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by dluan 2y ago
That's going to be a little skewed because the initial years was primarily scientists fleeing to Europe, Australia, Canada. The last few years has been heavily China.
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by dluan 2y ago
HN comments trying to argue that the cold war red scare was righteous is very on brand for 2025.
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You will be surprised to learn then that it's fallen dramatically. Like in just the last 5 years the perception is completely different, especially among young people.
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by dluan 2y ago
It's already been happening for years. Award winning faculty and scientists are fleeing US universities and institutions and setting up shop in China, often with more funding and talent available, and no McCarthyism accusations of bein
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by dluan 2y ago
China is smart enough to know that US diplomacy lasts longer than a 4 year term. They've been operating off the 1992 Consensus, and had a longstanding agreement with the US re: One China Policy that was upended by Obama, and then Biden
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TIGR-Tas: A family of modular RNA-guided DNA-targeting systems in prokaryotes(science.org)
1 points by dluan 2y ago|0 comments
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There's a few that used to live on one of the 520 pylons and would watch the morning bridge traffic go by everyday, but then one was hit and killed by a bus windshield.
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by dluan 2y ago
and founder of the largest patent troll "Intellectual Ventures". both efforts now feel dated and cringey.
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by dluan 2y ago
i hated the era of foam, gel, and sous vide everything. as a home cook, i want the randomness that comes with hand technique, but if im paying for a 2/3 star meal i still also want the randomness and authenticity that comes with hand t
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by dluan 2y ago
Bananas are notoriously hard to turn into a cleaner wine, mainly because of the fact that most bananas that are not Cavendish have a lot of latex and turn into goop. Most of the places where banana wine is produced (tropics) ultimately also
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by dluan 2y ago
Regulation is extremely important, and has been part and parcel of alcohol and wine production since prehistoric times. Besides the health reasons, wine is very easy to cut with synthetic or artificial ingredients, which has important econo
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by dluan 2y ago
It's similar to the malting process. Certain ingredients will contain enzymes and other important metabolites that can break down complex sugars into smaller simpler sugars that can be eaten by yeast (glucose, fructose). You need them
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by dluan 2y ago
It's been happening already for a few years. Many prominent award-winning faculty are leaving US institutions and setting up brand new labs in top Chinese universities.
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by dluan 2y ago
It's kind of funny to compare the Napster lawsuits, Aaron Swartz, DRM campaigns etc with the Ross Ulbricht type cases. Turns out you can download as many cars as you want, just make sure to pad the right politicans running for presiden
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by dluan 2y ago
China was Tesla's largest market and major manufacturing base for the international EV market. Up until this year when Chinese domestic EVs took over, and it's looking like Tesla will never get anywhere close to the top ever again
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by dluan 2y ago
I think commenters don't know about Bill Gates personally wining and dining Hu Jintao in Medina 20 years ago.
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by dluan 2y ago
> Chinese government backed conspiracy Do you understand how ginormous China is and how ridiculous this kind of made up boogeyman statement sounds?
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by dluan 2y ago
Not suspicion, just propaganda and veiled racism.
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> duplicitous Seattleites
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by dluan 2y ago
Well this is insane.
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by dluan 2y ago
The code has been available for years. Bytedance published their recommendation engine as an arxiv paper in 2021 and the code is available on Github, https://github.com/bytedance/monolith . The power is in the weights o
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by dluan 2y ago
Now post the lobbying money received by lawmakers, as well as their history of trades of Meta stock.
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This is not a good outcome, this is Meta shooting itself in the face.
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by dluan 2y ago
I jobbled down some thoughts a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42690618 But in a nut shell I think we're seeing outcome #2 play out, which has huge ramifications for the Chinese internet. Essentially
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by dluan 2y ago
Arstechnica quoting a random reddit poster is not the same as the people I've been talking to lol
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Xiaohongshu is used by a lot of huaqiao outside of China. It has a sizeable overseas userbase, but it also has 300M total users.
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rumors are that XHS wont region split, in which case this is setting up to a monumental event in the evolution and future of the internet. words can't really describe how big of a decision this is going to be.
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The great firewall is finally broken(medium.com)
24 points by dluan 2y ago|17 comments
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Happy (for the most part) long term heroku customer, this is great to see.
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lol, 小红书 as an idea was established way before facebook. facebook was just trying to use an adbuster's style approach, but actually during that time there were tons of subversive messages, e.g. mckenzie wark's "hacker manifes

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