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An Industrial Policy with American Characteristics(foreignaffairs.com)
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by hunglee2 1y ago
International politics is revealing itself to operate on the principles of the mafia, where basically everything is leverage and where 'imposing costs' is the primary tool of discipline. Perhaps,'twas ever thus and Trump&#x27
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by hunglee2 1y ago
who adjudicates this - once upon a time strong minded women were considered mentally incapable, some institutionalised for it, for no other than reason than for demanding their rights. A demented person - even a thoroughly demented on - sho
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by hunglee2 1y ago
fine - they have more at stake. Might actually encourage having more children, increase familial voting power
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by hunglee2 1y ago
yes of course. 5 or 50. There is no argument for an age requirement, other than gerontocratic one
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by hunglee2 1y ago
the franchise should be truly universal and every citizen regardless of age should have the vote. There is no argument on level of maturity or intelligence - we have ample evidence that higher voting ages do not produce better outcomes - de
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by hunglee2 1y ago
CHIPS act nuked Intel. The promise of unlimited US govt support to make a US TSMC encouraged Gelsinger to all in on domestic fab production, only to rugged first by Biden DEI stipulations, then by Trump 2.0 coercing Taipei to give up TSMC a
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Mapping the AI economy: Which regions are ready for the next technology leap(brookings.edu)
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Tariff Simulator(tariffs.flexport.com)
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by hunglee2 1y ago
the paradox is that is authoritarian government which is promoting democratic AI, whilst democratic government which is promoting authoritarian AI.
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by hunglee2 1y ago
of course, but nothing has been greater motivator that US export bans. CCP has struggled to coordinate private sector China big tech, whose aims are to do what every business wants, which is maximise market share / maximise revenue. US
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by hunglee2 1y ago
terrible mistake by China to allow this - H20 sales will wipe out Huawei Ascend growing market share, and put China back into supply chain dependency to a country which is a hostile adversary.
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by hunglee2 1y ago
Military-Civilian fusion, with US characteristics
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by hunglee2 1y ago
EU did not get anything from appeasing Trump - Drop Digital Tax - Ponied up war budgets to 5% of GDP (buying mainly US military equipment) - Promise to buy more US LNG Still hit with across the board 30% tariffs, with promise for raise more
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China's Evolving Industrial Policy for AI(rand.org)
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by hunglee2 1y ago
US solipsism is part of the problem - you can't exactly write an article about phone companies making cars and entirely ignore what Huawei and Xiaomi have achieved. These two Chinese companies did not ignore traditional auto expertise
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State of AI Bias in Talent Acquisition(warden-ai.com)
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State of Foundation Models 2025 [pdf](foundationmodelreport.ai)
2 points by hunglee2 1y ago|1 comments
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by hunglee2 1y ago
We're going to find out that the representative democracy was always dependent on centralised control or supervision of narrative production, rather than the 'free exchange of ideas'. Social media - more specifically, the soc
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by hunglee2 1y ago
President Trump will leave office as the richest man in the world, a modern day Crassus.
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by hunglee2 1y ago
You cannot complain about 'trade deficit' and proceed to implement policies which expands said deficit. China wants to buy American, but US export controls on the stuff they want to buy means they have go elsewhere or make their o
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by hunglee2 1y ago
of course there is censorship on HN but this is true in any space where people can publicly communicate with each other. It is a fantasy to believe free speech actually exists in any place, what is different is which topics are taboo, and t
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by hunglee2 1y ago
Military-Civilian fusion, with US characteristics
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by hunglee2 1y ago
China is the only country that has internet sovereignty, quite essential for national sovereignty
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by hunglee2 1y ago
I've come to believe that a great firewall is the only way parallel services might emerge, EU should've done this in mid 2000's
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by hunglee2 1y ago
Digital sovereignty becoming a thing. EU needs to go further - erect its own Great Firewall, protect and nurture EU native tech. 400 million people cannot be dependent on an internet controlled by foreigners
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by hunglee2 1y ago
The irony is that one of the main rails upon which the MAGA train rides is States rights. But then, Trump was always going to be a rule breaker, not least to his own supporters, in the end all that will be left will be absolute fealty to th
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June Jobs Outlook 2025(reveliolabs.com)
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by hunglee2 1y ago
important for China national security to diversify off oil - the Malacca straits is a choke point often cited as key vulnerability. Solar/ Wind / Hydro / Nuclear + UHVT lines + mass battery infra to power the new manufacturin
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Electricity Data Explorer(ember-energy.org)
1 points by hunglee2 1y ago|0 comments

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