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by dirtyid 3y ago
PRC global trade increased by 1 trillion with a T in the last 4 years, more than the prior 10 years. That's the greatest expansion in globalism... ever. Most with the global south, some of which is redirected trade to western block who
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by dirtyid 3y ago
PRC state driven industrial policies are hilariously efficient against entrenched (western) incumbants, because the alternative is to not be competitive at all since new competitors simply can't compete against moat of established west
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Which is IMO fine for PRC since it's manufacturing base can always out compete west on cost. The real issue is IP law protects incumbents, predominantly western companies. Stats from a few years ago was PRC was paying $6 in IP to US fo
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by dirtyid 3y ago
>reported that legacies actually had higher SAT scores than non-legacy admits About 30 points higher than non-legacy students whose average is brought down by affirmative action. VS Asian Americans who need to score 50-100+ points higher
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by dirtyid 3y ago
TLDR is PRC has enough state capacity to produce and harness enough scientific talent to compete with global English in science, but likely not to replace it. PRC academic system that heavily focuses on science is spitting out educated clas
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Well are they actually weak vs a pickup? I'd love a Kei car if I can pay 10k to survive a crash against mass monsters out there.
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Or because those countries baseline size means their natural growth trajectory will not threaten western incumbents the same way PRC growth would, including modest 2% military budget which is enough to make everyone shit bricks. Nor would
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Yes, it's questionable if the context is per capita. But with PRC pop denominator effect, it's fine/prudent to also recognize absolute effects, the trend of PRC talent generation that bias towards skilled individuals means PR
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by dirtyid 3y ago
If PRC is tumbling, everyone else is collapsing. PRC demographics, as in actual ability to coordinate and exploit divident is SIGNIFICANTLY better than India's whose trending toward's PRC demographers worst nightmare. 100s of mill
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by dirtyid 3y ago
>Middle income trap is real Yes an no, but mostly no. No in the sense that one of the authors who coined the term did IRC follow up study and explicitly does not think it exists. The mostly No part: middle income trap, according to the a
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Briefly a year ago, the tiny chain wheel looked silly but it's growing on on me. The ebike motor looks great though. I think this might be it.
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by dirtyid 3y ago
For me, it's just nice/satisfying using a aesthetically designed piece of kit, even if not top of the line performance. Which is issue for bikes, since a well tuned bike makes a huge difference. I don't like looking at all th
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by dirtyid 3y ago
There's still room for face capture mocap for actors to deliver credible human performances. I see tech getting more accessible so you don't need studio level resources to produce content. More amateur talent can work together on
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Seems like you can trivially get around HVAC issue by just having individual units like in hotels or split units like many parts of the world (new builts and retrofits) and pare back existing HVAC / ducts for hallways/common space
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by dirtyid 3y ago
>history's not on your side for that one Except that's history. Reality today is not on your side. PRC has more ship building capacity than rest of world combined. Annual production of dead weight tons per year is about 6x-8x m
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by dirtyid 3y ago
USA keeping "peace" using Japan as example is detached from reality. The entire reason PRC (and TW and both Korea's and RU via USSR) has DISPUTED maritime borders and territorial claims with Japan (read: not Japanese territor
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Will lifi work with a lot reflective surfaces? e: over post limit I assumed it would need LOS. I'm wondering if light bounces off reflective surfaces like mirrors would meaningfully degrade the signal.
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Bring back radios.
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Yeah city ebike looked pretty aggressive. Vanmoof also has pretty clean internal hub / belt drive options. It's just a very sleek package that no one else seems to be replicating.
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by dirtyid 3y ago
>a requirement of reciprocity Reciprocity is there - follow PRC media filtering (read censorship) laws. There's a reason google and facebook both had internal projects to engineer PRC compliance to reenter PRC before internal corpor
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by dirtyid 3y ago
>Do other world powers not have the power to stop the genocide and concentration camps or do they just not care? The realist answer: most leaders are eager to see the PRC securitization model work. Even if they don’t have the state capac
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Slick looking ebikes. Had one on my wish list before realizing probably can't get service outside of official depots. Bullet dodged. Any dumb ebikes with comparable design out there that can be serviced at local bike shop and doesn&#x2
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Wonder if that gets them in trouble with publishers. Maybe creator should have a newsletter (however low effort) with a donation link at the bottom.
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by dirtyid 3y ago
> What changed about China's surveillance systems In the last few years, I don't think anything substantial. IMO new difficulty (post zero covid) was due to massive human trafficking crackdown after the "chained woman&quot
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by dirtyid 3y ago
I think eink does not perfrom well in freezing temperatures which removes a lot of large format addressable signage market. Otherwise I'd expect economics to drive cheaper large format eink screens
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by dirtyid 3y ago
>I am actually surprised that the US government is so happy to tolerate large US companies completely undermining their own geopolitical position just to increase profits Well that's because until Pompeo, US had no formal position o
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by dirtyid 3y ago
There's note editors reply to comments at bottom of study on why PRC was included authors knowing wechat was dominant acknowledge creating 1000s of phone numbers and social accounts not realistitic. ALso this claim: > cross-country
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by dirtyid 3y ago
It may matter on academic considerations, people can discuss it, but it doesn't matter on global regulation layer whereby fairness is determined via collective consensus and for forseeable future, per capita is what everyone can live w
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by dirtyid 3y ago
>That's provably false. Please prove it. You'll find is some redacted district court documents which is as credible as PRC MFA statement with respect to counter intelligence shenanigans. > In fact them not being spies, but r
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by dirtyid 3y ago
>environment doesn't care about per capita The enviroment doesn't care about climate change, earth will go on in some form regardless. Climate change is an anthropocene / (geo)political problem. The only way to coordinate

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