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by dluan 1y ago
directly hooking up the AI to the nuclear button is which chapter of the dont build the torment nexus book
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by dluan 1y ago
everything is mid 2000s again. this really feels anti-apple even though the design polish is top notch, but to just abandon accessibility for shinyness feels like something steve would have obviously been against. but it definitely takes m
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Trump's visa clampdown plunges 275,000 Chinese students into uncertainty(washingtonpost.com)
13 points by dluan 1y ago|1 comments
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by dluan 1y ago
https://www.nature.com/nature-index/institution-outputs/gene... 8 of the top 10 universities by global research output are Chinese. The lone American university just had all of it's government contracts and f
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The U.S. will begin revoking visas of Chinese students(twitter.com)
8 points by dluan 1y ago|2 comments
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by dluan 1y ago
Last year Shanghai celebrated the 100th anniversary of the bus system, so they decorated all of the bus liveries to be a modern take on the historical first busses. They are very cute and easy to use, and a lot of the bus stops have little
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by dluan 1y ago
This story is from 2021 so I wonder how those startups are faring now. For a while molecular alcohol was the hot thing, with startups like Endless West raising a lot of VC to try and shortcut aging.
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by dluan 1y ago
It's not limited to Soviet missions. My high school physics teacher worked at JPL on the Mars Climate Orbiter in the 90s. His entire NASA career was in development of it, and after 10 months of travel following successful launch, the t
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by dluan 1y ago
As a surfer, I've done a few breathwork classes even though I've never been close to being in conditions that really needed it. There is a tremendous amount of training that you can do to basically change your conscious thoughts i
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by dluan 1y ago
This it the most immediate and obvious change in any Chinese city now, they are practically silent. All electric cars means you can actually have a conversation with someone while walking through crowded downtown areas, and you never realiz
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by dluan 2y ago
Hades is fun because there is some skill involved with the button mashing to go with the RNG, but it feels like too many games are just dressed up gambling mechanics these days. Balatro is too naked and bare with being clever gambling, plus
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by dluan 2y ago
And specifically the ivy league schools and "elite" ones are cementing their reputation among younger students and soon to be college applicants. They are paying attention. I've seen several boycotts of Columbia and other uni
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75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving(nature.com)
11 points by dluan 2y ago|1 comments
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by dluan 2y ago
Always wished more scientists read and understand Richard Hamming. I read and listened to some lectures right out of college and it always struck me as not just catchy advice for young scientists and engineers, but as self-evident principle
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by dluan 2y ago
The US makes 5 commercial ships per year. China makes 1,700. https://www.seatrade-maritime.com/containers/us-wakes-up-to-...
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by dluan 2y ago
I just meant that they REALLY love international standards. They have the assumption that a group of really smart people must have decided it democratically and fairly, so no matter what it is about they will get excited about it.
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by dluan 2y ago
Chinese people have an irrational amount of love for international standards.
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by dluan 2y ago
Maybe you don't remember that only 2 years earlier the US CIA "mistakenly" bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, killing three Chinese government workers and nearly sparking war, with Bill Clinton personally calling to apol
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by dluan 2y ago
All the tech heads at the inauguration, from the bald ones to the Tim Cooks and Sundar Pichais, participated under the assumption that it would preserve their piece of the pie. Independence, sovereignty, and self-sustainability are going to
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by dluan 2y ago
There’s a ton of people I follow on twitter too, @beijingdai, @wmhuo168, @rnaudbertrand. All have great rants.
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by dluan 2y ago
Right now, I try to consume content directly from the dragon's mouth with official news and reports, but it requires a bit of experience knowing how to read between the lines and having a strong bullshit parser. Similarly, most English
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by dluan 2y ago
Pick up a sickle while you're at it.
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by dluan 2y ago
You're pointing out one plant making one model in one city. Chinese EV manufacturers are rolling out new models every week.
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by dluan 2y ago
It's funny you invoke some trad/conservative appeal to tradition, and meanwhile China's imperial history of bureaucratic machinery is never pointed to as an example of "look, technocratic meritocracy works".
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by dluan 2y ago
American tech workers need to start paying attention to Chinese national policy, the National People's Congress is happening right now and it's how China sets long term goals and targets. "Made in China 2025" was a massi
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by dluan 2y ago
"Decoupling" was started in the US by the Obama administration.
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by dluan 2y ago
I was in SF recently for a friend's wedding in Marin and rented a little Chevy EV just for a weekend because I wanted to test out the experience. It was STILL nerveracking and impossible to find a rapid charger, and I STILL ended up sp
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by dluan 2y ago
Going to Thailand for weekend parties is a big thing in the China white dude expat scene.
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by dluan 2y ago
Fearmongering the American public into believing that it would happen is how Trump leveraged this deal, and how he spins it to his base that he wins yet another negotiation to make America stronger. Same playbook as the Apple and OpenAI&#x2
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by dluan 2y ago
It's just not even good security policy, and in some cases will do irreparable harm. These are incredibly smart and valuable people who are leaving and no longer under your sphere of influence, and where their work will now massively b

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