eiaoa

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   by eiaoa 8y ago

   > The biggest reduction in global poverty we've seen is due to outsourcing to China. Don't you care about starving Chinese peasants? Chinese peasants were starving because of bad Chinese domestic policies, not because of a lack
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   by eiaoa 8y ago

   > It was also a policy decision driven by necessity. Nixon didn’t go to China for the lulz, China was going down a bad path dangerous to the west and western business was hitting a wall in many ways as well. My understanding is that Nixo
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   by eiaoa 8y ago

   > No, I believe the military should exist but shouldn’t be too good at its job. If the US president knows that 3,000 American soldiers will die doing something, it will make the calculus of doing it very different than if only 3 soldiers
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   by eiaoa 8y ago

   Is there some reason why it would be mal-adaptive for a plant to have both retinal (yellow and green) and chlorophyll (red and blue) photosynthesis? Seems like it would greatly increase the energy it could harvest, which would probably be