dirtyid

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by dirtyid 4y ago
Married to Sarah Koenig when?
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Celebrate in private, but pretend to investigate and be concerned about values in public like the drone program. Narratives like this is part of the propaganda.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Avoiding direct conflict is if TW aquiece to blockade. Direct conflict is if TW/US tries to run/break the blockade and triggers direct shooting conflict. That said, blockade is legally act of war already, but in context of (also l
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Not only subs, but I wonder what the uptake on describe audio is. Disney does a particulalry good job, and I treat many shows as radio drama for background now.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>Zeihan's books General digression on Zeihan: His books are... fine for pop geopoltics. Zeihan "thought" is also an ecosystem of books / lectures / newsletters / videos where his predictions are crafted to a
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Zeihan stans regurgitating 101 Zeihan US strong PRC weak argument, and forget that in geoPOLITICS, the political component is as important as geography. Natural advantages can only do so much if they are squandered. Even Zeihan concedes thi
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by dirtyid 4y ago
https://warontherocks.com/2022/09/not-their-plane-to-land-ge... > Chris, Melanie, and Zack discuss Doyle Hodges’ recent article scrutinizing Gen. Mark Milley’s behavior in the waning months of the Trump adminis
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by dirtyid 4y ago
RIP. I don't look forward to her being replaced by Charles on my money.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Which references, figures are all easily found on Google with associated terms, except maybe PRC imputed rent in GDP calculations which you'll find in mostly PRC sources or tweets from niche tweets by western PRC domain experts. IIRC t
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>Researchers debate how meaningful GDP rankings are Basically. PRC already overtook US by PPP, 2022 estimate by IMF, PRC 29T vs US 24T with gap widening (US +1.3T, PRC +2T). This isn't even getting into calculation shenanigans like
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Since there's several car manufacturing comparisons of American manufacturing adapting to East Asian manufacturing culture, I feel like there's consensus that Japanese built cars still have tighter QC than ones built in North Amer
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Many are willing to relocate, mostly to US for SV wages, but US is increasingly hostile to PRC talent. That said, PRC pipeline generating as much STEM talent as OECD combined, too much for west to brain drain and absorb and % of talent with
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by dirtyid 4y ago
TFW literal historic events are opinions and funny meme from wikipedia is in touch.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
> cannot criticize israel IMO large part of distaste for Israel is reflection of how criticizing Israel doesn't do shit due to how entrenched and influential Israel Lobby is in US politics and centrality of Israel is to US foreign p
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>not the case. That's the case in PRC athletic system, especially in events PRC dominate in, where the bench is deep enough to get multiple podium placements, so roster crafting like this happens to maximize country medal count. &gt
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>without access to western equipment and technologies Does anyone have TLDR from reports. An indigennous 7nm supply chain cannot be right.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
PRC set new military norm across the strait completely uncontested, and now post Pelosi policy wank in US is how to reset that new balance... and the answer was... 2 DDGs transiting through the strait, aka nothing. Not even a carrier. PRC c
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>There's no reliable polling on Chinese trust in government. Lots of long term systematic survey/polling methods from western institutions in last two decades (i.e. pre-Xi) all comport with basic trend that PRC citizens don&#x2
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by dirtyid 4y ago
No, but trivial to shutdown fabs by destroying power infra down the chain. Capturing fabs that run on sanctionable supply chains to get look at hardware is secondary to PRC preserving fabs as barginning chip to restart semi production once
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by dirtyid 4y ago
> TSMC chips won't disappear Of course it will. US isn't capable of defending TW anymore. They may spoil an invasion, but there's nothing US can do to prevent PRC from trivially destroying infra the keeps fabs operating.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
> did not and could not choose Implying formal enfranchisement is required to choose when being loud in numbers petitioning/screaming at officials is enough and frequently more effective when said officials gets drown in shit if the
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>people of China didn't choose this Of course they did. PRC is country that skews old and conservative. Half the reason behind media crack down are cantankerous parents and grand parents telling governments they don't want loos
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by dirtyid 4y ago
90s kids in the west grew up on censored looney Tunes and "localized" anime like sailor moon, I remember some barely viral discussions of comparisons with OG version and sentiment was basically meh.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
> not trusting that the food being served is what they said it was Chinese folks being weary of restaurants with swapping ingredients for lower tier is not comparable to assuming chicken being swapped for cat, which is a tired joke. Usua
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Fraction of labour force that is has STEM degrees and relevant vocational fields. My guestimate is much less than most would think. Like Samsung has ~300k employees and has vertical in almost every SKR strategic industry.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
It doesn't help even if you pay. I have Google One account for in person Google support in case shit hits fan. Shit hits fan, for some reason my youtube account with premium gets banned for scams, despite account only ever used for vie
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Hope someone spends an afternoon to building this in Unreal Engine. I know art world gets indulgent, but this project always seemed very extra. Looks like fun counterstrike map though.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
ON LKY and US, I feel consensus is US is geopolitically blessed and have all the institutions and instruments to preserve their primacy across many domains if they get their shit together. But also so blessed that it can coast along on curr
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by dirtyid 4y ago
I don't think we're disagreeing that equitable development is a huge challenge for PRC, at PRC scale, but my main point is middle income is not a useful lens to evaluate PRC, because 1) it's arbitrary cutoff that PRC is going
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by dirtyid 4y ago
> beating the US on that front anytime soon Current trends suggest otherwise, see PRC rapidly catching up and leading R&D and innovation indexes controlled by citations or quality in the last few years. > quantities are incomparab

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