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by dirtyid 4y ago
>political objectives Perhaps, but it's mostly: >government didn't care There's no reason to dedicated domestic PRC resources to crackdown (technically) legal cancer drug manufacturers to subsidize US/DEA war on dr
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by dirtyid 4y ago
> funny situation Not really, it's expected quirks of ambitious PRC industrial policy which have historically been successful. Spam it until you make it. Inefficient on paper, but ultimately extremely efficient because the alternati
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Feels like interdimensional cable.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Old PRC cross-strait white paper allowed TW 1C2S more permissive than suzeranity, no PRC administration or military stationed on island to interfere with domestic politics and some semblence of control over foreign policy. Basically Two Cou
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by dirtyid 4y ago
No I was not aware!
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by dirtyid 4y ago
International university friend kept calling Microsoft Word, Microsoft Work which I always thought was appropriate. I like the idea of productivity suite being referred to as Works.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
PRC demographics are extremely advantageous for great power competition / building comprehensive national power going forward. The TLDR is PRC leadership has been too preoccupied with sustaining 1.4B people, huge% of which are old and
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>but they may also be required to ensure speedy evacuation in case of fire or emergency I'd like to see one of those airplane evacuation tests conducted at IKEA to see how well these arrows work, or whether the IKEA promenande is a
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by dirtyid 4y ago
I wonder if kids will grow out of bubble tribalism as they get older the same way youth ditched FB.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Right after CHIPs?
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by dirtyid 4y ago
I dream of day apple watch can trackbar path/speed and respond to optimal reps.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Personally incredulous such basic (and so far incomplete) analysis is finally getting attention in western wonk circles really highlights deficiency in at least OSINT when it comes to PLA watching. It's been clear for years PLA hasn&#x
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Pretty bored with the resolution / FPS race. Path tracing was a huge leap, but I'd rather see artists / render tech to fully exploit image quality at 1080p than 4k. I waiting for AI's to start hallucinating game graphics
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by dirtyid 4y ago
East&South Asians (study subjects) also stores higher % of viceral fat. Apparently lot's of skinny fat Asians out there who looks healthy but aren't.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
> be considered "incarcerated" Even accepting grossly inflated propaganda figures, ~2M were detained over multiple years, with the vast majority on short sentences (months). We're talking stat shifts of low 100,000s locked
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by dirtyid 4y ago
"Exterior construction completed: 14 July 2011" It's "finished" as a wasteful potemkin monument - it's not an embarassing concrete shell anymore. It's not finished in the usefully occupied building sense,
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by dirtyid 4y ago
If Ryugyong got finished, so will Jeddah. It's not smart investment, but in general monuments aren't. Yet, humanity learns to appreciate them non the less, even fully appreciating the "folly".
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Personal guilty pleasure: love me some stupidendously wasteful ego driven mega monuments. A mega city in the desert even better. Not enough grand architecture by liberal world order. There are insideous human costs to everything, and all th
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Reminder that nuclear MAD is not just about destroying your adversaries but entire alliance network that could help your adversary recover.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>weird way to phrase that headline It's Economist / western MSM evading the fact that Taiwan also plays huge part in criminal syndicate human trafficking schemes for telco scams targetting PRC&TW (but particularly PRC) nati
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>6/7ths of the world to pull from. Realistically US draws from ~1.2B of English speakers. PRC draws from ~1.1B of Mandarin speakers. Actually pool of relevant STEM talent is obviously much smaller, but PRC generates about as much as
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by dirtyid 4y ago
PIA to manage multiple systems / os that don't have functional parity. My steamlink, tablet and occasionally phone remote desktops strait onto my desktop with all the customizations I'm used to for daily tasks. It's just
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Will west escalate to interdicting Indian and Chinese flagged vessels used to circumvent embargo to bring home even more discounted fuel and food? Because ultimately that's what directly harms the food and energy security of these two
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Does he do any planning or prep behind the scenes. I can't tell if this is magic or well rehearse magic. Either way, incredible talent.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
If I didn't know context, looks almost stylistically intentional. Crazy to think a few years ago this would have taken untold tens of thousands of man hours to plan and animate, would have probably gone viral and won a bunch of awards.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
How much does backlight drift over time? I have a few calibrated monitors with "uniform compensation" that has gotten decidely less uniform over the years.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Vietnam has "Three No's" defense policy that will preclude any substantial anti-PRC alignment. There's some wiggle room to posture / hedge with US for theatre in new white paper, but nothing major because the "
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Samsung farmed 20%/60M units of low end units back to PRC ODMs in 2020 with plans to ramp up % before covid. IIRC there was a BOM break down of Vietnamese made Samsung phones where ~40+% of the components (not by value) were from PRC s
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>"it" is considered impolite Basically this. I generally try to use variant of 2/3 letter country code instead of pronounces to reduce repetition, but IN/IND sounds awkward.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Pretty much. Roper's Digital Century pitch for iterative 6G fighter(s) seemed like powerpoint bullshit. But a relatively clean sheet tanker much less complex integration demands seems feasible, more comparable to how B21's develop

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