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by yibg 2y ago
I wonder if this is a consequence of the political systems of China vs the US. China tends to think and plan longer term, where as the US seems much more transactional; what will win me the next election / midterm etc.
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by yibg 2y ago
Based just on the details in the report, it seems refusing entry is justified. Or at least not very strange. What I don't understand is, why not just send her back home vs detaining her? Maybe someone that's more knowledgeable her
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by yibg 2y ago
+1 for Mazda. And also for keeping an actual shifter instead of knobs or buttons.
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by yibg 2y ago
And a performance to the MAGA base. One thing we've learned about Trump is, he'll do and say whatever outlandish thing if it'll gain / keep his votes.
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by yibg 2y ago
What would you do if your employer asked you to do something unethical? For me, I would resign. Yes, they'll probably find someone else that is willing and able to do it, but I don't want to do the unethical thing.
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21 DOGE Staffers Resign(documentcloud.org)
12 points by yibg 2y ago|1 comments
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by yibg 2y ago
Yet seemingly a large part of the population has forgotten the lessons from even 8 or 9 decades ago, the sequence of events that have led to events of the 30s and 40s. Democracy is also not that old as far as human history goes. Empires and
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by yibg 2y ago
Unfortunately people as a mass, don’t tend to learn from history. Or at least forget the lessons from history fairly easily. Maybe we are doomed to repeat the same historical lessons.
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by yibg 2y ago
I think something like this was a FB engineering interview (several years ago), just for instagram feeds.
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by yibg 2y ago
So as long as someone does a good job they can work remotely and when they like. Almost sounds like evaluations like these should be based on performance and not when and where you work from.
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by yibg 2y ago
It's a great example of rules apply to thee but not to me. He expects his employees to be in the office and work 100 hours weeks. But at the same time he's now working what, 0 hours at Tesla? A giant hypocrite.
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by yibg 2y ago
Externally it doesn't even seem like there is a "can be fired" criteria. It seems like there is some high level bucket of "these shouldn't be fired", and the rest is just pull plugs and see what breaks immediat
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by yibg 2y ago
It’s an extremely regressive tax policy too. Not only is it a flat rate for everyone regardless of income, the wealthy spend less as a percent of income than the poor, so less of the income is taxed this way in the first place.
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by yibg 2y ago
nit: no fatalities, but definite some casualties.
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by yibg 2y ago
Not like people in other countries don't have access to the same drugs. It's not solved 100% anywhere, but the magnitude is very different in say Canada. End of the day, it's still societal issues that's causing some peo
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by yibg 2y ago
Personally I can get behind the stated intentions of DOGE (although I don't think that's the real intent). I can also see the logic of having to break a few things / start over to really get to a clean state. But the way it&#
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by yibg 2y ago
Homelessness isn't totally solved any where else but if we look at comparable countries (Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc), the magnitude is much lower. Not to mention other issues like healthcare, crime, education, life expectancy e
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by yibg 2y ago
That's not necessarily the right measure though right? If that money wasn't spent (or less of it was spent), what would things be like? Hard to A/B test this, but seems like the "problem" would get worse rather than
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by yibg 2y ago
The US seems to be a text book case of treating the symptom rather than the cause (and not just in terms of homelessness either). Culturally we: - Seem to tolerate high income inequality or even see it as a good thing. - Value "pulling
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Plane crashes and flips upside down at Toronto airport(cnn.com)
7 points by yibg 2y ago|2 comments
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by yibg 2y ago
Similar here. First thing I do when joining a new project is to fix bugs in a legacy product. Forces me to read through the code, follow the data and execution. Nice thing about bugs is also they (mostly) have defined behavior.
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by yibg 2y ago
This was true for the lead up to many dictators. By itself, just having an election doesn't really mean much. We'll see if there are future (fair) elections.
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by yibg 2y ago
It's probably more grey than that. There are lots of ways to tilt an election without breaking existing laws, especially if you have all 3 branches of government and an execute that'll selectively enforce laws and out in the open
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by yibg 2y ago
Or just cut, call it good and move on. Anyone that actually does measure later and tells him his cut was off is just part of the radical left, fake media and woke mob.
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by yibg 2y ago
Seems to be consistent with Musk's MO. Cut first then (maybe) measure.
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by yibg 2y ago
Aren't electric vehicles terrible for armored use? Adding a bunch of weight on a giant battery pack that catches fire when punctured, and put that in a situation where they get shot at...
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by yibg 2y ago
When does that competitiveness and innovation stop though? If they stopped 100 years ago where would we be today as a species and is that better or worse than today? How about 1000 years ago? We face issues (like we always have), but I&#x27
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by yibg 2y ago
This is true for all new technology of significant potential impact right? Similar discussions were had about nuclear technology I'm sure. The reality is, with increased access to information and accelerated pace of discovery in variou
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by yibg 2y ago
How about: - hypocrite: free speech only for topics I approve of - bully: and a school yard style bully at that. Calling people crude names etc. Remember "pedo guy"? - liar: "full self driving early next year" for how ma
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by yibg 2y ago
Completely agree. Even things that are considered "standard" or "basic" some times have deep contextual variances. For instance basic questions like "what is my ARR this month" can have varying answers for diff

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