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Like I said, the US is unique in its mass deindustrialization. Somehow Germany, Japan, and South Korea have avoided it. Last I checked, they are capitalist countries as well.

Directly throwing money at a company isn't the only way for the state to support an industry. I'm not a policy wonk, but there are other ways to do it, and I think the US would be making a mistake if they let this chip fabrication capacity disappear.

It's not in China, Germany, Japan, or South Korea. They still have a huge manufcaturing presence. Samsung builds its products in South Korea. Everything has to get manufactured somewhere and, in my view, the US has made a mistake by outsourcing this capacity more than other countries.

As I said elsewhere in the thread, chip manufacturing is a special category as well, and Intel has the only US-based fabrication that is competitive with the state of the art.

It should be as important to protect that capacity as other industrial sectors, like Boeing.

Tell that to the industrial midwest. If you look at statistics of # factories in the US over time, in every size category, the number of factories is going down.

Chip manufacturing is a special case as well. China is using massive state spending to build a competitive infrastructure in its country. Intel is the only competetive industrial chip fabrication presence in the US and should receive a similar focus from our leadership if we don't want to fully hollow-out the US' production capacity.

AMD uses TSMC for manufacturing.

> Ann Kelleher, a 24-year Intel veteran, will lead development of 7-nanometer and 5-nanometer chip technology processes. Last week, the company had said the smaller, faster 7-nanometer chipmaking technology was six months behind schedule and it would have to rely more on outside chipmakers to keep its products competitive.

I hope Intel keeps its US-based fabs and continues to upgrade them. It would be a mistake to cede this capacity to outsourcing like so much of our other manufacturing capacity. Interestingly, it seems the US is almost unique in our mass deindustrialization. Japan, Germany and South Korea have avoided this.

> A year ago, my colleagues and I created the Radical AI Network, building on the work of those who came before us. The group is inspired by Black feminist scholar Angela Davis’s observation that “radical simply means ‘grasping things at the root’”, and that the root problem is that power is distributed unevenly.

I'm a bit uncomfortable with this kind of political posturing being published in Nature, the preeminent science journal. It seems the exact wrong forum for it.

You just need to scream at the resonant frequency of the glass to make it shatter. You can teach yourself how to do it

> Why do you say Google discriminates on the basis of race?

Google told their recruiters to actively not hire white or asian males for certain roles.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/2/17070624/google-youtube-wi...

He also tried desperately to get HP to make it an official HP product. HP wasn't interested.

https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/blog/atlantech/2013/01/w...

Every time Orwell's 1984 is mentioned on the Internet it gets this exact followup comment about Brave New World. Not saying it's wrong, but this is just some kind of law of internet discussions.

The Japanese nationalism angle is fascinating. He joined the French Renault with Japanese Nissan and Mitsubishi. He claims that fears that he was attempting to merge the companies further prompted the corruption charges in Japan.

When I first read about this story, I thought it was an open and shut case that Ghosn was guilty. But now I'd like to hear the full story behind the initial accusations.

The proponents of "Billionaires should not exist"

Hmm. I see a large fraction of Elon Musk's haters coming from an ideological perspective, for example.

Sometimes being a hater is not because one is unsuccessful or successful in their craft. A lot of hate in the modern age is driven by ideological capture. If someone is in your ideological outgroup and famous, hate them. If someone is a billionaire and your ideology tends towards the marxist, hate them, etc.

Aren't things like Slack and Discord essentially private social networks? Same with other forms of group chat. I see way more activity in these kinds of channels than most of the public facing social networks other than Twitter.

Isn't this sort of like "the wisdom of crowds"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds

> Analysts have highlighted the steep plunge in private sector investment, for instance, which barely grew in the January to September period compared to a year ago, versus 12.3% growth over the first half of this year.

My understanding is that China's meteoric rise in places like Shenzhen has caused local wages to increase and the city to become more expensive to live and do business in, thus giving manufacturing an incentive to seek less expensive areas, like Vietnam, in which the sector is rapidly growing.

I haven't dug into the data that deeply but my hunch is this is probably somewhere in the broadly average range of the distribution

Just for example:

> The most prominent example of the Comcast/FCC revolving door is former FCC commissioner and current Comcast lobbyist Meredith Baker.

> Baker, whose views tended to side with the industry even before she went to the FCC, was appointed to to her FCC position in July 2009 and stayed there for nearly two years, cutting her four-year term short in June 2011 to move to Comcast as its senior vice president of government affairs.

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2014/04/the-comcast-fcc-rev...

compare that to the heads of other government agencies and the so-called revolving door

https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/top.php?display=I

Creativity is a numbers game, and some brains have a higher batting average

The military has used speed to boost the performance of soldiers in war for almost a century, especially when in extended combat situations to stay alert and awake beyond an ordinary sleep cycle. The Nazis famously gave pep pills to their Panzer tank crews during the 'blitzkriegs' of Poland and France, and many militaries have given it to bomber pilots on extended runs, including the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_and_culture_of_substit...

> While these drugs will make healthy people high and overexcited, it will help ADHD patients calm down and focus.

It is my understanding that nootropics like Adderall are widely used outside of the ADHD-diagnosed population for their use in boosting productivity tasks in otherwise-healthy adults (see their popular use by students at colleges), and also for their high.

> Neural activity refers to the constant flicker of electrical currents and transmissions in the brain. Excessive activity, or excitation, could manifest in numerous ways, from a muscle twitch to a change in mood or thought, the authors said.

> It’s not yet clear from the study whether or how a person’s thoughts, personality, or behavior affect his or her longevity.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/10/nervous-syste...

> In their new study, Yankner and his colleagues report that the brains of long-lived humans have unusually low levels of proteins involved in excitation, at least in comparison with the brains of people who died much younger. This finding suggests that the exceptionally old people probably had less neural firing. To investigate this association in more detail, Yankner’s team turned to C. elegans. They compared neural activity in the splendidly long-lived daf-2 mutants with that of normal worms and saw that firing levels in the daf-2 animals were indeed very different.

> “They were almost silent. They had very low neural activity compared to normal worms,” Yankner said, noting that neural activity usually increases with age in worms. “This was very interesting, and sort of parallels the gene expression pattern we saw in the extremely old humans.”

Does the low neural activity correlate with a less active experience of the world? Are you experiencing your state with the mute button on? I'm no neurosurgeon, but if this is the trade-off, perhaps living longer by using this REST gene might result in a less rich, dynamic, and textured experience? Might it mean living a life like this is less 'fun'?

They should definitely drop Pinterest from Google Image Search results.

This attitude to their rollout reminds me of the recent rollout of Twitter's maligned new desktop UI, the new YouTube Studio Beta, and reddit's new UI.

There is almost a meme of online platform service providers not understanding their users and their workflows, and rolling out new revisions that hamper or outright remove functionality that those users rely on.

I guess the canonical example would be that one Digg redesign that nuked the whole platform, or Snapchat's redesign a year ago that stunted their growth.

Luckily, we haven't had to experience this at Hacker News thus far ;)

If you look at the actual data, average hours worked has gone down steadily in the US over the past 200 years:

> 1830 69.1 hours per week

> 1880 60.7

> 1929 50.6

> 1988 42.4

> As the twentieth century ended there was nothing resembling a shorter hours “movement.” The length of the workweek continues to fall for most groups — but at a glacial pace. Some Americans complain about a lack of free time but the vast majority seem content with an average workweek of roughly forty hours — channeling almost all of their growing wages into higher incomes rather than increased leisure time.

https://eh.net/encyclopedia/hours-of-work-in-u-s-history/

In my own estimation, spending time with friends may be less emphasized in the current era due to the increased role of social media and the personal atomization it unintentionally prmootes.

You have to give some credit to Viacom, the media company, for allowing the show to air. Viacom owns Comedy Central, MTV, Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks, and CBS among other media properties. They certainly have business interests in China.

there's a bigger problem with China. due to their incredible economic rise since they implemented market reforms in the late 1970s, so many businesses depend on their market for a substantial fraction of their revenues. thus, fewer people are willing to speak out about their issues.

one reason i'm against biden is the chinese communist party invested 1.5 billion in his son's private equity fund.. https://nypost.com/2019/05/11/the-troubling-reason-why-biden...

https://theintercept.com/2019/05/03/biden-son-china-business...

From briefly checking out some of Pewdiepie's stuff, it seems they've added quite a bit since I was last paying attention to it years back.