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China is invading Taiwan because of misguided nationalistic pride and internal legitimacy, not to gain TSMC. If possible, Taiwan should keep TSMC so that the West has a reason to d…

Muon showers... WTF?

"Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has rolled out campaign proposals over the past month that include major increases in federal R&D spending, with a focu…

Also note that Todd Gitlin was a contributor too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Gitlin I didn't realize that he was into math (Harvard math major) before becoming a sociologis…

For the case of Polynesia (including Hawaii), they are considered to be Austronesian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian_peoples It is widely believed that they are related…

Work from 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week.

Yes, the report refers to the (US) Vietnam War and the Rolling Thunder campaign, which took place in the 1960s. Can the OP change the title to refer to 1967?

This event is in English: https://www.meetup.com/taiwanvirtualreality/

30% is a lot to take away from the developers. It's good to have some pressure on Apple to lower their percentage.

Jaynes was a professor at Princeton University, so he must've built up enough credibility to get this appointment. I was a student at Princeton and actually sat in on his class for…

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-22/in-global-innovatio...

Where is Taiwan?! Taiwan is one of top countries for patents per capita: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-22/in-global-innovatio...

Note that in Taiwan, most companies offer a year-end bonus (at Chinese new year) of several months of salary. At the minimum this is 1 or 2 months, but depending on individual or c…

I tried the Touch Bar at the Apple Store, and after tapping on it for various items, I then found myself tapping on the lower part of the screen as well, which of course doesn't wo…

Who goes Trump?

Google "Why apple should kill off the mac" and click on the article link.

Yes, I got a bad feeling about the RISE conference (run by the same people who run WebSummit). There was no pricing on their web page, and then some sales person called to make an …

In the new version (2.0) of the Facebook API, Facebook no longer gives the friend list to developers.

Just wanted to say, I'm a big fan of your essays! Another blog I like that seems somewhat related to "evilology" is http://www.ribbonfarm.com/ , especially the essays on the Gervai…

Regarding college students, I think this is a matter of becoming more responsible in his advice, now that he's become so prominent.

For that "paranoid thriller" sort of feeling, try reading these blog posts: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/

Correction: The attached essay claims to be written without NON-German derivatives.

Actually this is what happened to us... our AWS credentials had accidentally been put into Github for a hackathon project several months ago. Coincidentally, the incident also occu…