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by kristopolous 387 days ago
They don't have lower standards either.

I mean they will now with a candidate pool reduction of 96%...

The rest is kinda wild. I guess Ilya Sutskever should leave? Sergey Brin would have never started Google, Jony Ive would be in the UK, Jensen Huang and Nvidia would be hailing from Taipei, Elon Musk would be in Johannesburg, Linus Torvalds would still be in Finland, the Rasmussen brothers would have launched Google maps in the Netherlands, Satya Nadella would be in Hyderabad, the Broadcom CEO would be in Malaysia...

You're beheading like 50% of the S&P my friend...

Not to mention say, the faculty of engineering at places like MIT https://www.eecs.mit.edu/role/faculty-cs/

To me places like Stanford and Caltech are world class schools that happen to be in the US. Over 90% not being American born is what I'd expect from a globally renown world class institution because that's what the world population looks like.

China has many programs to attract top global talent. If you want to fast track the transition from Silicon Valley to Beijing, kicking out the foreigners is an excellent move.

Graduate level coursework at Peking is already in English. All these scholars have to do is get on a plane.

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  > You're beheading like 50% of the S&P my friend...
just a guess but i'd assume these decisions are being made on an emotional/ideological basis, not long term viability, but maybe i'm missing something obvious...
Everyone's decisions are fundamentally ideological. Some ideologies are just more coherent
> You're beheading like 50% of the S&P my friend...

And that's why we call it MAGA Maoism.

rather than say anything likely unconstructive myself in direct response to this, i would very much like to see you elaborate on your understanding of mao and what value and predictive power you find in this comparison.
Maoism and Trumpism share a certain self-sabotaging ideological fetish for the virtues of rural life that expresses itself politically more in destructive resentment of urbanites and urban institutions than productive development of rural ones.