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This is kind of like saying you can prove everyone dies based on the evidence that everyone who is not currently alive has died. You might place an upper limit using history but in…

I think you're misreading my tone because the other poster was so opinionated. I didn't think being Chinese was insulting or something, but had expected a continuing discussion the…

The government heavily revised and reinterpreted patent law many times in favor of software companies starting in the 80s. Otherwise hardware companies would have the only real moa…

Shouldn't every country be barring people from leaving the country if they've been charged with a crime? At least if there's a good chance they will flee justice. This seems like a…

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I think the real deciding factor is government policy. So far they have favored software and services companies, letting them eat the lunch of the hardware producers.

They could just as well relocate to California for that matter. The question is are they still controlled by the PRC. China doesn't allow dual citizenship (like other Asian countri…

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I don't think their social networks are allowed in China. From your link it looks like they might do R&D for Oculus in China (but may not even be able to sell it there due to the d…

It may be the opposite of that, trying to inhibit the default mode network.

I think the point is they have to follow the rules of the road because they are allowed in the road. Pedestrians, wheelchairs, etc can go on the sidewalk and be safe from traffic (…

From another perspective, the problem is people entering the workforce without sufficient skills to be valuable to employers anymore. The solution would be to spend more time in tr…

I'm not an economist but that implies the market maintains some kind of optimal equilibrium price. The reality probably is very noisy like with everything else. Plus there's asymme…

The number of actual openings is not given. Also the number who turned their offers down (and perhaps the number they disqualified due to being overqualified and too expensive). Ul…

Life extension seems like the kind of thing that can get private funding with relative ease specifically because they aren't trying to compete with the government. There are a lot …

National Science Board. Not the entire NSF.

Yes I would have liked to see some more intelligent analysis and statistical justification. This article is just outrage-bait for common consumption.

Obviously they're both supposed to be proxy measures, not realistic scenarios. I was mostly joking before but I do think exams provide a pretty good proxy for ability in the subjec…

Their streets tend to be super narrow, with pedestrians and bicycles sharing the shoulder. And back streets are basically alleys with pedestrians sharing the street with cars. Obvi…

High stakes artificial exams can help prepare you for artificial stakes at job interviews where you need to crank out a working solution in 30 mins with jet lag and someone looking…

Take home exams were very common when I was in school, which was before you could get answers on the internet. After internet answer and cheating sites came along, a professor woul…

statistically you'd only need about 0.0002 additional children to counter the risk of accidental deaths prior generations of children experienced.

Maybe a visiting scholar kind of thing.

Or significantly increasing life-expectancy. Or new fertility technologies. A few generations is a long time. The birth rates of the immigrant waves would presumably just plummet q…