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by bllguo 3y ago
there are millions and millions of people still living in rural villages. how dare they want electricity? they should be sacrificing their already meager quality of life to fix problems that Westerners are disproportionately responsible for
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by bllguo 3y ago
the established terms for these concepts are rents and rentier capitalism.
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by bllguo 3y ago
person A starts with 1k and B starts with 100k. B successfully turns it into 100m, A turns theirs into 1m. B laughs at A. "It's my advanced technology and industry, nothing else, that led me to this great success."
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by bllguo 3y ago
funnily enough, their username alone suffices. products require raw inputs. where do we think these resources came from? there is no better example than oil, which the west violently plunders to this day
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by bllguo 3y ago
don't be disingenuous. You know perfectly well what was meant. We are talking about free speech _absolutism_, an extremist viewpoint with the most traction in the United States.
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by bllguo 3y ago
Fascism is literally being empowered today by unrestricted free speech in Western societies - something Western "liberal" politicians are constantly shouting from the rooftops. Nazism took root in the Weimar Republic essentially u
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How to express logic "and", "or", "not"?(github.com)
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by bllguo 3y ago
are you aware of the significant amounts of criticism for prophet? arima, sure
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by bllguo 3y ago
amusing. perhaps if this were 2008.
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by bllguo 3y ago
Indeed. To add to this - first to develop or not, Leibniz published first, and Newton's shameless unfounded accusations against him cannot be reasonably defended. I don't see any pro-Newton arguments in this situation besides &quo
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by bllguo 3y ago
1. who gets to decide whether the owners of something get to destroy it or not? 2. the west has zero claim to any of it regardless of the circumstances. even if you think its justifiable to take it for preservation, what right do you have t
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by bllguo 3y ago
of course, forget the history behind the formation of Taiwan. forget that the US props it up to maintain a military enclave where it has no right to be, in order to threaten China. it's just an innocent independent democratic people th
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by bllguo 3y ago
if you claim to support unrestricted free speech then of course this is hypocrisy. how could you possibly argue otherwise? "seeking to suppress" is still a form of speech. you cannot have your cake and eat it too. if you don'
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by bllguo 3y ago
if you don't think they can spend it wisely then don't give it to them.. this is an orthogonal discussion to the point of "don't destabilize other nations by trying to influence their political systems under the guise of
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by bllguo 3y ago
> It's a delicate situation and I don't think anyone really knows the best way to help. does the answer not follow immediately from what youre saying? economic aid, no strings attached. no efforts towards regime change, no poli
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by bllguo 3y ago
okay. pray tell how a definition of poverty that claims 93% of china, 94% of mexico, 40% of spain, etc. is poor is useful. we can see the damn data in front of us, so you can feign outrage all you want - they clearly did not account for t
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by bllguo 3y ago
there are literally millions of Chinese people outside of China that can disprove this fabricated nonsense.
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by bllguo 3y ago
this person is working on their startup in the meantime. it's not about not wanting to work, it's about the profligate spending and bloat in big tech it's so obvious to me that I can't believe people need proof, I don&#x
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by bllguo 3y ago
TSMC would not have opened this plant in the first place without US political pressure. to force them to come set up shop and then mock them for it is quite the microcosm of American arrogance
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by bllguo 3y ago
you'd think Western economists and enlightened HN readers might have even a single moment of introspection after being consistently wrong about China for years but I suppose the perpetual condescending and underestimating is preferable
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by bllguo 3y ago
good thing is, youre in a public space and this conversation is viewable by everyone, not just the person you are responding to that you so graciously have written off entirely. so go ahead, shut the book on this for all of us. show us the
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by bllguo 3y ago
ill gladly bang the drum about how insulated the HN bubble is, but this opinion specifically is bizarre to me. why does this have to be one size fits all? when someone walks in and says "i know i want this, let me buy it" how is i
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by bllguo 3y ago
exactly, a nice concise answer it shocks me every time how few people here seem to understand that scale changes things. is this not a forum frequented by SV techies?
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by bllguo 3y ago
the world over? you mean the US and UK? organizations with negligible representation from people who belong to non-Anglo cultures? the social credit myth has been busted plenty of times. it's a cursory search away.
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by bllguo 3y ago
And sailing along their coast is not aggressive expansionism, but.. what, exactly? Furthermore, 1. UNCLOS allows coastal states to determine whether foreign ships are allowed to enjoy the right of innocent passage, and 2. the US does not ev
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by bllguo 3y ago
Major military risks? Spare me. America is under zero threat of any attack; a child looking at a map could tell you this.
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by bllguo 3y ago
i find these arguments quite amusing considering the lengths capitalists have gone to in sabotaging every attempt at socialism
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by bllguo 3y ago
Are we doing emotional arguments again? This very thread is a reminder of how that went w.r.t the Nordstream. However little you think Russia had to lose, Ukraine had less
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by bllguo 3y ago
A distraction from the thus-far unsuccessful counteroffensive, perhaps. The flooding damage is also greater on the Russian-held part of Kherson + this affects water supplies to Crimea. And we should flip the question - if Russia did it, wha
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by bllguo 3y ago
that Americans are impotent, unwilling, incapable - take your pick - to effect any meaningful changes within their system. despite loudly proclaiming the virtues of liberal democracy and even being willing to violently force it onto others.

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