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The part of this you're missing is that China doesn't want it [1]. Why? Because China will make their own. This has been obvious to me for at least 1-2 years. The US doesn't allow EUV lithography machines from ASML to be expo
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So I follow a number of China scholars and experts and I've yet to see any consensus about what these military purges actually mean. It could be about corruption. You see this in the Russian military where paid-for tanks didn't ex
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I'm old enough to remember the 1990s. Many of us who do consider it the last good decade. Living was cheap. The previously ever-present threat of nuclear annihilation had seemingly abated. This was before the d0t-com crash and obviousl
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What China is doing in the South China Sea? The South China Sea. Let's just compare to the Monroe Doctrine [1]. What this actually means has gone through several iterations by since I think Teddy Roosevelt's time, it's th
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I'm going to give a shout out here to an episode of the excellent podcast Hardcore History , specifically Episode 59: The Destroyer of Worlds [1]. The development of the atomic bomb created a debate in American policy circles about
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The distinction between foreign and domestic is a legal one. The Supreme Court has ruled that the US Constitution protects any persons physically present in the United States and its territories as well as any US citizens abroad. So if you
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Your comment reads like propaganda. You know who else considers Taiwan to be part of the People's Republic of China? The US, the EU and in fact most countries in the world. It's called the One China policy. There are I believe 12
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Taiwan is a matter of perspective. From the Chinese perspective, there was a civil war and the KMT lost. That's also the official position of the US, the EU and most countries in the world. It's called the One China policy. And Ch
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I think that's false. The cost of switching is so low that the best product will win and there's no moat. I honestly can't see how OpenAI can possibly recoup the hundreds of billions poured into it at this point. I'd say
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My two thoughts: 1. China has been completely vindicated for blocking US tech domination of their local economy and creating Chinese versions of basically everything. Tech independence has become an issue of national security; and 2. There&
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Yeah, that's a lie. It's propaganda. Consider as just one example the lawsuit over child slavery against Nestle, etc [1]. The Supreme Court ultimately ruled that Nestle can't be held responsible for the child slavery even t
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There’s an effort to whitewash the horrors of chattel slavery that is really disgusting. Estimated on the economics of slavery (that I’ve read anyway) seemingly ignore that slaves can make new slaves. This is the dark side of slavery that s
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Except that slaves also make new slaves that can be sold. I really dislike this idea that slavery was just a cultural aberration and not economic. For one thing, that lightens the moral stain of slavery adjacent activity, most notably colon
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I suspect this is an example of us seeing history through a mdoern lens and making false assumptions. For example, the idea that a nation project or an empire is genetically homogenous is a relatively modern concept. The truth is that empir
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First, I never said the crash was over. Second, this is a good thing. It is a success not a failure. I mean it's bad for the investors but China has decided people having affordable housing is more important than the investors. The inv
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For 20+ years World of Warcraft has dominated the MMORPG genre. There have been a host of challengers and they've all miserably failed. In fact, there have only been a handful of successes (eg UO, EQ, FF14). And what do almost all of t
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> Where and who did you get this idea from? Speculation in China makes speculation in the USA look like child’s play. This information is so out of date it borders on misinformation. China's real estate market "crashed" at
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What we're witnessing isn't just an issue of localizing policy failure or even state policy failure but systemic failure. And we just need to look at China for how to do this correctly. China treats housing primarily as providing
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"Sanctions" are just a sanitized way of saying "forced starvation" and "denying basic medical care" because that's what happens. For Cuba, this has been going on so long that the CIA documents about the ef
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Facebook in particular, and social media in general, is an excellent example of making short-term decisions ultimately leading to your doom. FB of course started as a way for college kids to follow each other and see what's going on. T
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Remember when the Biden administration massively increased IRS funding and the Right collectively lost their minds? They fairly successfully pushed the idea that these agents were going to go after average citizens. They never were and you&
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Um, colonialism never left. It just morphed. The most common form is the economic colonialism/imperialism by the United States. The World Bank and IMF are tools of colonialism. We extract resources and exploit cheap labor from the Glob
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You’re so close to the point but not quite there. Famines are political. They happen because one population is happy to starve another. The Mughals ruled themselves. The British stole harvests for themselves and let the local population sta
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So this is a fallacy of seeing historical events through a modern lens. We know how far the Mongols spread and we have accurate maps but in no way am I convinced that France could possibly conceive of the size and scope of Central Asia in t
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I honestly had no idea about the French fascination with the Mongols. People tend to admire people who have traits they aspire to. I wonder if this stems from France, being a major imperial power at the time, admiring the Mongols as an impe
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I blame Google for a lot of this. Why? Because they more than anyone else succedded in spreading the propaganda that "the algorithm" was like some unbiased even all-knowing black box with no human influence whatsoever. They did th
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No. There is a long history of Republican voter disenfranchisement: - In the 1980s The RNC created the Ballot Security Task Force [1], which was a scheme to strike people off the voter rolls by sending them a mailer if they didn't resp
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Once again we see tech companies capitulating to the US government who is actually doing the things we accuse China is theoretically doing in the future . I don't own a smart speaker. It's actually annoying because there are so
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One of the most destructive ideas of the last century in the West (particularly the US) has been the idea that private industry is a better replacement for the government to provide services. We see this with Internet and telecoms service w
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First I will say that clearly all these attention hooks must work or they wouldn't keep doing them but, for me, it just doesn't match how I use YT. Specifically, I am almost always going to YT with the intention of watching someth

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