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Neither capitalism nor authoritarianism are necessary to breed innovation. Lots of non-authoritarian places have great science, too.
Also, great science does not suggest a country is a good place to live. There's lots of great science being done in the US, too, despite its horribleness.
I think they inverted the wheel without MS Teams, or kings.
(Maybe even without a giant black monolith, but I'm not 100% sure about that.)
How do they get the glue into the fracture, though. Wouldn't that require surgery?
I thought I knew which study this was talking about, and I was going to say "Yes, it's to help with situations where surgical intervention is needed to put the bone back together" but I went and found the article I read and that one was a team of American and Korean scientists, so I actually don't know about the Chinese one. I assume it's the same idea, that it's for use in surgical situations.
The one I thought it was talking about was this one, which is a cool idea but still has some kinks to work out.
I can't read the specific study they're citing here, but from reporting on it this sounds like it's being just a little bit overhyped - a quick setting glue is critically important, but the situations in which you'd use a metal plate for osteoimmobilization are with extreme displaced fractures and something that could even be accessed with a 3 minute surgery (and evidently yes, this glue does require surgery) would not merit a metal plate in any case.
The actual development sounds like it's a very fast setting bone-bonding bio-absorbing surgical glue that doesn't require extensive cleaning of the bonding site. That does sound like an extremely useful development, but it's also not a novel product by any means. This seems like another entry in the trend of pro-china hyped science reporting that absolutely removes all the interesting details in their quest to push a narrative (which uh... no hang on, that's all modern science reporting)
I could be wrong, but China now surpassed US in terms of R&D spending. That explains a lot.
It's embarrassing how much the usa is just dropping everything that got them ahead.
We're spending more on how to get schools to be more like prisons than how to improve people's lives
And it's being done without regard for maximizing profit
Not even exactly that - r&d basically always has huge returns for decades or even centuries.
It's just investing, not prioritising short-term profits ... and not having a system where the economy collapses if profits fall, not even necessarily into negative territories. They just need/want infrastructure, so they build it to have it (and profit from externalities of having said infrastructure, not building in some sort of direct profitability features). They want clan air, they pass laws & directives.
It's not black or white, but def the shade contrasts with western world.
I don't like the authoritarianism, but I kinda like China's approach to reorient the economy depending on the needs. Too much economic growth at the expense of public investment, and they will reorient towards more public services and vice versa. This sounds similar to Keynesian economics and I am an old school proponent of Keynesianism.
China is full of engineers, US is full of lawyers.
And MBAs to give the lawyers work while the "consumer" population foots the bill
I’m back in the us for the first time in 6 years.
I was just asked to leave by a machine after buying a $4 bottle of water in the airport.
What the hell?
Things have not been going well.
The vending machine asked you to leave it was there a separate machine just to ask for the leaving?
And what happens if you don't leave? The machine executes you on the spot?
'pick up the can'
Why not both?
But 4 is bigger and better than 3, so that invention must be better.
Tbf, America is busy arguing about the Superbowl halftime show... and how big the wh ballroom will be... and whether the UN escalator tried to assassinate the president...
When you can't read that you are in a communist space
of course it's tankie, its showing how bad capitalism is 🙃
Seems to be praising the state capitalist country of China as well, so seems mainly to be a confused space.
Please enlighten us