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by haizhung 9mo ago
No. Mass building (while not touching inequality) will NOT solve the issue. It’s easy to see why: there already IS enough housing around for everybody. If there wasn’t, you would see a massive amount of homeless people. And even in the US w
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by haizhung 9mo ago
Housing is not part of the inflation calculation. There IS a housing inflation crisis.
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by haizhung 10mo ago
Yep, people in this thread are claiming that this doesn’t work. In fact, it does work, and it is already implemented! Here in Germany we also have the concept of „Bürgerräte“, and we have similar problems as in France (no political power to
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by haizhung 10mo ago
After world war 2, most of the western world had wealth taxes. The US had eg. >90% income taxes, and death taxes of up to 77% on inherited wealth. You know, exactly that span of time that everyone agrees on being really prosperous.
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by haizhung 10mo ago
Interesting take. Not that I disagree, but it’s interesting to see that on HN. Wouldn’t that mean that it’s unethical to work on anything that improves productivity? AI, in particular? As long as (almost) all the benefits/wealth gener
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by haizhung 10mo ago
Im not owning the product. I’m getting a wage (and some stocks, so I guess I own .0000001% of it or so).
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by haizhung 10mo ago
Very well put. I am working on tooling that will likely increase developer productivity by a large factor; and will most likely be used to lay off more developers as their labor is no longer required. I often ask myself whether that is ethi
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by haizhung 10mo ago
Im seeing the same in Germany. Here’s an incomplete list of all books that I read as mandatory high school assignments, which I can recall from memory . * Die Vorstadtkrokodile * Faust I * Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum * Antigone *
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by haizhung 10mo ago
I see this all the time in real life though. Right-wing „influencers“ with the worst takes you could imagine are getting funded somehow , while even the best scientists are getting deplatformed left and right.
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by haizhung 11mo ago
It’s more likely than you think. In fact, this was true for almost the entirety of human history. The last 100 years, where the common person is NOT in destitute poverty, is the exception to the rule.
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by haizhung 11mo ago
I use bazzite. I am a software developer at day, working on Unix exclusively. Let me try to give my reason. I don’t WANT to fiddle around with some random bullshit when all I have in the evening are 1-2 hours. I want to boot the system and
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by haizhung 11mo ago
Obviously every nominal value is going to be higher YoY. That just immediately follows from inflation. Almost every year in almost every country will have: - record GDP - record government spending - record total wages - record stock market
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by haizhung 11mo ago
Funny that you are being downvoted. Maybe we need this feature at hackernews too :-)
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by haizhung 1y ago
Curious to see that no one mentions the drastically rising inequality in western society as the root cause of the housing crises. What we are seeing to date is a transfer of wealth from the working class, the middle class, and the governmen
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by haizhung 1y ago
You just discovered the difference between average and median :-) For the average, Jeff bezos is pulling it up.
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by haizhung 1y ago
The parents putting these videos on autoplay are usually the ones who can’t afford to spend quality time with their kid. Yet their kid demands attention. So they put the phone in front of them to be able to do whatever they needed to do. I
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by haizhung 1y ago
They can leave, their assets can not.
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Russia's Pravda Network: AI-Driven Disinformation on a Global Scale(bisi.org.uk)
37 points by haizhung 1y ago|1 comments
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by haizhung 2y ago
My personal stance on this: Capitalism is extremely good at hill climbing within a certain constraint set. Almost like a constraint satisfaction algorithm. However, if the constraints are ill-posed (eg. it is possible to externalize certain
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by haizhung 2y ago
It seems you are being downvoted, but I see this similarly. Elon musk applying pressure in German elections or UK politics via X/Twitter is basically exactly the problem with foreign interests controlling your social media; so I kind
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by haizhung 2y ago
I replaced my bed time routine. Instead of watching YouTube for 30 minutes I, I read a book for 30 minutes. I was surprised just how much you can read with this amount of time investment. I read 12 books during that year; with 600 pages on
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by haizhung 2y ago
I am actually panicking as much as you are about it, but, thinking about it, maybe it is just bias? Like, people in the 20th century were living in constant fear of mutually assured destruction for dozens of years. Is that better or worse t
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by haizhung 2y ago
Not talk of basically losing all prospective of doing something against climate change.
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by haizhung 2y ago
I’ve been trying to sign up for Claude for a couple of weeks now (I was even planning to pay), but alas, signups remain closed for now.
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by haizhung 2y ago
I would say it is working as intended if the regulators are able to mildly inconvenience you to achieve a greater goal. Bottle caps are under the top 10 single-use plastic products most often found on European beaches [1], IMHO that’s good
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by haizhung 2y ago
Caching the retrieved results for future follow-up page 2 queries is nontrivial. It’s also not clear if it’s worth it, the number of requests going to page 2 are in the lower percentages at best, maybe even <1%. So what you typically do
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by haizhung 2y ago
About 52.5 deg north. How much difference can that make?
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by haizhung 2y ago
At the same time, the generated electricity also seems insane to me. We live in a complex with 84 units, each with a solar roof, outputting about 12 kWh per unit per day. Maybe the owner just has a massive house, as they are outputting abou
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Intake of Aspirin After Chest Pain for Prevention of Cardiovascular Mortality(ahajournals.org)
10 points by haizhung 2y ago|0 comments
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by haizhung 3y ago
Differentiale search indices go into this direction: https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.06991 The approach in the paper has rough edges, but the metrics are bonkers (double digit percentage POINTS improvement over dual encoder

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