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>If there was ever any doubt, this action makes clear that the Chinese government will use supply chains as a weapon to advance their interests over ours. In particular this senten…

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The "North East" is the proper name of a NUTS 1 [0] region of the UK. It is distinguished from your interpretation of it as the "north east of the UK" by its use of capital letters…

"RTFM"[0] as they say [0] https://huyenchip.com/ml-interviews-book/contents/3.1.1-base...

Apparently, it was this Chinese method of repair that horrified the Japanese aesthetic sensibility [0] into creating kintsugi. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi#Origin

Taiwan can be economically squeezed by western derisking and moving sensitive tech out of Taiwan or it can continue to be militarily squeezed by China if it continues to be the sin…

>enjoy a mix of Chinese, Malay, Indian cultures Apart from the food, what specifically about these cultures is enjoyable?

London's population is almost double all of Ireland. Dublin is not an alternative at all. The annual production of new STEM graduates in the UK is half the population of Dublin alo…

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Everything is a status symbol.

Considering the advances in computational hardware over the past few decades plus the corresponding (and not unrelated) real increase in developer salaries, it is unreasonably chea…

That sounds like efficient market allocation of resources. There is no inherent reason you deserve to live in luxury as most do in the West unless you've contributed to society.

Taken to its logical conclusion, companies offering WFH would then be morally justified in replacing US workers with cheaper third world options. UK salaries in tech for example ar…

China is the greatest civilisational threat to the West we have seen since Persia or the Umayyad Caliphate. The fact that the West has allowed letting China grow as much as it has …

Exactly, the West can bring to bear its might on Vietnam if they step out of line, especially since they themselves are not much fans of the Chinese and will be more than happy to …

All of modern science is possible without philosophy. In fact, it is when what was called natural philosophy broke off into the natural sciences that philosophy per se devolved int…

They have even adopted some of the Apple nomenclature "Ultra", "Pro" and "Nano"

Workers aren't entitled to profit off other's risks indefinitely.

That's fine, but this post is for a course on developing generative AI applications.

The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority, Yukio Mishima. You reveal more here about your own psychology than those wh…

It's main purpose would be as an event venue where people would travel there deliberately rather than as a sightseeing item, and Stratford is a travel hub with connections to all o…

Surely the entire board would have to stand down

What does the name mean? Presumably it's Japanese but not seeing anyone Japanese in the company

Mr President, the second tower has been hit

Considering speech is becoming the primary interface for HCI via LLMs, that alone may reduce the need for UI design.