This study estimates the effect is responsible for about 1.5 years of US life expectancy - so an immigration ban would cause a drop roughly the same size as the Covid pandemic
Of course no one would necessarily actually be dying, they’d just be living in different countries
Interestingly these glasses have a nice safety feature: there’s a recording light, and if the light is covered up with tape or paint or anything, it will refuse to record! But obviously that can be defeated with enough effort.
Some of the companies were pretty fly-by-night and the only record of them might be in terminfo files… that are installed on hundreds of millions of modern machines
Terminfo is actually the “new” system for getting terminal information. There’s an older one still available called “termcap”. That one usually includes oddities like 1950s teletypes.
Your modern Mac or a Linux machine probably has terminfo files dating to the mid-1970s. Remnants of computing evolution, like an appendix or a tailbone.
This may just be the best CS paper I’ve read this year. Just read the abstract and first para of the intro! The rest of the intro is really wild too, but very very good:
* Apple can send lossless audio to Airpods if the source is also Apple Music via some magic that only works since they control the entire stack, but in any case this test wouldn't test that
I'm actually not sure if this test makes sense with Bluetooth headphones because your phone/computer is always re-encoding the audio with a lossy codec even if the original was not
Can you actually tell the difference between lossless and lossy compressed audio? (With your current headphones/speakers and ears) abx.digitalfeed.net/list.html
I don't think it's a huge surprise, talent is evenly distributed and China has a LOT of people
Plus, the US has ultra-high-paid occupations like hedge funds that suck up a lot of the talented people and don't really produce anything concrete, and China really doesn't