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by chibg10 7y ago
I find it pretty remarkable (and scary) that the international community is much more comfortable calling out the USA on human rights abuses than it is China (e.g. the world pretty uniformly opposed moving the US embassy in Israel to Jerusa
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by chibg10 7y ago
I think a big part of it is that most (recent) mainland expats still mostly consume mainland (i.e. censored) news media and social media, and their friends in their destination country are almost exclusively other mainland expats. Reading a
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by chibg10 7y ago
While satirical, this doesn’t really make sense as an answer to question at hand. Natural selection dictates that intelligence, if possessed, will be put to use to further survival and reproduction. There are some limits to this — humans in
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by chibg10 7y ago
Both happened, but 1/2 to 2/3 of the difference is due to actual efficiency gains. Source: recently read The Quest, book which discusses energy in the modern world
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by chibg10 7y ago
There's a lot of Saudi fear mongering in tech media and it is not undeserved in some ways (MBS is a brutal authoritarian), but I'm not sure what interests people think the Saudis have in tech firms other than getting a return on t
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by chibg10 7y ago
This is misleading though because energy projects produce returns over a much longer timescale (i.e. decades) than the typical tech project (a year or two?). In addition, the typical big tech firm is running a lot more projects than the typ
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by chibg10 7y ago
She also happens to be the CFO of Huawei who (allegedly) personally lied to international banks to circumvent US export controls? I'm not familiar with the court system in Canada, but criminal cases in the US take a long time. AFAIK Me
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by chibg10 7y ago
Without commenting on your larger point, it's doubtful that Yemeni engineers are building these drones. Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the world and presumably their engineering capital is presumably not huge. The Houthis are
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by chibg10 7y ago
>Monetary and fiscal policy is not the same as us balancing a checkbook at the end of the month. This is a candidate for most tired meme on the internet and I really don't understand what it even has to do with this discussion as I&
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by chibg10 7y ago
>I bet even people we would describe as clinically insane probably have reasons that they do things that we simply don't understand. I'm not sure about this. I've had a head injury in the past that resulted in (thankfully
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by chibg10 7y ago
Disclaimer: Amazon employee, opinions are my own This claim really doesn't say much on its own. There are millions (billions?) of products on Amazon. This would be potentially a lot more damning if they released how many items they sea
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by chibg10 7y ago
But much of the canonical mainland political belief system is incompatible with rational thought and generally shared moral principles. And mainlanders are obviously not any less rational or moral on most topics. Mainlanders may not like it
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by chibg10 7y ago
Ohohoho that depends very much on who you're talking to about the English language. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_prescription EDIT: These downvotes confuse me. It is a matter of fact that there exist
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by chibg10 7y ago
Any active assimilation efforts will almost certainly backfire and would be a massive civil rights infringement. All immigrants, not just Chinese, tend to associate with their own ethnic subgroup in the US and always have. Time is the only
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by chibg10 7y ago
It's not like mainlanders every really had a choice. Their own protests were crushed with tanks in 1989 and they've been relentlessly propagandized on everything from the papers to the schools to social media since then. I have z
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by chibg10 7y ago
>There's good reason to believe tons of sociological theories. The problem is figuring out whether the pro or con factors win out, and figuring out if you've nailed down every single factor. Being simple, clear, and well-reason
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by chibg10 7y ago
The difference is the prior. There's strong prior reason to believe not paying payroll tax is not going to end well. The theoretical basis is simple, clear, well-reasoned, and supported by strong evidence in adjacent realms (i.e. the I
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by chibg10 7y ago
This isn't true at all, at least in the sources I was reading (NYT, WSJ). Entire paragraphs were devoted to protester violence in nearly every article. This weekend's protest was even described as peaceful in contrast to the pre
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by chibg10 7y ago
The effects of hyperinflating away the debt aren't really much better
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by chibg10 7y ago
You don't seem to understand that if a broke USA can't pay its debts, its biggest problems aren't getting invaded militarily but economic. Even if it defaults on foreign debt, a) new debt is going to be insanely expensive whi
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by chibg10 7y ago
What does this have to do with anything? The problem with too much US debt is that we have to make interest payments on that debt, which now makes up ~10% of the annual budget (or about $400B/yr). That's expensive and going to get
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by chibg10 7y ago
I think this is dependent on what someone means when they say "data scientist" (mentioned as Type A vs Type B in the article). Facebook and Google "data scientists" (meaning those who hold the title) are really more like
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by chibg10 7y ago
Even this framing is suspect -- China has very publicly been trying to shift from an export-driven economy to a domestic consumption economy recently. I question how stable the relationship is when that stability rests on the assumption Chi
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by chibg10 7y ago
The CPC would like the world to believe that nobody can tell it what to do (not least of which for domestic political reasons), but it's not really the case. China may be bigger and more powerful now, but the (media) spotlight on it is
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by chibg10 7y ago
People en masse are generally not well-informed and in large part irrational. The West has had decades of support for Israel (whose existence has been detested by most of the ME since pre-inception) and the decades-long struggle for ME coun
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by chibg10 7y ago
To be honest, the developed world hasn't convinced me it cares enough about human rights to risk its economic relationship with China over them. I'm really not sure how political leaders would react to Tiananmen 2.0. The self-cens
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by chibg10 7y ago
This completely misses the point of a search engine. The ability to game SEO has nothing to with relevance or content quality. If a random supplement information website's most lucrative monetization path would be to game SEO instead o
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by chibg10 7y ago
The academic math types with no ML experience don't fare much better than the no-math practitioners with experience from what I've seen. They generally have terrible mental models of how the math behaves when applied to real data.
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by chibg10 7y ago
1.6 = 8/5 So n miles = 8n / 5 km And m km = 5m / 8 miles Fraction multiplication is actually much easier than decimal multiplication imo. I'm surprised so many people seem to avoid it. Keeping track of where the decimal
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by chibg10 7y ago
The company can't sell shares it doesn't own. Think of it like a startup founder borrowing to buy out someone else's equity. If interest rates are near zero, it may make sense to borrow cheaply now to buy back stock that the

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