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by zhemao 10y ago
> you give back all that talent straight to the USA's biggest competitors Or to Canada. The US isn't the only western country highly skilled workers emigrate to.
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by zhemao 10y ago
What misunderstanding do you think they have? Producing embryonic stem cells requires destroying an embryo. Yes, the embryos are mostly castoffs from fertility clinics and would likely be destroyed as medical waste anyway. But that doesn&#x
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by zhemao 10y ago
It took the murder of nine innocent people to finally convince the SC General Assembly to remove the Confederate flag from the state house grounds.
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by zhemao 10y ago
The swastika has been used as religious symbol for millennia before the Nazis adopted it. The Confederate flag was created specifically to represent a secessionist movement aiming to maintain the practice of slavery. The two situations are
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by zhemao 10y ago
I assume you are referring to SiFive's HiFive board. It's certainly a great accomplishment. I'm actually a Ph.D. student in the UC Berkeley lab that produced the RISC-V ISA and interned at SiFive over the summer. I've wo
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by zhemao 10y ago
In fact, some people who were involved in the Raspberry Pi project are now working on exactly that, a RISC-V-based single-board computer. http://www.lowrisc.org/
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by zhemao 10y ago
The distribution of Linux running on a 68k microcontroller is very different from the distribution running on a laptop. Desktop operating systems have to support a much wider set of software, often with quite intensive costs. How well do yo
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by zhemao 10y ago
I don't actually agree with the author. I was just explaining what the author's point was. There are certainly a lot of intelligent people with only a high school degree and a lot of stupid people with a bachelors degree. When it
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by zhemao 10y ago
There are differing levels of skill for a barista. A barista at Starbucks might not need a whole lot of training. A barista at a more high-end coffee shop may need a lot more. It'd be like the difference between a fast-food worker and
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by zhemao 10y ago
I assumed that Balgair was talking about baristas at the coffee shops that you wouldn't want to go to.
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by zhemao 10y ago
> The sentence is a bit confusing, but is he saying that a machinist job is a default one? Wouldn't he just say a barista or a Target checkout person as a default type job? No. Barista or checkout cashier are unskilled jobs. This se
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by zhemao 10y ago
Yeah, the only conclusion we find here is that cultures with music that follow certain beat patterns are biased towards recognizing those beat patterns. Not exactly surprising.
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by zhemao 10y ago
Most Chaoxianzu immigrated before the ROK existed, and there's one other "Korea" that the PRC is ostensibly allied with. So I don't think that would be an issue, though there is certainly a possibility.
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by zhemao 10y ago
Earlier they were singing Bohemian Rhapsody to each other.
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by zhemao 10y ago
The article is not really a condemnation. It's more of a cautionary tale.
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by zhemao 10y ago
Dangerous belief systems are not limited to religion. Nazism was not particularly grounded in religion and in fact embraced scientific ideas of the time (eugenics). Communism as practiced by Stalin and Mao was explicitly atheist. Should we
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by zhemao 10y ago
The whole point of the article was that Galen Urso was cognizant of that fact and chose to involve himself in the project in order to introduce a fatal flaw. The people writing the checks obviously have the most power and responsibility, bu
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by zhemao 10y ago
If this is about Anakin's personal morality, he was a kid when he left. And by joining the Jedi order, he was supposed to shed his familial attachments. And then in Episode II, he violated those principles to rush to her side when he s
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by zhemao 10y ago
And then presumably all die in the end when seemingly the entire rebel fleet gets trashed. :-( No wonder they resort to attacking the Death Star with tiny fighters in Episode IV.
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by zhemao 10y ago
They are on equally slippery slopes, but China is farther down the slope. The US has far more legal protections and better rule of law than China has ever had. And, crucially, America is a democracy with constitutionally protected free spee
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by zhemao 10y ago
And besides their small number, they are also often jailed and abused for taking on cases (mentioned in the article itself). There was a high profile case involving Chen Guancheng, who escaped house arrest and sought refuge in the US embass
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by zhemao 10y ago
Well all the banks are state-owned, so it's kind of a moot point. They'll go along with whatever the government decides.
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by zhemao 10y ago
Why would not reading anything other than English matter? There are a large number of English language news sources based outside the US. Even inside the US, there is a wide range of news sources with varying ideologies.
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by zhemao 10y ago
It still requires a level of means testing. People might hide sources of income in order to get more payments. On the other hand, since you aren't handing a check in the same amount to every person in the country, it wouldn't requ
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by zhemao 10y ago
That's basically a negative income tax. That is, if you make below a certain amount, the government gives you money until your income reaches some base level.
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by zhemao 10y ago
It's not really much different from the US. There are a few elite universities that have very competitive admissions and then a bunch of second-rate local universities (although the elite universities in China are about the same level
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by zhemao 10y ago
Makes sense, and I guess I agree with quite a few of your points. I actually moved from New York City, where I did my undergrad, so I totally feel you on the horrible public transportation infrastructure. But I don't find California to
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by zhemao 10y ago
> Now he's Chief Scientist and VP at Baidu He's Chief Scientist at Baidu Research, which is based in Sunnyvale. So he's not really "lost" to the US, just lost to Stanford (and, I guess, to Google, since he was wo
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by zhemao 10y ago
> In many ways, the Chinese lifestyle is refreshing to someone who has spent their life in California. Could you expand on that? I was born in China, but grew up in the US and currently live in California. I can't think of many ways
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by zhemao 10y ago
Because the talent the US attracts started learning English before they came to the US. English is the lingua franca of global communication and is taught in almost every country. The same cannot be said of Chinese.

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