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> At least, that's China's (and Russia's) narrative. And the US, britain, [insert any country]'s narrative. You act like we are any different from china or russia.

Don't forget Puerto Rico. GS and a lot of hedge funds linked to GS "encouraged" PR to take on a ton of debt...

> It looks like Goldman Sachs is betting that Venezuela will sort it self out by 2022 Or GS thinks they will have more favorable government in power in venezuela who will pay their…

> However, I am not buying the claim that the algorithm is going to transform many other domains: It isn't an "algorithm" as you think it is. It's not like deep blue or chess AIs s…

Whenever syria comes out, the propagandists come out. These people try to label people in order to marginalize their views. You can spot them easily because they use labels like "t…

Don't forget 6) agenda driven propagandists like you...

Jesus the salaries are so low. > Doing a Numbeo cost of living conversion suggests at least the base salary is roughly comparable to what you'd be making in the US. Where in the US…

They write the same shit every year, every generation. People said the same thing about newspapers. The same thing about radio. The same thing about rock 'n roll. The same thing ab…

English language version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-HL5nppBnM

Nope. We get maine lobsters in the NY area and the price has increased in the last few years. Haven't had lobsters because I refuse to pay extortion prices.

At the beginning and end of every business cycle, the media ( sellers of ads not news ) run the "peak oil" and "peak oil demand" stories. 8+ years ago, "Peak Oil". https://blogs.ws…

If you find the topic of consciousness interesting, here is an interesting neuroscientist's talk on consciousness. The idea that we can measure levels of consciousness as brain sca…

> I'm a huge Elon Musk fan and I deeply share his vision for getting humans on mars, being more environmentally friendly, etc. However, I'm starting to lose faith in him. Same here…

> Had he kept it in XOM, his $3 million would have been worth $22 million today, with a dividend that would have covered his expenses and that kept pace with inflation. His house v…

I always watch Alien and Aliens back to back. From time to time, if I have more time to kill, I watch Alien 3 ( the extended director's cut ). I watched Alien: Resurrection once an…

> It's just that, in each franchise, the other two movies are so much better Alien 3 is a fun/exciting movie. But it never lived up to Ridley's Alien nor Cameron's Aliens standard.…

> I think these kinds of stories play well to governments, the press, and some groups of people as ideas or as cool photo opportunities, but they don't translate into meaningful ag…

The problem is that india gets most of its electricity from coal (59.1%). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_India

> The "China vs America" narrative is unnecessary. It's central to the current world event. The major theme of the 21st century is going to be china's growth in power vs the US. Po…

No. Most of the TPP members aren't involved in the Belt and Road Initiative.

China has 1.1 billion more people than the US. They have bet big on megalopolis ( the bejing centered, shanghai centered and the chonging centered ). Combined, these 3 megalopolis …

Hell the icon of "free trade and capitalism" developed under protectionism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protectionism_in_the_United_St... Every nation needs protectionism to help…

Every "strong" country today became strong via theft, protectionism and mercantilism. And once a country became strong, they expanded/colonized/etc and then supported "free" trade.…

> Poor people taking more risks to come out of poverty is very natural Poor people don't take more risks to come out of poverty... Poor people take risks because they have no choic…

> Among the few things I appreciate about religion is how it tries to bring our lives into perspective by incessantly reminding us of its end. Religion doesn't do that. Philosophy …