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by dirtyid 3y ago
Looks... servicable. Is eink finally happening?
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Decades of value engineering reduced cost of appliances that consumer electronics makers need to add bell and whistles to capture more value i.e. there's recent article about Samsung wanting to milk billions in live services from smart
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by dirtyid 3y ago
I want to correct I messed up reading NBS calculation methods. PRC already use comparable youth unemployment calc as US. But general point remains, PRC youth unemployment different kind of problem - it's reflection of state overcapacit
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by dirtyid 3y ago
PRC kneecapping softtech so hard tech like semi get first dibs on talent, hence hard tech jobs and wages up. They figured it's probably bad use of resources to waste talent refining DiDi delivery by +5 seconds or pervasive Edtech makin
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Here's bloomberg on PRC National Bureau of Statistics: >Over 33 million young people have entered the job market and more than six million of them are currently unemployed, NBS spokesman Fu Linghui told reporters in a briefing Thurs
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Conflating between national/gov vs total/aggregate debt. PRC national debt is ~75% of GDP vs US ~120%, total aggregate debt PRC ~270% vs US ~760%. Youth unemployment rate basically same as US @7.5%. PRC youth unemployment stats ex
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Cherry picked understanding from conditions 10+ years ago. PRC agriculture has absolute food security in terms of domestic calorie production and was net fertilizer exporter via coal gasification in 2010s but turn importer after coal crack
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Geographic benefits erodes with technology. Technology has compressed the world, global shipping gives actors with money and leverage access to resources around the world. Post war US power projection is based off the fact it has technology
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Samsung shifted focus from consumer electronics to semiconductor a few years ago which got fucked by global oversupply and then PRC sanctions (including memory) while PRC is increasingly eating into other Samsung segments like display, memo
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by dirtyid 3y ago
With respect to potential TW conflict the TLDR is PRCs ongoing massive distributed renewable rollout at PRC scale is very much part of strategic energy security in event of war. Issue in TW conflict limited to TW and PRC is scale of asymnet
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by dirtyid 3y ago
PRC has had a blue enough water navy to reach SCS since the 60s - it's their backyard not the gulf of Aden. See Paracel island skirmish in 74 and Johnson Reef in 88 against Vietnam. Obviously not enough to deter the USN but the US was
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by dirtyid 3y ago
PRC is MORE supportive of commercial shipping since most of shipping goes to PRC, not unconstrained military FONAP under guise of civilian maritime research. Historically US has seized/disrupted much more merchant shipping than PRC bec
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by dirtyid 3y ago
From 1980s-2010s, AU military training opfor was the "Musorian Armed Forces" aka Indonesia. ID recent military presentation on ballistic missiles also highlighted AU as potential target (and Singpore, Philiphines, SCS). Reality is
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Nordic countries with better welfare nets than JP have tried to carrots and didn't fare much better, much as in raising TFR over replacement. I think problem will require much more sticks and state coercion, i.e. 90% inheritance tax or
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by dirtyid 3y ago
How does this alternative history benefit PRC? All the elite Indian diasphora couldn't stop US from siding with Pakistan for most of recent history, or prevent global supply chains from shifting to PRC for decades, or secure critical t
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by dirtyid 3y ago
IMO more US discourse power via influence over news orgs, ngos, think tanks etc allows them to control who to hate/fear. Both geopolitical adversaries AND anti US candidates in partner countries. Domestic media in LIO countries can&#x2
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by dirtyid 3y ago
tbh west does not have much carrots or sticks to nudge - not to mention they'll be nudging towards affordable PRC renewables or nuclear considering poor state of western energy infra export. Really only agent that can nudge is PRC as c
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Execute none brown traffickers when?
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Part of me wants to start 24/7 recording of my desktop now for later use when this kind of tech matures. I imagine eventually can get away with recording at fraction of resolution and FPS, color info, sound bitrate etc and have AI upsc
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by dirtyid 3y ago
IMO have to weather through cohorts of increased life expectancy due to modernity until their property/wealth transfers (especially in urban areas) gives newer gens more space to family plan. Older I get, the more people who previously
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Or Islamic regions.
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Yeah current experience is closer to roller coaster than screen.
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by dirtyid 3y ago
No it's starting to get resolved, see recent Zambia debt restructure. The TLDR is western propaganda who owns majority of African debt wants to push PRC debt trap narrative to pressure PRC to take haircut losses while they don't.
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by dirtyid 3y ago
>forced Tajikistan to cede territory Tajikstan ceded ~1300 sqkm to PRC a decade ago to settle border ratification deal from 2000s in which PRC ceded 28000 sqkm to Tajikstan. Some retarded western propaganda tried to tie this to a few bil
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Interesting how US emissions started falling around/post GFC when residential construction collapsed and have yet to recover. Us new house starts around ~60% of mid 2000s high, while piling on 40m to population. I wonder how much that
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by dirtyid 3y ago
I'd expect developing countries to massive increase emissions first as they capitalize. Reason why PRC uses more concrete in 3 years than US uses in last 100 apart from PRC being massive is because US/west emissions from capital&#
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by dirtyid 3y ago
It does also apply to whites, hence anti AA actions was coordinated between white conservatives and some Asian Americans. One common talking point was AA + legacy was a double whammy on poor whites. Also it's not 1% it's 99+ perc
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by dirtyid 3y ago
The 50-100 (really 140-450 points) is from Princeton study on Asian SAT stats for admission in private colleges vs other races. Apologies for wall of text. Alternate explanation is that particularly sneaky elite admissions boards have learn
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by dirtyid 3y ago
IMO the proper way to frame comparison is science from 1/6 of the globe (mandarin) vs science from 1/5 of globe (english). The entire narrative US/west can draw from the globe greatly overstates how many eligible English spea
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by dirtyid 3y ago
This is like 2005 understanding of PRC economics and comprehensive power. 2023 PRC isn't capturing $8 per iphone 3g in assembly anymore. She captured $100 / 25% BOM since iPhoneX. Current trend of PRC+1 reshoring (derisking) is mo

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