contrarian1234

7 ms·

61.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
> Once everyone is using the proprietary seeds, the price magically goes up and the farmers have less money than they had before, but the biotech company now gets a cut of every grain of wheat which has to increase year on year (growth!)
62.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
I think the central premise is a "wrong". The "point" of science isn't really to do useful things. Framing things from that angle is in subtle ways dangerous bc that shouldnt be part of the incentive structure. you
63.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
interesting. thanks for letting me know. in Taiwan it was also not cheap (and requires a prescription and doctor visit) Guess Ill keep looking around. id sort of given up using it regularly
64.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
unfortunately i was surprised that even the generic is kinda pricey to take every day. At the smallest available dose it was 5 usd a pill (last i checked in China)
65.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A#Health_effects_and ... "In the 2010s public health agencies in the EU,[81][82][83] US,[84][85] Canada,[86] Australia[87] and Japan as well as the WHO[12] all reviewed the h
66.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
how do you distinguish one in Myanmar from one in the Philippines?
67.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
didnt know about kidnapped of koreans. weird that the chinese are blamed. bc seemingly only the chinese government is actually trying to do something about it, getting these centers shut down and criminals "deported" and prosecute
68.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
The ones in Myanmar target the Sinosphere. They kidnap Chinese tourists and enslave them. It's run by Taiwanese and Chinese mafia. It's possible they have native English speakers there.. I haven't heard of it before though.
69.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
I just think it's about framing. "Glory" can exist without comparing yourself to others. When they built the three-gorges dam they probably weren't thinking "our dam is better than those American dams". It&#x27
70.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
Do the Chinese view this as a race...? I've seen no indication that they see it in these terms. They've been pretty low-key about their progress. To me it looks like the US obsession with reframe everything in terms of a "new
71.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
In Taiwan they are by far the highest paying employer (maybe Google/Microsoft branches here are comparable). The base pay is usually not impressive, but they come with insane bonus packages. They basically hoover up all the top graduat
72.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
sorry, I should have thought about it a bit more. It's likely closer to 2K than 3K. A professor at Taiwan University makes ~3K. My only other point of reference is another friend's husband who works as an electric engineer at a LE
73.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
is it high value? I know a guy working at a fab in Taiwan and he makes peanuts ($2-3K a month?). It's basically a factory job. From what he said it sounded braindead. TSMC is known for overpaying and having PhDs stare at assembly lines
74.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
Can someone involved with packaging help me understand why dependency management and system configuration are integrated and not separate things entirely? For instance, if I "install" LXQT on Ubuntu LTS, it's going to not onl
75.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
That's like someone gives you a nicer car and you say "yeah but it doesn't fly". Having a better UI for APT is a separate goal from.. making the next package manager? or improving Nix? The reality is that Ubuntu LTS (and
76.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
Does anyone have any insight on how they make it economically viable? US salaries are astronomically high compared to the rest of the world. In the tech sector that's doubly so. Everything is incredibly expensive there. Is this basical
77.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
If only Kim Il Sung were still alive to hear you
78.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
sometimes I'm really flabbergasted by the replies and reading comprehension on HN. I'm genuinely curious what's going on. Are you a last-gen AI or something? Did you read the first sentence and hit reply? I'm literally q
79.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
Accountable in what sense? How are journalists trying to pry extra info from staff helpful? If they want to ask questions at press conferences and whatnot - as far as I understand they still can?
80.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
My understanding is they want off-the-record information from unnamed sources. These aren't public questions like at a press conference. Those can still occur under the current rules.
81.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
There are 1 dollar coins and 50 cent coins. The issue is that they've never had consistent designs/sizes so machines don't take them and people don't recognize them. To my mind, this is the primary reason they haven&#x27
82.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
isn't what they're doing at the pentagon essentially getting people to leak stuff?
83.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
see, now that's a coin I'd actually get! I'd get a whole roll and give it out to friends
84.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
yeah, i don't wanna shit of steve jobs. I'm sure he reflects on stuff. (though this thing seems to suggest.. he needs to reflect on some real basic human stuff..) I'm sure you can find some cute quotes from Bill Gates too. It
85.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
While what the government is doing more widely is quite scary, this in isolation seems sensible? I don't really get what the journalists' role is? To goad and harass employees of the Department of defense in to slipping up and say
86.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
weird design for steve jobs.. without context it looks like the depiction of some spiritual leader (which maybe is a bit funny given the early apple fanbase). I get he was a bit of a hippie, but that's not exactly his claim-to-fame &gt
87.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
This stuff constantly happens to foreigners in China and just seems to be mostly due to having bad local legal teams. If your CEO can run off with the company stamps and screw you over.. then it just sounds like amateur hour and you have no
88.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
If they build gas plants then they'd be so much more entangled in conflicts in the middle East (and Russia) . I'm not sure that that would be fantastic for anyone, the Chinese included I wouldn't be surprised is the anti coal
89.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
> Labs used to hire researchers and give them a lot of free reign. I can't think of it ever really paying off. Bell Labs is the best example. Amazing research that was unrelated to the core business off the parent company. Microsoft
90.
by contrarian1234 1y ago
The fact that you want to ban everything under the umbrella term of "artificial sweeteners" is why I think you have a fundamentally unscientific approach. Your other responses seem to suggest you just have something against sweet

More ›