Tarrifs are only a positive in cases where they are conditioned on labor, environmental, and other externalities being priced in and regional subsidies being countered. That seems like the case here.
But I suspect that the threat is being used as a negotiation tactic and China will call the bluff.
You’re defining “work” as Chinese manufactured EVs having less market share. But if that means everyone that buys pays more for an EV and fewer EVs are sold, did it result in the most benefit for American citizens? What about the rest of the world’s population, in which situation is the net benefit greater?
You seem to have presented a non sequitur based argument.
I wasn’t making any positive claims. I was clarifying the terms of what one might consider “working”. And how we may want to consider how we value people without regard to geopolitical boarders.
If the only goal is to reduce emissions, your concerns of the production and use of more EVs should absolutely be taken into account. However, I don’t think that should be the only concern when thinking about the ethics of the proposed policy.
FYI - Cooking indoors on electric power sources also screws indoor air quality anytime any fats or organic matter reaches its smoke point or burns. In fact, relative to the food, the methane heat source isn’t as big a factor.
I’m not trying to downplay the pollutants from incomplete burning of methane (or other gas) combustion. I’m trying to highlight that it isn’t the only consideration when discussion policy or making personal decisions.
Cooking with an electric heat source will produce an equal amount of pollutants from burning oils and organic matter compared to a gas heat source. But a methane or other gas heat source will produce additional (and different) pollutants. Ventilation is important in both scenarios.
VPNs are not magical fixes for privacy and security on the internet. However, there are some specific situations where they are useful tools.
Network blocks and internet censorship. VPNs can help you access sites and services that are restricted by your local network or government. That’s why downloads of VPN apps in Russia skyrocketed in 2022, after the country’s invasion of Ukraine and more services became blocked. The same trend happened in Virginia and other U.S. states after they passed laws requiring photo identification for adult websites.
Piracy. Internet service providers can sometimes detect when you are pirating movies, TV shows, music, or other media and send you angry letters. You can avoid that entirely by using a VPN when you download or torrent copyrighted material. Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free… but use a VPN.
Region-locked content. This is a popular selling point for VPN companies that is actually true: VPNs can help you access online content that is officially restricted to a certain region. Switching your VPN server to a different country can change what movies and shows are available through Netflix, and UK-based VPN servers are frequently used to access BBC iPlayer content in other countries. However, this is not always reliable, as service providers will usually detect VPN servers after a while and block them.
Accessing your home network. Setting up a VPN server at home is one way to access devices on your home network (such as self-hosted security cameras, media servers, and remote desktop) without opening up more of your network to the rest of the internet.
There are other more niche use cases for VPNs, but those are the most popular ones that aren’t completely made up.
I feel like simply knowing that X, formerly known as Twitter, paid for neo-Nazi content and promoted it is all I need to know about their content moderation policies.
The law does seem like a generally good thing, but I doubt that anyone who would care hasn’t already abandoned the platform.
To give one example. It puts a link on paywalled Medium.com pages to view the page’s content on another site since a block list will no longer be able to bypass the paywalled content on Medium.com.
The papers presented on Monday are the work of IBM and partners including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Tokyo. They focus mainly on areas such as simulating quantum physics and solving problems in chemistry and materials science....
This seems like an extremely rare, high level of service and I’m still not convinced this would be the difference between EVs and ICE vehicle reliability if it was the standard at every dealer and independent shop over the past 10 years.
I attribute it to Tesla being a manufacturer that doesn’t care about the manufacturing process.
Almost anything seems to qualify as appropriate for this Technology community. It’s hard to think of something that’s not “technology” making this a general purpose community. Which is fine if that’s what people want, but I’m probably going to unsubscribe if there isn’t more focus here.
Mastodon is not a one to one replacement for Twitter and doesn’t intend to be. Mastodon is nothing like what many (or even most) people who use twitter want.
Mastodon has a lot of issues that it is still working out that make it a worse experience than pre-musk Twitter.
OpenAI is the world’s leading AI company. We, the employees of OpenAI, have developed the best models and pushed the field to new frontiers. Our work on AI safety and governance shapes global norms. The products we built are used by millions of people around the world. Until now, the company we work for and cherish has never been in a stronger position.
The process through which you terminated Sam Altman and removed Greg Brockman from the board has jeopardized all of this work and undermined our mission and company. Your conduct has made it clear you did not have the competence to oversee OpenAI.
When we all unexpectedly learned of your decision, the leadership team of OpenAI acted swiftly to stabilize the company. They carefully listened to your concerns and tried to cooperate with you on all grounds. Despite many requests for specific facts for your allegations, you have never provided any written evidence. They also increasingly realized you were not capable of carrying out your duties, and were negotiating in bad faith.
The leadership team suggested that the most stabilizing path forward - the one that would best serve our mission, company, stakeholders, employees and the public - would be for you to resign and put in place a qualified board that could lead the company forward in stability.
Leadership worked with you around the clock to find a mutually agreeable outcome. Yet within two days of your initial decision, you again replaced interim CEO Mira Murati against the best interests of the company. You also informed the leadership team that allowing the company to be destroyed “would be consistent with the mission.”
Your actions have made it obvious that you are incapable of overseeing OpenAI. We are unable to work for or with people that lack competence, judgement and care for our mission and employees. We, the undersigned, may choose to resign from OpenAI and join the newly announced Microsoft subsidiary run by Sam Altman and Greg Brockman. Microsoft has assured us that there are positions for all OpenAI employees at this new subsidiary should we choose to join. We will take this step imminently, unless all current board members resign, and the board appoints two new lead independent directors, such as Bret Taylor and Will Hurd, and reinstates Sam Altman and Greg Brockman.
This whole thing has the smell of Microsoft pulling the strings to gain more control over the bleeding edge of AI. Idealists losing out to cold capitalists seeking profit and control is something we’ve seen many times before.
GoodRx is not covered under HIPAA. It’s the reason why it and companies like Postmeds exist, to skirt limitations on data collection and selling imposed by HIPAA. The fact that the data leaked is more of an issue for profitability of those companies than a privacy breach for Americans. The people who are using these services in a desperate attempt to access affordable healthcare have no legal expectation of privacy already.
Now we know why Open AI’s board fired him. Honestly can’t fault them. If Altman was going to leave with key staff anyway, why don’t just fire him? Its a lost cause.
What an absolutely disrespectful comment about someone that attended Dartmouth’s engineering school, worked at Goldman Sachs, an aerospace engineering contractor, Tesla, a tech startup that had a successful exit, and has been the CTO of OpenAI for 5 years. Somehow none of that matters because while she was able to do all that, she also might have given birth to and raised a child?
I think you need to reevaluate how you see the world.
Your opinion here is valid, but I’m really at a loss for how you formed it. It’s no big deal. Everyone has different tastes. I was just hoping to learn a bit. Have a great day.
History says tariffs rarely work, but U.S. President Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs could defy the trend, researcher says (theconversation.com)
By Tinglong Dai, Bernard T. Ferrari Professor of Business, Johns Hopkins University...
Can electric woks produce great stir-fry? (grist.org)
A Crash Course Guide to Nostr (wedistribute.org)
Any ghost(.org) bloggers out there? (getmidnight.com)
And if so, do you have any experience with this: Midnight?
This app lets restaurants and coffee shops charge to use the bathroom (techcrunch.com)
You probably don't need a VPN (www.spacebar.news)
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This Firefox for Android feature you've been begging for is finally here (www.androidpolice.com)
Pluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing” (pluralistic.net)
IBM claims quantum computing research milestone (www.ft.com)
The papers presented on Monday are the work of IBM and partners including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Tokyo. They focus mainly on areas such as simulating quantum physics and solving problems in chemistry and materials science....
Electric Vehicles Have 79% More Reliability Challenges Than Gas Powered Cars (samrome58.substack.com)
Spotify made £56m profit, but has decided not to pay smaller artists like me. We need you to make some noise | Damon Krukowski (www.theguardian.com)
Amazon hit by strikes, protests across Europe during Black Friday (www.reuters.com)
Inside the Operation to Bring Down Trump’s Truth Social (www.wired.com)
The North Atlantic Fella Organization is trying to shut down Trump’s flailing social media platform before the 2024 election—by shitposting.
Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024 (arstechnica.com)
The “Manifest V3” rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.
Twitter Is Throttling Patreon Links, Creators Say It Undermines Their Livelihood (themarkup.org)
YouTube limits Video Viewing for Ad blocker Users (samrome58.substack.com)
Hundreds of OpenAI staff tell board to resign or they'll quit (www.axios.com)
Healthcare startups scramble to assess fallout after Postmeds data breach hits millions of patients | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Sam Altman ‘was working on new venture’ before sacking from OpenAI (www.theguardian.com)
Now we know why Open AI’s board fired him. Honestly can’t fault them. If Altman was going to leave with key staff anyway, why don’t just fire him? Its a lost cause.
280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles (arstechnica.com)
'Brazil is the Country of WhatsApp,' Says President of the App (www1.folha.uol.com.br)
The rest of the article (not translated) is an interview with Cathcart....
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Amazon, Microsoft, and India crack down on tech support scams (www.theverge.com)
Firefish *Could* Be the Next Big Thing (wedistribute.org)
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Why projects start with a Discord and not an alternative - Comment found on Mastodon
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Are people reading articles before posting them? (imgflip.com)