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by _kava 1y ago
There are many reports of international students having their statuses, i.e. permission to stay in the US, revoked for being involved in legal matters. The wording of the revocation is vague so nothing is certain but these students reported
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by _kava 1y ago
When I made that comparison, I did not mean to bring politics into the conversation, but I assume it is a natural direction people can take it too. I will just say this: the issues with the US are beyond *partisan* politics. In my opinion,
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by _kava 1y ago
For me, I guess it was the experience with the public transport, the cleanliness of the city, the way everything was built to interact with your phone seamlessly and automatically once you have the local apps(at the cost of privacy, I am fu
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by _kava 1y ago
It is both amazing and sad to see China is literally in the future compared to the US in terms of infrastructure and social development. A trip to one of the major cities in China made it clear to me that they are ahead of the world right n
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by _kava 2y ago
Sound scary but when looking at the facts, it is probably reasonable. Both the university, the court, and the lawyer seem to not raising any fuss yet, signaling that whatever this is, it likely all legal and severe enough to warrant absolut
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by _kava 2y ago
To those flagging all these articles because of "not relevant" or "repetitive", please consider how these are affecting thousands or ten of thousands of real humans in the US, most of them are in tech. They are absolutel
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The US Has Invoked Alien Enemies Act(whitehouse.gov)
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by _kava 2y ago
Honestly, what would these protests do? Serious question. Let say you manage to achieve the unthinkable and bring a huge amount of people on the street, heck let say you are so successful that you also get a full on national strike going, w
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by _kava 2y ago
By the laws, an H1B is not cheap. No big corps would pay them much lower than what they are already paying citizens at the same position. Then add on lawyers and sponsorship fees and having an H1B is much more costly than hiring citizens. T
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by _kava 2y ago
> liberal democracies would still want to contain the power of the PRC (and the cult of Xi Jinping) I am not Chinese but I still find this comment hilariously offensive and tone-deaf. I can say almost without a doubt that the US has a &q
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by _kava 2y ago
I recently learned of the three poisons in Buddhism: ignorance, greed, and hatred. Buddhists consider these as the roots of all evils and something that plague all minds, from the lowliest animals to the noblest sages and even gods. It is e
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by _kava 2y ago
I understand this is HN and many here love SF so can you explain to me how or why a company would want to have a physical location in downtown SF? It is expensive, higher tax, more regulations, all of which are often hated by a pure capital
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by _kava 2y ago
You are twisting the words. I said "trials", you turned it into "evidence" and assumed things I never said. Evidence is still needed. Safety and efficacy are still required. But how and why those happened doesn't ha
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by _kava 3y ago
My trip to Thailand was memorable for 3 reasons: 1/ They spent a lot of money to build Buddhist temples and grand structures. They are obsessed with it and believe it is a form of saving karma for the next life. It reminds me of the Ph
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by _kava 3y ago
I agree with the general message that there are people pushing to censor opinions not aligning with their own, and that is a big problem. But honestly, I don't know what to say about this article where they are framing this issue aroun
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by _kava 3y ago
In case anyone is wondering, yes, there is a cost when a model is quantized. https://oobabooga.github.io/blog/posts/perplexities/ Essentially, you lose some accuracy and there might be some weird answers and
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by _kava 3y ago
Non paywall: https://archive.ph/XwWTi Imo, it is true that the current architecture is hitting the limit. We need a breakthrough on the scale of the transistor to get past this problem. We know it is possible though. Every
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by _kava 3y ago
To this day, I still do not understand what can be a reasonable cause for a paper to cost >$50 just to read it. Besides greed of course. Editors review paper for free, authors pay to get paper published, taxpayers fund the research. What
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by _kava 4y ago
>Vietnam seems much more open. Their internet is largely open and accessible. Even easy to register sims. They have no quarantine or vaccine requirements for entry or visa etc. This is patently false. I do not know what time period you w
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by _kava 4y ago
>I wouldn't count on Vietnam siding with China in a global conflict. The last global conflict had the current Vietnamese government sided with China and the USSR against the US. I think you already lost that bet. I would like to ask