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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 Batta…

Berkeley has no legacy admission...

And only a few years later many of the survivors would be killed in WW1...

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 sti…

Samsung moved most or all of their factories from China recently.

"Science is essentially what a few large donors or institutions or interest groups want to fund." Quote from a disillusioned researcher.

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…

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.

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 t…

Foxconn = Taiwan Samsung = South Korea

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…

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:/…

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 w…

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 c…

You sure about that? That number sounds so extreme that I have to see official source to believe it...

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 b…

South Korea is another example of fighting poverty that stopped and completely reversed deforestation. Korean peninsula in general went through extreme deforestation under Japan, e…

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…

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.

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 confide…

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…

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 …

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 co…

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 c…

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 b…