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by nyokodo 4y ago
> if the Chinese system were less “malignant” China is a country with so much racial, linguistic, and geographical diversity that it would likely break up if it were less draconian. Historically this has occurred repeatedly. This is like
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> But what I do know is China is ~1 billion people China built its massive manufacturing industry on vast quantities of cheap labor and a massive global consumer base. However, Chinese labor costs have been rising sharply for the past de
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I know that stressed feeling and I know how it feels like it’s never going to end but believe it or not this is a big opportunity. You were in a rut and now you’re going to dig yourself out of it! But, you’re going to need to think differen
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> One of those (one of the first to join) has been an issue for quite a while Focusing on the vesting issue is secondary to the fact that this employee should have been fired a while ago. Risking giving up a little equity is unlikely to
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> "Morality is either objective or completely arbitrary" is a false dichotomy > some reasonable foundational beliefs such as "I generally want people to have it good and not suffer" > But the belief that it&#x27
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> Some people have value systems that require disclosure (I'm one of them), but other people don't If you don't believe that your value system binds anyone else to behave in a certain way then how much does it really bind
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https://www.jetbrains.com/fleet/
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> People will just try to do their job, and if they don't see an explicit (i.e. written) mandate somewhere that they need to prevent nuclear power plants from being built, then they won't do it. This argument is naive to how or
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The original twitter thread references Wikimedia’s explicit support and advocacy for intersectional ideology. That is far more than “donating to orgs that support diversity in science” in terms of taking sides in the culture war. There is n
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> I was "destroying third spaces" in under-served neighborhoods Whoever it was is free to create that space themselves and if they succeed long term great but they won’t have such a smug ideological point of view once they’ve h
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> A lot of you are going to dislike what I wrote above I don’t know who would dislike a story of hard work urgently forming a sustainable business during a series of black swan economic impacts and saving so many (now) higher paid jobs i
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> This isn't "childish", it's exactly what Brexit was intended to do. I find it hard to believe that the UK v EU red tape is more implacable than that between the US and China. However, if it is then it is arbitrary,
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> You still lose the collaboration aspect There are research collaborations between the USA and China, why couldn’t UK researchers still collaborate with Europe? If not then this is a petty and childish state of affairs that reflects ver
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The implication being that if you’re an average performer with tenure you’re basically impossible to fire.
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> It is likely because about 25% of the country would not like a more liberal immigration policy. The blame isn’t just with the “build the wall” crowd, the majority of the other 75% of Americans do not place fixing immigration as a top p
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The bulk of the baby boomers have just hit retirement age, we have a much smaller GenX to inadequately replace them on the experienced end, a career-stunted Millennial generation filing in the middle, and an even smaller than GenX Zoomer ge
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> bang! small town everybody laid off. The labor shortage is changing this calculus very rapidly. I’m not saying it can’t still happen but it’s much more likely that the factory is lacking people to fill in the wide gaps in the automatio
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> All trucks over this bridge were supposedly inspected The operative word is “supposedly.” I suspect the same corruption that is everywhere in the Russian sphere exists in their infrastructure security apparatus.
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This is the rapid and now unstoppable decline of globalization and as an institution of globalization the UN might be a little worried about its future and ready to lash out.
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> China…should the US simply supply them with MRNA vaccines? They would have to ask for them and they’re not going to ask. They’ve spent years spreading propaganda that states the mRNA vaccines change your DNA, don’t work, that their dom
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> The President is not God, or a king. Keeping Presidents accountable doesn't mean expecting Godlike powers.
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> All our curses were in Java Freudian slip?
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> the dot com bubble had nothing specifically to do with Clinton. Similarly, WTF did Enron have to do with the Clinton administration Who is responsible for allowing these things to happen if not the President at the time? Sure, there ar
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No, he needed a Steve Jobs. “ Real ground breaking computer engineers ship!”
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> I'm curious, what are the things that happened during the Clinton administration that you think were short-term gains at the expense of long-term improvements? The dot com bubble forming and then popping is a notable one, Enron&#x
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> Shot for your own safety Spent fuel can be used in dirty bombs etc not to mention that an unauthorized person handling radioactive material is a danger to those running the reactor, and anyone coming into contact with the subject. Thos
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> I don't think he cares about conquering Poland. he's not even interested in conquering Western Ukraine (that used to be Poland before WW2). Who’s buying that line after columns of Russian troops tried to blitzkrieg Kyiv earli
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If he uses them then the other powers will need to severely hurt Russia directly otherwise they’d be encouraging Pakistan or India to exchange nukes, North Korea on the south or on Japan, or China on Taiwan or anyone. This would cause WWIII
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So, because we understand Russia can destroy us in half an hour we talk to them but Putin’s going to use nukes to make us finally understand Russia can destroy us in half an hour? That makes no sense.
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> Putin appears to not care. Putin wants everyone to think that, the reality is that this is almost certainly a ruse. I believe it was Nixon that wanted the Soviets to think he was mad and might press the button at the slightest provocat

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