pedroma

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by pedroma 6mo ago
>This clearly surprises you. It is indeed shocking: that's how far the USA has fallen, globally , in only a year or so. No, I'm the one who brought up this topic of how Europeans have an increasing unpopular opinion about the
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by pedroma 6mo ago
Let's not extend this beyond the European opinion, especially since it's obvious that East Asia does not share the same point of view. East Asia and Europe have very different threats that shape their opinion of the US fundamental
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by pedroma 6mo ago
The other poster mentioned the opinions about the US and China being multi-faceted, I like to see it with vectors. My question is, given all the vectors, can you provide an average magnitude and average direction of the vector? If the avera
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by pedroma 6mo ago
>This is not a scalar, it is a multi-dimensional array with tons of values that all individually can be ranked. One some of these the USA is better than China on others it is definitely not. You may want to collapse that all to a single
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by pedroma 6mo ago
Yeah I can see that. The other poster is right about it being multi-faceted. My question is intentionally somewhat provocative. It forces someone to pick between two bad options, and I always gain respect for people who decide to pick one i
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by pedroma 6mo ago
The reply chain got too long so I will respond here. >You seem to be completely out of touch with the way the USA has been behaving towards the EU as of late, maybe get with the times and then report back. Last I checked China hasn'
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by pedroma 6mo ago
>Why do I have to prefer one over the other? I don't like the way either is behaving on the world stage, and each for different reasons. This is the perfect encapsulation of what I mean in my original response to you. This IS the po
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by pedroma 6mo ago
Does this mean the person I'm responding to is a Russian disinfo agent?
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by pedroma 6mo ago
Would you say we're worse than China these days (if so, what % of the time did China help Ukraine in the conflict)?
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by pedroma 6mo ago
This sentiment is very popular in Europe. From the perspective of the American, it's like, help was offered for 90% of the time in the Ukraine conflict, then we took a break and suddenly we are more an enemy than China. From my point o
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by pedroma 6mo ago
I've always been skeptical of happiness statistics. In many cases, self-reporting happiness offers an objective floor for happiness, but the ceiling is entirely relative/subjective. The floor is universal: starvation, suffering, d
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by pedroma 7mo ago
Another point of irony: Elon was tasked with "draining" the swamp and the left immediately goes to burn Teslas.
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by pedroma 7mo ago
There is a lot of anti-American sentiment on HN and Reddit. You may think it a bit ironic, but maybe the "YCombinator" part takes a back seat to "Hacker News".
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by pedroma 7mo ago
Looks like the EU can just get a feature flag to use pagination or a "Load More" button? Doesn't seem as big of a deal as enforcing USB-C. Though if it applies to the YouTube, seems annoying when trying to find a video to wat
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by pedroma 7mo ago
I don't know why I still lurk on what is essentially r/politicsandtech.
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by pedroma 8mo ago
Chinese bases would certainly be the quickest way for all Canadians to gain US citizenship overnight.
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by pedroma 9mo ago
A good benchmark would be how long the west remains mad at Russia for invading Ukraine.
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by pedroma 9mo ago
People don't discuss how people walk in daily conversation, so it's a word primarily encountered in literature, and more common in specific types of literature (like romance novels to describe how a man paces about with swagger).
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by pedroma 9mo ago
It's interesting how this sounds like projection to me as well, from the perspective that China does export their ideology. Your post itself seems to be a form of that, whether you're Chinese or not.
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by pedroma 10mo ago
Seems about as important as knowing FRG = West Germany, and GDR/DDR = East Germany in the 20th century.
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by pedroma 11mo ago
>Do you not believe the GOP eliminating SNAP, medicare, and social security will lead to the deaths of millions of Americans? I would suggest not equating libertarian policies with systemic genocide. How about we calm down? >Do you no
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by pedroma 11mo ago
By that criteria, Obama would be one of the greatest mass murderers in history.
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by pedroma 11mo ago
You believe the US on the path to killing tens of millions of its own citizens for the sake of some ideology like Mao, Stalin, and Hitler because a non-violent white collar criminal was given a shortened sentence? Interesting.
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by pedroma 11mo ago
What is that threshold in China?
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by pedroma 1y ago
Will Nvidia continue to exist beyond the current administration? If yes, then would it be prudent to consider the future beyond the current administration?
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by pedroma 1y ago
They might be short sellers, or they might be foreign and view the US as an economic rival. There may be more incentives than just more clicks for the media.
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by pedroma 1y ago
>Nobody is incentivized to share bad news about the economy. Isn't the media incentivized to keep you watching or reading? The common criticism of media is they like to exaggerate a minor issue to get you to click on a headline.
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by pedroma 1y ago
I would just never vote if that's the case.
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by pedroma 1y ago
Did you forget the Russia collusion thing from 2016?
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by pedroma 1y ago
I'd imagine consumer hardware is the same. For example, every Thunderbolt dock's internals are basically the same, while the outer shell tries to be as different as possible.

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