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by jjani 1y ago
> Countries like India, Vietnam, and South Korea have begun replicating the Chinese Thousand Talents program to attract their diasporas back to domestic academia. Really? I'm yet to meet a single diaspora (i.e. born/raised abro
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by jjani 1y ago
I wouldn't be so sure of that.
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The citizens would be very unlikely to view it that way, so they'd have to pray it doesn't hit the news.
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by jjani 1y ago
The most common reasons among those who did not express disappointment: - They'd want the very same thing to happen if the roles were reversed: foreign companies in Korea bringing in hundreds of people on questionable visas - The compa
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by jjani 1y ago
The philosophy espoused by the stickied comment is based on the idea that it doesn't matter what the deeds of the person in question were; it's about the concept. Whether that philosophy is one I'd personally agree with, I&#x
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by jjani 1y ago
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by jjani 1y ago
Genuine question. 2 Minnesota lawmakers shot in politically motivated killings, governor says (cbc.ca) 102 points by awnird 88 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 19 comments What retaliation did this trigger?
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by jjani 1y ago
2 Minnesota lawmakers shot in politically motivated killings, governor says (cbc.ca) 102 points by awnird 88 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 19 comments At least one HN, this story is already getting 100x(!) the reach, when it doesn&#x
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by jjani 1y ago
2 Minnesota lawmakers shot in politically motivated killings, governor says (cbc.ca) 102 points by awnird 88 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 19 comments Interesting to see the 100x(!) attention that this gets on HN, likely representati
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by jjani 1y ago
> If the US builds a plant in Korea, can it hire Americans hundreds to do the work? No, it absolutely can't. I'm familiar with the Korean visa system, and you're correct.
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by jjani 1y ago
Koreans and the Korean government would have zero time for that excuse if e.g. a Chinese company gives the exact same reasoning to violate visa laws in Korea.
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by jjani 1y ago
> I happen to know someone well who works for a Korean Conglomerate building industrial/car batteries in the US. You could just say you know someone at LG ;) > However, ICE didn't need to arrest everyone. All they needed to
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by jjani 1y ago
From outside the US the view looks very different: 1. In 2016 Democrats choose a candidate based solely on internal party politics rather than to win an election, get routed by Trump 2. In 2024 Democrats choose a candidate based solely on i
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by jjani 1y ago
That's the nice thing - they don't need to create one. They just need to put up some barriers, and there will be plenty local entrepeneurs who will be happy to create a competitor unencumbered by those same barriers. This is not s
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by jjani 1y ago
> Teenage boys everywhere have a widespread bias against putting in the effort to get good grades. "Everywhere" as in "across the world and across time", "because testosterone/teen boys will be boys"? I
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by jjani 1y ago
> The issue is you can no longer physically remove a child What change has made this impossible?
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by jjani 1y ago
Let's do away with the blackboards, school books, pencils, pens, and edutech. Replace all of them with tablets loaded with TikTok, Youtube, Instagram, Minecraft, Roblox. I'm sure they'll see much more use than what they'
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by jjani 1y ago
The idea that this is literally an unsolvable problem is just absurd. If every Amazon warehouse worker instead became a Facebook pedo monitor making a >95% decrease happen would be pretty trivial.
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by jjani 1y ago
Indeed they are, IMO this is the real number 1 reason behind the US tariffs, as well as behind his anger against Brazil, even more so than the prosecution of his fash club buddy. What you do is get together with a bunch of other countries
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by jjani 1y ago
Great, let's do that when the negative externalities of cars are properly priced into their usage. This is the number one reason that's causing such sentiments, and rightly so. Expecting people to approach it differently before th
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by jjani 1y ago
GoDaddy is in every way a much shadier company yet half the internet is hosted on top of it, would you be okay with them being used? Come on now.
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by jjani 1y ago
> Dare I remind you that the whole left-pad situation was because Kik, the company, stole (with NPM's assistance because they were big enough and friends with the right people) the kik package ? And then never even did anything with
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by jjani 1y ago
For egregious cases, yes. Absolutely. That very short term pain is almost instantly offset by the societal gain brought about by companies' better adherence to the law. It's incredible just how much good it would do, and how quick
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by jjani 1y ago
> "Disrupting" YouTube is difficult For a company , it's impossible. For any country except for the US, it's very easy: you use any of the million different protectionist measures available. Such as tarriffs, as t
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by jjani 1y ago
The screenshot gives a 1:1 comparison that directly contradicts what you're implying: the difference in that "enhanced visibility" is incomparable. On Google, they're not just enhanced, they're the only things shown
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by jjani 1y ago
Me using them on a daily basis [0]. The image I made says more than a thousand words. Hint: They very much don't! Much like, say, Google Maps of circa 2010. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45185614
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by jjani 1y ago
Finally, my time has come! A topic I'm both very passionate about and have a lot of experience with. > As a result, domestic technology firms like Naver and Kakao have cornered the market for mapping services, making navigation hard
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by jjani 1y ago
And making navigation better for the 50 million Korean residents who get to deal with mapping apps that aren't enshittified to the nth degree to optimize ad revenue and nothing but that.
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by jjani 1y ago
You do realize that a country like the US does the same in many ways, just less on the nose - until 2 years ago that is, now doing even more blatantly than SK? And most of the countries in the world put up all sorts of visible and invisble
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by jjani 1y ago
> In the USA, sensitive sites are not hidden by blur, but instead by fake scenery generation. This is generally the same in Korea, the title is wrong. The military bases are made to look like forests.

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