michael_vo

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by michael_vo 2y ago
I agree it's not a good idea to have that power. I wanted to highlight that the user experience is better than SMS. For example when I add a phone number I have a higher level of trust that it's a verified business. Having read st
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by michael_vo 3y ago
Why don't we use another protocol that isn't so unsafe? Why are we still on SMS. Actually once you start travelling outside the USA you realize that everyone uses whatsapp for texting friends and businesses. No one uses SMS. At le
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by michael_vo 3y ago
NotJustBikes has amazing videos on these habits. They also take garbage out daily to the underground bins while going to the grocery store.
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by michael_vo 3y ago
Yea I don’t think this is a technical challenge but a way of convincing people that the all knowing robots aren’t also spying on you for other purposes.
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by michael_vo 3y ago
I always always never blame the people getting scammed and instead focus on system failures. The fact that phone calls cannot be verified. Why can’t we design a system that can eye ball scan you before you call and verify that you really wo
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by michael_vo 3y ago
There should be a software product that protects our elderly by watching their bank accounts and listens to their phone calls. It’s so clearly a scam.
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by michael_vo 3y ago
Or, they could have implemented surge pricing and charged 10x, 100x for electricity during high demand for non-essential businesses and let market forces decide who wants to still use electricity. Some lobbyists must have lined some pockets
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by michael_vo 3y ago
Too bad we can’t use virtual NFT engagement rings mined specially with high carbon footprint with the gas fees donated to the babies of divorce lawyers.
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by michael_vo 3y ago
I watch and listen to a lot of Strong Towns and NotJustBikes - a lot of the infrastructure change solutions already exist in European cities. I view the overwhelming majority of driver errors as faulty system design. Instead of red lights u
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by michael_vo 3y ago
Yeah sometimes it’s easy to critique the air industry. But imagine if these same safety reviews were applied to the car industry. So many lives could be saved but we have become numb to car accidents.
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by michael_vo 3y ago
You could use simple pricing to influence behavior. 1100 litres a day for each American is so damn much. When you hike and stay in the mountain huts you are charged 3$ for a 4 minute shower. You could probably fix the drought situations by
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by michael_vo 3y ago
Interesting solution that I'm not sure is available/affordable to the general public. An airtag is 25$.
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by michael_vo 3y ago
I've hot glued AirTag to their shoe. Dementia is not a simple problem. This solution works in some of the stages of dementia. At stage 5 they don't even wear shoes when they wander off.
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by michael_vo 3y ago
Well, FB does have ~2BB euros set aside to pay for EU fines in 2023. So not just the FTC!
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by michael_vo 3y ago
It's not just your own health though. Kids can develop asthma partially due to gas stoves and the toxic fumes that stay in the apartment for hours/days after. Some studies estimate 1/8 of all asthma cases for kids is due to g
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by michael_vo 3y ago
I meant rollback of a policy that performed poorly. It is an interesting point you bring up about rolling back a child that I haven't considered. That might be a good policy to have. A question to ask is it better for a kid to score 90
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by michael_vo 3y ago
Why don't policies go through double blind trials or more A/B tests? And attach automatic rollbacks to policies based on metrics. I'm all for trying new solutions but they should be iterated on quickly.
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by michael_vo 3y ago
Worked at BlackRock. Bonuses are announced in person with your manager in the room. I was told this is because they want to record your facial reaction to getting the number. If you were happy they knew they didn't have to give you mor
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by michael_vo 3y ago
There are a lot of legal and illegal immigrants living in that area who work in the hospitality industry. They live in overcrowded apartments. The immigrants also use underground cheaper taxi services that ferry workers to and from these lo
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by michael_vo 4y ago
IMO a key safety measure would be "if you are in an accident while on your phone, you lose your license for 12 months times the percent at fault. Will this stop drivers from using cell phones? This is a post event solution. This solu
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by michael_vo 4y ago
I think after you read and watch NotJustBikes and Strong Towns you understand that American roads are dangerous by design. It's not police that will fix these structural problems. I always hesitate to blame drivers because if you were
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by michael_vo 4y ago
As a tourist in Paris I found scooters really convenient to get around the city. But I also hated them for their aesthetics as they would be littered everywhere and knocked over. I definitely saw so many dangerous driving behaviours. I thin
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by michael_vo 4y ago
True, but how does firing the whole department solve the problems? I don't think just firing the bad apples is a good long term solution. Mainly because these types of mistakes continually happen in multiple departments in multiple cou
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by michael_vo 4y ago
Power does corrupt but systems can overcome it. A lot of good research out there about mistakes in hospitals arising from the power dynamic between doctors and nurses. How nurses would be afraid to challenge doctors when they make mistakes
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by michael_vo 4y ago
I think that soothes our outrage. But it’s like firing the whole development team because we all keep ignoring lint errors and our bugs crash the system. I think there’s systemic changes to make. Maybe for cases like this if the judge or pe
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by michael_vo 4y ago
I agree if it’s part of your investment portfolio. The profit part comes when you cash it back into your default currency in order to use it or to realize the gains. If you bought btc, used it to buy goods, and never cashed it back to usd t
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by michael_vo 4y ago
If you just exchange usd for euro that’s not an expectation of profit per se. And no one is taxed for this action. If you’re a day trader of forex usually at the end of the day you would settle back into your default currency. Your gains fr
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by michael_vo 4y ago
Everyone I know uses the term “invest” or “speculate” when they buy any crypto asset. I haven’t met anyone use the term “diversify” when buying crypto like you would if you bought USD or EURO or bonds. I know someone who used all of their 2
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by michael_vo 4y ago
I really think there should be a startup that integrates with Plaid pulling all bank transactions to build AI models for this. I think real time alerts or daily summaries sent to trusted caretakers. Another layer is having the caretaker app
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by michael_vo 4y ago
Principle: there should never be a single point of failure in a well designed system. This is really just a lesson that we will keep re-learning and exposing as ecosystems get massive and companies make decisions at scale.

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