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.
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.
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.
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.
If you use one of those smaller paid email providers you can still interact with people who use Gmail. If you tried to create a small Instagram competitor it's unlikely that Facebook would ever agree to federate with you.
I think the pricing is alright. If for $7.99/mo someone can effectively solve their procrastination problem that seems totally worth it. Comparing it to the pricing on something like OmniFocus which is $9.99/mo, seems like there is a market of people willing to pay for this type of software.
The way I see it is that the main difference between FANG and TikTok is that the FANG companies do not have any incentive to sow distrust and division in the United States through highly targeted propaganda, however, TikTok being effectively controlled by the CCP does.