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Because there is now an understanding of who the actual regulators are and what the legal process to operate a tech company within the PRC is. When we talk about anti-trust and tech industry policy in…

Awesome! It was in Russian Hill Bookstore on Polk. Lmk if you find it!

The Delhi Sultanate and the Mughals did have a macro-level impact, but that ignores a lot of the cultural interchange and migration between Northern Indian regions and Iranian regions (specifically Kh…

Yea. That's the internet in a nutshell. On a separate note, it honestly sucks how HN has legitimately gone to shit. A lot of old timers are basically boiled frogs and don't realize how alien…

US-Saudi relations have been strained since the Iraq War (KSA supported Saddam as a bulwark against Iran) [0][1], and faced a further tumble during the Arab Spring because of the US not pushing back a…

Unrelated to ISRO's honestly solid step in aerospace but to all the commentators on this thread I'm Desi American and honestly, HN commentators from both India and the US need to stop being …

I'm Desi American and honestly, HN commentators from both India and the US need to stop being little bitches. It's made HN go to shit. Boomer American HN commentators - stop being so god dam…

Good point. Based on this paper from HHS back in 2000, the Wealth Gini in Sweden in 2000 was around 0.790 [0]. Btw this wealth Gini disparity between the 2000 and 2008 numbers is because the NBER'…

"The question we set out to answer in this study is how the Swedish personal wealth distribution has evolved since 2007. This year, a right-wing party alliance was elected after a long period of …

I was involved in discussions around this back in the mid/late-2010s when still on the Hill. The "AI threat" that was in mind was specifically around Computer Vision - applications such…

San Francisco. It was published by University of California Press I think but I can't remembers. Odds are it's still there tbh.

Iran was Sunni before the Safavids. Sunni Iranian holdouts took refuge in South Asia (hence why Sunni Islam in Punjab, Pakhtunkwa, Kashmir, and Sindh is heavily Persianized), South East Asia (hence wh…

Surprised no one on here mentioned estate taxes - Sweden repealed estate taxes in 2005 [0], and as such Sweden has one of the highest wealth (not income) Ginis in the world [1]. Other notable develope…

Yep! There are a lot of historic regional trade routes that have long existed that are only starting to get visibility in Western English speaking academia. For example that between Malacca and Northe…

Not surprising. Zanzibar was part of the Sultanate of Oman until the late 19th century and there was always a large amount of cross-ocean trade between Swahili Coast, the Safavid Empire, the Ottoman E…

Which countries in EU/EEA and which segment of STEM R&D? In pharmaceuticals and biotech, Denmark, France, and Switzerland are all significant R&D centers with a strong public-private rela…

True, but that's more an artifact of Accenture's hiring practices in the UK (concentrating on hiring from a handful of Russell Group Unis where Engineering doesn't have much of a reputa…

Linguistics (if you did it right) and Cognitive Science is deeply "technical" in the sense that you'll be knee deep in Tree Structure, Lexiostatistics, and Probability Theory to create …

PRC has "developing nation" status in the WTO. This allows the PRC to get special and differential treatment in a number of IP and general trade related agreements.

Depends on the "We" I personally was deep into digital privacy back in grade school and college when the Arab Spring began, but my own thinking shifted after learning about and working with …

Good. If American software companies face anti-competitive restrictions on accessing the Chinese market, then we may as well do the same. Paradox of Tolerance and whatnot.

Vaccines and mass masking work. Lockdowns not so much: "Overall, our meta-analysis fails to confirm the notion that lockdowns – at least in the spring of 2020 – had a large, significant effect on…

The issues in SFUSD and OUSD are orthogonal to SF local government tbh. A lot of the failure and persistent rot in the district is due to chronic underfunding - teachers in SFUSD and OUSD tend to earn…

1. It's functional literacy at age group - not "unable to read Latin letters" 2. Ime, education in phonics honestly sucks and fails to take into account local and regional dialectic dif…

Can confirm - Mom works with inner city youth and bussed children with a number of East Bay school districts

Those 500+ members of Congress each have a staff of around 10 (if in the House) to 50 (if in the Senate) working to help draft write these policiess but we'd be paid peanuts ($50k/yr in a ci…

Agree with you on that! UK's drinking culture seemed extremely toxic. I've been to London several times for work and meeting extended family, and socializing almost always seemed to heavily …

Why is this guy getting downvoted. I went to college in the mid-to-late 2010s and was in Greek life. We'd be inspected by our university all the time when we'd throw parties at our Frat'…

I included Tianjin because it has significant autonomy and ability to gain funds thanks to being a Provincial Level city. Not having to deal with the overhead of provincial politics helps! Imo Guangzh…