maxglute

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by maxglute 9mo ago
>Under ITU rules established in 2019, satellite systems have to be operating – or have at least one satellite launched and operated for a period of time – within seven years of initial filing, after which they have to deploy 10 per cent
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by maxglute 10mo ago
To clarify, 3166-1 is for countries, dependent territories (i.e. Guam), special areas (Taiwan, Hong Kong) i.e. TW gets a flag being in 3166-1 list but under UN resolution 2758, PRC gets to subsume TW as special area - "Taiwan (Province
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by maxglute 10mo ago
I think my tolerance for ads would be higher if algos stop showing repeat ads, or limit same ad from playing more than X times to user.
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by maxglute 10mo ago
I've been writing metric dense post before LLMs, and even then I don't entertain sealions who don't do their own minimal research, or demonstrate inability to. LLMs simply available now for previously lazy/cognitively in
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by maxglute 10mo ago
yeah it's just something for display. I wish vinyl packaging came with a spine.
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by maxglute 10mo ago
I'm not here to enter your lame sealioning effort for basic facts. This is 2026, you can validate claims trivially. Or you can keep demonstrating illiteracy/innumeracy, which is just as well. Audience can go through comment chain
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by maxglute 10mo ago
It's been 20 years, most industries PRC value engineers to outcompete west stays cheap, because they're not dumping, they structurally bring cost down. The current generation of Chinese workers overwhelmingly owns a house, makes a
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by maxglute 10mo ago
Unfortunately, your reading comprehension can't parse basic argument, so there's not much to discuss. For >50%, pick a manufactured finished good or intermediary good like steel, electronics, solar modules, batteries, shipbuild
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by maxglute 10mo ago
Most successful if you pick the reasonable excess death estimate, i.e. not PRC official stats that only counts respiratory failure, or mainstream western excess death estimate extrapolated from applying obese murican fatality rates. TLDR ty
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by maxglute 10mo ago
Because fundamentally Dan is a western libtard at heart, not many Chinese immigrant kids join Royal Canadian Army Cadet. The reality is zero covid is the greatest epidemiology response in human history that insulated against ridiculous covi
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by maxglute 10mo ago
Consider PRC has 90%+ home ownership rate and declining population, i.e. almost every person in PRC is functionally going to inherit a house, likely multiple, the floor for stability is going to be much higher. This is not west where high %
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by maxglute 10mo ago
The tremendous growth is still happening on sector by sector basis, and arguably west only holds edge in few extreme frontier niches while PRC increasingly dominating rest. Relevant PRC joke: If China can't make something, it's co
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by maxglute 10mo ago
AKA the most sensible economic model for Dubai. It's a nice enough metropolis for the desert, entices enough high end talent to live there to supplement frankly undereducated population a few generations away from nomads, and locals ar
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by maxglute 10mo ago
>But American problems seem more fixable to me than Chinese problems Dan still one of the sharper PRC writers, but like all analysts who moves from PRC to stateside, he used to be Canadian in China writing about China to US, now Canadian
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by maxglute 10mo ago
Along ops reasoning, PRC will find domestic slop to feed pigs. There's already soybean replacement program in the pipelines, i.e. synthetic science + cheap power = future industrial substitutes. Because soybean conundrum is arable land
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by maxglute 10mo ago
He's a Canadian in America writing about China. He writes about bloc strategic competition. EU+UK is treated as bloc in this context, individual European countries are generally irrelevant alone.
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by maxglute 10mo ago
Let's be real, if Trump wants to reshore US auto factories from Ontario to Detroit, as he has stated explicitly, Canadian politicians can't do shit, USMCA be paper after all. Right now CAN just waiting for term to blow over and ho
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by maxglute 10mo ago
> in a war with China What is fuss over US coming to TW defense then? US wants to prevent PRC reunification regardless of method, that's ample reason for war. If US doesn't want war, just have state department tell PRC TW is in
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by maxglute 10mo ago
>disproportionally stupid Why assume PRC attacks US+co first? This 2015s talking point based on limited PLA modernization, use it or lose it force structure, so they would be smart to use first, then. 2025+ reality is PRC has survivable
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by maxglute 10mo ago
>nuclear war here, which seems unrealistic to me You described nuclear war first with mainland conventional strikes. Regardless, 2025 DoD china report lists fielded conventional strikes with west coast on the map for a reason, they are f
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by maxglute 10mo ago
Down to one day warning from three days. Next one is probably going to be few hours and then normalize into surprise exercises.
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by maxglute 10mo ago
They transitioned to hypersonic development after US withdrew from ABM treaty in early 2000s, historically moving to hypersonic was not reaction to US having a working shield (it didn't), it was more proactive move demonstrate US pursu
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by maxglute 10mo ago
You can click on characters for context. Was this a feature last year? Would make a great animated wallpaper.
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by maxglute 10mo ago
Steamdeck sold like 6m units, maybe valve gets a few 100m more selling OLED markup, but I feel like that's kind of peanuts for Valve who would rather push the platform. With price of PC these days and disenfranchisement with windows, I
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by maxglute 10mo ago
Look at DoDs China report last few years, specifically PRC fielded conventional strike. PRC DF26, H6xCJ20s already can hit every essential SLOC from Malacca to MENA at volume, DF27 reaches west coast and Europe. There isn't really anyw
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by maxglute 10mo ago
Yes, hence RU missile shit tier, they can hit point targets at least, which is step above IR missile that is dog shit tier, area spam. Maybe IR high end stuff RU tier if we can disambiguate the recent UAE hit that is statistically suggest l
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by maxglute 10mo ago
Pretty much. 25% interception rate on shit tier Kinzhals last year, which allegedly required salvoing all 32 interceptors from patriot battery, a patriot pac3 mse, aka the most advanced operational variant from 10 years ago. It's dropp
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by maxglute 10mo ago
I was invited to lunch near factory 541, tank city, a pseudo closed area sprawled in some Shanxi valley. Turned out it was lunch and a show, they were going executing some drug traffickers from strike hard. Impromptu don't do drug less
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by maxglute 10mo ago
It's not limited to BRICs but many emerging economies or distressed countries PRC wants to gain influence. Dollars attached to specific PRC projects, i.e. BRI, so they buy PRC industrial inputs, goods, equipment, contracts PRC SEOs to
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by maxglute 10mo ago
>Worst case Or you know, a few basis points increase in interest rate that adds up to 100s of billions of new debt obligations a year (now more than defense), but it's America, no one loses sleep over that. >they do with the doll

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