maxglute

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by maxglute 5d ago
No, a remarkably farsighted policy that prevented PRC from having to deal with additional 200m-400m subsistent farmers. If anything it wasn't done sooner/aggressive enough. Like you can literally wipe away 200-400m from PRC button
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by maxglute 6d ago
good cgi vs bad cgi etc etc.
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by maxglute 6d ago
What industrial base, most countries don't have competitive domestic auto and has the option of not being ripped off by western brans. For countries with domestic auto... this 2026, the that auto plant isn't building modern tanks
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by maxglute 6d ago
What plug is there to pull, PRC auto export prices are still 2x domestic MSRP, there's so much fat there to sustain overseas growth and undercut everyone else.
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by maxglute 6d ago
More than vice versa.
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by maxglute 11d ago
>equally guilty Not really, LBH, if RU and PRC ask US to kneecap US launch tempo or set some Washington naval treaty tonnage to space limits, US would lol. Rationally US (hegemonic stability) is incentivized to be uniquely bad, i.e. sign
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by maxglute 11d ago
Well skimpflation, with caveat that a remarkable amount to R&D is spend into value engineering to lowest price points, like you don't get to 50 cent FOB tshirt trivially. And frankly it's revolutionary - enabling developing co
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by maxglute 12d ago
Too much sneaker head gambling, Nikes started to feel like wearing pokemon.
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by maxglute 12d ago
I can't tell if Hoka crossed the into fashion athleisure mainstream, there's a lot of fit people wearing them in cities, but can't tell if as fashion statement or back from run.
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by maxglute 12d ago
Somehow it looks cool for a movie, but ugly for real life.
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by maxglute 12d ago
Something very no appealing when decimal points don't snap to a grid.
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by maxglute 12d ago
You can work around a few typos, bro. If you think US frontier AI are run by capitalist goblins, then the simple answer is they're trying to regulatory capture, because they're going to get wiped by future competitors without craz
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by maxglute 13d ago
>Maybe car ownership isn't doomed after all I think if anything waymo, robot taxi is doomed. Self driving ever matures to private car ownership will to car share to subsidize costs will with 1-10% utilization will basically generate
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by maxglute 13d ago
TBH only hope at this point is for BOE/PRC panel makers to thoroughly involute and for bare panels + dumb connectors make it to aliexpress, i.e. like we have after market screens for everything else. Buy a screen, buy a case, get your
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by maxglute 13d ago
The parsimonious capture is regulatory capture, because $$$ going to run out, companies already spent their warchest, and investors on increasingly leveraged funding at current macro environment simply not going to find enough funding to ke
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by maxglute 13d ago
> substantially more meritocratic It is substantially more meritocratic on domains that matter for governance, your analysis of the incentive structure between systems is off. 1) this 2026, old school CCP patronage networks are broadly
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by maxglute 15d ago
Once or twice a year, I regret throwing out my box of cables and doodads. The rest of the year I'm very happy I did it. If I were to assign price tag to that happiness it'd be ~$20.
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by maxglute 15d ago
I miss gaudy scrollbars.
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by maxglute 15d ago
Land/soil is in fact, property, and HK land belongs to PRC not HKers. HK belongs to all Chinese of which HKers are <1%. HKers simply got privileged arrangement / exclusive access enforced by CCP via limited freedom of movement
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by maxglute 15d ago
Evidence of what? That asking foreign power / geopolitical competitor to sanction domestic politicians is not treasonous? You're unintentionally failing an IQ test here. >infiltrated ... too Yes? This isn't complicated, th
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by maxglute 15d ago
HK topics seems to active disproportionate amount of almonds in western discourse. 10-15 years from now, new HK gen under decolonized patrioitc education going to be thoroughly Sinicized and wonder why west still can't take the L.
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by maxglute 15d ago
>put pressure on your home government They literally petitioned US gov to sanction HK politicians, and drew up lists, which US did. That's treasonous/seditious bullet to the back of the head activity. Also let's not preten
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by maxglute 15d ago
What happened in HK? Stupid nativist kids got disciplined for being pieces of shit, the treasonous ones jailed, and now post spanking they're partying it up on the mainland. TW should take note they're so so lucky to have that opt
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by maxglute 16d ago
Zero reason to believe open AI employees, big tech has history of employees/subcontractors creeping on exes and minors, someone with keys to creep on customer for valuations is more parsimonious.
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by maxglute 16d ago
Cheap money gone, investor money being burnet in bubble, only thing long term is government money, but gov money still not enough to get US defense primes to make stuff at scale and not SaaS the shit out of hardware (see lockmart f35). I do
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by maxglute 16d ago
Midea/GMCC, Gree spend ~5% of revenue on R&D like rest of industry, except they're larger vs JP companies (multiple size of related JP conglomerates & magnitudes larger than JP niche thermal management companies). Also mor
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by maxglute 16d ago
TFW Plex lifetime and plexamp for $75.
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by maxglute 16d ago
300 billion tokens is like.. $5-25 million giving range of OpenAI ouput prices, I"m sure they pay less at cost so, I wonder if more $$$ in wage hours have been spend by humans on the problem. My feeling is yes?
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by maxglute 16d ago
Making goods, cheap and accessible at scale is the innovation.
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by maxglute 16d ago
PRC's been white labelling / JV components for tier1 HVAC brands for 15 years now, they're fine quality/lifespan wise. Flagship PRC heatpump already caught up to JP in HSPF2 @ ~11 (GREE). Either way, more cheap commoditi

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