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by yunohn 2y ago
I don’t think tariffs will solve much, since people still want to buy those goods. USA just needs to start building ASAP - eat the initial losses, but put the effort in and make local manufacturing happen. Then it’s just classic capitalisti
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by yunohn 2y ago
I’m not sure if you’ve seen the news over the past decade, but most low cost labor countries like China are aeons ahead in automation. They’re just optimizing further and further, while the West just offshores and outsources everything.
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You’re right. The Western culture of outsourcing all your labor, emissions and garbage and acting high and mighty about it. The whole article is about Americans buying too much from SHEIN. How did you spin it into Sinophobia?
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by yunohn 2y ago
This article is the startup equivalent of attaching the word AI to get hype views. There were no concrete points made about AI specifically causing the pollution. I’m almost certain their actual business of fast fashion is 99% of their emis
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by yunohn 2y ago
I would argue that doing a comparison requires the author to actually have heard of the other option first. The world has infinite things, we can only focus on so much.
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What would be the point of comparing a popular active fork to an unheard-of non-maintained one?
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Honestly, I just don’t buy it’s impossible to properly handle global taxation. Governments do it just fine for normal individuals. Small to medium businesses also pay their taxes pretty fairly. It says something profound about the system, i
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by yunohn 2y ago
> the only thing you need to implement corporate tax avoidance is the ability to incur a deductible expense to an offshore company > This unrealistic wishful thinking Quite the contrary, for some reason you seem to have a cognitive di
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by yunohn 2y ago
I fully agree that these loopholes are intentional, but I definitely don’t think they’re unavoidable. The problem is just that the ones (politicians and companies) writing the laws are the ones who want the loopholes. The lawyers who could
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by yunohn 2y ago
There is no “may” be inflationary. The entirety of Western civilization is built on and its future is predicated on a perpetual cheaper labor class both at home and abroad. That’s the only way the people can even survive right now. The mome
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by yunohn 2y ago
The word “loophole” usually means a bypass of a law/rule in its spirit due to its language, thus leading to a void / gray area of enforcement that is beneficial to the exploiter. I say that because everytime the topic of “closing
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by yunohn 2y ago
It’s really unclear to me what you understood by “cost fairness”. I’m saying if you charge me per brick laid, but you can’t show me how many bricks were laid, nor can I calculate how many should have been laid - how do I trust your invoice?
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by yunohn 2y ago
Fair enough, but you’re a human - not an AI which costs massive GPU hours.
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by yunohn 2y ago
Not sure why you didn’t bother to check their pricing page (1) before dismissing my point. They are charging significantly more for both input (3x) and output (4x) tokens when using o1. Per 1M in/out tokens: GPT4o - 5$/15$ O1-prev
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by yunohn 2y ago
Given the significant chain of thought tokens being generated, it also feels a bit odd to hide it from a cost fairness perspective. How do we believe they aren't inflating it for profit?
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The generated chain of thought for their example is incredibly long! The style is kind of similar to how a human might reason, but it's also redundant and messy at various points. I hope future models will be able to optimize this fu
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by yunohn 2y ago
But is that sentiment worth paying 35k upfront and all the other ongoing assle/fees associated with owning a car in the EU, vs the 1.5k for a vacation rental for you?
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by yunohn 2y ago
Thanks for the clarification, that's fair enough. But I hope you do look into upstreaming, maybe even just by opening an Issue to guage community interest. Like the pre-existing checkpoints Issue you linked to, opening some for your fu
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by yunohn 2y ago
I'm aware, but the taxes being paid by all these global corps did not change at all. Clearly there's enough loopholes to keep exploiting!
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Often the notebook was run on a beefy server with GPUs attached, potentially taking hours/days of compute. It would be senseless to force every viewer of a Jupyter notebook to have the same setup and time just to read through the resul
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by yunohn 2y ago
I appreciate the write-up, it's very insightful. But I was quite concerned about the amount of response mocking being used as a solution. Did the team ever consider instead making upstream changes to jupyter-lab (which is FOSS), so tha
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by yunohn 2y ago
AFAIU it’s a soft requirement so that IE can claim that losing taxes is offset by employing (a few) people. The actual tax structuring discussed in this case and similar for other FAANG, is all about where the company is registered vs makin
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by yunohn 2y ago
Dude, seriously? You’re acting like Apple was clueless here. This entire controversy is about Ireland and Apple colluding for over a decade to avoid paying corporate taxes anywhere else in the EU. Nobody involved was ignorant of the potent
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There’s absolutely no employment requirement outside of any PR deals that IE may impose on Apple to satisfy their citizens. The tax evasion scheme they used does not necessitate any real humans in any jurisdictions - it’s almost literally j
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by yunohn 2y ago
What a timeline we live in where the EU is basically telling Apple that they weren’t smart enough with their tax evasion - “see if you did it like other FAANG you could’ve gotten away with it!”
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I listened to multiple demos, the pauses and vocal intonations sound so fake. They’re inserted at odd times that a real human speaker would not.
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Interesting, that sounds like a more reasonable threshold than the Netherlands with 30k€ earlier and since 2023, 50k€.
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I think the word blockchain confuses people, including you and the previous poster. Maybe you could clarify your “layering” idea and how it would work for further discussion. Folding at home can track user contributions and issue micro&#x2F
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by yunohn 2y ago
I don’t understand why anyone is taking this “tax on unrealized gains” proposal seriously. Literally, never has a politician passed a law that hurts themselves or their elite donors, unless there’s sufficient loopholes. We can 100% safely
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by yunohn 2y ago
We all knew that the IA was bound to be litigated out of existence at some point. But I don’t understand the authors point that it’s the IA’s fault - is there actually any way they could avoid or win an IP case ever?

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