The US draining brain in all directions.
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remember the one time when US decide to target chinese people during the cold war, one of them was nuclear physicists, who eventually helped china developed the faster fission to fusion thermonuclear weapons research. that is the reason why they have hydrogen bombs now. aside from engineering tech, china is somewhat decent on the biology front.
Is it the same guy who pioneered China's space programme?
Leaking brain
Highly skilled immigrants from countries with authoritarian regimes are immigrants (among other reasons, mostly) because of those regimes. Makes sense that they’ll go back to their own authoritarian regime when the country they’ve immigrated to becomes authoritarian as well.
Fascism in your own (ie born and raised) country is bad, fascism where you’re an immigrant is much worse.
Right, it's kind of a no brainer.
Option A: Do I want to be an oppressed scientist working under an evil authoritarian government that will definitely steal my work and feed it to a chaotic monster gobbling down infinite bits of data to create something that will either fizzle out or destroy humanity?
Or
Option B: Do I want to be an oppressed scientist working under an evil authoritarian government that will definitely steal my work and feed it to a chaotic monster gobbling down infinite bits of data to create something that will either fizzle out or destroy humanity AND also deal with racist idiots shitting on me for being an immigrant and somehow inherently responsible for destroying their country?
Don't forget the shit healthcare and just generally how absurdly expensive everything is.
That makes sense ans in addition it seems like the research conditions themselves are starting to shift in favour of the other regime.
Highly skilled immigrants from countries with authoritarian regimes are immigrants (among other reasons, mostly) because of those regimes. Makes sense that they’ll go back to their own authoritarian regime when the country they’ve immigrated to becomes authoritarian as well.
Fascism in your own (ie born and raised) country is bad, fascism where you’re an immigrant is much worse.
Luv it. Also China actually isn't as bad as we think. They are one step behind us. If we are not carefully, they will overtake us financially, technologically and even democratically.
If there is an authoritarian country I could tolerate, it would be Singapore. I can live without chewing gum.
How many more stories like this aren't we hearing, I wonder?
Right at the very cusp of when we might be able to do a big push for to get lots and lots of breakthroughs in biotech, the conservatives/Republicans come along and ruin it, just like they ruin everything.
Same goes for things like solar and wind....
Putin must be dancing now