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901.
by dba7dba 11y ago
@ lazaroclapp I never mentioned state sanctioned theft of IP. You brought it up first.
902.
by dba7dba 11y ago
huge investments in innovation science and engineering It takes YEARS for any meaningful return, no matter how huge the investments may be. Just my 2 cents. There's no denying rampant theft of IP by Chinese companies, even between th
903.
by dba7dba 11y ago
It amuses me that Professor Brewer is now working for Larry. Pretty sure Prof Brewer isn't exactly tiptoeing around Larry. He can work ANYWHERE.
904.
by dba7dba 11y ago
During the Vietnam conflict, the cost of killing an enemy with iron bombs dropped by planes got very expensive too. Due to lacking quality (not guided munitions), quantity was the path taken to make up for it. This increased # of sorties ne
905.
by dba7dba 11y ago
It's not disputable. Do you know how hard it was for US marines to retake the Japanese held islands?
906.
by dba7dba 11y ago
Look at what it cost US Marines to take away Japanese held islands. And what if it was going to take half a million American casualties? And it still would've killed lots and lots of Japanese civilians and soldiers. Far more than 100,0
907.
by dba7dba 11y ago
What other nation or private entity has come up with a visionary idea in space industry? Let me remind you he first thought about sending a life capsule to Mars on a former ballistic missile. Isn't that visionary enough ya? And how abo
908.
by dba7dba 11y ago
Doesn't matter. It DOES matter. :)
909.
by dba7dba 11y ago
China and India are also making cheap rockets. And SpaceX is making cheapER rockets. IN California, one of the most expensive state to do business in.
910.
by dba7dba 11y ago
Ambition and willing to take a risk is not a rare thing. Yes, most will agree. But having ambition, taking risk and being successful is a rare, rare thing. Especially after you made your fortune AND having the gut to risk it all. Now THAT
911.
by dba7dba 11y ago
> looking the part is essential. Are they looking for workers for actors/models?
912.
by dba7dba 11y ago
MANAGEMENT consultants, investment banks and big law firms are the Holy Trinity of white-collar careers. They recruit up to a third of the graduates of the world’s best universities. I believe the ratio is far higher in English speaking,
913.
by dba7dba 11y ago
I am not saying all rich people are bad or stole it. But give the article a read. Also, what I heard is that it's not easy to take out cash out of China into a foreign country, unless you have connections. That makes you think a bit.
914.
by dba7dba 11y ago
Unlikely to be allowed, as the cash coming from China to buy up property is considered trade surplus. What is really galling is that from what I hear, a lot of the cash leaving China to buy property are often illicit fund. In a way, US hous
915.
by dba7dba 11y ago
I'd say the seizure by US police is worse. In 3rd countries, you usually decide how much to give to the corrupt police. In these seizures in US, EVERY single dollar is taken away.
916.
by dba7dba 11y ago
Without nukes, it was gong to be more brutal than death of 100,000 civilian lives. As in death of millions of Japanese civilians. A million or so US casualty was projected. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfal
917.
by dba7dba 11y ago
Iwo Jima? And ALL other Japanese islands that had to be conquered? ## EDIT I don't mean to be dismissive but anyone with even remote knowledge of what went on to recapture all the Japanese held islands in the Pacific during the WW2 wil
918.
by dba7dba 11y ago
dropping of the atom bombs on Japan I respectfully disagree that it's indefensible. It was either 100,000 Japanese civilians in those 2 cities OR million or more American casualties. AND if the invasion had taken place, millions and
919.
by dba7dba 11y ago
UK/US/EU/Aus/NZ/plus few others are closer to being perfect place than pretty much any other place. Don't you agree?
920.
by dba7dba 11y ago
I heard a truly tragic story related to the civil forfeiture rule. Heard from a friend who heard from a friend. The family hired an older lady (immigrant, but lived many years in US) who came to clean their house a few times a week. She sha
921.
by dba7dba 11y ago
I believe NYT carried an article last year about an RC chopper flyer who got beheaded by his own chopper's main rotor. It happened in the Central Park. It was a large RC Chopper and something went wrong and he ended up get killed. He a
922.
by dba7dba 11y ago
Instead of companies hiring a full time engineer that works 50-60 hours (causing him/her to burn out and quit), how about hiring 2 part timers working 30 hours, allowing more family time. Paying salary for 1 full timer may seem a littl
923.
by dba7dba 11y ago
no-where IS perfect Seriously. UK/US/EU/Aus/NZ/plus few others are just about perfect places. There's a reason they enjoy prosperity, stability, and fairness in general.
924.
by dba7dba 11y ago
Total unscientific observation but where I live (southern California) local airport seems to have less planes parked than maybe a 1-2 decades ago. If I recall correctly, the parking area of the airport used to be packed with small single en
925.
by dba7dba 11y ago
"All these things are infinitely better than the Chinese worker not having that job, and you not having an iPhone." And all these manicurists would be doing something far worse working as nail-techs. And the Chinese person is not
926.
by dba7dba 11y ago
I was just in a Costco tire center. Man those guys at the cash register in the big room with tires are breathing in some nasty smell all day.
927.
by dba7dba 11y ago
Quite naive that someone will change their ways (that allows them to make money) after reading an article or 2. Has Apple or Google or any other mega corporation stopped parking their profit overseas to avoid tax, after all those articles?
928.
by dba7dba 11y ago
While I agree about the exploitation and breaking laws is bad, every single one of us in US is guilty of benefiting from slave labor. The article got me thinking and I did some searching. A worker in Chinese factory assembling $700 iphone m
929.
by dba7dba 11y ago
Guess what. Some shop owners and workers may be out of work. But the state/city regulators/inspectors that didn't do their job and allowed this to grow will be fine. No punishment of any kind and nice fat pension waiting.
930.
by dba7dba 11y ago
Having worked with some rack mountable apple servers, I have a feeling they either don't care about having their hardware installed in the data center or don't know how to do it well. Believe it's the case of don't care.

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