Jiang Jiang

@BergeW @Tratnikstan I’m curious what do you mean by “Norway tries it now”? The wealth tax in Norway is not new and I’m not aware of any dramatic change in its policy. It might very well be true that there are some wealth exodus but how do you find the connection?

@Tratnikstan Sweeden tried it and removed it in 2007, didn’t work. Norway tries it now, many move to Switzerland, startups are advised to go elsewhere than here. Entrepreneurs and talent flee the country, but still the labour government insists on these taxes. Good luck DK.

Jonas Vingegaard on increasing the taxes for millionaires in Denmark: "Personally, I don't see it as a good thing to introduce. In the end, I think it will remove money from organizations. Because I often think it is the most wealthy people who actually give money ..." 1/2

Local find: just casually showing a Lamborghini in the background when selling a kid's bike in “Lamborghini orange” color: finn.no/recommerce/for…

@Lena_G_C @Minamoto66 如果没卖过那有可能是基金的分红部分需要交税，这部分应该是按普通收入交税的。如果是交易过的话，瑞典的利得税率也比较低一点，比大部分周边国家都低。

@jjgod @Minamoto66 感谢提醒，看来是我搞错了。 我每年都交部分利得税，买的是基金，都是自动报到税务局了，没仔细注意交的是已经卖的，还是浮盈也算。

亲，新出的资本利得税是这样的：只要你买的股票涨了，你就要缴税，不管你卖没卖。杀人诛心啊是不是？是不是？

@Minamoto66 挪威收了好多年了，我们早就习惯了…

@Lena_G_C @Minamoto66 你可以查一下，瑞典是不收unrealized capital gain的。挪威是收的，和财产税一起。瑞典也没有财产税。

@Minamoto66 你们才出这个政策吗？瑞典在我印象中一直都收资本得利税的，不卖股票/基金一样收， 30%利得税。 不过，从今年1 月起，每人 ISK（投资储蓄账户）中的储蓄金额在 30万 克朗（人民币22万+）以内免税。但也是杯水车薪。

@FredrikHjelm4 Reading the article, it seems like the proposed wealth tax for Denmark is still significantly lower than Norway has.

Denmark announced wealth tax plan, incl unrealized gains Norway tried → 100s of founders + 300 billionaires fled, 600B NOK assets left Sweden scrapped wealth tax '07, inheritance tax '05. Kept cap gains 20-30% on realized only Danish founders: Sweden is here for you

@lucasaganronald And Pogačar has been telling people that he is interested in cross-country skiing...

@Lena_G_C 我们一月份的帐单还没出来，不过电价是固定5毛一度的Norgespris，每月和你这个用量差不多的话算上电网费用总共大概是瑞典价格的1/2少一点。

最不想收的电费账单来了！ 我家一月份用了1889度电，按人民币计算的话： 电费：2135元 电网费用：1528元 合计：3663元 朋友家跟我家房子差不多大小，上个月比我家多用了300度电，吓得赶紧问我们用了多少电，因为她怀疑是不是哪里漏电了😂。 她家还装了太阳能板和空气热泵，有两辆电车。我家装了地源热泵，无电车。两家都有壁炉。 此外，我家每天烧掉约25升白桦树木柴，一个月木柴费用约人民币400元。 我家二楼房间只有18度，凉一点睡觉舒服。不过怕冷的我，每天还要灌一个热水袋暖脚。俄乌战争开打以后，电价暴涨，瑞典的商店也卖起了热水袋😂！ 朋友们，这就是在宁古塔求生存的代价！ 你们的电费高吗？

youtube.com/watch?v=csHdwH… I found videos like these almost too easy to bash on Google Maps when you don’t have to say what alternatives do you use instead. I do use Google Maps for cycling navigation in Oslo and it is generally reliable.

@Lena_G_C 好奇既然这么便宜是怎么出现这么多贷款的？

说到上大学的费用，和英美国家一比，咱北欧这种“共产主义乐园”可真是便宜到魔幻。 不光学费全免，政府还按月给学生发助学金；不够花？没关系，还能再申请助学贷款。更绝的是，这贷款的利息低到离谱，比你在银行存钱的利息还低。 晒一下我自己的学生贷款账户： 2024 年一整年，我只付了 884 克朗利息(人民币约660元)，而年初贷款余额还有 75,509 克朗。掐指一算，贷款利息居然不到 1.2%。还本金负担也不重，一年才还人民币6千多。 而同年瑞典银行的一年期存款利息是多少呢？大约 2.5%–4%。 所以说，只要脑子没进水，这种贷款谁急着还谁亏。从纯账本角度看，这哪是负债，简直是国家塞给你的理财福利。 北欧式教育福利就是这么实在，又实在得有点不讲武德。 当然了，一分钱，一分货。跟英美名校的文凭比起来，这边学历的含金量和毕业后的钱包厚度，那也是相当匹配的。

@levelsio I’m little curious: Europeans like to complain about the unfair advantages of government subsidies, but what is stopping their governments from sponsoring their EV industries?

🇨🇳 Chinese EVs have been taking the world by storm, whether you like it or not When I look around here on the street in China I try recognize the car brands and I see so many brands I don't know One brand I see a lot is LI, but also BYD, Zeekr and XPeng Apparently there's now 129 (!) EV brands in China producing cars, which kinda shows the massive scale of the EV boom here There's a real historical parallel here with the US a hundred years ago, where there were about 2,000 new American car companies in America. Of course most failed, and only a few remained The same is predicted for China, where only 15 EV brands are predicted to survive in a decade, so a real battle is going down here now to see who will win One interesting thing is that there is one American brand that is remarkably present here, and that's Tesla, you see Teslas everywhere, the Tesla Y often holds the top spot for most cars sold in China, and you see Tesla superchargers here a lot What's also interesting is that where Elon Musk gets so much hatred in the West (not from me), in China he's revered as a hero. Elon is a high IQ engineer and successful entrepreneur. And it's a real artefact of the culture that Chinese respect that kind of person while in the West if you're rich, successful and smart you're seen as a bad person by at least half of society. I think that says a lot about our society and how we educate people in the West and we should really reconsider that. Engineering and entrepreneurship are the key stones of a functioning society. Engineering invents new things and entrepreneurs turn those inventions into businesses that bring them to people. Without both, you don't have jobs, money, and well, prosperity! Chinese culture seems to understand this well, which is why they like Elon Musk and still drive Teslas as one of the few Western cars here. Anyway to continue, in this video I visited the Huawei store and I have to add a correction, because due to new Chinese regulation that requires car brands to fully own their manufacturing, Huawei has "officially" separated their car business, but in fact they still fully design the car, sell the car, and get most of the profit from it. They just can't call it a Huawei car anymore Huawei is interesting because they produce everything, phones, tablets, watches, laptops, and, well indirectly, EV cars too A similar brand is Xiaomi, who actually do own the manufacturing of their EV, and their EV is one of the fastest growing in sales in China It's a real slap in the face for the West I feel that Apple, the creator of the iPhone, wasn't able to produce a car and cancelled their car project, when many of the Chinese phone companies are producing their own cars now with relative ease Of course the iPhone is produced in China, and manufacturing is in China, so being closer to the manufacturing physically, it must have been easier to design a car, than try to do it remotely from Apple's office in Cupertino But it does seem significant that we couldn't do this While I'm writing this the news comes in that Germany's car and greater manufacturing industry is tanking, their energy costs have gone up 2-3x due cutting off the Russian gas, and they've simply become too expensive overnight Germany's car industry, the historical center of car production in the world with BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi and Volkswagen, has started laying off 100,000+ employees and scaling down their production due to declining sales, which are a direct result of the competition from China offering cheaper, more advanced EVs with better software than the Germans And I mean you can feel it, I walk around in EV car stores here and the cars look great, the interior looks modern, the software is miles ahead of the clunky interfaces of German cars, most EVs here have a little cute robot on the dashboard that you talk to, so you never have to touch the screen anymore to do anything, like "switch on the wipers" or "route me to my hotel" etc. The EVs here honestly do not feel cheap, they're well built and comfortable Europe has tried to stop the rise of the Chinese EVs in the European market with a 45% tariff, but even with that tariffs, many Europeans still prefer to buy Chinese EVs over others, and they're still cheaper than the German cars! The US went further with a 100% tarrif, and that stopped them from being sold mostly in the US because it's not profitable anymore for the Chinese One thing I have to add which you probably know is that the Chinese government does heavily subsidize their EV industry (with about $230B+ in the last decade), it's not a secret and their subsidies do not compare to the ones the US and EU provide for their industries, which gives Chinese EV companies the (unfair) advantage to produce them at a discount and sell them abroad cheaper, which is exactly why the EU and US put tariffs on them Even with the subsidies, the engineering and production and software is impressive and feels very modern, I'm a Tesla fan, own a 2025 Tesla Y, but the Chinese EVs feel and look more modern to me. They usually have more screens, more features etc. There's real innovation happening here it feels like And that's kinda the conclusion you get being in China with every industry, they've already by far departed from being cheap clones of Western products, they're now at the next stage of adding their own features and ideas, which is what we always criticize Chinese on "they're not creative", well they are creative, they just start from the point where Western products are now, and then start innovating from there (instead of starting from scratch fully, I mean, why would they?) If you ask Grok how does the future of the Western car industry look like, especially the European/German ones, it's pessimistic. The only positive it can find is that maybe European brands can focus on premium and exclusivity. Like they do with Hermes hand bags, but then do the same with cars. BMW and Mercedes-Benz are of course luxury brands and they could survive by remaining premium and make money that way. But the regular middle and low end of car production in Europe (and America?) will most probably be wiped out and replaced by the Chinese I think That is if the Americans and Europeans will keep allowing them into their markets But even if they don't, the Chinese are happily going to the rest of the world like South America, the Middle East or the rest of Asia where you see BYDs literally everywhere As a European this does feel bittersweet, but then again we've all been shouting from the roof tops for years that this would happen if you didn't create a pro-business climate where startups would sprout, so now it's kinda "I told you so"

@JackouilleJack @levelsio I think the important part is to reach that average speed, and the breath of connections across such a large area (say, going from Berlin to Paris, the max speed gets quite close but the average speed is way lower).

@jjgod @levelsio We have 350km/H train in France since 1981 but ok.

🇨🇳 Many people don't know this but Chinese high speed trains are now the fastest in the word and officially faster than even the 🇯🇵 Japanese Shinkansen Chinese trains go 350-400km/h (217-250mph) depending on the model While the Japanese Shinkansen goes 320km/h (200mph) max So I went to try it from Chengdu to Chongqing (just $80 for biz class) This one is the slightly older 350km/h model The business class cabin has 5 big seats that can lay flat with a stewardess dedicated to the cabin who serves you drinks like coffee, water, orange juice etc. I guess if it's a longer trip you probably get food served too The journey was very smooth and very fast, it maintained close to 350km/h at all times and there wasn't many stops or breaks (good) It didn't have WiFi, which is kind of a miss but it seems Chinese just use 5G for everything which worked fine for me without interrruption too I'd say the interior could be a bit more beautiful and modern. I usually say things in Japan look ancient but I think the Shinkansen interior there looks a bit more modern than here The trip took 1 hour and it passed about 300km in that time, roughly equivalent to the width of my country the Netherlands 😂 Anyway solid experience (and cheap!) 👍

@jacobtechtavern I think it is more realizing that a lot of UIKIt APIs probably should not be released in the first place, and now that we have the chance we don’t want to repeat the same mistake.

The UIKit iceberg and the myth of "parity" This is the case for pretty much every SwiftUI API that exists. Porting everything from a nearly-20-year-old framework isn’t happening anytime soon. Perhaps, ever.

@luciascarlet Why do people so concerned about the .0 release? It is just a number, like .1, .2. In fact, I think people should fully embrace the release early, release often strategy to the point that you no longer care which major version you are on as long as you are on the latest.

why have iOS 26.1 and 26.2 just been full of stuff that should’ve really been there at launch like this and the glass buttons on the Notification Centre they’re really just going “fuck it we ball” every year atp

@jessyseonoob @kimmonismus I think the LLMs from Chinese startups also started from handling Chinese better but now they are gradually become best at everything.

I'm French, from Marseille (though they train it in Paris), and I was joking about it too yesterday. But there’s something important to take into account: We have a strong cultural and native language, and it’s a real barrier for us. Since most of the data used to train LLMs is in English — and most countries around the world speak both their native language and English fluently (like India) — it creates an imbalance. It’s complicated for foreigners to learn French, and there hasn’t been enough French data in LLMs. So yes, we need to know if there’s an LLM that can truly perform accurately in French, because most French users will prompt in French. And many chatbots translate prompts into English before generating their output. In law, our language is full of nuance — a single word can free a rapist. And it’s not that stupid for each country to add its own specificities (even if most LLMs already started doing that). Having a macro view to understand which model is better for which task actually makes sense. When Mistral AI arrived, they excelled because they introduced the MoE (Mixture of Experts) approach in their LLM — that’s also how DeepSeek managed to stand out (and they use distilled LLM). Even before Generative AI come, google in IO18 explain the MoE. Anyway, I tend to trust the one from @huggingface more @ClementDelangue — not just because I’m French or patriotic, but because there’s more diversity there. And a benchmark with votes is still just a benchmark with votes. What really matters to me is that it doesn’t talk nonsense. And for the fact that Mistral Ai claim they train their AI from the ground and it's a "sovereign AI". This prompt prove they didn't.... ask an llm a joke in french. At the moment in Research and Helthcare @DeryaTR_ can tell @OpenAI and @GoogleDeepMind are better than mistral. And i don't care if an LLM rank higher on bench, is it efficient in real life ? #mistralAi #leaderboard

The French Government Launches an LLM Leaderboard Comparable to LMarena, Emphasizing European Languages and Energy Efficiency And (not) surprisingly, their french model Mistral Medium is top of class, outperforming every other model out there. Europe is making itself more ridiculous every day. If you can't find a benchmark where you are top of class, invent the benchmark yourself.

@jacobtechtavern Yes, you can do something like Text("\(Text("Type:").bold()) \(Text("Evidence Tag"))")

@jjgod But what if you wanna make one of the words bold?

Really, Apple? You're going to make it so we can't make parts of a sentence bold now? Their reasoning is that this makes it hard to localize, but really? Deprecating it? I know Attributed Text exists, but this is just ridiculous.

@sdw I don’t know, maybe it has Humane OS builtin

not now honey I’m still installing my 404 MB app to print two pages of paperwork

@dontbesilent Asus ProArt PA32QCV

恭喜戴尔 UltraSharp U3224KB 成为我最喜爱的显示器 这款显示器目前售价接近 ¥14000，但我要说，在它所属的 “32英寸6K” 这个级别里，这不是一个高价，这是一个极具诚意的价格 同款参数的苹果显示器叫 Pro Display XDR，售价 ¥47999 且显示器支架不送，四万八只能买个屏 支架单独售卖 ¥7799，而且买完支架之后你还是用不了 因为支架和显示屏之间的连接器，还要再卖 ¥1599 这会让我的下单行为显得很蠢 放眼整个市场，在 “32英寸6K” 这个规格上，除了苹果，戴尔 U3224KB 是你能找到的唯一来自大厂的选择，没有之一 这是显示器领域里面，特斯拉一般的存在 另外，显示器顶部那个奇奇怪怪的摄像头，可以录制 4K 视频 📷