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by yibg 8mo ago
Taxes aren't just there to provide an income stream to the government. It's also a mechanism to guide behavior via incentives (or punishment). Right or wrong there we're providing an incentive to hold assets longer, or use le
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by yibg 8mo ago
In both cases though, mostly rich people.
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by yibg 8mo ago
Even that isn't what's happened here. If we continue the analogy it's more like stop paying for wifi, then later discover you need it for work so sign up again at and pay an extra fee. There is so much conflation (maybe inten
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by yibg 8mo ago
dunning-kruger effect at the corporate level?
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by yibg 8mo ago
How about just general privacy? I mean do you really want someone / the government to be able to track everywhere you go? - Going to your girlfriends place while the wife is at work - Visiting a naughty shop - Going into various compan
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by yibg 8mo ago
South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore all had significantly lower crime rates before CCTVs were all over the public space. EDIT: also, most crime happens at home, so if you really want a large reduction put cameras in everyone's home too.
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by yibg 8mo ago
Or sugar?
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by yibg 8mo ago
Weed isn't designed to be anything, but it certainly is addictive in the same sense that social media is. There is no physical addiction (which is also true for TikTok), but there are definitely people that are hooked on it.
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by yibg 8mo ago
Where does a desirable product or experience end and addictive begin though? Pretty much all products or services sold are designed to be desirable. Some things are physically addictive (nicotine, opioids etc), so those are a bit more clear
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by yibg 8mo ago
Filtering on the platform or Grok output though? If the filtering / flagging on X is insufficient then that is a separate issue independent of Grok. If filtering output of Grok, while irresponsible in my view, I don’t see why that’s di
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by yibg 8mo ago
My natural reaction here is like I think most others; that yes Grok / X bad, shouldn't be able to generate CSAM content / deepfakes. But I am having trouble justifying in an consistent manner why Grok / X should be liabl
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by yibg 8mo ago
Google has a PE ratio of 34. Kinda expensive but reasonable in today's climate. Tesla has a PE ratio of almost 400. It's a meme stock at this point.
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by yibg 8mo ago
But the returns are based on more hype rather than delivering. It's recursive.
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by yibg 8mo ago
Speaking for myself, I’m not rooting for anything, let alone the us or the world economy to crash. I’m seeing the chaos and inflated prices and it’s defying my mental model of how the market works. So I guess if I’m rooting for anything, it
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by yibg 8mo ago
Sure that's a valid choice. And if we as a society chooses safety then lower the speed limit. But it's not reasonable to expect everyone to drive 40% of the speed limit under what are normal conditions (the parked cars are almost
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by yibg 9mo ago
That's why the speed limit is 25 (lower when children are present in some areas) and not 35 or 40 etc. It's not reasonable to expect people to drive at 40% of the posted speed limit the entire way. We're also not talking abou
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by yibg 9mo ago
No kidding. Imagine if Apple took 30% of your Venmo transfers.
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by yibg 9mo ago
I don't see how that's feasible without introducing a lot of friction. Near my house, almost the entire trip from the freeway to my house is via a single lane with parked cars on the side. I would have to drive 10 MPH the entire w
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by yibg 9mo ago
I feel a bit conflicted on this. On the one hand I do want someone (or a group of someones) to stick it to the US and "teach it a lesson". I see the US as a bully, and I want to see the bully get punched in the nose. On the other,
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by yibg 9mo ago
To me the confusion is the word "validate". Sounds like what you're talking about is more acknowledgement than validate. I hear / see how you're feeling and I empathize. Dictionary definition of validate are things
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by yibg 9mo ago
I don’t see how. Chinese manufacturers aren’t going to setup multi billion dollar plants without some market presence, that comes after. Letting in some small amount of Chinese EVs for so they can test the waters seems sensible all around.
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by yibg 9mo ago
Same reason everyone wanted to get into the China market. The size of the market and potential to make money.
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by yibg 9mo ago
It'll be interesting to see how the Chinese EVs compete "fairly" in Canada. North America has had a lack of choice in automobiles at least as long as I can remember. There are so many cars that are available in Europe or Asia
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by yibg 9mo ago
I know in the US we value individualism responsibility. But the reality is many things are encouraged / discouraged, made easier / harder collectively. Of course if you never go out of your house, you're not going to have man
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by yibg 9mo ago
Unfortunately a lot of these require either an existing network or high stakes interaction (sending invites, accepting invites etc). They're good advise, but can be hard to execute on for most people. If we want to solve this at the so
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by yibg 9mo ago
I wish there were more of these types of community that's designed to encourage interaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzKSKqjEmDA
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by yibg 9mo ago
Why is that odd? Lots of apartment buildings in big cities have the first floor (or 2) for retail. Some apartments / condos have a whole mall downstairs.
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by yibg 9mo ago
I don't know if there are stats for this but it wouldn't surprise me if there were non zero incidents of it. Drivers that are high / drunk, mentally impaired etc. More broadly, lots of cars driven by humans collide with train
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by yibg 9mo ago
Style aside, what do you think he should do? Faced with a law that not only imposes disproportionate fines (more than revenue from the country), but on the surface also requires blocking globally, there are really only a few things to do: 1
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by yibg 9mo ago
Sometimes it's hard to differentiate between the 2. In this case it sounds like copyright in name but the implementation is such that it's a big hammer that can also be used for censorship if followed.

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