roboys

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by roboys 7y ago
Africa is still colonized, so this idea that they picked "bad leaders" is comical. I would expect the owner of Glencore have more say in the next leader in some of these countries than the actual population. Time to stop blaming t
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by roboys 7y ago
I've tried Ahmad's Ceylon tea in the past and enjoyed it, but not this particular product.
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by roboys 7y ago
I bought it on Amazon on a whim and it ended up being a great purchase. Hard to go back to normal tea and we haven't found this kind of leaf anywhere else.
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by roboys 7y ago
>Assuming the tea actually sells I believe Celestial is in every Walmart, that must be quite a bit of volume.
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by roboys 7y ago
Can't compare the grade of loose leaf I'm talking about to the dust Lipton sells, having tasted the difference. Even visually...it's like comparing champagne to cooking wine. Elephant Chateau - https://images-na.ss
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by roboys 7y ago
My buddy used to work for Lipton. He explained that they use the cheapest grade of tea (dust) available. Also many tea companies mix non-tea additives (fillers) to their tea bags. After hearing this I decided, if it's not full loose le
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by roboys 7y ago
I use companies like docker containers to protect assets.
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by roboys 7y ago
Care to share your force reconnect script? I'm sure many would appreciate it.
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by roboys 7y ago
>That’s wildly inaccurate. Arithmetic was very much a subject at several schools... I'm talking specifically about "long division" in Europe... and have heard this factoid from multiple mathematicians including Nasim Taleb
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by roboys 7y ago
The dark ages also saw a huge disparity in education between the East and the West. Until the 15th century less than 5 people in Europe could do long division. For comparison, Aryabhatta discovered calculus in 5th century India and Madhava
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by roboys 7y ago
Huawei: MindSpore, All-Scenario AI Computing Framework https://youtu.be/3cvLXCzChhc
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by roboys 7y ago
From the description "Huawei launches its Ascend 910 AI Processor & MindSpore Computing Framework in south China's Shenzhen. The company aims at boosting computing power for the development of artificial intelligence technolog
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Live: Huawei Unveils AI Chip and Computing Framework(youtube.com)
2 points by roboys 7y ago|3 comments
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by roboys 7y ago
Democracies are not as agile as they used to seem. The ability to move with conviction on short notice is an edge that the Chinese government has over Western nations.
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by roboys 7y ago
China decolonizing and unifying. Anyone aligned with the wrong incentives (undermining/sabotaging China) will get put-right shortly.
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by roboys 7y ago
If a country is not ready for Democracy with the necessary amount of development/safeguards, this can be a disaster. Like installing an internet connected Windows XP on your network with no updates, it introduces tremendous attack vect
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by roboys 7y ago
>You may be correct, you may not. I wonder if people said the same thing right up to the end of segregation, and other things. But that doesn't matter: might does not make right. Our predictions don't matter, our individual sta
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by roboys 7y ago
China, I expect has a bigger picture view. Our small brain framing "Move Manufacturing Good", doesn't play out when you realize China is an Asian power, not just an isolated country. China's economy benefits from most bu
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by roboys 7y ago
The underdevelopment of Africa is/was a deliberate decision of the west that China is undoing. Smart investors realize China/India's future economic status depends on being able to offset loss of western demand/trade wit
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by roboys 7y ago
US police are the 6th leading cause of African American deaths. I watched an HK detainee get tortured in a hospital in horror, then remembered we kill thousands of unarmed people every couple years without any trial (many of whom are innoce
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by roboys 7y ago
"I asked about the two most popular fentanyl precursors, NPP and 4-ANPP, but I already knew that my timing was bad. In late 2017, China announced that it would schedule both of them, and Yuancheng immediately stopped selling them. (The
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by roboys 7y ago
Except China isn't forcing us to buy opium at gun point. Couple things that would be interesting to find out.. 1. What percentage of the company's total fentanyl pre-cursor sales are for legitimate medical purposes? 2. What percen
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by roboys 7y ago
I wonder what you think of this idea. US, group protests allowed, gov't actively works for the benefit of industries to the detriment of the workers. China, individual protests allowed, gov't actively and overtly works for the ben
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by roboys 7y ago
Interesting observation. Here is another one that I haven't seen yet.... Forcing criticism of the state to stay at the individual level drastically reduces the potential for foreign-funded fake grassroots movements to change the trajec
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by roboys 7y ago
They are investing in anti-fragility, scarcity, immutability, the world's largest super computer, instant transactions, tx volume, among other things. You can arrive at a value of the network (and value per btc) using these numbers whe
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by roboys 7y ago
Quite a claim to make, have extraordinary evidence that this would be the outcome?
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by roboys 7y ago
One would expect Trump has more reason to "save face" in this trade war, with an election coming up.
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by roboys 7y ago
If you lose a major war, all you have is your pride. That's probably at the core of this observation.
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by roboys 7y ago
"Strong sense of pride" perhaps, characterizing it as "face saving" seems to imply that a loss has already occurred.
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by roboys 7y ago
> They are smart about what sells Alternatively, they are being influenced by people who have ulterior motives. History says, if you get in a trade war with the US and we don't end up funding your opposition, an error has probably o

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