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by Udik 6y ago
As a young and very proud Chinese colleague of mine put it: "in technology, the US are ten years ahead of Europe; China is ten years ahead of the US"
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> In a sufficiently dense area, there is clearly a market for app-summoned taxis (for various values of who owns/maintains/pays for said cab) Oh well. For sure, but it's a pretty vague statement, isn't it? We're
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> I think this is starting to change and it gives me a lot of hope. Hope for what exactly? Honest question.
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It would be very interesting to see a complete list of all the banned words, could some google employee leak it?
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> forcing China into compliance with US demands. Except that, as it's clear from the rest of your comment (with which I agree fully) there are no real demands from the US to China except a demand for subalternity. In other words, th
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It feels a bit like reading about the industrial revolution, when masses of destitute workers were exploited by rich factory owners. Their salary was just barely enough to keep them alive and their work perfectly fungible: for any worker th
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On the other hand, all school teachers pay attention to check that their students are focusing. They use neural networks for that (their own neural networks) that are very well trained in detecting lack of focus from body movements, facial
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> The headbands were handled via a partnership with Zhejiang Brainco Technology Co Ltd Which I guess is a subsidiary of the US-based company BrainCo located in Massachusetts. The article describes the provisioning of the headbands as a d
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> If the research is being done in China and the tech is bespoke to the research program in China The headbands are produced and donated to a Chinese school by an American company! The people protested and the authorities told the school
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> I feel so bad for the 1.3bn people living under this bullshit. So the WSJ succeeded in its purpose of spreading anti-Chinese propaganda. Wow, so easy. Check a more complete story here: https://qz.com/1742279/a-mind
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Here's a more complete story: https://qz.com/1742279/a-mind-reading-headband-is-facing-bac... Seems that the headbands were donated to a school by a US startup that put them on the market as a consumer product, pr
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> pretty shocking how biased these hn comments are against china. And it took only a few years of media campaigns- the first one I remember was the announcement of spy chips in China-made boards, which turned out to be fake. It's sc
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Let's put it this way: China is a huge country, that has been very well governed in the past 30 years. Its people are proud, smart, ingenious, and they're working a lot for a lot less than their western counterparts. Given this, a
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China seems to have reacted to the epidemic quicker and more effectively than the rest of the world did. Acts of aggression are voluntary: like dropping bombs on Iraq, financing civil wars or reneging a signed agreement and imposing an emba
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So now you have EU companies that bought a product from US companies and are retroactively deprived of the ability to produce for their customers? Is this even legal?
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This is nothing else than the US panicking over losing their technological and economic supremacy, and using brute force to damage a competitor. Disgusting and very dangerous for the whole world.
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France passes law requiring social media companies delete content within an hour(edition.cnn.com)
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> The older you get the more difficult it is to conceive children as well as raise them. Are you trying to provide an evolutionary justification for aging by using aging itself as a reason?
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I think you should consider the boiling frog syndrome. Not aging is as slow as aging, and by the time you realise and accept there is something special with you, everyone else around has already figured it out. Disappearing at that point mi
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> The Solaris ocean is utterly alien to the point that the humans are unable to understand and communicate with it This is the theme of all Lem's novels involving aliens: Planet Eden, Fiasco, Solaris, The Invincible and His Master&#
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I'm sorry, but I don't follow. - There is a score threshold you must cross to get a job; - score is normally representative of competence; - individuals belonging to group X get a score boost. It follows that it's possible
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> He sounds like he may be on the autistic spectrum, which if treated as a form of social disability would (or should, IMO) grant him some leeway. This attitude leaves me almost speechless. When someone makes an argument that at least tr
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Not sure what you mean. All the female programmers I've come across had been hired without receiving any boost from an affirmative action program. Had I worked in a company that gave a score boost to candidates belonging to any group X
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> In it, he calls women neurotic. No, he says that on average they score higher on "neuroticism", one of the Big Five personality traits. [1] And it is an empirical fact. [2] If you say "he said women are neurotics" i
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But don't you think that the fairer the selection (blind to things such as gender, race or politics) the more confidence you'd have that you deserve to be in the position you are? How does a woman engineer should feel, knowing she
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"Death to" in Persian is just the opposite of "long live", and it means "down with". Annoyed taxi drivers for example say "death to traffic" [1] The American romcom "Down with love" is trans
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Just tried it on my 2012 $1k laptop. 2s for full page load; about 1s to load up a chat, about 1s to open a friend's profile.
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> which leads to decisions like banning GPS tracking in their contact tracing app[ Ot, but I'm not sure I get this: google maps tracks most people all the time. Are they suddenly concerned about the privacy implications when it&#x27
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Free at walmart's expense (with some refund from the government for products already in stock- and walmarts doesn't have to pay wages or rents either) but new orders towards the supply chain are also free. I understand it's a
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True. But you could for example say that every citizen has a right to $50 worth of food (at normal prices) per week, and has to pay any excess. Grocers might get partial refund from the government for the food already in stock; new orders g

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