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There is a growing number of Chinese students who graduate from top Chinese universities or return to work in China after their US education. The US may hold a dominant position right now, but that lead is fading and the unwelcoming attitude towards immigrants is driving the best and brightest back home. This is especially true in engineering (vs academia where US still has a huge advantage), where there has been an explosion in Chinese tech companies who pay salaries competent to US tech companies when adjusting for CoL. It’s therefore not surprising that in the last decade we saw many rising Chinese companies like TikTok, Xiaomi, Tencent make waves even in American markets. In the next decade, if the US fails to capture the brightest minds of the world, we could see China start to become a viable alternative to the US, especially for tech workers.

If you think Remdesivir is not effective you could simply choose to not take it.

At $2340 a patient, the drug is an expensive treatment plan but not overpriced imo. If the claimed reduction in time to recovery is true, then around $600 a day of reduced recovery time is probably worth the hospitalization and long term health costs.

Besides having to recoup the costs of development of Remdesivir, as well as the costs to trial various drugs that never make it to market, Remdesivir is currently in short supply and probably costs a significant amount to produce. It seems unreasonable to expect a good in such short supply to be sold for cheap. The overall cost of $2k isn’t prohibitively expensive such that many lives would be lost over this anyways.

They’re not selling the drugs to developing countries and won’t be for a while. There simply isn’t enough stock to go around.

They don’t have a monopoly on book publishing though. Look at how many book publishers there are out there.

> Removing the following eleven lines is illegal, subject to the Digital Copyright Act of 1998.

Does anyone know which section of the copyright act makes removing lines illegal?

They do indeed generate revenue for the publishers, because a fraction of the users actually click through into the article. Without the snippet promoting it, the article would see much fewer traffic from Google.

Me too. It seems that the site is compromised and issues redirects to malware without user interaction. Maybe @dang can consider changing this to an archived version of the site until it’s fixed?

Is each individual catalog not cheaper than some massive catalog subscription? Or do you think that it is somehow possible to offer all of their content for $10/mn?

They don't really make a 'product' but Jane Street uses Ocaml for all their development.

Interesting choice. What made you want to learn Ocaml?

That’s not what the article concludes with. The conclusion is that it’s difficult to time stock trades at the right time, and even indexing the US market is vulnerable to bubbles, so one should diversify by investing in European markets as well.

So they're basically asking for forgiveness instead of permission, fronting other sites until they are told to stop?

Well it’s hard to be negatively exposed to crypto so the discussion will be biased.

The site itself is pretty lightweight; the actual torrenting is done through p2p.

This isn’t mining Bitcoin, it’s using Coinhive (https://coinhive.com) to mine Monero

By that logic, almost every single rule in this world is 'unfair' towards the poor, because of course things cost disproportionately more for the poor.

Actually this is a form of progressive taxation that has less impact the poorer you are. Because the poor are less likely to pay for the roads, they on the average pay less taxes. And given that the road was previously completely banned, they also have access to plenty of alternatives, be it taking other roads or carpooling. On the other hand, the ‘dumb rich’ will pay out of their nose to not have to share their car with someone else.

But the rules remain the same for everyone: if you want to use the road and don’t want to carpool, you pay.

That’s a really interesting article, thanks for bringing it up!

As an interesting side note, Li Haoyi is the son of Singapore’s prime minister Lee Hsien Loong.

Google paid Mozilla to be the default search engine in the United States.

You just described cryptocurrency.

Or perhaps of comparative advantage?

He owns shares with 10x votes, and thus the majority of the voting rights.

Can anyone tell me what would happen to Uber's stake in the joint company if Uber fails? Is it auctioned off to cover its debts?

It’s astonishing because somehow the Chinese deserve to be treated differently from everyone else?

Of course, given that the CDs are kept securely or promptly destroyed upon use.

That will not affect sales in any significant manner, because most people don't care.

It seems that most people would like it to be free as in charity, which would never happen.