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US pushes to fund western rivals to Huawei(ft.com)
7 points by hash872 7y ago|2 comments
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by hash872 7y ago
Early proto-MMA events in the US & Brazil literally had no rules (Google 'vale tudo'), and included groin strikes & eye gouges (Google 'Keith Hackney Joe Son'). They were actually underground fighting events, som
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I'm aware. In general the Party has not been very enthusiastic about MMA/western martial arts- they see it as a cultural influence thing. I agree that they're not outright banned
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They are mostly nonsense because they're not actually effective, and they've been proven ineffective in empirical tests- mixed fights with little to no rulesets. If you attempted to use Kung Fu to defend yourself against an '
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by hash872 7y ago
I don't think a high % of Chinese- or really any culture where MMA isn't big- know that their traditional martial arts are BS. It took a couple of decades here in the US for people to realize that TMAs are mostly nonsense. From wh
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Not sure if you'll see this, but this worked like a charm for me. Thank you!!
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by hash872 7y ago
(As an American) I don't think that America should have that much power, no. I'm also cautiously keeping an eye on the direction where Chinese regulation will go here too
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According to LinkedIn there are 573 people with the job title 'trader' at Goldman Sachs. I'm scanning through the list now- titles like Fixed Income Trader, Mortgage Trader, Rates Trader, Oil Trader, Equity Sales Trader, FX T
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by hash872 7y ago
So then why do they trade at all then? I'm not arguing for trading, I'm just curious. It seems like the existence of 'trader' as a job at all of these financial institutions kind of disproves EMH if you have enough marke
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Not in any way shape or form defending 'Harvesting LinkedIn data'- I think it's quite bad. But I'm getting a little concerned by all these 'but GPDR!' arguments I'm seeing out there. The EU is not a world
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by hash872 7y ago
While I agree that day trading anything is an extremely poor idea- why is trading by banks/hedge funds/Goldman Sachs etc. consistently profitable? (Or if isn't profitable, why do they do it?) Is it just the massive informatio
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by hash872 7y ago
Sorry to thread jack, but- important question: how are people reading Bloomberg now that they shut down incognito mode as of this week? Disabling Javascript doesn't seem to work either. I'm using Outline for the time being, but it
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You read my mind
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I think the standard explanation is that a huge country like the US lacks the social cohesion necessary to pay higher tax rates in exchange for social programs that benefit everyone. Like, I believe Sweden's population is about 10 mill
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I just skimmed the chapter again to refresh my memory. It has a clear 'THOSE people [lower income, lower IQ] having abortions reduced the crime rate' angle. I'm sure they may have said something different after the fact, to n
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by hash872 7y ago
Oh I've read it and am familiar with their argument, I just disagree. I don't think analyzing gun laws on a city by city basis makes a lot of sense, they're small, in high demand apparently, and easily smuggled from a more pe
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His argument has been widely debunked, and subsequent followup found that Leavitt had a huge data error that way overstated his conclusion. I personally find the lead/crime argument to be much more convincing
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by hash872 7y ago
>I'd further point out that the overwhelming majority of the moneyed interests still stack up on the side of permissive immigration policies. It is, after all, capital that benefits from a global free market for labor George Soros d
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> Otherwise the US was better... health care (granted provided as part of the package by my employers) I'd be fascinated to hear more if you're open. It's a very common (populist) framing in the US that we have Literally
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by hash872 7y ago
....all education? Basic literacy & numeracy? Teaching children how to count and their ABCs? How do you think civilization would function, then? I think that Caplan is arguing against college and further on
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>Education is more a filtering mechanism than an enrichment mechanism. Panning does not create gold This is a pretty bad analogy man. Education, starting with basic literacy & numeracy, improves virtually everyone who goes through it
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Almost by definition (if this is true, and I'm sure it's way way way more complicated than a simple rule of thumb), the market would have priced this in already. Or do you think that you're in possession of a secret, which ha
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by hash872 7y ago
Think about this way- in your 'people can call market crashes ahead of time' mental model, you need to include all the market crashes that were called incorrectly. Everyone who said it would crash in 2012, 2014, when Trump was ele
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by hash872 7y ago
Eh. This is only true because there's an absolutely staggering amount of financial commentary, and some % of it is negative- and then after a recession you can always go back and use confirmation bias to find the negative comments that
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This, plus his academic work which is not for a popular audience is supposedly pretty vanilla and doesn't rant and rave about how 'dumb' everyone else in the field is, how all of their models are garbage, etc. He does have pr
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by hash872 7y ago
>I have a hard time imagining our apathetic population going to war with each other in our day and age I don't think our population is that apathetic, and I don't think a return to 60s & 70s levels of political violence is
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by hash872 7y ago
Cities & states frequently offer absurdly generous pensions to public sector workers for political payoff or corrupt reasons. State workers can sometimes retire in their 50s with a lifetime of absurd benefits. Or, the infamous '13t
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> Libra may be the last best hope of the US to maintain its current level of influence in the international currency market Sorry- what's the connection here? Libra will apparently be a basket of different major currencies, how does
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>The point is that these technologies are permissionless and unstoppable. As long as the internet exists, you can't eliminate such technology and behavior This is the myth that will apparently never die in the crypto community. Yes,
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by hash872 7y ago
While I'm in general a blockchain & crypto skeptic- worth noting that FT Alphaville are not arguing in good faith, they are self-proclaimed contrarians who are fanatically anti-tech, anti-tech companies, and in particular anti-US t

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