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by ghostcluster 6y ago
Like I said, the US is unique in its mass deindustrialization. Somehow Germany, Japan, and South Korea have avoided it. Last I checked, they are capitalist countries as well. Directly throwing money at a company isn't the only way for
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by ghostcluster 6y ago
It's not in China, Germany, Japan, or South Korea. They still have a huge manufcaturing presence. Samsung builds its products in South Korea. Everything has to get manufactured somewhere and, in my view, the US has made a mistake by ou
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by ghostcluster 6y ago
Tell that to the industrial midwest. If you look at statistics of # factories in the US over time, in every size category, the number of factories is going down. Chip manufacturing is a special case as well. China is using massive state spe
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by ghostcluster 6y ago
AMD uses TSMC for manufacturing.
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by ghostcluster 6y ago
> Ann Kelleher, a 24-year Intel veteran, will lead development of 7-nanometer and 5-nanometer chip technology processes. Last week, the company had said the smaller, faster 7-nanometer chipmaking technology was six months behind schedule
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by ghostcluster 6y ago
> A year ago, my colleagues and I created the Radical AI Network, building on the work of those who came before us. The group is inspired by Black feminist scholar Angela Davis’s observation that “radical simply means ‘grasping things at
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by ghostcluster 6y ago
You just need to scream at the resonant frequency of the glass to make it shatter. You can teach yourself how to do it
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by ghostcluster 6y ago
> Why do you say Google discriminates on the basis of race? Google told their recruiters to actively not hire white or asian males for certain roles. https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/2/17070624/google-y
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by ghostcluster 7y ago
He also tried desperately to get HP to make it an official HP product. HP wasn't interested. https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/blog/atlantech/2013/01/w...
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by ghostcluster 7y ago
Every time Orwell's 1984 is mentioned on the Internet it gets this exact followup comment about Brave New World. Not saying it's wrong, but this is just some kind of law of internet discussions.
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by ghostcluster 7y ago
The Japanese nationalism angle is fascinating. He joined the French Renault with Japanese Nissan and Mitsubishi. He claims that fears that he was attempting to merge the companies further prompted the corruption charges in Japan. When I fir
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by ghostcluster 7y ago
The proponents of "Billionaires should not exist"
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by ghostcluster 7y ago
Hmm. I see a large fraction of Elon Musk's haters coming from an ideological perspective, for example.
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by ghostcluster 7y ago
Sometimes being a hater is not because one is unsuccessful or successful in their craft. A lot of hate in the modern age is driven by ideological capture. If someone is in your ideological outgroup and famous, hate them. If someone is a b
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by ghostcluster 7y ago
Aren't things like Slack and Discord essentially private social networks? Same with other forms of group chat. I see way more activity in these kinds of channels than most of the public facing social networks other than Twitter.
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by ghostcluster 7y ago
Isn't this sort of like "the wisdom of crowds"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds
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by ghostcluster 7y ago
> Analysts have highlighted the steep plunge in private sector investment, for instance, which barely grew in the January to September period compared to a year ago, versus 12.3% growth over the first half of this year. My understanding
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by ghostcluster 7y ago
I haven't dug into the data that deeply but my hunch is this is probably somewhere in the broadly average range of the distribution Just for example: > The most prominent example of the Comcast/FCC revolving door is former FCC
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by ghostcluster 7y ago
compare that to the heads of other government agencies and the so-called revolving door https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/top.php?display=I
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by ghostcluster 7y ago
Creativity is a numbers game, and some brains have a higher batting average
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by ghostcluster 7y ago
The military has used speed to boost the performance of soldiers in war for almost a century, especially when in extended combat situations to stay alert and awake beyond an ordinary sleep cycle. The Nazis famously gave pep pills to their P
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by ghostcluster 7y ago
> While these drugs will make healthy people high and overexcited, it will help ADHD patients calm down and focus. It is my understanding that nootropics like Adderall are widely used outside of the ADHD-diagnosed population for their us
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by ghostcluster 7y ago
> Neural activity refers to the constant flicker of electrical currents and transmissions in the brain. Excessive activity, or excitation, could manifest in numerous ways, from a muscle twitch to a change in mood or thought, the authors
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by ghostcluster 7y ago
> In their new study, Yankner and his colleagues report that the brains of long-lived humans have unusually low levels of proteins involved in excitation, at least in comparison with the brains of people who died much younger. This findi
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by ghostcluster 7y ago
They should definitely drop Pinterest from Google Image Search results.
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by ghostcluster 7y ago
This attitude to their rollout reminds me of the recent rollout of Twitter's maligned new desktop UI, the new YouTube Studio Beta, and reddit's new UI. There is almost a meme of online platform service providers not understanding
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by ghostcluster 7y ago
If you look at the actual data, average hours worked has gone down steadily in the US over the past 200 years: > 1830 69.1 hours per week > 1880 60.7 > 1929 50.6 > 1988 42.4 > As the twentieth century ended there was no
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by ghostcluster 7y ago
You have to give some credit to Viacom, the media company, for allowing the show to air. Viacom owns Comedy Central, MTV, Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks, and CBS among other media properties. They certainly have business interests in China.
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by ghostcluster 7y ago
there's a bigger problem with China. due to their incredible economic rise since they implemented market reforms in the late 1970s, so many businesses depend on their market for a substantial fraction of their revenues. thus, fewer peo
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by ghostcluster 7y ago
From briefly checking out some of Pewdiepie's stuff, it seems they've added quite a bit since I was last paying attention to it years back.

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