East Asian management culture doesn't really have a big advantage over its Western counterpart when input costs are similar. Yes, even in manufacturing!

So don't believe the folks who think Americans can't build chips.

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People in a democracy get the leaders they deserve.

Japanese rapper SHO (aka S.TIME) has shared this video of him filming an anti-bullying music video in Shibuya. It looks like a lot of tourists were taking photos of the spectacle.

Taiwanese woman posted on the Internet that she found clips of the earthquake — which were recorded by the security camera in her home — on the Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu.

👉 security camera was manufactured in China.
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*plays mission impossible music* 🐰

Peer reviewed publications overstate how well anti-depressants work because the published literature omits lots of conflicting results🧵

When the FDA does their reviews, they notice lots of unpublished studies that tend to show the drugs are less effective.

🔵 5% of the world's population
🔴 5% of the world's population

'If I were to sum up in a few simple words how European policy towards China has changed in recent years, I would be tempted to say that it is no longer driven by fear...In Brussels, officials have come to understand that economic leverage runs both ways' email.gmfus.org/rv/ff00c7ef72a…

Manufacturing isn't about jobs anymore. It's about automated output.

It's still very important.

OK I take it back, the Palestine protests are awesome

So you agree that people who break in and vandalize a building should be prosecuted?

J.D. Vance: 'Exactly.'

I’m just checking because you did help raise money for people who did so on Jan. 6th.

An illuminating anecdote.

hell yeah permitting reform!!! 🔥 🔥 🔥

This is the biggest LARP I have ever seen

April 2024 was the record best month for renewable energy in history.

52,6% vs previous record of 48,9% in May 2023.

Growth of renewables in Europe is looking at ca 5 percentage points per year.

No wonder fossil fuel use is plummeting!

“…we can look at recent research on winners of International Math Olympiads (IMO), and how much more productive they are in the U.S. For equally talented IMO medalists, those who migrated to the United States were two to three times as productive as medalists who migrated to the

As someone who paid even an iota of attention to the Philly mayoral primary, this is unsurprising. People want cops. They just want them to be good at their jobs, not bad

Green energy is reliable energy

This bears repeating

'Google's payments constituted 17.5% of Apple's operating income'

It's insane!!