maxglute

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by maxglute 8mo ago
Tame Orchard towers and four floors of whores never produced dubai chocolate tier of memes. Singapore is Disney with death penalty. Dubai is Disney with Minnie Mouse scat play. Hilariously, both great places to raise kids if you stick to th
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by maxglute 8mo ago
SH onshore, HK offshore still. PRC bigger economy than entire region SG serves, if PRC wills HK to be finance hub larger than SG then that's what HK will be, on mainland volumes alone. One thing Singapore has over HK is it's land
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by maxglute 8mo ago
Singapore was never "cool" as long as I remember in Asian expat circles since 90s. It's like the nice clean manicured places where boring expats who enjoys boiled potatoes and chicken breasts without spice settle. Dubai witho
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by maxglute 8mo ago
PRC generating as much STEM/skilled talent than OECD combined... that's enough for entire semi supply chain and 2 civil aviation companies. Aviation is functionally caught up, as in if PRC wants to throw together a narrow or wide
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by maxglute 8mo ago
Not only would total anarchy been worse for economy than Mao, you would struggle to find another developmental model that did as well as Mao. Especially the only comparable size peer, India who objectively did worse, under most developmenta
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by maxglute 8mo ago
Of course GDP is an arbitrary abstraction, it's literally derived from arbitrary systems of measurement, i.e. why soviet had mps system and west had sna, and each get to decide what to value and how much... arbitrarily... and even when
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by maxglute 8mo ago
This so historically stupid claim, it's not even wrong tier. There was no GDP data under KMT - it wasn't even formally calculated. CCP started GDP calculations, but using soviet MPS GDP accounting system that basically omitted ser
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by maxglute 9mo ago
I'll get started on the business plan boss!
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by maxglute 9mo ago
"Safer" - I think essentially filtering for 1-2% of population high on sociopathy / anti social spectrum. Doesn't mean they're immune, just better equipped for job cognitively. I surmise compensation goes up when we
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by maxglute 9mo ago
It's a well compensated job vs local opportunities but feels like it should be an extravagantly compensated job vs local opportunities. Someone has to do it, but also somewhere along the continuum of doing factory garment work for $100
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by maxglute 9mo ago
Europe wasn't breaking sovereign immunity / sovereign bank seizures when historically fighting each other, current actions historically unprecedented. So the answer is war is not sufficient excuse for RoW. EU extra delulu because
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by maxglute 9mo ago
But they can't hence point moot, and when they could/might, i.e. Russian Alaska, they didn't try. Whereas US tried to annex Canada twice, but was context of British Canada / revolutionary war. CAN not going to ally with
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by maxglute 9mo ago
Settlement is leading indicator / proxy of trust. The point is countries trust in PRC running financial pipes is increasing, because vs US/EU, PRC simply look more responsible. USD treasury isn't great now AND trending toward
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by maxglute 9mo ago
Gripens with external tanks outrange F35 with external tanks flying dirty, and since 4th gen, stealth hardly matters. Spaced based ISR is proliferating, in 10 years F35s will be picked up through SAR from space if not already... well depend
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by maxglute 9mo ago
Let's be real, it really doesn't matter what jets Canada buys if US wants to annex Canada. For NORAD duties, US can sortie F35s out of Alaska, Canada on paper better off with some Gripens for cheap performative arctic patrols. But
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by maxglute 9mo ago
1. No one sane trusts EU after RU sanctions either. 2. Euro share of SWIFT shrunk from ~40% to ~20% post URK war. Part of this technical (t2 reforms), i.e. actual reduction not as dramatic, but Euro as toxic as USD with even less leverage.
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by maxglute 9mo ago
Preferential satrap treatment is for countries whose geopolitical alignment helps US... i.e. containing USSR, PRC. Iran/Shah muscle and Saudi money use to be US twin pillar strategy for MENA influence, including coldwar anticommunist c
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by maxglute 9mo ago
>Reserve currency issuer must run This is PRC's fundamental disagreement. US reserve currency morphed into high liquid, high speculative instrument to fund unsustainable debt, hollowed out domestic industry (triffin)... but this is
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by maxglute 9mo ago
Still blows my mind how NKR with all it's geologic limitations, or perhaps despite it, played their weak hand well while Iran squandered a much stronger hand. Too much oil and cultural/past hegemon hubris, the Ayatollah are not se
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by maxglute 9mo ago
> smaller scale Quantity has a quality of it's own. The sheer quantity of massive country agglomeration effects is what makes PRC system not replicable, i.e. you need country with 800 million people to sustain 500m "modern&quot
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by maxglute 9mo ago
>doesn’t fall into the middle income trap There's 2 middle income traps. 1) the actual middle income trap, failing to move up value chain 2) the byproduct, traps population to middle income India has the sheer population to pass thr
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by maxglute 9mo ago
The good news is PRC, like western capitalist pigs are willing to sell the rope that hangs them. It's never been more affordable and accessible to build up nascent manufacturing. PRC now one stop shop for bootstrapping development from
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by maxglute 9mo ago
TBH pretty retarded to eat up American spacerace 2.0 / rivalry / competition framing when space is like ~0.1% of GDP spend in both US/PRC. At least bump up to half a percent for a proper space race spending. Of course true pu
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by maxglute 9mo ago
> 1989, and the tension of “moral debt” is ever present, evidenced by its persistent censoring. IMO mistake to frame censorship as a debt, when it's domestic investment in stability, just like policing or infra, or epidemiologic pat
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by maxglute 9mo ago
Cartridges and cd/dvds/ physical media with DRM were technically dongles. I remember hearing a courier died overnighting a CAD dongle.
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by maxglute 9mo ago
Yes, comports with my numbers. >A majority of countries (119 or 62 per cent of UN member states) have endorsed Beijing’s one-China principle, which entails that Taiwan is an inalienable part of the People’s Republic of China. I was being
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by maxglute 9mo ago
~120 countries fully endorse One China Policy. ~60 acknowledge. ~10 recognize ROC.
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by maxglute 9mo ago
Yes, hence "medium/long term", though for me that's potential 10-20 year horizon. > buy more trinkets RMB buys capita goods, energy goods... and as PRC domestically moves way from oil, it still has massive refining&#x
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by maxglute 9mo ago
Typos really make it unfathomably entertaining.
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by maxglute 9mo ago
Really fascinating. I always wanted to pipe chatter from cafes to my office while working, but maybe tts dead internet conversations will be just as amusing.

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