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by yogthos 3y ago
Anecdotal experience can often be misleading, that's why statistics are valuable. It's clear that at least some students are returning, and now thanks to rampant racism in US a lot of ethnic Chinese scientists are going back to Ch
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This is an excellent read on the subject https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/08/the-value-of-noth...
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What evidence is there for the notion that the incentives in China are more misaligned than in western countries? Seeing the rapid technological progress China has achieved in a very short time seems to suggest the opposite.
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China has actually passed US both in quantity and quality of research now. Vast majority of Chinese students who study in the west end up coming back to China, and some end up teaching at top Chinese universities. Many scientists are leavin
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I don't think it's that complicated actually. The basic question is whether the individual has to keep going to work to maintain their lifestyle. Pretty much every 45 year old developer out there wouldn't last long without ha
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by yogthos 3y ago
The only meaningful way to look at class is by looking at class interests. On the one hand, you have the capitalist class who own significant amount of capital and use this capital to further their wealth. On the other hand, you have workin
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by yogthos 3y ago
People really don't appreciate how easily food production collapse can happen. All it takes is a few weeks of extreme weather.
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It's going to translate to an increased rate of extreme weather events. Droughts in particular are of a concern as they're already resulting in massive crop losses. Here are a couple of recent examples in North America * https:&#
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Nice try, vast majority of the country was completely unindustrialized, and there was a huge wave of industrialization after the revolution.
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Wait till you find out the deficit that US currently has.
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Meanwhile in the real world, Russia went from a backwards agrarian society where people travelled by horse and carriage to being the first in space in the span of 40 years. Russia showed incredible growth after the revolution that surpassed
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I grew up in USSR and it doesn't collide with my experience in the slightest. Nor does it collide with experience people report in polling after getting to live under both communism and capitalism. * A remarkable 72% of Hungarians say
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That's just completely false. Here's some actual research comparing quality of life between USSR and the west. Professor of Economic History, Robert C. Allen, concludes in his study without the 1917 revolution is directly responsi
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by yogthos 3y ago
I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens won't we. Seems to me that the economic problems that Europe is seeing right now are far worse than ones in Russia. So, if things continue the way they are European economy can&
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by yogthos 3y ago
You're making a conjecture between two separate things. The statement regarding revenue being down 43% is not related to the deficit statement from Russia.
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Caveat there is that the numbers are based on what US can observe through SWIFT trade, but Russia does most of its trade now in local currencies. So these numbers claiming revenue is down 43% aren't actually showing the whole picture.
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TLDR: CIA openly admits it controlled art, philosophy, scholarship, and theory to steer leftists, and along with orgs like USAID and NED openly fund such projects today. Who can guess what they do in secret.
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At the rate the things are going, it's looking far more likely that it's the EU that's going to implode.
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>That doesn't translate to "sanctions are utter failure ". Again, your logic is failing you. If you don't understand how Europe going into recession while Russia showing growth is a failure of the sanctions, then your
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by yogthos 3y ago
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/14/energy/russia-oil-exports-iea...
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> The problem is that you're presenting the problem as very one sided while it's clearly contested at minimum. This + the fact you're Russian is making it easy to guess whose agenda you're pushing. You're literal
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> Now, that's not a simple fact. A simple fact is that China still didn't commit to the project. Large scale projects take time to negotiate, the fact that you're desperate to make something more out of it says volumes. &g
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by yogthos 3y ago
In the real world Russia is making pre-war level profits of its energy exports. It's like you don't understand the concept of supply and demand, the need for the energy and other commodities that Russia was exporting hasn't m
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by yogthos 3y ago
I mean if you're just going to keep repeating that then there's no point continuing this conversation. The Reuters link I provided clearly shows that Russia is projecting growth this year.
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The simple fact here is that China will want to secure resources from Russia that will not be affected by western sanctions going forward. Russia will sell gas and oil to China at a discount, but at the end of the day Russia gets to offload
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by yogthos 3y ago
now let's forward and see how things are going in 2023 https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/25/economy/germany-recession-q1-... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-25&#x
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Russia is already building pipelines to China on a massive scale https://www.globalconstructionreview.com/russia-to-invest-al... So, by the time Europe actually manages to wean itself off from Russian gas, there will be inf
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That's absolutely not how the price cap was supposed to work since India is buying at a higher price than the cap and we've seen repeated complaints from western officials regarding this fact. Again, as many articles I've lin
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You're the one who said that India can suddenly import Russian oil much cheaper than before. So, using your logic India is selling oil to Europe at a markup. If Russia is selling to India at a small discount, then India is still making
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I'm not sure what's rude about stating that the statement you made is factually wrong. Furthermore, the west doesn't really have good data on the volume of sales Russia is doing because these transactions are happening outsid

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