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Effects of AI on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality(papers.ssrn.com)
4 points by hunglee2 3y ago|0 comments
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by hunglee2 3y ago
with US consumers unable to freely buy Chinese EV's, it looks like a market opportunity for a domestic manufacturer to emerge. Having said this, Tesla looks like it might hoover up the budget end of the market also - we might be seeing
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We Are Repaganizing(firstthings.com)
3 points by hunglee2 3y ago|0 comments
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by hunglee2 3y ago
'sanctions are working' Sanctions are diverting massive Chinese investment inward, funding a domestic supply chain for semi-conductors, which will give rise to global competitors for TSMC, ASML and the rest. As ASML CEO himself re
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by hunglee2 3y ago
Ursula Le Guin is an all time great in 'soft' sci-fi. She wrote with an anthropologists acuity in cultural analysis and used the sci-fi universe to speculatively explore societal 'what ifs' should a fundamental premise b
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by hunglee2 3y ago
awry got me for a long time.
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Cisco Systems and Financialization(ineteconomics.org)
60 points by hunglee2 3y ago|46 comments
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by hunglee2 3y ago
We are going back to the shop counter era of general stores where everything is behind the counter, society is in full regression
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by hunglee2 3y ago
US could be the global superpower for solar - Sun Belt alone could power all of the Americas
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by hunglee2 3y ago
Takes 10-15 years to get nuclear online, Germany will be dependent on expensive US LNG for a long time; companies in energy intensive sectors already relocating to where the energy is cheaper (the US) or where the labour costs is cheaper (C
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by hunglee2 3y ago
US style tariff barriers might be the only way to prevent the dominance of China NEV in the UK - this is the Toyota / Nissan in the 80's moment or Honda moment in the 90's. The cars are significantly cheaper, easier to mainta
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by hunglee2 3y ago
Interesting exercise but comparing parameters in a dynamically changing environment can be misleading. India will find it's own path to economic development, harnessing its unique civilisation characteristics. There was one key point t
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by hunglee2 3y ago
big move if they do - Christian cults have been a powerful force in East Asian societies since WWII, having been seeded as left behind anti-communist force by the CIA. Moonies in Korea, Falun Gong in China, Aum Shinrikyo in Japan. They take
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by hunglee2 3y ago
Energy intensive manufacturing industries cannot remain competitive importing LNG from the US at 50% more than the previous cost of Russian gas, so German companies will have to relocate to where the energy is cheaper (US) or labour cost is
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New phone sparks worry China has found a way around U.S. tech limits(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by hunglee2 3y ago|3 comments
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by hunglee2 3y ago
UK will be fine as it is a democracy. These security features are not the same as they are in authoritarian countries.
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by hunglee2 3y ago
The collapse of fertility is a universal, cross cultural outcome of economic development. It seems that birthrate only rebounds after some sort of catastrophic society meltdown - total wars or famines - which reset the board at country leve
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Huawei's GPU Reportedly Matches Nvidia's A100(tomshardware.com)
4 points by hunglee2 3y ago|3 comments
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Startup Heatmap Europe 2023(media.licdn.com)
1 points by hunglee2 3y ago|1 comments
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90% of Companies Will Return to Office by the End of 2024(resumebuilder.com)
3 points by hunglee2 3y ago|1 comments
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Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey(tidyfirst.substack.com)
2 points by hunglee2 3y ago|0 comments
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by hunglee2 3y ago
there is now a significant body of research on this, mainly on the significance of proximity to the decision maker and the value of 'osmotic information transfer' Google the following papers - The Power of Proximity to Coworkers (
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by hunglee2 3y ago
100% Remote is optimised for senior individual contributors who no longer need direct supervision, and do not have supervisory responsibilities themselves. Being on-premise (where the bosses are) will inevitably lead to career acceleration
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by hunglee2 3y ago
the reality is a great deal of the 'aid' is warehoused military equipment due for de-commissioning. Lyndsey Graham said it right - this is the best dollars the US has ever spent.
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by hunglee2 3y ago
same issue though - you can't get US workers to do the work Foxconn / TSMC want them to do for the price they pay for them to do it. https://www.gizmochina.com/2023/08/08/tsmc-plant-hiring-taiw... t
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by hunglee2 3y ago
THAT I didn't know. What is the scenario here - compulsory home purchase?
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the West has failed to keep its promises on aid(ft.com)
2 points by hunglee2 3y ago|2 comments
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by hunglee2 3y ago
good point, the subsidies are of course US tax payers money. Nobody a winner then, save perhaps the politician who parlayed everyone's material losses to political capital!
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by hunglee2 3y ago
no big deal for the US, a foreign company had to swallow a loss in order to give US President a domestic talking point. TSMC fabs currently experiencing very similar problems - differences in work ethic, workplace culture, low salaries for
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by hunglee2 3y ago
isn't this what pastebin is for?

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