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They built the largest high speed rail network in the world in less than 20 years.
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That organization is funded by the US government. https://www.iri.org/news/national-endowment-for-democracy-ne...
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Michael Hudson: https://michael-hudson.com/2023/03/the-mechanics-of-a-bond-m...
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How will you try to find issues? Many claims are made and accepted as true in the media without any verifiable facts to back them up. There's an inherently political valence to which claims receive this treatment at every level (nation
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What about when the journalists push conspiracy theories? (e.g., Russiagate)
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How do you explain the US cables from that day that were leaked by Wikileaks which contradict the official Western narrative?
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China needs the outside world, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative
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> The truth of the matter is that 99% of real world applications run just fine, and it doesn't pay off to invest in shaving milliseconds here or there. You're taking deep quaffs of the Kool-Aid and so are most of the people com
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So why do 99% of real world applications run like garbage? What’s the culprit?
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That’s true of every methodology used by inexperienced or reckless developers. There is no shortcut to quality or experience. But Carmack’s approach has the distinction of ultimately delivering results by orienting one towards the objective
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This line assumes that each person exists in the world as an ideal individual, subject only to their own independent logic, biases, and whims. In reality, we all have concrete material interests which are determined by concrete economic re
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What actions would you say you can’t justify with that rhetoric?
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Why are you interested in having a discussion on any of this when you can just talk to yourself (i.e., write your own)? It’s really not that hard. Yes, Elm and its core packages had bugs and critical omissions that were outstanding for yea
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The crucial point is exactly what you're referencing ("his language"). The way that contributions, feedback, and issues were treated was very much not in line with a tool that people depend on for their work. It was in line w
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Some of the most manipulative and self-serving people you’ll ever meet are “nice”.
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I was using Elm full time back then, and I think some important context to note is that 0.18 had outstanding issues which had seen no movement for years (and PRs were generally ignored). The official guidance was “wait for 0.19.” While 0.19
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If the quoted paragraph is simply false, how did John McCain, along with Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, end up on stage with a neo-Nazi in 2013? https://fair.org/home/john-mccain-human-rights-ukrainian-naz... How do
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Conflict in Ukraine: Genesis(thepostil.com)
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Yeah it’s fun to watch it fail as the empire collapses.
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https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10014.html
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They ended the occupation of Afghanistan abruptly in order to redirect resources to a certain other conflict, more critical to US elite interests.
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> they are very limited by foreign imports of iron (75% of their domestic consumption of iron is provided by Australia). If China had to stop imports from Western nations, its war material production capacity would probably drop by about
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If you go beyond the level of shouting on a street corner and start building real power, you will be dragged through the mud by the combined force of corporate media smears and social media discourse swarm influence operations. If you go fu
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I’m assuming that’s because of America’s deep base of industrial expertise and infrastructure as compared to that of China.
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They don’t have to yet? Here’s CSIS estimating the replacement time for various weapons transferred to Ukraine: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fmc_WJsWAAUP8GL?format=jpg&name=...
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Why haven’t they done so yet? "Navy Secretary Warns: If Defense Industry Can’t Boost Production, Arming Both Ukraine and the US May Become ‘Challenging’" https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2023/01/na
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Book review: "The (real) Revolution in Military Affairs" (2019)(unz.com)
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Ask Fred Hampton about that. Ask Darren Seals. Ask Gary Webb. Ask Julian Assange. Ask Edward Snowden.
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No I think we meet all other reasonable measures also. The experience of freedom in the US is the freedom to make increasingly virtual and arbitrary consumer choices. That’s pretty much it. It’s not the experience of freedom of speech in pr
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Absent outside influences, I agree the issue would be resolved peacefully over time. The problem is the Western elite want to use the issue to justify aggression and containment of China since China poses a mortal threat to the US-centric g

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