I didn't like the look, but now I hair dry. It looks better. I need a haircut I gotta go to the barbershop You got any spots open walk in yeah, sure Welcome to the phone bros barbershop. I'm giving David a haircut as you guys may have known and seen some old haircut videos in The past cutting hair is kind of a side hobby. I'm not a professional I only know a few haircuts, but I can do them one of the haircuts is the David Fung haircut Or as I would call the David Fungo But one thing that I'm gonna be doing a day that's different from previous haircuts is Leaving the hair a little bit longer because I wanted to grow out more because we recently had a talk with rich the barber And he said a more mature look is to have darker hair on the sides That's right. He did say that. Okay. All right. He said that rich the barber said so what I'm gonna be doing today is Keeping it kind of long on the sides. I'm just gonna trim David up. I'm gonna shape it up You know I'm gonna do a couple things. I might you know even shape the brows Definitely she's gonna shape the beard and stuff like that But uh, yeah, we're gonna keep it long keep it dark and I think if you're cutting your friend's hair This is almost like a more a realistic level like giving them a trim versus Transforming their haircut Completely if they were to do that I would recommend going to a professional stylist professional barbershop What are you saying that I can't do this Well, we're just getting the trim. It's just all I'm saying I'm saying you don't you saying I can't do the skin fade No, I'm just saying the transformations should be reserved for the professionals Debbie for today's barbershop tour video I'm gonna be explaining what it's like to be cutting your friend in the bathroom now. This is at home barbershops I don't have everything. I don't have all the barber side. I don't have the big desk I don't have the big mirror why do I have a big mirror? But what I'm gonna be explaining to you is like how you can kind of create a very good Barbershop experience for your friend in your bathroom. So anyways guys watch alright, but first of all I obviously don't have all the tools that everybody has but I have the essentials My clippers my t-liner. I have some brushes some basic scissors some horsehair brushes obviously What a professional barbershop use the supreme clippers at somebody You know this this supreme clipper is just based off of a very affordable wireless and this I Want to say magic clip? I think that's what it's called. So this is just the supreme version. So yeah I mean whatever use it. Don't use it. I don't care. But anyways, I'm gonna keep it Long on the side.  I'm looking for The zero right here, and I'm just gonna what you're gonna see is not a super steep fade Not a gradient fade but just a trim again, but like a fade I'm still gonna kind of make a vague guideline, but I'm just not gonna cut it too close I think a common mistake that customers make when they want to grow out their hair is To not get a haircut for like a month at a time your hair will grow out, but you'll have split ends It'll just look really fuzzy and messy I think it's way better to just progressively get longer haircuts if you're growing your hair out So it really smooths out the ugly phase process lucky for David He lives with a guy who can cut hair so that I can still cut his hair pretty much like once a week if you want So fading David right now is gonna be pretty easy because I'm actually fading from a longer length It's just not gonna have that fade look as much Because we're trying to keep his overall head darker, but I'm just gonna extend it here from a zero flat To a zero extended. I don't really know the technical term for that, but I just call a zero extended You're saying you don't use official terminology at homey barbershop I could I learn the is there a technical term for that? Take care of my shoe horn Make sure my shoe horn is good. All right, so now I'm switching to the one clip and I would say For 90% of fades out there all you need is like three clips three guards at most You just need a zero guard need a one guard a two guard And then most people if you're cutting and they want shorter on the sides They're not gonna need more longer than two so really at home if you're cutting most haircuts especially for Asian guys Those are all the guards that you need So remember guys you have your skin your zero your zero extended your one your one extended two to all the way to two Extended so that's gonna give you rid of the all the gradient you need now I'm just going up with a one real quick and do it lightly again like I said, I'm giving David a trim This is not a world-class fade, but it's going to be good enough So now I'm extending it from a one flat to a one extended Just kind of making that that gradient a little bit so that David can feel the fade But I'm gonna ultimately keep quite a bit of hair on David Going around his head. This is like a speed fade by the way guys. I'm not spending one hour here I'm not also getting paid 30 40 or even $80 for this But that's why this video is important because I think for a lot of people This is almost their most accessible barbershop depending on where they live and their budgetary concerns cutting your hair at home Or cutting a friend's hair at home Very very easy and I recommend everybody especially if you're like a young dad and you got some young boys Or you got a lot of friends you want to cut up then learning some basic haircut skills is very very important Honestly, your kids do not need to be that fresh. Yeah to be honest your kids They it could be but what are you gonna do push the the edge up back to make it all clean and stuff like that? I don't know but first of all I do want to shout out to all those girlfriends who learned how to cut their man's hair during the Pandemic shout out to you because at least you learn how to cut men's hair And that was very helpful, and I'm sure your boyfriend appreciated it. I got a two-clip on I got my comb I'm gonna go on the sides like I said, you know, we want to keep David's sides a little bit long But knowing Asian hair I'm just I don't want to keep it like too long, right? And I still got to see some gradient What's your opinion on the flow be?  All right, we'll play the video right here It's fine in theory. I haven't done it yet. Hopefully it works, but we're doing it live So here's the whole haircut from start to finish heads up I look completely insane in this time lapse I'm cutting on a 2 plus because I want David's stuff long But ultimately when David styles his hair I'm gonna ask David to put a little bit of product to matte it down to make it even look darker I'm gonna check the shape Here overall. I'm not mad at the shape like I said. It's not a super tight fade as you can see We still got some hair some darkness But that looks fine. Honestly, I'm okay with this it looks passable See I'm itching I'm itching to make this a skin fade right now, you know You know how nice that would look if I just Made the little guideline right there, but per my customer's request I'm gonna keep it long my rationale for keeping it a little bit darker on the sides It's because I actually wanted it to blend in with my beard that is starting to get darker too Because I think it looks really cool when it's just like man boom boom. It looks like all one piece like the anime Hey, man, you the customer man, you the customer RIP I saw this photo of Godfrey Gow. He looked pretty cool with it I didn't know if it was just because it was Godfrey, but you know sometimes you get inspired But stuff you see in a magazine you want to look like Godfrey Gow. Why didn't you just say that? I got you. All right the top. I'm just gonna trim a little bit not gonna do anything fancy scissor cuts That's more of the stuff that you're gonna learn at barber school I did not learn this but I just followed what barbers did and I just pay close attention and I just don't like F it up again.  It's good enough See now.   Wow, you're layering the fringes. I'm just trying to I'm just trying to cut good enough to get Validation at the Dominican barbershop moran barbershop that we filmed that earlier.  You know what? Like I said, it's good enough. Oh, yeah I'm just gonna shape them up. So here you can watch it on this side So interestingly enough this is often the part that makes it look like you got a haircut obviously The lineup is very important I'm not even gonna lie guys. My t-liner is not set up to cut as close as the ones at the shop Like my t-liner could definitely be zero-gapped when you hear barbers talk about zero-gap That means that this outer guard which is obviously supposed to keep you from getting sliced is Really really zero-gapped straight with the razors that are cutting so it's gonna cut super close So if you notice that my t-liner doesn't cut as close as the ones at the barbershop It's because they they don't all right So now I'm about to shape the beard and the mustache and what I like to do with David's mustache is take it low Right, you know, I kind of want to give him the Lamello ball Type mustache clothes has this mustache Lou Bega Lou Bega. All right more of the Lamello ball Because this side of David his beard is not super thick How do you make it thicker? You got to cut up here.  You're about shaving the peach fuzz. All right, so I know that David Wanted some darkness on the side So I'm gonna do a very very light taper with a half extended not skin But because I still want to see some type of taper fade on this side because right now It just looks like one length from here to here, which is not bad, but I want to see a little bit So I'm gonna just do a really light taper And It's just me moving The the clipper back and forth, right? That's how you kind of get the fade All right So David does look like he's starting to get some whiskers here because it's not super dense So I'm just gonna trim it really lightly on a one and a half I still want them to have long hairs, but I definitely want this hair to be shorter than his chin hair Even me I don't have hair that thick, but I got this hair little goatee It's gonna just lengthen my head shape a little bit just So still keeping some of the grizzliness here, but just trimming it So it's all even at least a little bit cleaner, you know, so it looks up capped You know, I think the key is sometimes you just want to let people know That you meant to do that that you are Upkeeping your hair, right? It doesn't have to look necessarily Exactly like a certain fade or anything like this, but it looks even and people are like, okay This guy knows how to groom himself. Listen guys look intentional with your haircuts Look like you intended to get one and you intend to upkeep one All right So we're moving on to the little other facial hair aspects David your eyebrows could use a little bit of shaping and Since I'm at home I'm gonna use that home tools I'm gonna use a little bit of lotion because I don't use shaving cream, but I do have these eyebrow razors here that you can get off Amazon They don't cut you straight up if you cut I can still like technically cut his skin But I got just got to do at an angle and it kind of pulls the skin out too So they're very useful, but you still got to be careful. So I'm gonna put a little bit of lotion Because the lotion is gonna help It's kind of like my shaving cream. So the thing about eyebrows guys, you don't want to do too thin All right, if that's not your style, so I'm just gonna start I'm start at the corners. You can see you can see I've shaved it before so he has these little hairs growing out So I'm gonna take it down But you got to have a control of it All right, and again, you shave down you give it a good shave you get all the little invisible hairs up here It's gonna make the eyebrow more visible. So as you can see, I'm not cutting it too thin I'm gonna pull the skin a little bit plan it out just Do this hair right here on the bottom just kind of get the crazy hairs Again some barbers out there. They might criticize my technique. That's fine. I'm down to learn look Voila, you see a slight difference. It's a little darker. The edges are darker more defined lines I've cut all the little invisible baby hairs around there and I would compare it to like sweeping with a dustpan versus sweeping obviously with a vacuum versus getting a steam cleaner You can clean the floor with any of those three things But one of them is gonna be way cleaner than the other ones David. You got to do this, but you got a little nose hairs Okay, we gotta blur this we gotta blur this part Blur it but but but just know that you so let me tell you this Nose hairs is something that a lot of guys don't think about I don't know if it's an Asian thing but Asians from my experience We have like long like we don't have hair all over our body But when we do get hair it's long and I got long armpit hairs I got long, you know hairs down there and I get long nose hairs and it's black and it's thick So, you know, it's noticeable sometimes it looks like little fly legs trust me It happens to everybody so you got to sometimes either take some of those curved scissors that are specifically made for nose You know not the ones with the sharp edges, but the but the blunt ends or you get the little nose trimmer the electric one And you go in there and you trim it up not cut all your hair because you don't still need some hair for Safety and breathing, but you got to trim it and there's different ways to trim it So think about it, but also be careful again because you can still cut yourself All right, so I'm about to put some product in David's hair Usually I'll use this styling powder a lot of people use this obviously it does dry all your hair But it gives it a lot of grit and texture and then I also use this Hans de Foucault, which is pretty nice, too It's not super cheap, but David you got this contour hair cream explain this to us So basically this is actually a leave-in conditioner So it actually just nourishes your hair, but you can just leave it in and use it to style your hair as well And I really like using this because it's not as damaging because obviously other hair products They would work better, but you have to take them out and then when you take them out Maybe you're scrubbing your hair. You're losing some hairs. I'd rather use something. It's almost like dual purpose a little bit like Aloe gel Okay, so you're saying you want me to put this in your hair, but this isn't really for styling. This is for repair Right, but it will get the job done. So listen guys. We're doing things different at the home even I'm gonna tell you this even I I gotta see how this works So here I'll tell you this base off this it's giving you a little bit more of a wet look Which is fine. It kind of looks more like how gel does in your hair Which I think if you're gonna do gel or this maybe this is a healthier option But it definitely doesn't look like I put the hair powder in right right, right? This is different look because the hair powder is gonna give it that more fluffy matte look but Hey, man, if you feel good with this That's ultimately the number one thing. Yeah, you feel good.  Yeah, but I be look up stuff about aloe gel because I don't know That's not made it necessarily for hair. It could be a stringent it might dry out your hair, too But anyways, this one is a creamy hair conditioner and it does do it work a little bit like I can mat down the side a little bit So that's helpful Look at that nice little fade. It's a cool little fade. Listen guys that was a very quick trim From homey barbershop and this is something that obviously, you know It does take some knowledge some level of repetition to get to but you can provide this for your friends and I think this is a really great service because not everybody wants to spend anywhere from obviously 30 to $80 every week, you know some people they should do that But other people this is gonna be a great substitute. Hold up. Hold up Come back. All right, so I understand that David preferred to put the hair conditioner in so it kind of put the hair together And kind of clumped it together. It's obviously healthy for your hair, but We got blow dry blow drying is actually very important I know David you may not usually do this, but you got to take a comb either the one that has the holes in it or this What they call this a pompadour comb a quiff comb Take a little bit and you just kind of roll it in and actually it's really important that they're your blow dryer has Like an attachment. Yeah, this flat attachment is key. So this is actually giving David a lot of volume That he previously was not having Right, and I'm blowing I'm using a mixture of warm and cold air And also this is gonna take off some of the hair here. Wow See now that looks a little bit more fuller hair I think when we first put in the hair conditioning It was a little bit wet and you kind of saw your scalp and stuff like that And that's why you know as your barber. I didn't like the look but now I hair dry. It looks better overall guys Look, that's how you can do a drip a trim at home in a very very barbershop style So yeah, let us know if this video was helpful. I do still cut hair from time to time Who knows maybe in the future. I do a little guest barbering at 12-pell that would be fun Or I come to some other barbershop and do it But anyways guys let us know in the comments down below is Cutting hair at home something that you wish you could do or you wish that someone in your family could do It's a really great hobby. It saves a lot of money saves a lot of time And yeah, I mean you just need some practice and some you know proper principles and coaching more people should add it To their skill set for sure. All right guys look eyebrows moustache beard and haircut David If you went to any barbershop in New York City, you know how much that would have costed you with the beard lineup and the eyebrows Guess at a minimum 40 $40 minimum All right, everybody Check in next time hit that like button and this was Barbershop tour but in our apartment till next time we out peace


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Good morning, everybody. This is Mark Coleman. I'm Mark Coleman, and I'm your co-host today on Talking Tax, which brings you the latest on taxes and OI, featuring my co-host, really, Tom Yamachika, who is president of the Tax Foundation of Hawaii. And we have a special guest today, Dylan Moore. He's an associate professor of economics at the University of Hawaii. He's affiliated with the Economic Research Organization at the UH, also called UHERO. Although that acronym is kind of weird, you know, because it doesn't quite match up the order of the words. But anyway, that's the highly respected economic research organization that everybody relies on that a lot of people rely on for the facts about where we stand in Hawaii. And he's, like I said, an associate professor of economics. He specializes in public finance, labor economics, and the economics of taxation, optimal taxation policy, actually. And that's, we're going to be talking about all the new tax bills that have been introduced, or, you know, basically in general, at the legislature of Hawaii this year, which got underway last week. And believe it or not, there's counting the ones that were left over from last year. There's hundreds of them, which always amazes me, because it seems like we're already the number one, you know, tax country, tax state, and the highest tax burden in the nation, one of the highest tax burdens. So it seems very confusing to me. In fact, Tom wrote an article about that two weeks ago, I believe it was now called More Tax Hikes Coming. There you go. And, you know, it remains to be seen how many of those tax bills will be put into place. But Tom, would you like to summarize the theme of your last article and what you've been thinking in general on this subject? Yes. So, and thanks for being on the show as well. We have a lot of activity at this year's legislature, which are called, you know, the Big Square Building. And already we've seen like about 2,600 bills introduced. Maybe it's going to be a little bit more, because 2,600 is what we saw as of last night. And a full 200 of these are what we're following in terms of bills that will affect tax public finance or similar subjects. One of the notable ones is, and I'm going to talk about some of the shockers later, but one of the notable ones that we're going to be discussing today is the Green Affordability Plan, what we called GAP last year. I don't know if they still want to use the same acronym this year. But this year there are a couple of different aspects to it. And I will talk about that in a little bit. But like I said, we've been following the legislature. At this point in time, the bills have only been introduced. So each one is maybe one person's opinion. And we need to wait till the end to see what's going to pass. Now, Professor, you've been following several of these bills as well, I understand. And what do you think about some of them? Well, I think, you know, it's true that some of the bills are tax hikes. But one of the more interesting aspects of the Green Affordability Plan bill is sort of proposal to index large portions of the tax code to inflation moving forward, which I would think of as, if not a tax cut, a sort of a foregoing of a previously scheduled tax hike. I think this is how economists think about it. If you don't index the tax code to inflation, it's like everyone's taxes are going up a little bit every year because your wages go up because of inflation and the cost of living goes up, but the tax bracket thresholds stay the same and you end up in a higher tax bracket, even though your actual sort of cost of living and your sort of income really, the purchasing power of your income hasn't changed. Yeah, we call that being bracket creeped. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. And this is a plan to sort of put that to an end. And in fact, backtrack to like, you know, as if it was in 2019, I think is their goal is to sort of reduce all of the bracket thresholds and increase or rather, sorry, increase the bracket thresholds and increase the standard deduction and personal exemption amounts so that it's as if we started indexing to inflation back in 2019. I believe that's the objective of some of those provisions. Yeah, the governor actually introduced that last year as well. But as it went through the legislative process, the committees that heard it kind of morphed that beyond recognition and eventually just dropped the indexing part altogether. Yeah, that's right. Now that you mentioned it, yes, this list of hundreds of bills from last year and this year that Tom is following all related somehow to taxation, they're not all tax increases. In fact, there's a lot of tax credits. And like you say, the indexing proposal, which would save a lot of money in the future for Hawaii taxpayers. Oh, but that's, let's think about that. You know, if, if you're giving out a lot of credits, governments not going to get any smaller. So what do you think is going to happen to the rest of us? The credits, I think are so say the tax credits, I mean, there are many tax credit. And every year in any legislature there are many different types of tax credits that are proposed but say one of the bigger ones that I see is the proposal to expand the child independent care tax credit. Now, undoubtedly, this expansion will come at some some costs. But it's important to keep in mind that the cost of a tax policy is not always exactly the sort of cost that you would expect holding everyone's behavior constant. So this is a good example. There's some growing evidence recently that the child independent care tax credit expansions at the federal level and in some other states lead to entry into the labor force by secondary earners. So if you have two parent households, the second parent enters the labor force. When the second parent enters the labor force, especially in the long run they end up contributing something to income tax revenue. So that sets some of the costs of the actual tax credit in the first place. That doesn't necessarily mean it's a good policy, but it's important to keep in mind that, you know, the costs might be lower than what the upfront costs appear to be, because of these effects that the policy has on people's behavior that affect the amount of revenue that we'll get in the future. Of course not. I mean, as an example, the indexation of the brackets that you just talked about, I think the revenue estimate on that one was like, it's going to cost $89 million. So it would probably cost a bit less than that, because we think that taxes, like increasing people's taxes, generally speaking, encourages them to either report less income, or to actually earn less income. And there are various mechanisms through which people can do this, either by changing their actually how much money they're earning or by recharacterizing their income in some cases. And so, when you cut people's taxes, it probably costs a little bit less than what the tax department said it's going to cost, because you would expect that as people's taxes are reduced, their income actually will be increased by some amount, because they are no longer as disincentivized to earn income. I don't expect these are going to be huge effects, but there'll be some effects for sure.  Absolutely. It's important to keep in mind, sorry. Well, speaking of which, the GET itself, which is a major generation of taxes in Hawaii, major generator, that has like 50 plus exemptions. And people are always, in fact, there's a bill now to exempt medical services from that. Yeah, for food, medicine, food, medicine, whatever. But considering those exemptions, do you think that's optimal too? What do you think about the GET, I guess, is what I'm trying to say. Sure. So, I think some broader context is helpful here. So, the general excise tax actually probably in the context of the United States has probably the least exemptions by far of any sort of sales or excise tax in any state that has a substantial sales or excise tax in the U.S. context. And to a tax economist that generally looks like a good thing. So, the view of a tax economist these days is that the general excise tax works best when you provide the fewest exemptions because we're concerned about sort of distorting people's decisions like the encouraging them to spend more money on one thing than another. If you want to raise money, the idea is sort of treat everything equally. And one way to think about why we might like the general excise tax more generally, so in addition to not wanting to exempt things, economists view this usually as a good way to raise revenue. When economists think about something like the general excise tax, in general, we think it's a good tax, even though there are concerns that it's regressive. And it's true that viewed by itself, it might in some sense be a regressive tax. But you never want to view any aspect of the tax system in isolation. So the idea behind why economists like the excise tax is because if you want a more progressive tax system, you could always take the revenue raised through the excise tax and use it to fund something like a tax credit or a social programming social program targeting lower income people. You can make the tax system more progressive by refunding the revenue generated to residents through some other tax credit or social program. And so economists then like it because it's a good source of tax revenue. It's relatively easy to administer and in some cases it's relatively easy to enforce as compared to income taxes. I think that it's regressive, everyone agrees about that, I think, you know, it's cascading. But, you know, even within the, even though, however, it's not even, it has the exemptions. It has a lot of exemptions. At least you say that's not a lot compared to other places. But actually most other states don't have a GET. They have sales taxes. And that only applies at the point of sale. Whereas the GET applies at wholesale and, you know, all the, every transaction really exemptions, right? And so, but I do like your idea that it should be, everyone should be paying the same amount. You know, that's the flat tax idea to, however, because there are different rates for like wholesale and insurance sales and stuff like this. Does that skew it a bit in your mind? So the, it's meant to try and make it more like a value added tax, which exists in some other places, or to make it more like a sales tax maybe. Right. It really ends up being a kind of hybrid. The ideal would be, I think, to have a value added tax, you know, we think that that's a much less distortionary tax as economists, but it's difficult to administer. It's difficult to transition from the current system to that system. And so we have a system where you apply smaller rates and you use a bunch of exemptions to try and make sure that you're not charging too much on business to business transaction. The reason we don't want to charge a lot on business to business transactions is because what we really want to do is tax like the total amount of value added that's created along the process of creating a good or service to sell to the final customers. If we tax business to business transaction in addition to the final product, we make it so that businesses have an incentive to try and, you know, do more things in the house and we don't particularly want to create that kind of distortion in the tax system. Right. That's how the tax code. Okay. So the title of one of your papers was optimal tax systems with endogenous behavioral biases. Sure. Yes. So going back to that statement you made earlier regarding the thinking that you can change the tax code, but everybody else, but everybody's going to keep behaving the same, that that's like kind of a mistake, you know, obviously, it's going to change behavior. Okay. Well, we've been talking about the GT for a few moments. So he's just explaining the idea and forget what we're talking about right now. But can you remember the thread there? I can't. I've lost it. The thread was, we were talking about. You mentioned the exemptions. I was talking about the exemptions are meant to try and replicate some of the features of a VAT in some sense. Oh, right, right. Perfect. Are there any states that have VATs right now? No. And why do you, and if the GT so great, why don't you think more states are the GT? I'm not, I think it's very difficult to explain the history of sales tax policy in the United States without like thinking about the federal government and the lack of sort of any kind of sale tax or excise tax comprehensive sales or excise tax policy at the federal level. So in many other places where they have regional governments are levying say a value added tax, they're doing so by sort of borrowing the enforcement and administration infrastructure provided by the federal government. So it's really a federal VAT that has some regional governments that are kind of hanging on and able to levy their own taxes through that. So at the state level in the U.S., I think state sales and excise tax policy looks like extremely different from one place to the next. And it's because everyone's kind of developed their own thing. I don't know that there's a lot of great explanation as to why one place did it one way and one place did it another. You'd have to ask a historian probably, you know. Well, let's get to ours. I'm sorry. Maybe we should get back on track about the tax situation that the legislature time, you know, to bring this back. I'm curious what is the optimal tax situation in your mind? Dylan, we have one group that would like to see, that's all they do. That's all they talk about is tax increases wanting to make it all allegedly more equitable piled or taxes on to the wealth. And give more tax breaks to the poor or the lower income families, which actually I kind of like that idea or exemptions for everybody as far as I'm concerned. But does it, I mean, the wealthy in this state already do pay a lion's share of all the taxes, right? So certainly it's true that higher income people account for a very large proportion of tax revenue. I think that when you ask me, you know, sort of what's the optimal tax system in my mind, it's true that I study optimal taxation. And so I think about how to design a tax system. But as an economist, it's not my job to necessarily say what the one right answer is, but rather to sort of highlight, you know, different trade offs that exist. So it's true that some people have very strong preferences for a more equitable tax system, a tax system that does a lot of redistribution and is meant to try and create a lot of, say, equality and outcome. And other people have different sorts of preferences that are less in favor of that. And there are different types of tax systems that you would choose that are all sort of optimal in some sense that could be well designed, depending on which side of that sort of line you're on. What are your preferences about how equitable the tax system should be. But even given any sort of amount of equity preferences, you still have to deal with the constraints of how do people's behavior change when the tax policy changes. And so my role is perhaps to help inform that side of the conversation. If you tell me your objectives, I can tell you how to achieve them, but I can't tell you what your objective should be. Right. Right. I mean already we have, you know, people leaving the state in droves. So that probably is an indicator that we may have kind of stepped over the line a little bit. But anyway, you're getting getting back to our legislature. One of the things that is part of the green affordability plan now is an extra $25 per stay for transient accommodations. It's a little bit different from the green affordability plans. I think the tourist green fee quote unquote that we had considered in the last episode and I think the difference is that we're adding on to an established tax and local people will pay it too. If they go stay at the transient accommodations. Maybe on another island or, you know, for a, for a staycation, like if I were to go to Turtle Bay from here in Hina, for example, and stay there, I would pay that $25 too. So what do you think about that? So I think there's sort of two important things. Kind of the new concept this year. So it's also possible whenever we think about a tax, because behavior changes when taxes changed, you know, as we were talking about earlier, behavior of businesses also changes when taxes change. And so in some cases, you might expect that when the hotel tax goes up, what will happen is that hotels will reduce room rates to some extent. And so one question we need to ask is to what extent do we think that the effect the burden of the tax will be sort of basically paid for by the hotels. You would expect this to happen if like the supply of hotel rooms is very constrained and can't respond much and probably that's that's true here to some extent right. I'm sure that it's not 100% true but it's probably approximately true that the number of rooms at least in the short run is fixed. And so if a taxes introduced that threaten to reduce the number of people who come here, we would expect hotels to respond by reducing rates at least to some extent. But the other side of the conversation that I think is worth mentioning is it's true that the if the tax does lead to an increase in the sort of total amount that people have to pay when they go to a hotel and that burdens residents that we can always offset the impact on residents for other measures. So the revenue again could be used for in part to finance say a tax credit that goes back to residents of Hawaii. Can we perfectly design a system that gets the $25 back to the resident who stayed in the hotel probably not. I think to sort of forgo an opportunity to export the tax burden onto non residents or potentially onto hotel profits because you can't design the perfect sort of offsetting system. I can't say for sure that it's a mistake but it's costly it's a potentially very efficient source of revenue I think relative to some alternative so I think it's worth considering certain. Yeah, there are other, you know, more outlandish proposals that are being considered at the legislature. But I don't think we're going to have enough time for the profit to stay here for those so we can talk about those a little bit later. Well, one thing I think is going to be all that long list of bills Tom is special funds and and Dylan just sort of birch that topic, suggesting that, you know, these extra monies that they're tacking on to the tourists or the hotels or whatever that there could be some sort of a refund or some sort of way to use that money that that benefits people. However, the problematic right. Yeah, the the bill is as it's drafted now creates a new climate health and environmental action special. Yeah, right.  We have maybe I think 2000 special funds now. It used to be worse, but but now it's still pretty bad. And I don't think there's any but nothing there's anybody in the state that can tell you how much money we have. I'd be strongly inclined to agree that this is probably not best practice, you know, at least to a tax economist, I think the way you want to think about these things is, you know, you should sort of think about spending and revenue as sort of separate problems to some extent there are some cases where that's less true but, you know, if a program is worth financing, it should be sort of worth financing perhaps irrespective of what exactly is the source of the revenue that's paying for it. Again, that might not always be true in the case of like public parks or something. But it's not clear to me why you would want to allocate funds from this TAT proposal to some specific special fund and it does create a lot of difficulties in administering the budget as Tom suggested. There's also the point Tom brought up in his article that the state has trouble spending the money that it has already. And, you know, millions, you know, tens of millions hundreds of millions of dollars be going unspent at the Department of Education, for example. Again, why do you think that Hawaii has tipped over the limit exceeded the cap of a reasonable tax burden? I'd be, I think it seems to me that it's a case by case basis. So there are some taxes where I have reason to be concerned. I wouldn't say that I know for sure 100%, but I have reasons to be concerned that we might be taxing so much that we're losing revenue. So I think that that's probably, there's a decent chance that that's true of the corporate tax. I don't want to commit to that 100% in this conversation.  But that's one that I'm particularly suspicious of. I think it's possible that the top income tax rates, if they're not so high that they're costing us revenue, it's at least possible that they're not providing a very efficient source of revenue at this point to raise more money. Because again, if I raise those top tax rates on the income tax schedule, people will reduce their income a little bit. And so I don't get dollar for dollar what I'm expecting to when we go run our tax forecast, right? If we raise that top rate to 12%, you could go do some calculation that's based on assuming no one changes their behavior. But some people might leave the state, some people might reduce their income. And so we're not going to get 100% of the money that we expect to get when we raise a tax like that. So I think there are parts of the tax code that look a little suspect, whether the overall tax burden is so high that it's, you know, leading to actually us getting less revenue. I'd be inclined to be skeptical. But, you know, as for whether the overall burden is too high, it partially that depends on how you feel about the trade off between how much equity we should have. And, you know, what is a fair burden for different parts of the different people in different parts of the tax schedule? And I'll note it that everyone, I'm sorry, Tom noted that, you know, one obvious result is that tens of thousands of people are leaving the state, you know, they just can't afford to be here anymore. Tom, we're coming into our closing moments of this episode. Do you want to have a last couple words here and then we'll let Dylan throw in a comment too? Sure. One of the things that obviously we're going to be looking at in this year's legislative is, you know, should we raise taxes? Should we provide these credits? Should we, you know, change tax policy? And there are a lot of things that go into the question. We're going to have behavioral changes that are coming up as a result of this. You know, the professor has gone through some of those. And we do have some, you know, very radical bills that are going to propose just that. Professor. Any last words? I think tax policy is very exciting to me because it's about values partially. So it's about fact and it's about values. And I think people can strenuously disagree about tax policy partially for because of facts and partially because of values. I think both sides of that are interesting. I hope that I've brought to this conversation a little bit of what I know about the facts, but a lot of it's up to people's individual values and it's not up to me. You know, and I hope it's something people keep in mind when they think about this stuff. Thank you very much still. And it's been great having you here today. You really contributed a lot to this conversation. It sounds like you and Tom might need to get together or want to get together in the future to talk about more of this kind of thing. Thank you very much, everybody. We've really had a great time here today. We'll be talking probably more, well, definitely about taxes. This is the name of the show is Talking Tax. And I hope you will join us in the future. If you like this show, please click the button below and subscribe to the ThinkTech channel. We really appreciate you being here with us today. Thank you very much y'all and aloha. Thank you.


Hi everyone my name is Tanzeela Sheikh today we are with Amrit Khan Shulanda the CMO at Zepto who is going to talk to us about these campaigns that we have been seeing a lot on every social media platform and every name page and the famous ambassador right now of Zepto uncle Shulanda Khan Shulanda why don't you start with how did you come up with a concept and all? We left early today I don't know when we will get the order to sit on the seat No we won't We just got the seat or we won't get unlimited free delivery on Zepto So like any brand campaign started off with a business objective where we wanted to position our key differentiation firmly in the consumer's mind which is the fact that we provide unlimited free delivery that is not bound by any loyalty program or there are no ifs and buts and that's a phenomenal consistency that we can provide on an ongoing basis to consumers and delivery fees through our research and insights has come up as a major friction point for consumers we wanted to address that we wanted to tell people that this is something that we will solve then that translated to a campaign brief and through that campaign brief the in-house team put in a lot of thought a lot of deliberation we had a lot of thought partners also in exchanging ideas and eventually we realized that you know nahi melega is a concept right is what you are going to double down on and why that works is because the disappointment of hearing that you know nahi melega or depending on the language right so maybe illa in Kannada or obena in Bengali right so all of these are you know deep cultural truths that consumers live and breathe on a daily basis and acknowledging it you know bringing that to the surface you know from the subconscious to the conscious and then you know stemming the differentiation of the brand that okay you know some things you might get might not get but will always get a free delivery on zip to an unlimited it's not bound by anything right it's not bound by okay first delivery first five delivery so the unlimited free delivery come in so that consistency that reliability emanating from a deep line consumer truth worked phenomenally for us as a campaign approach and of course the in-house team in association with the production house said you know really brought life into this concept through three very very quirky and enjoyable ad films very memorable and you know the campaigns all life hoping for the best okay so what I enjoyed really is uncle G he is he has pulled off really great you know in three of the films and different cohorts also like he's he's relating to every cohort like we all have that one uncle's uses so you know while every brand or every start up you know has this inspiration of you know attaching themselves to a celebrity or a very good thing why did Zepto chose to you know have uncle G have their you know ambassador or an endorser and you know thank God to it that's that's a great question and I think a celebrity you know endorsements are a tried and tested formula and not for you know any misconception it actually works but the brand marketing is nothing if not experimentation right and the team itself was keen on you know questioning the fundamental that what is it that a celebrity is providing a celebrity is providing you know the familiarity you know the same acts as a key you know point in an action that remains memorable a lot of people know brands as the celebrity celebrity gold ring or that celebrity right so it definitely works but we realize that can we generate that same familiarity so well not to mean lesser known through an unknown you know figure right and it had to be predominantly internet because that's where things go viral and that was how the concept of uncle G came to life and we thought a lot about it that okay in Nehime Lega was the campaign and uncle G you know as a character makes complete sense you know because that's like you mentioned that's typically where Nehime Lega comes from and building on top of it creating a thorough plan in terms of how do the social media handle go live what kind of content do we put out there what kind of you know support in terms of creators should be put out there on the internet so that the memes go viral the what such stickers go viral the chips go viral and all that you know it seems as if it just happened you know we currently if got lucky here and there is what the perception might be but it's eventually down to the team putting in a lot of effort and going into exclude putting detail on every tiny aspect of the campaign what time will the profile go live what time will the post be posted you know how do we ensure that the virality is the maximum all of those signs that the team has put together and a lot of learnings also hence because we had very strong expectations on what should happen what shouldn't happen so at the end of the day it's a phenomenal you know final character that we've been able to create but there's been a lot of effort and science that's gone behind it. I wanted to ask one more question you know how did you go through the process of you know finding that that one character you know I don't know how many auditions you must have taken so you know finally get that kind of person who clicks on to the what kind of concept that you were writing so talk to us about the struggle of finding uncle ji. So actually through our through the through our partners who work with us in our social media strategy they were convinced that uncle ji the the person who we eventually ended up convinced that this is the person and we took our time and buying into it but eventually as things stand the conviction paid off and they were able to pull it off they said that if he's uncle ji then we'll be able to get the maximum virality and we could see why they're seeing that and yeah we mentored with it. Okay one last question that I have in this quick chat that we're having about uncle ji and the three beautiful campaigns that Zephyr has made is you know are you what is that what is the marketing plan for the coming year are you going to you know capitalize more on uncle ji or you know there are different pretty campaigns in store what is the what is the plan for Zephyr? Again I'll just go back to my initial statement that you know brand marketing is nothing if not experimentation right so I don't think there is any formula there's any one way of going about things but the truth is that we do have uncle ji as part of our weaponry right now so whether we choose to deploy it or not we'll all see in the time to come. Great is that any other you know plans in place for the coming year Amitacharya? Definitely like nothing concrete that I can talk about at this point but Zepto and the communication that's coming from the brand from its various platforms is definitely a space to watch out for there is a lot of interesting stuff that's on the console. Great is thank you very much Amitacharya for talking to us at exchange for media and you know all the very best for the campaign and I really hope that when I see the 2.6 Thank you so much. Thank you for having me.


This paper proposes a novel approach for multi-object tracking, MOT. It uses a triplet-based image feature to distinguish between similar-looking objects, which reduces the number of identity switches over time. Additionally, an attention-based re-identification model is used to extract the feature vectors from the images, allowing for more accurate association of objects. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms other methods on the ID switch metric and improves the detection performance of the tracking system. This article was authored by Wu Jin-an, Kung-Suk Ko, Mutei Glim, and others.


Okay, my friends all zoomed in and here we go I'm going to be using the savanna palette from sea color cosmetics This is the dupe for the Natasha Denona and I always forget which one it is But I'll make sure I list it up here on the screen for you guys We are just going to be doing an extremely simple eye very neutral tones as well the most neutral tones in here to me are these right here by the way this whole entire palette is matte and It is a very fraction of the cost I'll make sure I list it up here if you get it on the sea color cosmetics website It's it's much cheaper than if you get it from Amazon, but I only wanted this So I got it off Amazon because it washed out as far as the shipping goes So I'm gonna start right here with this color in the corner. It is kind of a Neutrally, I don't know exactly what you want to call it, but it's a very neutral saddle brown Maybe and I'm just using as a wave of brush This is called the soft definer and by the way before I do my eyebrows I always do my eye shadow primer, which was honest. I was the Beverly Hills. No surprise there, right? But I always do that because I like to put a little bit of the primer into my eyebrows to hold my Whatever brow product I'm using hold it on there all day So that is already done So make sure you use a good primer on your eyes and then I'm just going to go right in here into this Corner out here, and I'm just going to lightly buff and press To get a transit transition color I don't want to go too dark because as the title said this is very neutral and very soft So we're gonna be doing the same techniques that I do on all my other ones But we're just not gonna be using as bold of colors Which I'm sure a lot of you appreciate because I know that a lot of you work in offices And you have other jobs and you just can't wear those bold colors on the daily, and I understand that a hundred percent So we are just I'm gonna be doing just a little bit here and basically all I did was I went out from the tail of the brow and I didn't like come down right here. I just went out there, and I'm just pushing it across Little bit of an arch there just to give it that transition color, but not too crazy Gonna dip back into this Evana palette and I'm gonna take this chocolatey brown color same brush and I'm just going to load that up a little bit and Then I'm going to put that more into the crease and just stick down there into that crease Not bringing it up very high It's gonna do that because it's a little bit of a fluffier brush anyway But when you use one brush you have one less step, right? I'm just trying to give a very very soft look to this eye. So I'm not Doing anything terribly crazy With these colors plus they're very neutral colors. So you can get away with a lot Okay, so right now I have a towel on my lap all the time and I just will take that brush and I'll wipe it off really good and then I'll go back in and I will just push that color out a little bit and Just get it blended really really well to where you feel like you've got a really nice blending of both of the Transition part that we were looking at and then the deepening part of the crease color super simple, right? Okay, now I'm going to just take a flat paddle brush This one is from Juvia's place and this is called a small definer brush and it's just flat There hopefully you can see that and I'm just going to pick up the lightest color Which is this corner in the color right here. It's kind of got a little bit of a Flesh tone hue to it and I'm just going to really load my brush up with that And then I'm going to make sure I tap that off well And then I'm just going to come into the corner and see that is not picking up what I need to buy any stretch So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to put it on my finger It's just always works a little bit better when I do it on my finger. I can deposit more color and It just seems to be one of those things that I have to do So I'm going to use the the same thing on the other side with my other finger See how much more that deposited and it's quicker too, which I love about that So now I'm going to take that brush again go back into that dark color one more time Tap it off, but this time I'm going to come down here And I'm going to just pinch the brush a little bit and I'm just trying to work with one brush So it's a little bit faster like I said pinch that brush a little bit deposit a little bit more color And then just fluff it across and then do the same thing on the other side And then we're going to go into the waterline. I'm going to use the Rimmel nude. This is the scandal lies eyeliner I'm just going to use that. I'm going to put that into my inner rim Little tip for you put it into your inner rim on Each side then after you're done with that side go back into the other side and do that one again Those two coats are going to help it stay a little bit longer Okay, now one of my very favorite new eyeliner lines is from Ardell and this is the Want to get lucky and this one is in brown and I just love these liners. They last like no other I just absolutely love them. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to catch that bottom lash line and Go in there about a third of the way across with both sides Then I'm going to take my color pop pencil brush and I am just going to smudge that out across the bottom pretty well and Link it with that outside shadow right there on the corner and that gives you a prettier look Now once you smudge it you can go into that dark color that you had if you want to and you can kind of deepen It up the other thing that that does when you use a little bit of shadow on top of your eyeliner Is it helps it to stay put all day? Makes it just a little bit softer as you can see from the two and then like I said it melds with the shadow the eyes The eye shadow melds with the eyeliner and it gives you a more long-wearing look I know I'm going in between these two palettes But I like the mirror better in this one just so you guys know that's why I'm switching Then I'm going to take the Milani bronzer. This is the silky matte one in 01 sunlit and Instead of doing all the contouring I'm doing and everything I'm just taking this huge fluffy brush And I'm going to make this work for everything that I need now normally I need to do up in my hairline because I did that video with the big forehead one where you have a High forehead and you need to bring it down. Well, I still do and so I'm going to be taking my bronzer in there You can pinch that bronzer brush if you want to and just take it across the top there and bronze up that area But what that also does besides bronzing is it helps to pull down that forehead a bit And then you can also pinch the brush and just go in here and give yourself a little fake cheekbone And little side note on that is don't bring that Contour any further than the middle of the color of your eye or the pupil of your eye I find that if I bring it any further in I can just look like I've got something fake across my Cheeks and it doesn't really, you know, mimic the look of high cheekbones. It just looks weird So I don't do that and then of course I go down my chin because I don't want my big chin to show And if you have these little gel things right here like I do you can go across there and kind of disguise them With your brush pinched and then just go across and make sure that it's really really blended because you don't want it to Be a line of demarcation So you're going to come up just a little bit on the gel line A little bit on the chin just to make sure that it's really blended And then you can go down and you can bring the bronzer down onto the decollete or your chest as well And it just brings all the colors kind of together So you're kind of wanting to make sure that you're bronzing up pretty good I do anyway because I'm so pale That I have to do that because oh, baby I just look like a white almost see-through look to my it was one of you guys said that to me the other day And I'm like I know that feeling see through looking see through all the time because you're so pale Okay, sorry about all of the clanking down here I'm going to be using the elf primer infused blush. And of course, I can't see that soft rose. I think soft rosy I'm not sure and this is my very favorite blush brush of all time. It's the it heavenly Stipple brush you can get this On I think it's qvc that you can get this and I'm not going to go crazy with the blush because it kind of went crazy With the bronzer, but I do want a little bit of color across my cheeks Because you know a little bit of color makes you look alive Anytime you can use a stippling motion instead of a brushing motion I feel like you get a little bit softer of a look and you can have a little bit more control over your blush How much you put on and also how much you're blending too because it can get a little bit carried away So I feel like I might need just a little bit more on this one side Just a tiny bit and again I don't bring my blush onto my cheeks right there because I don't really have that You know that look that natural look right there So I have a lot of redness there anyway that will come through during the day So I kind of stay away from that middle part with my Blush a little bit then I bring it down my nose across the forehead and the chingis to kind of tie the look together All right, and then as the last step Um, usually if people are going to the office or something like that They don't necessarily want to have a beaming highlighter So the Milani prep set and glow is fantastic for this now I did already set my foundation with a little bit of powder And then um the hydrating setting mist from flower beauty. It's right here by the way And so that's already done But if you want a finishing powder, you can either just swirl all over and go all over What I'm going to do today is I'm going to take the side of it I'm going to go in there a little bit heavier and then I'm just going to Stick right there onto the cheeks on the top of the cheeks Because what I want to do is I want to have a little bit extra glow there I am going to take this all over my face in a second Just to have a more natural very radiant look to it But right now all I'm trying to do is just make the tops of the cheeks look a little bit lighter and brighter So that it catches the light when you turn like that And then I'm going to take that big brush and I'm just going to swirl all over and I'm just going to again hit the high points across my face Definitely down the neck and across the chest. I love that look too And I want to show you guys something really cool that I learned really just very recently actually off of the scott barns channel Uh, he is jaylo's artist. He's on toddy's channel. All that good stuff. He's a great great makeup artist I really like him but I'm going to take a little bit of contour and I'm going to put it on a teeny tiny brush I got these brushes. Sorry during the holidays From morphe.  It doesn't even have a name on it But I'm going to take that and in order to give me a little bit extra pout I'm going to take it below my natural line On my lips And if you guys saw him do that it was the coolest thing ever All of a sudden it just looked like she had this big pouty lip. So I love this And then just barely on the cupid's bow in the middle That part I'm really careful with because I don't want to look like I have a dark mustache up there But this part down here, just go ahead and really buff it out And then when I have that done, I'm going to take this Rimmel lip liner Um long lasting lip liner and it's in mauve shimmer and I'm just going to line Right below there right there where I was at I always go right directly on top of my lip line So that a little bit of the liner is out and a you know, a little bit of it is in The actual lip line. It gives you a much fuller look on your lips and again on the top And the lipstick that I chose is romantic rose from malani And I'm just going to put some of that on And the lip gloss that I chose is the keep it full and this one I believe is Starlight pink sparkling pink I always get those and I can't see that little stuff you guys unless I get my glasses I'm just going to tap that right in the middle just barely in the middle of the lips press the lips together All right, go back with that malani prep set and glow and use that flat paddle brush And what we're going to do is we're going to lighten up this inner corner right here with that Because the look is already matte So we don't need to be using like a eye shimmer in there just something to brighten it up a little bit And then as the last step, I'm going to be using a brown liner I thought I had a drugstore brown liner, but apparently my daughter swiped it or something because I can't find it This is the tart tart east Liner it's the dual ended one So it has the pen one on this side or the felt tip one on this side And then it has the coal one on the other side So I'm going to curl my lashes tight line my top lash line with this Then I'm going to put two coats of mascara on and I'll be back to chat with you just a little bit about the Look, okay, you guys that is it for the makeup look. I hope that you enjoyed the finished look I really wanted to bring you something very neutral because I know that not everybody can go out there and rock those Both colors all the time But at the same time what I think is so neat about this palette Is that if you wanted to you could still stick with neutrals But you could also go a little bit more into like new neutrals, you know like the Hood of beauty palette they had the new neutrals where they were the berries or you know You could come down here and you could go into the slate colors with the blues And you could just really utilize this palette to your best advantage because It's all matte and they're all very silky and they're all very blendable and I really recommend that palette It does some really fantastic looks I usually have somebody ask me what my earrings are you guys usually my earrings are a million years old And these are no exception I got a lot of my earrings from shopco. They've shut down now I even have some from mervins if everybody remembers mervins or not from years and years ago So if you can still get the earrings that i'm ever wearing they will be listed Same thing with my shirt this shirt today is just when I got a thrift store I'm a big thrift store buyer as far as all that kind of stuff goes So this one I got at a thrift store and if I can ever you know If I ever have a time when I actually have the actual product link that I can share with you guys I sure will do that. But uh, yeah, and you always ask about my nail polish too, and that's usually zoa That's easy to link. So I'll make sure I do that too. So I hope that you guys did enjoy the tutorial So thank you so much for watching today. I love you so very much Hope everyone is happy and healthy and I'll see you in my very next video. Love you. Bye. Bye


I want to ask a question that we want to thank you for announcing the setting up of and aims in Tamil Nadu education in an important part of ensuring development for that what step have we take to improve the quality and reach of education. Thank you. It is not surprising that someone from the land of the great say Thiruvalluvar would ask a question about education and learning. When you go among people and talk to them, most of them say we want our children to get good education. This is a very common thought among people. Hence, you must discuss this subject and tell people about how the education sector has been transformed in the last five years, four years. Earlier, the focus was only on outlays. But this approach is not adequate. Hence, apart from outlays, we are also working on outcomes. Similarly, the earlier approach was only about teaching. Going a step ahead, we are looking at learning. We are improving the quality of education and increasing quantity of opportunities. In higher education, we have brought in multiple far-reaching reforms. We came up with the National Institutional Ranking Framework that helps rank institutions based on objective and verifiable criteria. This has been made available separately for streams such as engineering, management, pharmacy, architecture, humanities, law, and others. More than thousands of institutions have participated in the exercise, making it the highest-participated ranking exercise in the world. We have linked more autonomy for institutions with higher quality. So, the better you perform, the higher the autonomy. This way, there is an incentive on quality. The freedom of start, new courses, more off-campus centers, skill development courses, research, parks, and any other new academic programs is a key part of this autonomy. But be it the Institutes of Excellence or the IMBIL, we have shown our commitment to quality and autonomy. While focusing on quality, we have not forgotten the importance of quantity. Just like the aims that will come up in Tamil Nadu, there are aims coming up in different states. Several scholarships have been given to students across the country. There is a never-seen-before focus on skill development. More than 13,000 skill development centers are training lakhs of youth across India in 375 different kinds of skills. With such wide-ranging initiative in all areas of education, we are sure that the youth of India will convert our demographic dividend to development dividend.


Hello, everyone. I'll talk about the next browser today. So I'm part of Atlas Engineer. We've been working on this browser for the last two years, something. And we try to look at the world of browsers a bit differently. So we've been a little bit frustrated with the popular browsers like Firefox and Chrome, or the more geeky browsers that allow us to be tinkering with the configuration at all. So personally, when I use Firefox and Chrome, what frustrates me a little bit is that I feel a bit imprisoned. I feel like I cannot do much configure.  You could argue that, OK, there are extensions. But those extensions really are limited. They don't really access the internals of the browser. They can't really communicate so much between each other. And they can't really communicate with your system. So if you want to interact with Git or your text editor, you can't really do that very well. It's not easy. So there is that. And then other smaller browsers, then tinkering to the more geeky crowds. And those are usually keyboard focused, minimalist. You can configure them in Python or different languages. And those browsers, well, there are so many of them, actually, they're all legions. And I've been wondering, I mean, why actually do they come and go so fast? And I think the problem here is a lack of abstraction with regard to the renderer. And really, I think what a web browser truly is. It's a user interface. It's a user experience that allows us to interact with the web with the content. But it shouldn't really be stuck to the web renderer itself. So we don't really, I mean, it matters, of course. But maybe it is not all that matters for a browser. So that's what we've been trying to do with next browsers. So the key design decisions that we've taken here is one to decouple the browser from the web renderer. That means that we support WebKit and Web Engine, which is more or less blank from. And on the other hand, we also try hard to make it extremely configurable. Because I'm a geek, and I like to configure my browser to the very core. And I like to make it to have full control of my browser. So how do we do that? How do we have a fully customizable program where we don't only expose an API to the user, we give the program the whole program to the user so that they can do whatever they want with it? And I think for that, we need the right programming language. That means the language is fully introspectable. That can be fully molded around. And I think maybe the right language here is a language from the Lisp family. Because those languages are extremely powerful in that sense, so very introspectable. So which shows common lists here? And well, that's enough of the details. I'm just going to show you some demos, and, well, you will see for yourself. So this is a, no, it doesn't matter, I will explain it. So if I can start a browser, OK, here, there I go. So first of all, it's, well, really barren. But what I want to show is this area here, which is a little bit similar to, and oops, OK, sorry about that. OK, sorry. So first thing is that by default, we don't show tabs, but instead we use an approach that's used by EMAX in particular. We list all the tabs, or what we call buffers. And what's cool about that is that we can search them. So if I write wiki and geeks, I can first search my tab and go directly to the GNU Geeks Wikipedia page. And we can extend this concept of what we call the mini-buffer, or the address bar, essentially, in a browser, to actually do this for everything. For instance, say I'm browsing here, and I say there is this table of contents here. I can actually browse it the same way. So if I go roll back, enter, and I'm directly at the rollback section. So we can actually use this concept, this first search concept everywhere. So that's pretty cool. We can even use it to interact with the browser itself. For instance, how many times have you found yourself with so many tabs, you were really lost with them?  So then I can just delete my buffers. I can narrow them down to Wiki, set them all, enter, and they're all gone. So that's much more productive, right? And it's a very simple concept, and when you start using it everywhere, it starts becoming pretty cool. So that's essentially basics for the UI or the UX. But as I mentioned before, it's written in common list, which means that you can leverage the language to hack it. And I mean by that program every single part of it live. So for instance, here I go back to my repo, where I can evaluate code. So if I evaluate the function current buffer, I get an object here, which I can start introspecting. And here I get this is a slime, a slime for command list. This is an introspection window where I get all the details, like the title, or the URL, et cetera. And if I go back to my buffer, I can start calling functions. I can say set URL, and let's go to my website. And there, it works. Now I can start doing more sophisticated things, like I can define a function. So I'm going to copy paste it. It's going to be easier. Sorry, where is it? Oh, sorry. OK, there. So I copy paste this. OK, there. So this is essentially a command that will repeat what I just did. I want to delete all we keep our first. Say I keep doing this all over again all the time. Well, maybe I want to write a function that will essentially loop over all buffers, match all those that match Wikipedia, and delete them all. So if I evaluate this, and I go back to my next window, and here this is the list of all commands I have at my disposal. If I start further searching delete we key, there it is. And well, it's double and it's long story. I'm sorry about it. So, and I can call it. Or I can actually do even better. I can bind it to a key, and if I do this, I can evaluate code even from within next. You don't need an extra setup. That doesn't matter. So if you command evaluate, and I evaluate this here, there, so I've already evaluated the form. Now I open a new Wikipedia window, first them. And I've deleted all the weekend. Just pressing the right key binding, I've rerun the command again. So I've essentially hacked the browser while it was running. I define a function, I bind it to a key. But you can do everything. You have full access to the entire internals. It goes a long way down this road when you can start extending stuff. For instance, you can easily call to the US components. If you want to hook on to Git, it's very easy to go on your whatever GitHub page. Let's say this one. And here, if I call the command vcsclone, I've cloned a repository to my favorite, to my local project directory. That's very convenient. We would like to extend this a little more so that it actually updates the page at the same time to show you that you've cloned it, stuff like that. Beyond that, we've also, what about password managers? I mean, they're really useful. I like to have a password manager integrated to my browser, it's best for security, very convenient. So we've also simply wrote a bridge to KeePass XC and our password store. And depending on what you've got installed, you can just create copy password and your browse here. And first time, then you get your password and you can paste it.  So if I want to open my bookmarks, I can also fully search them. And I can match against some tags. So if you look at the end of the lines here, the end of the candidates, if I want to match, say, against Geeks and Fast or Crypto, I can start writing complex expressions, like, sorry. And Geeks, Fast, Crypto. And as soon as I close the parentheses, I've matched exactly those two types of bookmarks. One that has Fast and Geeks, the other one has Crypto. So imagine you have thousands of bookmarks. You can have extremely powerful tag matching from within a browser. What else?  And if I go here, I'll start browsing. So I go to the anonymity network. And I want to go on the main page. So I go there. I start browsing and go to documentation. Then I realize, all right, I want to go back. I want to go back to the Wikipedia page. So I go back to the history and go back to Tor. Now I'm going down a few more links. And at this point, if I go back again and forward again, well, I've written the history. I don't have access to the first branch of the history, which was the Tor website. But here we're a bit smarter. We try to store everything. We try to store the whole tree of history. So we can essentially go, sorry, history, tree, and there. We can actually display the whole history of all the links I've browsed and in a very well, tree fashion, which is pretty cool, right? So yeah, a few more examples. So I think, well, I think I've showed a lot of things already, bookmarks, yeah. So if you're like Emacs, maybe you're like Augmoud. Something else you can do is go to your favorite website. And if you want to bookmark this link into your text editor as a log entry, I've written very small functions for it. And there I can capture the link. And this will be stored with the right title and the right link in my org agenda. So here I've actually essentially wrote a function to communicate with the outer world by passing code around, which is quite amazing. I'm passing a list to an external process. And this is just one function. It's really trivial. That's the kind of power we can get when we choose the right language, I believe. So that would be it for the demo. And well, I hope you enjoyed it. We have a few minutes for the questions. So thank you very much. Yes. So you mentioned there was a password to manage integration for KeyPass, XE, and some other. Is there also? Password story. Is there also a password to manage integration for Bitward? For Bitward? I can hear you. Is there also a integration for the password manager Bitwarden? Bitwarden. Oh, okay, thank you. I mean, of course. So the question is, can we have integration with more password managers? And of course, really that's the whole point is that it's really easy to integrate with all sorts of external processes. And when it comes to the password manager, we wrote this virtual interface and you can essentially connect to it and then you get everything for free. Can the language be used to control the page itself? Like automation similar to what Selenium would do? Link? Like Selenium. So automating within the page, find the second link, click on that and then fill in the text box and then click the submit button. Can you do that kind of thing within the language? So really you can leverage the web renderer to send any sort of JavaScript that you want. And what's also pretty neat is that with a language like Lisp, you can have, maybe you've heard of ClusterScript, CommonLisp has the equivalent called parent script, so it compiles Lisp on the fly to JavaScript and sends it to the browser so you can start compiling everything in Lisp but actually interact with the web page. Hi, thank you for the talk. Is there a way to exchange extensions because there are quite a security risk since they have access to a file system, don't they? Yeah. So have you, I'm sure you've thought about it, but how do you exchange extensions and make sure that they're secure? You mean, so the question is, so last question, the question is, is how do we make sure that extensions can be exchanged and are secure? So you mean third-party extensions. So the answer is very simple for now. We don't have third-party extensions. But in the future, of course, we want something very robust here. I mean, I personally work with Geeks package manager which provides a lot of security here. So that could be, we could leverage this package manager to distribute the extensions. That gives us a lot of guarantees here. Thank you very much.