magicsmoke

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by magicsmoke 7y ago
I think the dispute is whether the US (as a proxy for western nations) have historically based their actions on humanitarian reasons or realpolitik, and whether they should base their decisions more heavily on one or the other.
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Right now HK is stagnant and the mainland is rising. With all observations being relative to the observer's inertial frame though, that might feel like HK is falling from HK's perspective.
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by magicsmoke 7y ago
The current issue right now is that as China develops they're going through the same demographic decline a lot of other developed nations are going through, and it's not certain that removing this outdated cap on their population
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by magicsmoke 7y ago
It's the tradeoff between democracy and nationalism. I bet if you offered the typical mainlander the following choices. 1. Democracy + Developed country standard of living, but Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Xinjiang, Tibet vote to become i
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by magicsmoke 7y ago
Actually, what's to stop Huawei from just copying and incorporating whatever they need into their IC designs regardless of patents? I can imagine foreign foundaries refusing orders from Huawei to avoid manufacturing IP infringing desig
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by magicsmoke 7y ago
It seems like the issue is that it takes a lot of time and effort to be informed enough on any topic to make a good decision on it, and people are limited on how many topics they can be reasonably informed about. However, we have an expecta
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by magicsmoke 7y ago
The way I've heard this legend was that the king of Qin enticed the king of Shu to take the statues by making it appear they could defecate gold. At night, he would have servants drop gold around their hinds, and in the morning he woul
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by magicsmoke 7y ago
Isn't another branch of the rail system supposed to run south through Iran? What are the conditions on that branch like?
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by magicsmoke 7y ago
Trains carry tanks as well as goods. I wouldn't be surprised if Russia leaned on them not to get too cozy with China.
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Anyone know if Huawei has a China-based foundry that can manufacture their designs, and how good they are compared to Intel/Samsung/TSMC?
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The Lovely Chinese Watchtowers Built with Proceeds from the California Gold Rush(atlasobscura.com)
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Everything Under the Heavens The China Mirage How Asia Works