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Comment by htrp | original | Why jet engines aren't made in China
[−]htrp · 2026-07-02 Thu 02:45 UTC · link
the people who do a good chunk of materials science research have last names like wang, li , zhang

you don't exactly need to hack a network drive when you can just hire the guy who came up with it

[−]thaumasiotes · 2026-07-02 Thu 06:19 UTC · link
> have last names like wang, li , zhang

It's not clear to me whether you already knew that those three names in particular are idiomatic in China as the names of 'random' people. 张三,李四,王五.

(Traditionally 李 was the most common surname in China. Last I heard it had been overtaken by 王.)

I don't know who random guys One and Two are.