Realpolitik in Tech by Maggie Xiao

due diligence on innovation amidst geopolitical chaos

Is hydrogen car at the dawn like the EV in 2008?

In 2019, Musk dubbed hydrogen "dumbest thing," yet some see it nearing a "hydrogen economy," akin to 2015's lithium era.

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Hong Kong, STAR Market, U.S.-China Controversy, MSCI, Guizhou-Cloud, How to Sound like China Expert

A digest on recent noteworthy events in tech advancement and global capital flow

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Turning and Satoshi Go to a Bar, Vitalik on Palo Alto Consensus, IBM+Red Hat=Cloud Hangover? How to Steal all the Bitcoins, DTC Frenzy, Foxconn

A digest on recent noteworthy events in tech advancement and global capital flow

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Hong Kong, Python Threat, Plant-Based, AI in Drug Disc, EdTech, UFO, LoveFrom

A digest on recent noteworthy events in tech advancement and global capital flow

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Offshore Investment, Apollo Lite, Water, Rare Earth, BRI, Liu Cixin, a Wanderlust in China

A digest on recent noteworthy events in tech advancement and global capital flow

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Libra; AI true advantage; Circadian Medicine; China Tech; Coherent Ising Machine; SwiftUI; Generalist;

[Social Media] Will WeChat be the next? Facebook brings on Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal as backers of its cryptocurrency, Libra. Crypto watchers got different feelings : * Bullish Billionaire crypto investorMichael Novogratz commented: “Visa serves some 50mm merchants. I’m sure MC(master card) is pretty close to that. Meditate on that.

Quantum Computing

Quantum Computing Venture Fundable?

If a cat is either black or white, we receive online ads 80% of the chance we won’t click. If a cat is super-positioned with both possibilities, things just appeared in our minds become a click away, trading at home like a quant is matter of a button to