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by dnomad 8y ago
The irony behind all of this is that to the neoliberal mindset China's extraordinary willingness to invest in pure research is some sort of Communist plot. Literally, discussions just a few weeks ago about China taking the lead on R&am
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There's really nothing in China could be called a "greenfield project." Germany doesn't grow because it doesn't want to grow. You're talking about a country with an absolutely unprecedented budget surplus and t
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I propose Bitcoin and most other extra-legal (ie non state supported) currencies are going to zero. That said we can be grateful that the experiment was done and data was gained.
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If you think this is not a coordinated effort than you are very naive. It's worth pointing out what is actually happening here. This story about "massive internment camps" has been pushed relentlessly on HN for the past two w
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by dnomad 8y ago
Try reading the story: > The near-total reliance on Washington-linked sources is characteristic of Western reporting on Uighurs Muslims in China, and the country in general, which regularly features sensational headlines and allegations.
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by dnomad 8y ago
As many suspected, the numerous reports of "massive internment camps" in China are completely false and are not supported by the United Nations. These reports have absolutely no evidence behind them but they have been widely accep
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by dnomad 8y ago
Perhaps the strangest aspect of American politics is the total lack of accountability. You really don't see this sort of blind loyalty outside of third world banana regimes. Here you have a guy who is self-admittedly responsible for th
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by dnomad 8y ago
This is wrong. Plastics can and do escape landfills. Also it doesn't seem to be the case that all, or even most, single-use plastics are properly disposed of and make it to landfills.
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by dnomad 8y ago
Yes, you can always invent self-serving narratives ("And that's why Trump was elected!") but that doesn't mean these self-serving narratives have any basis in reality. The right-wing reactionaries who get hopped up about
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by dnomad 8y ago
You can always just make up "the silent majority." Nobody believes it anymore.
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> "Guanxi" is nothing other than socially institutionalised networks of non-monetary favours and counter-favours. People like to focus on the favors part but Guanxi isn't really about exchanging favors and in fact you most
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by dnomad 8y ago
> We use money to allow that ownership to spread around in complex ways. Yes, we agree. My point is that "private ownership" is just another way of saying that people have accumulated sovereign debt. There's no reason the
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> Currency in practice is our measure of capital, but it isn't inherently capital. In fact it is the only real capital that exists. The rest is just leverage. In a real economy all debts must be settled with sovereign debt ie curren
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> Just ask Venezuela how monetary production with collapsed supporting production works out. Yeah, this isn't how it works at all. Not surprising that people like you don't grasp very basics but try to think this through carefu
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> Try consuming something before it's produced. The process starts with government who can spend money without producing anything. Where do you think the actual currency units came from? Money doesn't grow on trees.
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by dnomad 8y ago
What's really funny about this whole affair is that everything that people accuse China of doing has actually been done by the US . There's some powerful projection at here. We know for a fact that the NSA does intercept teleco
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> Many people seem to dislike the anti-china move. Eh, this will be settled in the courts and the WTO. Western governments have conspired to manufacture this idea that Huawei and ZTE are exporting compromised devices. Everybody except th
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> The smartphone is a general purpose handheld computer that's been captured and turned into a rent-extraction device by being re-conceptualized as a "service." Services are indisputably a good thing and they are absolute
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by dnomad 8y ago
This is really the main goal of these threads. It's your standard Two Minute Hate [1]: everybody gets together and signals their own virtue by spewing fact-free nonsense (apparently China's entire 11T is run by bribes and no forei
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by dnomad 8y ago
The entire comment, like so many others, is just pure nonsense. This is not about understanding the reality it's about validating a narrative and so you get completely made up "facts" like Disney being forced to partner up wh
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There's a good chunk of literature that demonstrates conpiracists have different brain structures. This is why people who believe in one conspiracy theory are more likely to also believe in other (conflicting) conspiracy theories and,
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> My working conjecture is that it is some people that cannot tolerate the ambiguity of many events being essentially random, chaotic, or stochastic. A lot of people aren't willing to seriously entertain complexity and so rely paran
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by dnomad 8y ago
The idea that this is how China works, that the President issues a dictate and a billion plus people just immediately jump to it with no questions asked, is pure racist nonsense. It gets spouted and accepted uncritically on HN because but i
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What I find remarkable is how one comment accuses a Chinese company of trying to "destroy" a "way of life" and there is absolutely no consequence, the comment is in no way highlighted as unusual or unwelcome. I know a l
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> Here, you are confusing per capita and overall again. Why do labels no longer matter just because China is larger than most nations? Does per capita income no longer work the same way if the population size is larger? What really scare
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At this point you really have to conclude that the intense anti-China bigotry here on HN is a deliberate strategy. Hate is who people like scooke are and HN makes every effort to spread and amplify that hate.
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I would agree except I find Maven to be easily the most sane and flexible and extensible build tool out there. I've used Maven to consistently build and deploy vast systems made up of hundreds of libraries. And this was ten years ago.
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You may actually be confusing and conflating several different "disorders." Certainly it's not clear that psychopaths, sociopaths and ASPD are all just "dangerous social predators." Some would consider psychopaths a
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> It’s touched on obliquely, but psychopaths are impulsive and in constant need of stimulation, which, because of their diminished emotional responses, they largely derive from anti-social behavior. Its adrenaline inducing response is on
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> If someone checks all the boxes from the points raised in this article I would really hope that that sort of behavior never gets normalized because these traits are the exact opposite of what people should strive for in their lives. I

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