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by elfexec 7y ago
> I feel this isn't going to work well the second time It worked a second time and half a dozen times more just the past 100 years. Japan, Germany, France, South Korea, Taiwan, etc all used protectionism to develop their local indus
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Goodness, you can count on the weirdiest analogies on social media when it comes to china. But I guess it's par for the course in any trade war. What china did was nothing special. It wasn't revolutionary. It was what every indust
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by elfexec 7y ago
For governments to completely control birth rates via artificial wombs/artificial births, they'd also need to neuter/spay the human population to prevent natural births. This would be simple for children of artificial births
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> Those are all individual opinion pieces, none of them are the opinion of “the Times.” The NYTimes editorial board chooses who gets to write an opinion piece for their paper. It may not be as explicit as an actual opinion piece by the n
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> have them spend a few months in orbit Wouldn't it be better to keep them there? Those that survive/thrive get to breed and rinse and repeat. Keep them in space their entire lives, generation after generation and evolution wou
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> It doesn't make sense to you, because people are not writing code in English What language are they writing in? What language is C, Python, C++, Java, C#, etc written in? Chinese? Greek? French? > they are writing code using a
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> Miss more than a few classes absent a compelling excuse and you are docked a half letter grade. Why not give a half letter grade boost to those with good attendance rather than docking a half letter grade to someone who misses a few cl
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Merry Christmas!
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> I really don't know enough about this: why, in general do people step down from the board of directors? If it is voluntary, then they step down because they want to ( for whatever reason - pursue other opportunities, etc ). If it
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> It doesn't make sense to them to cut themselves off from the English-based open-source ecosystem just so they can use their native language when they already know enough English to get by. Just because they develope their own chin
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Pages 4 and 5 ( "Languages of the world" ) of the pdf are duplicates. I agree that NL isn't just English, but the world of computer science, information processing, AI and even linguistics is heavily english-centric for a wid
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> I just want to work without feeling bored or overwhelmed. Imagine being bored AND overwhelmed. Now that's something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. But if you want to deploy "real code", I suggest choosing a prog
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the
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...on Christmas Eve. And this article is from 2009 for christmas's sakes.
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I agree. I don't think we should be importing any workers. We have 330 million people and that should be plenty. Importing workers disincentivizes US elites from developing our own local work force. And importing workers hurts the nati
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by elfexec 7y ago
The EU has over 500 million people in a landmass that is less than half the size of the US. Does the EU really need to import workers from overseas given how overpopulated it is relative to its landmass size? If the EU was the size of the U
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> most Western countries are the benevolent benefactors Did you miss out on the world events of the past 500 years? It has been 500 years of war, genocide, rape and theft by the west on the rest of the world. I don't recall anyone u
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by elfexec 7y ago
More like how marketing and PR in the 20th century made americans believers of the garbage we eat today. The OJ industry funded PR tricked americans into thinking sugar laden orange juice was healthy and to be included in every breakfast. T
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Not hogwash. Just the truth. Go read the history of oil. The US was decades ahead of europe and europe never had the oil that the US did hence why major european powers like britain, france and germany relied heavily on coal. No european co
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Moreover, at a time when our world, the real world, faces serious problems, dwelling on multiverses strikes me as escapism—akin to billionaires fantasizing about colonizing Mars. Shouldn’t scientists do something more productive with t
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by elfexec 7y ago
> The pessimism in this thread really bothers me. It's the demographics. The HN population skews extremely old and older people are generally more pessimistic, cynical and risk averse. Also, there is a large amount of traditional me
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by elfexec 7y ago
Fusion would be a national security level tech - like FTL travel or general AI. Heck, it would be beyond national security level. Nobody would share that without some geopolitical considerations. To put it in perspective, the US is fighting
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> Should we even care for a mathematical proof that P=NP? Should we care about the most important computational problem in the world today? I'd say yes. > Suppose we'll be told that this is possible (i.e. P=NP): will this he
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> They did most of that back in 2015.[1] Just in time for the 30th anniversary of back to the future. Nice.
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> On a recent trip to the US (San Francisco), I was surprised by how much ATMs charge. The ATM in my hotel was the lowest I found, charging only $4 If you use your bank's ATM, they won't charge you a fee ( aka waive the fee ).
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> China is the biggest pollutant by far: over twice as much CO2 as the USA, and of course they've been poisoning everything with toxic waste for decades. That's because the US, Europe, Japan, etc sent their polluting manufactur
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No. No more than electricity is turing complete.
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> I think china views the concept of separation of companies, the government, and the military as a western notion. "China" views it that way. All 1.4 billion chinese do? > The ecosystem is fundamentally different from in th