roboys

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by roboys 7y ago
Like what happened when HK was stolen by invaders. The over-correction in response is to be expected, regardless of how delayed it might seem.
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by roboys 7y ago
HK youth getting Cambridge Analytica'd for the sake of the trade war by the usual actors.
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by roboys 7y ago
Am I the only person that believes international crime will see a significant drop if China controls HK? I'm actually glad this glorified money laundering/financial crime haven is being shut down. The sooner China gets extradition
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by roboys 7y ago
Allowing him to take his own life through intentional carelessness is a possibility.
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by roboys 7y ago
The history of these agencies makes me think you are mistaken. The people that can touch Iranian centrifuges connected to airgapped machines in hostile territory can't touch a prisoner in one of their own facilities? Seems unlikely.
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by roboys 7y ago
I feel you seriously underestimate our intelligence apparatus and its controllers. If this was an enemy of the US in a foreign jail would you feel differently?
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by roboys 7y ago
The gov influences companies through economic and legal incentives (subsidies, large gov contracts, etc..). This is especially true in important industries (energy, health care, tech). Does having a large % of ex-gov/mil/intel boa
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by roboys 7y ago
Also it seems disingenuous to act like boards of US Fortune 500 companies aren't filled with ex-government/intelligence/military staff that play a role in aligning the company's interest with the government's intere
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by roboys 7y ago
Gathering intelligence is a key part of staying in power.
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by roboys 7y ago
Imo it's worth more than a million dollars for an organization to not disclose a flaw to Apple and make the attack vector available to clients. Governments are more than willing to pay $100,000-$1,000,000 per unlock.
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by roboys 7y ago
My guess is Apple is bored of truly innovating and now has to resort to nickle-diming customers to hit quarterly numbers. Tim Cook put on his "Make Changing Batteries Expensive Again" hat.
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by roboys 7y ago
"Killing millions of Chinese... is not the American way"? He must have avoided many history books to come to that conclusion.
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by roboys 7y ago
Japan attacked China with the blessing of Teddy Roosevelt, a secret 1905 treaty allowed Japan to expand into Asia without push back from the US. Pearl harbor happened because we reneged on this "secret treaty" by backing China 30
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by roboys 7y ago
It's actually a lot simpler, stealing gold works. It's old fashioned but they extracted $45 trillion from India alone, think about how much was taken from Africa and China....also at it's peak opium deals in China accounted f
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by roboys 7y ago
China fell low thanks to external sabotage (opium) and espionage (stolen tea,spices,manufacturing processes) by 5+ of the future economic powers working together in the take down of the superpower. This attack and disruption of established
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by roboys 7y ago
Sounds like Osama Bin Laden, he was trying to get US military bases off of "sacred religious land" in Saudi Arabia. Primary reason for 9/11, he stated.
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by roboys 7y ago
What percentage of a total community has to believe something is sacred before it is accepted as so? The idea of going with what the majority thinks falls apart in this context.
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by roboys 7y ago
The fact that AAPL goes on regular stock buy back sprees with its warchest instead of risking innovation helps with the stability of what should be a declining stock price.
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by roboys 7y ago
We are tied to so many treaties and agreements made in the past, that I believe this is not the case.
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by roboys 7y ago
India never had a famine before the British landed on its shores, when all was said and done, they stole over $45 trillion dollars worth of value from that single nation... I imagine Africa's stolen loot was many times larger (just the
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by roboys 7y ago
I prefer the approach to Xinjiang deradicalization over our methods in Iraq and Syria.
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by roboys 7y ago
The major powers attempting to put roadblocks in the way of China's ascent were quite instrumental in aiding China's decline over the past couple centuries. I think the trust deficit coming from the East towards the West is more w
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by roboys 7y ago
At the founding of the US, China was the #1 economy in the world. This view of the world among Europeans is partially based of racism and racist accounts of the world going unchecked. The most investment-worthy economies on the planet have
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by roboys 7y ago
They know what they are protecting. The financial institutions pocket 20% of global GDP by providing very simple, cheap & easily automatable services, from a tech standpoint.
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by roboys 7y ago
Boycotting IBM may have saved lives at Nazi concentration camps if it was attempted... (IBM assisted Nazis in processing big data (of their time) during most of WW2)
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by roboys 7y ago
4 times less likely to get murdered in China than in USA. Sounds like a better place to raise a kid too.
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by roboys 7y ago
"glad NSA is on my side", you are 100% sure about this?
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by roboys 7y ago
The price discovery period doesn't end until all potential participants have entered the market and all coins have been mined.
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by roboys 7y ago
There is inflation, it shows itself in asset prices. You are also skipping a step, the currency debasement and resulting loss of global reserve status leads to hyperinflation.
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by roboys 7y ago
You can't compare the penetration of Bitcoin (10 years) to Gold (1,000+ years) yet but adoption trends point in bitcoins favor.

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