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FWIW, I had a similar impression of your comment as JohnMakin. > give the friend a subtle clue that it's time to move on If a friend needs someone to listen about life struggles an…

It could work, but those types of jobs (paying significantly more than local salary and yet fully remote in a different time zone) are few and not easy to get nowadays (not that th…

No, he says it's a different category of problem, and ability to solve one doesn't carry over to the other and it doesn't imply intelligent understanding.

The overseas person didn't work out because of time zone and cultural and language barrier friction that wasn't anticipated in the idea. This isn't analogous to the threat of AI.

I'm guessing with backstabbing he means China's practice of stealing technology and closing off the market for foreign companies. Lots of smaller and mid sized companies that tried…

He literally said it for China: stopping an invasion. I would add limiting political influence from autocratic governments that don't respect individual rights, but I know that's o…

We all have a health problem that puts an end date on our efforts.

Product does what it should and doesn't what it shouldn't?

Of course it requires SOTA, people will always choose better models over some compact thing that is obviously more limited. You can't control the truth with models nobody wants to …

His analogy is that a gas station is for putting gas into your car. But he walks there often, so the assumption that you need your car if you go to the gas station isn't inevitable…

Oh sure, Chinese investors and business people share their profits with everyone out of the goodness of their heart. Nice fairy tale.

Did they consider that profits on the build out won't be uniform, i. e. there will be some companies that go under but the rest of them will capture the profit?

Maybe, but you have very similar dynamics in China or other countries. At the root the problem is one of power dynamics, inequality, authoritarianism (whether legitimized by money …

I find brackets help me understand structure from a distance much better than whitespace. Misplaced brackets seem like a thing from the past to me when we didn't have IDEs. I don't…

Engineering and running a company are very different skill sets. Engineers are often not good at Marketing, networking, sales, ... Even if you are good at those, for many companies…

It's a dumb joke considering Germany has been one of the most peaceful countries in decades. And the people making the jokes are often citizens of a country actively engaged in war…

Personally, I prefer the US approach. At least then everyone knows what they're dealing with and they can openly react instead of being forced into a fake dance between what is sai…

I have no idea and for me it's not the central question. I don't like it from any party, but from a moral standpoint, the more authoritarian someone is about their propaganda, the …

I'm bluer than 98% apparently. For me, turquoise is green. I didn't realize that's not normal. If I'm off on a detail like that, then...uh oh.

They're doing a lot that goes against that strategy, you just don't see it in the headlines except in cases such as these or when you dig into how they conduct international negoti…

What examples do you have of the US government doing to CEOs what has happened to people like Jack Ma and many other public figures? For China, there are so many examples of people…

Expand? German government is certainly slow and overly limited by bureaucracy, but dangerous? Who are you comparing to?

Reminds me of this article https://aeon.co/essays/instrumentalisation-is-making-everyth... Doing things with an ulterior motive most likely changes the experience of those things. …