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by tossaccount123 8y ago
There wasn't a WTO and there weren't international trades laws, in the 1800s. Even then he wasn't working as an arm of the US government to deliberately steal IP to surpass the British empire technologically, which is what th
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
>We're still in Iraq and Afghanistan to some extent all these years later Only because the US isn't willing to use Mongol tactics to win. US could end it tomorrow if we said we'd nuke any village found to be working with t
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
China has no blue water Navy and can't feed it's own population without importing billions in food. US would blockade Brazil and stop exports of soy and corn to China. China would starve within months if not weeks China has zero f
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
That was the promise to americans when we signed all these trade deals The reality is that the rich simply pocketed the labor arbitrage as profit rather than passing the savings on to consumers, they have 0 incentive not to because their is
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
That steel is only cheap short term. Once China has a monopoly they can charge whatever they want. The only reason Chinese steel is cheaper is because it's lower quality and their government subsidizes it with long term strategic inten
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
explain how China is the world's fastest growing economy and has the fastest growing living standards while being one of, if not the most protectionist countries on earth? According to most economists and their textbooks their growth s
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
no shit, this is what everybody with a brain has warned about China's MO is to subsidize Chinese businesses, restrict foreign competition internally, and steal foreign companies IP until they are bankrupt, while simultaneously being al
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
There's multiple organizations offering 0% interest loans because the backpay is guaranteed by the US federal government. Not ideal but there really shouldn't be any government workers worried about paying their bills
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Tech execs support Trumps policies on China behind closed doors(cnbc.com)
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
There was a quote by a British general or high ranking officer saying how depressed he was that Britian's next generation of poets, scientists, mathematicians, etc were buried in Western Europe
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
legally every Amazon warehouse should be seized by the Feds for knowingly helping to ship counterfeit goods across state lines. That's what happens to other retailers who do this[1]. Luckily, Bezos owns the Washington Post, has a 600
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
60 million in funding for nuclear fusion vs 2 trillion in spending on welfare and entitlements annually Bread and circus rather than progress is the establishments top priority The tragedy is that nearly all of the problems we currently fac
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
the type of person to complain about SUVs online are mostly young urban residents who don't have kids and probably have access to public transport. Not exactly representative of the world at large
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
Why settle for hollywood shit? LiveLeak has the real stuff Personal favorites being them cutting a rival cartel members leg off and beating him to death with his own leg, chainsaw execution, or cutting out and holding a guys beating heart i
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
Trump is asking for less than 1/1000 of our annual budget for border security. We spend 10x that on foreign aid annually. This entire thing is political BS over what amounts to a rounding error while congress almost unanimously approve
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
You're operating under the assumption that most people have their choice of where to work. If you can work at Google or Facebook, then sure, don't go the startup route On the other hand if you didn't go to an Ivy league you c
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
globalization only benefits the rich. They can arbitrage labor and then keep the difference in profit. The supposed lowering of cost to make up for job loss and wage reduction didn't happen
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
You do realize Larry and Sergey's initial funding to create a search engine came from DARPA, a military program, right?
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
Google is actively helping the Chinese military by opening their AI center in China. Every bit of the IP they develop in China will be in the hands of the government and thus weaponized by the Chinese military. Yet I haven't heard a pe
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
give me a break, Obama's team was allowed to suck up Facebook's entire social graph and also used an app to get the data for all of the app users friends without consent https://www.fastcompany.com/40546816/ob
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
>decline in union membership since it is only through collective bargaining because illegal immigration destroys any negotiating power of unions. You can't go on strike when there are millions of illegals that will take that job
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
labor doesn't exist in vacuum either, low skill immigration lowers wages up the chain. In the past people could earn a good living right out of high school. Now more people have to take out loans, go to college, and then there's m
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
Anything in the medical field would have to be extensively tested, this isn't a web app where "move fast and break things" applies and it would primarily be used with routine surgeries and would default to human intervention
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
I think the medical field will be one that benefits most from AI. Routine surgeries will be able to be done by medical robots like those being developed at Cal Berkeley with human supervision if something unexpected comes up This will shift
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
Google doesn't care, they just want free training data. The team behind uncaptcha even gave them 6 months notice and Google still did nothing their own sites are protected by additional measures to detect bots like monitoring mouse mov
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
Imagine giving your DNA to the (former)wife of a Google cofounder? Why are people surprised they would abuse your data for profit?
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
written deductions in the tax code vs legal loophole that's being made illegal in many countries I never argued it was illegal, I'm saying it's not ethical
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
prison =/= forced labor camp for political prisoners or Muslims I have yet to see Trump arrest the hundreds of thousands of people who marched against him and send them to perform slave labor in Alaska. Or arrest members of the media o
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
>It's unclear why that money would be owed to the US ethically The company is headquartered there, the IP was developed there, the founders were educated there, the core technology that made their company possible was funded by US t
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
There's a world of difference between taking a tax deduction and actively setting up shell corporations to dodge taxes Google could not pay taxes by giving their employees raises or bonuses, invest in infrastructure, donate it to chari

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