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by hangonhn 7y ago
I don't know the nuances of the new ownership laws but the 51% rule no longer applies. The Tesla gigafactory in China is wholly owned by Tesla. These protective measure is unnecessary now that China has grown so much economically.
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by hangonhn 7y ago
Change from inside has a very poor track record. People who say that are usually rationalizing their involvement. Even non-violent protests are adversarial. The history of the world seems to suggest that is the one tried and known method fo
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by hangonhn 7y ago
I have the same sentiment but that was more or less part of the US strategy for maintaining peace in the world during the Cold War. As someone once said the purpose of NATO is to "keep in the US in, the Russians out, and the Germans do
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by hangonhn 7y ago
Kenneth Arrow did a great analysis on efficient markets and the US healthcare industry. Basically it doesn't work the way it works in most free markets because of information asymmetry (he got the Nobel for it). Even if you had price t
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by hangonhn 7y ago
I think it depends on the city. I've lived in the Bay Area, New England, and Dallas. For NYC and SF that's definitely but for Dallas it is not. NYC and SF almost go out of their way to make cars difficult. But Dallas was developed
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by hangonhn 7y ago
That's not entirely true... Given Linux's history as OSS, it has historically been easier to be familiar with the inner workings of Linux than Windows simply by having access to the code. Other than reading System Internals, becom
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by hangonhn 7y ago
I don't know how much he knows about mental health or how it's practice in the US. But in the US there are things that are classified as clinical and those that aren't. The DSM-V is a guidebook to those issues and people who
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by hangonhn 7y ago
In the Bay Area, commercial property is often owned by shell companies. When commercial property is purchased or sold, the shell company is sold instead of the actual property so the property value is never reassessed for tax purposes.
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by hangonhn 7y ago
"That said, my godawful company man manager would repeatedly proclaim how " I've never worked at Google but am friends with many Googlers. Someone I know was one of these awful company man manager who worked there would just
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by hangonhn 7y ago
MV is issuing permits mostly for townhouses, IIRC. In my neighborhood alone a number of townhouse communities have gone up. One single family home is being replaced by a 4 unit townhouse. So I wonder if that explains the difference. I also
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by hangonhn 7y ago
Lumping Mountain View in there with Palo Alto and others is really unfair. MV is doing the best it can but it can't carry all the weight of Bay Area growth. 1/5 housing starts in Santa Clara county was in MV. MV issued more permit
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by hangonhn 7y ago
Can someone please enlighten us about the traditional water conservation or restoration methods he alludes to? I'm super curious because apparently they have enough merit that Texas A&M is looking into them. Thanks!
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by hangonhn 7y ago
Oh man... now I feel kind of like an idiot. Apologies to GP if I misread the comment.
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by hangonhn 7y ago
The British traditions of colonialism where by the governed had no voice in who governed them? The governor of Hong Kong was NEVER voted by the residents of HK but was selected by the government in UK. This was the exact arrangement that th
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by hangonhn 7y ago
At a high level, I don't disagree with the idea as a whole but the problem with a plan like that is when you're facing a liquidity shortage, your shares may not be worth a lot. The problem with leveraging debt is that it can also
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by hangonhn 7y ago
That's quite a stretch to blame everything on GE's Power division. I've been following GE for a while and the problems at GE go back many years. At the heart of the problem isn't its Power division (which is bleeding mon
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by hangonhn 7y ago
Anyone know how something like Tableau compares to something like Palantir? I don't have any experience with either but I've heard that Palantir is valued quite high as well.
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by hangonhn 7y ago
Yeah. Same here. I worked with OSGi long before I used REST and microservices. To claim that OSGi somehow pioneered this stuff is both arrogant and ignorant. Sure OSGi and microservices share some similar concepts but they are both implemen
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by hangonhn 7y ago
I was recently at a lecture given by a colleague of the Yale researcher. Apparently the Yale cancer center is going to re-run most if not all of their drug trials because of these findings. So drugs that didn’t do well during the trials may
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by hangonhn 7y ago
You two might not realize how happy that makes me feel. It's like when I discovered how popular the Master and Margarita is on HN. Never underestimate the depth and diversity of interests among your peers!
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by hangonhn 7y ago
My comment wasn't as precise/nuanced as it should have been but was meant as an add-on of the parent's comment. What I meant is that the ownership restriction doesn't just apply to car companies but other industries as w
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by hangonhn 7y ago
Yeah that did come to mind but I wasn't sure if it was true so I didn't mention it. Do you know how this happened for Tesla or have any background on it? Was this an exception that was done for Tesla or the first of a new trend? E
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by hangonhn 7y ago
Agreed. But that's not what I really mean. Perhaps it was a bad choice of words on my part. But if most of us see the asymmetry of the relationship, then we should do what we can to rebalance it so that the relationship is to the benef
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by hangonhn 7y ago
Except you left out the really important restriction that they cannot directly sell to domestic Chinese market. So they're still subject to import tariffs. In fact there's a whole industry of consultants who specializes in helping
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by hangonhn 7y ago
It's not just car companies but foreigners cannot own the majority of ANY company. I can understand why China did this because they don't want to end up like many of the developing countries where most of the economic engines of t
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by hangonhn 7y ago
What power moves specifically? Curious. I'm not saying the Chinese government isn't at fault because the asymmetry of market access isn't something that we should tolerate. But we did tolerate for a long time. So what I'
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by hangonhn 7y ago
So your point about anonymous critique is somewhat true. It's actually a little more sophisticated than that. Critiques often come in the form of historical parallels. For example, rather than critiquing Xi for having a bunch of "
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by hangonhn 7y ago
At the time no. But things have really changed. That said, my family lived through the Mao era and the Cultural Revolution, etc. Terrible things can happen but the rule of thumb for China, in my opinion, is that China (and probably any othe
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by hangonhn 7y ago
They do have the multiprocessing library and you can use that to do some primitive sort of caching between processes but it's not ideal. The pattern I've used before is to use something like Redis to do the caching and then used m
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by hangonhn 7y ago
I do wonder if that's even an option anymore given the US ban on tech sales to Huawei. Would they not just block the transaction?

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