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siegecrossbow

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Oh no, suddenly feels sad for that "兄弟们又要到饭了" guy :( Anyways -


This is actually really stupid of him since the lazy illegals have been gorging themselves off the teats of the Biden admin. They need to work off the debt they incurred for the free housing/food etc. I suggest putting them to work on the U.S.-Mexico border wall before deportation.
 

Bellum_Romanum

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"The Secret Sauce of the China-India Rivalry Is Education
For 100 years, the two countries have followed different paths to accumulating human capital, with striking results."

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From the published paper titled:

The Allocation of Talent: Implications for Growth
Kevin M. Murphy, Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny

The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Vol. 106, No. 2 (May, 1991), pp. 503-530 (28 pages)
Published By: Oxford University Press

Abstract

"A country's most talented people typically organize production by others, so they can spread their ability advantage over a larger scale. when they start firms, they innovate and foster growth, but when they become rent seekers, they only redistribute wealth and reduce growth. Occupational choice depends on returns to ability and to scale in each sector, on market size, and on compensation contracts. In most countries, rent seeking rewards talent more than entrepreneurship does, leading to stagnation. Our evidence shows that countries with a higher proportion of engineering college majors grow faster; whereas countries with a higher proportion of law concentrators grow more slowly."
 

gelgoog

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The thing is Engineering classes with laboratories and workshops with hands on practice cost actual money to equip and teach. It is much cheaper to do a theoretical course where you only have the lecturer teaching to a lecture hall.
Until India increases the amount of money spent on education this will not change.
 

Randomuser

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The thing is Engineering classes with laboratories and workshops with hands on practice cost actual money to equip and teach. It is much cheaper to do a theoretical course where you only have the lecturer teaching to a lecture hall.
Until India increases the amount of money spent on education this will not change.
I think the whole thing about Indian being stem orientated is a myth that needs to die. The stats show there are actually very few stem guys in India as a portion.

Maybe the movie three idiots was right. Indians just don't like stem in general. Some people like it such as Russians, East Asians and Germans. And others don't. That's why you see Russians doing insane stuff on programming that an IIT person can't even think off. After all their aim is not to do that but go to USA to get an MBA and becoming CEO of a tech company or wall street banker instead of an actual engineer. That's a tough job that involves value adding work and Indians prefer service jobs that don't involve much.
 

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I mean, we all knew the US role here was a sham. Good that Trump makes it official
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Trump prepares to withdraw from Paris climate agreement, NYT reports​

In the war against climate change, US is on the frontlines - on the side of climate change.

I laugh mercilessly at anyone who claims US is reducing emissions due to fighting climate change and not because of deindustrialization and increased povety.

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The U.S. poverty rate saw its largest one-year increase in history. 12.4% of Americans now live in poverty according to new 2022 data from the U.S. census, an increase from 7.4% in 2021. Child poverty also more than doubled last year to 12.4% from 5.2% the year before.

US also has the most egregious cases of voluntarily harming oneself just to harm the climate even more.

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iewgnem

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Can't US via Intel just "acquire" TSMC or a merger?
It's not money or data they need, they need TSMC's people, organization and culture, and they do not need Intel's corrupt people, organization and culture.

As I said, any half measure will just weaken both. TSMC management need to be in charge, not Intel, otherwise they'd go back to rent seeking and stagnate. TSMC people need to drive meetings and make decisions, not Intel, otherwise they'll start paying low-skilled American red-necks 6 figures and have to cut headcount. For America to benifit from TSMC, TSMC can't become American, Americans need to become Chinese.

There is a StarTrek TNG episode called "Samaritan Snare" that I rememeber whenever looking at Americans trying to own technology they don't understand using foreign talent.
 

FairAndUnbiased

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In retrospect of the past week, we can expect the following things:

1. A split in Imperium Americana as their European vassals assert greater independence over support for the Ukraine-Russia War. Biden's old school transatlantic alliance is basically an exchange of EU economic, political and social concessions for US military aid. Since Trump doesn't want to give aid anymore, then it is not getting the economic/political/social concessions anymore. Expect more US social media to be banned.

2. I must admit that China played the EU-RU-US game well, and I underestimated their political shrewdness. EU has disdain for China, but absolutely abhors Trump. China did not change, EU changed, but their transatlantic faction was humiliated. They will need to come to China again, with hat in hand. China is the only country that can fulfill all of EU's economic, technological and social development goals. What is Ukraine, compared to the future of all Europe and even humanity?

3. Now the US will be pro climate change, completely against the interests of the entire world. China must educate the entire world, and particularly the EU and ASEAN, on not only the objectively greatest contribution to combating climate change and environmental degradation in the world, but on the great harm that US, Japan, South Korea, Philippines and Taiwan cause to the global environment.

4. US is going to increase taxes on all its East Asian vassals. Japan is the only one with the capability to resist, whether it has the will to do so is a question. Expect an even more hostile South Korea, which is not so bad, since they're also the ones in the weakest position, worse than Taiwan - Taiwan is an island, but South Korea is an island only for them and not an island for China. South Korea may yet become a brief experiment in the history of the Korean nation, a small few-decade interlude between centuries of Chinese influence.

5. Weakening Imperium Americana abroad causes further repression and division at home. Expect many American refugees to flee abroad, starting with those who have the most to lose and most ability to leave: Asian Americans, leftist (not liberal) whites and LGBT whites. This is perhaps ~10% of the US population [~30 million]. Those who do not see themselves as threatened, such as Latinos, or who have little ability to leave, like blacks, will form an axis of instability as Trump's policies inflict harm on them. Liberal whites will turn on their former allies of the 'rainbow coalition' in the end, mark my words. China can offer refuge for the qualified and direct the less qualified to other places that may benefit more from their presence.

5. Rabidly anti China policies that will not change until major humiliation and defeat cause it to shrink back into its corner. We cannot risk a repeat of WW2 where Adolf Hitler's escalations were met with appeasement. Pushback on all forms of aggression is the only way to ensure peace.
 
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Index

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The climate thing is honestly a culmination of 2+ decades of a vast gamble between US and China. US gambled that fracking would be the future, while China gambled that EVs and renewables would be the future.

This gamble can be credited as one of the major factors that flipped balance of power over to China. Probably if the roles were switched, the balance of power would be much more even or even favor US today. Whoever adamantly drove the fracking politics in the US did a huge mistake, while those pushing for renewables in China demonstrated great foresight.

I think Trump's anti climate position is simply a tantrum at having lost the gamble. They're not presenting real solutions or making an attempt to rally. Instead, they're just doing ostrich tactics by refusing to engage with any of the new tech. It's incredibly self destructive.
 
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