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xilinx_guy
·2 lata temu·discuss
Weird. I bought a used car in Canada last week, and paid about two thirds by check, and the rest in cash, with a bit also on a credit card, just to collect points. Cash is still good in Canada, at least for the moment. It remains popular because the TAXES ARE TOO DAMN HIGH. There, I said it.
xilinx_guy
·2 lata temu·discuss
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xilinx_guy
·2 lata temu·discuss
You need to use other methods to increase the return. Start a home business, and deduct the office expenses. Rent out a room or a basement and collect income this way. Also, you haven't accounted for the cash you've saved on rent. Owning a house is also a decent way to protect your equity from inflation. Given the likely high immigration rates in the future, housing values will continue to rise as demand increases. ymmv.
xilinx_guy
·2 lata temu·discuss
I was at a startup where they showed the hardware sales funnel with NO customers anywhere except some "possibles" at the very top of the funnel. After a couple of months of this, there was a pivot away from hardware to focus on software, which actually had a few customers.

Another startup, signs of trouble. Didn't take my picture for the corporate web page, and also asked to meet with a lawyer for documenting possible patent claims.
xilinx_guy
·3 lata temu·discuss
It does seem to have the tsundere model nailed down pretty well. I encountered a fair number of errors trying to generate a response in the beginning. After a bit, the dialog starts to show some repetition and some unnatural tsundere interjections. It's easy to hit the GPT-4 usage limits in poking the model!
xilinx_guy
·3 lata temu·discuss
Ted Chiang is a really smart guy, obviously benefitting greatly from his Asian genes, but he seems to have a deliberate blind spot in his essay specifically regarding family cultural attitudes about schooling. Academic success is VERY strongly correlated with children doing homework, and expectations by the parents of children succeeding academically. Asians are infamous for this, and black families are not. Black families mostly have only one parent these days. Fixing the genetics is a start, but culture also needs to be fixed. But we can't do that, since it's obviously racist. Too bad, so sad, nothing can be done.