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by bitsage 2y ago
This article starts out insightful but ends up preaching to maintain the status quo. Europe tried to dangle economic cooperation as a carrot in front of an increasingly aggressive Russia, so how will that tactic work any better with China?
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by bitsage 2y ago
It will probably be kinder to him than to the neoliberals who thought that giving trillions to an authoritarian regime would somehow make them a liberal democracy.
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by bitsage 2y ago
The US brain drained plenty of people from Nazi Germany and then the Eastern Bloc. The greater the disparity, the greater the motivation to move.
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by bitsage 2y ago
Immigrants from the Global South definitely have it worse in his examples, the Denmark and Netherlands, where even liberal parties have turned against immigration. The Republicans want to deport illegal immigrants, starting with those who
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by bitsage 2y ago
China definitely prefers the status quo. With both countries’ rapidly aging demographics, a peaceful reunification might actually be feasible later this century. If Putin and Kim Jong Un are any indication, Xi is more likely to act if he
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by bitsage 2y ago
Trump has long boasted that he could have gotten semiconductor investments without subsidies. He would see it as a win if TSMC did the same thing, or even more, for free.
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by bitsage 2y ago
Emergency and humanitarian aid wasn’t stopped. Your own quote alludes to it.
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by bitsage 2y ago
The US is pivoting from Europe to the Pacific precisely to better protect the likes of Taiwan. The Trump admin is filled with China hawks. Taiwan doesn’t have trillions of dollars and hundreds of millions of people to fund its own defense
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by bitsage 2y ago
We saw NYC and SF do this to disastrous effects. Journalists had to start looking at privately collected victimization rates to get an accurate picture since crime stats were clearly being juked.
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by bitsage 2y ago
China has just developed to the extent that top STEM professionals can have a good quality of life at home. Chinese immigrants were pouring when the US was far less welcoming. The US used to also get hordes of migrants from Europe, Japan,
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by bitsage 2y ago
Not sure where you’re from, but here in the US, the wealthy elites love immigration and inefficient governments. Easily exploited workers and a weak government incapable of helping them is a billionaire’s dream. It’s uncanny how similar t
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by bitsage 2y ago
Emergency and humanitarian aid will remain. I’m sure all the political and cultural funding is gone though. For instance, Pepfar is still running. https://www.state.gov/emergency-humanitarian-waiver-to-forei...
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by bitsage 2y ago
That’s an interesting thought because I saw Trump, and many other elections, as a conservative reaction. A main complaint I see is people thinking the country is going backwards, rather than into uncharted territory.
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by bitsage 2y ago
I agree that the CHIPS Act was likely contingent on someone showing semiconductor manufacturing could actually be onshored. I’m not sure I buy that TSMC’s investment was contingent on an Act that was contingent on them investing in the fir
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by bitsage 2y ago
I’m going off the purely structural construction of the first fab. There’s a timeline on TSMC’s site.
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by bitsage 2y ago
Funny enough, Fab 21 was announced in May 2020 and completed construction in July 2022, a month before the Chips Act was signed.
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by bitsage 2y ago
For anything even remotely controversial, I stick exclusively with primary sources and ignore Wikipedia. The site is clearly compromised by admins who only want left-leaning secondary sources summarized. If you come across a controversial
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by bitsage 2y ago
Hybrid sales have actually skyrocketed in the past year for light duty vehicles and represent a greater percentage than BEVs now [1]. Most western manufacturers completely leapfrogged HEVs and went from ICEs to BEVs, so Japan seems to rule
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by bitsage 2y ago
Recent Japanese and Chinese automotive plants have gone up in the more stable countries on the continent such as Ghana, Egypt, and Kenya, but I assume this production will all be for local consumption.
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by bitsage 2y ago
In the end they created jobs and invested money, but both were less than expected. The subsidies were also contingent on performance, and negotiated down, so Foxconn didn’t the original amount. This also seems like purely a deal between t
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by bitsage 2y ago
This article seems to be conflating laborers dying during 7 years, and laborers dying while working on a few projects. Considering Saudi Arabia’s immigration system, or lack thereof, practically everyone who’s not a citizen is a foreign wo
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by bitsage 2y ago
Some more information on this: https://x.com/Osint613/status/1836331854913225172
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by bitsage 2y ago
With our societies aging so rapidly, the median westerner becomes more and more detached from the problems facing their youth. In all honesty, this wouldn't be a problem if it weren’t for increasing urbanization (to select areas), but
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by bitsage 2y ago
It’s remarkable that China even manages to do subsidies better than us. Blanket incentives to an industry would be far better than the regulatory capture we get here… Same story for EVs.
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by bitsage 2y ago
How scalable is this technology? From my experience at an AV company, every deployment site had to be mapped, and after deployment, sites still needed remote teleoperators to occasionally adjust waypoints and resolve stops.
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by bitsage 2y ago
An interesting example of this phenomenon is the development of derelict neighborhoods. I used to live in an area which was re-developed from abandoned buildings and working class housing to a luxury playground. While supply was significa
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by bitsage 2y ago
Some people can be good at their sport of choice and not have an aesthetically pleasing physique while others can be good and have an admirable physique. Anyways, it seems silly to focus on Kelce and not all the players who received or ran
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by bitsage 3y ago
The whole episode reminds me of “Give me the man and I’ll give you the case against him”. Given the universal practice of inflating valuations in New York and even lying about square footage on commercial leases, James should be filing a
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by bitsage 3y ago
There’s apparently a $94 million breakup fee
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Amazon and iRobot call off their planned acquisition(cnbc.com)
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