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In a lot of cases it's just simple conflict of interests.
To be clear, I meant literally compromised. As in, their machines are pwned. The whistleblower indication of Russian IPs logging in immediately after creation of usernames/passwords is a clear indication of that.
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"China will try but their credibility is low" Not in my field of engineering. Don't confuse China in 2005 with China today.
I'm talking about scientific research at academic institutions, not industrial implementation. Other than the handful of institutions I mentioned, the best and brightest are _not_ going to China to do their PhD or postdoc. Sure they might be employed by industry there afterwards--there's good money to be made and China is cutting-edge when it comes to industrial implementation--but that's a different matter than what…
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In the tech industry, hiring on merit tends to increase representation of Asians.
>Hiring on merit can increase representation of underrepresented groups.
I got whiplash reading this. We were told for years by leftists that meritocracy was inherently White supremacist and racist.
>The idea that leadership saying "we want to increase representation of underrepresented groups" converts to people illegally hiring worse candidates because of their demographics is... odd.
It's not "odd," it's exactly what happened: https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1734374423124176944
There's some strange gaslighting/narrative shaping going on in this thread.
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What about the current administration gives you the impression that science is a goal? Is it cancelling current and withholding future grants from Harvard and any university that doesn't allow a government takeover? Or is it the dismantling science-related government agencies like NOAA and NIH? Just curious.
https://airtable.com/appGKlSVeXniQZkFC/shrFxbl1YTqb3AyOO?jnt...
Take a look. They're almost all political DEI things. That's not science.
This administration is bringing the focus back to science.
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Please don't post nationalistic flamebait to HN threads. It just leads to flamewar hell, which is the primary thing we're trying to avoid here. This isn't the first time we've had to ask you to adhere to the guidelines. If you up this style of commenting, we'll have to ban the account. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Hard to declare that the earth is only 6000 years old with all those science hippies in the way. Gotta set priorities.
A bit over 6000 years old: the specific date that Ussher determined for creation is October 23, 4004 BC, an amusing level of precision.