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by yibg 9mo ago
That seems like an untenable stance. Most people don't pick healthy foods to eat or exercise as much as they should. Should we dictate what they can and cannot eat etc?
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by yibg 9mo ago
Politic is not separate from the population though. Pressure from the population (hopefully) sways political decisions. This is why google news pulling out of countries were public.
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by yibg 9mo ago
> Reminder that border patrol and ice have shot 3 people in the last 48 hours, one of them resulting in a death while they refused to allow medical treatment. Not trying to downplay that, but I think that's also on people's min
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by yibg 9mo ago
> People are naturally curious about your rough level of success, wealth, expertise, etc. I definitely find this more true in some cultures. e.g. silicon valley, it seems people want to know where you're at on the "hierarchy&qu
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by yibg 9mo ago
Not very common as the intro, but pretty common around here (bay area) to get asked that pretty soon after the intro. I don't like it, and I wished people didn't focus so much on it though.
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by yibg 9mo ago
That would start a war / be an act of war, but probably not an invasion no.
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by yibg 9mo ago
- Paying for product placement on store shelves and movies - SEO optimization to get to the top of the search result page - Paying influencers to use their product - Paying people to post on forums about the product - Sending / sponsor
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by yibg 9mo ago
> Isn’t it great to be an internet commenter? Said completely unironically...
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by yibg 9mo ago
How do you search? Google? That's typically part of marketing spend. It may not be pure ads as in I pay google, they display my ad. But it's still a company spending money to get their result to the top so you are more likely to s
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by yibg 9mo ago
So the company that can afford to send the most stuff to the most reviewers win?
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by yibg 9mo ago
Which company is on page 1?
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by yibg 9mo ago
> I see this pro-ads argument all the time and it’s so obviously-stupid that I’m truly baffled. If you're truly baffled by a view that many people share, you're probably missing something. How do you solve discoverability, espe
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by yibg 9mo ago
> Cars should have exactly zero screens. Backup / 360 view cameras and navigation? I'd argue those are a lot safer than no camera looking backwards and fiddling with maps / phones.
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by yibg 9mo ago
The type of buttons but also the inconsistent behavior. Buttons with an indicator light for on / off state for instance (vs an actual physical toggle or switch), some times stay on when you start the car again, others reset to default.
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by yibg 9mo ago
Touch controls are frustrating in general. But in this case, I don't think there is a safety issue from electric fire because of a spill. For generic turning it off (as in stop producing heat, not break the electrical circuit), isn&#x2
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by yibg 9mo ago
Which is fine right? If both wages just keeps up with inflation, the gap will increase by the same amount as well. In fact in this particular case I wouldn't even expect the hairdresser's wage to increase the same amount proportio
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by yibg 9mo ago
Depends on the service. The US is a huge exporter of financial services.
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by yibg 9mo ago
that's a very incomplete view though. How many of those would take up the newly created manufacturing jobs? How many of those can be trained to do other, better jobs? There are reason to bring some manufacturing jobs back for national
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by yibg 9mo ago
But the relative value of those same labor (hairdresser, daycare worker) changes. If my labor as a tech worker was $50 / hour I'm willing to pay $30 / hour for a haircut. But now if I make $100 / hour I'm willing to
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by yibg 9mo ago
We should still differentiate between low value and high value add manufacturing though. Building automobiles and automobile parts, great. Relatively high skill, high value add jobs. Spinning cotton, not so much. If we have an infinite supp
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by yibg 9mo ago
There are also reports of 40 something people killed. Doesn't that amount to basically (mass) murder? There is no declaration of war, so you can't really call them civilian casualties.
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by yibg 9mo ago
I see a lot of people posting about a lot of Venezuelans being happy that Maduro is out, and many using that as providing moral justification for the action. But this seems murky to me. If say the majority of the US population would be happ
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Tesla Q4 2025 Delivery Consensus(ir.tesla.com)
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by yibg 10mo ago
Except many (most?) pharmas spend more on marketing and sales than R&D. Lobbying is another big expense for most of them.
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by yibg 10mo ago
I guess that's true if you stretch timelines to infinity. I'm still waiting on: - L5 autonomous driving - $35k Teslas - Hyperloop - Lunar trips to the moon on spacex - Humans on Mars But I guess if we just consider those delayed,
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by yibg 10mo ago
Are we counting potential competitors that are locked out due to trade barriers?
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by yibg 10mo ago
I guess when people stop believing them. Until then, they're words from a visionary that's building the future, who can get some things wrong / be over zealous etc. When people stop believing him, they become lies.
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by yibg 10mo ago
Not sure if they're explicitly sharing data, but there does seem to be something that's sharing data across the platforms. When I buy something from Tiktok, the ads for the same thing shows up on my instagram almost instantly. Doe
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by yibg 10mo ago
Perhaps, be anecdotally I've seen a significant shift in students from China in Canada and the US over the last couple of decades. It used to be that pretty much if someone can stay post graduation they will. Now many are choosing to g
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by yibg 10mo ago
Isn't that the whole point? That as total productivity has increased (represented by the mean), the wage increase has gone to the top.

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