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This looks great. The demo is very fast. Is it static generated or is it reading the sql db?

I dont get this idea of breaking big companies up is inherently a good thing. As a non-American, I think the breakup of AT&T/Bell Labs was a mistake. The world is yet to create a lab as innovative as Bell Labs. Current Google only comes even close with their far out projects(that dont directly make money) such as their quantum computing/deepmind/boston dynamics(when google had them)

Besides, if one does break up google, you wouldnt have those divisions running.

If there are far more opportunities left by the wayside, some one is going to out compete them, ie Slack and Teams

But wasnt it kissinger who normalized relationship with china?

And outsourcing the operating system to Microsoft, because they didnt consider it that important.

IBM is/was good at inventing a lot of tech.

It may not be good at recognizing other good tech invented or paradigm changes by others

I am of the opinion that splitting AT&T and hence Bell Labs was a net negative for America and rest of the world.

We are yet to create lab as foundational as Bell Labs.

On a broader scale, the marriage of far left and islam are not from some love of shared values. Its from the love of shared enemy, capitalism and western civilization.

Also highly recommend Apple In China

Reducing/eliminating those mandatory joint ventures were a requirement for China to join WTO. But in practice it delayed these reforms.

Most people think democracy is necessary for economic development. Taiwan/Singapore/South Korea, were pretty much authoritarian yet developed economically immensely. Democratization came much later.

Well the idea was, adoption of capitalism and economic freedom will eventually lead to political freedom. It did happen that way in many countries, but China is still yet to happen.

Some are necessary and some are not, or can be streamlined. In the context of the article, where it discuses China can develop things fast while America cannot, lets take California highspeed rail. - The Buy America law hinders supply choice - Crash test standards are much higher than Europe - Lot of consultation/assessment and pretty much any lobby group could block the construction - Sue friendly environment, so makes things costly.

Do these people really have no clue?

China is just undergoing its own Industrial Revolution which the western world already participated in. They Chinese Industrial Revolution was sparked in the rural village of Xiaogang. The local farmers were fed up with the communist control, lack of freedom, enforced collectivism, stringent quotas and all. A group of 18 farmers (illegaly) divided their communal farm and went into competition. They outperformed the allocated quota by a large margin. Even the communist government could not ignore the results of this capitalistic experiment. Then they slowly allowed this freedom across the country. Engineers were running the country back then in the communist era too. Soon China opened up to foreign investments in their special economic zones, that enabled technology transfer.

You see, this is the natural result of private property and freedom. People will trade/exchange/compete resulting in better outcomes for all. This is the same thing that happened in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Europe/America and pretty much all developed countries.

CCP has largely adopted capitalism in the economic sector. It still controls other freedoms, mainly speech, press etc.

America is drowning in unnecessary regulations/taxes/red tape. America and Europe did move fast when it was young, just like China is doing in its young phase of this industrial revolution.

I am no American or Chinese. Just an independent observer from a third world country.

I bet there are more professional footballers than AI researchers hence AI researchers will tend to get paid more.

Also much more people are affected by whatever AI is being developed/deployed than worldwide football viewers.

Top 5 football leagues have about 1.5billion monthly viewers. Top 5 AI companies (google, openai, meta etc) have far more monthly active users.

ok maybe bat an eyelid,

but I dont see news articles about athletes in such negativity, citing their young age etc.

why the negativity? no one bats an eye when ronaldo/messi or steph curry or other top athletes get insane salaries.

These AI researchers will probably have far more impact on society (good or bad I dont know) than the athletes, and the people who pay them (ie zuck et al) certainly thinks its worth paying them this much because they provide value.

Anyone is free to use the well tested scientific methods to show if a claim is true or not (medicine or otherwise). There is no need to prefix it western-, modern-, traditional-, chinese, ayurvedic- etc. If it works it is just medicine.

There is no such things as chinese physics, ayurvedic chemistry, traditional biolgy.

This is like Autodesk having 3D Studio Max, buying up Maya and Softimage, leaving Houdini as the only independent 3d package.

Thank you. Its refreshing to here perspective from an Iranian.

Honest question, do Iranians want foreign help for regime change? If so, what would be the nature of this help?

how about postgres style timestamp and timestamptz

unless a timezone/offset is given, its considered plain date/time, not an epoch.

His domain expertise is running a high performance engineering team. I think he has a good record of that.

That feeling is hate

I have used airbnb before across many countries, but now its more of uncertainties. Cleanliness, having urself to take trash etc etc. High cleaning fees, collecting key from a lockbox etc. Especially when traveling with kids.

booking.com also offers apartments too, and has far better pay upon arrival and pay nothing right now features.

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As a hobby started working on Verso, a 6 DoF arm using Dynamixel servos, Raspberry Pi, python and javascript (for controller). https://youtube.com/shorts/Wpnihkz23BE?feature=share

All code opensource at https://github.com/meekaaku/verso

As someone who learned CSS from Zen Garden and the likes of Eric Meyer, modern css tools like Tailwind looks like an anti pattern

I don't get why people take it so negatively when a parent mandating kids to do/learn things they don't like.

But the entire notion of public education is rested upon mandating that kids wake up and go to school, sit down and learn things they don't necessarily like. I am pretty sure there isnt a single student who loved/found joy in all the subjects all the time.

Yet when a parent does it, there is backlash?

Humans respond to carrot and stick, and so do kids. To excel at anything, requires healthy mix of enjoyment, love, discipline and motivation. Some of these come intrinsically, others extrinsic.

I think US and other non-european companies can and do make cars targeted to EU market that complies with local laws and customer preference. They can make the cars smaller to fit road/lanes/parking spaces, just like they put the steering wheel on the right for UK.

Infact Tesla is (or was) best selling car in Norway and UK too.

He is a betting man. He himself says he and colleagues bet against the economy in the financial crisis and made shit ton of money.

Stock market/trading is a kind of zero sum game. For him to gain, someone else has to lose.

However, real economy is not a zero sum game and I dont think he understands that. AFAIK never was an entrepreneur, or created a business.

He advocates for a wealth tax, ie a tax on unrealised gains.

For realised gains, we already do wealth tax and thats called capital gains tax.

Great list.

Also curious, what blogging platforms do they use?

sorry I couldnt find it. It takes me to stripe payment page.