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>That’s what I thought.
Wow, you got me with your nonsequitur strawman argument that you answered yourself and isn't even true. It's easy to identify sophists with how quickly the bring up Israel out of nowhere.
China has zero independent media and has the largest and most sophisticated censorship and surveillance state in the world.
Trump would love to have the absolute power that Xi has, but thankfully doesn’t.
Tired of this lazy whataboutism.
I jest. But, we should be clear about the risks so we specifically mitigate them rather than being Luddite’s.
There is great economic, security, and environmental peril with most technological advances and being honest and thoughtful will help reduce polarization on this issue.
> and in this case all parties are subsidizing to some degree.
Textbook false equivalence.
Adding carbon credits the U.S. is close to 20 billion in EV subsidies.
The ENTIRE EU spent 125 billion.
China supplied 250 billion to a 400 billion dollar industry and is facing overproduction. It’s dishonest to say it’s the same.
Free market capitalism isn’t binary. If that’s what you think, you’re gravely misinformed.
250 billion in EV subsidies from China. 10 billion by the U.S.
Often it’s exactly the opposite. True intelligence and literacy is being able to communicate effectively and to a broad audience in the simplest terms possible.
Perhaps a polymer will be invented that can’t be pierced by dendrites. But existing polymers need to be heated for ion transfer efficiency and are combustable.
Technically, QuantumScape also uses an organic liquid catholyte inside the cathode. So it’s not “pure” solid state.
Taiwan is Chinese, they don’t have this system. So spare me the crocodile tears.
Single party rule and state controlled media with one of the most sophisticated censorship infrastructure in the world has exactly one simple goal.
This is single party autocracy, no matter how much people cry about propaganda.
China is undergoing a massive recession and they haven’t protected citizens. They won’t let citizens be refunded or cancels their mortgages bankrupting them.
They are shoveling money into AI and burdening their cities with massive debt and leaving behind 500 million people in agrarian rural towns. There is now a shift backwards to rural life because AI is high skilled, unlike their manufacturing boom.
Where did you come up with this nonesense?
They’ve paid for it now. They’re deep in a recession with signs it may be a 1990’s style Japanification.
Moreover China’s govt was the cause of this by setting gdp growth quotas to get promoted, see all my other comments regarding this.
You’re just repeating propaganda and interestingly the other commenter responding to me has said the exact opposite, but also has said that China’s response was “morally superior”
State banks backed Evergrande’s with cheap credit and govt guarantees.
Local officials were promoted for hitting GDP growth targets - see above how they put localities deep in debt by speculating on real estate.
The CCP gave households social credit for moving to cities and buying real estate.
The CCP is not protecting consumers in the aftermath. They won’t let consumers out of mortgages for unfinished condos because they don’t want the crisis to worsen - effectively bailing out developers.
Not sure where you came up with the idea that China is acting in the interest of its citizens rather than the state. That’s not a fundamental characteristic of an autocratic socialist state.
They have drowned their municipalities in debt cumulatively equivalent to the US federal and state debt as a percentage of GDP. Localities aren’t allowed to tax but are responsible for local services and industry. Local governments borrowed heavily to hit GDP growth targets and compete with each other for investment and talent.
There is now a backwards migration of the working class back to rural towns from the cities because the incentives China gives is towards technologies that only benefit their already upper-middle class workers. About 500 million Chinese live in rural areas and over 20% of their workforce toils in the fields. That’s not changing anytime soon. Youth unemployment has been 15-20+ percent for some time.
Believe me, the majority of “The rest of the world” does not protect its citizens from harmful food contamination.
You don't re-apply inflation onto the principal.
The s&p has vastly outstripped inflation, this isn’t even an argument. It’s a very bizarre and uninformed opinion to say “inflation is correlated with s&p value”.
In economics, you deduct the inflation rate from growth to get the real rate of return.
I wonder why so many people with such little understanding of financial markets make comments like these.
Consumption has risen, inflation adjusted wages have risen for blue collar and white collar alike. Most social mobility has been the middle class moving into the upper middle class, not moving to the lower class.
The main thing holding people back is the housing crisis. This is orthogonal to the value creation of businesses.
Value creation is growth. If it didn’t exist the S&P would still be 42.55$.
NYC is also non-uniform, so there are different types of trucks and streets.
Adam's admin largely solved this during his term, but the above ground bins are unpopular because they're ugly and then it takes time to retrofit the garbage trucks for mechanical pickup.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/02/upshot/nyc-tr...
It’s so interesting that engineers will criticize context switching, only to adopt it into their technical workflows because it’s pitched as a technical solution rather than originating from business needs.