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by dirtyid 3y ago
It's also fundementally omitting how much PRC has entrenched itself as global factory than ever. PRC exports to US/west near record highs while trade with global south have exceeded western bloc. The only reason export decline not
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by dirtyid 3y ago
This was situation 10+ years ago. PRC's been phasing out low value add light industry for years. US export controls tried to limit PRC modernization even pre-Trump (see 5axis CNC bans, trying to cripple PRC compute under Obama). US did
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Egirls, anime waifus. From trend of defense forums these days, I expect some recruitment in 5 years to be just tits and spicy memes. Anyone remember ISIS and thier dank nasheeds. Medium is the message or something.
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by dirtyid 3y ago
> If you look at developing countries like India and China, car ownership and usage is exploding as people grow wealthier. Urban planning in these places will naturally cap car ownership, i.e. in PRC cities have 0.5 - 1 parking spaces pe
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Medium/long term Vietnam should be able to grow GDP per capita to ~10k USD or ~20k by PPP which is was point where ~70% households in PRC could afford adopting A/C. That's probably ~10 years away. Question is whether they cho
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Vietnam reluctant to link power to regional infra integration because it means linking to PRC controlled Lao's Mekong hydropower that PRC setup as "battery" of region. Not much to do but double down on indigenous renewables a
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Wonder if they'll be sensible enough to acquire some apps after they become worthless to replace official app.
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by dirtyid 3y ago
I find myself remoting to desktop chrome+userscript more and more to get any semblance of enjoyable experience in last few years.
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Really what odds for TMSC disruption which is much different and permissible.
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Shorts are fine if they figured out better UI not to mix into longer videos.
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by dirtyid 3y ago
>mostly peaceful world Except it hasn't been. Pinker's "long peace" theory with respect to global conflict is bad statistics - 20th-21st century under US military hegemony had a comparable if not higher number of conf
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Hopefully this means feedly pro can support twitter integration again. In mean time, anyway aware of working method to turn tweets from a public list into a daily email digest? A couple methods I use to depend on died with API access gone.
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by dirtyid 3y ago
That design looks not portable... cloud only.
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Except this is PRC being largely passive and watching fallout of American drug war failing. First opium war involved UK forcing, via military, Qing to stop domestic enforcement of ban on opium trade. Current Fenanyl "war" is PRC n
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by dirtyid 3y ago
>We may be seeing the biggest reversal in war since late WWI Mainstream discussion so far limited to the tactic/operation layer in farflung battle fields. More pertinent is strategic layer where this desperate race for ABM is due to
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Again thanks for taking the time. No follow up questions!
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A few hundred missiles taking out large fixed critical infra like refineries is existential. Advanced rocketry tech is eroding fortress American with will greatly limit US expeditionary posture that relies on unmolested homefront. Think pre
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Trading multiple interceptors too expensive/infeasible long term against peer adversaires, magazine depth favours offense. Against peer adversaires with increasing long range precision stike, CONUS survivability against conventional at
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Yes - best against moderately complex threats in limited numbers. For reference Recent SM6 test (FTM33) shot down 1 of 2 short range ballistic missiles with 4 interceptors in what's described as "most complex" test so far, bu
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by dirtyid 3y ago
All in game achievements should be around negotiating bureaucracy. You should be able to look at a city and have fond / traumatic memories over all the compromised mess. Campaign mode should include trying to build new subway expansion
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by dirtyid 3y ago
It's not strategic, more legal, as TW is a province of One China represented by PRC under UN and by association WHO charter. No amount of US * and western wanking and plotting to get TW into WHO (not as sovereign but even observer sta
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Thanks for the insightful write up. I was aware of the IN-US trade war, but I thought American companies would ultimately suck it up like they did in PRC where US goods like vehicles got slapped by heavy duties. PRC agri sector is also prot
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by dirtyid 3y ago
There are more Tsinghua / C9 calibre students who don't have the language proficiency or resources or adventurousness to go to MIT / abroad. Some may later chose to emigrate abroad, as they do now after making decent money, b
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by dirtyid 3y ago
I use to think it was narcissism of small differences, Sino-sphere cultures hating on each other but from what I hear in Vietnam, they're jerks to everyone. Even PRC firms in Viet did not seem to have _that_ bad of reputation to work f
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by dirtyid 3y ago
They were hoping to expand to manufacturing laptops, IoT and EV components a few years after they spung up iphone assembly. Some of the reporting suggest this won't happen anymore. An established electronics manufacturer stuck with rep
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by dirtyid 3y ago
That's why I conditioned it with "if", it's a trend in progress. Opportunities are still great abroad, especially in SV. But part of this is due to past generations being very drainable due to English proficiency previou
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I rememeber in 90s, local mid-level managers who worked for MNC in PRC tend to like their SKR bosses and frequently hated TW bosses simply because cultural overlap allowed them to push harder. With SKR they could at least feign ignorance wi
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Not just Apple manufacturing, seems like they're divesting from India in general after 10 years, also killing their plans to make laptops and EV components. My understanding is they were barely making money throughout their time in Ind
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Any aerial time lapse out there?
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by dirtyid 3y ago
LATAM border like <10k, insignificant % when talking about PRC emigration, especially capital flight real estate parkers you were referencing to. Ditto with low double digit PRC buying condos in ASEAN for wintering and having access to i

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