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by yuy910616 5y ago
It's a fairly valid argument imo. The idea that liberal ideals is the best way to organize markets is good - but you can't just ignore the outliers. If it was easy to fixing it - every country that has been colonized should be at
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what is success then? what are you trying to accomplish? I'd argue the best way to accomplish whatever you're thinking about that we should be accomplishing - something that is hard to measure - is by maximizing GDP. Because GDP i
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For the last 30 years they've produce some miracles.
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I disagree that the safer bet is to have less government - look at the macro picture, things are better than ever as governments are exerting more controls, so there must exist a process of which allows for better prosperity for all by allo
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by yuy910616 5y ago
GDP is the thing we should measure because without it, you can't have all the things you mentioned - you might be able to not start wars but you still need a strong army. To say that money isn't everything is already a luxury
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by yuy910616 5y ago
Yes, I do think people can't be left to their own accord and some people should be allow to make rules for others. How we determine who those `some people` are is a matter of what we tried already and what was effective. What would you
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there is a strong correlation between strong government and higher GDP. Weak economies are weak because of corrupt and weak government. So that would be my case for government action - collectively or through a good dictator. Your logic see
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by yuy910616 5y ago
I don't think a perfect line exist - a perfect line that maximizes a country's output, for example. Laffer curve is real. But it's more of a experiment - life is an experiment.
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People have been making a lot of prediction about China, such that market economy would lead to more political openness or a middle class would demand more political freedom - all good guess but turn out wrong. I think we're bad at pre
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People can't be left to their own accord.
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I'm glad I have certain inalienable rights, but I'm also happy to see the authoritarian government experiment continue. There is a chance that liberal government is the most effective government, ever - the so-called end of histor
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If I remember correctly, he only successfully dodged 2/3 bullets. And then he started to stopping them
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While others have contributed valid points, I think there is another key point here - Netflix stock price is (or was) strongly correlated with that quarter's subscriber growth. In other words, this might be a method that only worked wi
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I think this is a good point too - venture companies and research SHOULD have two very different distributions
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Well said - Perhaps a way to look at it is that 'good' is a subjective target that should be define as 'distance from average/medium'. So let's be thankful of the crappy medium haha
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by yuy910616 5y ago
It should be point out that Marc Andreessen of all people should deeply believe Sturgeon's law - after all, return on investment for venture firms are dominated by few 'hits' and lots of 'duds'. Of course - I think
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by yuy910616 5y ago
CSV is bad - but convenience is hard to beat. It's the same thing with excel. People abuse it, but you just can't beat the fact that your programmer, CEO, analyst, and secretary can all contribute to the same file.
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by yuy910616 5y ago
Calling isn't zero cost, and that spammer time isn't zero cost, so in this case, there is a incentive from the spammer to weed out people who costs the most. So isn't the popular idea that you should NOT answer spam calls wro
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by yuy910616 5y ago
I've actually been answering each spam call - and try to get them to stay on the line for as long as possible. My assumption is that they have some sort of CMS software and that it costs money to call. If you don't answer - they&#
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It reminds me of something I think someone from Netflix once said (paraphrasing): We're not competing with Hulu or Disney Plus, we're competing with sleep. These days games are not the only forms of addictive entertainment - there
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I will die on this hill but I'm never trying pickleball. Silly reason - tennis looks cool, look at Roger. Pickle ball looks...less cool
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Are we savages or what?
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I would add that this is one of the few good books by Packt. Bayesian Analysis with Python is also pretty good. Still, most of the time Packt is a reliable signal for low quality
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There is a good reason to do something and there is a real reason. Coming from Niantic, who is a proponent of AR, it seems like the good reason is to care about building a better reality, but I'm curious if anyone knows enough to comme
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by yuy910616 5y ago
I think this is a bear case on China - essentially you're saying that authoritarian government is unstable by nature, democracy is the end of history, etc. I'm a bit less certain. Past is no indication of future, but China has bee
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None have products that "you can only get it here". They have experience but no product that is competitive, if not protected by government action
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I'm really curious if China will go after bytedance next in its crackdown. My guess would be no. Alibaba, Tencent, DiDi, Meituan all are either local champions that have no competitive advantage overseas - and thus does not help China&
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by yuy910616 5y ago
On somewhat of a side note, has anyone stopped their subscription to Stratechery in the past year? I've been a paid sub to Stratechery since the Amazon acquiring Wholefood article - I think Ben's thinking is really unique and valu
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Fun story time - One time I woke up in the middle of the night. Not knowing what time it is, I shouted into the darkness "Hey Google, what time is it?" To my surprise, the machine reply in a excessively cheerful tone, "Welcom
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I've always thought "from lib import star" is somewhat of a anti-pattern. Personally I think that makes sense - because sometimes when I read code, I just have no idea where something comes from. But I've seen import sta

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