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A couple of issues, first there is a history of price collusion (see DRAM price fixing scandal on Wikipedia) and while it may be "logical" from a seller point of view to prefer lar…

Agree, but with the caveat that space does allow the possibility of escape from broken political and economic systems. That escape may be temporary, but it is real. Also, add me as…

Taiwan has an aboriginal population as well, there are very few countries where the original settlers are recognizable as the current population without squinting. China is one of …

Haven't read the whole paper yet, but what are the possibilities for academic and evaluation use of this model?

Matt Stoller covers this pretty well, it's become a more common tactic now for corporations to go after prosecutors and enforcers personally. Lina Khan is (unfairly in my mind) des…

Dividends are taxed directly and generally aren't tied to CEO compensation, unlike buybacks. Buybacks are more a sign of management incentive structure.

I'm surprised SpaceX hasn't put together a proposal for ground-based ICBMs using a Falcon variant, seems right up their alley... I'm guessing the government doesn't want to be any …

It was communist controlled Vietnam which got rid of the Khmer Rouge about 45 years ago ending the genocide in Cambodia, it's entirely unclear what your hypothetical "winning" Sout…

Hearing aids are much better than most earbuds, especially with regard to power consumption. I have tinnitus, mild hearing loss, but wear cheapish Costco hearing aids as earbud rep…

No, that's you reading into the article. Go look at recent global demographics data, it's not restricted to "wealthy white people", it's been an issue in East Asia for decades and …

3rd step also includes political instability in China, an even riskier business environment, demographic headwinds along with rising wages and increased fixed automation costs ever…

You made race a part of the subject when discussing Albright. You were likely called out for disingenuous "race-baiting" since you don't provide any evidence for her animus against…

Gobi dessert doesn't produce solar power when it is night in China, but solar power from Chile can supply China at night.

I agree with the gist of what you write, but I think your text below (although correct) is misleading. "But that's not what's happening across the Western democracies." Western dem…

Yes, I'm worried that until it gets significant traction outside Taiwan, it is vulnerable to the political fortunes there... Wider participation in the project would be very benefi…

The article was about fungal infections, not bacterial infections. In both cases the amount of both antibiotics and anti-fungals used by humans is small relative to their use in ag…

"The problem is that the racial distribution of those students who are good at math upsets the blank slate world-view of the teachers" Do you have any evidence that teachers are mo…

"At the risk of sounding racist, Asian culture respect their commons to a significantly larger degree than non-Asian cultures." Your gross-generalization is so poorly constructed i…

"the entire world stopped using dairy and beef, the cow as we know it would quickly go extinct" Lots of animals are not used for meat and dairy and are not extinct. Sure, numbers o…

No credibility. In this poorly written paper the only interesting claim he cites is that some portion of SARS-Cov-2 looks like a "vector" sequence, but it's really just looking lik…

It's not a foregone conclusion. While I'm sure some in the gilded age or in the 1920s thought that, it didn't last forever.

Is anybody excited about Wi-Fi 6? I'm just not seeing a compelling use case for many residential users to upgrade given the number of legacy devices that don't support this protoco…

A country's law can be bypassed by not doing business there, an option that Google is already familiar from its 2010 decision regarding China. Pakistan is a large country, but I do…

My impression of the US in the pandemic era is that the value of the old is not held in high regard. Even prior, culture was focused on the young. However the value of money (which…

I believe plywood has piles/fibers orthogonal to each other, in this video they were laid over diagonal to the underlying concrete.