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This is exactly the issue that Johnny Harris talked about in his video about the poverty industrial complex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3nwdRIXGjc

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I think the author just wants to say that if the regulatory credits are not there, then the profits will be 0.9B less than the reported net profit today, which is about 0.5B. This is a fairly reasonable statement, and it is assuming that they sell the same number of cars and people are already paying the maximum amount they are willing the pay.

You could argument that if the credits are not there, Tesla will sell less cars, and the net profit will be even more slim.

It's a great product in terms of functionality, but I choose privacy over convenience in this case because Tencent will track all sorts of things within the app. In addition, once you are used to reading on WeRead, you are also limited to the selection of censored content. I don't think many people are willing to subject their reading choices to the censors in China

In a prisoner's dilemma, if you know the other person is going to defect, are you going to cooperate?

I think this spec is designed precisely to offload the responsibility of safety to its users. They no longer need to make value judgements in their product, and if their model output some outrageous result, users will no longer ridicule and share them, because the culpability has been transferred to the user.

It's doesn't happen organically. It is usually designed by city planners (or equivalent functions depending on the city). It makes most sense to have mixture of residential and commercial buildings in the same area so that there is no foot traffic vacuum depending on the time of the day. Foot traffic vacuum creates space for potential crimes. (e.g, if you separate commercial and residential, the commercial area will be more likely crime ridden at night and residential area will be more prone to crime during the day).

I don't think it is the cheapest, but the tiny box is an option:

https://tinygrad.org/

Marketers should spend every extra dollar on the ad platform with the lowest customer acquisition cost, so if Google ads are more ineffective compared to others, then its customer will go somewhere else and hence it will have less revenue.

Some people call this the homeless industrial complex

I see your point, I am sorry to hear that you feel this way, you feelings are valid. As someone who moved from China to the US, I feel I can appreciate the difference a lot more, on a personal level.

Because in Australia there is rule of law. In China it is rule by law.

1) It's just a lot harder from the legislation's perspective. 2) Other social medias are mainly profit driven, any negative social impact is mainly side effect due to misalignment of incentives. But TikTok is much more likely to intentionally act in a malicious way, so I think the risk not comparable here.

I think this is exactly the manifestation of social media's influence on a person's view on America. I came from another country and lived in America now. If we watch the news from social media, you will inevitably get the sense that the country is in decline: guns out of control, sky-rocketing house and medical expense, non-functioning government etc.

In reality, you take for granted the freedom that you enjoy here, protected by the US military, constitution and rule of law. People in many other countries would go to great lengths to just have what you have.

I agree that gun control is a serious issue, but this TikTok thing can easily cause many more suicides among teenagers if we don't ban it, the scale of harm is much higher than school shootings.

That's my 2 cents.

I think TikTok might cause many more deaths because of teen suicide, much more dangerous than guns.

The idea of open markets is that no player is given favorable treatment by the government. If you allow a player that comes from a country that treats its citizens as human farms, I wouldn't call that open markets.

Some people think only javascript/typescript is modern. The javascript cult hopes everything to be written in js.

I think this interview process is not perfect, but it gives candidates like me, someone without a CS background, a pathway to enter the industry of software engineering and succeed in it. I learned programming mostly on my own, and by studying the for the interview, I learned so much about software engineering. In the end, that process of learning for the interview is very similar to the processing of learning on your day to day job and solve problems. Some of the answers to those problems might be quite obvious to a seasoned engineer or someone with a solid CS background, but I felt that being able to solve those problems puts me on par with those with more experience and CS background. I am currently at FANNG and doing as well as the other people on the team. If the interview process is all about the past experience, I would not stand a chance to get to where I am today.

When the director was asked about ethics in AI, the first thing he can think of is related to the coexistence of humans and nature. That just showed how little consideration was given on moral issues within such an organization.

My uneducated guess is that Yuan is still over valued. Based on the personal anecdotes around me, I can see that the government is trying everything to tighten the capital outflow. That's not the case for the reverse direction though.

Everyone in Beijing or Shanghai owning a small condo with 70 lease is literally sitting on a property of nominal value of millions of US dollars. How can that value be justified? People are willing to take even 15% discount to get that assets out of the country.

I am a western educated mainlander who reads both Chinese and Western new. Here is my answer to your question.

The Chinese population is huge so it is hard to lump them all in one basket, but here are the different types of people that I encounter.

1) People fueled by Chinese nationalistic sentiments, they believe that the Chinese way of development is superior. They believe the model has a long term vision and it makes decisions faster than western liberal democracies. They know about the Tiananmen square, but they think the government did a good thing by sacrificing a small number of people to achieve a long period of economic prosperity and stability. There are a significant portion of educated Chinese elites who believes in this, partially because they are usually the beneficiaries of the development mode, partially because they are only receiving news and entertainments from the Chinese media, which is quite a bubble in itself. People who do not benefit from this development model also fall into this category due to a self defensive mechanism. They can't change their country easily, and it slowly becomes a Stockholm syndrome. They have to justify why they are ruled by a legitimate government. In the western media, these kind of people are much over represented because they are usually the loudest. If they spread their rhetoric, they don't have to bear the consequences.

2) People who are pro democracy, they are much more skeptic of the Chinese government, but they can't speak out in anyway for the fear of retribution. They are severely under represented in the westerm media. There are government tentacles everywhere in the world to report you if you speak out against your government.

3) People whose political interest is completely paralyzed. Due to the constant bombarding of useless rhetoric shown in mainland media. They know it is probably not true, but they can't change it, so they might as well focus on their economic interest and learn how to navigate within the system, which is still full of opportunities. I would say this is probably the majority.

In most of the tech companies, deleting only means flipping a flag in the column of the row so that those things won't show up to the user. "Hard delete" is what you want.

I feel that we can say a particular person has failed you, an organization has failed you, but saying that his generation has failed us implies that his generation has some control on the overall trajectory of humanity. I think that's a pretty bad assumption. When the sample is big enough, it almost becomes a random walk/ markov chain instead of deterministic algorithm.

I think the Norwegian farmer is depending on the Chinese to buy their Salmon fish. If the Chinese just stopped importing Salmon from Norway, a lot of people's livelihood is at stake.