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  • PaulHoule an hour ago

    Those MOFs he discovered are the most amazing thing -- and you can make them just by mixing the ingredients and baking them in an oven. I'm not sure that he's quite talented enough to be a "national treasure", in fact he just tried something crazy that nobody believed would work and... it did.

    But from the viewpoint of prestige, morale, and that kind of thing, they couldn't pick somebody better.

      oliculipolicula 9 minutes ago

      >talented enough

      Crucial point is whether Tsinghua and others have figured out or already knows it in their bones "the hubris of middlemen--- who control pipeline (markets) between talent and (future) society"

      Which to me smells like one (market-)failure mode of liberalism.

      I'm grateful that (for HN) 2CP'd was some of https:// news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Duanemclemore

      Sorry if I sound like LLM. Brain fog. Really.