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TSMC at the head of history’s tide: two high walls and one sharp knife

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Re: TSMC at the head of history’s tide: two high walls and one sharp knife

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Post by tehjoker »

nitrogen wrote: post #74
tehjoker wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Buddy, if you watch American news media with any level of knowledge about material reality you will be blown away by the level of deception, sensationalism, and servility to power. We all need to chill out when talking about foreign countries.

We all need to chill out when talking about foreign countries. Alternatively, we all need to step up and say the same things about both home and abroad, and try to learn from and improve both.

True, but mischaracterization of an "official enemy" state is more than a simple mistake, it plays into official USG war propaganda and xenophobia.

Re: TSMC at the head of history’s tide: two high walls and one sharp knife

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Post by monkeypizza »

tehjoker wrote: post #79
minhazm wrote: post #72

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The difference is the access to information. In China the media you have access to is state-controlled so they control the narrative exactly how they want. You have very limited access to external news sources and media in general[1]. In the US at least you have a variety of different news channels that are everywhere from far left to far right. You can also access news sources from outside of the US that report on t…

The mainstream media in the US are all owned by capitalist corporations and are pro-capitalist. They represent a spectrum spanning from the far-right* (OANN) to the world right-of-center (MSNBC). The socialist and communist left nearly exclusively uses alternative distribution channels. Even centrist to social-democrats like Bernie Sanders are treated with scorn in US media. US news is broadcast to the world as widel…

1. China has prior restraint on everything associated with working in the media - purchase of materials required for publication of newspapers, licenses to publish media, licenses for journalists, all requiring heavy inspection of political views.

2. The US doesn't.

Your other points stand, but this core difference still matters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_restraint

Re: TSMC at the head of history’s tide: two high walls and one sharp knife

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Post by satellite2 »

baybal2 wrote: post #53
earthboundkid wrote: post #47

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As recently as 1989, not only Ukraine, but all of Eastern Europe was aligned with Russia/USSR. Strangely, Western Europe was not drafting grandmothers at that time. I don't see any reason to think that Putin wants to do more than control his near abroad. He doesn't have an expansionist ideology. He likes being rich and controlling his periphery and sticking a thumb in the eye of the West, but if he e.g. invaded and c…

And as recently as 1989, NATO had few tank armies on the border with USSR, and thousands of constantly armed nukes pointed at the enemy.

Not anymore?

Re: TSMC at the head of history’s tide: two high walls and one sharp knife

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Post by fiftyfifty »

baybal2 wrote: post #59
ohgodplsno wrote: post #56

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>If Ukraine disappears tomorrow, Western Europe will follow Ah yes, the dreaded invasion of Western Europe by Russia, with their 90% outdated tanks and planes that could be held back by a single major European army. A terrifying prospects that haunts every european at night.

> Ah yes, the dreaded invasion of Western Europe by Russia, with their 90% outdated tanks and planes that could be held back by a single major European army. Tanks - Russia: 10000+ Tanks - Germany: 300 + 1200 US army tanks

Tanks are a completely outdated military technology. Shoulder launched anti-tank missiles, anti-tank aircraft and now drones can all render large quantities of tanks scrap metal, especially the majority of old Russian tanks with WW2 era armor. There's a reason western countries have stopped investing in tanks and spend most of their military R&D budgets on airplanes and drones these days, air-superiority wins the day in modern conventional warfare.

Re: TSMC at the head of history’s tide: two high walls and one sharp knife

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Post by tehjoker »

monkeypizza wrote: post #82
tehjoker wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The mainstream media in the US are all owned by capitalist corporations and are pro-capitalist. They represent a spectrum spanning from the far-right* (OANN) to the world right-of-center (MSNBC). The socialist and communist left nearly exclusively uses alternative distribution channels. Even centrist to social-democrats like Bernie Sanders are treated with scorn in US media. US news is broadcast to the world as widel…

1. China has prior restraint on everything associated with working in the media - purchase of materials required for publication of newspapers, licenses to publish media, licenses for journalists, all requiring heavy inspection of political views. 2. The US doesn't. Your other points stand, but this core difference still matters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_restraint

I'll agree with that. I'll reup with this criticism by Noam Chomsky though.

" "You don’t have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system – a private system including media, intellectual opinion forming magazines and the participation of the most highly educated sections of the population. Such people ought to be referred to as “Commissars” – for that is what their essential function is – to set up and maintain a system of doctrines and beliefs which will undermine independent thought and prevent a proper understanding and analysis of national and global institutions, issues, and policies.""

https://www.alternet.org/2012/12/10-brilliant-quotes-noam-ch...

Another great criticism:

"Propaganda in the US vs in the USSR" https://chomsky.info/dissent02/

Re: TSMC at the head of history’s tide: two high walls and one sharp knife

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Post by foobarian »

nomay wrote: post #11

I'm surprised to see a typical Chinese "self-media" article being shared here, coz I myself see these as nothing more than gossip blogs, so please take them with huge amount of salt or just avoid it. At least in my experience these are highly refined entertainment product with little to no regard to what's fact, opinion and pure made-up bullshit, their only goal is to maximize click numbers, thus more often than not…

For what it's worth I found this comic in the footnotes very touching:

https://images.nvidia.com/content/APAC/blog/tw/jhh-mc-illust...

Re: TSMC at the head of history’s tide: two high walls and one sharp knife

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Post by fiftyfifty »

nickff wrote: post #3
ggm wrote: post #2

Interesting read. A little "florid" perhaps, some turns of phrase probably don't survive translation. I don't envy anyone who works the midnight shift in a 24/7 r&d boilerhouse. Liver eater indeed. Given US strategic concerns in VLSI we are probably going to see another slightly different chapter in this story:TSMC being induced to bring core IPR inside domestic US production, presumably for cash injection and guaran…

Taiwan would be foolish to believe such American promises. The USA made similar promises to Ukraine in the Budapest memorandum (under Clinton), and subsequently did not fulfill its obligations (under Obama).

China will never take Taiwan with military force, at least not anytime soon. Any kind of military move against Taiwan would endanger the real value of Taiwan which is companies like TSMC. China will continue to work to increase it's political and economic power while weakening the US's and other western countries influence until such a time that they can take Taiwan with little or no force at all.

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Post by baybal2 »

ohgodplsno wrote: post #67
baybal2 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Ah yes, the dreaded invasion of Western Europe by Russia, with their 90% outdated tanks and planes that could be held back by a single major European army. Tanks - Russia: 10000+ Tanks - Germany: 300 + 1200 US army tanks

Firstly, it's quite disingenious to take Germany as the example when they have never had a large army in the past 50 years and have not been a military power. Let's compare what is comparable: Russia and France use about the same percentage of their budget for military purposes: 9% for France, 11% for Russia. Tanks - Russia - T72 - 2000 tanks, 7000 in reserve - T90 - 350 active, 200 reserve - T14 Armata (i.e., top of…

Germany has the biggest force on its territory given allied forces (US army) on its soil.

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Post by pierrebai »

tehjoker wrote: post #85
monkeypizza wrote: post #82

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1. China has prior restraint on everything associated with working in the media - purchase of materials required for publication of newspapers, licenses to publish media, licenses for journalists, all requiring heavy inspection of political views. 2. The US doesn't. Your other points stand, but this core difference still matters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_restraint

I'll agree with that. I'll reup with this criticism by Noam Chomsky though. " "You don’t have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system – a private system including media, intellectual opinion forming magazines and the participation of the most highly educated sections of the population. Such people ought to be referred to as “Commissars…

This is the kind of Chomskyism that leads to nowhere.

You can take the criticism to the letter, so that "no other society" is true because the total of the exact characterization matches only one society, and is thus a tautology. Or you read it more generally, and then the claim that no other society is as indoctrinated is absurd.

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Post by yorwba »

lawrenceyan wrote: post #65
yorwba wrote: post #64

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Google Docs makes it easy to add annotations to parts of a text, which you can see used here by the author to add sidenotes, as a comment section and by readers to suggest improvements to the translation. I'm not aware of it being some general trend, though; I've only seen Jeff Ding use it like that. Could you point to some other writers using Google Docs as a generic publishing method?

The vast majority of publications from Hong Kong protestors are through Google Docs for example: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZrIiXypVUvPIRs9JG8AsU55F...

Interesting! I checked the comment history, which has a lot of activity. Most of it is spam suggestions, but I also spotted a few that were accepted. I guess they're also using Google Docs for its collaborative features.
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