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With eye on China, Japan to introduce semiconductor tech export controls this spring | The Japan Times
I suppose it's cheaper and easier to expand us-west-2 ad infinitum than build another region even if you have lost the original rationale of being on the Columbia in the first place, eh?
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Amazon says it wants to move to โ100% renewable energy.โ Its Oregon data centers are going in the opposite direction. The fuel cells would contribute even more to climate change than its current, carbon-intensive power source. twitter.com/OregonianBiz/sโฆ
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If you want to know why Beijing is freaked out over our response itโs the same reason they thought we would back down in August.
Theyโve been drinking kool-aid for a decade that America is weak, decadent, and in permanent decline. That is an incredibly dangerous and stupid thing
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"Chinese government accused Australian producers of โdumpingโ cheap wines and imposed harsh tax penalties in 2021"
It's not "dumping" if the wines really are cheap...just sayin'
For Chinese Wine Lovers, Itโs a Whole New World
Challenging the U.S. Is a Historic Mistake
I would say for the amount of tax money that goes to the DoD the public has a right to look up in the sky and NOT see spy balloons in US airspace
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Reporter: "Does the public not have a right to know if the balloon is over their state?"
Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder: "The public certainly has the ability to look up in the sky and see where the balloon is"
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Most of Southeast Asia would like a word...
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... and has no intention to and has never violated the territory and airspace of any sovereign country. Some U.S. politicians and media have taken advantage of the issue to attack and discredit China, which China firmly opposes."
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The worst mistake I ever made was signing my name *neatly* on a Taiwanese bank's signature card.
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When will Vietnamese banks stop demanding that your signature remains identical across documents and years?
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Why should Taiwan get -all- the CAP practice, right?
Americans also have an implicit understanding of ้ขๅญ
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Honestly wonder: do people outside of DC/news care about the Chinese spy balloon?
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JUST IN: Pilots are now reporting the Chinese spy balloon floating a few thousand feet above them.
"DERELICT BALLOON ADRIFT" at 50,000 feet was just reported by the crew of a Cessna Citation private jet cruising at 43,000 feet near Kansas City.
There are few better ways to unite Americans than to encroach on the airspace.
At least it's not Taiwan Pinyin where they spell ็ซนๅ eleven different ways
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Beijing has been pushing for Chinese phonics (Pinyin) in place of English on signages. As a result, Southwest University of Ethnic Nationalities becomes Southwest Minzu University (donโt ask me why only some words changed), SMU, and the letter U is missing (or photoshopped) 
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They're just the new IBMs is all. Something else will grow up to take their place.
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Silicon Valley's golden age fades as Big Tech layoffs continue, via @GerritD, @rachelerman @NaomiNixWrites @faizsays
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Called it! #TwitterAPI
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I would say if you ever have any intention of using something like a tweet-deleting service, you might want to do so now before they make those go bye-bye, too. twitter.com/TwitterDev/staโฆ
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TikTok Prepares to Become Proxy Battle As US, China Face Risk of War
And this is the state that so many tech companies have been tripping over themselves trying to relocate to.
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Chinese nationals w/ green cards would be banned from buying houses. This law is so stupidly overbroad. โMy husband and I are expecting a baby and we were planning to buy a house for our extended family, too,โ Zhang was quoted by The Dallas Morning News as saying.
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Whew boy
Silicon Valley is old news. Welcome to โCerebral Valleyโ and the tech bro morphing into the AI bro
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Official mockup of future Twitter profle page:
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Twitter is working on showing you whether an account is ID verified
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JD.com shuts down e-commerce operations in Thailand, Indonesia, focuses on supply chain infrastructure en.pingwest.com/w/11321 via
"Tech spent years playing up the 'family' image โ before shattering it"
Also not your sports team so it's ok to ditch the corporate swag.
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Ironically for a company like Google, it sounds like the employee centered innovations failed to scale
Alphabet's Layoffs Arenโt Very Googley wired.com/story/plaintex via
Now maybe we can get back to *actual* rock stars.
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Sure ChatGPT is great but I'll take the robot that delivers meat to the chef while playing happy music at my local teppanyaki place
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Consider this: as developer tooling made enormous strides from the C compiler and vi days to IDEs, interpreted languages, cloud infra, monitoring, etc., did programmers become rarer and worse-paid, or precisely the reverse?
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Lump of labor fallacy apparently suspended when AI and white-collar jobs are involved.
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Always been low-grade surprised that this particular feature of Waze hasn't run afoul in certain jurisdictions.
Key lawmaker: Biden mulling broad prohibitions on U.S. investments in Chinese tech politi.co/3HhEtNS via
Living with Jeff Bezos is โlike a master classโ every day: Hereโs how meticulously he lives, including his method for making pancakes
So another way to view layoffs is executives acknowledging that certain initiatives will be put on ice and some systems will be in keep-the-lights-on mode for the foreseeable future.
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One thing that's underappreciated about Big Tech allegedly "overhiring" is that over time, it takes more and more people to make less and less forward progress working on their increasingly old, increasingly complex systems.
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"Using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to purposely bypass any UW security measure is a possible violation of University Regulations"
Authoritarian no?
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That's why it's an interesting thought experiment to ask why they didn't just do last in, first out layoffs
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When you look at the Big Tech layoffs as a % of workers they hired during the pandemic ... well it looks downright *tiny*
Shein sees valuation drop by one third: report ยท TechNode
That was pretty much my JavaScript readability review PR at Google because it took them so long to line up a reviewer and that person to deign to review it that the coding standards for Angular changed radically in the middle of the three-month process.
That at least some execs have concluded they don't have the right people in place for whatever comes next and are taking the opportunity and macroeconomic top-cover to reset the deck.
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Is it giving away a big secret to say that you don't have to spend a lot of time on LinkedIn to notice that a lot of the companies doing high-profile layoffs are actually still hiring for select positions?
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