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by euix 7y ago
How far are we really from private armies really? Sometimes I feel like the US is descending back to feudalism. The billionaire tycoons of today are just lacking homage of some PMCs to be modern day barons of their own domain.
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by euix 7y ago
This. You can be average or mediocre at a big company as there are lots of places to hide. There is nowhere to hide at a startup, in addition, a single hire can make or break a startup. More then anything a startup is just a collection of t
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by euix 7y ago
My theory has always been, Chinese will start behaving like Americans in protecting their IP once they reach a similar level of reach and sophistication with their products. It's starting... Then the shoe will be on the other foot. Not
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by euix 7y ago
Huawei is just like Apple in my mind. An overly expensive premium phone with bells and whistles I don't need. I had a ZTE for many years that is finally bricking. After this I will probably get some $100 phone from one of those million
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by euix 7y ago
I was a experimental particle physicists and jumped straight into industry after academia. The trick is realizing you could do just about anything but there are very few jobs that require you to do it. The opposite of this would be say a D
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by euix 7y ago
It's the only way to be a Chinese company and have a international audience. Douyin fully complies with Chinese regulators (i.e. censors) while TikTok is content managed separately. It's the same reason why the wechat that exists
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by euix 7y ago
I think the fundamental misunderstanding that westerns have is that propaganda is separate from personal opinion, that posts supporting the CCP or astroturfing for China is part of a larger structure, there is a centralized intelligence and
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by euix 7y ago
The only reason to pursue a PhD is interest in the subject matter. You don't have to have all consuming passion and love but you have to be genuinely interested. Those who do it because their parents have phds or their colleagues, or t
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by euix 7y ago
In eastern political systems such as China and Russia, the prevailing sentiment among the masses is cynicism. In democratic systems it is hypocrisy. Pick your poison.
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by euix 7y ago
blizzard hasn't made a good game for about 15 years now. When I was kid Blizzard produced games like warcraft 2 and Diablo. That all ended when they discovered the cash cow of mmorpg. The last unequivocally old blizzard quality game wa
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by euix 7y ago
If push comes to shove Beijing will kill the "not-so-golden-now goose". Especially now that Xi has effectively consolidated control over the coercive forces of the Chinese state. As long as the security and the army is with him it