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by dba7dba 4y ago
A Korean-American served as an US Army officer in the Japanese-American units in WW2. Young Oak Kim https://www.thenmusa.org/biographies/young-oak-kim/ Colonel 100th Infantry Battalion, 442d Regimental Combat Team
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by dba7dba 4y ago
Berkeley has no legacy admission...
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by dba7dba 5y ago
And only a few years later many of the survivors would be killed in WW1...
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by dba7dba 6y ago
Abut 10 years ago, City of Los Angeles tried to ban engine-powered leaf blowers (driven by people tired of the noise pollution) but was reversed when local gardeners made a big stink about it.
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by dba7dba 6y ago
Samsung moved most or all of their factories from China recently.
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by dba7dba 6y ago
"Science is essentially what a few large donors or institutions or interest groups want to fund." Quote from a disillusioned researcher.
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by dba7dba 6y ago
Don't start your IT/tech career with AWS certification first. - Instead, learn some scripting (bash, python). You will need to constantly work on improving this. - Learn how to set up a Linux server and get a website going, from s
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by dba7dba 6y ago
One of the ways China managed to hack into America's F35 (or F22) fighter development program was listening into a conference call of various vendors discussing project status.
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by dba7dba 6y ago
One big recommendation for all to watch "The social dilemma" on netflix also. The social media apps on the phones are specifically agonized over, tested, and refined continuously to increase interaction, aka make users into addict
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by dba7dba 6y ago
Foxconn = Taiwan Samsung = South Korea
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by dba7dba 6y ago
This reminds me of a post here before. I read someone here post how he got his initially unwilling teen son to learn how to code. The dad tried to get him into learning to code but the son was uninterested However after the son worked at a
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by dba7dba 6y ago
I know Hyundai Motor started shipping production model of fuel-cell truck in July 2020. They are planning to ship 1,600 hydrogen-powered Xcient trucks to customers by 2025. https://www.autoblog.com/2020/07/08/
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by dba7dba 6y ago
Theoretically one family could even get 2 starlink services if they really needed faster link. No physical line is used so I can totally see some people doing that if they really want to and can afford it.
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by dba7dba 6y ago
Meanwhile, I read on this thread that UCSF admitted less Asians. It was 40% last year. It's been now cut to 22%. That is a gigantic shift of a demographic of a new medical school class. Within one year.
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by dba7dba 6y ago
You sure about that? That number sounds so extreme that I have to see official source to believe it...
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by dba7dba 6y ago
I didn't really see it as trashing but a real person running a real business in a real world, who just can't believe these young people who live in a fantasy world that is funded by VC.
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by dba7dba 6y ago
South Korea is another example of fighting poverty that stopped and completely reversed deforestation. Korean peninsula in general went through extreme deforestation under Japan, especially during the WW2 era and Korean War, as supply of co
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by dba7dba 6y ago
I also recommend asciinema. A tutorial using asciinema in action. https://asciinema.org/a/188659 You can't add voice into asciinema itself but a asciinema recording URL would be an excellent handout material (like
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by dba7dba 6y ago
I'm thinking why not move to Hawaii or a beach town 1hr - 2hr north or south of Santa Monica CA? Quality of life will improve vastly for those who can afford to do so.
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by dba7dba 6y ago
I know friend of friend who went to Harvard Law like 15 years ago and she told me there is SO MUCH butt kissing going on there. You'd think people who got that far would be confident enough to rely on their own skills/study to get
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by dba7dba 6y ago
I also had a very sudden onset of a severe body ache around Feb 2020. I started having some pre-flu symptoms. And after one day, I started having a very severe body ace and it came so suddenly. I have never felt sudden onset of body ache fr
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by dba7dba 6y ago
Knowing a few other mechanical engineers myself, finding a decent paying job as a mechanical engineer was nearly impossible. At least 10 - 15 years ago. So the revelation from his story is that working as a bartender can bring in quite a bi
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by dba7dba 6y ago
Below case study of Covid-19 spreading in a call center in middle of Seoul is pretty illuminating. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/30/opinions/eye-opening-south-ko... The case study covers infections in a 19
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by dba7dba 6y ago
I heard a crazy theory from some foreign tourists visiting Vegas many years ago. The story I heard is that Vegas hotels/casinos mix in small amount of certain gas/chemical in the circulating air that makes people not want to sleep
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by dba7dba 6y ago
I really appreciate Jeff's "Ansible for DevOps". It's what got me going in using Ansible. I didn't even finish the book (due to lack of time) or know all the features in the book but I appreciate knowing Ansible whe
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by dba7dba 6y ago
So I know (not personally) this guy named Ian McCollum. He's kind of well known on youtube, filming/writing/presenting on a topic that is personally very interesting to him. He graduated from Purdue with a degree in mechanica
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by dba7dba 6y ago
1. Googled "Korea University Medicine covid-19 papers" and found below 2 links. Professor Kim in video 1 and 2 is from Korea University. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.15.20036368v...
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by dba7dba 6y ago
Have you watched the 3 interviews? I'm not picking a fight nor judging. Just curious. I called them interviews but really they are like lectures in my opinion. The doctors speak most of the time. I'm not a doctor but I figure doc
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by dba7dba 6y ago
To learn more about coronavirus, treatment and vaccine development from the perspective of doctors in S. Korea, try watching these interviews in order. Each is about 30 - 50 min long. I posted the links and the dates they were uploaded. The
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by dba7dba 6y ago
I would think many professors will ask for remote teaching option even if campuses reopen? With office hours held outdoors? I am a product of University of California system and many of my lower level classes had hundreds or students. I bar

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