Comments by "Persona" (@ArawnOfAnnwn) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1. Zippers! Of all things, zippers! If it's not a semiconductor video, I can never guess what Asianometry is gonna cover instead. You're all over the place, and yet somehow still bring the same level of research to all of them even if they're far out of your wheelhouse. It's amazing!
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  2. Corruption has been part of every industrialization process, including in the west. Read 'Kicking Away The Ladder' and '23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism' both by Ha-Joon Chang to see that all the things the east gets accused of now was part of the wests' development story as well (among other things the books cover as well).
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  3. I was surprised to learn ASML has really only been in their forefront position since the latter years of the 2010s i.e. about half a decade now. The way they're talked about nowadays you'd think they were this hitherto little known (cos semiconductor supply chains only became a hot topic recently due to geopolitical tensions) but key player in the global tech economy, but no they only really rose to prominence recently (rose, not founded, that happened all the way back in 1984). EUV is literally the one big thing that makes them important now, which they got into thanks to acquisitions, they weren't anything too important before it. Which also means if the technology in semiconductors changes again, ASML will be left in the dust (unless they can use their newfound position to keep up with the changing trends in the industry).
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  4. I'd rather have more channels dedicated to Africa than Europe. Europe gets plenty of coverage already.
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  5. Biggest takeaway I got from this is that we ideally should be building reservoirs as long deep tubes with as little surface area as possible. Then evaporation becomes minimal while the volume of storage is preserved. Ofc I'm sure there's many reasons why this is impractical.
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  6.  @Fiercesoulking  Not in Germany it isn't. Or even all that much in France. The US should probably be more industrialized than it is at present, but it still makes a good deal. De-industralization is a problem for places like the UK, Spain, Italy, etc. (dunno about eastern Europe), not the west as a whole. And finance addiction seems to be a very Anglosphere orientation, the main exceptions only being the resource addicts Canada and Australia.
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  7.  @manitoba-op4jx  Lol no he didn't. The guy was just paranoid and prejudiced, nothing more.
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  8.  @rocketscientist-e1c  The licence raj ended over 3 decades ago, which btw is only about 10 years behind China. The differences between the countries aren't as simple as that.
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  9. This seems to me to be a losing battle. We already have several open source AI's. There's also Facebooks' AI, which they lost and so is now out of whatever prison they would've put it in. Ultimately all these companies can do is carve out whatever niche they can get and try to ensure their model stays within the limits they set for it. But AI in general is not going to be contained. And their attempts to contain their own models may end up backfiring on them by just losing them market share. And all this is just in the US. Let's not forget that other nations have AI too.
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  10. Doesn't mesh with the fact that the highest birth rates happen among the poor, who can scarcely afford to buy homes. Or with the fact that the rich also don't have many kids, despite owning several homes. Or take the case of Japan, where birth rates are rock bottom despite houses LOSING value over there. You can even have a house for free there if you want, but still they have no kids. This has never been an affordability issue, that's just the story people tell everyone to moan more.
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  11. Jakarta is even worse. Indonesia is literally moving its capital elsewhere cos of how bad it's got.
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  12.  @Kaif08610  Hong Kong doesn't have eminent domain laws? That's hardly a communist thing - nations all over the world have them, from France to Finland to Germany to Greece to US to UK to Canada to Chile to Netherlands to Norway to Italy to India to Spain to Sweden to Singapore to Poland to Portugal to Philippines to Panama...
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  13. It also strikes me that that is kinda what a well is lol. 😅 Edit: I mean in terms of shape, not function.
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  14. Makes about as much sense as the US' excuses for its own export controls. No one really believes either claim (or if they do, I'd say they're naive). This is a trade war. America restricts stuff from us, we can hit back in turn. Even the video itself says this is more of a warning shot than one that's meant to be actually impactful.
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  15.  @manitoba-op4jx  I don't doubt it. I just doubt in who you consider 'communist'. Something tells me your criteria extend beyond economics...
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  16.  @galzafar2943  The effect is women's empowerment, as it always is. Isr's birth rate is carried by its ultraconservative population having large families. This same effect can be seen in ultraconservative communities all over the world, no matter the faith. Cos one thing they have in common is lowered status of women. The same is true is poorer nations, whose birth rates also tend to be high, and go down as they develop and womens' status is raised. Even the baby boom in the us saw a lot of women who formerly worked in factories during the conflict leave the workforce and move back into housewife roles. Empowered women simply don't tend to have kids much, and if they do they have them much later too.
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  17.  @turdferguson3400  Emotion in the story itself perhaps, but not in his presentation of it. He always maintains composure and an even tone no matter the topic at hand.
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  18.  @Aldnon  They try to rather. However China is one of the countries that has always maintained a very strong control over their currency outflows, so it isn't easy for them. This has also allowed the govt. to 'discipline' its businessmen who seemed to be getting too powerful, despite their enormous economic clout. They don't need to threaten them with jail or worse (which they could just nullify by sneaking out of the country), since all of them know their wealth is still heavily tied up in China. The ones who do leave end up having to sacrifice massively in the process. This is a level of control nations like Greece or Russia wish they had, since they have major tax evasion problems, though ironically the current rift with the West means Russia is actually benefitting right now from having its oligarchs kicked out of their favorite tax haven, the UK.
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  19.  @rajeshganesan1968  As the video mentions Sri Lanka owes only about 10% of its debt to China, and much of that is long term debt that isn't even due for a while. Most of your debt woes have nothing to do with China, it's owed to the commercial market whose debts are also much more short term. But those people aren't easy to point fingers at, since they're essentially just a bunch of faceless investment funds all over the globe rather than one clearly identifiable bad guy.
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  20.  @bobmorane4926  "when kind of criticizing the nuclear program cost" - didn't sound like a criticism to me. The only feeling it led to for me is an appreciation of just how determined they were. Which he even says himself at the end when he literally credits China's "force of will to finish the job".
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  21. Considering Freud saw disorders in practically everyone, I don't think he'd know the difference between a personality and a disorder.
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  22.  @passantNL  "they strive to be independent entities, not aligned with the west but in competition" - you're mixing two things up there. After the fall of the USSR they haven't strived to be anything of the sort, they readily joined the global system. Being 'not aligned with the west' is NOT part of that - open trade is a concept independent of the having to be buddy buddy with the west. Else you're basically saying that being a western ally and being an open trading economy are the same thing. They aren't. Just cos their political decisions may not be to your liking doesn't mean they've decided to close off their economies. You did that. Also keep in mind that YOU are filled to the brim with their products as well, especially in the case of China. Yet somehow that doesn't seem to discount your position, nor do you consider yourself to have to bow to their political expectations? Hypocrisy.
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  23. One reason is that he seemingly puts most of that time into actual research and much less into fancy video editing and animation, unlike much else on Youtube. Most Youtubers, including educational ones, seem to think presentation matters more than content.
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  24. There's many ways to clear land. Fire is just the cheapest, by a large margin.
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  25. The Zaibatsu never really went away. The modern incarnation of Zaibatsu are called Kieretsu now.
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  26.  @Grak70  Yeah they've been doing business since 1984. But they weren't so talked about before cos, as you say, there were plenty of alternatives. They weren't anywhere near as big either. EUV practically made ASML what it is now.
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  27.  @obsidianjane4413  Tbf, solar thermal actually does work decently well even at night. It's solar PV that doesn't, but thermal uses salts that last through the night. It is more expensive and finicky and still needs washing though, so yeah.
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  28. You have to also specify which type of elephant! Asian and African elephants differ significantly in size.
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  29. That term has kinda lost a lot of its meaning off late thanks to these companies. AI safety research goes back a decade, but it was about AI as an actual existential threat i.e. AI as a real tangible danger. That's what most AI safety researchers spent their careers working on. And now finally here comes AI companies and the main thing they're worried about is AI saying something offensive.
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  30. "But when they become upwardly mobile, they switch to polished white rice" - nah, they switch to more rotis, bread, fruit and meat. Especially outside of the south. And meat is even worse for the environment and even less sustainable than rice btw. "But due to its prestige value, farmers have started growing it in more arid areas." - I'd say govt. subsidies, which you mention later, are a far bigger factor in that than any concern about prestige.
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  31. Going for volume will undercut Tesla's whole brand tho. At that point they're just another EV player. Tesla's whole schtick was to be the Apple of the car world. Without their premium identity, what do they have to sell themselves with that other companies don't?
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  32.  @SeaJay_Oceans  Adapting to these particular export controls isn't hard and the Chinese likely know that. As the video ends, they're making a statement. There's much more they can cut, many of which aren't easy to replace, if the US pushes it that far.
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  33.  @FranzBieberkopf  Disagree on the first point as well. We've already seen war between nuclear armed states - India and Pakistan fought despite both having nukes. Meanwhile nukes nearly plunged the world into armageddon during the Cuban Missile Crisis despite no active war between the powers involved at the time.
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  34.  @andrieskrugersdagneaux5185  What exactly have the Dutch done to make up for their crimes? Have they actually sent reparations, or just paid lip service?
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  35.  @rkan2  Thorium reactor research continued in other countries, like India and China, even if the US turned its back on them.
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  36. ​ @olivere5497  Nah. There's no Czech Republic. There's no Czechia either. They're all just Bohemians pretending. Reject Czech, return to Bohemia! 🤡😎
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  37.  @KingLich451  Cortana's popularity transcends Halo, and would have as the AI if she'd been allowed to actually have a personality, as she originally did. You don't need to be a gamer. Simply look up who she is and you can appreciate it even if you've never played the games. Just her picture is enough, especially if it has one of her one-liner text boxes attached.
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  38.  @dcviper985  Moral duty doesn't launch wars. One could say America had a moral duty to stand by the Kurds too, but it didn't.
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  39.  @jont2576  If you want to sell to China, it makes FAR more sense to sell them meat products or fruit than rice. Both of whose consumption goes up much more as people get richer, and both of which command much higher prices than rice.
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  40.  @adolfolerito6744  Sri Lanka owes only about 10% of its debt to China, and much of that is long term debt that isn't even due for a while. 'Debt Trap Diplomacy' has been studied and debunked already. You can look up the How China Lends report about it, or the study by the Rhodium Group, or even just check out Polymatters' video here on YT about it. None of these are Chinese btw. It's literally been called a 'meme' by one of the researchers, after studying hundreds of loan agreements and how they turned out over the last two decades. If you want to bring up Africa, look up Gyude Moore's talk on China, again here on YT.
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  41.  @angeloluna529  Bruh billionaires almost never go bankrupt, even during economic downturns. Meanwhile they don't have more kids even during upturns. Meanwhile the poor have kids regardless. As do the ultra orthodox btw, regardless of wealth. Govt. incentives for children have also failed. This is just excuses for when things don't match your preferred self-serving narrative. It isn't about money.
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  42. Those studies (I assume you mean the Pew survey) happened to be of a very small selection of countries, basically just the major western nations plus Japan. It excluded most of Asia and all of Africa and Latin America. So I'd hardly call that representative.
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  43. I wonder if you'd say the same about the wests' own export bans, which these are a response to. Also wheat can be sourced from loads of places. They've already sworn off US pork, which was readily replaced by other nations. Wheat is even easier to come by.
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  44. Indeed. Also let's not forget that Facebook also had an AI, which they lost and so it is now available out in the wild.
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  45. Wait till you hear about How Seven ATE Nine!
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  46. ​ @timavoievodin3255  'with Slovakia somewhere behind' - triggered! 😂🤣
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  47. You could say that about any world power.
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  48. What India needs to do most, along with the rest of Asia, is shift away from rice. It's just too water intensive of a crop. And yet the govt. in India, as elsewhere, actually offers subsidies for rice production instead, which is ridiculous.
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  49. Meanwhile here in India we just privatized and sold Air India after similarly failing to run it profitably as a public enterprise. Hopefully you guys do the same after this crisis passes. It's embarrassing but ultimately for the best.
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  50. That term has kinda lost a lot of its meaning off late thanks to these companies. AI safety research goes back a decade, but it was about AI as an actual existential threat i.e. AI as a real tangible danger. That's what most AI safety researchers spent their careers working on. And now finally here comes AI companies and the main thing they're worried about is AI saying something offensive.
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  51.  @jfv65  'Not very long ago the Dutch King formally expressed regret' - which is more than Britain has ever done. 😑
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  52. ​ @m7pothead762  You should ask the US why they can't just leave ANYONE alone. Most military interventions since WW2, while China's last war was in 1979...
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  53. Argentina was only richer than the US on paper. That statistic hides more than it reveals. Caspian Report has a great video on this.
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  54. Wut?! Why'd he skip India? It's literally one of the biggest economies in the region...
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  55. ​ @zendao7967  This argument is smugly trotted out by westerners to feed their own egos, but it means little. People flock to wherever happens to be richer. Take Canada. Canadians have a much higher opinion of their own country than they do of the US, and yet net migration is considerably in favor of America. Why? Cos America pays more. The same plays out in Europe, as well as with emigration between places in other parts of the world too. Overall all it shows is which places have more money.
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  56. What DID you pay lol?
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  57.  @shubhamer2000  Maybe you should read how he came to power, or rather the countries who put him there.
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  58.  @belstar1128  Not all. Many islamic nations also have high fertility (for now at least), and some of those are rich due to fossil fuels. The fertility doesn't decline as much since they confine women to the home nevertheless (although it still does decline due to other factors that also affect it, most notably lower infant mortality).
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  59.  @Michael-Has-Opinions  What is their product? What does it actually do that's useful? If can't code on its own. It doesn't seem to be replacing lawyers or doctors or even customer service. So far it's mostly just made some kooky chatbots and some admittedly impressive art - that no one seems to want to actually use. So what's their product for then?
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  60. Neither crypto not nfts were made by VCs. Sure they were both hot air, but VCs weren't responsible for that.
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  61.  @JasperKlijndijk  If you call still being almost a billion people by the end of the century a 'quick' fall, I think we have very different ideas of what 'quick' means.
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  62. ​ @The31stcenturyfox  "it wasn't the US that started the conflict" - that's not the only conflict the US has been in bruh. It's been at war for most of its history. Just looking at its post-WW2 history, here's a partial list of places that it has screwed over - Angola, Argentina, Afghanistan, Bolivia, Cambodia, Chad, Chile, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Savador, Grenada, Gautemala, Honduras, Iran, Iraq, Laos, Nicaragua, Panama, Sudan, Vietnam, Yemen, etc. There's a reason a lot of the world outside Europe don't exactly adore the US. Hell that last one, Vietnam, killed far more people than the atomic bombs. 3 MILLION dead. Yet what does America tend to highlight more, and which drove it to leave (after nearly 20 years of war btw)? The 50k American deaths.
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  63.  @Blah888  That's a whole lot of leading questions...
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  64.  @HanSolo__  They have, just not in the ways you're looking for. Ru is a net grain exporter now, with no famines - they saw importance of food security and invested heavily into it. The events covered here happened during a time of crisis - after the crisis they looked to fix what was broken. Sure they're still authoritarian, but they aren't starving.
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  65.  @sino_diogenes  Sooo...basically fusion power. Yeah I'm not holding my breath on that one...
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  66.  @moloids  Sure they make choices - that's my point! That women are choosing not to have kids, not denied by housing cost. You can see the opposite choice in orthodox communities btw - regardless of wealth they still choose to have kids Change the circumstance and people still choose not have to have kids. Incentivise having kids via policy, and women are still not having them. Have them be rich already and they still choose not to have them. To date there's only one circumstance that leads them to make the opposite choice, which I mentioned in the previous para. There are even literally surveys that show this, where they were asked how many kids they'd have if money was not an issue. The answers were almost all 0, 1 or 2. Replacement rate is 2.1. And if you're wondering why the poor and the orthodox both tend to have more kids, there's a certain trait both groups tend to have in common - and it isn't how affordable their life is.
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  67.  @shubhamer2000  'Good things' for who? For his foreign backers. Ofc you'd celebrate your man being in charge...
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  68.  @kordelas2514  Bro I've seen you all over this comment section. Not falling for your schtick.
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  69.  @Ealsante  You'll also be in jail even 10 years down the line, so I'm not too worried about that. Most people already do this anyway, yet I don't see too many elderly being poisoned by their kids. For those who were shitty parents, the laws already have clauses to excuse children from having to support them. Indeed the laws don't change anything for most people, just the few who're trying to be shitty kids despite having had decent parents. Resorting to murder would just emphasize that shittiness.
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  70.  @haemse  Tough times tend to see a lower status of women, which results in a higher birth rate.
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  71.  @VictorRodriguez-zp2do  Linux Mint exists, yet most people still haven't embraced it. This despite it basically having a similar user experience as windows...
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  72. Brazil has its own version called Pix. And ofc China has taken the whole thing even further.
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  73. Wouldn't that cause issues with both power generation consistency and vulnerability to damage from violent winds? You don't have anything to boost and/or moderate the spinning, so generation should be a lot more erratic, and it'd all be more vulnerable in storms.
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  74. Iran has a YOUNG population, not old. It won't get old for decades yet.
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  75. Apparently empowering the USSR makes the world a less safe place, but America having power doesn't. The country that's been at war somewhere or the other for most of its history, with its last one ending just a little over a year ago, and the only nation to have ever used nuclear weapons on people. Yeah, real balanced perspective you got there. If anything, maintaining the balance between the USSR (and now China) and the US is what would prevent the kind of adventurism that both nations seem to have propensity for.
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  76. There's already even smaller versions of this. Look up the Principality of Sealand for example. It's cute and all, but no one recognizes such gimmick 'nations'. Also life on an abandoned rig would be miserable, not cool, assuming you could even get by there without the regular shipments of stuff that they're normally reliant on. Even the Sealand folks don't actually live there, just lay claim to it.
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  77. Not true. Money in the modern sense is typically said to have 4 functions - a medium of exchange, a unit of account, a store of value and a system of deferred payment. The Bolsheviks were essentially trying to reduce it down to just that second function, the unit of account, while abolishing its use for the other three functions. That's a much reduced concept of money.
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  78.  @zendao7967  Lol nice strawman bub. The only part of that I said was the 'better pay', and I guess 'lower tax' too for the wealthy, the rest is your invention.
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  79. The reason it exploded was because everyone thought it might do what they feared - replace humans entirely. Now that really is a MASSIVE use case and market. That was the goal, it was never meant to be a mere personal assistant.
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  80. And the reason the bubble is deflating now is cos it isn't yet living up to that expectation. But if it ever does, it won't be a fad anymore. Far from it..
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  81.  @anuradhapriyankara5226  Air India had loads of debt as well. In order to privatize it, the govt. essentially split it up, akin to the 'toxic assets' funds created in the US following the GFC, by taking on some of its debt and land to be slowly paid off over time by the state, while the rest along with the airline was sold to the Tata Group. This is basically splitting the problem up, in order to make it more attractive to private investors. That's why I said you should do this after the immediate crisis is sorted out.
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  82.  Block Lord  Bruh, India was non-aligned and will remain so. It also has a very bad history with America. It's been sanctioned by them, and even militarily intimidated by them. They've also played favorites with India's enemies (Pakistan) when it suited them. With that kind of history, India is never going to trust the west with its future, nor should it. It charts its own path. The west can be part of that if they wish, but it'll never let them assume a dominant position.
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  83.  @LNVACVAC  Funnily enough, the newest neognostic religious movement today is in the west. They call it ....
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  84.  @hoangle2483  People do this already in most parts of the world, including Singapore. Even the video mentioned how they found the law to be unnecessary in most cases cos most people were already doing it. All such laws change is life for the few people who don't do it.
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  85.  @dallysinghson5569  No. This holds even in cities as well as in places with state provided mandatory schooling. Neither is conducive to them being available for labor. Additionally the cost argument doesn't track with all the other points already mentioned above (govt. incentives not working, the rich having few kids too, the orthodox having many kids no matter their wealth, etc.).
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  86.  @uumuu  Maybe you should read how the shah came to power, or rather the countries who put him there.
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  87.  @jerryle379  And France.
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  88. This is already a response to American export bans. This one isn't even meant to be particularly serious, as the video notes. And you want to spiral things even more?...
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  89. I would rather India not get involved in Tibet. It's on the other side of the Himalayas and so far easier for them to defend than us to do pretty much anything in. Nepal is as far as I'd go in regards to protecting Indian interests. Beyond is just too hard to be worth it.
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  90.  @jameswatt7249  There is actually. In fact both nations, especially the UK, were enormously more predatory during their rising than China is today. Try reading Ha-Joon Changs' (he's Korean fyi) book 'Kicking Away The Ladder' about how nations develop one way and then enact policies to protect their status that impede other nations from doing the same.
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  91.  @100c0c  There's different things they want to censor though. Anyway countries aren't gonna be the major differentiator here, open and/or leaked AI models are. We already have a bunch of those out in the wild.
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  92.  @v4lgrind  The PR doesn't work that way. A few thousand deaths per year from AI vehicles will kill the industry altogether, regardless of how good the relative performance is. And they know this - that's why their trying to make it perfect before launching. They know even one death can end a company. Also, an AI with flaws can potentially be FAR more dangerous than humans - because AI's are standardized. So you'll have millions of AI's all making the same mistakes, leading to catastrophe.
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  93.  @MrGamelover23  "the idea is that all these cars will be talking to each other" - no it isn't, cos this leads to a classic chicken and egg problem, similar to what's holding back electric cars today due to the paucity of charging stations. If you need all or most of the cars in the city to already be like your AI-driven 'solution', then your solution is only meant for pie-in-the-sky new cities like Saudi Arabia's NEOM project. They need to be able to work in existing environments to have any meaningful impact.
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  94.  @Quickshot0  This is more about advances in batteries and capacitors than lasers really. The problem with laser weapons - and why we don't have laser guns (one of the reasons anyway) - is that you need a lot of power to have a laser strong enough to burn through metal quickly. Hence why even now they're being put on large vehicles, especially ships, that can meet those power requirements. And even they couldn't do it until recent decades. Lasers, ironically given how they're talked up in scifi, are just really weak. Projectile weapons will likely continue to be the norm for a long time to come as they're just more practical for most use cases. We may even never see practical handheld laser guns! 😢
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  95. Corruption has been part of every industrialization process, including in the west. Read 'Kicking Away The Ladder' and '23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism' both by Ha-Joon Chang to see that all the things the east gets accused of now was part of the wests' development story as well (among other things the books cover as well).
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  96.  @someperson5252  'It helps speed up tasks that usually would've taken a person days down to hours' - Which tasks? Where?
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  97.  @ekesa07632  Most of their young population is still in Iran - the country is still quite young. Just cos you see an Iranian diaspora abroad doesn't mean all the young leave.
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  98. Except our problem isn't cos of other countries, it's entirely our own. And we STILL can't seem to solve it!
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  99. Tbf I've seen reporters speak much the same way about the US in American media. Especially establishment ones like the WSJ or NYT or CNN, from people like Tom Friedman or Fareed Zakaria.
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  100.  @Kaif08610  Fair enough.
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  101. India has always sought to boost industrialization and manufacturing. We just haven't been very successful at it, but not for lack of trying. Time will tell if this time is any different.
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  102.  @tomeks666  By 'net grain exporter' in this case I mean they produce more than they need for themselves, not simply that they export. The 'net' is subtracting their own consumption, without any famine. Even now during a wa and sanctions they still produce far more than they consume.
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  103.  @jonathanmerritt8712  How about asking the billions of people who do it globally if they feel it's abuse? And almost none of them would describe it as 'paying for the sins of your father', they'd call it 'showing gratitude to your parents'. Cos, you know, most people don't hate their parents or think of them as sinners. For those who do, these laws have exceptions. And this isn't restricted to just Asia - it's typical in Africa and Latin America and even parts of Europe (Greece, Italy, etc.) too. More generally, western attitudes, and even more specifically Anglosphere attitudes, are not some sort of global objective moral standard for all to be judged by. Especially when YOU'RE the wierd/minority ones.
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  104.  @everythingandmore5537  Like I said, money is mobile. Otherwise known as 'capital flight' i.e. when rich people just take their money elsewhere. Also note that some of those 'loopholes' are intentional - they're there to stimulate investment. So closing them hurts Singapore. As unfair as this sounds, many govts. provide ways for people to escape tax as incentives to invest the money instead - which not only grows their money but the host economy too. Singapore got rich by catering to the rich.
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  105.  @moloids  No the trend holds even in places wherein child labor isn't an option. Nor is it a problem for the rich, nor do govt. programs to alleviate it work. The cost argument doesn't work.
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  106.  @Prockski  Not just that. There's a reason they rail about imperialists so much ever since. He did all those things, but worse was that he did them with (and came to power thanks to) the backing of the nations they've railed against since.
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  107. Nah, they'll put a bat-shaped blocker in front of it and finally summon batman irl!
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  108.  @rainerkinzinger555  Funny cos that's the opposite of how Indian education covers our former colonisers lol. And we don't have a great education system either, but we still know we were exploited.
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  109. ​​ @belstar1128 o, opening up fully in 1947 would've been a massive mistake imo. It would likely have the way of so many African and also ex-Soviet states that were drained dry upon opening up suddenly. You need to build a proper domestic base first. India did that in the 50s and 60s. By the mid 70s sure, but any earlier would be a mistake.
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  110.  @belstar1128  Look up the IMFs Structural Adjustment Programs. They have a long and sordid history. That's what opened some nations up, in most cases to their detriment. Even today both India and China retain strict capital controls for this reason, cos that was one of SAPs major mistakes.
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  111. ​ @Flakarmor Have you even heard of the Troubles lol?
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  112.  @m7pothead762  ignoramus
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  113. Mainly Japan, China and India, all of whom have the full gamut of space capabilities. South Korea has space technology too, but less so than those three, and the rest of Asia is far behind. It's worth noting that a lot of Russia's space capability is also located in Asia.
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  114. The video still says the industry is in decline, so there's no contradiction.
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  115.  @Ro-nu7vv  Do you know what the fertility rate of Ukr is? Stop thinking of an issue that's half a century away as an issue now. They have plenty of young men, and plenty more to come for a long while yet.
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  116.  @Ro-nu7vv  Typical that you'd use a game to hit back lol. Reveals your immaturity.
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  117.  @Ro-nu7vv  Lol you don't even know how this started. You brought up fertility rates for war. I pointed out how Ukr fertility rate is far worse. Then you went on a tangent about them being a great power or something. And I never said Ira had a larger army than Ru lol.
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  118.  @alexandervlaescu9901  Australia is a major uranium exporter as well. Uranium from sea water is horrendously impractical. Either way you're going to be dependent on Australia and the US, or Russia or some other autocratic regime (like they're turning to Azerbaijan for gas now, so much for caring about democracy). Europe just isn't resource rich, except for coal.
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  119. This is a frequently repeated assumption, without basis. As a matter of fact India is also proof against a related claim that's made wrt nuclear weapons - that they prevent wars between nuclear armed states. That has already happened. Pakistan and India have already fought a war after both had nuclear weapons. The nukes did nothing. Secondly don't underestimate the destructive potential of conventional weapons. The Rwandan genocide, for instance, saw a million people die from machetes and small arms.
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  120.  @VVVJeroen  Their current market share is irrelevant to my point. Their past market share wasn't anywhere near what it is now. I never said they did nothing before EUV. And they got into the EUV space via acquisitions i.e. they didn't do all the research into it. My point is simply that ASML wasn't as key a player before the last half decade or so, they were one among many who could have been replaced. EUV made them a monopoly
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  121. Adapting to these particular export controls isn't hard and the Chinese likely know that. As the video ends, this is a statement in response to the US' own export bans to China. This is a warning shot - there's much more they can cut, many of which aren't easy to replace, if the US pushes it that far. There's no significant market they're losing here to begin with.
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  122.  @aldrinmilespartosa1578  I didn't just mention meat, but also rotis (which is a kind of flatbread popular in north, west and central India). Goes by many names based on how it's made (chappati, naan, phulka, etc.). Just search for images to see what I refer to. Goes well with both veg and meat.
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  123.  @jamesduston9292  Nuclear has poor returns on investment, and in all developed and even most developing nations all the easy hydropower options are already tapped out. Also if you have hydropower available, that means you have fresh water available.
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  124.  @stormsj  SSMB?
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  125.  @Polygarden  The metaverse never had a utility, and had even been done years before by virtual worlds like Second Life. AI does have a very clear and obvious utility, if it can actually achieve the goal of matching human workers. Note that the metaverse faced ridicule and dismissal from the start, no one apart from Mark took it seriously. AI otoh faces outright hostility and fear. People do take it very seriously, even when it's not yet ready. So it's not a good comparison at all.
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  126. How about a vid on how Israel got the bomb - and hid it. 🤯🥸
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  127.  @adolfolerito6744  Sri Lanka owes only about 10% of its debt to China, and much of that is long term debt that isn't even due for a while. 'Debt Trap Diplomacy' has been studied and debunked already. You can look up the How China Lends report about it, or the study by the Rhodium Group, or even just check out Polymatters' video here on YT about it. None of these are Chinese btw. It's literally been called a 'meme' by one of the researchers, after studying hundreds of loan agreements and how they turned out over the last two decades. If you want to bring up Africa, look up Gyude Moore's talk on China, again here on YT.
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  128.  @smallfry8788  That theory was junk to begin with. Just look at Singapore. The Chinese sure did - they basically based their modern development strategy on it. And they certainly didn't see it as a risk for political change, cos it didn't there.
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  129.  @domtweed7323  British universities are mainly attractive still cos of the English language, but even that's spreading abroad now. They stopped being attractive for foreign students (apart from the elite handful) awhile ago due to rising tuition costs. Unless they pull down prices, that will continue. The US is fearing the same. International students aren't bottomless pits.
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  130.  @LNVACVAC  I don't bother with the ideas of century old Germans. Besides, I said nothing about a decline, merely existence. How the future unfolds is something I'm not arrogant enough to claim to know, except to be skeptical of those who do claim to know.
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  131.  @MrDanisve  It isn't all that odd as it's often done by autocratic rulers to favor their ethnic faction, or by colonial rulers to help reward obedient native populations over restive ones (as well as facilitate their divide-and-rule tactics for maintaining control).
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  132.  @everythingandmore5537  Taxing rich people is easier said than done. They technically already pay the highest taxes, except they don't. Cos money is mobile, and can also buy ways to avoid taxes.
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  133. Well Venice is a city that shouldn't even exist. You're basically building on water. Mexico City is another like that. Their fall isn't so much cos we stretched the environment beyond breaking point (though we have), but more cos we shouldn't have built a city there to begin with.
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  134. ​ @passantNL  "then the alignment (of values) just happens" - I would question why you feel the need to have the whole world turn into little copies of the west in the first place. It reminds me of ye olde white man's burden, and its underlying assumption of the west being the peak of humanity. The American version would be the Manifest Destiny and conception of America as the supposed City on the Hill for everyone to follow. Just replacing race with 'culture' in that doesn't change the fundamental hubris involved. The Chinese certainly didn't - as long as you recognized their emperors' greatness with a few gifts they didn't give a shit how you organized your internal politics. The Russians briefly did during their communist heyday, but they quickly dropped the puritanism even then and just worked with anyone. And the west has been quite willing to use force to this end, both in modern times and even more so during colonial times. Did you know that Japan wasn't entirely closed off until American admiral Perry came calling? They specifically traded with the Dutch, but everyone else was excluded. Why? Cos the Dutch agreed to mind their own business and just trade, unlike the previous Portuguese who went conversion happy and gave them a Christian headache. Evidently that style of thinking is quite hard for most in the west to accept. It's funny, I wonder what you'd think of them expecting you to become like them. It'd be laughable, and yet you do that to everyone.
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  135. I'd be most interested in him talking about Israel having the atomic bomb - but refusing to admit it...
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  136.  @KeithZim  What kind of debauchery pray? Details pls. ;)
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  137.  @HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle  You could easily see the answer in the video itself - he shows who dominates the ship-building industry barely 15 seconds in. China is already just behind Korea, with Japan a distant third. They'll be first in the next couple years easily.
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  138.  @JohnLee-db9zt  Bruh it is literally already within spitting distance of the top spot, and still growing. While the Korean ship industry has mostly stalled. I also love how you people always make everything about the West, as if the rest of the world doesn't exist. And then turn round and complain about how 'true globalization' wouldn't be all about one country. No, there is a world out there beyond the West, as shocking as this may be to hear, and it's actually where most global growth is happening. It'd also be wise not to lump in the whole West for everything the US does. Hell it's always amusing to hear that phrase used and yet it doesn't even cover all the actual western hemisphere, since South America is never considered in it. China is their largest trade partner btw, despite the US being much closer. The video itself mentioned the Chinese challenge. They're widely expected to unseat Korea soon. And if you think Chinese ships are too poor quality, then 1) that flies in the face of the industry, which needs reliability above all else (these are not toys), and 2) patently fails to explain how they got so big to begin with, unless you seriously believe billion dollar businesses just all bought the cheapest crap they could find en masse. These things are at the heart of global trade where failures cost a fortune.
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  139. Man considering how much some Americans hate him and want to end his legacy, Trump sure has left a long tail that seems to have permanently altered US politics. He started the trade war, which now ironically is being pushed even harder by his opposite party successor. And with China responding in kind, it's starting a dangerous escalatory spiral that goes beyond even anything Trump envisioned, let alone did. But the real irony is just how even Trumps' most ardent enemies have since embraced his foreign policy, albeit a bit less unilaterally. He really did leave one hell of a mark on American politics, far beyond the one they keep cribbing about in the Supreme Court.
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  140. @XISUS, formerly Derucci You can't hide a giant semiconductor foundry construction, so not announcing it publicly is moot.
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  141. People do this already in most parts of the world, including Singapore. Even the video mentioned how they found the law to be unnecessary in most cases cos most people were already doing it. All such laws change is life for the few people who don't do it.
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  142.  @oybekoyhonim  If you think Asianometry dislikes unions, try looking at the country he comes from - which is the US, not China (and he's settled in Taiwan btw). Unions are practically a bad word there, and 'union-busting' is a term made popular by America, not China. Ironically at the same time people criticize China for less worker rights, they're ALSO attacking it for its policy of cracking down on big companies in the cause of shared prosperity. Now try seeing if America ever did that.
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  143.  @hdjfjd8  Singapore has a formal division of the population into ethnic buckets that also is institutionalized in its policy, yet they don't have much issue with it. On the contrary it's been highly successful in creating ethnic harmony, most notably by explicitly preventing the kind of ghettoization that is so common to ethnic enclaves all over the world. Rather than being divisive, it's actually reduced divisions substantially by deliberately mixing the populations amongst each other (especially via housing and zoning laws), something which almost never happens naturally.
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  144. That river interlinking plan goes back decades. It's been brought up over and over again, and shot down each time. And not just cos of politics or money, even most environmental experts are against it. Though it would be interested to have a video on why though. Anyway, what India needs to do most, along with the rest of Asia, is shift away from rice. It's just too water intensive of a crop. And yet the govt. in India, as elsewhere, actually offers subsidies for rice production instead, which is ridiculous.
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  145. This isn't a single focal point. There's hospitals, as well as animal farms (the other big source), everywhere. Literally thousands of them.
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  146. What India needs to do most, along with the rest of Asia, is shift away from rice. It's just too water intensive of a crop. And yet the govt. in India, as elsewhere, actually offers subsidies for rice production instead, which is ridiculous. Of course people will protest at their groundwater use being restricted, so rather just make it so they don't need as much of it as rice demands.
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  147.  @petermccannell7565  Possible yeah. Probable? Ehhh... If we invented the tech to power actually powerful handheld laser guns to the extent they do in scifi, that tech is likely to be far more transformative than the laser lol! With that kind of power and affordability, we could easily make all electric long range flying cars a thing, among many many other things. If only...😅
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  148.  @Parrot3054  Alipay is far more than just a wallet. UPI apps are still evolving to the kind of superapp that Alipay is. And likely won't get there since it isn't a monopoly (which is actually a good thing ofc).
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  149.  @mars-cs4uk  How does starving even more people constitute 'justice'? India has extended a $1.5 billion credit line to Sri Lanka for the moment, and I support that. An eye for an eye, as Gandhi said, only makes the whole world blind.
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  150. That stuff isn't plentiful and is expensive. Not economical at all.
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  151. That 'healthy dose of corruption' has been part of every industrialization process, including in the west. Read 'Kicking Away The Ladder' and '23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism' both by Ha-Joon Chang to see that all the things the east gets accused of now was part of the wests' development story as well (among other things the books cover as well).
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  152.  @brag0001  "Europe repented out of its own free will. Nothing would have prevented Europe from still subjugating all those territories to this day" - LMAO! Europe, apart from Germany, hasn't repented for anything. Hell they still refuse to even give us all our stuff back that they stole. And your 'nothing would have prevented' spiel is similarly laughable. Europe was kicked out of its colonies bruh. It was hardly gracious. It's also no accident that decolonization happened after WW2, which was a mostly European war (with a branch in China) foisted on the world that thankfully severely weakened Europe. Rather telling when empires start losing territories at the very moment they're struggling to rebuild after a major war. Your hot take wouldn't just be laughed at by the people from these nations (like me), it'd be laughed at even by most western historians lol.
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  153.  @Ro-nu7vv  Bub they have a larger military than Ukr has ever had. And if you think they have no backing, feel free to go in there. Ru and Chi would absolutely love the chance.
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  154.  @Ro-nu7vv  Ru also doesn't have 10x larger army than Ukr. You can't even get your facts right. Not to mention that in case of war, Isr will be the ones fighting in hostile territory, like Ru in Ukr. So rather than Iran, it'll be your side that gets shown up if things play out the way it did in Ukr lol.
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  155.  @nando3d491  I don't know how converting it from a percentage to absolute numbers changes anything. Sure there'll be a lot more old people in chin than elsewhere in absolute terms, but there'll also be a lot more young people working. This issue is itself an issue of ratios and proportions, so putting it in terms of raw numbers doesn't change anything.
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  156.  @SianaGearz  He has a few people who help him with research, especially with sources written in other languages.
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  157.  @ebx100  It isn't cos of Delhi, it's cos of the neighbouring states. And they refuse to do a thing. 🙄😑
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  158. He should do one on Steady State Micro-Bunching too!
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  159.  @MithunOnTheNet  Tibet is the source of a lot of south asia's rivers, not so much China.
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  160.  @angeluscorpius  "And the separation of ethnic groups politically is a mistake" - Singapore has a formal division of the population into ethnic buckets that also is institutionalized in its policy, yet they don't have much issue with it. On the contrary it's been highly successful in creating ethnic harmony, most notably by explicitly preventing the kind of ghettoization that is so common to ethnic enclaves all over the world. Rather than being divisive, it's actually reduced divisions substantially by deliberately mixing the populations amongst each other (especially via housing and zoning laws), something which almost never happens naturally.
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  161. So why not four or more blades then?
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  162.  @John_Smith_86  No lol! Just between 1880 - 1920 in India there was an estimated 100 MILLION excess unalives. Now imagine the figure for the full 2+ centuries of the Raj. Famines were MORE common than before under them, and life expectancy went DOWN. They were well run alright - at extracting wealth. An estimated 45 TRILLION in wealth...
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  163.  @jhoughjr1  They didn't, in fact they didn't apply anything to make things better. Colonialism was an extractive enterprise, and they established what practices they needed to extract wealth. The result was more famine and lower life expectancy
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  164.  @John_Smith_86  No it's not. I was talking about the entire colonial period over 2 centuries, not just those 6 years. It is not reasonable.
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  165. What startup?
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  166. ​ @SCP-1974-A_CLASS-EUCLID It's not the exception, others did it too. Like another Asian tiger, Taiwan. Hell the biggest rise in history is also a case in point - China kinda copied from South Korea's playbook. Industrial policy isn't exclusive to the east either, even the West did it, just much earlier. The book Kicking Away the Ladder by Ha Joon Chang goes over the many examples.
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  167.  @28ebdh3udnav  We can, but getting the water inland isn't the hard part of desalinated water, it's actually desalinating the water. There's already water systems to get the water to where it needs to go. Nations that rely on desalination i.e. desert ones already tend to have their population centers mostly on the coast anyway.
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  168.  @grahamstevenson1740  And keeps them and others in their neighbourhoods in the hospital.
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  169.  @moloids  And if you're wondering why the poor and the orthodox both tend to have more kids, there's a certain trait both groups tend to have in common - and it isn't how affordable their life is.
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  170.  @sbkarajan  What does this have to do with the video? Just cos it mentioned one of their competitors is Chinese?
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  171. Funny. The US has regular elections, yet it's been insulated from consequence for nearly a century. Oh right, the rest of the world doesn't get to vote on US elections...
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  172.  @the-quintessenz  Contrary to the name, the Great Garbage Patch isn't just one great patch of garbage.
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  173. @user-hz6fj9xy4y Not Singapore so much as HK and Guangzhou. The former already dominates any potential Macau might have as a financial or shipping hub, while the latter handles any and all manufacturing it could try getting into.
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  174. @user-hz6fj9xy4y Not Singapore so much as HK and Guangzhou. Between them they don't leave much potential for any industry that Macau could try getting into.
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  175.  @thor8086  Your obsession with China in all your comments is telling. Are you from the China Uncensored fan club? In that case feel free to return there. Some of us appreciate hearing about more of the world than just China and the west.
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  176.  @thor8086  Your obsession with China in all your comments is telling. Are you from the China Uncensored fan club? In that case feel free to return there. Some of us appreciate hearing about more of the world than just China and the west.
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  177. The alternatives are the various local forms of bread, along with increased consumption of fruits and meat, both of which are consumed much more as people get richer than grains. 'The poor eat grain, the rich eat steaks' is a pithy way of summing it up.
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  178. Wind is losing out to solar atm.
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  179.  @metagen77  Bought any clothes recently? Did you just check if they came from Bangladesh? What about your phone? Did you check if it has cobalt? Etc. Don't pretend this is about caring for other people. This typically only comes up when folks like you talk about 'enemy' nations, not people in general. That's not humanity, that's nationalism. At least own up to it then.
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  180.  @Bob-jn8gt  Yes it does hurt their creditors, and also their customers. Which is why many European countries were hesitant to do it. It doesn't hurt America much though, which is why it was pushed through. That said, Russia didn't just have $630 billion in reserves, it also had low foreign debt and a current account surplus. Which also means there's not many big creditors.
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  181.  @Freshbott2  Sensible developers still have to work under budgets they don't control. And synthetic data is FAR cheaper than real world data to acquire so...
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  182.  @m7pothead762  empty
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  183.  @m7pothead762  dumb
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  184.  @m7pothead762  ignorant
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  185.  @mars-cs4uk  There are many forms of democracy. Ironically the most undemocratic democracy going by your argument was the original Athenian one. Democracy has always been a spectrum, not a binary. Also the military isn't a part of its definition. And finally as the other guy said, there are some Tamilians and Muslims in their military.
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  186.  @sh7de553  "If you want to make chips, you'll likely go to TSMC because you won't get better bang for buck anywhere else" - only if you absolutely need the most advanced chips, which as even this channel has pointed out isn't necessary for most users.
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  187. Robot armies don't concern me, apart from the odd accident or hack (which is a risk even now simply from having digital system, no robots required). If we've reached the point where robots are capable of fully replacing humans in literal warzones, then we've almost definitely reached the point where they can replace us in pretty much any other field. At that point I'd be more worried about how we rejig our whole economic system to deal with this new reality, which isn't a choice unlike waging war, than robots being used in wars.
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  188.  @gikigill788  No. The video itself mentioned the laws have clauses to excuse kids of parents who mistreated them. You think you're the only one who had the bright idea to think of that? It's already been thought of and accounted for.
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  189.  @gikigill788  Why are you determined to be disingenuous? First you're protesting taking care of people, now you're complaining about not being taken care of? You're just trying to be difficult here. As for your silly objection, Singapore does have a welfare system - it's just left as a last resort, and isn't as generous as full welfare states.
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  190. ​ @gikigill788  "how they plan to deal with the demographic decline and lack of children in the near future." - same way the west is hoping to, immigration. They have no shortage of applicants. Besides that, Singapore has very good public accounts and low levels of debt, so they have room to manoeuvre. They're in a far better position than, say, Italy or Spain.
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  191. Ukraine isn't a major chemicals exporter, Russia is. It wasn't the war that impacted that...
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  192.  @autohmae  "shocks to the system which and a LOT more expensive" - shocks are a lot more expensive only when the shock happens, but cheaper for all the years or decades before that. Efficiency has lower prices across all that time, which adds up. It's not at all clear that the ultimate cost of being less efficient is lower, because even if a shock hurts less, the rest hurts more.
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  193. ​ @brag0001  "the West changed its values which set them free" - lol yeah right. I've already dealt with this idiocy above, but you do know what Russia tried to do initially right? Take Kiev. Not for themselves, but to replace its govt with a less 'nazi' one, which is basically propaganda-speak for one more friendly to Moscow. In other words, regime change. Indeed Russia actually had little problem with Ukraine before 2014 i.e. the Maidan revolution which saw them turn to the west. But guess what? Putting in place friendly regimes is nothing new to you guys - that's pretty much what you've been doing for decades too, in the Middle East, in South East Asia, in Africa and in Latin America. It's far more convenient than annexation, as the messy business of governance is foisted onto the puppet. And we don't need to look back to our colonial past to see how duplicitous the west can be. We've already had the US sanction us before, support our enemy next door and even threaten us with its military before, all after we got independence. Ironically Russia was the opposite - consistent and reliable. Your 'oh the west is so moral' blinkers are blinding YOU to the history of the world as seen by pretty much everyone outside of the west. Also convenient of you to try taking credit for the success of other nations. And then pretend you did it out of magnanimity, as if western companies didn't make billions out of it lmao! Your democracies schtick is also pathetic - the west has allied with plenty of autocracies (KSA for example) and even helped install many of them (Guatemala for example). It has even fought wars for them. Hell I bet you think South Vietnam was democratic lol. It even supports the active suppression of democracy in places cos it knows it'll turn against them (the Muslim Brotherhood for example). You guys go on about democracy in Cuba for instance, while conveniently forgetting that Castro's predecessor Batista was also a dictator and supported by America. You know it's funny you make fun of the Trumpists, cos you sound just as delusional as they are. At least Trump didn't try to play up the illusion of virtue and respectability, while people like you not only trumpet (hah!) it, but have even fallen for it.
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  194.  @AdityaRamachandranx  Yeah except most of their young are still in the country. This isn't a significant factor in anything, apart from creating a diaspora that can feed into narratives that sell in the west.
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  195.  @Ro-nu7vv  My point is that you know nothing about either demographics or war.
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  196.  @Ro-nu7vv  Bub there's nothing to counter - you haven't established any claim to begin with. It's just all smug hubris and emojis.
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  197.  @Ro-nu7vv  Bub there's nothing to counter - you haven't established anything anyway.
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  198.  @Ro-nu7vv  Sure bruh. Say nothing, expect the other party to disprove you, then call it a 'cope out' when they point out that you haven't said much.
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  199.  @nando3d491  If population aging is going to doom chin, it's going to doom jap, sk, italy, etc. even sooner. No the fact that they're richer changes little. It doesn't mean they can automate their way out of the problem - or rather, if it does, then so can chin. It's already one of the most robotized nations in the world, even in per capita terms. So either chin is in very serious trouble along with a LOT of other countries, or they'll all pull through. Cos it isn't just them facing this issue.
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  200.  @jeffjohnson5053  You know the phone was broken down right? The chip is from SMIC, not South Korea, and based on one of their previous designs from 2020.
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  201. Polonium isn't used as a weapon of mass or even local destruction, it's used for assassination operations.
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  202.  @Barnaclebeard  Yeah, so? Titans are from Greek mythology, and Giants are from Norse and many other mythologies. So?
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  203.  @danielch6662  'and then raising the fertility rate back up' - yeah good luck with that. No nation has managed to figure out how to do that, despite many years of trying.
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  204.  @what.the..6990  Because they do whatever their American masters expect them to, even without being told. Including even going to war. If the US makes this an issue, you can bet the UK will too.
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  205.  @what.the..6990  It isn't just China that the UK has followed the US on. And have you met dog owners? Some treat their pets well, while others very much don't. Not that the UK is abused, but they aren't pampered either. That is hardly atypical for pet owners
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  206.  @nobodynoone2500  I think you need to retake school English class bro. Your reading comprehension is lacking.
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  207.  @DK-ev9dg  I think that's Russia, albeit a lot of it is frozen.
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  208.  @eddiehimself  No I think they didn't do it cos it'd be an unwinnable war that would see millions die, nukes or no nukes. Nations aren't generally keen to start massive wars that they're not confident they can win funnily enough. Your cynical thesis has literally already failed before. What prevents war isn't just nuclear parity, but parity in general. Which explains why they only ever went to war with far weaker nations. The only one projecting here is you. Ironically the people who keep claiming that nukes save lives are also the people who put their foot down and insist no one else get to have them. If you like nukes so much, stop trying to prevent more nations having them.
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  209.  @eddiehimself  "its nuclear arsenal does not pose an existential threat to India" - lmao! Do you even know what nukes are?! Sure, let's just write off millions of deaths just cos India has more people. Nukes don't work as an 'existential threat' to any of the superpowers either then, since even in a full scale exchange they'll still have survivors. You haven't proven your rule to begin with, to begin speaking of any exceptions to it.
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  210.  @eddiehimself  In addition to which your vaunted 'most powerful nations' aren't some magical different breed of state. If the theory is so good at preventing war, then you shouldn't be against other nations having them. Yet hypocritically they are. And why stop at nukes? Let's maintain stockpiles of biological weapons too! It's called 'MAD', so let's go full-on mad at it.
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  211.  @eddiehimself  Also note that America has already undermined the very basis for the MAD doctrine when it exited the ABMT (Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty) in 2002. So not even the nation that's supposed to be held back by the MAD doctrine has held to it. When even the nation that created the concept of MAD doesn't believe in its value anymore, that shows that it's all hogwash.
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  212.  @hari4406  "Pakistan caused issues that led to war. India was only defending itself." - I did not dispute the causes of the war. I just pointed that a war still happened despite both parties being nuclear states. According to nuclear evangelists nukes would ensure that neither side does that.
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  213. ​ @hari4406  By your own admission, the US isn't really respecting MAD by advancing closer to Russia, without letting Russia do the same. In addition, as pointed out above, their exit from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty also shows they won't let MAD stand Besides that I don't see where this idea that nukes somehow only work for superpowers comes from. As if less powerful nations are somehow more suicidal or something. The money spent on wars is irrelevant to the issue of nukes being a major danger that's supposed to, in theory, hold nations back. Hell the 'cheapest' war would be a nuclear attack with no prior fighting. The only 'cost' is the missiles themselves, none of your other arsenal was even deployed. And the result would be devastating, for both sides in case the enemy has nukes too. So idk why u say the money spent on war matters. It just sounds like an excuse thrown out to dismiss the fact that the MAD doctrine has already failed before.
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  214.  @rb8049  You could say the same for a 3D printed gun, or an IED. Yet those are still restricted aplenty, even though a determined person can still find both if they want. Nuke safety is more about not being able to get the requisite parts and materials tho.
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  215.  @rocketman1058  The west got its own German scientists so that point is moot. In fact they got way more of them.
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  216.  @jimjackson4256  Probably cos he didn't know when his dad was gonna come back out.
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  217.  @angeluscorpius  Perhaps I misunderstood. I was referring to the idea of states recognizing and drafting different rules and quotas for different ethnic (or religious or racial or whatever) groups, which is what Singapore's ethnic integration policy does. It seemed as if you were suggesting that states should always be neutral / blind to such things, which would be totally unrealistic in many many places. Contrary to the concept, nations often don't achieve parity by treating everyone the same, indeed it often just exacerbates the differences between the groups. Left to their own devices, people usually tend to concentrate, not integrate or assimilate. Which also eventually affects the politics. I was stressing that an active hand is needed. How said hand should be used is another question, varying based on local context
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  218. Safety specs sure. They're not gonna sell through tariffs if they're high enough to make it unprofitable tho.
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  219.  @jimurrata6785  Why not just export the Bolt to other markets where it can sell better?
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  220.  @John_Smith_86  Well they were better than King Leopold of Belgium anyway. That's not saying much, considering under him half the population of the Congo, which was a tenth of all of Africa at the time, unalived in as little as 20 years. That was so bad even other colonial powers were aghast at it. So yeah, there were some worse colonial regimes I guess...
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  221. The reason it exploded was because everyone thought it might do what they feared - replace human workers entirely. Now that really is a MASSIVE use case and market. That was the goal, it was never meant to be a mere personal assistant. The reason the bubble is deflating now is cos it isn't yet living up to that expectation. But if it ever does, it won't be a fad. That really will be the biggest thing to ever hit the 21st century. They're just struggling to make it happen.
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  222. The reason it exploded was because everyone thought it might do what they feared - replace humans entirely. Now that really is a MASSIVE use case and market. That was the goal, it was never meant to be a mere personal assistant. The reason the bubble is deflating now is cos it isn't yet living up to that expectation. But if it ever does, it won't be a fad anymore. Far from it..
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  223. American ship building exports comprises just 1.66% of the market anyway. They're at the same level as the Cayman Islands lol.
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  224.  @dex6316  "the point is that if you raise them properly they will support you" - If only the world was this neat and tidy, but it isn't. It is perfectly possible, and does happen, to have shitty kids despite having been a decent parent. Not all terrible people have tragic pasts you know. And if you were a terrible parent, the law already has clauses to exempt your kids from caring for you.
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  225.  @robertoformi545  Also less jobs for humans. Yay?!...
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  226. ​ @nescius2  I have literally zero idea what you're getting at wrt equality, since I said nothing on that. But if you're gonna give me that nice sweet universal basic income from taxing all the AIs, I'm all for it. But I'm not seeing it atm, just companies automating all they can to boost profits. What initiatives there are are hardly transformative. And don't bother with the Luddite tale, it's overdone. The economists who keep bringing up that story also can't come up with where the new jobs are supposed to be from beyond some huge expansion in healthcare. The primary sector IS depopulated, so is the secondary sector and now it looks like the tertiary sector is gonna be next. Last I checked that's all three sectors that they divide the economy into, so where're we to go next?
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  227.  @andersjjensen  Any suggestions for these seriously questionable things I should try? Asking for a friend! 🙃
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  228.  @andersjjensen  Thanks! He was actually rather wondering how fast it would dissolve meat though. Like of similar consistency to a humans. Also how one would dispose of the solution afterwards. He's a bit fastidious about not being messy. 😇
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  229.  @queueeeee9000  That's why I said 'kinda'.
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  230.  @queueeeee9000  It is. Wells are long tubes that hold water, just as I said. Sure they draw their water from the water table, but the design is similar.
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  231.  @queueeeee9000  Shape is also a thing they have in common. With the design I mentioned I mean.
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  232.  @justinokraski3796  Why is that a problem?
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  233. Asia as a whole really need to shift away from rice. It's just far too water intensive for any of them.
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  234.  @thechosenone1533  This is a private venture, it absolutely needs to make profits.
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