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by merman 3y ago
No offense but I think you've gotten lost in your thoughts and wrote down a response mid-conversation with yourself. Your "complaint" has been responded to already. The author finds it useful in the moment for himself, to bet
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by merman 3y ago
I took a very charitable take of your comment, that at best can be interpreted as “this policy was completely useless” when the evidence is staring you in the face. TSMC was clearly motivated by CHIPS to build fabs in the US for dozens of b
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by merman 3y ago
So if we criticize China we should do nothing? It’s not clear how you can be sympathetic that something should be done and against the obvious thing that should be done.
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by merman 3y ago
Good thing there are $200B worth of proof already. At what point would you be satisfied, if 100% of semi manufacturing took place in the US and 0 chips were manufactured elsewhere the instant the grants were handed out?
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by merman 3y ago
If you contort your thinking enough, 1920s Germans suffered miserably and unfairly and we could never comprehend their suffering, us being so fragile. How can we judge them for what they did later?
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by merman 3y ago
"The first attempts to replicate LK-99, reported in the past days, have not improved the material’s prospects. " This to me is sort of a summary of Nature's position. Reframing- there is no reason to change from the default p
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by merman 3y ago
Your statement that placing bets does not affect the outcome is true but I don't think you draw the right conclusion. If markets don't capture current sentiment accurately then bet against every news item. Let's say there&#x2
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by merman 3y ago
If there’s no need to ‘single out’ China then there’s no need to ‘single out’ doping in cycling, and no need to ‘single out’ this one particular Stanford President researcher, etc. The objective of your comment, that I am pointing out, is t
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by merman 3y ago
You’re making the preposterous assertion that all countries’ politicians are equally corrupt. That needs some extraordinary data to support.
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by merman 3y ago
What you are trying to do is called whataboutism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism#:~:text=Whatabo... .
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by merman 4y ago
This is a good strategy. There's a trend to frame a comment as a question, as a tactic to disarm the people you disagree with. But the deeper the comments nest, the more likely the discussion will become confused
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by merman 4y ago
>Though really I think this is an indictment of the current state of Phoenix more than it is a reason to praise Manhattan They also claim that many other states compare favorably to Phoenix, middle-America states. Suburbia, drive-centric
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by merman 4y ago
Sorry your Phoenix experience was so bad for you. It's great out here though. Don't know why the top comment is dumping on Phx as if it doesn't have a great road system. Our grocery options will improve as soon as the german