose (on average). Then they can keep their lifestyle - if they are truly diehard about it - or they can adopt a climate friendlier lifestyle and po
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by haizhung 28d ago
Does the slowly landing rocket in any way improve live for ordinary people?
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by haizhung 29d ago
I’ve come to understand the inequality crisis (which manifests itself as a cost-of-living crisis for most people) as one of the root causes for the poly-crisis we are living through. For climate change, I can totally understand how a househ
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by haizhung 2mo ago
I find the book humankind to be more fact based AND have a positive outlook than sapiens.
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by haizhung 2mo ago
There are countless precedents where disaster strikes and humans have worked together to help each other; including people they don’t know at all. „Common wisdom“ dictates that humans are wild animals, and the only thing keeping us from tea
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by haizhung 2mo ago
> I can't understand why anyone expects things like civil rights, property, the rule of law, nuclear deterrence, democracy, etc to survive when human beings no longer need each other. What’s your source on this? When humans have no
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by haizhung 2mo ago
I swear to god there is not one single thread on HN about Germany where nuclear reactors aren’t brought up. Nuclear reactors are not solving this problem. Period. The technology is too expensive, building them is too slow, and no one wants
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by haizhung 4mo ago
Have an EV in Germany, charging is a non-issue. The stations are everywhere to the point that it’s easier to get a parking spot with an EV than without.
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Why smart people keep getting AI wrong [video](youtube.com)
1 points by haizhung 4mo ago|0 comments
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by haizhung 4mo ago
That’s incorrect, in fact, fairness and equality is one of the few universal social contracts that are valued in every culture on earth (though lived/implemented differently). And I would argue that’s one of the key differences that
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by haizhung 4mo ago
Famously, Switzerland is a socialist failed state where no one wants to live, of course.
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Google Antigravity 2.0(antigravity.google)
3 points by haizhung 4mo ago|0 comments
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by haizhung 5mo ago
What’s baffling to me about all this is that Meta/Facebook (like all big tech) seems to be completely insulated from their failures. Take a look at their product line up and tell me one thing that they did really well in the last, IDK,
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by haizhung 6mo ago
I encourage everybody to try this, if they have an iPhone. If you’re like me and don’t have the time to tinker with the latest and greatest all the time; this app lowers the barrier to entry significantly and provides a glimpse into what’s
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Like Putin, Trump is a megalomaniac. In Europe, we can shield ourselves(theguardian.com)
8 points by haizhung 6mo ago|1 comments
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by haizhung 7mo ago
Don’t get cynic. The good news is: the worse it gets, the more impact every single .1 degree of prevented climate change has. I’m with you in the billionaires. Research has shown again and again that people do care about climate change an
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by haizhung 7mo ago
Please. The establishment is dying to capitalize on it, and puts out one ridiculous anti-immigration measure after the next. And all it does is that it simply boosts far right parties even more. It’s completely obvious to me (and often supp
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by haizhung 8mo ago
I would agree with you, except that the government (eg. in Germany) even battle climate tech when it’s good for the country and the economy. WHO wouldn’t want to be energy independent? And yet, the Conservative Party in germany once kille
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by haizhung 8mo ago
Cowering to autocrats all over the world.
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by haizhung 8mo ago
Correct. It helps by not distracting your LLM with a prompt that is, in X% of the cases, irrelevant to the task at hand. However, when you DO need to do something special (like create a new endpoint), the LLM knows where to get more info on
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by haizhung 8mo ago
Why not just … sell the gold? What good is gold to a society anyway, regardless of where it is placed? Instead of drawing the anger of the US, just .. slowly over time, sell all the gold off, and move the money back. And use it to build inf
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by haizhung 8mo ago
Just a word of warning to not take this to the max. Do not define your personal self worth over how useful (you think) you are. There’s a famous billionaire founder in Germany that attempted suicide just recently, because … he didn’t feel u
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by haizhung 8mo ago
1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lastenausgleich#:~:text=The%20... 2) https://www.die-linke.de/fileadmin/user_upload/20230530-PK-A... 3) theoretically people could own via the state: if the s
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by haizhung 8mo ago
> The president who is willing to fix this will have to bend the knee. A similar instance of this is happening currently in the talks between EU/UK — The EU is demanding a „Farage“ clause. They want a guarantee that the damages are
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by haizhung 8mo ago
This apparent conundrum breaks away if you consider who holds the wealth now vs. in the 60s. In the 60s-70s, there was a wealth tax in Germany. Shortly after WW2, a law was drafted to redistribute wealth: All individuals and companies whose

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