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I get a similar impression that the article was a little odd - I think the author seems to be confusing the intent of the message coming from China's leadership. China is saying, here is a 'story' to help you understand what
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What we're witnessing today is a chicken-and-egg problem. USA: America is the chicken. To be a modern country, it is hypothesized that the developing country needs immediately adopt American systems, laws, behavior & structures (th
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Democracy, or that standards of living are so high its not worth it to deviate from the status quo? With no political science knowledge, I'm willing to have my view challenged and changed. I think there are 2 elements that are more imp
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No, he specifically separated out the blockchain technology from the currency component. Via FT Alphaville [1], he says, "I’m going to be really clear in this one. Forget the blockchain, that’s a technology… But… the currency isn’t goi
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It sounds like he is doing both (managing investments and doing research) simultaneously. From the article, > Lun, who was born in Hong Kong, splits his time between his firm in Pennsylvania and lab at Rutgers, where he’s undertaken an a
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I'm not disagreeing with anything you said but I suppose I am more commenting on the difference in attitude and execution. While services like Android/Watsapp were created in the West and do service the lower end market, they stil
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I think this is a good illustration of the different approach in how China and America approach the consumer economics space. In America, there is a very heavy reliance on "trickle down". We create a "best-in-class", &qu
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> We have it pounded into our heads that we need globalization in the form of open markets with no protectionism Because that is false. It works for developed markets with existing strong industries. Dieter Frisch - former Director Gener
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This has been reported and going on for a while. * MIT Technology review has a story on this [1] * Police robots in China scan all the faces they come across to identify fugitives [2] * JD (i.e., the competitor of Alibaba which is somewhat
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To be fair, it was never about a hollowing out. The link is, "Many Canadians are living on cheap credit rather than living within their means" and the title is, "Canada’s Middle Class Is on the Brink of Ruin". The whole
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> The article doesn't want to seem to load for me I had to wait a bit but it eventually loads. Not sure what is wrong with the website. > what is the source of cost issues in that part of the country? Cost of living vs what jobs
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"I can make a bet that when China GDP per capita comes close to the developed nations". Exactly, people seem to forget that we're so comfortable here that we (I mean the majority) just couldn't care less. Every once in a
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In order of what I could easily/already drop: Facebook: Never had Facebook Apple: Don't use any Apple products Alphabet (Google): 90%+ searches are now through DuckDuckGo for me Amazon: Needed as online shopping often through Amaz
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He also blogs for those interested - obviously geared more to the finance types: https://www.aqr.com/cliffs-perspective
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If that's what people demand then that's what they'll supply. If it wasn't a profitable venture, they would not be creating it.
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What you're witnessing is manufactured consent[1]. There is no need for the crude methods of propaganda here because it's not even necessary. Compare that with China; people there are fully conscious of government propaganda. From
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We prefer to use the term, seeking inspiration as opposed to copying, over here =P
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They are apparently using data from Global Trade Alerts http://www.globaltradealert.org/ I good intro would be their 19th Global Trade Alert Report http://www.globaltradealert.org/gta-analysis/global-tr
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> destroyed by an evil government, just for cheap, shoddily made goods This attitude is why China managed to get itself out of poverty while other countries don't seem to get anywhere. While you may think phones made in China are ch
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Those two aren't mutually exclusive. America is an incredibly protectionist country as well if you aren't aware. http://www.eulerhermes.com/economic-research/publications/Pa... In the past 3 years, Ameri
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To add to that, the SCMP newspaper just released a visual a couple days ago explaining various projects. The five main projects of the Belt and Road Initiative http://multimedia.scmp.com/news/china/article/One
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> it seems it lacks structure to be able to handle itself without risk of collapse. Could you clarify? China was stable for like a millennium while Europe was fighting each other to no end.
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This may or may not be a problem specific to your own installation though. While I don't have 100+ tabs, I've been using quick commands for everything since I started using Vivaldi without any issues - it is very snappy for me.
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> I find vivaldi is not really suited for my several hundreds opened tabs navigation style yet. What is the solution you are currently using that you want them to implement? Is quick commands (F2) + typing the tab name to navigate around
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> I'm not sure why anyone cares about the US returning the favor. I don't think you realize that protectionist measures in America is nothing new; in fact, we have quite a lot of protectionist measures. It's just a media
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I purposely came off rude in my comment - probably contributed to the down votes. But I do think it's a big worry for many people here in the west when an ideology that is diametrically opposed to what we are use to over here is not on
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> giving its workers the same rights and wages that we give our workers in the US. You need to account for cost of living. Also, if you're really worried about low wages, maybe start complaining about other countries since wages in
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> China will be fine if it can transition to a better system of government. lol, so the one that brings more and more people out of poverty everyday should suddenly change and adopt the American style of government where more and more pe