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by dirtyid 4y ago
> military budget is greater than the sum total of all their neighbors is because of what Because PRC has greater population and GDP than rest of region combined, of which she spends less than 2% on defense, less than most of her neighbo
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by dirtyid 4y ago
> Xi at running an economy, no one can Good thing he doesn't micromanage the economy then. PRC private sector responsible for 60% of gdp, 70% of innovation, 80% of urban employment and 90% of new jobs. CCP+SEOs does some direction,
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>hurt the future prospects of your country Reality demonstrates otherwise. Slapping speculative billionaries and tax evading actors is a great way to improve prospects of country. Deng: let some people get rich. Many did, excessively so.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>built too much ... debt Infra net benefit goes beyond basic balance sheet math, no serious analysis suggest US high way system or 1T infrastructure bill to get US infra unfucked a massive waste. The purpose of infra is to generate more
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Demographics can cause aggregate worker shortage, but not enough that industrial poilcy can't fully staffing specific sectors.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Ultimately US tech firms didn't make effort to follow PRC regulations while PRC tech firms tries to follow US regulations. If goal is to kick PRC platforms out of US i.e. when current rules doesn't generate desired outcome, change
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by dirtyid 4y ago
> contingency Yes but I think important to recognize that contingency is the large basis of the "stealing" TSMC narrative. The other consideration TW semi workers who get to jump the H1B VISA line eyeing for immigration shortcu
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by dirtyid 4y ago
The same reason west confiscated Russian reserves, and destroyed historic economic linkages via sanctions. You can't "regardless" of invasion when invasion/not invasion are qualifiably different geopolitical realities. M
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>They’re choice is move their factories offshore or give them up to China. Then the question is why wouldn't they want to give them to PRC? TW semi was expanding fabs in mainland before US export controls, TW semi workers were being
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Except video skips the primary purpose/argument of reshoring onto US soil is de-risking in case of potential PRC-TW scenario. In which case US will likely nationalize these fabs, aka stealing, for even the small but critical strategica
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Many analysts predicted RU/UKR war 10+ years ago just on premise of NATO encroachment without factoring in demographics. Fact they executed a special operation on the cheap with a few 100,000 men reflect they weren't preparing for
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by dirtyid 4y ago
> neglect to mention that Chinese are even worse? Because they're not. PRC has worst fabs due to equipment sanctions, and now expertise sanctions (first by TW, then US). But said sanctions were placed at all because the cost and qua
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by dirtyid 4y ago
High import duties likely more than enough to incentivize local assembly. Whether India can translate ~10$ assembly per device into grabbing rest of supply chain and moving up value chain is another question. West somewhat proactively ceded
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by dirtyid 4y ago
I wonder how much assembly fees per device is now. PRC got $8 per 3G. It's wild to to think the actual assembling of 300M units per year doesn't amount to much.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Has anyone made chatGPT chat with itself yet? There's some nuggets of cheeky banter and I can see parasocial potential. Run transcript through TTS, I'd listen to that podcast, or watch it as virtual avatars.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>iPhone made in China is no better than the cotton from Xinjiang. High quality hardware and cotton that lifts peasants out of poverty through heavy state coordination with proceeds reinvested to move up value chain. No better = equally g
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by dirtyid 4y ago
> CCP forces companies to accept CCP members into their board and leadership Except they don't? 1993 company law stipulates party committees are formed in any org with 3 or more CCP members... Trivial conditions to meet when party m
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Sometimes producers (RIP MPOW) also directly lists on Amazon, so you pay a small premium for fast shipping from local warehouses, and get pretty decent unofficial warranty - they know Q&A on low margin items lacking, high defect rate li
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Because that's what typical customers want. Aliexpress products or clones that does 80% of work for 20% of cost. Or in this case 100% of function for 10% of cost. Massage guns literature still basically pseudo science, $30 gun may work
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Looks like american oem/relabeller drop shipper got blown out by Chinese drop shipper who wants to cut out middle man. American consumers pay less. I don't get the complaint about Amazon being a glorifed Aliexpress front end. Pay
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by dirtyid 4y ago
> The options The obvious option in event of PRC control is everyone deferring to mutual leverage, where US controls fab inputs, TW controls outputs, PRC negotiating access to % of high end production by controlling island. Meanwhile buy
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Sure, except original comment also highlights that the incentives of destroying TSMC is backwards. It's PRC who benefits most from denying US access to TW semi supply chains or engineers not vice versa. Denying TW to US closes relative
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by dirtyid 4y ago
US military doesn't care. But the TWnese care, which US thinktankers/media, and I'm guessing US based commenters like you seem to forget. Hence the disconnect on why people seriously contemplate these TW will blow up TSMC mem
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>If you look at a topographic map of Taiwan, it's not so obvious Assessments of TW's defensibility gets dimmer and dimmer with increasingly modern PLA capabilities. If you actually look at topo map of Taiwan: https:/&#x2F
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by dirtyid 4y ago
That meme makes zero sense considering TW don't want to be a third world economy dependant on exporting fruit even if PRC successfully invades. There's reason TW media was telling US think tanks to leave TSMC alone when US Army Wa
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by dirtyid 4y ago
I mean west free to start propaganda campaign to claim PRC is underreporting GDP and overreporting population (so far only focused on latter), and conclude PRC is finally reached high-income status. Afterall, PRC's already pretty close
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Are there less private clients like SmartTubeNext that uses leanback framework so you can manage playlists? Works well on chromecast but no touch interface and would be nice to having something for android. That said didn't leanback ge
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by dirtyid 4y ago
videodeck for youtube is an alright interface i ended up using this script that adds new videos into predefined playlists https://www.google.com/url?q=https://github.com/Elijas/auto-... this is one featu
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by dirtyid 4y ago
I know it's a weed, but looks amazing. If one builds huge building scaffold with chain link fence, would it get enveloped to create grandios of Poison Ivy architecture? Kind of want to plop down the eiffel tower and see what happens.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
US/EU/most of world are systemically incapable of doing a hard lockdown even if they wanted to. Most of PRC including SH managed to coast through a year with relative normality on zero covid and now you're forced to experienc

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