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by yibg 2y ago
Whoever they sell to becomes an immediate competitor though no? They’d get the software, US users and algo.
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by yibg 2y ago
Which makes no sense. Meta wouldn’t sell “meta Uk”, data product, algo and all to a competitor for 20 billion or whatever the number floating around is.
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by yibg 2y ago
I keep seeing this type of comment here, like a sell is the obvious thing to do. Why? Selling / divesting TikTok US under these circumstances would surely not fetch the best price. In addition they would immediately create a global com
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by yibg 2y ago
Isn't that the same argument used by China for why the GFW is needed? The US allows all sorts of things that can be argued as net negative (e.g. smoking).
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by yibg 2y ago
I think one of the issues is the details of the national security risk hasn't been articulated well. I haven't followed this in detail, but from what I've seen in summaries, news articles etc is just a vague notion of a theor
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by yibg 2y ago
I'm a Canadian living in the US as well. I definitely make more and am able to save more here. I have better job opportunities and also more interesting work. Where I am the weather is also much better. If money wasn't an issue I&
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by yibg 2y ago
There were plenty of older frameless doors where the door itself opens mechanically and the window lowers slightly. A lot of the older subarus for example. What's special about Tesla (or any of the other newer cars with full electrical
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by yibg 2y ago
I used to drink quite often and often in large amounts. I don’t think it was ever problematic drinking, but also not on the moderate side. At some point in my mid 30s the ROI started turning negative. Started getting sleepy after a couple o
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by yibg 2y ago
Problem is also they DO work in SOME cases. e.g. ask ChatGPT to breakdown the calculation to determine tax owed on $xxx of income, and the result is correct in most cases. So there is this perception of intelligence but also fails spectacul
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by yibg 2y ago
* We're seeing much less of "it's making mistakes" these days.* Perhaps less than before, but still making very fundamental errors. Anything involving number I'm automatically suspicious. Pretty frequently I'd
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by yibg 2y ago
Blanket positions either way isn't good (both sides are equally good / bad or we're good they're evil). Nuance is always important I agree. But it's far more common for "us" to be the good guys and for &qu
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by yibg 2y ago
Of course in a war both sides shoot at each other. The hypocrisy comes when one side is good and the other is bad for doing the same thing. So it would be "The enemies soldiers are evil and just want us all dead, but we're the her
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by yibg 2y ago
Doesn't that just point to the fact that our ability to describe is limited and lossy? In the color example, we're trying to convey information about the effects of one of the senses without using that sense. It could very well be
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by yibg 2y ago
You seem to be overloading the word "physical"? Information and computation are physical manifestations of e.g. electrons and physical bits. Information are stored (as far as we know) on physical things like memory or the brain. e
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by yibg 2y ago
Maybe because "secure and reliable software" isn't what makes successful companies. Just like how people complain about tight airplane seats and getting nickeled and dimmed but continuously pick airlines that have cramped sea
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by yibg 2y ago
The problem isn't that those who run companies are stupid and incompetent (which his probably true). It's that the people lobbing those jabs would also be stupid and incompetent if they were running the companies but thinks they h
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by yibg 2y ago
Sometimes I want advise on a specific topic but don't have anyone to ask / discuss with. Could be because the people around me are part of the topic (e.g. relationship problems), or they don't know the domain well or maybe it
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by yibg 2y ago
Or sometimes worse: Person genuinely wants advise for a real problem, you give advise, which they take, and it turns out badly. Now it's your fault.
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by yibg 2y ago
The article touches on this too, from personal experience it seems like the likelihood of someone taking advice depends on both sides: - How good is the advice? specific > generic, personalized > general, actionable > not actionabl
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by yibg 2y ago
This model also puts a lot of risk on the employees. It’s basically forcing investment in the same company that pays your salary. An investment that has less liquidity than standard investments. It’s like putting all your retirement fund in
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by yibg 2y ago
People consume a hell of a lot more now than 1950. Houses are bigger, we buy more clothes, eat more food, have more gadgets. The yacht class can only consume so much.
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by yibg 2y ago
The way to get to A is through people working. We didn’t get from where we were 100 years ago to now because society as a whole was fine with working the minimum amount needed to sustain life.
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by yibg 2y ago
This was my first thought too. I'm not that familiar with the space, but I would think for something this sensitive the rollout would be staggered at least instead of what looks like globally all at the same time.
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by yibg 2y ago
Why not just say that then? It’ll take 3-9 weeks. You can then just add all the min and max and get a full range.
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House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure(npr.org)
82 points by yibg 3y ago|172 comments
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by yibg 3y ago
This is the answer I got: “Interest earned in Canadian Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) accounts is generally not taxable income in California for state tax purposes. California does not typically tax income earned in foreign retir
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by yibg 3y ago
Funny enough just today I asked ChatGPT a tax question, which it very confidently gave me the wrong answer for. For those curious, the question was: is interest earned in Canadian RRSP accounts considered taxable income in California for st
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by yibg 3y ago
Just because you aren’t being harmed doesn’t mean you can’t think it’s wrong or try to prevent it. There are lots of things people fight against that doesn’t directly impact them (yet). One good reason in this particular examples is I don’t
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by yibg 3y ago
I went to school in a fairly affluent area a bit more than 20 years ago. Our choices for lunch were nacho and cheese, grilled cheese sandwich and frozen pizza.
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by yibg 3y ago
“ Requires social media platforms to use reasonable age verification methods to verify the ages of account holders and disclose specified policies and provide specified resources, measures and disclaimers.” Problem here is what is considere

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