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[–] halfpipe@hexbear.net 57 points 1 month ago (11 children)

I'm starting to wonder why the US ever thought it could it hold an edge in all these fields without ever investing real money into education.

China graduate 5 million STEM students a year and actually invest money into research and pushing technology instead of just finding new ways to extract rent. They were always going to be able to catch up and then move ahead.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think it's mostly just good old racism. They really thought that Chinese were simply intellectually inferior to them and could never develop comparable tech on their own.

[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They still do this with the assertion that China steals everything from western tech.

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

…as instagram tries (and fails) to copy TikTok’s algorithm lmao

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 month ago

And it gets funnier by the day as it becomes increasingly clear that China is moving ahead of the west technologically.

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