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by xtian 3y ago
Russia produces more container ships by tonnage than the US with a fraction of the population, to pick just one example of many. Before SpaceX, the US was dependent on them for rides to the ISS. They produce some of the most formidable and
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by xtian 3y ago
Where has it been documented? What is the evidence?
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You’re right that’s what the media is saying now so we need to update our beliefs accordingly.
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by xtian 3y ago
Sorry but I read many comments here over the past year saying that Russia will collapse soon and Ukraine will push all the way to Moscow
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by xtian 3y ago
I didn’t make a claim, I asked how Western companies were blocked. But my evidence that Western companies are not blocked is that Apple and Microsoft operate in China. Uber operated there as well but lost to local competition. Phrenology wa
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by xtian 3y ago
“Cut a deal” or maybe they followed local laws
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by xtian 3y ago
Burden of proof would fall upon the person making the claim. Appealing to the cultivated state of general ignorance in the West does not absolve you of this. In fact, the article you reference supports my position since it cites “restrictiv
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by xtian 3y ago
What’s a specific example?
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by xtian 3y ago
So how does Microsoft manage it? Bing and other Microsoft properties are accessible in China.
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by xtian 3y ago
How are western companies blocked from accessing China’s domestic market? Because they are obligated to follow local laws? That’s like saying GDPR blocks American companies from operating in Europe.
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by xtian 3y ago
Demand for dollars will remain strong as long as they are the least onerous way to conduct international trade for essential goods. The US makes very few of these goods domestically. Eventually the mountains of sanctions, central bank asset
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by xtian 3y ago
Conjecture? https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/us-air-fo... Is Ukraine free when the US is meddling in its internal politics and orchestrating coups to protect ‘American influence’? Where is the fr
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by xtian 3y ago
Are you ok? Would you like to place a bet on China collapsing within two years? How about $10k?
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by xtian 3y ago
They know something you don’t also: there’s going to be a war. Not because China is doomed or collapsing but because it’s not.
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by xtian 3y ago
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by xtian 3y ago
Belief in ideals like blind chance and isolated, rational actors is popular for a similar reason.
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by xtian 3y ago
Don’t forget Iran and Venezuela. And the Israel/Palestine conflict, along with other geoeconomic factors, puts Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations in play. New production coming online via projects such as EACOP as well.
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by xtian 3y ago
Good thing there are no major geopolitical conflicts or realignments going on between the US and major oil producers
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by xtian 3y ago
> There isn't invalidation of people who wish to express that opinion publicly and even on project hosted forums, chats, bug-lists, etc This was and I believe still is disallowed on any communication venues controlled by the Elm cor
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by xtian 3y ago
It’s because the only people left in the Elm community are those who are content with its current state and aren’t interested in having a stake in the future direction of core components or in even knowing whether there is a direction.
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by xtian 3y ago
So he stepped out of the airport and connected to WiFi? Why not use cellular data?
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by xtian 3y ago
When you stepped out of the airport and swapped in a domestic SIM?
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by xtian 3y ago
Without Google services your phone is a brick? You can use Apple services, Microsoft services, any number of other websites. People really like to dramatize the GFW.
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by xtian 3y ago
Pay for an international roaming data plan if it's so important.
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by xtian 3y ago
So if this is all accurate we should see a decline in new BRI projects and a preference for IMF and World Bank financing over institutions where China plays a larger role like the NDB. Let’s wait and see.
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by xtian 3y ago
The governing authority in Taiwan also considers it part of historical China. The goal was to eventually retake the mainland with foreign assistance, and the independent nation idea only emerged after that became obviously impossible.
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Futurus Interruptus(ecosophia.net)
2 points by xtian 3y ago|0 comments
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by xtian 3y ago
Yeah, I wrote CSS without Tailwind for 15 years. I don’t need it. I’m just 10x more productive with it. If you don’t want to learn new things that’s fine.
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by xtian 3y ago
My experience mirrors yours 100%. What the parent comments seem to be describing are Tailwind in a context where people don’t know CSS that well. Yes, that will be a catastrophe. But so will SASS or vanilla CSS — even more so. Tailwind is a
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Notes on Stormtrooper Syndrome(ecosophia.net)
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