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by surfpel 2y ago
You’ll never beat the house.
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by surfpel 2y ago
Well that’s what happens when you frame housing as an investment. If it didn’t outpace the market and the consumer inflation rate, it wouldn’t be a good investment. So by definition it must become unaffordable for the masses. No great way
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by surfpel 2y ago
That's the literal opposite of the truth and basically just neoliberal propaganda. It's also quite an amusing take more broadly, considering that the market reforms were implemented by the original Communist revolutionaries, peopl
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by surfpel 2y ago
Your fixation on numerical specifics and word choices misses the point entirely. The issues here are clear-cut patterns of global interventionism, both recent and historical, that have wide-reaching impacts. Nitpicking about base counts or
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by surfpel 2y ago
Everything you described reflects my experience with American graduates. I have only worked at "top tier" FAANG-level institutions and attended what is supposed to be a globally competitive so-called "elite" university.
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by surfpel 2y ago
It happens all the time and it would be quite a bit of work to prepare a list to the level of un-disputability on my part (which seems to be required as Hacker News is feeling very pro-establishment at the moment), but a recent example of
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by surfpel 2y ago
> I know that must feel emotionally invigorating to believe Have a little class please. > the larger number is for all worldwide facilities Pointless distinction and missing the forest for the trees. Just close up shop. Don't spe
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by surfpel 2y ago
Take a hint from the Sagan quote in your bio. It’s because the conversation is ridiculous. Because I’m ashamed to be an American witnessing people trash a relatively poor country that actually takes care of its citizens when conditions are
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by surfpel 2y ago
If you bring a cellphone to an isolated Amazon tribe, have you just implemented the most rapid advancement of technology known to man? It’s a ridiculous, meaningless question. Where is their industrial capacity? Where is their university sy
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by surfpel 2y ago
> 19th century US invented its technology. China simply copied it - which enables much faster growth until one runs out of things to copy. This is what I would rather focus on. If Edison can be credited with inventing as much as you say,
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by surfpel 2y ago
This thread has devolved into something quite gross, though I shouldn't have expected anything more, based on your first comment. Have a nice day.
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by surfpel 2y ago
> US didn't conquer any of them Ah dang ya got me! The brutal repression and other antics by the US is totally justifiable now. How could I not have thought of this highly misleading/misinformed technicality. You win! > PRC
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by surfpel 2y ago
I’m not really sure what’s being argued here? The concept of a light bulb existed. That’s pretty definitive to me. There was even a dispute he had to settle about it. > thought up the idea of doing that search Come on now…
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by surfpel 2y ago
> Patented ideas he stole Things that were patented that he then stole, or things he patented that other people really originated at their core? Former is silly, but latter: Lightbulb, xray, moving camera, phonograph are some things that
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by surfpel 2y ago
Hot take: China is rising. They’re clearly prioritizing the wellbeing of their people through infrastructure and social programs. They’ve also developed a reputation among the global south (as well as the majority of their neighbors, despit
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by surfpel 2y ago
Edisons contribution was to capitalize on the discoveries/inventions of Volta, Faraday, Siemens, Gramme, and Tesla, helping to popularize and push electricity into the market. Not insignificant certainly, but if we're talking abou
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by surfpel 2y ago
Not fentanyl. Fentanyl precursors . That's a critical distinction. China has an extremely large chemical industry. They supply the world's pharmaceutical industries for their re-agents, precursors and such. Fentanyl, like LSD, is
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by surfpel 2y ago
Ah yes, Thomas Edison, truly an example of not stealing inventions.
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by surfpel 2y ago
Lol yes exactly like this. Tides have turned eh? The American elite are doing a very good job of distracting the public from problems at home. They get people riled up about Taiwan or Ukraine, meanwhile the education system, the housing sup
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by surfpel 2y ago
> You said it yourself LOL what. It's called 'perspective', not 'whataboutism'. 'Whataboutism' supposes a level of equivalence that does not exist here. Westerners whining about Taiwan is like a serial
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by surfpel 2y ago
China has much more freedom than I was led to believe growing up. The restrictions seem pretty neatly constrained to things that are genuinely threats to public safety, “social harmony”, or national security. It seems scary until you think
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by surfpel 2y ago
The coordination and omnipresence of the western media is the most impressive thing I’ve ever experienced. Once you catch them all lying about incontestable truths in unison, the charade falls apart. Americans grow up in this soup. They eve
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by surfpel 2y ago
Pretty much. Their universities are very prestigious and rising fast. The prior comment has an old perception of china, heavily influenced by western propaganda, which is quite strong in their native Australia. Chinese leadership is deeply
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by surfpel 2y ago
Yikes. Propaganda runs DEEP in the west. Everything you said describes the US and other western nations better than any other civilization in history. The US backs genocide after genocide, consistently breaks the international “laws” it pus
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by surfpel 2y ago
Large market demand for a product is in itself a driver for R&D investment. With CCP level strategic investment it's a non-issue. They also have some of the best models out there already, so if they are being slowed down on AI deve
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by surfpel 2y ago
This is a strange time to be imposing chip sanctions, given AI isn’t at the forefront at real scale yet. They’re still able to access compute now, albeit at a higher cost. But in the future when scale and margins are much more relevant than
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by surfpel 2y ago
That's CO2 IN the blood that "triggers breathing". Unless you plan to inject the powder, that's not really an issue.
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by surfpel 2y ago
I implemented SAML SSO for Django at my prev company about a year ago. I procrastinated for a few months and by the time I implemented it, the whole company started retiring it in favor of OIDC. I was about to do that too but I quit right b
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by surfpel 2y ago
Look into "rainbow tables" and "salting & peppering" in the context of password storage.
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by surfpel 2y ago
> I mean if it's strong enough to fry off-grid electronics then it's a different matter entirely Last big storm in 2003 did damage grid level transformers. They also don’t just have those lying around and they’re quite expensiv

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