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by muyuu 5y ago
Chinese mandarins don't believe all innovation is the same, and they also believe some of it may be deallocating capital from industry that brings capital influx into the country. It's totally consistent with their long term plans
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by muyuu 5y ago
> It’s funny though how you say this phrase for a vaccine and not for the hundreds of other riskier situations you face daily. “I drove a car…risk was worth it I decided”. epistemic risk is fundamentally different from empirical risk you
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by muyuu 5y ago
got to learn*
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by muyuu 5y ago
some people ran away with million$ failure is relative plus Negroponte got to learnt that communism doesn't work (or maybe he didn't)
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by muyuu 5y ago
idk, I don't quite enjoy the idea of having my code stolen without any respect for its licence or even attribution but then again I migrated away from github as soon as MS bought it still, it's a matter of principle
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by muyuu 5y ago
an ivory tower style structure like that of the EU can only end up on fascism, communism or an equivalently authoritarian system
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by muyuu 5y ago
China and India are bad examples. These are deeply multicultural countries, despite the authoritarian centralisation under a Han Mandarin leadership in China. If you said Japan or Hungary then you'd have a point.
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by muyuu 5y ago
do you guys anticipate an uptick in Linux/BSD/Mac adoption?
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by muyuu 5y ago
maybe in his circles?
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by muyuu 5y ago
I don't think that bar shift is enough in America - in America, the super-rich control and fund politics, it's not Finland; you're just condemning the kids of the slightly better off to a terrible education and to have it wor
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Freddie DeBoer Wants to Make College Even Dumber(tabletmag.com)
1 points by muyuu 5y ago|4 comments
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by muyuu 5y ago
at best you'd move the threshold to remove yourself from the system a little higher, from those paying top dollar private schools to those who can hire tutors and/or have one of the parents dedicated to tutoring there's no ef
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by muyuu 5y ago
or they send them abroad - the classic oligarch/despot kid path
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by muyuu 5y ago
uhm he doesn't have problems with the system or the concrete tech used by Moderna and AZ, only with the dubious testing of these vaccines his research becomes more important if these sort of vaccines become a silver bullet for medicine
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by muyuu 5y ago
people cannot opt out of the DMV and I hear it's still garbage for some reason, the US never mastered publicly run institutions and they seem to attract the kind of people who run them into the ground I do agree that the fact that lobb
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by muyuu 5y ago
I had something similar happen to me in retrospect it was a valuable lesson
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by muyuu 5y ago
I've read somewhere that the affluent don't send their kids to public school in SanFran or anywhere in the Bay Area, is that true? I assume there are a lot of locals browsing this.
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by muyuu 5y ago
This sounds pretty good to me. This point stood out to me: > I think of everyone in the room as an equal in such settings, and I expect them to see themselves this way. I clearly forget that I am the oldest and most experienced—and I sho
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by muyuu 5y ago
anglo-saxon culture is shame-based not guilt-based there's some influence from classic/Med cultures which are guilt based, through greco-roman philosophy or Catholicism, but by-and-large Northern Europe and NA are shame-based cult
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by muyuu 5y ago
why the throwaway though? if you remove the exact dates you'd be fairly pseudonymous I assume
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by muyuu 5y ago
leaving aside your completely fictional assumptions vs this case, bullies actually thrive on fear and silence - if you make their aggression visible to all, they cower
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by muyuu 5y ago
nope I didn't mean that at all I'd say the same about Stallman's page for instance, or Torvalds', and their politics are drastically different entering in value judgments on the specific politics is a fool's errand
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by muyuu 5y ago
I wouldn't read too much into people's personal sites tbh. People are multifaceted. BTW the site does seem a bit unnecessarily political, but this is far from rare these days.
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by muyuu 5y ago
I think it's a bit dangerous to pass judgment without having first-hand account of the facts. Having said that, a lot of people are in the wrong here if this account is accurate. If volunteers are invited to teach, then everybody needs
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by muyuu 5y ago
my entire point is that such determinism is illusory and your example wrong in every way there are direct factors that explain away TFR drops that are not "prosperity" - in fact prosperity alone has historically increased TFR pret
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by muyuu 5y ago
Not only that, they go out of their way to police the topics in forums and social media. Mentioning the wrong topics gets people labelled as pushing "talking points" or "conspiracy theories" with total disregard to the f
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by muyuu 5y ago
it wasn't really viable for most people when the desktop hardware/firmware environment moved fast - for better or worse it's remarkably stagnant now
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by muyuu 5y ago
it might be but it's still commonplace, and not just in America
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by muyuu 5y ago
China has been in (artificially) in demographic decline for a while most of the country remains dirt poor. There is no such cultural determinism. Many countries won't stop having children as their economy grows, in fact the opposite is
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by muyuu 5y ago
I feel fortunate that I will be half-retired/self employed by the time the entire industry is a mix of sweatshops and plumbing work, which will be before the end of the decade. I'd swear it just keeps getting worse.

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