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0max··on Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
Frankly, I think Mrs. Boucher probably gave Elon too many stimmies, psychedelics, and expectations he can't live up to. I remember when she got into a spat with Azalea Banks because she had to trip sit Elon when they were trying to collaborate on a music project.
0max··on How Iceland is using GPT-4 to preserve its language
This made me want to look up LLM projects on minority indegenous languages, makes me wonder what kinds of effects it would have on places like the Philippines with many different dialects and languages that aren't all mutually intelligible and need a common lingua franca.
0max··on Lab leak most likely origin of Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. agency now says
Some folks think that the Chief Public Health Officer of Canada dipping to Beijing for a quick minute in 2020 was sus.
0max··on US housing market posts $2.3T drop, biggest since 2008
Maybe fertility rates will bounce back once housing prices come back down to earth?
0max··on There’s no such thing as affordable housing
Maybe "non-market housing" should be the more widely used term in North America for the kind of service "affordable housing" provides. It better frames the idea that the unit of housing isn't meant to be sold and priced based on market forces and dynamics.
0max··on Bank of China's Singapore operation stops financing Russian oil trades
Last I heard Khabarovsk's elected leader fell out of the Kremlins graces and his detention led to mass protest. Then add the pressure of all the sons coming back making it look like the Soviet incursion into Afghanistan, I think the ingredients are in the cupboard.
0max··on Why Tokyo Works
Los Angeles would be a much more desirable region if it had Tokyo's rail network.
0max··on Ask HN: Can you please add transcription to vocal messages in messaging apps?
You just described the Google Voice voicemail experience
0max··on Half a million South Korean workers walk off jobs in general strike
So did the teamsters and Jimmy Hoffa back when Nixon debased the gold standard and unions needed a workaround for the Federal monopoly on violence. (see "I Heard You Paint Houses")
0max··on Half a million South Korean workers walk off jobs in general strike
I think the "actually things are pretty good" view are most of the K-Dramas you run into on MBC and KBS based on what I've seen over the air.
0max··on Jack Dorsey mocks Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse plan, saying it's dystopian
One thing I've noted is all the queer meme accounts I follow get regularly banned with shite moderation on FB apps while Twitter openly welcomes OnlyFans promo posts.
0max··on Half a million South Korean workers walk off jobs in general strike
I wonder if Squid Game has had an impact. Gi-Hun had a flashback to an auto factory strike that was pretty traumatic that led him down the path to sign his life away to the game.

https://labornotes.org/blogs/2021/10/real-life-auto-strike-b...

0max··on Taliban entering Kabul 'from all sides'
They'd probably annex it and then install re-education facilites to show everyone on how awesome socialism with mainland Chinese characteristics are.
0max··on On Leaving California and the Silicon Valley
Do you even know what "Thizz or Die" means?
0max··on Uighur camp detainees allege systematic rape
Was the Tydings-Mcduffie act part of a larger political agenda?
0max··on Companies are fleeing California. Blame bad government
By the way each proposition is unpacked in the voter guide mailed out each year, it just sounds like the legislature is passing the buck to the voter when each prop says "placed on the ballot by the legislature" or something along those lines.

I thought that was why we voted the folks into office? Not just to collect a check because they won a popularity contest and meme'd on Facebook hard enough.

0max··on Show HN: I have found the world's greatest landing page
That's why they have a toggle to hide the toolbar icon.

Source: I'm a user.

0max··on When Rubber Hits the Road, and Washes Away
I wonder how much human powered bicycles contribute to the microplastics generated?
0max··on Covid pushes Asia to embrace big government
At the same time, Prescott Bush (HW's Dad) was alleged to be involved in a Fascist backed "Business Plot" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush#Business_Plot
0max··on Utah’s Economic Exceptionalism
How about Singapore?
0max··on California Middle-Schooler Threatened with Jail for Missing 3 Zoom Classes
I mean it's not like the US Federal Government makes Children's Day (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Day) a holiday or anything. If you've done a project in Japan, you know you have to account for that day off.
0max··on Eviction startup gets gig workers to help landlords kick people out
it can be called http://yourpersonalarmy.io
0max··on The Rise and Fall of Pret a Manger
I think SF is more of a burrito and onigiri type of town. Some of my favorite grab and go spots are Asian grocery stores.
0max··on Foreboding Skies over the SF Bay Area
Based on NOAA satellites, the smoke and fires seem to end in Oregon, but I don't doubt that this may extend up to BC in no time. https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G1...
0max··on Amazon Has Too Much Power
Sounds like what Alibaba already does in China, where they digitize local stores and their stock but make it available on their platform. Imagine Square, Shopify and Amazon all rolled into one to help digitize your brick and moartar.
0max··on The Age of Mass Surveillance Will Not Last Forever
It's disingenuous to think that People of Color aren't Republicans. Many immigrants who fled communist regimes identify as such.
0max··on Imperial Wars Always Come Home
Sam Esmail's Homecoming comes to mind...
0max··on Portland protesters say federal officers in unmarked vans are detaining them
This play is straight outta Vladislav Surkov's book. He's starting to look like Putin's Kissinger. Look up the "little green men" in Ukraine.
0max··on San Francisco most intensely gentrified city in new rankings
They also don't speculate on real estate and tie wealth to it like we in the west do. My understanding is that housing is considered a sunken asset similar to a car when you account for the frequency of seismic activity and changing building standards to account for it.
0max··on The dying mall’s new lease on life: apartments
This has been a thing in Asia for a while (you'd see real estate booths at other malls promoting these properties) and I'm surprised it's just now catching on in the US. Malls are great because they usually have frequent-ish local transit to get people to and from the place. With the housing you can easily get a grocery store or a Target/Wal Mart to be your anchor tenant. These spaces are also being refit into healthcare facilities and churches too so you can essentially build a small town into a mall property provided you can get it all packed in there.

On further thought, I wonder what leads planners and leaders to decide that a mall should become a new-urbanist town square or an Amazon fulfillment center?

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