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by bmitc 8mo ago
Good point. And also the materials.
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Sometimes four!
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> The odds of them losing militarily are virtually nil. Exactly. Everyone keeps acting like it's 50 years ago. China has the world's largest navy and the largest navy almost always wins. They also have a home court advantage. A
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by bmitc 8mo ago
What indication do you have that China doesn't design their own stuff? They have their own Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, consumer electronics, car companies, aircraft carriers, chip companies, manufacturing, etc.
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by bmitc 8mo ago
> China makes about a third of the world’s stuff That isn't what the commenter asked. What percentage of stuff in your house is made in China? I would be extremely surprised if it's not more than 33%.
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Purge seems like a strong word from what I just read. There definitely seems to be actual and power plays going on on his side. It's not exactly because he was out there doing the best for people. But how is this less stable than even
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by bmitc 8mo ago
> This space race is different for one core reason: China is more stable than the Soviet Union was in the 1960s. > If we beat the Chinese somehow, I don't think they'll just dismantle their space program and focus on Earth.
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The U.S. doesn't have that much real freedom. It is nearly completely controlled by a concentrated oligarchy of people and corporations. Sure, there are rights, but these are almost entirely enforced via a massively beauractic and expe
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by bmitc 8mo ago
Who cares?
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Those are unique situations not solely born out of differences of forms of government.
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> one thing they seem to do correctly in China, is to select their leaders not based on pure political skills, but on actual thinking skills: many of them come from technical backgrounds, and have been trained to think rationally. Is tha
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by bmitc 8mo ago
The sad truth is that it's millions of people. These people just want to see the world burn due to nothing but narcissism and hate of the imaginary "other side".
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I went by groups and families of animals.
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There are some weird ones. It knew red-bellied woodpecker but not yellow-bellied woodpecker.
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> What is more perplexing is why they don't use Claude to triage the issues? I wonder if it's because of cost.
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No. They are consistently rated low, particularly in safety and reliability.
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> Tesla will become a case study on how to completely waste the first-mover advantage. Did they ever have a first mover advantage? They had first mover hype, but did they really have an advantage? Companies like Kia and Hyundai had an ad
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by bmitc 8mo ago
What does it mean to waste context?
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by bmitc 9mo ago
He was able to practice El Capitan over and over, though. Was he able to in Tapei?
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by bmitc 9mo ago
Sure, it's announced and by contract. But where else do you have to put your accounts?
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by bmitc 9mo ago
Thank you. No matter how much I try to understand the financial system, there seems no end to the nomenclature. Do you or others know of any good references that help navigate this?
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by bmitc 9mo ago
It's an intentionally naive position to say that places don't leech off of others. Even large places like Fidelity and Schwab that respect customers aren't just keeping people's money in vaults. They literally take your
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by bmitc 9mo ago
Said on a website hosted by a major VC that specializes in Silicon Valley types of venture capital, bringing the next data collecting mobile app to your doorstep.
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by bmitc 9mo ago
What is being meant by exotics in this discussion?
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It's how the law works for those at the top of the oligarchy.
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It bother lowers the threshold and increases the breadth of things that can be bet in. It's a gambling addiction nightmare.
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by bmitc 9mo ago
Oh, please. That's clearly the context being discussed.
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> “Cool” is subjective, so you can use that to dismiss any example You can't use cool to argue against me. It was in the comment I replied to. > but you know exactly what is being referenced No, I don't, which is why I asked
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by bmitc 9mo ago
Do you have a more substantive critique? I'm particularly sensitive to shallow critiques of new ways of computing, particularly those that encourage and enable people to be creative. Whether a project is successful or not, it's ni
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I think it's a stretch to call those experiments of the same kind as those being ran by modern corporations with access to enormous amounts of data and direct connections to people and the ability to later influence based upon the expe

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