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meekaaku

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    Comment #47972617

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

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    Comment #47022594

    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 l…

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    Comment #46884369

    But wasnt it kissinger who normalized relationship with china?

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    Comment #46132169

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

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    Comment #46132145

    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

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    Comment #45902188

    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.

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    Comment #45683183

    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.

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    Comment #45585728

    Also highly recommend Apple In China

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    Comment #45577744

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

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    Comment #45247889

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

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    Comment #45247863

    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 Californi…

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    Comment #45247606

    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 …

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    Comment #44770300

    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 develo…

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    Comment #44765860

    ok maybe bat an eyelid, but I dont see news articles about athletes in such negativity, citing their young age etc.

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    Comment #44765537

    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 socie…

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    Comment #44556989

    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-, c…

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    Comment #44503856

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

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    Comment #44350063

    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?

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    Comment #44114010

    how about postgres style timestamp and timestamptz unless a timezone/offset is given, its considered plain date/time, not an epoch.

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    Comment #44033137

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

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    Comment #44003257

    That feeling is hate

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    Comment #43982437

    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 lock…

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    Comment #43827267

    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 …

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    Comment #43810207

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