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by AnAfrican 10y ago
Because the devellopment path used by Japan and South Korea is very close to the one used by Zaire and pre-1980 Brazil or Syria and many other places where it failed. And in many cases, those attempts failed by the 70's
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
Yes. South Korea has been in need of an IMF loan. As recently as 1997 https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2015/09/28/04/53/sp0121...
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
>Is there? Who have this option when the people in power is going to profit immensely. Oh but rulers do opt out taking IMF money all the time... Zimbabwe did for the past decade. Angola just this year did ask for IMF money and then pulle
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
The "Washington Consensus" is a rather recent term. The concept itself refers to policies that were put in place by the 70's. The IMF and the World Bank both predate those "policies". And they were giving loans and
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
most of the disgruntled car-owning Parisian are actually from the suburbs anyway...
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
> it's chilling to think they were markedly better behaved than the French and especially Belgian colonies in Africa I'm somehow suspicious of this claim. There's some circumstancial evidence that make me think that Belgiu
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
You are not treated differently as a customer. The explanation is that distribution rights are sold by territory because most old school distribution channels are by territory. And content is usally financed by the sale of rights (usually b
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
The US Postal Services' websites are by far the most visited. Followed by things like the Weather services and then things related to health or social security. Those are "costumer"-oriented sites. But then again, some of the
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
it could even get more complicated. in your example, even if the security-driven development generates value by preventing a hack, it could simply be considered Cost of Goods Sold, or maintenance costs... In accounting standards, Investment
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
In some contexts, not all Spending is Investment even if it can be defined as investment in layman terms.
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
>Africa is a prime destination for second hand cars coming in from developed countries. I'm skeptical there is much growth opportunity there for car manufacturers. That's mostly because New Cars were unafforable to All. At leas
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
No detailed quote or link but : - it makes a lot more sense to ship by Air for product with such value per kg - Apple has been shipping products by Air since 1997(famously they booked the entire capacity for the holiday season) - Apple brag
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
>Strange how the claim of 'rape' apparently is what set off the crowd to lynch RACE
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
May be the fact that they had already killed 2 boys was part of it ? The article also mentions how many black families had fled the town and how they were ready to get another teenager. That's how the "grab anyone" part works
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
Apple doesn't do seafreight. at least not for its final products.
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
It Was Broadcasted Live (or almost) In The USSR. No Way, the Government of the USSR would have done that if they had any doubt about it being an hoax.
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
not being allowed to do something is oppression.
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
That cash is what Apple has left AFTER those investments abroad.
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
>if they have good electricity, air conditioning or potable running water Even in Africa, not having those and having good, stable and cheap internet is a really weird case.
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
I'm optimistic. For smaller and poorer markets, there are plenty of content with no distribution deal in place. So Netflix could be the only way to make any money in those markets. Those catalogues will grow bigger. Possibly bigger tha
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
sure but it certainly did move there. So it's not like it's 0% chances long term.
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
Wait until its main industry moves or goes into crisis.
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
I don't think OP was thinking about density but really about huge cities. In Europe, even mid-size and smaller cities can be as dense as the big cities. What he was arguing against was a model with a few huge metropolises instead of ma
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
> The US Congress does, really, have line-item authority over regular US laws. I don't think legality was the issue. The issue is that there are dozens of countries that need to vote on the same exact text for it to have an effect.
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
I actually had internal constituencies in mind.. Goat Cheese farmers or Cab drivers have and will make hell if there's even one line that they deem unacceptable even if the whole thing could (not necessarily will) be beneficial for the
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
Let's say you're a random African country negotiating a trade deal with the US. - you have a nascent agroculture sector that could benefit from some lower tarifs on exports to the US. - you also have some labour preference laws in
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
It seems like many people don't really understand how lobbies work. Corporations' interests aren't identical so they cannot be defended by one lobby. And there are lobbies defending non-corporate interests. And those can be a
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
"coordination" is the argument for secrecy. As there will be single-issue opponents in each of the parties, any multi-parties negotiation will fail if it happens in public.
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
Libya is also sort of coming back
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
Or maybe, as many people have argued, Saudi Arabia realized that OPEP (and the non-OPEP players) are simply not disciplined enough to bring their production down enough to move prices up. So they've decided to fight for market-share th

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