If the goal is to reduce the number of vacant homes, then why not create a tax on those specifically. Corporate owned homes and vacant homes are not the same thing at all.
And also in essentially any relevant private market for goods and services where capacity is limited, especially when there are more and less desirable times.
I think big box stores are popular largely because it would be inconvenient to drive between many smaller shops just to find the same variety of goods. It’s the same dynamic we see with car-dependent shopping malls, where the main advantage is being able to park once and visit multiple stores. If instead you had to re-park at each individual store, the experience would be far less convenient.
But if a town is designed to be fully walkable so that people can easily walk from store to store (similar to the experience of shopping inside a indoor mall), then I think the appeal of large one-stop-shop stores is greatly reduced.
"so that people can easily walk from store to store (similar to the experience of shopping inside a indoor mall), "
That is funny to read that, because indoor malls were meant to replicate the experience of shopping in a commercial area in a city, not the opposite.
It actually failed though. I feel terrible, sleepy and only want to get out after more than half an hour in these indoor malls. Probably something that has to do with artificial light and aircons.
Interesting. I guess the loud music and high temperature in some clothing stores is meant to achieve the same. They look like methofs law inforcement would use in an hostage situation.
In my case it gives me the urge of leaving as soon as possible. I could see how it could create impulse buy but most of the time I go to a shopping mall, it is to be able to try out clothing before buying and I will just lose patience and go away if it doesn't fit well. I tend to avoid them as much as I can anyway.
I tried this one with ChatGPT o1 and it seemed to get it right
> The surgeon is the boy’s biological father. While the woman injured in the accident is the boy’s biological mother, the surgeon is his father, who realizes he cannot operate on his own son.
Claude Sonnet also gets it right, but not reliably. It seems to be over aligned against gender assumptions and keeps assuming this is a gender assumption trick - that a surgeon isn’t necessarily male. This is probably the clearest case I’ve seen of alignment interfering with model performance.
It's interesting that they consider the presence of ads and the presence of Yandex ads as separate factors. I wonder if this implies a priority for pages with Yandex ads.
OpenAI already taught GPT-3 to perform web searches and look for answers in the results, so I'm pretty sure that using a calculator would be very doable.
It is true that about 10% of large cap mutual funds beat the S&P 500 over a 10 year period (see the latest SPIVA study). At 20 years it goes down to about 5% that will beat the S&P 500.
They also have private windows without Tor and the users probably found out that Tor takes quite longer and works only half the time compared to the ordinary private window, so I wouldn't get my hopes up that it is adopted massively.
Not a VPN, TOR just runs as a SOCKS proxy on whatever device you're using[0]. Replacing the actual network stack at OS level was considered but iirc was decided against because it would require admin permissions.
The TOR browser and Brave do the exact same thing, it's just that the TOR browser is configured to not store anything and to make sure it's fingerprint to other sites is as generic as possible (this is also why TOR warns you about changing window size, it un-generalizes that fingerprint). Both ultimately are conveniences because messing with SOCKS proxy settings is rather unfriendly for most users.
If you use a Linux distro, I'd recommend checking out torsocks[1], it's a shared library + a shell script that lets you "onion-ify" any application pretty easily.
[0]: This also means you can connect basically every mainstream browser to TOR if you know the port the SOCKS proxy is running on.
It would certainly make sense from a marketing perspective to claim it's using tor, and then have a tor-proxy service (think onion.cab) use tor for hidden services and also attempt to use tor for clearnet traffic but fail back to regular proxy if it fails.
If it were directly using tor then I'd have to agree that most people wouldn't use it. Only those that are technical enough to understand what's going on and the security aspects. But they wouldn't be using Brave for the Tor functionality, they'd be using Tor Browser.
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