zhdc1

49 ms·

481.
by zhdc1 7y ago
No, or maybe. If you look at the data, the secondary (manufacturing & construction) sector in China has been mostly stagnant. Almost all of their recent growth has come from the tertiary/services sector, which isn't as export
482.
by zhdc1 7y ago
Social entrepreneurship has received so much academic attention it has become almost passé. Funding for social entrepreneurship has existed for far, far, far longer than the concept itself has existed. I guess I don't get the point of
483.
by zhdc1 7y ago
This doesn't mean they aren't important though. In academia (not CS), but we use a lot of what's covered in the op MIT guide. I don't know if this gives an edge at all, and it's certainly 100x less important than so
484.
by zhdc1 7y ago
There are a lot of comments that are based on the idea that people vote rationally, but I'll describe what I saw. The federal government has very little influence on how people live their daily lives. Because many people no longer beli
485.
by zhdc1 7y ago
Germany also has an issue with its small and medium size enterprises being increasingly outcompeted, relatively weak demography, and a rural to urban hallowing that somewhat mirrors are what is taking place in China and in the states. I don
486.
by zhdc1 7y ago
I think they're part of the way there, at least for companies looking to do a series a or more. That said I also think they're becoming less reliant on American funding, since it seems like the EU (or at least the German/cent
487.
by zhdc1 7y ago
They can do a good job at cutting down on open corruption though, which is a large part of why EU grants have such a large effort overhead. The EU in large part is trying to bring up the quality of life in eastern/newer member states.
488.
by zhdc1 7y ago
There are good and bad elements of this. As someone who has worked with academic EU grants in the past, the collaboration part is good for transmitting know-how/tacit knowledge to newer member states. There's a cost to this of co
489.
by zhdc1 7y ago
I would say they're late to the game, but I wouldn't entirely discount the EU tech scene. The EU is doing very well in Fintech, for instance: https://news.crunchbase.com/news/european-unicorns-break-out... Al
490.
by zhdc1 7y ago
What are some of the R libraries that your team uses? I wouldn't mind donating some time to help with bug fixes. I have no idea though which R libraries/projects are being used.
491.
by zhdc1 7y ago
Agglomeration dynamics, a great higher education system, 300M+ people who share the same language, and a common market go a long way. Cheap finance and government support (defense spending) also help. If you want to attribute America's
492.
by zhdc1 7y ago
I think the concern is more about night time binging (i.e., people who eat a late dinner are also more likely to stay up long enough to eat a midnight snack).
493.
by zhdc1 7y ago
I haven't seen anything for healthy individuals. There are some studies though that have found negative effects for pregnant women and unborn children. See https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii&#x
494.
by zhdc1 7y ago
Except that a large number of them went bankrupt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banks_acquired_or_bank... And took a lot of countries down with them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%8
495.
by zhdc1 7y ago
Incompetence played a large role. I knew a couple of people who were interning at investment banks at the start of the financial crisis. The banks had absolutely no idea who owned each piece of the synthetic instruments - including the unde
496.
by zhdc1 7y ago
I wasn't talking about the individual cells (although this is probably true, especially once you start looking at batty cell access/capacity), but the battery packs and related electronics. GM, VAG, and the other traditional manuf
497.
by zhdc1 7y ago
From the perspective that a lot of jobs are going to be displaced? Not much.
498.
by zhdc1 7y ago
It's not just the car itself - although the UAW GM strike was partially about that. It's everything else that goes into manufacturing the car. US example: only around 300k people are employed by GM, Ford, and Crystler (excluding t
499.
by zhdc1 7y ago
I wasn't comparing the Taycan with the Model S. The real issue is Tesla vs VAG. Tesla can be out competed now on the Model S and still win out. Porsche/VAG may not have the same luxury. https://www.reuters.com/arti
500.
by zhdc1 7y ago
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/electric-vehicles-pos... Think component suppliers. Electric cars require a lot less parts, which is going to hurt component suppliers & the people who work for them a lo
501.
by zhdc1 7y ago
It's not going to, but they don't need to maintain their position. Tesla's advantage over everyone else is their ability to mass-manufacture quality battery packs. As long as they can be the first company to integrate advance
502.
by zhdc1 7y ago
It depends on how much the range difference is at the end of the day, and if you trust Tesla or Porsche more to deliver on future battery tech (not talking about a Tacyan vs. Model S comparison, but a company vs. company comparison). Tesla
503.
by zhdc1 7y ago
Manufacturers are playing from behind & are worried about it. I'm aware of at least one (I won't mention who it is, but it's not particularly hard to guess) who is funding a number of studies on how to capture market shar
504.
by zhdc1 7y ago
Want to throw out that PhD students at CERN & ETH/EPFL are still paid a living salary. Go outside of the ETH system and you can make a fair amount more (nothing considerable, but equivalent to what high school teacher in the states
505.
by zhdc1 7y ago
Kaohsiung's is even better.
506.
by zhdc1 7y ago
You can. White packaged bread is only a thing because people like it. It's all flour, water, salt, and yeast. I don't see why this is even a discussion.
507.
by zhdc1 7y ago
Cost breakdown here: https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/65654/how-many-k... Baking bread from store bought flour is about twice as cost effective as buying it from a store, assuming you don't add in
508.
by zhdc1 7y ago
A lot of the code used in research is hosted on Github and open for contributions. That would be an easy way to make an impact. Uni Zürich also has a group that tries to connect non-academics with researchers. The focus goes both ways, but
509.
by zhdc1 7y ago
This should be easy to verify though. I would be more worried about some of the more popular Stata macros & R libraries. I've spent a good amount of time on several occasions trying to reconcile results from Stata and R, only to b
510.
by zhdc1 7y ago
This is standard practice in some fields. I'm helping an old colleague with one of their projects, and one of the requirements for publication is documented runnable code and all of the underlying data. I'm still surprised that th

More ›