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by hker 11mo ago
Sending planes close to Taiwan, threatening invasion everyday, like what Russia did before invading Ukraine? Was Russia merely challenging American superiority?
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by hker 11mo ago
Quantity ≠ Quality. > Chen-Ning Yang was technically not wrong with his 1998 prediction, since Tu Youyou got 1/3 of the 2015 Nobel in medicine, but it didn't really make sense for him to link this to continued development, sinc
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by hker 11mo ago
> I don't think even the Cultural Revolution or anything else Mao did had much of an effect on Nobel prize-worthy research, simply because there wasn't much to disrupt to begin with. Count points: - Intellectuals, academics, an
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by hker 11mo ago
> 9 if you count people... 13 according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_Nobel_laureate... , including peace prize laureates Liu Xiaobo (2010) and the 14th Dalai Lama (1989). > But, since the Nobel
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by hker 2y ago
CCP has been posturing selectively in the name of its National Security. As Macro Rubio put it this month: “They like to play these games. They put out these translations where it says one thing in English and then it’s translated in a dif
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by hker 2y ago
What goes around comes around: Elon Musk’s DOGE is using AI to target cuts [1], and may target the IRS [2]. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/06/elon-musk-d... [2] https://www.
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by hker 2y ago
> destroy communication infrastructure Chinese ships are just “testing the waters” this week by cutting the Internet cables near Taiwan. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42615939 "Chinese Vessel Cuts Taiwan Inte
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by hker 2y ago
Possibly related articles on the recent issues with banks in China: * China's banking turmoil: 40 banks vanish, Jiangxi leads collapse: https://www.msn.com/en-ie/money/other/china-s-banking-turmoi... |
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by hker 2y ago
> The Journal , my supervisor said, did not want its reporters seen calling for greater freedoms—because, unlike in Western nations, it is not an established principle in Hong Kong. Hong Kong ranked pretty high in Press Freedom: 18th in
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Malevolent traits may be important for athletic success – study(independent.co.uk)
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by hker 2y ago
Summarizing one of the main points of the article: > If you watch an anime or a TV series "about" fighting, … getting better at techniques you already know is often more effective than having a portfolio of hundreds of "mo
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Hong Kong newspaper runs blank front page ahead of Tiananmen anniversary(straitstimes.com)
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Mediterranean diet helps women live much longer, a large new study finds(cnn.com)
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by hker 2y ago
Native Cantonese speaker here, glad that you are interested in learning Cantonese. I am working with other volunteers to improve Cantonese teaching, and wonder what difficulties you have encountered when learning Cantonese, and what materia
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Tech Lost Gen Z(fortune.com)
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by hker 2y ago
On the other side, China blocks WhatsApp, Threads, Signal, Telegram on the Chinese App Store. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40085214 "Apple deletes WhatsApp, Threads from China app store on orders from Beijing&q
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Canadian Lawmaker Testifies Chinese Students Were Bused in to Elect Him(nytimes.com)
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by hker 3y ago
Reminds me of the Requests for Startups from Y Combinator this week: ... 3. New defense technology 4. Bring manufacturing back to America ... https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by hker 3y ago
China has a No First Use policy on nuclear weapons. Russia threatens to use nuclear, even without being hit with nuclear.
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by hker 3y ago
> Also, as the war in Ukraine proves, you don't need cutting edge chips to inflict worlds of pain on another country, but 100+ year old tech of mortar cannons and shells are more than enough. Worth noting the difference in scale bet
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China regulators probe liquidity stress that sent rates to record 50%(reuters.com)
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Boeing says it can't make money with fixed-price contracts(arstechnica.com)
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Microsoft tries to dump office space at one of S.F.'s tallest towers(sfchronicle.com)
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One month after pig heart transplant, no signs of rejection or infection(cnn.com)
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Farmers turn to tech as bees struggle to pollinate(bbc.com)
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by hker 3y ago
> Foxconn's founder Terry Gou is running as an independent candidate in Taiwan's presidential election that is due to take place in January. For those following the Taiwan election, this explains a lot. China wants the Taiwanes
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Supreme Court allows White House to fight social media misinformation(scrippsnews.com)
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China is becoming a data black hole, says short seller Aandahl(theedgemalaysia.com)
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The 1970s Economic Theory That Needs to Die(theatlantic.com)
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Scammers amass $1.02T globally, Singapore lost the most: Report(hindustantimes.com)
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