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by dirtyid 4y ago
Preconstruction sells at 30% discount, people gamble with their life savings considering PRC housing prices to income, but flip side is also massive speculative profit if things work out.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Youth unemployment for higher ed has been issue for years, reality is PRC scale is still generating more talent than it can absorb. QoL stagnanting like west is questionable, vast majority of PRC is still poor enough that modest income redi
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by dirtyid 4y ago
I couldn't decide if this was guerilla marketing at the time and TBH still can't. Has there been other synapse breaking redesign campaigns since?
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by dirtyid 4y ago
I don't need to design a thinner mechanical watch to correctly point out that they are far from the envelops of possible with respect to modern mechanics. Like this is a neat object but let's not pretend modern watch making is pus
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Your comment reflects typical nostalgic time bubble lamentation about culture "decline" due to rapid development change. Lots of older gen Chinese miss Mao's China too and complain about the decadence and corruption caused by
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>envelope of the possible Maybe limits of human hand craft which I assume is the allure of these bespoke time pieces. That said I don't actually see the description mention hand crafting other than polishing and drawing a few surfac
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Cherry picking what? The op was about Laos, I talked about Laos. Debt trap meme / lie has been debunked by many academics, it's a myth. PRC refinances / renegotiate. It would be really nice for PRC security posture if they ac
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Tiktok is an extention of lessons learned by Douyin - content that survives crucibles of PRC censorship are wholesome, not divisive (promotes political serenity) and hits the dopamine button just as hard. And if Douyin ecommerce integration
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>insideous Which is fairly tame in terms of securing geopolitical influence and enables more win-win arrangments. Especially with respect to Laos - a landlocked country with (to be blunt) zero long term development prospects. Laos per ca
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by dirtyid 4y ago
> it is clearly in response to territorial aggressiveness from China Abe's been trying to re-militarize JP since his first term in mid 2000s, long before PRC military modernization began. You suggest he's precient, but history
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by dirtyid 4y ago
TBH, pretty lame PRC spooks need to to rely on US databases to target dissidents. Assuming these are actual dissidents and not PRC/CCDI most wanted list, i.e. extrememly corrupt ex-nationals who fled abroad with their riches.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
I don't see much formal policy/discussion of 2nd booster with the new variants around. Most people I know have boosted for 6+ months and wondering if it's worth getting 4th shot but there's no official guidance. Like if
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Corporate ends up bowing / genuinely endorsing ideology / cultural value of their respective regional branches if they want to play ball. Issue is Western HQs bowing to domestic influence domestically, but said domestic voices are
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by dirtyid 4y ago
> too corrupting Why sponsor foreign propaganda? No surprise foreign NGO crackdown, dismantling of CIA network, exposing how many CCP bureaucrats were being bribed by US intelligence around this time. > strict tally-trade Is this goi
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>effectively ban How so? Western platfroms bailed PRC after they were unwilling to handle PRC legal requirements that every PRC company has to deal with. Reasonable requirements like media filtering that western companies were eventually
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by dirtyid 4y ago
And? Laws change... PRC updates law to ban foreign publishers, ergo ibooks/itunes got killed. US also has national security negative lists that they use to kill China Telecom in US.. who followed US laws until it got updated. But Apple
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>ignoring US law, They didn't. The entire Project Texas / Oracle / CFIUS agreement is in process of implementation. The drama is over China-based staff accessing data while working on Project Texas (to silo US data/tr
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Is Trump EO not also a gun to bytedance head? Apple could choose to discontinue cloud services and setup backdoor to physical iDevices access which would have made their products not competitive, but they chose to play ball same way Bytedan
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Is Trump EO not also a gun to bytedance head? Apple could choose to discontinue cloud services and setup backdoor to physical iDevices access which would have made their products not competitive, but they chose to play ball same way Bytedan
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Because China doesn't ban US internet platforms, US internet platforms choose not to comply to PRC laws, which domestic PRC companies has to abide. Facebook/Twitter left because they couldn't/wouldn't censor calls o
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by dirtyid 4y ago
GCBD didn't nationalize Apple in PRC, it's data soverignty requirement same way TikTok was coerced/pressured to moved US data to Oracle US servers. Legal minutiae matterse less and less when outcomes consistently comparable.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Douyin collects a fuck load data too, maybe less than TikTok one day once new PRC privacy rules come into effect. But that's somethign US doemstic politics have to sort out for their territory. >promoting copious amounts of destabil
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Apple unlock drama was over "all writs act" where FBI compelled Apple to write new software to access user hardware versus using alleged (non)existing capabilities. FBI ended up using third party solutions, but after US gov decide
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Eink experience would improve if there's built in style transfer algo to convert to images/video to be more legible. Something like toonify BW line art with shading.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
TLDR is start with strong authoritarian state capacity and violently bring order to social fabric and build industrial/extractive base while ingratiating powerful hegemons / neighbours, or certainly not piss them off. Ultimately,
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Mitigate kill chain distruption in age of electronic warfare.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
> largest force they'll ever be able to muster PLA is still massively modernizing and expanding with barely ~2% of GDP. It doesn't take that many bodies to man modern military, even worst case combination of South Korea tier TF
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>credible counter argument to his theses Zeihan's thesis is generic geopolitical analysis, which is a fine model, but there's no reason to credit that to him. Really it's about the quality of his predictions which is hard
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by dirtyid 4y ago
This arguement is questionable because the amount of bodies and resources it takes to cultivate and maintain modern tier1 military is not substantial at PRC scale. Even PRC with South Korea TFR (worlds worst) will be generating millions of
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by dirtyid 4y ago
PLANs has conducting antipiracy missions in gulf of Aden for over a decade now. Their bread and butter frigate type 54 has done port visits across the world. Most 2016 modernization has massively increased UNREP / auxillary fleet. PLAN

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