Youtube comments of shazmosushi (@shazmosushi).

  1. The two brightest flames of US advanced manufacturing (Intel and Boeing) have recently made such massive and historic missteps in the last decade. It's really sad.
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  2. "In January 1979, Disney CEO Donn Tatum sent a paper email via post" 😂
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  3. No, even without allies defending Taiwan, China would struggle to take it. Successful amphibious assaults are the notoriously difficult and can only occur at a few (well fortified) beaches.
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  4. "At the risk of being made an idiot later, I am saying that I don’t believe that any superconductor-based computer will become commercially competitive at any time in the future." We'll see if your quote ages better than Lord Kelvin's quote: "I think it cannot be done. No balloon and no aeroplane will ever be practically successful."
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  5. Ahh Cold War geopolitics: this is really some OG Asianometry content. Longest video the channel ever made too!?
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  6. Where possible everybody around the world should avoid made in China products for ethical reasons. Instead buy ABC: "Anywhere But China". There are plenty of alternatives. Samsung smartphones are all made in Vietnam. Many Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese brands do manufacturing outside China too.
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  7. 6:29 Reminds me of the rocket launch industry. Funny how in that industry, Boeing has become a slow incompetent incumbent being the prime contractor for the multibillion dollar pork program: the SLS (Space Launch System) super heavy lift rocket, and the Starliner capsule. Though many argue that Boeing is also the incompetent incumbent even when it comes to passenger jets. See the failures in development of the now-grounded 737 MAX. Most see the turning point as when engineering-driven Boeing buying the finance-driven McDonnell Douglas. What ended up happening is all the finance management replaced the Boeing management. Which was great for the share price, bad for engineering and quality.
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  8. Great project. I haven't seen anyone do anything like this themselves. You've earned yourself a new subscriber, a like and this comment. I hope the YouTube algorithm treats you well!
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  9. An excellent introduction to the operation of the Great Firewall of China, a major component in China's broader internet censorship system called the "Golden Shield Project". Great work! I hope more people signup to your excellent early-access tier on Patreon. I think this channel is going places!
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  10. If viewers liked this video I recommend this channel's "TSMC - Essays" playlist.
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  11. One measurable metric it will certainly be far better on. Cost. The ISS has cost $150 billion dollars.
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  12. From a human rights perspective, Xi forcibly imprisoned a mere 2 million Uyghers in his 8 years in office while the estimates are that Mao killed 40-80 million people during his leadership. To be fair, Mao's assumed power in 1949, so 8 years into his rule was still prior to the 1958 Great Leap Forward and the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution. It will take at least another 20 more years to make a fair comparison on whether Mao or Xi has the larger impact on China's population and their human rights.
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  13. 17:04 When your custom character gets interviewed by the Financial Times
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  14. I am a supporter of the free market and the general principles of comparative advantage (eg, not every country needs to build their own cars), so its interesting when the government of a country like Taiwan kickstarts a semiconductor industry (see Asianometry's video "How Taiwan Created TSMC") and ends up succeeding so much it doesn't just no longer require state subsidies but dominates the industry globally.
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  15. I don't understand why Australia's journalistic whistleblower protection laws are so weak (see the Bernard Collaery + Witness K trial). There are powerful government agencies committing illegal acts yet the government chooses to prosecute the media for exposing the wrongdoing.
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  16. Are you planning on covering Gigabyte Technologies? They make great computer motherboards, just like ASUS. And do manufacturing in Taiwan too!
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  17. I'm glad that even as your channel grows you're continuing to make random history videos that interest you, even though they tend to get fewer views compared to the other topics you cover
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  18. If anybody wants a 15 minute firehose of information about China's older Long March (Chang Zheng) series of rockets, I highly recommend checking out Scott Manley's video titled "Every Chinese Rocket Design Explained!"
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  19. Well yes, peacefully trapping someone in debt is probably better than intimidating someone with a credible threat of violence. But both debt trap diplomacy and 1800s gunboat diplomacy is worse than real diplomacy: one that's based on fair and mutual benefit.
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  20. 8:24 The bamboo ceiling concept is an interesting concept that I should probably read more about (starting with the Wikipedia article). By the way, it might be a good video idea too. It seems like most of the worlds best technology companies have leaders who are classified by the US government as "Asian": CEO of AMD Lisa Su (Taiwanese American), Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (Indian American), Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai of Google (Indian American) and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (Taiwanese American, though he was a co-founder so didn't get promoted into his position). Side note: there's actually a really long list of notable leaders on the (hilariously named) Wikipedia pages "List of Taiwanese Americans" and "List of Asian Americans". Lol, it does not appear to be an exhaustive list, but it's a start. Of course the fact that so many companies have leadership (and middle management) being Asian American does not preclude racism and discrimination of course. The Asian American immigrant leaders I've listed spent their childhood in the United States and "speak" American both culturally and linguistically. Perhaps some individuals may be brought up in a way that looks down upon eg, being a "mover and a shaker" and "rocking the boat", which perhaps may not be well suited for being promoted to leadership roles in technology (at least in the typical American business context). All that said, when it comes to measuring racism you need to look at proportions of populations and do statistical analysis: Asian Americans are underrepresented in leadership roles by education, but over represented by percentage of population.
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  21. For viewers with less background knowledge around semiconductor fabs, Global Foundries was spun out of chip designer AMD -- the underdog that has been the second source supplier for Intel chips since the 1980s. AMD briefly beat Intel chips in performance during the early-2000s with the AMD Athlon, and again in the late-2010s with Ryzen-chips based on the Zen architecture (a performance crown AMD holds to this day). Switching to the advanced TSMC manufacturing process obviously improved chip performance, but the Zen architecture helped greatly. AMD was bleeding money in the early 2010s, so spinning off Global Foundries provided a key cash injection. As did the short-sighted technology transfer to China as part of the THATIC and Hygon joint ventures (which fortunately for AMD appears to have been wasted on China's end). Meanwhile Intel is floundering with its semiconductor manufacturing, and unlike its competitors is not a pure-play foundry that manufactures billions of smartphones. In hindsight, Intel should have accepted Steve Jobs offer to build a custom low power chip for the original iPhone, and starved their competitors of revenue.
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  22. Keep the comments civil and constructive rather than flippant -- you don't want OP to start disabling comments like the old days
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  23. 10:19 I would be very skeptical of the 20x return in 4 years. Some private equity firms have a reputation of buying distressed companies then doing some financial engineering (but not actually increasing sales) then flipping the company at a much higher price (through an IPO) because it looks a lot better on paper.
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  24. Thanks for creating explanatory videos about the German democracy and domestic politics for an international audience. This is increases helps grow international understanding, and Germany's soft power. Cheers from Australia
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  25. Here are the links to other Asianometry videos that mentioned in the video, with timestamps: 1:48 The Waishengren, Briefly Explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRq9B_-svvU 4:47 Hongxin: China’s Billion Dollar Semiconductor Failure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZSvDYDfd78
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  26. Great insightful look at a random piece of Taiwanese internet culture that I had never heard of. I found it funny at 4:20 when you said "it uses a more modern network protocol called Telnet". LOL telnet is by no means a modern network protocol haha. The quality of the PTT's authentication and encryption will be extremely lacking compared to running a modern web service over HTTPS
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  27. Can we have all those short "Planet America Archive" videos uploaded to a separate YouTube channel? Those 5 minute snippets of US history are really well edited, and you've been making them for 10 years already. I want to binge watch all of them!
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  28. Checkout this channel's "TSMC - Essays" for more great videos.
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  29. Another great company profile from one of YouTube's best channels. ASUS produces some really great products. For advanced home users, ASUS Wi-Fi routers in particular are some of the best around, especially because the community supported "Merlin" firmware is just so good, and helps unlock some very useful features for advanced users. It's hard to find routers that has such great community support but with a firmware project like Asuswrt-Merlin it makes recommending ASUS routers really easy. The fact ASUS is based in Taiwan and does a lot of manufacturing in Taiwan makes the choice really easy. Other router manufacturers like TP-Link are based in China, which is obviously problematic for network infrastructure.
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  30. You got to admire Evergrande's ambition though. If the tide didn't turn it could be a Hengchi, not a Volkswagon. I'm still in complete awe that a debt-fueled apartment builder can enter the electric car industry. China really is something else.
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  31. Can we please have all those short "Planet America Archive" videos uploaded to a separate playlist or YouTube Channel? Those 5 minute snippets of US history are really well edited, and you've been making them for 10 years already. I want to binge watch all of them! I will keep posting this message on every new video until you do this! :)
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  32. Kind of crazy for tax payers in California to subsidize Rivian (which manufactures in Illinois) but not Tesla (which manufactures in the Bay Area as the video mentions). Both companies make expensive unaffordable electric vehicles right now. Should taxpayers be subsidizing them at all?
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  33. Strategic clarity is clearly the way to go.
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  34. CD Projekt Red is based in Poland so it's ironic they made something without polish
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  35. 11:25 The NVidia acquisition of ARM Holdings is not looking likely at this stage, with regulators from multiple countries raising objections. But I'm not sure if any final decisions have been made.
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  36. lol even just playing the song "Thunderstruck" over drone footage flying over that gigantic NT solar farm would be a great promo video! The proposed solar farm allotment shown at timestamp 2:03 is 12 MILES long and 6 MILES wide (or 20 kilometres by 10 kilometres). Bigger than Manhattan Island! I want to see the drone footage!
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  37. Through and accessible mini-documentary on the water management policies of Singapore. Great job. Makes me want to play Sim City (or City Skylines).
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  38.  @paulawolanski3237  Don't you mean Tomacco (tomato and tobacco)?
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  39. Yes! Buy local where you can, then buy from countries that respect human rights and don't cover up disease outbreaks! Avoid made in china where you can, so the corrupt government of China loses its legitimacy and the good people of China can overthrow the corrupt CCP!
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  40. Capital punishment is not justice, it's revenge. It's such a barbaric and medieval practice. No matter how heinous the crime, the maximum penalty should be life in prison. It's very sad that so many countries still have capital punishment.
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  41. If you want to read the paper, search the internet for its title "Busting the 'Princelings': The Campaign Against Corruption in China's Primary Land Market". Knowing what the websites for research journals are like, any direct link I post will inevitably become invalid in a few months (possibly a few minutes), so Googling the title is the easiest approach.
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  42. Comic-Con is serious business
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  43. Such a great mini-documentary! Camphor, celluloid and bakelite are rarely spoken about these days, except maybe a sentence in a high school chemistry textbook's chapter on plastics. It really was the "rare earth" mineral of its era: the steampunk wonder material that powered Hollywood motion pictures.
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  44. Sounds like you're back to your proper microphone setup. The recording quality is much improved over your recent videos!
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  45. 11:37 The Wii U wasn't helped by its awful branding. The name is way too similar to the name "Wii". Consumers thought it was a tablet/gamepad addon for the Wii but in reality all the games weren't compatible with the original console
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  46. 2:52 "Atari put in an order for 2600 pieces of a plastic connector for their joystick cable". I think you may have got the order quantity and the product name mixed up: the name of Atari's 1977 console was the "Atari 2600", and it sold millions of units, so I doubt Atari's order quantity for Foxconn's big break happened to be a mere 2600 pieces. Unless it was an initial batch or something.
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  47. Thunderf00t's analysis here is weak. Some viewers are as uncritical to Thunderf00t as people are to fraudulent claims. I agree clickbait is great for viewership and ad revenue. Despite what Thunderf00t claims, SpaceX has been a revolution in terms of price and access to space in the notoriously stagnant space-launch industry. Refurbishment costs on Falcon 9 has been very low (turnaround times of a few weeks) with Falcon 9 first stage core B1051 having 8 launches already. Falcon 9 is already a cheap vehicle. The points on NASA/DOD subsidies are fair, but basically what's happening is customers are paying full price for the boosters and then SpaceX gets to keep the rocket and can 'gas and go' many more times to launch Starlink. Recovery of fairings is not yet reliable and they need to build a whole new second stage still, so the savings vary from launch to launch. But make no mistake: some internal SpaceX Starlink launches do have marginal costs of less than $10 million. SpaceX have clearly lowered the cost of access to orbit by 10 times over earlier rockets.
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  48. The way to do it is by avoiding made in china products! Australia benefits from China economically but it's time for Australia to proverbially "Sell mutton to the Hindus and beef to the Muslims" (including Bangladesh, Indonesia, Africa, Middle East). In other words find alternative markets! It's not the PEOPLE of China that's the problem, but the corrupt government of China that covers up and lies at every turn! Don't punish the people of China.
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  49.  @Halflifex  Fair point -- it's hard to tell sometimes (Poe's law)
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  50. I wonder how much Thunderf00t thinks SpaceX is spending on the Starlink launches. He appears to believe the Falcon 9 costs $100 million per launch, and the reason SpaceX offers it at $60 million is because a subsidy from NASA/DOD customers. SpaceX has done 18 dedicated Starlink launches so far on Falcon 9, with dozens more coming down the pipeline. Basically the reason they can launch Starlink so cheaply is the first stage booster is already fully paid off, because SpaceX are selling the 1st/2nd/3rd launches to a commercial customer (for ~$50 million), then getting a free fully paid off booster that's good for another 7 launches. (Side note: my analysis here is ignoring the significant cost of manufacturing thousands of relatively small Starlink satellites in batches of several hundred -- which is funded by investors and SpaceX's earnings from their standard business). SpaceX HAS revolutionized launch costs, and it frustrates me that people seem to think it's just NASA/DOD that are subsidizing SpaceX.
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  51. Anyone who trusts the Chinese Communist Party on anything needs psychiatric help.
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  52. 9:40 My god, that YuE music generator looks insane 🤯 Released under open-source Apache 2.0 license too EDIT: Just played with Riffusion's generation capabilities. It's free right now and really really good! Definitely much better quality than YuE as the video says.
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  53. Flash memory prices have remained stubbornly high for a long time. The incumbent manufacturers have not been innovating. It's crazy to me that mechanical hard drives remain better on a dollar per terabyte basis. Consider that a tiny MicroSD card is available in 1 terabyte capacity. And of that MicroSD card only a small amount of its area is dedicated to the flash memory itself, the rest is dedicated to the physical connector pins, the controller and the casing. There's no reason why a 2.5" laptop hard drive couldn't contain hundreds (even thousands) of terabytes of flash memory. It's just a matter of being able to cheaply manufacture enough silicon. Heat dissipation is not a problem if the memory access patterns are slow enough (at the extreme, Amazon Glacier type workloads). I feel like there's a big market opportunity for a company to figure out a way to manufacture MUCH higher capacity hard drives. The entrance of Yangtze Memory may spur this on.
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  54. 8:15 You say every country in the world except the US needs to worry about low wages and brain drain. The US isn't a monolith: rust belt states have very different economic outlooks to some of the wealthy coastal cities. This economic divide helps power Trump success
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  55. I'm impressed by the moderator giving similarly hard hitting follow-up questions to both guests. At least on this topic, this news organization had no apparent bias as far as I can tell.
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  56. When financial education is low (and regulations lax), the predatory lenders move in. It's a story as old as time.
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  57. The best thing you can do to help destroy the corrupt CCP is to avoid buying Made in China as much as possible! Put pressure on the GOVERNMENT of China and ultimately the people of China will overthrow their corrupt totalitarian government!
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  58. +1 that sounds interesting. Also related: why isn't Japan super successful in semi-conductors? They invented blue LEDs... Perhaps as you video alluded to they fell into the trap on spending too much on 'basic research' and not enough on 'applied research'? Or is it that they simply missed TSMC's contract business model and never had the scale to build businesses like Intel fab or Samsung fab?
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  59. This is one of the best channels on YT for in-depth historical explanations of relatively arcane but interesting topics. There's a lot of social mobility provided by cities having good public transport networks. Helps people without cars get to jobs across the city with a reasonable commute duration. In lower density cities, buses routes seem to make sense. In higher density cities, a partially underground metropolitan rail network is great. Supposedly Japan's rail networks own the real-estate of the stations themselves, which are bustling shopping complexes. This provides another revenue source for operating the expensive rail system.
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  60. ​ @Travis But Falcon 9 is dramatically better than rockets from 1971. It's like saying a car from 2021 is largely the same as a car from 1971: four wheels and an internal combustion engine. That would be ignoring improvements in safety, efficiency and cost that comes from improved designs, material, volume manufacturing, and even business plans. Even before re-usability, the Falcon 9 improved cost. Now with propulsive landings it has been a revolution in cost. Largely benefiting SpaceX's internal Starlink launches, but a revolution in cost nonetheless. EDIT: Please checkout my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" video! It's 8 minutes long and completely debunks this video!
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  61. I have heard the issue with Boeing management goes back to its 1990s acquisition of McDonnell Douglas. Basically what happened is the finance driven management of that company took over from the engineering focused Boeing management. It was great for the share price, but the lack of engineering focus has finally caught up to that once-great company.
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  62. Everybody condemns the torture and abuse that happens in Abu Ghraib. The perpetrators, Charles Graner and Lynndie England spent 6.5 years and 1.5 years in prison each. I personally would have given longer sentences, but I am glad they were jailed for their atrocities. That said, this entire discussion of Abu Ghraib is again "whataboutism"
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  63. If you enjoyed this story, its worth reading up on how Huawei grew into a powerhouse through corporate espionage of product lines and R&D from Canada's Nortel Networks and Cisco. In Nortel's case the Chinese government reportedly had complete access to its internal networks for more than 10 years, and was constantly siphoning information (including designs, pricing and product roadmaps). I also highly recommend the book "The Hundred-Year Marathon Book" by Michael Pillsbury. I found it very insightful and well-written. The growth of SMIC and Huawei are such an important lessons for management in the securing of trade secrets. It's safe to say that all large companies are unknowingly having their corporate secrets siphoned away through ongoing corporate espionage (see the recent SolarWinds hack).
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  64. It's kind of interesting how over the decades "Silicon Valley" has lost all its high-end silicon fabrication capacity to South Korea (Samsung) and Taiwan (TSMC), with some non-bleeding edge fabrication capacity still in the US (from Intel, GloFlo and others, mostly outside of California). Now the companies that dominate "Silicon Valley" are software companies (mostly advertising technology companies like Google and Facebook), with some fabless semiconductor firms (like Qualcomm) remaining in California. Some say it's America naturally moving up the value chain (software has much better economics than hardware), but it's clear there are worthwhile profit margins to being the leader in high-volume advanced manufacturing industries like semiconductor fabrication.
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  65. 10:26 Australia is the 51st state
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  66. What are you talking about? Today is February 24 and mainstream media have been leading with Wuhan coronavirus coverage non-stop since mid January. Hell, even the World Health Organisation has been publishing situation reports since 21 January, and that's coming from a corrupt organisation more interested in trying to save face for the government of China than public health. The main "alt media" message has been wild conspiracy theories of an escaped genetically engineered bioweapon from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. For the record, it's plausible that the virus may have been collected from wildlife by researchers and later escaped due to poor practices (it's happened at that institute before), but it's unlikely to have been genetically engineered.
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  67. Not going bankrupt is NOT a strong argument: SpaceX are constantly raising external investment, and Starlink is a separate legal entity so it failing is unlikely to bankrupt SpaceX itself. A better argument is how massively wrong and out-of-date Thunderf00t's numbers are. See my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" for more information.
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  68. The initial Falcon 9 design goal was 10 launches between inspections (so, gas and go 10 times in a row and then replace any worn parts), and 100 launches before major refurbishment (replacing engines). They are currently at almost 10 launches but with inspections between almost every launch, and sometimes x-raying every square inch. As they learn more about the wear profile vehicle they'll increase the intervals between inspections. It's not like the first Ford Model T cars were able to get 300,000+km / 200,000+ miles without major repairs like year 2000 Toyota Camry's routinely do. EDIT: I made a whole video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" video, check it out on my channel!
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  69. Yeah Belt and Road Initiative projects have a history of kickbacks to the politicians that approve it. Also never forget the "revolving door" corruption. Remember Trade Minister Andrew Robb passing the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement then getting an $880,000 consultancy job with Landbridge, the CCP owners of the strategic Port of Darwin? Or New South Wales Labor getting $100,000 donations given in ALDI shopping bags? We only learned that from NSW Independent Commissioner Against Corruption (ICAC). Australia doesn't even have a Federal ICAC. There's good reason to think we only learn of the tip of the iceberg. CCP corruption in Australia is alive and well.
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  70. Stop funding the totalitarian beast. Start buy avoiding Made In China!
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  71. Agreed. Understanding the bad parts is just as important as understanding the good parts.
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  72. I have never eaten dog. The issue is the Yunlin dog festival is that dogs are skinned alive then boiled alive, because the physiological effect of the stressed, tortured animal changes the taste of the meat. It's definitely horrible, inhumane stuff and we should call it out. But if even the cutest dog is raised then slaughtered in humane conditions, then it's not at all different to eating the less cute, similarly intelligent animals like pigs/pork.
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  73. I think California is only a few election cycles away from electing the Republican version of the West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin: somebody on the fringe of the party's ideology who will still vote with the party when it counts, but who you'd rather not hold the deciding vote if you can avoid it :) For Republican candidates to win the state again I think they'll need to focus on crime deterrence and economic management (responsible government spending). The candidate would definitely need to avoid the culture war topics around wokism, transgender issues and all the ragebait social stuff. But even here in California I think there's a successful avenue of unashamedly fighting "DEI" by encouraging a meritocracy of hiring the most qualified candidate regardless of their personal characteristics and aiming for equal access to education and upskilling but not trying to mandate equal outcomes. California has voted for traditional Republicans in the past, and it will probably happen again. Especially with gen Z voting significantly more to the right than millennials (and likely to get more conservative as they age).
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  74. Nah keep him here. Give the CCP enough rope to hang itself. The ambassador is doing a great job showing Australia and the world what the Chinese Communist Party is really like.
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  75. For viewers that don't understand why Thunderf00t's math is wrong, please checkout my SpaceX Unbusted video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36o4UrS9OS4
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  76. 1:11 What is the heck is going on with that photo??? Was the miner photoshopped in!!? 😂
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  77. There are a lot of parallels between the GOVERNMENT of China and government of Nazi Germany. They have setup concentration camps. They have a dictator for life (the corrupt government of China is up to it's THIRD dictator for life in ~50 years). We know the policy of "appeasement" does not help. If we let the freedom in Hong Kong die, then the government of China will continue trampling over freedom the world over
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  78. Very interesting 18 minute video looking at Malaysia's attempts to move up the value chain into semiconductor fabrication. Speaking of Malaysia, I was very surprised to learn how many large and relatively complex appliances (like fridges and air conditioners) are manufactured in South East Asia: Samsung fridges are made in Malaysia, and Mitsubishi Air Conditioners are made in Thailand. Thailand also manufactures mechanical hard drives (eg, Western Digital HDDs). I'm still not sure why the bigger South Korean and Japanese firms chose to outsource to South East Asia over China, but it's great that consumers have a cost competitive alternative from different regions when they decide what to purchase!
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  79. There's no source that Apple announced this. Some analysts like Digitimes' Luke Lin predict 50% by 2027. But that's very different to an official announcement.
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  80. In a way, he got his wish for immortality. Reminds me of that quote that's often misattributed to Banksy: "They say you die twice. Once when you stop breathing and again when your name is mentioned for the last time" Also it's interesting to see how experimenting with dubious/dangerous potions in traditional Chinese medicine goes back thousands of years.
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  81. I just finished listening to the 2012 book by historian Niall Ferguson called "The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die". A pretty short and thought provoking audio book. Many of Niall's arguments and predictions on the future of the US economy are far more pessimistic than Peter Zeihan's. It's a 12 year old book but very interesting for those here who've listened to Peter's (amazing) books
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  82. It's very sad that Malaysia's inequality issues have caused race to be a major factor in politics. One problem with race-based policies is there's so much difference within each racial group. In America, the black or Asian children of wealthy doctors might go to the best school districts are clearly in a very good position. While there are poor rural whites living around drug addicts in a trailer park in West Virginia, poor blacks in a violent inner-city school district, or the multi-generationally poor descendants of refugees who fled Cambodia in the 1970s. Using the limited tax payer money to improve the lives/education/opportunities of those with the most dire socioeconomic circumstances (regardless of race) is the best approach. In Malaysia of the 1970s (and probably 2020s), even policies blind to race would be helping the ethnic Malays more as a ratio of the population, but it would mean the poorest ethnic Chinese and ethnic Indians would also have more opportunities to escape poverty. It takes political leadership to convince a country to adopt policies blind to race. But I think even the ethnic Malays voting blocs could be convinced: much of their privileged positions would be preserved (because as far as I understand Malays continue to be poorer than other races in Malaysia), and it would definitely improve the country's international image and long-term racial harmony.
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  83. His research process was covered on episode 24 of the Compounding Curiosity podcast, by the way
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  84. You mentioned Taiwanese contract manufacturing firms Foxconn, Pegatron and Wistron, which are used by literally all the companies in the world, from Apple, to Nintendo, to HP etc. There's probably an interesting story as to why most of the world's best electronics assembly firms are based in Taiwan. (Well except for Samsung, which owns and operates all their overseas factories, whilst being competitive with TSMC in semiconductors fabrication and being highly competitive consumer electronics company that happens to be the world-leader in OLED displays and flash memory. Samsung really impresses me by the way)
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  85. New video from YouTube's most underrated channel? Time to stop what I'm doing and watch it :)
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  86.  @RicMansur  invading is a very strange word for individuals following the nation's democratically enacted immigration policy and immigrating (or studying as an international student). If high immigration rates in Australia are a problem (it is when combined with not building out housing and infrastructure), it was self-inflicted
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  87. 5:57 Here are the most important Variable Interest Entities (VIE): 1. Zhejiang Taobao Network Co., Ltd. 2. Zhejiang Tmall Network Co., Ltd 3. Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. 4. Youku Information Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd I thought I'd write this out because most English speakers would struggle to transcribe the word "Zhejiang"! It might also help with search engine optimization.
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  88. After so many years, I'm so glad we finally got to meet each other! I'm very happy with how this channel has grown since the early days, and so much further to go! Also -- I hope I'll never lose my child-like wonder when seeing or riding in a Waymo. Reminds me of the quote, "the future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed". Also crazy how in just the last couple years the world now contains AI systems that pass the Turing Test and fully autonomous self driving taxis. What a time to be alive!
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  89. Waymo in some areas in San Francisco can be incredibly slow to arrive. They can be overly conservative for taking left turns, especially on San Franciscos multi-lane one-way streets, and during peak traffic may not get into the lane they need to, especially since few human drivers ever leave from for empty Waymo that's indicating. I once waited 20 minutes for a Waymo less than a mile away. It eventually rerouted itself taking a much worse route. That ride also had a remote human take over when Waymo could manage somebody waiting for the Waymo to leave so it could reverse into a parking spot. Most of this could be fixed by other drivers courteously yielding to even empty Waymo changing lanes or turning onto a street like they would to another human driver. But in general the rides are fantastic and incredibly safe, especially routes well services by traffic signals that don't need Waymo to drive aggressively. Looking forward to Waymo on freeways, and the real killer app: taking Waymo to and from San Francisco airport.
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  90. the boss may have been willing to accept an algorithm that only provides an answer that's an approximation, something that can be solvable with a much faster algorithm.
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  91. 46:47 Can we please have all those short "Planet America Archive" videos uploaded to a separate playlist or YouTube Channel? Those 5 minute snippets of US history are really well edited, and you've been making them for 10 years already. I want to binge watch all of them! Chas, please give ABC managing director David Anderson (and ABC chair Ita Buttrose) a phone call on my behalf. AND DON'T STOP CALLING THEM UNTIL THEY APPROVE! :) I will keep posting this message on every new video until the playlist becomes available! :)
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  92. Of course we should do everything we can to stop money laundering -- especially around drug trafficking and human trafficking -- but whatever fraction of China's mass capital flight that's legitimate should definitely considered foreign direct investment and carefully handled, because anybody with a large amount of money within China understandably wants to get their money out of China as soon as possible. Australia's relatively recent regulations are pretty smart: We have no restrictions on foreigners purchasing new buildings. If you buy a vacant plot of land you must build a dwelling within 4 years (you can't just buy it and hold it). You can only buy and demolish an existing dwelling if you build more buildings than were previously there. Finally, real-estate investment no longer contributes to gaining citizenship. All these things are good because they encourage increasing the housing supply which means housing is more affordable. I know that some places (I believe Vancouver and maybe London) tax empty houses and apartments which should encourage them to be placed on the rental market instead of the cultural preference of leaving the home unoccupied. (Side note: China itself has a massive problem with unproductive ghost cities, so other countries need to be smarter than the CCP in combating this with smart policy). Finally, I should note that after decades of giving permanent residency and citizenship to people with strong Chinese Communist Party viewpoints and associations, Australia has developed massive issues around Chinese Communist Party-linked political corruption, infiltration and bribery (eg, Huang Xiangmo and his family), but that's a separate issue.
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  93.  @michaelkang891  Absolutely. If China invades Taiwan, the United States (and allies like Australia) will be pulled into a third World War (likely including nuclear escalation). Xi Jinping has always followed China's long-term strategy of "win without firing a shot", by annexing territories without causing other nations to react too negatively (see South China Sea islands, end of Hong Kong democracy etc). It's likely we'll see a new Taiwan Strait crisis in the next 5 years, and blockades of Taiwan that try to fall short of causing a US military reaction. But the danger of miscalculation and a Third World War is very real. Taiwan is definitely the most dangerous flash point for WW3, and I think the Chinese Communist Party doesn't realize just how hard the United States and allies will fight to prevent the fall of Taiwanese democracy to what they see as a dangerous totalitarian Communist superpower.
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  94.  @computerStoryTeller  Wow that is actually Gary Kildall? Creator of the operating system that Microsoft in 1980 tried to license but if I recall correctly he wasn't there (must have been in New York lol) so couldn't so Microsoft instead licensed and built out QDOS ("Quick and Dirty Operating System") which is what became MSDOS? The same Gary Kildall who also invented the BIOS. Wow, and RIP
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  95. Japan's off-book compensation is way different though. Like for many companies even organize which apartment their employees live in. And for CEO's this can mean company private jets for personal travel etc.
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  96. Both sides of Australian politics are guilty of selling Australia out to the Chinese Communist Party. Remember Adam Giles (Country Liberal Party and former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory) leased the Port of Darwin to China for 99 years. Andrew Robb (Liberal Party and former trade minister) signed the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement then immediately left parliament for an $880,000 consultancy gig with Landbridge (the Chinese Communist Party-linked company that leased the Port of Darwin) where he was not required to do any work. Pure "revolving door" corruption. Labor's Sam Dastyari got bribed by CCP-linked property developer Huang Xiangmo. And his "Yuhu Group" gave $100,000 to federal Labor and $425,000 to the Liberal Party. *Chinese Communist Party corruption in Australia is alive and well. We need a full investigation. Also we need a federal Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC)*
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  97. I recall an article on iceberg towing was part of the standardized reading comprehension testing system in the Australian elementary school system. It's such a great science fiction concept!
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  98. I hope people who don't understand why this video is wrong watch my "SpaceX Unbusted" video. This video is borderline misinformation and it makes me sad.
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  99. Another well researched and informative video. Here's a comment for the YouTube algorithm.
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  100. As a legendary Hong Kong pro-democracy protester once famously said: Don't trust China. China is asshoe!
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  101. LOL excellent choice of the "High Expectations Asian Father" meme thumbnail.
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  102. Another very well-researched and informative video. I think Taiwan and TSMC should be very happy that the United States has added China's SMIC to the Entity List (banning commercial transactions containing US technology unless an export license/exemption is first obtained). I think it's now very unlikely that China will be able to develop a world-class semiconductor fabrication facilities. Having Huawei on the Entity List directly hurts TSMC financially, but on balance I think it's well worth it. Side note: The strategy that economic engagement leads to democratization worked very well for South Korea and Taiwan (both were both brutal dictatorships until only 30 years ago). That strategy has of course failed spectacularly for China: as it got richer it's becoming more brutal. I really like the idea of democracies using their economic might to preventing brutal dictatorships from becoming proficient in high technology -- like the United States is doing with its Entity List.
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  103. This is a very good overview. Great job WSJ.
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  104. Interesting that Taiwan moved up the value chain through technology transfer (legitimately purchased in a mutually agreed contract), hitting the jackpot by investing in the right technology at the right time (CMOS chips), and the return Western educated immigrants. It seems that China is trying to follow a similar strategy with The Thousand Talents Plan, China's returning "sea turtles", and controversial forced technology transfer. China has definitely hit the right technology at the right time in certain areas (eg, drones) but nothing recognized internationally as an innovative world leader like TSMC is. Though to be fair TSMC is a not really a household name.
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  105. The Boeing CEO between 1945 and 1968 studied law and doesn't appear to me to have been an engineer. His name was William McPherson Allen. From Wikipedia: While he was president of Boeing, he made the famous decision in 1952 to "bet the company", when he authorized construction of the Boeing 367-80 and again when he authorized the launch of development of the Boeing 707.[3] He also participated in launching other planes of renown, among them the Boeing 727, Boeing 737, and Boeing 747.
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  106. For more on Vietnamese history, watch Asianometry's video titled "Looking Back at the Sino-Vietnamese War".
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  107. Taiwan tend to be very suspicious of the Chinese Communist Party. Some of Australia's initial success was due to taking the virus very seriously due to similar suspicions of the CCP's statements. The later major outbreak in Victoria was after the virus escaped the hotel quarantine system, but it's now under control with no more community transmission.
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  108. The newly middle-class Chinese tourists weren't the ones who decided to invade Vietnam for thousands of years. Insulting them on their holiday adds needless negativity.
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  109. Tatooine sand is smooth desert sand though 3:18
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  110. So the promise of Anthony Green's analysis was only as joke? I was looking forward to hearing from him.
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  111. SpaceX's standard marginal re-launch cost is likely higher $10m right now. The reason is they're not recovering fairings on EVERY launch reliably (that's $6 million right there). And they have to build a whole second stage with one Merlin 1D Vacuum engine. A fully manufactured second stage is probably 6-7 million. We know that the first stage is ~75% of SpaceX's Falcon 9 cost. Side note: They have launched F9 first stage booster B1051 eight times so far, which is really close to the 10 reuse design mark, with Starlink is absorbing most of this new launch supply. SpaceX would have to perfect fairing recovery, and become very efficient at building first stages to reach $10 million marginal launch cost. But on both counts they're very close. Their fixed costs are fully subsidized by full-priced launches), so they are definitely achieving $10 million launch costs on SOME of their internal launches. The idea that SpaceX's Falcon 9 re-usability hasn't revolutionized orbital rocket launch with a 10 times cost improvement is pure bunk. And without Elon Musk in particular, SpaceX (and the entire launch industry) would be much less far along than they are now. I'm pretty disappointed in this Thunderf00t video to be honest.
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  112. I have confirmed with Asianometry that this was a typo. It's 14km (8.7 miles), not 140km (87 miles). The description and transcript has been updated. The number comes from a book: "Over 1973-4, the new disk brake was tested in wind tunnels and in drops from helicopters and aircraft from altitudes as high as 14,000 m. The spacecraft model was also dropped onto simulated Venusian soil made from foam concrete." (from the book "Russian Planetary Exploration History, Development, Legacy and Prospects: by Brian Harvey).
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  113. It's worth re-iterating (as in previous Asionometry videos) that US sanctions against China's semi-conductor companies will make it an uphill battle to achieve Made In China 2025 goals for China to import substitute the semiconductors used in its exports. Brief overview of the sanctions I'm aware of: SMIC (China's TSMC competitor) are not able to buy ASML lithography machines from the Netherlands. According to South China Morning Post they are currently buying used machines from other companies in China (I guess that's a workaround). Huawei's HiSilicon (fabless design company) can't license ARM Holdings chip reference designs. Huawei can't use the Android operating system due to sanctions. China is even being banned from accessing EDA (chip design software) from America. China could succeed in building indigenous replacements of these technologies one at a time, but when the United States is sanctioning everything at once it's VERY difficult. Especially when eg, Huawei's revenue streams starts drying up and those companies face big budget crunch.
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  114. Chinese *government. Use your words more carefully.
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  115. Trump could play the "nuclear option" of treating Hong Kong just like the rest of China and thus applying tariff's and crippling the Hong Kong finance industry which funds the Chinese Communist Party and China's economy, and is used by corrupt CCP officials to get their money out of China. This "nuclear option" has blowback and no one wants to abandon the freedom loving people of Hong Kong. But nonetheless it's a powerful economic weapon in protecting the freedom of Hong Kong and deterring the Chinese Communist Party's corrupt and expansionist goals of annexing territory everywhere. It's not quite mutually assured destruction but it may damage ourselves too. With Trump you never know. I hope he enacts sanctions after the recent events in Hong Kong.
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  116. It's worth noting the China-based semiconductor foundries like SMIC and HSMC were trying to build cutting edge 7 nanometer semiconductor node leveraging extreme ultraviolet techniques. For those who don't follow the chip making industry at all, it's worth noting the former world leading chip maker from Silicon Valley called Intel has been struggling for the better part of a decade and is no longer on the cutting edge. Now, Intel has $25 billion US dollars in cash on hand. If getting to a cutting edge process node was as simple as poaching a few hundred TSMC engineers for 2.5 times the salary for 5 years then surely Intel could do it? They could pay 750 TSMC engineers each $250,000/year to move to the US for 5 years to try and leapfrog TSMC, and that would still be $1 billion in salary (4% of their cash on hand). Admittedly building a new fab would cost another $10 billion by itself, but it would still be a bargain if it got Intel back into the lead (which they held for most of their existence).
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  117. Please put the date in the video title. This is NOT part 3 but a separate interview!
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  118. You've mentioned American fabless semiconductor firm Ambarella in recent videos. Given you're starting to profile fabless semiconductor firms like MediaTek (and maybe in the future HiSilicon, THATIC etc), it might be worth covering Ambarella. Unlike even MediaTek and Qualcomm, it's definitely not a household name that a consumer of Android devices would come across when they research the specifications of their next smartphone. Feel free to ignore this suggestion especially because the company not even based in Asia.
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  119. the collapse of the 3 Gorges Dam will cause millions of direct deaths, and millions more through disease. It would likely be the biggest single disaster in human history. Have some respect for those downstream people who may lose their lives. They don't get to choose their government like much of the rest of the world. They don't even have free access to information so in many cases can't know any better.
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  120. I find it fascinating that Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) was granted democracy by their British colonizers in 1931. Sri Lanka is Asia's oldest democracy. It's 2020 and Hong Kong is still fighting for democracy. Britain wanted to give Hong Kong democracy in the 1950s and 1960s, but the China's Communist government threatened to invade Hong Kong to prevent this.
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  121. I've recently been reading the very interesting book "Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm" which talks about how to extract the basic chemical that power our world (like nitric acid and potassium) from boiling trees in a pot and distilling the steam. I love the topic so much. It's so "steampunk" and takes high school chemistry to the next level!
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  122.  @fwefhwe4232  South Asia is a geographic term. There's other major religions in the area too. Such as Buddhism and Islam
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  123.  @RickMa  Most high-end electronic components are actually made outside China. Eg, Displays and NAND flash memory are made in mostly in Korea. CPUs are manufactured by TSMC in Taiwan. Sony camera sensors are made in Japan. Seagate and Western Digital hard drives are made in Thailand.
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  124. 4:55 It's probably worth doing a video on KT Li. He seems like a key politician in Taiwan's economic success. I'll go have a read of his Wikipedia page.
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  125. Fortunately for TSMC and Samsung, the government of China's strategic investments are extremely wasteful. Unlimited money does not necessary lead to good outcomes (see SpaceX vs Blue Origin). The government of China has spent tens of billions over decades to build jet engines for passenger aeroplanes with little to show for it. They might eventually succeed, but due to US sanctions this is now unlikely. Consider that SMIC (China's TSMC competitor) can't even buy ASML machines due to being added to the Entity List. Huawei's HiSilicon can't license ARM Holdings chip reference designs. Huawei can't use Android due to sanctions. China is even being banned from accessing EDA (chip design software) from America. China could succeed in building indigenous replacements of these technologies one at a time, but when the United States is sanctioning everything at once it's VERY difficult. Especially when eg, Huawei's revenue streams starts drying up and those companies face big budget crunch. Xi Jinping overplayed his hand (around the usual issues: annexing the South China Sea, 1 million Uigher internment, crushing Hong Kong democracy, etc) and caused the US to react. Now if the US sanctions continue I think China will struggle to ever becoming competitive in the semi-conductor industry.
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  126. Going through SARS Coronavirus in 2003 helped build distrust the Chinese Communist Party during SARS-CoV-2
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  127. Another high quality video. Keep making more like these. In depth and fascinating stuff!
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  128. I completely agree. I made a video titled "SpaceX: UNBUSTED!! Debunking Thunderf00t" that goes into more detail. I hope everyone who watches this videos checks it out!
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  129. Not accounting for inflation is the least of this video's problem. He compared to the Shuttle rather than comparable contemporary rockets like the Atlas V/Delta IV/Ariane V, he conflates price and cost and has no understanding of the market's (at least short term) inelasticity. He is unaware that due to its use of nine Merlin 1D engines the proportion of the total rocket cost the Falcon 9 first stage is much more than its second stage (75% of the total cost), making first stage re-usability favorable. He missed that falcon 9 first stage B1051 has been launched EIGHT times already, and with 27 day turn around times (and falling) the refurbishment costs are $1 million. The first/second/third launches of the rockets are to commercial customers paying near full price, with the subsequent 7 launches being for Starlink. When fairings are recovered the marginal COST of Falcon 9 launches is $15 million. SpaceX did revolutionize orbital launch by 10 times. EDIT: I made a video titled "SpaceX: UNBUSTED!! Debunking Thunderf00t" that's an 8 minute overview that everybody who is skeptical should checkout. Also a correction to what I wrote above, SpaceX's has lowered the cost to orbit by 6 times not 10 times. Falcon 9 in expendable configuration is about a third compared to the Ariane 5 before SpaceX entered the market, then after 10 flights, the cost per kilogram is halved. SpaceX are not passing on the savings associated with re usability. Please checkout my "SpaceX Unbusted" video, because it's important to stop the spread of misinformation.
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  130. If you're interested in this video, checkout the video from this channel titled "Hongxin: China’s Billion Dollar Semiconductor Failure" and "Taiwan's Fabless Semiconductor Giant: MediaTek Explained"
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  131. Sentiment is still correct, but technically completely misquote. Accuracy is important. Carl Sagan said "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe".
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  132. I'd hope driverless cars take honking as input into their system, just as a human drivers would interpret it as 'hazard', 'slow down' or 'provide extra space'. Certainly at least taking number of honks as a course-grain statistical metric
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  133.  @mauricegold9377  The Virgin Galactic deposit is only few kilobucks, not a few hundred kilobucks. I'm sure Wally Funk will be fine. Also flying on Virgin Galactic in a few years would break her own record as the world's oldest astronaut! I'm sure she'd love to do that too :)
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  134. 18:39 There wasn't a reason to censor the brief profanity when demoing the audio capabilities of this music model
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  135. I have come across similar ethno-supremacist views on Reddit (r/Sino, r/AznIdentity and the related subreddits). I've seen comments on these subreddits strongly lean towards Han and Asian ethno-supremacy ideas, and funnel users to exclusive/private Discord chatroom if proof of racial identity is provided. Reddit bans subreddits which promote hate speech, but discussions on private Discord servers are of course much harder to police. It's hard to know if such corners of the internet are run by state-funded internet troll farms or just private citizens who hold extreme views. I should mention this is especially worry because disaffected or mentally ill people can radicalize themselves -- such as Elliot Rodger who committed the 2014 Isla Vista killings.
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  136. Landbridge, the CCP backed group which leased the Port of Darwin for 99 years gave Andrew Robb (Trade Minister in charge during China-Aus Free Trade Agreement) an $880,000/year job for two years as a consultant to do very little but write a report. He would get paid even if he did nothing. It raised many eyebrows and after 2 years and mounting pressure he left. It's likely that the Port of Darwin lease negotiations has led to similar kickbacks and bribery. Australia is complacent to the corrupt CCP exporting bribery wherever they do business.
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  137. Voting patterns in California went from red to blue, and it's totally conceivable they'll change change back. Remember California voted for Republican presidential candidates in 1980, 1984 and 1988. And in the 57 years since 1967, the state has only had Democratic governors for just TWENTY FOUR of those years. If California is mismanaged enough to become a swing state again, it will actually make national politics less divided by providing more pathways to winning the presidency
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  138. If by "deep state" you mean the corrupt World Health Organisation to tell people it's racist to temporarily close international borders during a health crisis then I agree. The corrupt government of China did coverup the outbreak and did allow it to spread around the world by blocking travel from Wuhan domestically, but allowing international flights. But I don't think America's government bureaucracy (also called the "deep state") colluded with China or wanted the virus to spread. They were mostly incompetent, but closing the border early was a good move
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  139. It pretty remarkable how powerful China's protectionism strategy is: For businesses that heavily depend on "network effects" (like PayPal, and social media companies like Facebook, Reddit etc), the playbook is to completely block the foreign firm using regulation and the Great Firewall of China, then locally develop a product that fits the niche. For businesses with difficult-to-master technology, the playbook is to promise great riches but block foreign companies from setting up wholly-owned subsidiaries, instead offering market access only through a joint venture with a domestic Chinese firm. Then all valuable technology, expertise, trademarks and intellectual property are transferred to the local firm before the foreign firm is blocked from the market. We'll see if a Biden administration will push for World Trade Organization reform to ensure equal market access. Also it's still an open question whether domestic Chinese firms can compete in the global economy if faced with international competitive pressure. In Japan, Amazon's local subsidiary is pretty dominant alongside Japan's domestic e-commerce website Rakuten.
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  140.  @scottmanley  Do a video on Falcon X and Falcon XX with abandoned Merlin 2 engines!
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  141. Andrew Hastie is a backbencher who acts like he's a cabinet member. I fully support what he's doing, and hopefully he'll be recognised as a very high achieving MP and continue to great work in the defence and foreign affairs areas
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  142. What was the name of the documentary?
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  143. The most recent Pew Research poll is extremely clear: 81% of Australians hold unfavorable views on China. Australians increasingly see that the government of China is hostile, unreliable and childish. That country is also soon heading into demographic catastrophe due to 35 years of Deng Xiaoping's One Child Policy. Australia needs to find new markets and rely less on China economically. We should proverbially "Sell mutton to the Hindus, and beef to the Muslims" -- to places like Bangladesh, Indonesia, Africa, India and Middle East. There are billions of aspirational middle-class consumers who can afford our agricultural produce and education, so let's start improving trade relations with them. Australia's prosperity in the 2020s and beyond relies on seeking alternatives to totalitarian China.
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  144. 2:53 7 great temples? Sounds likes The Legend of Zelda. I can't find any reference that Tofukuji is part of 7 temples other than the "Five Mountain" temple concept: 5 in Kyoto (Kyoto Gozan) and 5 in Kamakura, Kanagawa.
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  145. I hope Victoria's Belt and Road agreement is investigated by IBAC (Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission) as similar agreements elsewhere involve kickbacks and bribery. Never forget Andrew Robb's $880,000 "revolving door corruption" to be a "consultant" with no actual responsibilities after he passed the China-Aus Free Trade Agreement. CCP corruption in Australia is alive and well and it's completely irresponsible to think otherwise.
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  146. Just throwing this topic idea out: Taiwan and population demographics (which is related to fertility rate and immigration). Taiwan didn't have the One Child Policy, but they have birth rates similar to Japan/South Korea/Singapore. Will the country grow old like Japan? Taiwan is the most socially progressive nation is Asia (eg, legalized same-sex marriage). If there's any nation that might throw open their doors to Australia-level of educated migrants (other than maybe Singapore) I feel like it would be Taiwan. Is Taiwan going to sleep walk its way off demographic cliff like the rest of Asia?
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  147.  @Asianometry  No, in the geopolitical climate from 2015 through December 2020, they would absolutely 100% block it. Consider that in November 2019, the Australian government blocked Lion Dairy (then owned by Japanese beverage company Kirin) from being bought by the Chinese company Mengniu Dairy. The most interesting thing about this decision was that it was given the greenlight from Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board (the equivalent to CFIUS), our competition regulator (the ACCC: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) and recommended by Treasury. But the deal was reportedly (and somewhat controversially) vetoed by the Treasurer for reasons that were never made public. The direct economic cost of this strategy is actually very low: only 5% of Australia's foreign investment is from China. Also politically, it's increasingly popular to block Chinese firms from buying Australia's assets. I highly recommend Pew Research's article "Unfavorable Views of China Reach Historic Highs in Many Countries". More recently, since Australia called for an independent inquiry into the origins of the pandemic, China has stopped meeting with Australian diplomats, issued a list of "14 demands" through its embassy, and started arbitrarily blocking Australia's lucrative exports of coal/wine/barley/lobster/etc under various pretenses such as illegal subsidies and supposed quality issues. This has culminated in Australia taking China to the World Trade Organization for arbitration. There's some speculation that Australia's new trade minister might change strategy to placate the Chinese Communist Party. But I highly doubt such a change would ever involve approving an Atlassian sale: the software is used for project management in major companies around the world. Confluence Wiki, JIRA task tracker and (especially) BitBucket naturally contain trade secrets, business strategy, source code / blueprints, and more. It's very important to issue patches for security vulnerabilities in software used at major companies WITHOUT representatives of the Chinese Communist Party being involved in the process. Also, Atlassian has major offices in the US and is traded on a US stock exchange, so CFIUS rules apply and will definitely block any sale for the previously mentioned reasons.
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  148. 4:49 For those interested video is titled "TSMC is more than just Taiwan", direct link below
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  149. 16:22 Can we please have all those short "Planet America Archive" videos uploaded to a separate playlist or YouTube Channel? Those 5 minute snippets of US history are really well edited, and you've been making them for 10 years already. I want to binge watch all of them! Chas, please give ABC managing director David Anderson (and ABC chair Ita Buttrose) a phone call on my behalf. AND DON'T STOP CALLING THEM UNTIL THEY APPROVE! :) I will keep posting this message on every new video until the playlist becomes available! :)
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  150. 2:38 Video is titled "The Coypus (Nutria) of Prague". Here's a direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz3RlC4RxUc
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  151. The *CCP should never have been allowed anywhere near the contract on the first place
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  152. If you are interested, ABC (American-Born Chinese) is a political term that has been amplified by China's state media. It indicates somebody is always Chinese first-and-foremost that happens to be American born -- even if they have lived their whole life in America. The more generic term uses heritage-nationality (eg, Chinese-American). This distinction is important given the CCP's United Front Work Department activities attempting to switch the allegiances of all ethnically Chinese people regardless of their nationality and how little connection they have to China. Though of course, you are free to use whatever term you like.
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  153. Sounds like Donald Trump classic belief: the human body has a fixed amount of energy that exercise only depletes 😅
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  154. Puppet regime comedy is improving. This is pretty good
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  155. I have confirmed with Asianometry that this was a typo. It's 14km (8.7 miles), not 140km (87 miles). The description and transcript has been updated. The number comes from a book: "Over 1973-4, the new disk brake was tested in wind tunnels and in drops from helicopters and aircraft from altitudes as high as 14,000 m. The spacecraft model was also dropped onto simulated Venusian soil made from foam concrete." (from the book "Russian Planetary Exploration History, Development, Legacy and Prospects: by Brian Harvey).
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  156.  @gallasebiyo4427  But TSMC is not even a household name, because it's business-to-business. Much more well known are the Taiwanese consumer brands like ASUS, Acer and Giant Bicycles. I'd also argue that Foxconn (the manufacturer for Apple and many other companies), MediaTek (computer chips), Gigabyte and MSI (the computer motherboard maker) are also pretty well known. At least for anybody who follows technology.
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  157. This is such a great and underrated channel. If you are fascinated by Hanzi/Kanji etymology, you may be interested in A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters by Kenneth Henshall. It provides a huge degree of etymological depth for the average Japanese language learner. I have long since given up my Japanese studies, but it was/is fascinating!
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  158. I don't knock any Taiwanese engineer for moving to China to make 2 or 3 times higher salary: as long as they're not any stealing trade secrets from their prior employer I see it as completely fair game. As this video suggests, most of these semiconductors fabs in China aren't actually making any money (and have no prospect of making money) but are instead propped up by billions of dollars of investment capital. This is by itself not a bad thing: Silicon Valley is fueled by ample investment capital for high risk projects and moonshots. But in China's case the money is coming from Local Government Financing Vehicles rather than private VC money. The Chinese Communist Party is encouraging provincial governments to take out massive loans and put the money into these high risk ventures run by princelings (children of Chinese Communist Party elites, like Jiang Mianheng). Taiwanese engineers can and should go to China, do their jobs to the best of their ability, and earn billions of dollars of this "dumb money" (as they have already been doing for decades). The companies they work for in China will eventually go out of business (due to princeling management and American sanctions), at which point the Taiwanese engineers can move back to Taiwan and go work for better managed companies like TSMC. It's unfortunate the regular people of China will be left with the bill, but that's the responsibility of China's government and the management of the companies that are hiring. Not the random Taiwanese engineer who is hired and goes to China to do their job to the best of their abilities.
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  159. The editing of Mythbusters is a meme at this point. Remember that "Mythbusters truck crash test wait for it" meme? There's even a subreddit for Streamlined Mythbusters edits that has went back and reedited the entire show to focus on content than that constant low-attention span context-switching that the official Mythbusters show always does.
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  160. Australia needs to diversify it's exports. Proverbially sell beef to the Muslims and mutton to the Hindus, and proportionally less pork to the Chinese. The Middle East and India (and surrounding populous countries like Bangladesh) are great long-term markets. Reduce our reliance on China!
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  161. The CCP problem was the fault of both sides of United States politics.. It was Nixon that helped create the CCP problem. and George Bush Senior didn't let the Tiananmen Square Massacre affect the relationship. Bill Clinton supported China's ascension to the World Trade Organization. The blame for creating a wealthy and powerful CCP monster rests on both sides of politics over decades. The strategy of economic engagement with the CCP has failed spectacularly. The CCP must face tariffs and sanctions for Uygher internment and Tibetan abuse (just as bad as Uyghers but no one talks about it), forced organ harvesting and now ignoring it's international obligations (Hong Kong handover via the Sino–British Joint Declaration which is a binding international treaty). We empowered the CCP through our collective greed (both sides of politics). Now it's time to destroy the CCP.
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  162. It's very interesting that more than 50% of bitcoin mining happens in China (I've seen some estimates that are closer to 75%), by enterprising private individuals but ultimately under the jurisdiction of the government like everything else in China. While mining obviously generates bitcoin, any transaction on bitcoin forfeits a transaction fee that is transferred to whichever miner verifies the transaction first. Effectively all bitcoin transactions transfers a small amount of wealth to China: buying bitcoin means you're buying into an ecosystem controlled by China, the same as if you bought a Huawei phone. Additionally, in blockchain based systems you just need to control more than 50% of the mining to be able to reverse transactions so it's conceivable that China could one day do a "51% attack".
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  163. Just your daily reminder to buy local. And when that's not possible Buy ABC (Anywhere But China).
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  164. 10:35 Okami is actually a Playstation 2 port by the way
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  165.  @MarkWTK  2:39 "Shao Kahn" is a character from the video game series "Mortal Kombat", and is the the emperor of "Outworld". And "ripped" is slang for abdominal muscles. In his spare time, he also co-founded Amperex Technology Limited, the battery manufacturer.
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  166. In case you're not aware, this is the EIGHTEENTH video in this channel's TSMC coverage. Here's the entire playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKtxx9TnH76SRC7ZbOu2Nsg5mC72fy-GZ
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  167. For sure. At least the baby bonds policy is not race-based but income-based. So it would benefit poor whites and poor Asians too, and not benefit already well-off people who happen to be black. All those "reparations for slavery" advocates promote race-based politics, when we should look at things from "removing systemic intergenerational disadvantage" regardless of race. I'd much rather see improvements to bad school districts, especially around providing shelter and food security. Also providing the ability to discharge student loans through bankruptcy will put downward pressure on the endless credit that inflates higher education prices. There are better policies than 'baby bonds' as described in this video.
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  168. It's true he confused price and cost. I hope people checkout my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" for a rebuttal on this video. There's some insightful debate in the comments, my video tries to be impartial and unbiased, I'll let viewers judge for themselves and debate in the comments!
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  169. Fighting to keep his approval numbers above the inflation rate. Haha nice one!
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  170. Even without separating the internet using the Great Firewall of China, the language barrier continues to be a big barrier. Most English speakers who visit Facebook, YouTube or Reddit will only speak to other English speakers and rarely consume any content in eg, Korean, Spanish, or Hindi (other than cultural exports like Gangnam Style, Despacito and possibly, the Macarena).
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  171. I'm very comfortable that the United States and Taiwanese governments will tend to block the sale of advanced semiconductor companies to China. I'm a bit less confident about the South Korean and Japanese governments.
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  172. Solar panels are basically just a pure sheet of silicon (ie, sand) with some impurities (dopants). They produce some electricity when light hits them. In other words there's no computer that can be hacked in a solar panels.
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  173. ​ @WasatchWind  The video was available on Patreon Early Access for a month and when "unlisted" YouTube videos are made public the release date gets reset but all the comments remain.
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  174. This video is about the social costs of the mismatch between supply/demand. A 4 year degree in Taiwan is presumably pretty affordable compared to the US, so it's less of a big deal if the degree isn't utilized. On this topic, Peter Thiel has a lot of interesting things to say on this topic (search keywords "Peter Thiel" and "higher education bubble"). He sees as a world that no longer innovates outside of computer technology, and believes that US society requires (in my words) constant radical innovation otherwise it falls into chaos. I should mention a degree shouldn't be about the credential giving you an advantage other people, but about how those skills and knowledge can be leveraged to produce economic value. There are so many problems in the world that only radical innovation can solve. It's great for higher education to be widely accessible. Imagine how much further we would be if every person living in poverty in eg, Africa/India/Myannmar/etc had an advanced STEM (Science/Technology/Engineering/Mathematics) degrees and had the right incentives to eg, cure aging for all humanity and hopefully not eg, developing chemical/biological/nuclear weapons.
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  175. Is there a YouTube playlist of the John Barron narrated "Lessons from History" clip like the one at 16:14? I usually find them a very fascinating part of the show. After 10 years there's probably 100+ of these well edited clips that have been made, mostly about the history of presidential primaries in a random US state. I'd like to watch them all. Please create a YouTube playlist!
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  176.  @jamesinator100  Not true. Samsung have moved all smartphone manufacturing outside of China. Mostly to Vietnam (but they also make things for the local market in India, Indonesia, Brazil and high-end stuff in South Korea).
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  177. If anybody is interested, Singapore is supposedly not well-suited to wind power, with low-to-intermittent wind speeds (2 meters per second) where commercial turbines supposedly operate at 4.5 meters per second. Also the waters around Singapore are busy shipping lanes, so there supposedly aren't actually that many places to put the wind turbines.
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  178.  @astarrfitness5565  For clothing it's even easier to find stuff that's made in outside China in eg, Bangladesh. It's due to the wages in China rising to the point where it's increasingly uneconomical to make things in China. This trend started happening before Trump's tariffs, and even before Xi Jinping took power and caused China to seen as an unreliable international pariah.
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  179. This is such a great interview. Keep bringing on expert academics like this Michael Waller guy. They have interesting and informative viewpoints that we don't often hear (maybe because their amazing work is hidden deep inside obscure academic journals). Also Epoch Times please note I saw a YouTube ad for the officially licensed Game of Thrones video game, the URL it was hosted on was "uuzu.com". I looked into it and UUZU Games is a Shanghai based games company. It' only a web-browser game so risks aren't that great in this case. Still, Epoch Times please be very careful of YouTube advertisements encouraging your viewers to download and install spyware from China based companies. We all know what the CCP is like, so we need to protect any less technically inclined viewers.
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  180. 23:52 "Metals don't attract other metals. You need a magnet to do that". I know you're responding to a kook, but that's still a completely incorrect statement: there are plenty of metals are permanent magnets ("ferromagnetism").
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  181. I hope they just take the video down and reupload. I just found this channel and just started the video but am for sure no expert in the 1945 borders of Eastern Europe, with all its now non-existent countries like East Germany, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and even the Soviet Union. So maps are always helpful!
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  182. Well the United States' "nuclear option" is to treat Hong Kong the same as any other city in China. While Hong Kong contributes only 3% of China's GDP it's still very important to China's financial system. It will be sad day for the people of China and Hong Kong if the government of China forces the world to financially isolate it, causing massive devastating consequences for China's economy. Before Xi Jinping China understood the importance of Hong Kong to China's strategic objectives like getting Taiwan to accept 1 country 2 systems. Pity the Chinese Communist Party such a corrupt org it already had THREE dictators for life in the past 50 years (Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and Xi Jinping)! Hopefully the people of China will be released out from their corrupt government!
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  183. Thanks for the very thorough mini-documentary. I have never heard of controversy around this Ractopamine animal feed additive. Also I have never heard of this United Nations food safety standards body, the "Codex Alimentarius Commission" (if anybody from the United Nations is reading, here's a better name: "UN Food Standards Authority"). Sounds like I need to start watching those industrial agriculture documentaries on Netflix/CuriosityStream or wherever. Now, from your mini-documentary it sounds like there is concern about the quality of the science coming out of the UN commission, due to economic pressure/influence from "big agriculture" firms via the United States government. My advice to Taiwanese politicians and Taiwanese voters is to create a commission of local pre-eminent scientists to independently analyse the science of such questions, release public reports and advise the government. The goal of such a commission would NOT be to covertly implement non-tariff barriers to protect Taiwan's domestic pork industry, but to be above the political partisanship and be the trusted and respected independent arbiter tasked with protecting public health. If American trade negotiators don't like that, then let them complain and ignore them. Taiwan is a sovereign, independent country. The country should only ever make food safety decisions based in science of public health, not because foreign free-trade negotiators were twisting your arm.
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  184. Avoid buying Made in China. There are many alternatives with supply chains moving to Vietnam, India and elsewhere. Buy local where possible but if it's not possible remember Buy ABC: Anywhere But China.
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  185. Kree Jaffa!
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  186. Australia should decrease it's relative reliance on China by find new export markets. We should proverbially "sell mutton to the Hindus and beef to the Muslims" (including Indonesia/Malaysia/North Africa/Bangladesh/Middle East). And we should not be intimidated by China having tantrums when we debate the CCP's infiltration/interference activities, or when we politely ask for a virus inquiry.
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  187. He also works as a software engineer at Apple on video codecs if I recall correctly. So it makes sense he has a great understanding of the pipeline from camera sensors to digital images, and the algorithms used to do the processing.
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  188. 8:16 By the way, I always pronounced this "Zie Links" (and so do colleagues of mine). The CEO and Bloomberg both say "Zie links": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNDgZVm5aDg
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  189. Yeah developing reusability cost SpaceX $1 billion, and as best I can tell that money was their own (and investment capital) rather than from taxpayers. And interestingly enough, a lot of Falcon 9's investments in reusability were actually done "for free": testing re-entry and landing after stage separation on commercial missions. But the Falcon 9's sticker price before reusability is a third of its next closest competitor the Ariane 5, and after reusability the costs are very low. Please help fight misinformation by checking out my video titled 'SpaceX Unbusted' for further analysis! :)
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  190. Respect is earned. You don't need to respect any totalitarian dictatorship, let alone the Chinese Communist Party which constantly bullies and coerces every neighbor and trade partner it has.
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  191. 21:06 I am still in awe that a company that builds apartments also makes *electric cars*
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  192. In case people watching didn't realize, this is an old episode (throwback). There's no mentions of the COVID pandemic, but mentions of now-former Trump team members Rex Tillerson and Jim Mattis. The title should have [2017] added at the end, to make it more clear that it's an old episode
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  193. We should diversify our export markets. Proverbially "selling mutton to the Hindus and beef to the Muslims" (including Indonesia/North Africa/Bangladesh/Middle East). There's several billions of customers in emerging markets with little arable land who need food security (as well as education and minerals). They're not as unreliable and untrustworthy as China. Also they're less of a looming demographic catastrophe than China. Never again should China be able to threaten to destroy Australia's economy because we simply asked for an independent investigation into the origins of the largest virus pandemic in one hundred years.
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  194. The question is whether the short-term cash injection outweighs the long-term threat of transferring the expertise to China. If SMIC reaches parity with TSMC in the next few years based on transferred expertise, the decision will look very bad in hindsight. But if China is unable to master the technology and continues to spend tens of billions with little to show for it (like HSMC -- Hongxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) then it was a good decision. Side note: SMIC was just added to the Entity List. This may prevent the company from importing ASML equipment, killing their ambitions.
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  195. Viewers may have heard of Gavin Menzies book "1421: The Year China Discovered the World", which theorizes Zheng He visited the Americas (pre-Columbus) and his vice admiral Hong Bao visited Australia and just of the coast of Antarctica. Scientific inquiry of whether or not the Taiwanese aboriginals (Polynesian heritage) settled all of Polynesia and Australia is a good thing, but the spread of false historical narrative like Menzies, and the sudden appearance of maps purportedly date from hundreds of years ago showing the landmass of Australian and Antarctica may form the basis of territorial claims over not just Australia, but also Antarctica. Just something for clear-eyed Asianometry viewers to keep an eye out for.
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  196. Buy local, and when that's not possible buy ABC (Anywhere But China). More factories are moving out of China. The best example I know is Samsung which no longer manufactures any smartphones in China. I will do more research about other suppliers.
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  197. Cool, now re-unify with Austria.. And France! Just kidding
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  198. 6:25 Randomly dropping that pronunciation of Shanxi 山西 😂💯 💯
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  199. Repealing the California gold rush-era Chinese Exclusion Act in 1943 was a good start, but by many accounts the US immigration system today continues to be very broken in other ways and it's important we try to understand how to try and make the next hundred years better. Many people in United States (including elected representatives) often suggest the US should move to a "points-based" immigration system like Canada and Australia, where clearly defined criteria (including English language skills, educational attainment, age and strategic national priority skillsets) which supposedly provides a very fair and transparent way for the government to specify exactly the kinds of immigrants who should be given a pathway citizenship (without any consideration of national origin). I'm not necessarily advocating for (or against) the United States to adopt points-based immigration system, just pointing out there's a lot of support for the idea.
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  200. 4:33 I am skeptical of the claims that 1975's Typhoon Nina caused a "one-in-10,000-year flood" along the Ru River and Hong River region. That's a very long time for accurate historical records to survive in oral and written history. It far easier for the population to accept that the Banqiao Dam failed after just 24 years when people say it was "built to withstand a one-in-1,000-year flood but it failed during a one-in-10,000-year flood". This was China during the Cultural Revolution. I'm sure the dam faced poor maintenance and mismanaged water release over a much longer period of time which contributed greatly to its collapse.
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  201. 29:20 Can we have a YouTube channel called "Planet America Archives"?
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  202. For those interested, that project is called "Asian Renewable Energy Hub" and was originally another submarine power cable project (from Pilbara, Western Australia not central Northern Territory)
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  203. Well the people who send back Australian medical supplies worked for companies based in China and were doing in from orders of head office. The Chinese Communist Party wants to label all criticism of it as racism. We need to be more nuanced and careful while as we undo the massive damage that the Chinese Communist Party has wreaked on the world.
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  204. My first smartphone back in the early 2010s had a MediaTek chip in it (MT6575). It had pretty good performance for its era. There were hundreds of different white-label versions of the same reference design, each competing with each other on price and by selecting slightly different components for better battery capacity/RAM/storage/camera etc. The worst part of using a Chinese smartphone was being forced to use the white-label brand's custom modified Android version, complete with all the non-removable Chinese spyware like AdUps: you were stuck with the untrusted vendor's spyware riddled operating system. Advanced users who re-install their operating systems enjoyed very little support from the broader custom ROM community, and no support from the more trusted custom ROMs such as LineageOS (formerly named CyanogenMod). Also the tablet/smartphone manufacturing quality was pretty bad, at least in those days: the microphone and headphone jack broke on that phone, and a similar era tablet had bad overheating and stability issues. That's why I swore off the cheap Chinese white-label brands that MediaTek chips tend find their way into. This was way before the current human-rights situation came to light and modern "boycott China" movement starting gathering momentum. After the subsequent death of the Google's excellent Nexus line, these days I recommend certain Samsung Galaxy M smartphone models. They are very reasonably priced, assembled in Vietnam rather than China (which is better for human-rights), have excellent screen quality if you choose the right model according to the specifications, have exceptionally great battery life (again, if you choose the right model according to the specifications), they get regular security updates from Samsung, and don't have Chinese spyware (but unfortunately have other kinds of bloatware from Samsung). The M series is basically filling the niche that Xiaomi/Oppo/Vivo and the other internationally successful Chinese smartphone brands have been doing quite successfully: great bang-for-buck mid-range phones.
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  205. And remember to call out anybody who makes this about Chinese people not the Chinese Communist Party. Don't allow the CCP to label all criticism as racism.
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  206. The biggest macro-economic level that Japan can pull any time is the immigration tap. It would solve all their shrinking labor force problems very quickly, and potentially fix their demographic problems if they do a good job encouraging births and assimilating all new arrivals and their children. But unlike the West, Japan didn't have mass migration in the last few hundred years so is not an immigrant nation: they have strong cultural and racial aversions to this. But the immigration doesn't even have to be from the Middle East and Africa. It could be from East and South East Asia (from Laos to the Philippines). But Japan would rather see its population fall to 60 million people than become an immigrant nation. Which is fine -- that's their decision to make. It's just that it means the country will become increasingly economically irrelevant as time goes on (while the demographic of many western countries continues to be much healthier)
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  207. During the first Cold War, India was a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement -- a grouping of countries that were not aligned to the Soviet Union or the Free World. It was of great advantage to China to have India continue to be strategically neutral, to have limited ability to project military power and buy what military equipment they do from regional partner Russia (rather than improving the unit economics of the US military-industrial complex). Even before the most recent border clashes India is moving sharply closer to the United States security sphere. They've rebooted the Quad (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue) between Australia, India, Japan and the US. Surely pushing India to further align itself to the West (including South Korea, Japan and Taiwan) in not the best interests of China? The current leadership in China seem very short sighted. The strategic value of an neutral/non-aligned India seems extremely valuable.
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  208. Your video refers to SMIC and HSMC, who are working on cutting edge semiconductor fabs used to make CPUs and GPUs. I'm not an electrical engineer. Aren't these not the only type of semiconductor fabrication plants that exist? But there are other classes of silicon chips such as NAND flash memory (used in USB sticks and SD cards etc) and RAM memory modules (DRAMs). I believe these electronic components tend to be more of a fungible commodity, and are generally of lower value (but still advanced manufacturing). I may be wrong on this, but aren't China's semiconductor fab facilities for flash memory and RAM already internationally competitive (from a value for money perspective)? A quick Google search found Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. (YMTC) and ChangXin Memory Technologies Inc (CXMT). A lot of the coverage is from Chinese state-backed propaganda sources like Caixin Global and South China Morning Post, and I haven't looked into these companies further yet, but they may be producing internationally competitive chips rather than merely being state-subsidized zombie companies for the government of China's never ending corruption tinged attempts to move up the electronics manufacturing value chain.
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  209. This is a good Thunderf00t video, unlike his nonsensical SpaceX "takedowns".
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  210. 31:40 Wow you managed to organize an interview with John Bolton? That's pretty cool
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  211. That's a huge simplification: it was the China-backed North Vietnamese against the American-backed South Vietnamese (a similar to the situation in the Korean War). Sadly it took only a years for Deng Xiaoping to turn around and invade Vietnam :/
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  212. This video is full of false information to the point of misinformation. Lookup my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" to learn more!
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  213. Older people tend to call it the Communist Party of China (which is technically how that organisation refers to itself as far as I understand). Doesn't really matter if you call it the CCP or CPC. What matters is it's a murderous totalitarian dictatorship which controls a significant fraction of humanity and has no consent of its governed due to its lack of free elections.
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  214. Is there a YouTube playlist of the John Barron narrated history video like the one at 26:36? I find them a very fascinating part of the show. After 10 years there's probably 100+ of these well edited clips that have been made and I want to binge them. (I will keep posting this comment on every Planet America video until somebody creates a YouTube playlist)
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  215. It will be very sad if it's cut due the ABC budget cuts / funding shortfall. I kind of expect this Fireside Chat show to be cut but the main Planet America show to stay. It's sad because both series play an important part in Australian democracy by helping us better understanding America and the ANZUS alliance which our collective security so heavily depends.
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  216. Comparisons between Space Shuttle refurbishment costs are not relevant. Please checkout my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" which compares the expendable Falcon 9 to its main commercial competitor the Ariane 5, and does a more accurate calculation of the economics of reusability.
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  217. Sam Kekovich should start doing a "Have Aussie lobster and wine for Christmas lunch" ad campaign
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  218.  @Asianometry  Yeah that's fair enough. I usually wouldn't be so pedantic but this American economic divide (and the feeling of being left behind) has caused so much political upheaval in recent years
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  219. ​ @N_g_er  Asianometry's videos on India get pretty big view counts from India. See the comments on any video covering India, eg India's Semiconductor Failure is currently the fourth most popular video on this channel with 1.5 million views (after 2 Soviet and 1 Japan video) -- ie beats out any TSMC or China video. So there is a big audience there
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  220.  @joebloggs9738  The very high iron ore price won't last forever. But yes, Australia's economy is doing amazingly well despite China's bullying trade sanctions against lobster/barley/wine/etc. China can't sanction iron ore because it will actually hurt their economic growth. But they are trying to to find alternative supply in Africa and Brazil. Best of luck to them! There's a reason they buy so much from Australia. The strong economy gives the country some more breathing room to keep diversifying away from China!
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  221. ​ @Asianometry  I agree it's a distant possibility. SMIC is only sanctioned because some end-users are supposed the military. If warming ties means other fabs based in China don't get sanctioned then China stands some chance. According to media reports SMIC already has built a 14nm finFET fabs. I don't know their yields, or how their process compares to Samsung, TSMC and Intel's versions but it would appear that they are catching up (pre-sanctions). Xi Jinping's China is pursuing an import substitution strategy. They see that they spend more on imported semiconductors that they do on importing oil. To paraphrase what you have said in a previous video: "In semiconductors, either you're in the lead, or you suck". I didn't intend this comment to be preachy or ideological, but I really hope the free world think very carefully about the dangers of a totalitarian surveillance state becoming the world leader in THE fundamental building block of modern technology.
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  222. From my reading of the video, John Kerry didn't say "Ukraine Is a Diversion From the Climate Crisis". Nothing close. It's pure editorializing.
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  223. Interestingly enough the Chinese Communist Party has been using its state media to amplify concepts like ABC ('American-Born Chinese') to try and make ethnically Chinese diaspora communities see themselves as owing allegiance to China first and foremost (no matter where they choose to live their lives, and how little connection to China they may have). It's all part of the China's international political interference and infiltration bureau called the "United Front Work Department". We owe it to our ethnically Chinese communities to uncover and dismantle China's covert United Front interference organisations that are operating within our borders. Germany and the rest of Europe have been VERY slow to understand the issue compared to places like Australia, but at least you guys are starting to understand this systematic threat.
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  224. You should probably say something like 'in over 500 years' because otherwise you're implying that the country was "on track" when it was a slave state
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  225. 4:32 "The Rise, Fall and Rise of Hyundai Group": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUUbgS6603w
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  226. 3:20 Interesting pronunciation of Tiananmen. (though in English everybody pronounces way different to the original language eg, Genghis Khan as "Gen-gis Karn" instead of "Chingus Harn")
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  227. The CSIS link above does not contain the SpaceX's advertised Falcon 9 reused priced ($50 million for 15,600kg to low Earth orbit). EDIT: Correction. As Fred Bloggs points out below, the $50 million figure referenced in my previous sentence is for an expendable relaunch, thus launching 22,800kg, not 15,600kg. The number came from a press conference in 2018 where they apparently were talking about the Block 4's first reflight, all of which were expended at the time. The economics of reusability is pushing the Falcon 9's costs to $1,200/kg in 2021 dollars, given they have almost demonstrated 10 flights. This is a halving of cost compared to the expendable price of $2,600/kg to low Earth orbit. The misconceptions and misinformation in this video annoyed me so much I created a video titled "SpaceX Unbusted". I hope people check my video out, because I do analysis that many reading this comment will be interested to hear :)
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  228. I'm liking the increased comedy in the captions
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  229. ​@King Lee I think China will eventually make 4nm chips, I expect it won't come soon enough to make a difference. But we can disagree though. Unlike constructing buildings, doing laboratory research, or even building space probes, large scale manufacturing of semi-conductors nodes using leading edge requires acquiring a lot of international equipment and expertise. And China is currently being blocked from the equipment (but not yet the expertise). I'll be very surprised if China is able to manufacture leading edge semiconductor nodes in the next 30 years. I should also mention that United States also does NOT have any leading edge semiconductor nodes.
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  230. Avoid buying Made in China in your own life when possible. Try to buy local first, but if that's not possible buy Made In Vietnam electronics (eg, Samsung smartphones) and clothes that are eg, Made in Bangladesh or Made in India. It's getting easier and easier!
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  231. I don't understand this. China got nuclear weapons in 1964, during Mao's reign. Did Mao's China have a 'no first use' policy? Mao famously thought nuclear war was a more extreme version of conventional warfare, and that China could lose half its population in nuclear annihilation (300 million people in those days) and still be victorious. Mao's cavalier view on the use of nuclear weapons contributed to the Sino-Soviet Split.
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  232. I can see the double standard, but the usual issue is there's a mass shooting in the United States and if it's a middle eastern guy it's terrorism but if it's a white guy it's mental health issues. I can see the double standard depending on circumstances though
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  233.  @davidmaglov  The inflammatory/clickbait title "Why China Can't Keep The Lights On" was my suggestion. The video was originally titled a more informative "China’s Energy Shortage Problem is a Coal Problem". But clickbait does well. I have also suggested an upcoming videos with inflammatory clickbait titles "Why Australia Can't Build Submarines", "How Nvidia Killed The Radeon Star" etc. The latter Nvidia title suggestion won't be used unfortunately :/
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  234. Northern Territory "eminent domain" powers which are stronger than other jurisdictions. Even without the reported 'national security' clause of the Port of Darwin 99-year lease agreement, the NT government likely has the powers to kick the Chinese Communist Party-controlled Landbridge Group out of one of Australia's most strategic ports (which happens to be right next to the US/Australia military base). It just requires political will and money. Don't worry about angering China since we're acting in Australia's national security interest.
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  235. Good job issuing a correction, you are correct to use megabits in the context of network speeds. One idea is to eg, make unlisted Youtube videos available for Patreon supporters to review 48 hours before releasing it to the public. Most of the time you'll be able to make the video public 48 hours later without any changes by using the YouTube scheduling function.
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  236. Makes a lot of sense for China to switch of the internet connection for many people to try covering things up. Then again, it's better to have the population in lockdown with enough entertainment to stay satiated.
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  237. I also like 'General Atomics' and 'Industrial Light and Magic'
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  238. Here's an idea: the current EV tax credit has an MSRP price cap of 80k for vans, SUVs and trucks, 55k for sedans and for used vehicles 25k. Set the price cap much lower to encourage companies to make lower cost EVs instead of having tax payers subsidize luxury vehicles.
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  239. China's growth is built on unsustainable debt. Keep selling iron ore to China until the gravy train ends. We still need to find new markets as soon as possible because (like it or not) in the 2030s the middle income trap is gonna hit China like a freight train.
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  240. Great work! I'm suprised that the government of China even allowed the British to be the ones who demolished the city. The propaganda value of "look how poorly the British ruled over you" seems pretty large.
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  241. 7:35 The 750,000 figure you cite for Australia is those born in Hong Kong and mainland China, but there's actually ~1.2 million people with Chinese heritage. (EDIT: I see you're talking about 2011 figures -- you're probably correct on those numbers then). As many reading may know, like the United States, Australia has a long and storied history of anti-Asian racism -- from way back in the 1800s "gold rush" era to the present day. It was particularly pronounced during the 1990s with an anti-immigration 'One Nation Party' led by a woman named Pauline Hanson who made highly controversial statements like "I believe we are in danger of being swamped by Asians. They have their own culture and religion, form ghettos and do not assimilate". Australia is widely considered an immigration success story, experiencing rapid population growth due to new migrants, but in the present day there's some growing issues. Most alarmingly it's been discovered that the Chinese Communist Party's political interference and infiltration bureau called the United Front Work Department is attempting to switch the allegiances of all ethnically Chinese people around the world -- regardless of their nationality and how little connection they have to China. In 2017, the then-head of China's security services (Meng Jianzhu) threatened Australian politicians that they would "instruct" the Chinese-Australian community to vote against one side of politics if they don't support passing a law (the Australia-China extradition treaty). Since then there's been many instances of Chinese government infiltration and intimidation against the Chinese-Australian community, and the broader society. It's very worrying the growing use of the term "ABC" (meaning American-Born Chinese or Australian-Born Chinese) that is often amplified by China's state media to refer to people who have lived their whole life in Australia or America who happen to be ethnically Chinese. This kind of thing is happening in all the Chinese diaspora communities around the world, but Australia just happens to be more aware of it. It will take a lot of effort to remove this political interference and infiltration, but it's obviously of utmost importance.
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  242.  M.O.K.  SpaceX cofounder Tom Mueller worked at TRW for decades designing, building and testing rocket engines on the government's dime (none of which ever flew because Old Space are dinosaurs). The skills he learned at TRW, and at the Reaction Research Society amateur rocketry club built his liquid fueled rocketry skills which he applied to great effect at SpaceX. Also the original turbopump for the Merlin 1A engine used on the Falcon 1 first stage was very similar to NASA's Fastrac engine design (official technology transfer) The skills and experiences of an expert workforce gained from decades of experience from previous employers can't realistically be called technology transfer, but I'd argue that Fastrac engine and NASA's involvement on the Dragon capsule (I believe including SpaceX's PICA-X ablative heatshields) can definitely be called tech transfer from the public sector. But the sanctions argument is completely different. The sanctions are because the commercial space industry will fund China's military. But yes, the same argument can be said that buying a SpaceX launch helps subsidize the United States launching of National Reconnaissance Office satellites by increasing SpaceX's launch cadence etc
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  243. Here's a direct link to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKtxx9TnH76SRC7ZbOu2Nsg5mC72fy-GZ
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  244. 2003 West, Texas explosion: 240 tons of AN. 2015 Tianjin, China explosion: 800 tons of AN 2020 Beirut, Lebanon explosion: 2750 tons of AN Meanwhile in Newcastle, Australia there is 12,000 metric tons of AN being stored just 3 kilometres from the central business district O_O They should really start moving fertilizer storage further away from populated areas.
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  245. You're right that SpaceX say the Falcon 9 doesn't have the margin to achieve second stage reuse while still putting useful payload to orbit, and that this is what Starship was intended for. I have created a short and sweet video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" that explains why this video is bordering on outright misinformation. I hope people checkout. Especially those that think Elon Musk and SpaceX are fraudsters.
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  246. I'm sure overcharging Chinese taxpayers for launching military satellites will be a very profitable niche -- it's what SpaceX and United Launch Alliance (Boeing/Lockheed joint venture) already do for American taxpayers :) One customer isn't enough. As with every industry, you need to achieve high launch cadence to bring costs down. As you mentioned in 1:56, China is locked out of the global commercial market: they are not allowed to launch satellites containing restricted US technology (which tends to be all of them), so instead China finances developing countries to launch their own indigenous satellites designs. This actually sounds like a Belt And Road type project by the way (I'm actually OK with that if there are no predatory loans, bribery and the delivered service is good quality). But there's no reason why the commercial providers can't do similar things. Admittedly most of the SpaceX launches which serve developing countries tend to be for private companies like AsiaSat, ABS and Thaicom rather than governments, but in 2018, SpaceX launched Bangladesh's first satellite Bangabandhu-1, which was manufactured by the French/Italian Thales Alenia Space. It's used for broadcasting satellite TV, and also (high latency geostationary) satellite internet.
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  247. Avoid buying made in China as much as possible!
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  248. 1:38 An English language documentary dubbed over the dude who was speaking English 😂
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  249. The United Kingdom aerospace manufacturer known as "Rolls-Royce" makes jet engines power many planes, such as the Airbus A380, Airbus A350 and likely China's upcoming plane: the Comac C929. Though the American companies like General Electric and Pratt & Whitney also make popular jet engines.
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  250. Huw Parkinson's videos are great but they do not belong on "ABC News In-depth". Maybe upload it to an "ABC Comedy" channel, with shows like The Checkout and Gruen Transfer.
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  251. ​ @glennmaillard9076  Oxymoron means two words are contradicting. Did you mean to write "tautology"? Tautology means two words are needlessly repeating eg. "Shout it out loud"
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  252.  @aave865  Good choice too! Links for the lazy: AC/DC - Thunderstruck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2AC41dglnM Men At Work - Down Under: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfR9iY5y94s
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  253. Yes this is misinformation. Checkout my video titled "SpaceX: UNBUSTED!! Debunking Thunderf00t" to see why.
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  254. 1:56 The dude sounds exactly like Bloomberg reporter Ashley Vance
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  255. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7yiqiu
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  256.  @andrewchen7417  Unification, not reunification. The PRC has never controlled Taiwan
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  257. Speaking of Politburo Standing Committee members, I'd like to hear your analysis on the 2012 Wukan Democracy Experiment, which was of course later crushed by tanks. It was spearheaded by Wang Yang who later joined the 7-member Politburo Standing Committee -- a position he still holds. It seems that before Xi Jinping consolidated power, there was some acceptance that China could start using democratic processes to resolve disputes at least at the village-level. Maintaining such an experiment doesn't risk the CCP's grip on power, but would pacify other countries from launching Trump-style trade wars because China "is headed in the right direction". Such experiments would also help pacify Hong Kong independence movement ("Look at Wukan. Don't worry, by 2047 China will be a democracy too!!"), and help keep China's system close to Taiwan's for eventual unification.
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  258. Yeah the sticker price for Falcon Heavy is $90 million reusable, and $150 million expendable. Chances are it's a reusable launch, given how powerful the Falcon Heavy is. As best I can tell, the vertical integration facility is a very tall building (about 300 feet / 100 meter) built on an active Air Force base to securely integrate very sensitive National Reconnaissance Office satellites. It's definitely dishonest to call it "a crane". Even with all that infrastructure, SpaceX is still price gouging the US government, so I don't see why he needs to falsify his numbers to make his point.. As I've mentioned on many comments here, I did cost analysis on my video titled 'SpaceX Unbusted' that I hope people checkout! :)
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  259. This is at Apple!? Around what year? Also may I ask what org? That sounds like a very bad culture
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  260. I 100% agree. If the United States government was only blocking access to one thing China could adapt and workaround the roadblocks. But the United States is leveraging its economic might and financial system with trade sanctions across the board (after the end of One Country Two Systems and the annexation of the South China Sea). I expect this new Cold War to outlive Xi Jinping -- who by the way is only 67 so likely has 25 more years as paramount leader left in him, like Deng Xiaoping.
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  261. Avoid buying made in China where possible!
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  262. This is an great video. From what I can tell until now Hikvision has not had a large "moat" (some technology that differentiates itself from competitors) other than its manufacturing scale and associated low prices. In contrast, Huawei builds smartphones and deploys its own compatible 5G infrastructure (at least in the absence of external sanctions). What's interesting to me is Hikvision's attempts to develop a moat based on AI + facial recognition. I'm sure it doesn't work too well yet but it might one day (the exact same technology is being tested on Uighers in Xinjiang). Until now it's been possible (for an increased price) to develop trusted IP camera system using components sourced and assembled without any Made In China involvement. For those who don't know, typically IP cameras are just an easily mountable package containing a digital camera module (plus optics) attached to a small motherboard (over eg, an internal high-speed bus such as USB) with a "system-on-chip" that does video compression and provides Ethernet and Wi-Fi networking. The software typically runs Linux, but just like other "Internet Of Things" devices the manufacturers have often unlikely to provide security updates. It would be great if sanctions against Hikvision lead to a more companies emerging with far fewer links to the Chinese Communist Party that produces IP cameras with guaranteed security updates for a competitive price.
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  263. The economics of reusability does makes sense, and SpaceX have demonstrated this. The marginal cost of relaunching a Falcon 9 is $15 million. That's $10 million for the second stage, $1 million for first stage refurbishment, $4 million for operations (including the operating ocean landing platforms, fuel etc). Plugging in the numbers reveals that after 10 flights per booster the cost to orbit is halved. I hope those reading this watch my video "SpaceX Unbusted" to help stop the spread of misinformation.
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  264. It's surprising that a well-informed guy like Thundef00t can be correct here (as best I can tell), but still chooses to be so incredibly intellectually dishonest when it comes to his SpaceX coverage.
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  265. 2:51 A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one
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  266. This video has more issues than that. Lookup my video titled "SpaceX: UNBUSTED!! Debunking Thunderf00t" for a complete analysis!
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  267. I should also mention that ASUS RoG (Republic of Gamers) equipment including the ASUS "Strix" brand are also really great in my experience. Yes they have the over-the-top design of most gaming hardware (multicolored LED lights etc), but they have been great bang-for-buck every time I've researched their stuff. For smartphones my advice is currently "just buy the mid-range Samsung phone with the 5000+ mAh battery and a very high resolution screen) but for computing equipment the advice of "just buy ASUS/ROG and Gigabyte hardware" is actually pretty reasonable.
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  268.  Hog Nutz  It happens your country too, Australia just has a better idea what the game the CCP is playing
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  269. 45:01 Wow the guy sounds exactly like Darth Vader (James Earl Jones)
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  270. 3:58 "According to the trial documents the Zhou's paid just $20 million US dollars for assets worth at least $15 billion US dollars". Haven't read the paper yet, but it's always worth mentioning that these figures comes from the Chinese Communist Party, and that any hard number or allegation made by the CCP should be taken with a massive grain of salt unless those specific claims are corroborated by independent sources.
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  271. Great interview. History will look back on dictators like Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko very poorly: leaders elected with democratic mandates who quickly become dictators. Very sad for the people of those countries. The European Union and United States should implement painful economic sanctions.
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  272. For those who don't know enough about SpaceX to analyze Thunderf00t's claims, I made a video titled "SpaceX: UNBUSTED!! Debunking Thunderf00t". Viewers can make up their own mind :)
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  273. Let him stay here. He's an ambassador, all he can do is make strongly worded statements. It's about giving the CCP enough rope to hang itself. Let him show Australia what the CCP is all about.
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  274. It's really bad. Australia stooping to the level of government of China copying the underhanded ways that MSS/PLA break the rules for commercial benefit. It's a bloody disgrace. Bernard Collaery is courageous whistleblower and Australia ought to do better.
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  275. ​ @Asianometry  I would have thought the United States would be willing and able to retain high margin manufacturing like building Boeing fuselages (and their General Electric jet engines), SpaceX rockets, Intel chips and cars. It's a good sign that the TSMC and Samsung are building leading edge factories to the United States (though outside of California). Analysis of those decisions might be a good video idea by the way. Your semiconductor fab videos tend to do very well.
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  276. The government of China has disinfected the Huanan wet market which unfortunately destroys a lot of evidence. If the Chinese Communist Party suspects a lab leak they will not hesitate to destroy any virus samples, and any associated documentation. The government of China vets all COVID-19 research papers published by scientists within its borders, making it very easy to selectively release research that fits the view that the government of China wants the world to believe. Knowing how the Chinese Communist Party works, expect them to publish a research paper that discovers a near identical virus occurring in the original animal reservoir, and claim with certainty that's where the virus originated. A wild animal reservoir of COVID-19 does not preclude a lab leak. Indeed given there is a lot of evidence of zero genetic engineering, a wild animal reservoir is likely. Even with an investigation that has access to scientists and research samples at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, we still may not achieve a high degree of certainty of whether the zoonosis of COVID-19 originally occurred in the lab or in the Huanan wet market.
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  277. Why cut the guy off mid sentence? Just upload a long-form interview and edit it down for TV broadcast.
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  278. As you say, the bondholders of Tsinghua Unigroup are China's provincial governments which themselves create debt through local government financing vehicles. China's crumbling ghost cities are also built upon this debt. Given this is public debt that's being defaulted upon, it's ultimately the regular people of China who end up paying for it (in lower pensions, less service delivery etc).
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  279. I am against further integrating a totalitarian surveillance state into the world economy. I would definitely like to see the United States and allies actively move towards a 'containment' policy (which was successfully used over decades to destroy the Soviet Union). I don't think completely decoupling China from the rest of the world is possible, but we can go a long way towards reducing our reliance on a totalitarian dictatorship without actually affecting our standard of living.
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  280. In the 1980s England was a innovator in the computer industry, teaching students with the indigenously developed BBC Micro computer, so it's funny (and perhaps expected) that Margaret Thatcher's controversial 1980s laissez-faire reforms of the United Kingdom's tightly-regulated post-World War 2 economy ended up mirroring the laissez-faire environment of Colonial Hong Kong and with both places undergoing brutal deindustrialization and eventually becoming overly reliant on the finance industry. Another parallel is that because of Brexit the finance industry is reportedly starting to leave London for Germany (and I'd expect, Switzerland). And thanks to Xi Jinping ending One Country Two Systems the finance industry is leaving Hong Kong for Singapore (for global companies), and Shanghai (for companies targeting the China market).
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  281. Most underrated semiconductor YouTube channel. Most underrated China analysis YouTube channel. Most underrated Asia business YouTube channel. The list goes on...
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  282. Both our countries should increase our savings rates and put that money towards investment in the future (and at least somewhat decrease wasteful consumption)
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  283. the real hero here is the Centaur upper stage that had capacity to burn for an extra 20 seconds
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  284. Most damningly, his numbers a very out of date too. I talk more about this in my video titled "SpaceX: UNBUSTED!! Debunking Thunderf00t"!
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  285. I think it would be interesting hear your thoughts on China's money supply (as in M1/M2/M3), and its reserves. Knowing the Chinese Communist Party reputation, how can their central bank numbers ever be trusted? How much can the (fiat and gold) reserves of Chinese private banks even be trusted?
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  286. Woah I'm not Victorian and I don't know how legal that is! Calling a snap election maybe. Either way, if you helped pass a $24 billion infrastructure agreement you can expect an $880,000/year consultancy gig (that requires no work) with Landbridge (CCP-linked owners of the Port of Darwin) like Andrew Robb when he negotiated the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement. Revolving door corruption (and kickbacks/bribery) is alive and well in Australia! We need Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission inquiries!
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  287. Easy to bail ourselves when it's our kids and grandkids who will have to pay all this debt back. Australia hasn't even started paying off the debt from the 2008 financial crisis (we were just about to reach surplus for the first time since 2008 when the pandemic hit).
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  288. Andrew Robb passed the Australia-China Free Trade Agreement then went on to work as a consultant at Landbridge (owner of the Port of Darwin) for a salary of $880,000/year to do nothing. NSW Labor got $100,000 in an ALDI shopping bag from property developer Huang Xiangmo (same guy who bribed Sam Dastyari). Imagine how much bribery goes on at the federal level that we don't know about. We need a federal Independent Commission Against Corruption.
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  289. You're probably thinking of Boris Yeltsin
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  290. The optics are pretty bad: the current Morrison LNP government protecting the members of the former Howard LNP government from political embarrassment. It seems like all the problems with New South Wales state corruption (see ICAC proceedings) and revolving door corruption happen at the federal level. Remember Andrew Robb and getting an $880,000 consultancy gig with the government of China linked Landbridge to do almost nothing after he passed the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement? Maybe look for a Howard government MP who got a consultancy gig in the oil and gas industry? Australia has no federal Independent Commission Against Corruption, and we have a culture of press freedom but not enough legislated rights.
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  291. There's been 135 Space Shuttle flights and only 2 crewed SpaceX flights. It will take a long time for SpaceX to catchup to 135 flights and the safety of each vehicle to be compared.
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  292. Fertility is not uniform around the world. You can worry about the massive population growth in sub-Saharan Africa stretching such countries to their limits and creating fertile ground for future violent extremists while also being worried about the ability for developed countries to maintain their populations.
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  293. Remember when Huang Xiangmo gave NSW Labor $100,000 donations given in an ALDI shopping bag? Yeah we only learned that because of the NSW ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption). Australia doesn't even have a federal ICAC. There's good reason to think we have only learned of the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Chinese Communist Party corruption towards Australian politicians. We need a federal ICAC.
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  294. If anybody ever tells you Australia doesn't need to legislate anything like a "Bill of Rights" to protect freedom of the press because we have a "culture of freedom" then tell them to remember Bernard Collaery.
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  295. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7yiqiu
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  296. There's a lot of wild speculation on the internet about the collapse of the Three Gorges Dam (given how common "tofu building" construction techniques are in China) due to it nearly "overtopping" earlier this year. The collapse of the Three Gorges Dam would clearly cause millions of deaths directly (a 100 meter high wall of water travelling at 100 kilometres per hour reaching highly populated downstream cities like Yichang in less than an hour), and many more through disease. I don't doubt that the Three Gorges Dam has many structural issues that the Chinese Communist Party members in charge are doing their best to cover up, but a catastrophic failure/collapse has been predicted for decades. The idea that it's going to collapse the imminently has been vastly overstated.
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  297. The past few years of Planet America (especially election years) including this episode have a short segment of John Barron's explaining the history of some part of US electoral process eg, Super Tuesday. I find these clips really well made, informative and interesting. Has anyone seen a YouTube playlist of these?
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  298. Yes, this Thunderf00t video is subpar. The strongest argument Thunderf00t puts forward is that the numbers that SpaceX and Elon Musk release are all fake, and that SpaceX is being subsidized by price gouging the US government (and presumably constant external investment), with them selling below cost in order to put their competitors out of business (known as "dumping"). It's a bit of a conspiracy theory, but you can definitely form some kind of case around this. But between part 1 and part 2, this is not his core argument. We know from SpaceX's 27 day turnaround time that reusability is getting more economical. Thunderf00t's numbers on reusability are way out of date, and the most accurate comparison anybody can make is the Falcon 9 versus the Ariane 5. I made a video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" to bring accuracy into this discussion. I hope people check it out.
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  299.  Karen Rehardt  The virus is far worse than the seasonal flu. Without a complete nation wide lockdown the US would have a million people die. The US does nothing each year for the flu and gets 60,000 deaeths. They had to literally STOP EVERYTHING and make people stay at home for MONTHS and it's still going to be more than 100,000 deaths. The issue is 20% of cases need to go to hopsital and half of those need to go intensive care and be put on ventilators. If you don't get a ventilator when you need it you'll die. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom nearly died. He's only 55 years old. If you wasn't the PM and didn't get top quality treatment he probably would have died. This is not the seasonal flu. Treat it with respect, but yes, we should start opening the economy back up as soon as we can.
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  300. Avoiding buying made in China electronics is easy: Buy the Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese brands. Eg, all Samsung smartphones are made in Vietnam and it's a similar situation with the other brands. It's not hard to find a eg, Made in Malaysia fridge, or a air-conditioner made in Thailand etc.
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  301. Great video. I know Japan, Europe and South Korea have work cultures that prize joining safe/large/established companies immediately after entering the workforce, with major societal pressure (seen as a failure) if you choose to pursue life paths with less guaranteed success. I presume Taiwanese youth have a similar outlook.
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  302. Nah, Australian government guarantee deposits covers the the first $250k. And that per bank, so if you have more savings than that you can just split it up between banks. Look it up, it's true. Bank collapses won't be a problem in Australia unless the state itself fails, which given just 40% debt to GDP (while I'd rather it was 0% it's not 125% like the US or 250% like Japan) your bank deposits are safe in Australia short of the unlikely events of nuclear war, foreign military invasion or crippling cyber attack (by you know who!)
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  303. Absolutely fixing the WHO would be a great idea!
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  304. Destroy the CCP, buy ABC (Anywhere But China)
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  305. The solution is definitely to call out people who post stupid and false information with accurate information based in science, rather than the censorship approach favored in some countries. It would be very sad if valid hypotheses get marked by society as crazed conspiracy theories because they got (incorrectly) evaluated as less likely than the alternative hypotheses. In the initial stages of the outbreak the "lab leak" hypothesis was clearly mistakenly identified as a conspiracy theory. Yes, it may yet turn out to be false (it may even be more likely to be false), but it definitely continues to be a valid hypothesis that needs investigation until it is ruled out.
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  306. The paper (there's no code released yet, sad!!) notes it's based on image generation diffusion models. In other words it's generating new data to fill in the blanks. The writers from the old tv shows were imagining somehow recovering eg, the reflection from somebody's eyeball from grainy security camera footage. But since an AI upscaler is imagining the data, there's really no limit to how high resolution you can upscale to
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  307. Avoid made in China goods as much as you can!
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  308. If people in Taiwan are leaving for greener pastures in other countries then that should BOOST wages in Taiwan as companies try and retain their workforce
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  309. The comedy of Puppet Regime usually doesn't land for me, but this was pretty good
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  310. Hmm, here are some direct links anyway. Hopefully they won't experience 'link rot' in the coming few years: Direct link (HTML): https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/134/1/185/5140154 Direct link (PDF): https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-pdf/134/1/185/27494631/qjy027.pdf (Again, if the links do break, Google for "Busting the 'Princelings': The Campaign Against Corruption in China's Primary Land Market")
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  311. Good content Ian, keep it up! Interview Kevin Rudd again if you get a chance!
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  312. Fauci's early advice discouraging the public from wearing masks was in hindsight a very bad decision. It's OK to want to protect supplies of medical grade N95 masks for health workers, and to worry about the effects of people fiddling with their masks and touching their face more often. But we know how respiratory virus spread through aerosol droplets when people interact with each other, so the #Masks4All initiative (homemade masks made from cutting up shirts with scissors) could have brought many billions of people at least some level of protection and slowed down the pandemic.
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  313. I have confirmed with Asianometry that this was a typo. It's 14km (8.7 miles), not 140km (87 miles). The description and transcript has been updated. The number comes from a book: "Over 1973-4, the new disk brake was tested in wind tunnels and in drops from helicopters and aircraft from altitudes as high as 14,000 m. The spacecraft model was also dropped onto simulated Venusian soil made from foam concrete." (from the book "Russian Planetary Exploration History, Development, Legacy and Prospects: by Brian Harvey).
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  314. The corrupt government of China blocked domestic travel from Wuhan while allowing flights to continue internationally. I agree it was the World Health Organisation that stopped many nations closing their international travel borders early on. This pandemic did not need to happen if the Chinese Communist Party did not corrupt the WHO and other UN bodies. The government of China lied and at least 350,000 people have died (and counting). Don't believe that only 4,000 people died in China, it's likely 10x that (maybe 100x), but the corrupt government of China doesn't provide reliable data.
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  315. There are a few "Planet America Archive" but it DOES NOT APPEAR to be an exhaustive list of all the clips from the past 10 years. And crucially, there does not appear to be a playlist organizing all of them so it's all scattered and hard to find. I'm happy to create the public playlist of all the existing Planet America Archive YouTube videos myself if necessary, so all I ask for simply a YouTube playlist that contains every single previous ep going all the way back to 2012. From there I can do the rest and extract out some clips I can't find (like eg, the "History of the New Hampshire Primary" segment from 2012).
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  316. That's the real power of selective censorship: you can show one side of the story. And without any alternatives you can convince people of anything. Ideological news exists in the West (eg, Fox News for conservatives), but at least people can change the channel to CNN and the other networks with different biases. Also YouTube and Google News automatically recommends many international sources of high quality journalism like the BBC, Germany's DW, and Qatar's Al Jazeera English, and even the low quality international networks like Russia Today and China's CGTN. In China, the only people who regularly scale the Great Firewall are young and computer savvy. The vast majority of people in China accepts the government of China's propaganda and have no hope of ever finding alternative viewpoints.
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  317.  @ricchmus  Japan didn't get rid of colonization in Asia, it was the United Nations after World War 2. Eg, the "Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples".
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  318. Elon Musk does make some bold claims that sometimes turn out to be not feasible, but SpaceX have dropped the price to orbit by 3 times compared to the launch industry. And their internal cost to orbit has about halved now that they are approach 10 flights per booster. I hope people reading this comment checkout my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" and make up their own minds!
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  319. Yes other cherry-picked and wrong figures include the relaunch cost's 40% assumption, the 50% payload the orbit figure, and not factoring in inflation. The correct figures are 25% and 68%. And SpaceX have already demonstrated launching a single booster 8 times. I hope people search YouTube for my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted". It's 8 minutes and it quickly debunks this entire video.
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  320. This is a very underrated channel with generally high quality interviews. The subscriber counts and view counts are usually very low, I'm not sure why. By the way, you should use Patreon as another revenue source. You'll probably start to generate a significant amount of revenue as this channels grows over the next several years. Independent media is good for the world.
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  321.  @Asianometry  I guess Ambarella does have an Asia connection given that founder and CEO Fermi Wang is a Taiwanese immigrant. Though pretty much the entire US fabless semiconductor industry seems to be run by people with Taiwanese heritage (from AMD's Lisa Su to NVidia's Jensen Huang).
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  322. "America is a third world country in a Gucci belt"
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  323. That's absolutely what is happening. Checkout my video titled SpaceX Unbusted for more information
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  324. I agree the decisions made in Wuhan need to be investigated. I agree the WHO may not be the organisation to do this. But the problem is not China, it's the corrupt government* of China. Use your words more carefully!
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  325. @Anti-CornLawLeague Thanks for the recommendation of Masaman. I just watched a video and it is the kind of no-nonsense, high-information density brain dumps that we Asianometry viewers enjoy. For similar very dry but relatively information dense autistic content, you may enjoy academic Thomas Sowell's audiobooks. There's a lot of YouTube videos that pull chapters from his many audiobooks and make them into Asianometry-like presentations. Actually, I recommend non-fiction history-focused audiobooks in general.
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  326. Gordon Chang has a keen nose for the very real problems in China, and while his "Coming Collapse of China" prediction have famously not come true (at least yet), his particular analysis on China tends to be unique and worth listening to. A society that encourages thinking about "contrarian" viewpoints is a strong and robust society.
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  327. lol you know the debate must have went badly when just 0:28 seconds in they're bleeping journalist John Barron, the straight man of the duo
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  328. But GTA V Online is so damn buggy in its own right
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  329. Rudd's geopolitical analysis continues to always be worth listening to. Kevin Rudd speaks in well reasoned paragraphs, so as an Australian with some level of attention span I find his regular appearances on that CNBC show where the panelists keep cutting him off very frustrating to watch.
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  330. For the real values, lookup my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted". I recommend viewers watch my video at 2 times playback speed, so you get the information in 4 minutes. I analyze the marginal cost of the Falcon 9, compare current prices to SpaceX's primary commercial competitor the Ariane 5 and analyze reusability more closely.
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  331. Yes, we know the CCP is a hostile and unreliable trading partner for Australia. That's why Australia (and the rest of the world) is diversifying by moving production to Vietnam, India and improving trading relationships with the Muslim world including Indonesia and Bangladesh.
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  332. China interacts in the world with a divide and conquer strategy. It prefers being a 1.4 billion person nation dealing with small nations so it can call the shots. It tries to use the states it has a big influence over (eg, Hungary and Cambodia) to divide the European Union and ASEAN. The best way for a small countries like Australia to deal with this giant bully is to convince like minded nations to speak with once voice, so we can't be singled out by China for retaliation against our exports.
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  333. Australia did the right thing by calling for an independent international investigation into the origins of COVID.
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  334. I agree China is nobody's enemy, but the panel was way too lenient on the CCP: the Chinese Communist Party is an enemy of freedom, democracy and human rights. The CCP's extensive internet censorship system (called the Great Firewall of China) and its total media control is the most advanced mechanism for a totalitarian nation to brainwash its citizens. We should never forget that the CCP is a dangerous totalitarian regime that is exporting its surveillance state, jailing a million Uighers, destroying Hong Kong's freedoms and maybe one day Taiwan's. All that said, we still rely on China for our wealth so ScoMo (and previously Turnbull) should never have indicated that the CCP is the real reason behind Australia rebooting the Quad, bringing in foreign interference laws, etc. We became over reliant on the CCP, and we're paying the price.
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  335. The resolution of the image you chose at 0:00 is pretty bad. you should have selected a higher quality template image with less compression artifacts (High Expectations Asian Father expects nothing less of you).
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  336. 0:00 "...and most of the Russian public will have known no other leader than him" The median age in Russia in 2024 will be about 41 years old. This means half the population is younger than 41, and half is older than 41. In 2024 Putin will have been in power for twenty five years, so most of the population will have known other leaders!
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  337. Singapore has reportedly passed a law that no single source can provide more than 25% of Singapore's electricity. That spread your risk approach seems to be how they approach international relations. They try to make sure their economy and security is not overly dependent on either the United States or China. Whether they are getting the balance right can be debated, but that's their strategy.
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  338. As he said a in a previous video: "In semiconductors either you are the leader, or you suck". TSMC is the leader in high performance chip manufacturing. It's not currently Intel, not Global Foundries (spun out from AMD), not Samsung. And certainty not currently China's SMIC. It probably also helps that Asianometry is based out of Taiwan, and TSMC is the world-leading technology company from Taiwan.
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  339. Taiwan's government didn't fail to control the outbreak, they didn't even have a lockdown. South Korea did very badly with a big outbreak among a single church, but got on top of it. It's not just Asia that succeeded in controlling the outbreak. Australia and New Zealand are culturally similar to the United States in some ways but they got on top of their outbreaks and had to lockdown for several weeks. Now cases are very small each day with very broad testing -- they detect a cluster go in and continually test EVERYONE until they are sure they have caught all cases. Because of this, each week they are carefully re-opening economies. The United States government (state and federal) did a terrible job. The United States could have (no SHOULD HAVE) handled this as well as Taiwan.
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  340. All the US foreign policy towards China from Richard Nixon through Carter/Reagan/Bush Sr/ Clinton/Bush Jr/Obama has been a complete failure. The old consensus about "trade with China and they will become rich and democratic" is over. It worked for Taiwan and South Korea but not China. Now comes the sanctions and hard ball. A new Cold War.
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  341.  @crystalball020  Judging by their actions, I think the current leadership in China agree with you. I may be wrong on this, but as far as I can tell the government of China is NOT currently using the conflict to stir up nationalism and anti-India sentiment (in an attempt to draw attention away from domestic issues). Conversely in India there are private news channels and politicians which ARE generating lots of nationalism and anti-China sentiment within the Indian population. As mentioned in the video, given the the nuclear weapons of China, Pakistan and India, any regional war risks nuclear escalation so it's all very worrying.
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  342. You should end every video by asking for like/comment/subscribe. Also you should pin a comment asking for topic ideas. You don't necessarily need to listen to the comments, but the boosted engagement will make the YouTube algorithm will share your videos more widely.
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  343. Trump should have launched Operation Warp Speed months ago.
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  344. Absolutely. Everybody should be very concerned at this creeping authoritarianism. Faceless bureaucrats prosecuting what is clearly in the national interest: the Australian government used its intelligence agencies to gain commercial advantage oil and gas negotiation with the impoverished nation of East Timor. This is government of China level stuff. The government of Australia can and should be more ethical than the government of China.
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  345. 2:38 Wait, Taiwan has the Hukou system? So Taiwanese also have the "internal passport" preventing the migration of people living in the countryside to prosperous cities? China's Hukou is considered by many a type of caste system -- completely against the "everybody is born equal" concept. I'll have to look into this further
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  346. I recommend Samsung! No Samsung phone is made in China -- they are all made in Vietnam. They also make decent TVs, fridges etc. Other Korean and Japanese companies are moving their production to places like Thailand, Malaysia etc.
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  347.  @Asianometry  Oh right I misheard the name when I googled it: Kofukuji temple in Nara, not Tofukuji temple in Kyoto (which Wikipedia says takes it name from both the Kofukuji and Todaiji temples in Nara).
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  348. 10:29 I wonder what would have happened if Japanese didn't try to squeeze every cent out of their monopoly, but instead chose to accept a lower margin. 12:28 Maybe DuPont would have spent less effort researching how to produce synthetic camphor and the Taiwanese camphor industry would have survived far longer? But perhaps it was inevitable that the world would switch from isolating camphor from plants (which need massive tree plantations) to a much more scalable solution: extracting precursor chemicals from mineral deposits then synthesizing camphor in industrial scale processing plants. It's a very interesting thought experiment in supply/demand of industrial feedstocks and our global supply chains. Something that's absolutely relevant to today's "rare-earth" mineral dependence on China.
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  349. To add to that. Long live China! Long live Hong Kong! Long live Taiwan! Down with the current government of China! Down with Chinese Communist Party corruption totalitarian dictatorship! Avoid made in China products where possible!
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  350. Buy local first! Failing that buy from friendly nations that don't cover up disease outbreaks. Remember Buy ABC (Anywhere But China)!
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  351. Support human rights and democracy loving people where ever they are. The corrupt government of China has built a totalitarian surveillance state and spreads it's lies and deceptions around the world. The people of China are not the problem, but the Chinese Communist Party
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  352.  @joegawne1601  Hong Kong's GDP importance is tiny, but importance as a financial hub is still HUGE
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  353. It's great that this documentary interviews so many of the luminaries of the 1970s computer industry. Very important to get their stories now, because they'll sadly be fewer of them around in 20 years.
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  354. 1:10 Working 12 hours a day, 6 days a week is 72 hours, not 60 hours. I saw a saw video recently (search 'advchina sleep' in YouTube) about the work culture including 2 hour daily lunch breaks (which include midday naps). Do those tech companies you mentioned have siestas as part of the 996 culture?
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  355. Yes, Australia is at the forefront of the rational, worldwide pushback against the corrupt government of China / Chinese Communist Party. Please avoid "made in China" and convince those around you to do the same. Try buying local first, if that's not possible then buy from the increasing number of alternatives (Samsung smartphones nearly all made in Vietnam, clothing made in India /Bangladesh etc). Always call out the Chinese Communist Party because the CCP crushes freedom (eg, the situation in Hong Kong)
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  356.  @Asianometry  4:23 I like how you subtly said "what are the tax incentives" twice LOL. Very accurate!
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  357.  @hatman4818  Absolutely. This annoyed me so much I made a video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" on my channel. But as they say "a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth puts on its shoes on". I hope people who believe the claims from this video checkout my video!
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  358. SN10 exploded 15 minutes after landing. SN10 is dead, long live SN11
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  359. Great quick take! I had missed this story. Was interesting!
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  360.  @WarblesOnALot  Yes just a playlist would be fine!
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  361. The idea is to put economic pressure on the government of China in response to suppressing Hong Kong's freedoms, intellectual property theft etc so the government of China changes. Everyone should try to buy local first, but international trade it great for everybody when it's on a level playing field. Countries like Bangladesh play key parts in the global supply chain. It's great that consumers in Australia etc can buy clothes (often made with Australian cotton -- check the label) and support democracies such as India and Bangladesh become responsible stakeholders in the international system. The same deal was offered to China and it got much wealthier. But it chose not to become a responsible stakeholder and has made moves backwards (Xi Jinping becoming China's 3rd dictator for life), trampling its obligations (Hong Kong's autonomy) and pushed the whole world away with it's foreign interference apparatus and constant massive hacking of intellectual property the world over. Nobody expects clothing manufacturing to come back to Australia. Most people just want to compete on a level playing field without China's state sponsored hacking, lack of reciprocal access to China's market and arbitrary law enforcement.
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  362. Antarctica has been part of China since ancient times
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  363. Organ harvesting is mindblowingly brutal and it's crazy how few people talk about the government of China systematically killing people for their organs (sometimes cutting the organs out of people while they're completely AWAKE and aware). Definitely stop buying stuff from China (there are a growing number of alternatives as suppliers move factories out of China)!
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  364. To be fair, Evergrande's cash crunch is only for the interest payments. The $300 billion principle of the loan doesn't really matter that much: what matters is their ability to always pay the monthly repayments or refinance, and have a pathway to deleveraging overtime. The immediate cash crunch is only a few hundred million dollars (pocket change) for their monthly interest payment to bond holders. It's just that if they miss that, then the entire $300 billion in debt probably won't be paid back, and the company would collapse (along with potentially other players in China's property sector) causing a big slowdown in the China and the world's economy.
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  365. YES! China has shown itself to be an unreliable and untrustworthy trading partner. Australia benefited greatly from being on the China bandwagon while it was 'on the up and up', but those days aren't coming back because demographic issues. It's time to get off the China bandwagon and find new export markets. Australia's should "sell mutton to the Hindus and beef to the Muslims" (including Indonesia/Malaysia/North Africa) because they're increasingly able to afford Australia's high quality exports (such our minerals and education) and they are more trustworthy and reliable trading partners.
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  366. According to Elon Musk the "best case" marginal reflight cost of the Falcon 9 is $15 million. That includes a second stage, but does not include the two $3 million fairing halves. I hope anybody reading watches my 8 minute video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" for analysis of SpaceX before and after reusability.
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  367. Direct link to "How Taiwan Created TSMC": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fVrWDdll0g
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  368. 15:54 I've said this before: the GZERO Media YouTube channel is currently financially unsustainable. It needs to start growing it to 300,000 subscribers. Hopefully the sweet cable TV contracts and corporate sponsors are a sufficient revenue stream, but if not things needing to pay for themselves eventually. Because being subsidized by the Eurasia Group consultancy (as a marketing arm?) may not be sustainable in the longer term. Which would be sad, because it's a great YouTube channel!
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  369. ​ @QuietJugung  I agree Trump has incentive to blame China to try and deflect blame for his handling of the situation in America. But China will also stop at nothing to block independent investigation to prevent the blame that lays at its own feet. Wet markets in China was the source of the SARS outbreak in Foshan, Guangdong in 2002 yet nothing was done back then. With hundreds of thousands of dead and trillions in economic losses, this time needs to be different. Politicians should try and push for an independent inquiry. ScoMo deserves a lot of credit for doing just that.
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  370. EDIT: Ignore this comment, Marise Payne confirmed the zoonosis origins will be examined. Earlier reporting only said the public health response would be examined. Sounds like this is NOT an investigation of the virus origin but investigation into the global public health response. We need both
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  371. The concept of the "3rd world" was originally based on the Cold War worldview: The free world / first world: US and allied countries, the second world: Soviet Union, and allied communist satellites, and the third-world: the non-aligned regions (India, Africa, etc) which were universally poor. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the "1st world" has come to mean developed countries, and "3rd world" simply meaning being the poor and corrupt countries (sometimes called "developing countries" or "emerging economies" but really some of those countries are neither). Also as Peter Thiel suggested in Zero To One, the world's richest countries shouldn't really consider themselves "developed" because they can still develop far further than they are currently. With this new Cold War between the US and China, we might see a return of the "free world" rhetoric. Even in the first Cold War the United States had massive political upheaval (the 1950/1960s Civil Rights Movement that ended segregation, Anti-Vietnam War protests). The US is no stranger to massive protests and upheaval. Maybe this time is different, but at least in recent history it has been managed with careful leadership where the United States come out the stronger for it.
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  372.  @sinoroman  It's still the richest country in the world, where almost all the world leading technology companies, science and innovation comes from. The innovation is often done by attracting immigrants like Sergey Brin and Elon Musk to the country. Maybe that will cease in the future. The United States has major fractures, especially economic but also centuries of racial issues. No country is immune from authoritarianism and tyranny and it's definitely possible in the next 30 years that the US breaks into separate countries (like an independent California, Texas etc) with armed uprisings and all out civil war. A violent revolution in the US is not in the best interests of the richest and most powerful -- they stand to lose a lot. So I think any big crisis could spur the United States into fixing its societal problems and with enough effort we might see the country emerge stronger and more united. But maybe not. We'll see how things go!
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  373. ​ @paulzac5481  Component level analysis is exactly what we need to be doing. The goal is to buy the product that meets your needs which contributes the fewest dollars to the CCP!
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  374. Keeping up quality is key. Thorough research to create an insightful script with information that can't be gathered easily otherwise, good microphone recording with clear pronunciations, Pinyin displayed on screen for any Chinese words so interested English-speaking users can learn more themselves, and links to previous Asianometry videos.
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  375. China's days of 6% growth aren't coming back. The predictions that China will "grow old before it gets rich" will happen before our eyes. But even a stagnant China will remain a technology-enabled totalitarian dictatorship with concentration camps, organs harvesting from political prisoners, not to mention blocking investigations into viral pandemics. It's the responsibility of regular people around the world to see this and make ethical decisions about the products that they buy. To help destroy the government of China monster, please avoid buying Made In China products, and convince those around you to do the same. It's getting easier to avoid Made In China as supply chains move out at an accelerating rate. Please buy local, but where that's not possible, remember "buy ABC" (Anywhere But China)
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  376. lol Communist China doesn't represent 5000 years of Chinese civilization. Mao Zedong destroyed much of that cultural legacy by his "Four Olds" campaign (Destroying Old Ideas, Old Culture, Old Habits, Old Customs). The only reason why many ancient Chinese artifacts have survived is they were moved to Taiwan by Chiang Kai-Shek's people, and saved from destruction during Mao's violent and deadly Cultural Revolution. The CCP propaganda likes to blame the West for everything, but much of what pushed China backwards was Mao and the CCP. You don't see kangaroo courts in modern Taiwan. Hong Kong is has become a different story though (with the CCP takeover virtually complete).
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  377. Keep using your bully pulpit, Ian. Shout from the rooftops if you have to!
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  378. Out of all Trump's policies, his hawkish China policy (trade war, very tough rhetoric and possibility of economic decoupling) has been very good compared to the the previous 40 year strategy of enriching China in the hope it would become more democratic (which had worked for South Korea, Taiwan and might still work for Vietnam). I hope Joe Biden adopts many of Trump's hawkish policies on the CCP.
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  379. Quite a good interview. Good job to the interviewer for the reasonably good questions.
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  380. 1:42 the plane departed from Moscow it wasn't heading there
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  381. The comedy segments with the "Trump out of context" part never lands for me. Chas' humour does land for me, but I really enjoyed his work when his old political comedy news show "CNNNN" was being made (but hated the humour of the Chaser's last show)
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  382.  @jielinzhou1442  Absolutely, a nuclear conflict means trading the destruction of Beijing for New York, Shanghai for Los Angeles, Shenzhen for San Francisco. The MAD doctrine (Mutually Assured Destruction). Even a small military conflict can easily spiral out of control and they'll be a lot of death on all sides.
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  383. Keep him here. He's doing a great job showing Australia what the Chinese Communist Party is really like haha. The CCP thinks Australia responds kindly to threats LOL
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  384. I used to think having somebody imitate Trump's voice to read his tweet cheapens the show. But the clip at 13:23 has changed my mind. It was voiced so perfectly! The Trump voice also makes sense since the show gets simulcast on radio.
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  385. Your second sentence may be true, but home in Japan are not designed to last. The land is expensive but the dwelling is build cheaply (wooden construction). They have a strong cultural preference to demolish homes that are 20-30 years old and rebuild an entirely new home. There's a lot of articles on the internet about it (search eg, 'japan demolish homes')
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  386. France banned the filming cops because the police were caught beating up a black musician in his own studio and it was caught on surveillance footage and released, which causing protests (as such an event should). Banning the filming of cops is not a good idea. It's a dangerous authoritarian idea. It's an especially bad idea for France which has a long history of freedom of the press.
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  387. Moses Alazzawi YouTube are rolling out hiding the number of dislikes: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/update-to-youtube/ Terrible decision by YouTube.
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  388.  @fredbloggs5902  SpaceX are currently charging $50 million to commercial customers whether or not they are launching as the first customer on a newly manufactured rocket, or launching on a "reflown" booster. With all these launches taking 15,600kg to orbit. My understanding is SpaceX no longer distinguish between the first launch and subsequent launches are just charges $50 million if the Falcon 9 attempts a landing. The $62 million figure is only for expendable Falcon 9 launches, which they don't really do anymore. In my video I make the assumption that SpaceX are merely breaking even when launching Falcon 9 at $62 million in an expendable configuration, a point which Thunderf00t agrees with with his subsidy points. It doesn't actually matter that much if the Falcon 9 cost $62 million or $75 million when the marginal cost of launch is just $15 million and the demonstrated flight rate is growing rapidly (already at 8). I saw from your comment on my video that you've watched it. I hope people who haven't seen my "SpaceX Unbusted" video go and watch it. It's 8 minutes, short and sweet and debunks this video!
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  389. This is the worst Media Watch episode I've seen. I am the always the first to say "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", but the Wuhan Institute of Virology theory is not at all extraordinary. All evidence suggests COVID-19 was NOT genetically engineered. That analysis does not discount the very realistic possibility of it having leaked from the nearby Wuhan Institute of Virology. It's very common for virologists to collect virus samples from animals in the routine practice called "disease surveillance". Scientists around the world (including in Australia) do this to better understand the viruses among the animals around us. This helps society get on top of outbreaks among humans or livestock (such as the occasional Australian Bat Lyssavirus outbreaks in people and horses every few years). While there is likely an animal reservoir of a virus similar to COVID-19 somewhere in China, the fact that the Wuhan Institute of Virology is so close the initial Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market and is the only place in China authorized to work on coronaviruses (and has done significant amounts of public research on bat coronaviruses) raises a lot of questions. We know that laboratory animals are routinely infected with viruses to study their effects. The idea that lab animals escaped, or were sold for human consumption at the nearby wild life market (whether for food or Traditional Chinese Medicine) is not a wild claim at all. It deserves to be fully and transparently investigated. Unfortunately, we also know that the government of China lies and will not stop at destroying evidence. If the virus did leak from the lab to the initial outbreak at the nearby wildlife market we will likely never get official confirmation. Remember that in China, all COVID-19 research papers must be approved by the government of China. Even if the virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, I expect the government of China to publish a research paper that discovers a near identical virus occurring in the original animal reservoir, and claim with certainty that's where the virus originated. People need to stop calling the Wuhan Institute of Virology a conspiracy theory. It's not far fetched at all. We need a independent investigation.
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  390.  @AlaricI-tk1jf  He conflates a lot of things. Yes it's OK to point out that the Space Shuttle price (when indexed to inflation) would compare relatively favorably to the early Falcon 9 NASA contract (though SpaceX ended up over delivering the mass to orbit as they improved the vehicle). But he argues based on his Excel spreadsheet is that reuse is not economical, but it's a straw man because he doesn't use the Block 5 figures. He also argues SpaceX hasn't been a revolution in cost to orbit which is false. A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes, so I hope everyone reading this checks out my 8 minute video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" and makes up their own mind
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  391.  @markedwards4879  Good call!
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  392.  @clark6666  I agree the government of USA wastes taxpayer money, wages war and illegally invaded Iraq under false pretenses. I fully support the individuals being brought to justice for destabilizing Iraq, even under the international criminal court. The 2003 invasion of Iraq is stain on the history of the United States, and now I have the capacity I will always "shout from the rooftops" to stop such a disasters. I hope the government of China places sanctions against the individuals involved in the decisions leading up to the illegal Iraq war. I would like any and all countries to do the same. Currently the biggest danger to the world I see is the corrupt Chinese Communist Party destroying Hong Kong. As we know from history a policy of "appeasement" and not placing costs for going over red lines causes a totalitarian dictatorship to continue trampling over other nations. That said, the entire topic of the USA is complete "whataboutism". We're talking about the corrupt Chinese Communist Party.
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  393. I think they mispronounce words on purpose: it gets more comments, which boosts engagement numbers, which is good for the YouTube algorithm.
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  394. 14:21 Here's a direct link to the Asianometry history video on Heaven Lake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4_glr9BofI
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  395. For anybody reading this comment, checkout this channel's "TSMC - Essays" playlist for more videos!
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  396. Well I find Chris Uhlmann is great and insightful. He is one of the few journalists who deeply understands the Chinese Communist Party's interference in Australian politics and society and can actually speak pretty eloquently about it. Channel Nine (formerly Fairfax) were lucky to hire Chris Uhlmann.
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  397. Australians know China is a hostile, unreliable and untrustworthy trading partner which throws tantrums regularly. While Australia benefited greatly from being on the China bandwagon while it was 'on the up and up', those days aren't coming back because demographic issues. It's time to get off the China bandwagon and lower it's relative importance to our economy. We should find new export markets by proverbially "selling mutton to the Hindus and beef to the Muslims" (including Indonesia/Malaysia/North Africa/Bangladesh/Middle East). They're all increasingly able to afford Australia's high quality exports (such our minerals and education) and they are more trustworthy, more reliable and less hostile as trading partners than China.
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  398. Yeah, a lot of people watching this might not understand why much of this video is a straw man argument. The YouTube comment section is not a great way to hold debates (it's hard to find the best comments are pretty buried). So I made an 8 minute video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" that shows that Falcon 9 can launch payload into orbit for a third of its closest competition (before reusability) and now with reuse approaching 10 flights the cost is halved again. I hope everybody reading this checks out my "SpaceX Unbusted" video to help stop the misinformation.
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  399. We need to reduce our reliance on China, and export WAY more to Indonesia, Malaysia, India, North Africa and the Middle East. Australia should be proverbially selling mutton to the Hindus, and beef to the Muslims!
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  400. Sky News Australia is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, just like Fox News in the US. And just like Fox News they make these "opinion news" shows where the host tries to dress up the news with their personality. The shows might be entertaining. They might even be sometimes correct. But don't mistake this for news.
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  401. You're right, there's no autobalancing. It ruins the future movies when nothing matters. Anakin Skywalker was prophesied to bring balance to the force, and destroy the Sith. He brought balance to the force by destroying the Jedi Order, and the Sith. With the prophecy complete, it's more or less 2 Jedi and 2 dark Jedi at any one time. As long as it doesn't become 10,000 Jedi and 2 Sith again, the force is still basically balanced. "dark rises to meet it" is a terrible idea for the Star Wars universe.
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  402. Everybody is happy with the status quo. It's been that way for 50 years (since 1971), and the stability has served China very well. China plays the long-game and in their view the longer they wait the more powerful they'll be (Deng Xiaoping's famous 'Hide your strength, bide your time' strategy). There's definitely no need to break from the status quo. And if China breaks the status quo the economic sanctions (and military response) will be extreme. Hopefully it'll all just saber rattling, the world cannot afford to break the status quo.
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  403. CNBC missed the mark on this video for the stated reasons for not being willing to show even any generated images in this video.
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  404. lol "umm, no" as in "thanks but no thanks"?
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  405. I agree with most of your comment, but I just want to note that the world can definitely defeat the Chinese Communist Party without violence. If enough people around the world agree, it's easy to neuter China's economy to the point where they don't have the capacity to damage the world. Ultimately it will need to be the people living within China who get fed up and overthrow their government.
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  406. I think Trump's China tariffs has been a great policy which has accelerated factories moving out of China. The best thing we can do to support the freedom loving people of Hong Kong is to weaken the CCP economically. As individuals, we should avoid Made In China. We should explain the threat to our fellow citizens and vote for politicians who understand the CCP threat.
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  407. The numbers of Wikipedia are generally quite good. Especially for the payload mass to low-Earth orbit for all the different past and present variants for a given rocket. For sticker price Wikipedia is not actually that good: follow their citations and you often find the numbers out of date. For accurate analysis of reusability using recent numbers, I hope people checkout my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted"! Falcon 9 expendable is a third the previous price of the Ariane 5, and achieving 10 relaunches (with fairings recovered every mission) halves the cost per kilogram to orbit (SpaceX has achieved 8 launches so far).
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  408. Ahh October 3 1990.. Happy 30 year anniversary!
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  409.  @calebstg5279  He's most likely trying to keep his YouTube audience retention from tanking during the credits: the more people who get through the entire video the better it is for the algorithm to recommend the video to more people
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  410. Great analysis. Keep it up Ian. Even though this channel's view count remains sad. Maybe start viewers to "please like and subscribe". GZERO Media need to start playing the YouTube game better, because yo're stuck at 34.5k subscribers. The algorithm won't smile upon you unless you work for it
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  411. 2:08 The English word "chow" (meaning food) appears to come from pidgin English "chow chow" in the 1700s. It looks like it may be related from the Chinese food "a Chinese preserve of ginger, orange peel, and other ingredients, in syrup" and "a mixed vegetable pickle". The dog breed Chow Chow ("a dog of a sturdy Chinese breed with a broad muzzle, a tail curled over the back, a bluish-black tongue, and typically a dense thick coat") is only a very happy coincidence, as best I can tell.
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  412. ​ @shakingwater  Yes and no: the reasons NVMe solid-state drives tend to be faster than MicroSD cards are because solid-state drives have multiple flash chips being written to in parallel with a much larger thermal envelope (with higher performance drives including a heat sink), and they have a much larger bus (eg 4 lanes of PCIe 3.0). The NAND flash memory is otherwise exactly the same. Though as you may know "part binning" will mean typical MicroSD card tend to get flash memory with more factory defects, with the built-in controller chip on both solid-state drives and MicroSD cards transparently marking bad sectors, handing wear leveling and doing error correction. Designing the circuit boards that can transfer the data very fast without data errors is not a show stopper, and lanes of PCI Express scales pretty linearly (eg, 16 lanes of PCIe 4.0 provides 32 GByte/s). The proposed device is the size of a 2.5" laptop hard drive, so signal integrity issues at high data rates over such short distances shouldn't be a big problem. But as mentioned, trading slow transfer rates for extremely high capacity is acceptable for many workloads (at an extreme, see Amazon Glacier). I think the only show stopper to the 2.5" laptop hard drives storing hundreds (even thousands) of terabytes of flash memory is figuring out a way to manufacture the huge amount of silicon required at much lower prices. Hopefully the entrance of companies like Yangtze Memory spurs this on.
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  413. This is the worst Media Watch episode I've seen. I am the always the first to say "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", but the Wuhan Institute of Virology theory is not at all extraordinary. All evidence suggests COVID-19 was NOT genetically engineered. That analysis does not discount the very realistic possibility of it having leaked from the nearby Wuhan Institute of Virology. It's very common for virologists to collect virus samples from animals in the routine practice called "disease surveillance". Scientists around the world (including in Australia) do this to better understand the viruses among the animals around us. This helps society get on top of outbreaks among humans or livestock (such as the occasional Australian Bat Lyssavirus outbreaks in people and horses every few years). While there is likely an animal reservoir of a virus similar to COVID-19 somewhere in China, the fact that the Wuhan Institute of Virology is so close the initial Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market and is the only place in China authorized to work on coronaviruses (and has done significant amounts of public research on bat coronaviruses) raises a lot of questions. We know that laboratory animals are routinely infected with viruses to study their effects. The idea that lab animals escaped, or were sold for human consumption at the nearby wild life market (whether for food or Traditional Chinese Medicine) is not a wild claim at all. It deserves to be fully and transparently investigated. Unfortunately, we also know that the government of China lies and will not stop at destroying evidence. If the virus did leak from the lab to the initial outbreak at the nearby wildlife market we will likely never get official confirmation. Remember that in China, all COVID-19 research papers must be approved by the government of China. Even if the virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, I expect the government of China to publish a research paper that discovers a near identical virus occurring in the original animal reservoir, and claim with certainty that's where the virus originated. People need to stop calling the Wuhan Institute of Virology a conspiracy theory. It's not far fetched at all. We need a independent investigation.
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  414. It's up to the current generation of young adults (and the upcoming generation of students) to build upon Taiwan's economic prosperity and democratic inheritance. I hope the Taiwanese start to understand population demographics and come up with policies to boost the fertility rate. For Taiwan to have a baby boom, it's likely you need changes to your paid parental leave policies, child care etc. Don't make the same mistakes that China, Japan, South Korea and Singapore have made.
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  415. Checkout out his entire library of playlists! If you have even a passing interest in technology, I recommend the playlist "TSMC - Essays" about the worlds leading chip manufacturer called Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation. Yes it's a mouthful, but most of the world's best tech companies use TSMC to make their high end chips (from Apple processors to AMD processors to NVidia graphics cards). A few years ago TSMC took the lead with the most advanced chip manufacturing process and became the king of chip making (Intel held that crown for decades). The world hasn't caught up with TSMC not being a household name like Intel is. I find it fascinating that little Taiwan is punching above its weight and creating world class companies!
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  416.  @angusmcangus7914  For your next smartphone/tablet/laptop get the Samsung product that are most suited to your requirements. Everything is not made in China but instead mostly made in Vietnam with the high end flagships are made in South Korea. The alternatives are already there. It's getting easier to avoid Made in China
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  417. An assumption from this "debunking" is the idea that relaunching a rocket booster has to cost 50% of the launch cost, which is just plain wrong. There's no fundamental reason rockets can't be "gas and go" without any refurbishment between launches. SpaceX have already landed their first stages more than 70 times and re-launched 50. They have had turnaround times of less than ~50 days, and this duration has been getting shorter. SpaceX are doing detailed inspections for their "fleet leading" boosters right now. But the Merlin 1D engines can take 10 full length burns without inspections, and rocket bodies can be built to withstand repeated launches without inspection. 20:40 "[Competitors] say a break even point is near 10 re-uses and no one's gotten close to that". I'm surprised Thunderf00t didn't check this fact for yourself, because your information is definitely out-of-date: SpaceX already have got 8 re-uses of a Falcon 9 first stage (core B1051 to be exact), and that core is still active and will likely be launched twice more. Also SpaceX competitors argue that you need 10 re-uses to break even is based on the cost profiles of those companies. Most of a rocket's cost is in its engines but this is even more the case for the Falcon 9. The market for rocket launches is currently pretty inelastic, so charging customers significantly less doesn't help boost demand -- it just eats into SpaceX profits. Right now customers are continuing to pay full price for a new booster, and close to new price for a re-used booster but SpaceX's internal accounting is benefiting greatly from the vastly reduced launch costs. They're capturing a lot of these savings by launching 18 Starlink missions so far (and many more coming). If SpaceX's internal costs for a Falcon 9 launch really were eg, $150 million this would not at all be feasible even with the external investment. The reason they can launch Starlink so cheaply is the first stage booster is already fully paid off, because SpaceX are selling the 1st/2nd/3rd launches to a commercial customer (for ~$50 million), then getting a free fully paid off booster that's good for another 7 launches. When SpaceX re-use both fairings (fully paid off by the original customers) then SpaceX just pays for fuel (which is around 200k) and the second stage (which less than $10 million). They are able to do an orbital Starlink launch for pennies on the dollar: a factor of 10 cheaper in low-earth orbit access. The biggest thing from this video I agree with is the price gouging of the government anchor customers like NASA and USAF. This "subsidy" helps pay for SpaceX's fixed costs allowing them to launch at much closer to their marginal cost to anybody who is wants to. But there is no reason that another launch provider couldn't have done that. SpaceX has vastly increasing the number of rockets launched by any single company and capturing the all launches up for competition (pricing all competing launch firms out in the process). They have been a revolution in terms of price and access to space in the notoriously stagnant space-launch industry.
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  418. I agree in both conventional or nuclear war the United States will ultimately triumph, and if the government of China invade Taiwan they'll be missile barrages of targets in China. But we can and should avoid violence and war. War would mean billions of deaths through nuclear annihilation and starvation (nuclear winter). Instead, we can destroy the corrupt government of China through economic means by avoiding Made In China where possible, eg. clothes made in Bangladesh, India and eg, Samsung smartphones made in Vietnam. We need to put pressure on the government of China through economic means. It's important that the normal people of China were born under the murderous totalitarian surveillance state ruled by a dictator for life. They don't get a choice whether they are indoctrinated with "red education" (also called patriotic education). They haven't done anything wrong, so we need to make sure no violence comes to them (including the people of Hong Kong) by pressuring the corrupt government of China through economic means. Of course we should "speak softly and carry a big stick", eg we have our red lines and treaty obligations (eg, defining Taiwan). Everything else should be done via economic sanctions (including the "Global Magnitsky Act" where applicable)
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  419. Why? I know he's not a PhD scientist but has an engineering background, but he's a talented science communicator who seems to have pretty reasonable ideas. I personally would like to see permanent human cities on Antarctica and cities on Mars (but I can imagine the former would become a permanently protected nature reserve)
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  420. You joked that if we used a base 3 numbering system the number "99" would be meaningful. As you know, the base 10 system has the digits 0-9 available (and so "10" in base 10 equals the decimal value 10) . Well in a base 3 system has the digits 0-2 available (so "10" in base 3 equals the decimal value 3). The digit '9' is not available in base 3. (If we had a base 9 numbering system we would only have the digits 0-8, so the digit '9' would still not be available.) I wish you all the best for your future math jokes.
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  421. Yes there's lots of misinformation, lies and cherry-picking going on in this video. The snark definitely reminds me of the Lord Kelvin quote, "I can state flatly that heavier than air flying machines are impossible" which was said 7 years before the Wright Brothers' first flight. I hope people checkout my video "SpaceX Unbusted" which tries to untangle this mess!
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  422. India is strongest if it stays as secular as possible. If it accepts all ethnicity and religions and turns them into patriotic democratic Indians then India will eventually become a superpower. Currently I don't think India will be a superpower this century.
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  423. Viewers of this video may be interested in the YouTube channel "PBS Eons": a fascinating look into the history of life on Earth.
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  424. Was that an actual Steam Deck? Or was it a similar portable PC?
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  425. Surprising that Bloomberg Quicktake can make a documentary this high quality on a topic that I'd assume they'd not know much about. Great work to all involved, including the guests they interviewed
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  426. It's possible to be strongly against illegal immigration while also being strongly against stop-and-frisk policing
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  427. I completely agree. This video annoyed me so much that I made a video titled "SpaceX: UNBUSTED!! Debunking Thunderf00t" with correct math. I hope people check it out. When it first entered the market the Falcon 9 was a third the cost of its nearest commercial competitor. With ten flight reuse demonstrated at a $15 million marginal cost, SpaceX have further halved their cost to orbit from their expendable price. It's frustrating to hear people spreading misnformation that SpaceX are fraudsters. I hope people lookup my "SpaceX Unbusted" video.
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  428. ​ @buzzlightyear3715 😂😂😂
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  429. Gavin Newsom: 2024 - 2019 = 4 years so far Edmund G. Brown Jr: 2019 - 2011 = 8 years Gray Davis between: 2003 - 1999 = 4 years Edmund G. Brown Jr: 1983 - 1975 = 8 years The Republicans were: Arnold Schwarzenegger: 2011- 2003 = 8 years Pete Wilson: 1999 - 1991 = 8 years George Deukmejian: 1991 - 1983 = 8 years Ronald Reagan: 1975 - 1968 = 7 years
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  430. Checkout my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" for a refutation of this Thunderf00t video, there's also some insightful discussion in the comments (amongst the usual nonconstructive snark)
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  431. I like her folksy words like "honky-tonk"
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  432. The United States did indeed support the mujahideen in Afganistan in the 1980s against the Soviet Union, and US-backed Osama bin Laden later masterminded the 9/11 attacks. In case anybody reading this is not aware, this is not a conspiracy theory, but widely accepted history. While the 9/11 attacks "only" killed 3,000 people but launched the United States into a multi-decade long war effort in the Middle East (that still hasn't finished) but has cost trillions of dollars a hundreds of thousands of lives. All this history doesn't excuse Russia from doing the same. That's assuming the reports were true. It could just be another issue of bad intelligence like the Iraq war justification of weapons of mass destruction.
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  433. Also it wasn't completely clear from your video but paper says the lyrics themselves were generated using a GPT model
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  434. The Wuhan virology lab was only a few hundred meters from the epicenter and does research on strains of coronavirus taken from wild animals like bats that are not circulating among humans (and has a history of leaking pathogens through lab mistakes). It's not at all far fetched. There are a lot of important questions that need to be answered by an independent investigation.
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  435. This kind of Thunderf00t video is far more intellectually honest than his terrible SpaceX Busted video series.
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  436. Great content. Found the last part about if conflict breaks out a bit repetitive . Only 13,200 subscribers. Keep it up, I think you can grow to at least 100,000 subscribers and beyond.
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  437. 3:13 Interesting to hear that Japan is pushes for universal healthcare to be adopted as part of the G7/G20/UN sustainable development goals. I hadn't heard about that before. Good job Japan.
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  438. I don't believe in Gordon Chang's 'Coming Collapse of China' hypothesis, but I do see China soon having several lost decades from the 2030s onwards: experiencing near 0% economic growth (while the rest of the world grows above that).
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  439.  @Asianometry  I absolutely agree that the rest of the world should push to out innovate China. Companies like SpaceX are building Starship and Starlink (not to mention the previous generation re-usable Falcon 9) while China continues to launch Soyuz-derived capsules and crash toxic UDMH fuel onto unsuspecting villages. Without hacking and tech transfer (previously from Soviet Union, now from private companies) the CCP will find it very difficult to catchup. China is blocked from the bidding on commercial rocket launch services for obvious security reasons.
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  440. He's just responding to the economics of YouTube: sensationalism and clickbait generate ad revenue and new patrons, even if the information is false and misleading. For those looking for a deeper dive into the economics of Falcon 9 and reusability in comparison to the Ariane 5 (the most competitive commercial rocket), checkout my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted". It's been very well received by the community, so I hope more people check it out!
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  441.  @missingmochigumanofficial  Supporters on Patreon get early access through an unlisted video link. When the video is published the published date resets
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  442.  @ProfCantonius  Under Xi Jinping's leadership, I think Hong Kong will become "just another city in China". Before Xi Jinping, I thought there was a high chance for an extension to the One Country Two Systems model because Hong Kong's common law system is very useful. These days I think China's top leadership mistakenly believes that China has nothing to learn from Hong Kong's model and at 3% of China's GDP it's not a place that even matters to China anymore. I think Hong Kong will still do OK: it will continue to be far richer than China and preserve a lot of its wealth. But it will definitely becoming less of a global city. This may change if Xi Jinping leaves office, but that's not going to happen in the short term. * (I'm not from the region, so my analysis is based on my reading about Hong Kong and the psychology/decisions that the leadership of China has made)
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  443.  @idriscam  The show reflects the content of America's own national debate for an Australian domestic audience. Russia and North Korea were big stories in 2017
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  444. Yeah the point is we are watching this video educate ourselves. Displaying a map while talking doesn't take much time and greatly enhances the viewer's understanding. Some people might be watching this on their phone, tablet or TV and can't easily search the internet for maps. Video is a medium that supports visuals, audio and little text so maps can easily be displayed, so the channel should take advantage of that feature when it comes to core content.
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  445. Corporate structures are very dry, and as somebody else said in the comments: arcane. This video is a bit hard to follow and requires a lot of active listening and thought to try and piece things together. A simplified diagram explained as a slideshow using PowerPoint might have kept people's attention further. All that said, this video is a great deep dive into the arcane part of Chinese corporate structures, specially in relation to Alibaba and its businesses (Youku, Taobao, Ant/AliPay etc). I also really enjoyed your examination of the "big red button" / "nuclear option" provided by what you eloquently call the "strategic ambiguity": the legality of those Variable Interest Entities that are used in those Chinese corporate structures. I guess it tells us what everybody already knows: the Chinese Communist Party (and well placed executives like Jack Ma) can consolidate power at any point (and steal money from investors, especially foreigners) yet still be 100% legal, because the contracts, courts and legal system in China are specifically designed with the "strategic ambiguity" that the CCP can leverage at any time. I can understand why China is constantly trying to clamp down on people moving all their assets to safer legal jurisdictions. If I had capital in China, I would too LOL
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  446. They are men and women just like us. I'm sure they are just as happy as regular people, though they have been indoctrinated through the "red education" (patriotic education) system setup by the corrupt government of China. Most people in China never hear any views other than Xinhua/People's Daily/etc. Outside of China we have access to those government of China state media AND independent media. I'm sure they are similarly happy as people outside of China, all humans have an amazing capacity to find joy even when living in a giant, corrupt totalitarian surveillance state with very limited information and access to the outside world.
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  447. If you're looking for future topics, you should consider making a video about The Great Firewall of China. I consider it one of the most dangerous technologies ever invented.
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  448.  @khulgarulfsson8067  good info thanks for taking the time to comment
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  449.  Albert Moore  By China we mean China. If we were talking about Taiwan we would say Taiwan. Two sovereign, independent nations. Honestly the people of Taiwan don't have any right to rule over China. The people of China need to choose their government (obviously they do NOT at the moment due to no elections). I hope Taiwan renounces its territorial claims over China, and especially China's ridiculous the "Nine Dash Line" annexation of international waters. China use that claim to justify their crazy position. Taiwan is honest and trusted member of the international community. China is not.
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  450.  @TheFreshSpam  TSMC and Samsung are ahead of Intel in manufacturing. Especially TSMC. Due to the semiconductor shortage Intel can still sell their inferior chips at a decent premium. The have plenty of cash on hand and might still might come back if new CEO Pat Gelsinger can get their house in order. It's not clear whether he'll succeed. These days most would take an AMD design (manufactured in an TSMC fab) over an Intel design (manufactured in an Intel fab).
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  451. After the current disease outbreak China is already barely able to afford our products. China decoupling from the world economy will accelerate due to the virus the CCP tried to cover up. They are blocking independent inquiries into the origin of this virus that when all is said and done will have killed hundreds of thousands. and cost tens of trillions of dollars of the global economy. We need to end the Chinese Communist Party. Avoid buying Made In China.
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  452. ​ @pwnd331  I'm sure Chas will read this comment thread and give ABC Managing Director David Anderson a call on my behalf! :)
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  453. RIP Florida Man, the world's worst superhero. Well Florida Man might be OK, but maybe not his parents :/
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  454. I hope Peter Zeihan's team (the person running this channel) make takedown requests for all the Peter Zeihan channels that upload his audio books as officially narrated by Peter Zeihan himself. I would have thought his book publisher would use YouTube Content ID to automatically flag the videos, but no.
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  455. Pauline Hanson's argument from 25 years ago was that immigrants from Asia "form ghettos and do not assimilate". The people she was talking about assimilated very well into Australian society. Pauline was wrong and makes Australia look stupid and racist. Back then the government of China only started building up its patriotic education brainwashing system to control its population after the Tiananmen Square Massacre. This issue now is the government of China has far more resources, and has enough "patriotic educated" adults to cause the rest of the world big problems. Thinking and nuanced communication is not something Pauline Hanson ever does. She unnecessarily inflames racial tensions among everyday Australians. We need to speak carefully as we work to destroy the murderous totalitarian dictatorship called the Chinese Communist Party.
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  456.  @adamdymke8004  Clearly he's referring to Yun Jiang, who just repeated the Chinese Communist Party's positions virtually verbatim in this video. It is kind of useful to have that input, but "CCP-apologist" is a fair way to describe those specific contributions in my opinion.
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  457. The government* of China is unreliable and hostile, and illegally annexes the international waters. Use your words more carefully. It's the corrupt government of China that's the problem
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  458. Yes it's a bad faith argument with a lot of misconceptions. Lookup my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" to understand why!
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  459.  @douginorlando6260  First flight in 2030s? What's the fuel and engine selection? Will it be even partially re-usable? It sounds like a great competitor to NASA's Space Launch System (SLS). But LM9 seems like vaporware right now, and even the SLS isn't vaporware. If it's the "Elephant in the room" it's the "white elephant" in the room. China doesn't yet have an answer to the Falcon 9's reusability yet. Maybe they will one day, but until then you may as well call Long March 9 the "New Armstrong". They call such systems "paper rockets" for a reason. The rocket only exists on paper.
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  460.  @richardrustle4752  Exactly, this particular video is spreading misinformation and is full of misconceptions. It's sad that Thunderf00t fans don't critically analyze Thunderf00t's claims. EDIT: This annoyed me so much I made a video titled "SpaceX Unbusted". I hope people check it out :)
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  461. Booster core 1051 has 8 flights, and 1049 has 7 flights. Thudnerf00t's figures are for the third generation Falcon 9 not the current fifth generation. Everybody reading please checkout my 8 minute video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" and make up your own mind.
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  462. ​ @clark6666  Try posting again! Maybe reword it -- YouTube was caught block posts containing the term 'wumao' and 'communist bandit' when written in Chinese. Most likely it's an automated spam filter through users constantly reporting the comment, but selective censorship can never totally be rule out. I am against all forms of censorship!
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  463. For another excellent minidocumentary from this channel, checkout the video titled The Geopolitics of Taiwanese Pork Imports
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  464. Brouhaha is just another word that means "commotion"
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  465.  @evanh9301  Potentially. I see Trump = tough rhetoric, trade war and high tariffs, but hurting the US alliances system and international leadership. I see Biden = Softer on the CCP in rhetoric, won't increase the tariffs, but more likely to bolster US alliance and international leadership, and do longer term economic integration through things like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (a trade agreement designed specifically to exclude China). Congressional Democrats like Senator Chuck Schumer are definitely far tougher on the Chinese Communist Party than Biden has been so far. We'll see if that kind of anti-CCP thinking within his own party influences the decisions Biden will make.
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  466. The government of China has been fighting a cold war for decades. We are just more aware of it now.
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  467. If people reading this don't understand why Fred Bloggs says "Thunderf00t no longer cares about facts", search YouTube for "SpaceX Unbusted" to watch the video I made :)
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  468.  @adoredpariah  there's 300 people in PNG and Nauru offshore detention in appalling conditions. It's absolutely a stain on Australian human rights record that should be 100% condemned.
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  469. Really good reporting! Good job CNBC
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  470. 3:02 "nor does it explain the numerous bullet holes in the boat's hull" It's a somber tragedy, but damn did that statement catch me off guard.
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  471. 4:37 It's interesting how different the world was in 2008 (the year of the Beijing Olympics). I can't imagine it being politically feasible for AMD and Fujitsu to transfer advanced manufacturing knowledge to China these days. These days in political circles it's more widely recognized that the skills Yangtze gains from manufacturing lower value semiconductors will eventually be used to move up the value chain, and crucially that China (unlike South Korea or Taiwan) is not going to become more open as it grows richer. Like it or not, this view means that policy makers see China moving up the value chain as undesired outcome, something that should be blocked with policy and sanctions. I suspect that NAND manufacturing tech transfer would have been blocked if it was 2021.
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  472. Yes, the figures quoted in this video are way out of date. Please watch my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" to help tackle misinformation. The marginal cost of a Falcon 9 relaunch when fairings are recovered is $15 million ($10 million for the second stage, $1 million for booster, and the rest for operations, fuel etc). This makes reflight cost is 25% the cost of a new rocket and with reflying 10 times almost having been demonstrated, the kilogram per dollar has been halved. Please watch my 8 minute video titled "SpaceX Unbusted".
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  473. Not to "dox" Asianometry, he's mentioned he's part of the "Taipei elite" in a previous video talking about the economic divide between the north and the much poorer regions like southern city of Tainan (and the Taiwanese indigenous people in the mountainous eastern countryside). Given his interest in semiconductor fabs presumably he seems to be trained as an electronics engineer. (Though for all I know all Taiwanese people are well versed in the finer points of extreme ultraviolet lithography.) EDIT: beaten to the punch
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  474. Yeah the new dude is pretty good. Simon Whistler still is great, but I don't mind the new guy's style! Also VisualPolitik's China coverage tends to be actually very good! I hope to see this channel grow
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  475. Whoever edited that page made a mistake. That $15 million is the MARGINAL cost of relaunch (in the best case scenario, including fairings recovery). It's NOT the sticker price of a launch. The previous cited $50 million figure was from mid-2018 and from the context appeared to be for the fourth generation Falcon 9 flying a second time, but in expendable mode thus launching 22,800kg into low-earth orbit (all fourth generation Falcon 9 rockets were reused a maximum of 1 time, with the second launch being expendable). I know that SpaceX no longer distinguish between new and "flight-proven" boosters (any they contractually are allowed to launches on whatever rocket they want, including Starship), but I haven't seen the sticker price for a launch that puts 15,600kg into orbit.
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  476. You're conflating Chinese with the people associated with the CCP. But yes, a reciprocal where businesses associated with the CCP can't invest isn't the worst idea. It's hard to implement without huge economic damage, but the sentiment is a good idea.
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  477. Australia's exports of beef, wine, grain and lobster are what's being held up by customs in China for arbitrary political reasons. It's the Australian hand that feeds China..
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  478. Why? Other than his habit of asking excessively long questions and a bit too much background information he seems to do a pretty good job
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  479. Well while you and I might be fine, a worldwide economic depression has big impacts of many people. Rethinking Australia's China dependence is the silver lining, but never forget China lied and over 300,000 people are now dead.
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  480. ​ @Asianometry  Once you reach let's say 250,000 subscribers (10 times your current subscriber count) and have grown your Patreon proportionally from 81 subscribers to 810 subscribers it should become increasingly obvious that entertaining the global internet is far more financially lucrative than any professional career path you could possible have in Taiwan. Yes ad revenue, sponsorships and view counts may be a fickle income source, and you face global competition with your videos. But Patreon is consistent, as so is the user-base for quality content. It's enough to one day make the jump to being a full-time YouTube creator. As a famous senate once said, "we will watch your career with great interest".
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  481. Good to see at least Taiwan's 'high art' scene seems thriving. I think 24 million person Taiwan punches WAY ABOVE its weight in electronics (mostly due to TSMC and Foxconn/Pegatron/Wistron), but punches WAY BELOW its weight when it comes to pop culture exports. Even 51 million person South Korea has produced "K-Pop" music. Meanwhile 126 million person Japan is highly influential -- generating huge amounts of video games (Nintendo and Sony PlayStation), anime (cartoons), and manga (comic books) including internationally recognizable characters like Super Mario and the pokemon Pikachu, generating billions of dollars of export income and huge amounts of soft power. Some Japanese media also get adapted into high budget Hollywood movies, like 'Edge of Tomorrow' starring Tom Cruise. I feel Taiwan could do much better in this regard.
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  482. Every country has a Chinese Communist Party problem. Australia is just more aware of it, and in general less afraid to talk about it.
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  483. He's not swift like a coursing river
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  484.  @shakingwater  You can type "!g" in a DuckDuckGo search query to make it search using Google. You might find that your percentage of searches with "!g" falls over time.
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  485. 12:32 what is twitter lolololol very 2008
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  486. Yep, from late 2017
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  487. ​ @ActiveAussie2024  Nuclear war would lead to every capital city in Australia plus Alice Springs being flattened. I agree China is a paper tiger but its rockets are all based on Russian tech which do the job. China would lose in any war against the United States but it would lead to huge losses on both sides and worldwide nuclear catastrophe. Call their bluff and let the CCP try to unleash economic wrath on Australia, it will only hasten the economic demise of the CCP.
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  488. 12:32 LOL the horse trainer and the mafia boss look identical to me. They have the same name too!! I suspect whoever made the mix up at News Corp will soon be waking up with a horse head in their bed LOL
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  489. "Leaked from a lab" and "genetically engineered" are two very different situations, made more difficult for Media Watch to distinguish between when people say imprecise things like "it did not originate in a lab". When we inevitably find a population of animals that carry a near match for COVID-19 that does NOT preclude the "leak from lab theory". The only way you can do that is by inventorying all the animals and virus samples that have passed through the institute (past and present) to determine that no saliva sample or live animal ever had COVID-19. This is very difficult to do, not least because Wuhan was the initial epicenter of the outbreak, but also because the government of China has very long and storied tendency to destroy evidence and lie about it. COVID-19 is likely a wild strain of coronavirus with minor mutations for zoonosis. IF it did leak from a lab, don't expect the government of China to ever admit it. The only way we'll know is if whistleblowers in China say something. Also I re-iterate that inevitably find a population of animals that carry a near match for COVID-19 that does NOT preclude the "leak from lab theory.
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  490. Microphone stuff up around 1:41
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  491. Another great and informative video. Here's a comment for the YouTube algorithm
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  492. SpaceX is not even failing. They're making significant savings from reusability but just not passing it on to their customers. Checkout my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" to understand why.
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  493. I don't like your terminology and wording, but I agree the Chinese Communist Party is a danger to all humanity and should be stopped. Remember buy ABC (Anywhere But China)!
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  494. I wasn't able to catch every single part of the math, at least of the first watch, but this still is one of the best episodes of Veratasium ever made. Great job
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  495. China doesn't have access to large amounts of fast GPUs due to sanctions, so can't as easily throw as much compute and training as other country can. China also doesn't have access to the ability to fab leading-edge semiconductors, or the EDA design tools either. Only TSMC can fab the chips, and they obey sanctions due to using ASML machines and other US funded (or founded) components and intellectual property (see Asianometry video on sanctions) All that said, engineers in China can spend more time optimizing algorithms to do more with the compute they have. And I'm sure they'll try sanctions busting too.
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  496. For more great stories on natural history, I highly recommend the YouTube channel PBS Eons (see direct link below)
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  497.  @drowe2 Impersonating a federal agent is a serious crime with a fine and a 3 year prison sentence
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  498. Taiwan is the healthiest democracy in all of Asia. Japan is a one party state where the LDP won nearly every election for the past 70 years. South Korea had the daughter of the dictator leading the country until they were recently found be corrupt and jailed. India, Sri Lanka and the other countries of "South Asia" are also highly corrupt. Go Taiwan!
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  499. Eminent domain, but yes. The Northern Territory purportedly has stronger powers of eminent domain than other jurisdictions. Should have taken back the Port of Darwin years ago because if we do it now it looks like it's in retaliation to the trade war. Either way there's a strong case to either void the contract using the security clause or use eminent domain
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  500. I agree the government of China is a corrupt totalitarian regime that has spread disease and caused a global economic depression and is now going after Hong Kong's autonomy which is a result of an international treaty but now the CCP is breaking its word).
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  501. There's cancelling the lease as part of the contract terms. There's also the Northern Territory using its eminent domain laws. Either way it should have been done years ago.
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  502. If you don't like Google search, switch immediately to DuckDuckGo. Its actually pretty good. And if you don't like the results on DDG for a particular query, add "!g" to search with Google
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  503. 29:50 The story of the US citizen who is on the drone kill list is actually kind of hilarious (sad for the broken legal system, but still hilarious)
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  504. China won't be able to afford Australia's world class exports in the quantities we're used to, so it's time to change our policies. We need to recognise that for the rest of the century, China's best days economically are now behind it. The years of 6% growth are not coming back. Even without people around the world choosing to Buy ABC (Anywhere But China), the decades of CCP mismanagement has set the stage for inevitable demographic catastrophe. And like it or not there is nothing that can be done to change this slow motion car crash. China will soon be a nation of very old people without even a government pension, living in deteriorating apartment buildings while relying on their children to even afford food. Within a decade, China will be stuck at around 0% growth for the next 50 years (while the rest of the world moves forward).
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  505.  @justicedemocrat9357  The original ~2008 Kevin Rudd government NBN was to build Fibre To The Premises (FTTP, maximum initial speed 1000mbps) to 93% of residences. The 2013 LNP government switched to a "Multi Technology Mix" which used the inferior "FTTN" (fiber to the node, limited to ~60mbps depending on the cable quality), "FTTC" (fiber to the curb, max 80mbps right now depending on cable quality) and "HFC" (Hybrid Fiber Coaxial, max ~100mbps depending on cable quality). For HFC they bought Telstra's Foxtel cable TV network and Optus's HFC network (for $30 billion if I recall correctly). The limits of FTTN means they have started building out FTTP for certain suburbs after first installing FTTN. Because the FTTN existing network turned out to be too slow. By the way, it's possible to get a free quote from the NBN "Technology Choice Program" website and pay out of pocket to upgrade to FTTP. Fiber optic cabling to the premises is the best internet technology around, and will continue to be for many decades.
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  506. Interesting how China has become a nation of high consumer debt (and high corporate debt). The high household savings rate is completely offset by the lack of any decent pension system, and the sky-high cost of real-estate.
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  507. In the long-run China's behavior is causing like-minded democracies to band together into economic blocs capable of repelling China's aggression. Look at India (founder of the "non-aligned movement") and Vietnam -- both barely friendly with the US let alone allies -- looking increasingly like they'll become US military alliance partners in the coming decades. Crazy stuff!
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  508. Whether you prefer to call it the "Communist Party of China" or the "Chinese Communist Party" it doesn't really matter
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  509. Watch my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted". Lack of inflation adjustment is the least of this video's problems!
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  510. There are some India semiconductor content coming up (Patreon Early Access), and some older videos on the Galwan Valley and the Sino-Soviet Split (which is India related). On the Discord server Jon mentioned that the recent India video (the Reliance Jio video) didn't do very well compared to how much research it took to make. Please share videos you like to people who may not be aware of the channel!
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  511.  @testla3383  You're right. Hyundai makes cargo ships and their ports (including the elevators in the buildings), as well as cars. And Sony sells personal insurance. Any company that can successfully diversify into such distant markets is definitely very impressive.
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  512. The only ASUS product I've ever been disappointed with was a *very* low-end Windows 10 laptop that had 32GB of non-expandable storage in around 2015. For Windows 10 the 32GB of storage wasn't even enough to do a Windows Update. Microsoft later created a workaround that used an external USB drive as a temporary storage medium to do the Windows Update, but I can't believe Microsoft (and ASUS) even allowed a laptop to be released with such a low amount of storage. Other than that I've had very good experiences with ASUS products and recommend ASUS, Gigabyte (and Samsung) for those who want high quality (and relatively cheap) electronics that has been made outside China.
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  513. Singapore gets its water from Malaysia right now and 81% of its natural gas (and thus its electricity supply) from Malaysia and Indonesia. See Asianometry's video "Singapore's 50 Year March Towards Water Independence" for more information on the water side of things... That reliance is already should be a *massive* national security concern. Given Singapore is a small city-state it realistically can't do everything within its borders. Even continent sized countries follow the economic principle of "competitive advantage" (not every country needs to make its own clothing, or cars, assemble its own electronics). So it comes down to diversification: never be overly reliant on the United States, China, Australia or the Middle East (for oil). Also Singapore has also passed a law saying no one source can provide more than 25% of Singapore's energy, and Sun Cable suggest they will only power about 20%
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  514. "How TSMC Came to Taiwan's South": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x02pq2HeKQY
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  515. Watch Compounding Curiosity podcast (ep 24). The interview covers it!!
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  516. All dudettes are also dudes, like how actresses are also actors.
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  517. Here's the quote from 10:18: "They licensed a promising technology from Bell Labs and gathered a small team of their best dudes to rapidly develop a rough concept machine in less than a year - the 8100 Plasma Etching Machine." The word "dude" is definitely used in a genderless way, my dude!
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  518. As Darth Vader famously said, the ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of friendship
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  519. I think Asianometry might be a fan of Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series. First ~10 episodes are very funny and highly recommended to anybody familiar with the original Yu-Gi-Oh series.
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  520. The biggest issue is constantly lying about the severity of the virus, and never being transparent. Consider that the Chinese Communist Party stopped the World Health Organisation from declaring a pandemic even when it was clear that South Korea and Italy had uncontrolled outbreaks. Crazy! If they were fully transparent from day one, and let in the WHO and CDC teams when they were desperately seeking access, the world would be far more accepting even they ultimately couldn't contain the virus.
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  521. The US alliance widely supported and supported by both sides of politics. It definitely doesn't (and shouldn't) depend on which US party holds the presidency or Congress. Some former Australian leaders (most notably former PM Paul Keating) have called for Australia to have a less US-centric foreign policy, especially after the war in Iraq. Before Xi Jinping that idea was kind of reasonable, but right now very few people hold that opinion.
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  522. Banning political ads and de-emphasizing political discussion on Facebook is a non-starter because as you say it is not good for shareholders. There is a way to "thread the needle" and keep high engagement political content. Maybe the Reddit approach where everybody has their views challenged by other people constantly (even though it's also an echo chamber)?
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  523. He's getting Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital tourism/joyrides (where 90+ year old William Shatner flew) confused with SpaceX one-off Inspiration4 tourist mission that took years for the crew to prepare for.
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  524. Both sides of Australian politics are guilty of selling Australia out to the Chinese Communist Party. Remember Adam Giles (Country Liberal Party and former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory) leased the Port of Darwin to China for 99 years. Andrew Robb (Liberal Party and former trade minister) signed the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement then immediately left parliament for an $880,000 consultancy gig with Landbridge (the Chinese Communist Party-linked company that leased the Port of Darwin) where he was not required to do any work. Pure "revolving door" corruption. Labor's Sam Dastyari got bribed by CCP-linked property developer Huang Xiangmo. And his "Yuhu Group" gave $100,000 to federal Labor and $425,000 to the Liberal Party. *Chinese Communist Party corruption in Australia is alive and well. We need a full investigation. Also we need a federal Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC)*
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  525. I also saw chop seals as an outdated concept, but in Western legal systems there is actually the concept of a "bearer instrument" where the holder of a document gets legal ownership of an underlying asset. This can apply to company's shares, bonds etc. Because the bearer share certificate can be transferred (or stolen) without records, and their use in tax evasion means they're slowly becoming banned. But bearer certificates are still used. By the way, I believe cash (banknotes and coins) are also considered bearer instruments. Though like other bearer instruments, large cash transactions are slowly being phased out for other transaction systems with fully auditable transaction history such as electronic funds transfer.
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  526. Is there recent evidence that cloud seeding works? It will be fantastic if people can control rainfall, to make it happen over dryer places and land areas, rather than even more rainfall on already wet areas and oceans. But last I checked there's no evidence of its effectiveness.
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  527. Wendover Productions tends to have VERY poor analysis of China (see their Anker-sponsored "Why Chinese Manufacturing Wins" video) compared to full-time political analyst Ian Bremmer, and the China-focused YouTubers (eg, PolyMatter and Asianometry)
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  528. I think Taiwan being seen as "heading in the right direction" helped a lot (even before the democratization of the 1980s/1990s). Hypothetically when Xi Jinping took power in 2012 had he not inflamed tensions (annexing the SCS, interning 1 million Uighers) but instead immediately implemented very minor democratic reform (eg, widespread local village elections reminiscent of China's famous "Wukan democracy experiment"), then I think Trump would have struggled to gain political support for his 2017 trade war and subsequent sanctions. China's leadership could persuasively argue that Trump's actions would make continued reform impossible, even if they didn't actually intend on continued reform.
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  529.  @allacerz2289  I agree the CCP's number one goal is to remain in power indefinitely, and everything else is a means to that end.
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  530.  @Chris-ci8vs  Checkout my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted". He said the refurbishment cost was 40% not 25%. And said the reuse payload reduction was 50% not 68%. These incorrect numbers vastly change the economics of reusability. Watch my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" if you want an accurate analysis of the numbers.
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  531. Thundef00t's numbers are old and cherry-picked. For a look at the facts, checkout my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted"! :)
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  532. China "demonstrates power" (military might) while it has major problems due to very little power (electricity) after it banned high-quality Australian coal (and many of its coastline power plants are retrofitted so can't burn anything else). Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu recently seemed very worried that China might try and start a conflict or an incident to distract from internal problems (the electricity issue, but also presumably Evergrande). YouTube video reference: "Taiwan's Foreign Minister, Joseph Wu (full interview) | China Tonight".
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  533. I have confirmed with Asianometry that this was a typo. It's 14km (8.7 miles), not 140km (87 miles). The description and subtitles/transcript has been updated. The number comes from a book: "Over 1973-4, the new disk brake was tested in wind tunnels and in drops from helicopters and aircraft from altitudes as high as 14,000 m. The spacecraft model was also dropped onto simulated Venusian soil made from foam concrete." (from the book "Russian Planetary Exploration History, Development, Legacy and Prospects: by Brian Harvey).
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  534. Really enjoying your random vlog content / mini-documentaries, like your earlier videos on Chiang Kai-shek Statue Park and Kaohsiung Pier 2 Art Center. Also if the growth in hard drive capacity and archival is any indication, it's likely your video will continue to be freely available on YouTube for many hundreds of years, long after the museum has closed down and been long forgotten. Thanks for documenting it.
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  535. If Australia developed the nukes then Indonesia, Malaysia and eventually the Philippines get the bomb. Then the risk is somebody in those countries sell one to some oil rich extremist who puts it on a yacht and detonates it in Circular Quay. Australia is most safe when pushing for non-proliferation and staying under the nuclear umbrella of the United States.
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  536. They broadcast on TV too. But yes, GZERO Media definitely needs to focus on growing their channel and making it more sustainable. They don't even ask for likes and subscribers. The Eurasia Group is subsidizing this GZERO Media side project, but presumably if they don't reach a break even point eventually they'll shut the operation down, which would be sad.
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  537. It's been predicted for decades that China will grow old before it grows rich, and that prediction is about to come true: China will economically stagnate for the next several decades. Despite this, the United States should push much harder on economically isolating the Chinese Communist Party. The CCP's China is currently a totalitarian surveillance state (that happens to be committing genocide). After the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre the world should enacted sanctions against China, and not have allowed the China's dangerous internet censorship system (called the "Great Firewall of China") to have been built. The world needs to stop enriching such an dangerous totalitarian regime. We should consider 50% tarriffs on all products made in China, and put every semiconductor company (and other higher value add industry in China) on the United States' Entity List to prevent companies trading with them (and ramp things up from there).
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  538. inversely correlates
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  539. 14:02 The video states Australia's *Nothern Territory* has 250,000 people (compared to the similar sized Egypt's 103 million people). It's not saying the whole of Australia has 250,000 people. For those interested, the Northern Territory (or "the NT" as people here call it) is an administrative district in Australia known as a "territory". This is actually a distinct administrative jurisdiction to an Australian "state", like Queensland or Victoria. And as such there are some limitations on the power of the politicians in that region. The only other territory of the same status Australia has is the Australian Capital Territory (or "the ACT" as people here call it), which contains Australia's capital, Canberra. There's been talk of the NT becoming a full-fledged Australian state, but nothing has come of it yet. I fully expect one day it will become a state, especially as its population and importance to the Australian economy grows. The Territorians grow some mighty fine mangoes up there!
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  540. ​ @dragonchan  Visit this link https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry and look at the posts. There are about 20 videos that are not-yet-released that can only be unlocked by paying for the "Early Access Tier", which is $6/month. For most of the world, this is of course a lot of money to spend to support a YouTube content creator. All videos on Asianometry's Early Access Tier gets released for free after 2-3 months.
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  541. For smartphones, fridges, TVs etc, buy Samsung! Samsung have moved their last smartphone factory out of China a few months ago (to Vietnam). Most of their global manufacturing is based outside China so it's the simplest "Made in China Alternative" out there!
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  542.  @Moabi4  Australia was staunchly anti-CCP far before Trump. It banned Huawei from the NBN (the National Broadband Network) in 2012. Waaaaay Trump came in and started his (highly laudable) anti-Huawei, anti-ZTE, anti-SMIC trade disputes and tariffs.
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  543. lol Chas is starting to get fat
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  544. If China doesn't accept allow inspectors to do an independent inquiry into the origins of the virus, then the planet needs to place economic sanctions on them. Start with using Magnitsky Act type sanctions against individuals connected to the Chinese Communist Party. We know that top CCP leaders and their families own huge amounts of property and assets outside of China (they know that the system can purge them at any time so they hedge their bets). Sanction their wealth using the Magnitsky Act until they allow an independent inquiry into the origins of the virus. The CCP owes the world an explanation (from independent inspectors, because no one trust the Chinese Communist Party).
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  545. 8:19 man, that looks so good 🤤
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  546. ​ @valleyhack  It might be worth checking with Tom Mueller first though I once watched a marathon 4 hour 15 minute video he gave to students at Launch Canada, where he went into great detail on everything -- including indepth about Merlin reusability. He apparently said too much because all records of that video have been stricken from the internet
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  547. The erosion and dismantling of Australia superannuation retirement savings system is such a huge story that I'm surprised it's not a major issue among voters. The freeze on the 9.5% superannuation guarantee is also crazy. Unfortunately Australia's opposition party are currently not able to convince voters of anything. I guess you get the politicians you deserve.
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  548. For those reading, here are those videos: "Taiwan's Biggest Company - Foxconn" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LytEuoS87EA "TSMC vs Samsung Foundry - The Billion Dollar Rivalry" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4L1IdbQyLg
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  549. LinkedIn shutting down in China likely has a lot to do with the platform being used by Chinese Communist Party and People's Liberation Army to gather intelligence on the operation of companies around the world and "spear phish" individuals with malware. The United States government has been complaining about that for a long time. China's hacking hasn't yet (and likely will never) even give it a particular strong diversified economy, but it's still great to reduce the attack vector!
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  550. Hostile and unreliable trading partner certainly. It all goes back to the totalitarian system setup by the Chinese Communist Party.
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  551. The contract has escape clauses and Australia will reportedly pay France some to-be-determined compensation for leaving the $90 billion contract early, probably in the billions of dollars.
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  552. 43:05 A bunch of people who plan to run tours for tourists find a random pieces of metal in the middle of the outback and claim it's from the Skylab space station? Sure the metal is scorched, but I'm skeptical of a lot of these debris.
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  553. Punctuation, my dude!
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  554. Intel absolutely dominated high-end semiconductors from like, 1950-2010. With the notable exception of memory chips, which Japan dominated in the 1980s.
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  555. Even if a politician effectively overrules a judge's decision (using their legislated powers) I'd argue that's actually more democratic because the politician was directly elected by the people but the judges are not. In this case the court ruled the minister has legal authority to make the decision here, so it's legally all above board. In general it makes sense to keep the use of "ministerial discretion" (executive decisions) to a minimum compared to stating clear rules and applying them evenly and impartially. Pretty bad that it had to come the that point here.
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  556. Very true. US under Trump has done a godawful job. If it gets as bad as people think, Trump probably won't get re-elected. If so, good riddance! Hopefully they manage to rescue this situation, but it'll probably be a long and drawn out crisis.
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  557. Some people think the US dollar (and all currencies in the post-1971 era) is the largest Ponzi scheme in history. That may be true, but the constant clamping down on capital flight from China indicates the US dollar is preferred over Mao-nopoly money. Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass had some interesting things to say about this on the Real Vision Finance YouTube podcast. He also did a thought-provoking show with exiled billionaire Guo Wengui, but I'm not sure how reliable Guo is as a source.
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  558.  @axle.australian.patriot  Sounds just like Sun Tzu: When at war, prepare for peace. When at peace, prepare for war.
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  559. Let's not get too "Red Scare" here. If you listen to Stan Grant's (outrageously long) monologues on his Behind The Wall series, he is definitely understands its human rights record and is generally revolted by the regime (as are almost all Australians judging by the Pew Research opinion polls). He does however understand the economic reliance Australia has on China, and sometimes talks with guests with pro-Beijing viewpoints to enhance Australia's understanding of China. He's no traitor and is definitely acting in Australia's best interests. China's a major problem for Australia but let's not start labeling people traitors. That would mean a new Red Scare (lookup McCarthyism)
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  560. The archivist in me wishes you recorded the name tag for every cup
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  561. There was a 135 Space Shuttle flights, all manned and it had two failures. There's been only two SpaceX manned flights (SpaceX Demo-2 and SpaceX Crew-1). SpaceX claims their design is safer but that's done through analysis, not flight history. If they get more than 100 launches without a loss of crew then we can say they're definitely safer.
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  562.  @gracecollins8415  During a crisis, governments around the world block the export of vital supplies even if it rightfully belongs to another nation. During the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic the Australian government blocked CSL from exporting our vaccine to the US until the Australian domestic need was fulfilled. China recently effectively nationalized the American 3M mask factory based in Shanghai until the crisis is over. In a fuel shortage, the American government can and should take care of its own people by blocking the export of petroleum products. Australia can easily have its strategic fuel reserve based within Australia's borders. Why spend $100 million of Australian tax payer dollars to base it in the United States?
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  563. LG's quality control has always tended to be lower than other companies. It sucks because they make extremely great products at really great prices. My household has had several LG 4K 27" monitors for several years now, and they're so great! I recommend them to everybody. Great image quality, and very cheap. One monitor developed a delamination issue (red corners) which some people on Twitter also had. But panel was replaced for free under warranty, and I haven't had any issues with the other 3 monitors. I find LG makes good (to great) products, but tends to have bad (to terrible) quality control. Samsung are definitely far better in this regard. Also, interestingly enough they both tend to manufacture in South East Asia (Thailand, Malaysia etc) rather than in China.
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  564. Never forget, the Chinese Communist Party lied and many people died. Both within China itself and all across the world. Hopefully the World Health Organization can get rid of its corruption and actually provide the world with accurate information about future pandemics. The CCP lied and people died.
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  565. Yes Taiwan's model has been very successful. It became so successful by not listening to the WHO or the CCP and closing borders very early. Taiwan deserves to be part of the international health organization tasked with safeguarding human health and that health organization should be more critical of the CCP's falsified numbers. I agree Trump should have known better than trust the WHO and CCP and he deserves a lot of blame for the issues in the US. It's kind of funny to think if he did a good job and America had fewer deaths, the CCP would double down on saying that this was an American made virus to destroy China's economy. As they say "damned if you do and damned if you don't".
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  566. Australia doesn't have free education. Neither public schools, neither primary school, high school or universities are free. What Australia has is affordable education. School fees for quality public high schools are far less than a $1000 Australian dollars year ($700 US dollars), with support for poorer people. Universities have government backed student loans which leave students with $30,000 debts with a low interest rate for a world class education. Australia has a reasonably good balance, but what Bernie Sanders' wants is cancelling trillion dollars worth of student debt. That's not a policy that most Australians would call the "sensible centre" for a candidate that is otherwise has policies that are very centrist from the perspective of wealthy Europe/Canada/Australia/New Zealand countries.
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  567. Yes it's a strawman. Falcon 9 has yielded a significant saving compared to its closest commercial competitor, Europe's Ariane 5. Yes, fly enough times and cracks will appear. But with enough flights you can validate a statistical model around the wear profile and then you don't need to xray every square inch of the vehicle every flight. But instead every say, 2 flights, or 5 flights. This concept applies to every part of the rocket, including the engines. SpaceX has demonstrated 27 day turnaround times, and say they have a marginal reflight cost of $15 million ($10 million of that is to build a new second stage). I hope everybody reading this watches my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted", and shares it with people who believe the claims from this video. This Thunderf00t video is arguing a strawman, and I want to tackle the misinformation.
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  568. Well Vietnam is communist (at least in name) but they are much more open and outward looking compared to China: they don't yet doesn't filter the internet. They have big human rights issues but electronics supply chains are already shifting there in to commercial reality: high labour costs in China, by China's continued theft, China's unreliability as a trading partner, and only accelerated by Trump's tariffs. The multi-decade engagement strategy failed spectacularly for China, but that doesn't mean engagement is always a bad strategy: unlike China today there's reason to think that with a bit of carrot/stick diplomacy Vietnam will continue to open up and maybe even one day democratise, like the former dictatorships of South Korea and Taiwan.
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  569. PayPal only entered the market after buying the Chinese domestic firm GoPay less than 12 months ago, and it was only this year that China allowed full foreign ownership of financial firms. But WeChat and Alipay have already developed strong 'network effects', so the odds are stacked against PayPal and other platforms. You're right that the US under President Trump is becoming increasingly hostile to firms in China with close links to the Chinese Communist Party since the trade war began. To expand on your comment, I'll mention that since 2019 the US has been using the Entity List to block companies like Hikvision and Dahua security cameras due to those companies being involved in the Uighur concentration camps, but DJI drones are currently still available for consumers to buy (admittedly the US government is banned from using DJI drones). Huawei and ZTE (makers of network equipment and android devices) have been added to the Entity List due to concerns the equipment will (rightly or wrongly) be used for espionage. I am very interested to see what President Biden will do with ongoing China trade disputes. I hope a reformed World Trade Organization plays a bigger role in such dispute mediation, but I think this is unlikely.
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  570. The "ASML: TSMC's Critical Supplier, Explained" goes into sanctions and the international suppliers chain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFsn1CUyXWs Also checkout the multiple videos on this channel on SMIC and HiSilicon for more coverage.
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  571. ​ @pelhamh  I find the chart and graphs published by government websites (like the Reserve Bank and Australian Bureau of Statistics) lacking quite a lot. The official numbers from Treasury are shared so widely so any random website has accurate graphs. I generally like the website TradingEconomics (just search keywords like "Australia Government Debt to GDP" and "Australian budget deficit" and remember to set the scale to "Max"). Other than those two keywords, keep an eye on the percentage of the budget that goes towards paying the interest on the accumulated debt. So much money that could have went towards infrastructure/education/health if we were able to live within our means as a country.
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  572. I wish I could like this more than once. You're doing such great work raising awareness of government of China's impact on the world. Keep on shouting from the rooftops! Millions of people together can change the world for the better!
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  573. Very serine snapshot of a place I never intend to visit! But I find the interesting historical background always fascinating. Thanks for making these video (and all the others on your channel). You have a very underrated channel.
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  574. Nobody wants the CCP, but anybody who wants to buy high-quality Made In Australia goods and services (including our world class education system) is welcome to spend their money which helps the Australian economy. Definitely stop CCP ownership of farmland etc though
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  575. 2:40 He tripped over his words a little, but he was clearly referring to Sergei and Yulia Skripalv (and presumably, the other famous poisoned Russian defector, Alexander Litvinenko)
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  576. Media Watch does not understand the difference between "engineered in a lab" and "leaked from a lab". There's evidence that virus was NOT engineered and there's no evidence yet reported that the virus leaked from a lab. There's also no evidence yet reported that the virus jumped to humans in the Huanan wet market. We only know for sure there was an cluster at the Huanan wet market in December 2019, with a significant amount of early infections with no contact with the wet market. We should not dismiss the lab leak theory out of hand.
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  577. Speaking of feedback, the acronym 'MRT' in the video title should be replaced with "Mass Rapid Transit system". With only a little bit of polish, this channel has the ability to grow into having a CGPGrey or Wendover Productions level audience.
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  578. If this video does well, I highly recommend making a video titled "Why Australia Can't Build Submarines". The Australian Government controls a large state-owned enterprise formerly known "Australian Submarine Corporation" which focuses on building ships for its military. A few years ago Australia's then-Defence Minister said that he "wouldn't trust them to build a canoe". A politician saying that of his own nation's industrial base is pretty jaw-dropping, and shows how far Australia's heavy industry has receded. It seems like a great story for Asianometry, particularly in light of the "AUKUS" nuclear submarine deal.
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  579. I for one (non-sarcastically) love learning about these kinds of random companies I've never heard of. Especially the ones that create the unique vehicles that are only ever seen on US roads. Since everybody has high automotive protectionism it they're generally rarely exported. Like I love learning about Japanese Kei cars too, and how due to the US 25 year import rule there's a subculture of people in rural areas of the US who are importing cheap, reliable and efficient 1990s era Kei cars. Maybe this makes me a nerd, but keep the content coming CNBC
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  580. And Edward Snowden! The way things work these days is they need to be tried and jailed for a few years before receiving a Presidential pardon (see Chelsea Manning). EDIT: Sorry, I meant to say "commuted sentence". Technically not a pardon.
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  581. As we wean ourselves of petroleum products it's going to become much easier for politicians to call out Saudi Arabia's human rights abuse and their dangerous export of the extremist Wahabi ideology (they funded 911 too). No reason why the Marco Rubio's of the world can't call the Saudi's out now though.
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  582. Anybody can read the full (redacted) report by the Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force searching the internet for "IGADF Afghanistan Inquiry Report". There's evidence that 39 people were murdered by the ADF, and they've been referred to the police. It's expected the perpetrators will receive a fair trial followed by (if and when they're found guilty) a lengthy jail sentence.
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  583. This video is definitely cherry-picked and wrong. I hope people watch my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" (and read the at-times interesting discussion / comments) :)
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  584. 9:13 When you said the government of Taiwan helped organize "housing" you meant real-estate for the businesses right? Or did they actually help organize residential apartments near/within the Hsinchu Science Park?
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  585. I've said this a lot: Australia should proverbially "sell mutton to the Hindus and beef to the Muslims". There are billions of customers out there who don't have regimes as dangerous to Australia as the Chinese Communist Party. India, Middle East, Indonesia and the rest of SEA. It looks like China will be forcing us to diversify under less than ideal circumstances, but we did allow ourselves to become over reliant on China. It's high time we finally acted in Australia's interest and diversified our export markets.
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  586. ASUS makes the best routers. In addition to the official firmware there's a really great community firmware project called ASUS-Merlin.
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  587. Our interpretations aside, here are some interesting quotes from George Lucas: https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/7sxp3s/the_balance_of_the_force_according_to_george_lucas/
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  588.  @wallario  My point is you tackle the problem of systemic lack of opportunity using policies that are blind to race. It's OK if policies then naturally disproportionately help black people but you don't get their by creating the policy BASED on the color of their skin.
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  589.  @Asianometry Al Jazeera English made a great 6-part documentary on China's (once famous?) officially-sanctioned democracy experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mglQckQGwbg
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  590. The CCP has already sold faulty COVID testing kits, faulty masks in the past 12 months, and has had fake vaccine scandals in the past. While there is strong evidence China has an active bioweapons program, and collects bat coronaviruses similar to SARS-COV-2 in the Wuhan Institute of Virology there is not yet any evidence that SARS-COV-2 was developed. That doesn't mean it didn't happen but "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence".
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  591. It's very clear that billions of years ago Mars was habitable for millions of years -- with a warm atmosphere with permanent pools of liquid water. For our own entertainment, let's hope our distant microbial ancestors made the long journey to (or from) Mars via meteors (the "panspermia" theory).
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  592. 1:48 You flubbed the pronunciation of Tiananmen exactly how you did it in a previous video!
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  593. 13:32 It's pronounced baker-light, not backer-light
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  594. No, accent doesn't matter: an aussie accent spouting nonsense should be taken with a equally large grain of salt. Just listen to former Prime Minister Paul Keating's recent National Press Club talk where he says in the event of conflict with China, Australia should NOT help defend Taiwanese democracy along with the United States.
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  595. ​ @diggermcginty870  There should definitely be a big public debate on this. Who cares if which politician espouses the idea if it's a good idea. Legal experts need to discuss the pros/cons of this approach.
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  596. 5:41 You called "the last major pandemic ... African swine flu H1N1 back in 2009". You mispoke: yes there was a H1N1 swine flu pandemic in 2009, but it's thought to have originated in Mexico. African Swine Fever is a different disease that doesn't affect humans but has slowly moved across Europe, Russia, China over decades while destroying pig populations.
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  597. Destroy the CCP, Buy ABC (Anywhere But China). Try and buy local first though.
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  598. The Sun Cable project discussed here is a completely different to the "Asian Renewable Energy Hub" proposal you refer to. Their proposal was for a wind and solar farm in the Pilbara region of the state of Western Australia, with submarine cables to Indonesia or Singapore, and like you say, has now switched to use the energy to produce ammonia. The Sun Cable company appear to be continuing with their HVDC submarine cable plan.
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  599. ​ @patrickdowney2523  Why would the US deploy a bioweapon that spreads around the world and cripples its own economy? Is the US advanced enough to deploy a bioweapon but incompetent to cripple itself?
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  600. Al Jazeera English does a really good job. As somebody from Australia your coverage of the News Corp media inquiry had some key details I hadn't heard before. Very nice!
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  601. Yeah I found recent Thunderf00t videos to have very weak analysis compared to his reputation on the internet. I never really started following his channel closely until now
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  602. Stop buying made in China to put pressure on the corrupt government of china!
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  603. Why bother, supply chains will remain open because the essentials (toilet paper, food, electricity and crappy internet) will continue to be made in Australia so as long as they get on top of contact tracing and testing we all will be fine.
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  604. ​ @michaelnoble2432  WHO has failed so badly due to corruption and incompetence. Way too much kowtowing to the CCP saying what a good job they're doing. They still trust the numbers coming out of China. Crazy. Whether WHO is replaced completely or fixed, the United States needs to step up and do SOMETHING. They should have been calling out the WHO for mismanagement publicly every single day.
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  605. 15:44 The hypothetical "President Perfect" elected in 2016 would follow the Taiwan's model and prevent all infections without a lockdown
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  606. There is evidence against the theory that the virus was engineered. There is no evidence of the virus leaking from the WIV, nor is there evidence that the zoonosis occured in the Huanan wet market. All we know is there was an early cluster in the Huanan wet market in December 2019.
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  607. Absolutely, Tedros was installed by the corrupt government of China. And the world suffered for it! Avoid buying Made in China!
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  608. The argument was the $50 billion contract price has went up to $90 billion, and that diesel is a inferior for Australia's changing needs (France doesn't run diesel, so part of the complex contract was to retrofit the nuclear designs). Given this, spending $3 billion compensating to France to leave the contract and get cheaper, more capable subs from the US (which operates 50+ nuclear subs compared to France's 8 nuclear subs) is well worth for Australia. And France gets a few billion dollars without any extra work too. It seems like a win/win (except for Australian taxpayers who should have had leaders/negotiators who selected the correct requirements earlier). But the broader problem remains: the lack of consultation with France/NATO/European allies. Especially on the Afghanistan withdrawal but also this deal. France should definitely be angry at this and I think Macron is making the right decision by pulling out the ambassadors as a wakeup call to its allies to take France's alliance more seriously.
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  609. I've followed GZERO media since a few years ago, and until now I didn't know you had a podcast containing full length / unedited interviews.
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  610. Sounds like the best approach is moving such statues to museums where the exhibits can provide historical context complete with nuances. Eg, the US founding fathers writing "All men are created equal" did so while being slave owners etc
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  611. By the way, it's typical to file for asylum "defensively" as you additionally get 180 days of employment authorization very easily with it. Part of the reason why less than 20% of asylum petitions from Mexico are approved (which as the video mentions at 2:39 is the vast majority of unauthorized migrants)
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  612. 😂😂😂
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  613. He compares total Shuttle program cost to the "total" Falcon 9 program cost (though neglecting the US$396 million seed money for Falcon 9 development before the awarding of the $1.6 billion contract). I haven't looked into the Shuttle numbers, but this approach is actually reasonable BUT the approach is not that relevant. It's much better to compare Falcon 9 to the Ariane 5 to get an idea of how competitive the Falcon 9 actually is. And also to compare reusability with accurate numbers. I did both these things in my 8 minute video titled "SpaceX Unbusted". I hope people check my video out!
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  614. Get Peter Robinson a better microphone
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  615. LOL does anyone feel like John Barron is getting sick of Chas? Maybe the 2 shows a week thing is getting overwhelming?
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  616. Contrary to what TF says, the economics of SpaceX reusability DOES make sense. Search YouTube for my "SpaceX Unbusted" video to see why :)
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  617. Continuing on from your video on Hua Mulan, this song (which most Asianometry viewers would not be familiar with) is about the island hopping settlement of Polynesia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubZrAmRxy_M (Interestingly enough it's by Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the musical Hamilton about United States independence)
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  618. 16:24 He looks like Peter Dutton
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  619. ​ Nathan Dunning Yeah I know, I got a bit carried away when I went on a posting rampage at lunch time. I have removed the final line of my comment
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  620. ​ @blackduck7851  No, all the angles are not being investigated: so far China has blocking all calls for an independent international investigations, with the government of China's representative, Ambassador Jingye Cheng responded to Australia's call for an investigation by threatening to destroy Australia's economy by stopping the flow of international students and agricultural exports. Without access to the virus samples at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (potentially already destroyed), you can't determine whether the virus strains matching COVID-19 were being studied. The Huanan Wet Market has reportedly already disinfected with bleached destroying all evidence. There has been yet no evidence contracting the suggestion of a virus "escape from lab". Even if you find the original population of animals which act as the virus reservoir, without access to the Coronavirus samples being studied at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, it is very difficult to determine whether the original zoonosis happened at the wet market by handling an animal that was already infected with the virus, or whether the first animals and humans were infected from a virus sample held at the nearby lab.
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  621. As the untrustworthy China coerces Australia with trade retaliation it will naturally become a smaller share of Australia's exports, while this happens we should replace China with more reliable and trustworthy export markets, the strategy can be summed up as "selling mutton to the Hindus and beef to Muslims (including Indonesia/Malaysia)". Selling our high quality exports like agriculture to the growing middle classes around the world (including the increasingly middle income African countries)
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  622. For viewers who enjoy Asianometry, I recommend watching videos by PolyMatter (China), Wendover Productions (Aircraft+Logistics), Caspian Report (Geopolitics), VisualPolitik (Geopolitics), CGPGrey, Johnny Harris (Vice / New York Times video journalist). For more China specific videos, serpentza/laowhy86/advchina has some gold (among lots of clickbait). You may also like Cheddar and Quartz (for random topics), and Newsthink (SpaceX/Tesla/Elon Musk), ColdFusion TV (future tech focused), RealEngineering, CuriousDroid (mostly engineering focused)
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  623. For the facts, please checkout my video titled 'SpaceX Unbusted' and some of the insightful comments there :)
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  624. What Al Pal said only applies to that only applies to undocumented boat arrivals. If you just want to just visit Australia, it's dead simple as tourist staying for less than 3 months. If you want to come here forever, you should checkout Australia's points-based migration program. You might already be eligible! If you're 18-30 years old then and just want to live and work in Australia for a while, look into a "Working Holiday Visa" where you can stay here for TWELVE months (and even apply for work to help fund your trip)! It's really common here for backpackers from Europe to travel around working as seasonal fruit pickers. If you're older than that and want to work in Australia for a year or two, you will need to apply get a job offer from a company and apply Temporary work visa.
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  625. Interesting points. My takeaway message is 4:20 "If a cyber attack amounts to a loss of life like a traditional kinetic attack then it should be considered an act of war" and Jeh Johnson suggests at 13:08 that assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Soleimani was effectively an act of war, and the US got very lucky at the Iranian's muted response. And that even the Obama/Biden people see the threat of China as greater than Russia these days. Almost 10 years after China started annexing the South China Sea, but better late than never!
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  626. That reminds me: Asianometry, please re-order your "TSMC - Essays" playlist in chronological order. Currently the first video in the playlist is NOT the one a viewer should start with...
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  627. Violence and a bloody civil war aren't helpful. The way to show your support for the freedom loving people of Hong Kong is to show those around you the horrors of the CCP, and convince them to avoid buying Made In China. Also vote for politicians who help want to decouple your country's economy from China's. The free world (including the freedom loving people of Hong Kong) can become wealthier while we leave China out. The people of China rise up and overthrow their government, because with CCP in power their nation will forever be poor and isolated.
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  628. Checkout the channel Asianometry. Maybe start with "The Coming Semiconductor Bust"
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  629. EDIT: Ignore this comment, Marise Payne confirmed the zoonosis origins will be examined, earlier reporting only mentioned an investigation of the "global health response" Yeah it sounds like China will agree to an investigation into the GLOBAL health response. Not the circumstances that led to the virus outbreak (with investigators with WMD type investigative powers)
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  630. Do an internet search for Australia's migration program to understand your options
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  631. That's Bremmer's office!? I thought it was his apartment during lockdowns/mandatory WFH
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  632. Reparations are a complete non-starter. How far back do you want to go? The 2008 financial crisis was caused by bankers in the United States trading in mortgage derivatives and caused trillions lost around the world (including China borrowing trillions to prop up it's own economy). Financial compensation and reparations are not the way forward. The way forward is a transparent investigation into the origins, followed by real change. It can't just be another 2002 SARS outbreak where reform doesn't happen leading to a massive pandemic 17 years later. But we DO need to stop buying products Made in China as much as possible to remove the legitimacy of the corrupt government of China. Ultimately it will need to be the people of China that need to replace the corrupt Chinese Communist Party.
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  633.  @soniama5246  If the government* of China cannot reform that's OK. The world have many economic weapons like tariffs to help stop hacking and theft of innovation. I don't yet have an opinion on an "arms race". The United States is already far ahead of where the PLA is (helped by the fact the PLA is an extremely corrupt organisation) and the PLA has not fought a war in decades so is unlikely to be as co-ordinated as the United States and it's allies. The worldwide alliance to defend Taiwan led by the United States would look like "Operation Enduring Freedom" and would finally end the Chinese Communist Party's rule over China (with millions, possibly billions of lives lost). The best outcome is for the people of China to overthrow their government, as they have done many times in the past after the government of the day loses the so-called "Mandate of Heaven". The best thing we can do is avoid buying made in China!
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  634. Starship will be profitable as a fully and rapidly re-usable Earth based launcher (including StarLink and potentially Earth-to-Earth) even if manned Mars missions weren't on the horizon
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  635. Hmm. I refer to Isaac Newton (or anybody else) with their names without the "Sir" honorific because I don't respect the idea of honors bestowed by the monarchy of the United Kingdom. But I haven't yet started done the same with honorifics like Alexander the Great as "Alexander of Macedon", or Mahatma Ghandi 🤔 I don't think I'll ever try to refer to Lord Kelvin as "William Thomson" 😞
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  636. That homeless guy pushing the wheelchair of the homeless old woman and being her carer was pretty crazy. Both ought to have more government support
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  637. ​ @Asianometry  The recent subscribers entered your channel through your recent explainer videos which did really well. I think you'll eventually get to 100,000 subscribers if you maintain current research and quality. But you'll get way more if you use more clickbaity titles and thumbnails. More dynamic content would also help. For your great/punchy rapid-fire explainer videos I look forward to you playing more dynamic background music (I Dunno by Grapes). Your microphone quality is better now, so you can easily make sure the background music doesn't drown your voice out. It will be pretty mindblowing if you can get your Patreon numbers to scale proportionally! As they say in Star Wars "We will watch your career with great interest" :)
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  638. @Mike Gibbs Actually in English it refers to itself as the CPC, as far as I'm aware. I think many people call it the CCP / Chinese Communist Party because it rolls of the tongue more easily. I am happy to be proven wrong. But either way, it's still a "to-mate-toe" / "to-mah-toe" situation.
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  639. Great post. I've covered some of these issues (and a few others) in my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted". One thing that came up elsewhere that affects your comment: I don't think the $50 million sticker price at 1:31 for a reflown boosters is the complete story. From what I can tell it's a mid-2018 figure for the fourth generation Falcon 9 all of which were launched in expendable configuration, so launching 22,800kg rather than 13,600kg. If the $50 million figure is an accurate price, it was actually an increase in the dollars per kilogram figure. Though even if that's the case, SpaceX would still get customers because many in the short-term don't actually care about theoretical dollars per kilogram of the rocket, but only care about the cheapest launch that puts their fixed-mass satellite into the correct orbit, so would take a 20% discount despite a 30% payload reduction.
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  640. If China invades Taiwan that would mean World War 3. For decades military planners have expected China to launch massive cyber attacks against Taiwan and its allies, and activate the Chinese Communist Party sympathizers within Taiwan and other countries to launch sabotage operations against the war effort. But the Chinese Communist Party and People's Liberation Army does not have a death wish -- any war would be brutal and worthy of being called World War 3, but the PLA is ultimately no match for the United States (let alone the US + allies). All that said, I am worried that in the next 10-15 years the Chinese government will create a non-traditional Taiwan-related crisis. Eg, by launching covert cyber attacks (and internal sabotage) against a Taiwanese nuclear plant causing it to meltdown. The hope of such a covert attack would destabilize the Taiwanese government. Let's hope my prediction does not come true.
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  641. That's just irrational panic buying. Australia makes enough toilet paper, just idiots buying too much. But don't worry, production capacity will soon catchup and they'll be plenty on shelves (maybe a bit more expensive) The Kleenex factory in Millicent South Australia is working around the clock and are even making rolls of toilet paper with the diamater of a papertowel roll. Probably by retooling the papertowel equipment to make toilet paper. Really cool. Anyway, while I am happy to blame diagou's for a lot of things, most of the panic buying was locals. Though initially instigated by diagou's? Possibly.
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  642. Dario? You're talking about (Ray) Dalio, and his "Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order" thesis? Yeah, I think Kyle Bass would strongly disagree with a lot of things. The channel "Money & Macro" already did a good critical review video of Dalio's arguments that I'm sure Bass would agree with.
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  643. Bad example: Netflix and YouTube apps have been available on the Quest for years
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  644. I have confirmed with Asianometry that this was a typo. It's 14km (8.7 miles), not 140km (87 miles). The description and transcript has been updated. The number comes from a book: "Over 1973-4, the new disk brake was tested in wind tunnels and in drops from helicopters and aircraft from altitudes as high as 14,000 m. The spacecraft model was also dropped onto simulated Venusian soil made from foam concrete." (from the book "Russian Planetary Exploration History, Development, Legacy and Prospects: by Brian Harvey).
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  645. Yes, this video is very misleading. For an accurate assessment, please checkout my 8 minute video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" (and watch it at 2 times playback speed). The numbers from Thunderf00t's videos are for the first reflight of a Falcon 9. The numbers correspond to the third generation rocket, which are completely out of date now they're flying the 5th generation. So please checkout my video! :)
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  646. ​ @Asianometry  I actually think your Formosan salmon will do pretty well, especially with the recent hockey stick growth of your channel you'll gain about 1,000 views on it no problem. It's entertaining content that melds scientific and historical information while being high-information density, just like your Ractopamine pork additive video. It's your coffee cup competition video that won't be a hit
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  647. I have confirmed with Asianometry that this was a typo. It's 14km (8.7 miles), not 140km (87 miles). The description and subtitles/transcript has been updated. The number comes from a book: "Over 1973-4, the new disk brake was tested in wind tunnels and in drops from helicopters and aircraft from altitudes as high as 14,000 m. The spacecraft model was also dropped onto simulated Venusian soil made from foam concrete." (from the book "Russian Planetary Exploration History, Development, Legacy and Prospects: by Brian Harvey).
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  648. 17:23 LOL
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  649. 5:01 Watch out when you brush your hand over your microphone, it distorts the audio
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  650. 10:33 Very funny you have "Blade Runner (1982)" and "Blade Runner (2049)". That second one should have been "Blade Runner 2049 (2017)" 😁
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  651. I have confirmed with Asianometry that this was a typo. It's 14km (8.7 miles), not 140km (87 miles). The description and subtitles/transcript has been updated. The number comes from a book: "Over 1973-4, the new disk brake was tested in wind tunnels and in drops from helicopters and aircraft from altitudes as high as 14,000 m. The spacecraft model was also dropped onto simulated Venusian soil made from foam concrete." (from the book "Russian Planetary Exploration History, Development, Legacy and Prospects: by Brian Harvey).
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  652. Buy a better microphone
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  653. Currently the United States can comfortably pay its debt servicing obligations (interest on the bonds) due to record low interest rates. But rates won't stay low forever. The bet is that the US will keep growing (making debt a smaller share of GDP), and the deficit will drop. Then the most amazing thing is the US doesn't actually need to pay back the $28 trillion dollar principle. It can keep refinancing it indefinitely with fresh bonds. And the bond interest rates are lower than inflation, so after a few hundred years the value of the $28 trillion dollars in debt will be virtually nothing. The "wait and inflate" strategy has worked before (European war bonds from hundreds of years ago). It's a very dangerous strategy though. I hope the US cuts the budget deficit to slow the growth of new debt.
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  654. Is there an archive of the John Barron narrated history clip like the one at 19:00? I find this a very fascinating part of the show. After 10 years there's probably 100+ of these well edited clips that have been made. I'd like to watch them all. Please link me to an archive!
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  655.  @Asianometry  haha
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  656. Military parades happen across the world, complete with old traditions of wearing hats and marching in strange ways. Focus on the real issues with the corrupt Chinese Communist Party! Avoid made in china were possible!
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  657. Looks like it's from late 2017
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  658. Don't forget other very effective ways to block criticism and journalism: lengthy jail sentences for the citizen journalists (Chen Qiushi, Fan Bin) or death by bullet to the brain (thought to have happened to Tank Man) and death by blocking treatment to liver cancer (Liu Xiaobo)!
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  659. ​ @Asianometry  You can upload your transcript, and it automatically creates timed subtitles from it. It means near perfect accuracy rather than YouTube's autogenerated speech-to-text one.
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  660. Direct link to Asianometry's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry
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  661. ​ @Asianometry  Right now the biggest legislative change is the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme's Public Register (transparency.ag.gov.au) where anybody working on behalf of a foreign power (including eg, people working for the Confucius institutes) are required to register. Also there has been somewhat controversial increased powers to the Australia's equivalent to the FBI that's meant to combat China's infiltration attempts. More sunlight on CCP influence is definitely a good thing. Also billionaire CCP-linked property developer Huang Xiaomo had his citizenship application rejected and barred from re-entering Australia after he was found to be bribing politicians to change their position on the South China Sea issue from "international law must be respected" to the CCP's position. Other than that, the Australian government has definitely changed its rhetorical stance on China and is pushing back MUCH harder (leading the world by calling for an inquiry into COVID even though that meant retaliation on our beef and barley exports). Recently a centrist senator named Rex Patrick called for a Chinese consulate to be closed given the risk to the local defence sector. This is a big change to how things used to be. Also for what it's worth, public opinion on China is at record lows since the interference was discovered (see the Pew research polls on China sentiment), so politicians are to some degree reflecting the public mood.
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  662. Worldwide stay at home orders for several weeks, one hundred thousand people dead (and hundreds of thousands of people projected to die in the coming weeks), trillions of dollars of economic damage. That is the legacy of the government of China and World Health Organisation crazy decisions including the constantly arguing against the closure of international borders from hotspots, which was the most effective strategy. The government of China also lied about the severity of the virus and hid information to the world, greatly increasing the severity of the pandemic. Everybody should never forget this. The guy being interviewed gets his information about China and the world from government of China sources, and has limited access to other new sources. There is truth that a full lockdown has an effect on the virus, but the government of China should be held accountable for its coverups. That's not even getting into the fact that this virus jumped from animals to humans in an unsanitary exotic animal outdoor butcher in China exactly like SARS in 2002 when it came from another outdoor butcher that time in Guangdong province. Don't let the government of China claim itself to be competent and responsible. We need to fix China's corruption and influence over the World Health Organization too. The government of China had the biggest part to play in causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands and trillions of economic damage. Don't let them off the hook.
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  663.  @astroboy2345  The United States has been supporting Taiwan under the table for decades after switching recognition in the 1970s. Of course before switching recognition the R.O.C was a card carrying ally of the United States. Since Taiwan has become a beacon of democracy and freedom its just a matter of time until overt support of Taiwan comes back. It will help once Taiwan chooses to formalize its independence in a few decades. Just keep the status quo for a few more decades and let the Chinese Communist Party's Chairman Xi do to his country what Chairman Mao did a few decades ago.
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  664. Did NOT expect this video to be about margarine
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  665. Absolutely. This video annoyed me so much I created a video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" with correct math.
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  666. Yes the numbers are wrong. For those coming across this comment, search for "SpaceX Unbusted" on YouTube for the correct numbers. After 10 flights Falcon 9 reusability brings massive savings.
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  667. Before Xi Jinping they used to follow Deng Xiaoping’s "24-Character Strategy": "Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.
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  668. There are several things going on in the comments. One is wumao/trolls creating extreme opinions. They tend to use very generic western YouTube names (Bob Worthington type names) without profile pictures. Often clearly speak English as a second language and speak from the point of view of Australia but often can't because they don't live here. They often say extreme things to sow racism. The second is this is Sky News, which is on the right in Australian politics. A lot of typical Sky News viewers tend to side with the Liberal and National Party (currently in power in Australia), but also One Nation (currently has some senate seats in Queensland). One Nation is Australia's anti immigration party, and is headed by a lady named Pauline Hanson, who in the 1990s had very strong anti-Asian immigration sentiment, using divisive language like "swamped with Asians" and "they form ghettos and do not assimilate". Pauline Hanson is not somebody who has nuanced view of the dangers of the Chinese Communist Party. Many people in Australia still share that non-nuanced view, so there's a danger of anti-Asian and anti-Chinese sentiment. My view is Australia is a mature democracy, and we are capable of calling out racism while having a nuanced discussion about the dangers of the CCP. You can do your part by always calling out people being racist.
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  669.  @citizenofdaworld7582  I'm saying SpaceX already serves the "Global South" (I hate that term). So China's private rocket companies don't really have any international markets. Where is China's competitive advantage here? SpaceX is operating at costs far below the rest of the industry. It would take China tens of billions of dollars to match them. And then what? Still no international markets.
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  670. Joshua Wong is not 17. Wikipedia says he's 23.
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  671. Can you clarify what you mean. Who is like a weasel, John Barron or Chas Licciardello? And why? Also what do you mean 'cotton mouth' I've never heard that term before. The internet says it's an informal US term that means "dryness of the mouth", but I don't understand how that applies here???
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  672. Like it or not, Singapore will be reliant on Malaysia for water resources for some time (side note: I recommend watching the previous Asianometry video titled "Singapore's 50 Year March Towards Water Independence"). As a tiny, extremely wealthy city-state in the middle of the world's busiest archipelago Singapore needs to think outside the box to thrive. Like it or not, Singapore also needs to work with Malaysia (and the US, Australia and China), even though all of these countries cannot always be relied upon. Diversify where it makes sense!
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  673. Tax payers are paying to truck in water to a QLD community because Southern Downs Regional Council sold the 100 million litres of groundwater to a Chinese water to export waterbottles to China. Complete insanity!
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  674.  @Asianometry  If the topic doesn't pique your interest then don't worry about it. Life is too short to spend your free time on things you aren't interested in. Also unlike perhaps semiconductor fabrication, I have enough background to deeply research and understand the technology aspects of the Great Firewall / "Golden Shield Project" myself (though less so about the Chinese government political / historical aspects, which are also important). (Side note: sorry about recent spam in this comment section -- hopefully it might helps with the YouTube algorithm though!)
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  675. Destroy the CCP, buy ABC (Anywhere But China). All Samsung phones are made outside China (mostly Vietnam) other Samsung appliances like TVs and fridges also are Made in Malaysia and other SEA nations. I will be doing research into other companies soon.
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  676. African Swine Fever, Japanese Encephalitis. Calling it the 'Wuhan Coronavirus' would be accurate but it's now been officially named COVID-19
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  677. Great job, Ian. In a world where Trump was calling NATO obsolete and nation states do disinformation campaigns, providing regular people with analysis and historical context is important. Sad this channel is stuck at such a low subscriber count though
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  678. Great work Ian in calling out the Chinese Communist Party for the initial COVID-19 coverup that ended up infecting the world
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  679. That's called "Betteridge's law of headlines"
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  680. Thanks for the subtitles, really helps given the choppy audio due to the wind
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  681. Read the LucasFilm chapter on Bob Iger's memoir. He had some creative influence over JJ Abrams and The Force Awakens. He should share the blame with Kathleen Kennedy, Rian Johnson and JJ Abrams for the huge damage they have done to a universally beloved film franchise.
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  682.  @endintiers  The investigation doesn't have to be conducted by the WHO. As Rudd used to say, "we can walk and chew gum at the same time". Just need find a couple dozen virus experts from universities around the world to get boots on the ground and start auditing. Especially if the scientists are from European countries who have no dog in the US/China fight eg, the Netherlands, Switzerland etc. No reason we can't start now.
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  683. Everyone can relax. Gambit has returned.
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  684. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7yiqiu
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  685. ​​ @gags730 I love Peter Zeihan's combination of demographic projections and geographic realities because it makes me understand the world better. I still like Peter Zeihan's work even if the government of India is not (yet?) engaging in piracy of commercial oil tankers like Zeihan predicted it would with receding US power
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  686. ​​ @plebius Yeah Niall Ferguson is increasingly a political partisan. But his concrete predictions include the impact of reaching a key 90% debt to GDP ratio threshold and how economic productivity and medium inflation won't save the US from economic stagnation in the long term. It's a very different vision to Zeihan's reasoning around US having healthy demographics, resources and monetary supply compared to other countries
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  687. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Taiwanese_Americans#Business https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asian_Americans#Business_and_industry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_ceiling
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  688. The residents of that town should probably start saying "West City, Texas"
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  689. The current EV tax credit is a 7.5k tax credit for vans, SUVs and trucks up to 80k, sedans up to 55k and for new vehicles up to 25k. Why should federal tax payers be subsidizing somebody's 80k SUV? Which is a non-productive asset. Unlike that subsidy going towards increasing productivity through investing in this nation's infrastructure or improving the education/skills of the people.
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  690. I'm surprised one of Australia's retirement funds (the "superannuation" system) hasn't invested in it, with trillions under management hungry for long-term infrastructure projects. But I guess the project might be too high risk right now. I'm sure they'll invest eventually.
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  691. There's a show from the UK called "Spitting Image" that's recently been rebooted. It's basically what you're asking for
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  692. We need more trade agreements with countries that share our values, or at the very least aren't international pariahs constantly threatening other countries and covering up disease outbreaks (remember SARS in 2002 from Guangdong? It just keeps happening).
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  693. I mean signatures can be forged too. It's just takes a lot of effort to do correctly, and the criminal justice system doesn't look too kindly upon such things. So as long as there is a functioning independent dispute resolution process (such as the courts) and if the justice system holds a monopoly over violence (in this case, jail time) then the chops and signatures shouldn't be widely forged. Now whether any specific countries meets these two criteria is up to you to decide.
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  694. You can actually pay NBN a non-refundable $500 to get a no-obligations quote of how much it would cost to upgrade your house to fibre optic internet. For some households the upgrade will cost $2,000. For other households it might be $15,000. It depends on your current NBN technology, and how far they'll have to dig to install fibre. Also if you can convince your neighbors to lodge an quotation application together (at $500/each) the total cost falls a lot. If you're interested it's called the NBN "Technology Choice Program".
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  695.  @PureVikingPowers  It might be changing because urban youth in China see dogs as pets. There is still a long way to go, but it's a start. As long as animals are bred, butchered and eaten in humane and sanitary conditions a lot of criticism would be much reduced. I wonder how much Hong Kong contributes to the endangered animals trade for traditional Chinese medicine compared to China?
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  696. Nice Tintin moon rocket and Captain America shield!
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  697. In French it's called the "navette spatiale", I think he just couldn't remember the English translation of 'navette'. Which doesn't say anything about his understanding of the underlying engineering, or capacities as an investor. I think if he was actually clueless he wouldn't have mentioned the Falcon 1.
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  698. ​ @jackmorgan1677  Murderous totalitarian dictatorship that makes Australia wealthier. Yes, that is more nuanced that Pauline Hanson ever has been. And to toilet paper, read my comment again. Why would I ever prefer China?
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  699. 7:30 FOR HYRULE!!!
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  700. The history is the 2002 outbreak of SARS first discovered in a wet market in the city of Foshan in Guangdong province.
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  701. I don't think the government of China is going to let him leave after that even if he wanted to defect :O Don't think that guy cares though
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  702. ​ binomalia  Ariane 5 is the most competitive commercial launcher on the market. It is definitely fair to include logistics in the figure because Arianespace choose to bring their rocket by boat all the way to South America (French Guiana, which is still part of France) because they can launch more payload due to being closer to the equator. The Falcon 9 diameter was chosen because it's the maximum size that still allows for road transport on the back of a truck without tearing down traffic lights. I highly recommend having a look at the LATimes article titled "Space shuttle Endeavour rolls through the streets of L.A." for some iconic photos of its multiday journey to a museum. There's some timelapses of the process too. Last I checked, the Falcon still has a "oversize" escort with a warning car front and back, but SpaceX choose to chuck the stage on the back of a semitrailer and spend a few days driving it across America from Hawthorne, California to Cape Canaveral, Florida, and that's included in the sticker price.
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  703. Do tell us when you've created a very well known political risk consultancy group and have close personal contacts with top business leaders and politicians. Then we'll listen to your opinions.
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  704. The YouTube algorithm requires users like/comment/subscribe/share to start automatically recommending videos from this channel to a wider audience. Because the channel doesn't ask for this at the end of each video, not enough people are doing that for this so it does not appear widely in people's recommended video lists.
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  705. Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKtxx9TnH76SRC7ZbOu2Nsg5mC72fy-GZ
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  706. Media Watch seems think that ruling out a virus being genetically engineered rules out the "leaking from a lab" avenue of legitimate investigation. Virologists are constantly conducting "disease surveillance" to collect virus samples from animal reservoirs all around us. Viruses have escaped laboratories before, and a wild strain escaping from the only laboratory in China known to study coronaviruses causing an initial outbreak down the road at the Huanan Wet Market is a perfectly valid avenue of investigation and has NOT at all been ruled out by studies showing the virus was unlikely to have been engineered.
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  707. And now he's a multimillionaire. Seems like he's doing OK for himself.
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  708. While Australia benefited greatly from being on the China bandwagon while it was 'on the up and up', those days aren't coming back because demographic issues. We all know the CCP is hostile, unreliable and untrustworthy as a trading partner which throws tantrums regularly. It's time to get off the China bandwagon through lowering it's relative importance to our economy. Australia should find new export markets by proverbially "selling mutton to the Hindus and beef to the Muslims" (including Indonesia/Malaysia/North Africa/Bangladesh/Middle East). They're all increasingly able to afford Australia's high quality exports (such our minerals and education) and they are more trustworthy and reliable trading partners.
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  709.  Harsha Kumar  Delete TikTok, AirDroid and Zoom. On your computer delete Fortnite if you play that game (Epic Games owned 40% by China's Tencent). I have done all that long ago.
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  710. Great conversation! Any regulation of social media discussion needs to be carefully designed and scrutinized. Republicans already tend to see Big Tech as biased in favor of the left. So it will be seen as the incumbents strengthening their own position.
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  711. Wow, Kara Swisher looks 15 years younger than when she interviewed Steve Jobs TEN years ago (D8 conference with retired tech journalist Walt Mossberg). Looks like a totally different person.
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  712.  @samanthatruong8390  Did you make up ABC "Anywhere But China" yourself? It really good and catchy!
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  713. I hope the popularity of the show means we have a whole YouTube channel called "Planet America Archives" as shown in 29:20. Their have like 10 years worth of those amazing clips somewhere!
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  714. Don't forget 2002's SARS Coronavirus outbreak originated in a Guangdong wet market. Those that don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it...
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  715. We know Labor got $100,000 from Huang Xiaomo in an aldi shopping bag via the NSW ICAC proceedings. We don't know much about Chinese Communist Party bribery at the federal level because we don't yet have a federal ICAC.
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  716. I can't believe intelligent and well-meaning machine learning experts like Kai-Fu Lee and Andrew Ng are willing to help develop advanced AI and surveillance technologies for Chinese Communist Party. Kai-Fu Lee with Google's censored search engine (shutdown in 2010 thankfully), and Andrew Ng who worked as Chief Scientist to Baidu. China's AI capabilities are used to oppress minorities like Uighers, Tibetans, religious groups and political dissidents. China is exporting AI survelliance technology to the rest of the world and it's being used in the Chinese Communist Party's vast espionage apparatus (HikVision AI cameras and Huawei/ZTE/Lenovo computers have been used on US military bases, and are still used in the commercial world). Anyone who believes in universal human-rights and human dignity should avoid technology transfer to the Chinese Communist Party and call out anyone who does so. Even if that means making less money.
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  717. How often to banks get robbed where you live?
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  718.  Bob Down Sam Dastyari took $5,000 from CCP backed Huang Xiangmo's Yuhu Group (a subsidiary of a CCP business) to pay personal legal bills. Yuhu Group also gave "$435,000 to branches of the Liberal Party and $100,000 to federal Labor throughout 2013 to 2015". Huang Xiangmo also gave $100,000 to NSW Labor official in an ALDI shopping bag in 2015. That's only what we know right now. It's more than likely CCP corruption in Australian politics is far deeper that that.
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  719.  @jhowardsupporter  What the heck! You're asking to state sponsor the selling of drugs into China? People and governments can act more ethically than the British Empire did in 1800. There's no need to stoop to the level of the CCP which sponsors the export fentanyl and the opioid crisis. It might be hard to believe but people can act better than the CCP and the British Empire.
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  720. The west failed to support Russian democracy in the 1990s and now we have had 20+ years of Putin. The elites of Russian will eventually realize their path to continued prosperity and sanction removal is to bring back competitive elections again. I hope this time the United States and Europe are ready to nurture such a democracy. They should also do more to sanction Russia while it remains a dictatorship (like Germany transitioning away from Russian natural gas).
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  721. Isn't the city of Kyiv is a Ukrainian-nationalist stronghold, but is on both sides of the Dnieper. If you're right then we're about to see a new Berlin Wall. That would be a pretty fitting revival for this revival of the Soviet Union.
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  722. ​@Thetanic I agree the design is safer. There's a great (but grainy) video titled "SpaceX Crew Dragon Explosion | LZ-1 | 20th April 2019" that shows the "Crew Dragon Demo-1" Dragon capsule exploding during test. SpaceX had done SuperDraco tests before that. They also had the explosion during fueling that destroyed Facebook satellite on the AMOS-6 mission. Imagine if they had not found these issues and it happened during an actual escape sequence or fueling (which on the Falcon 9 happen when the crew are already in the Dragon). There may be many more issues like that hidden in SpaceX's design. I believe SpaceX still fuel up the Falcon 9 rocket with the already inside the Dragon. That seems pretty crazy.
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  723. The Birthers are back. Kamala Harris was born in Oakland, California. Perhaps just as bad as growing up in the third-world, but definitely does not cause any eligibility issues
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  724.  @echelon2k8  ​Gladys Liu is the federal member in the Victorian seat of Chisholm and had *undeclared* links to Chinese overseas political infiltration groups. Let that sink in. We need to remove government of China political infiltration without hurting the regular Australians that don't support the Chinese Communist Party
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  725. That's fair enough. You should definitely focus on fixing that as your first priority (by keeping your costs and spending as low as you can for a long time)!
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  726. By the way, as you may know there's more than 200 videos on the Asianometry channel already released. So plenty of videos free already, and you probably haven't seen them all yet!
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  727. 9:00 That's a really great point. Forget about the G7 completely. Take the members and bring together the other advanced democracies: Australia, India, South Korea, Taiwan, even Indonesia. Just like the G7 excludes authoritarian nations like Russia, China and Saudi Arabia, this new meeting would too. That's what values-based foreign policy is all about.
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  728. Don't let the breeze hit the microphone!! It causes noise!!
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  729. Just to clarify your wording, according to that video in the 1800s Australia had the larger Chinese immigrant population and it was New Zealand who didn't want the extra Chinese immigration. The video also mentions that New Zealand had negotiated the Treaty of Waitangi with the indigenous Maori people and that federating under the Commonwealth of Australia would impact the treaty, which was the big issue around joining the new Australian federation. It's also worth noting that in 1901 (the year "federation" was completed making Australia a single unified nation), the Australia implemented the "White Australia policy" that banned immigration from most of the world. That was only dismantled in 1966 (which is actually very recently if you think about it), and in just 50 years Australia has become what many call the most successful multicultural nation in the world -- a melting pot of all the worlds people and cultures. Australia has its own fair share of racist government policies and citizen's views in the past and in the present (polices and views that also effect Australia's own indigenous people), but like Canada it's done alright job to integrate many millions of people from around the world into a cohesive nation. Just something worth noting in this discussion about Australia's race relation issues.
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  730. NASA landing the Curiosity rover on Mars? They'll be landing Perseverance rover next year. The US has also done imperfect arms control treaties (eg 2011's New START and the Iran nuclear deal), imperfect action on climate change (Paris agreement) which are controversial and hyper-partisan, but an imperfect agreement is better than no agreement.
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  731. Great video. Also always worth noting the US Navy is focused all around the world while China's forces are focused around the Western Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean. The world needs the same kind of long-term strategic thinking that won the first Cold War. Tough economic sanctions should have been placed on China immediately after the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre. The world should have never allowed a totalitarian system to get so rich and so powerful in the first place.
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  732. I agree, the world needs more rich and powerful democracies with a stronger commitment to human rights and peace to counterbalance the United States. Hopefully the European Union will grow into this role. It definitely won't be the totalitarian Chinese Communist Party unless it sees Taiwan-style democratization and reform.
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  733. There are now three Asianometry videos on the dam: "The Three Gorges Dam, Examined" "How the Three Gorges Dam Handles Extreme Floods" "The Three Gorges Dam Resettlement Problem" I can't post direct links right now because the spam filter.
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  734. Turkey is a dictatorship, and is increasingly theocratic.
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  735. People have warned for decades Australia's freedoms merely cultural and not actually protected by legal protections like in other countries. Australia has no equivalent to the "Bill of Rights"
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  736. @Fuck China War is hell. It would quickly escalate into nuclear war with every major city in Australia would be flattened. Beijing/New York/Shanghai/Los Angeles/Shenzhen/Chicago/Guangzhou/Seattle will also be destroyed and billions would lose their lives. It's much better for humanity to destroy the CCP's economy without violence.
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  737. Don't get into a flame war. I'll just mention that I don't trust any government to correctly maintain a dam and keep the people informed. Things are a little bit better with thousands of independent media organisations and whistleblower laws, but dam collapses STILL happen everywhere in the world. Lookup the photos and videos from the Oroville Dam crisis in California just 3 year ago. Large amounts of fast moving water can do some crazy damage
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  738.  @SilentStorm_5  Fair point, my broader point is to stand a chance to have CCP-indoctrinated people and wumao (or anybody else who holds strong opposing opinions) try wording yourself points differently. Otherwise you'll quickly run into "whataboutism" and flame wars.
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  739.  @SilentStorm_5  Fair point. I wasn't saying your comment was whataboutism, just that it's a common response to any kind of criticism... Keep fighting the good fight against human-rights abuse my dude!
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  740. Really great video. I forgot to watch it during Patreon Early Access. But it's a really nice deep dive!!
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  741. Screw the CCP*. Remember buy ABC (Anywhere But China)!
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  742. You should do a video on Ethernet over Power (EoP aka Powerline networking) not to be confused with Power over Ethernet (PoE). It's using your home power sockets for networking.
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  743. Taiwan has done a great job! I hope Taiwan renounces it's territorial claims over China as soon as possible. Maybe now is not the right time with Xi trying to destroy Hong Kong, but I hope Taiwan continues being the sovereign, independent and democratic nation that it is, and continues to be a well respected member of the international community. If the world had already had Taiwan's deep mistrust of the CCP we would have acted in December 2019 with similar measures and the would have been far better off. The CCP lied, people died.
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  744. I have confirmed with Asianometry that this was a typo. It's 14km (8.7 miles), not 140km (87 miles). The description and subtitles/transcript has been updated. The number comes from a book: "Over 1973-4, the new disk brake was tested in wind tunnels and in drops from helicopters and aircraft from altitudes as high as 14,000 m. The spacecraft model was also dropped onto simulated Venusian soil made from foam concrete." (from the book "Russian Planetary Exploration History, Development, Legacy and Prospects: by Brian Harvey).
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  745.  @ajr993  Checkout my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" for a more accurate analysis. Checkout the comments in that video too, because there's some discussion on the $15 million marginal cost figure
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  746.  @Joseon660  Checkout his latest video "TSMC vs Samsung Foundry - The Billion Dollar Rivalry"
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  747. I highly recommend documentary "This Is What Winning Looks Like". It's on YouTube. The Afghan National Army was about 75% illiterate drug addicts. There were a few pockets of competency but they were associated with ethnic militia's that other groups consider war criminals. The entire system was corrupt to the core. Again, I highly recommend "This Is What Winning Looks Like".
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  748. When you compare Australia's near zero daily new case numbers with America's run by "Mr. Intravenously Inject Disinfectants" we should be ragging on America until they get their act together. Also the "Fireside Chat" version is basically a podcast, which is way different from the regular show.
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  749. If there was no lockdown not that many people would be going outside and spending money like normal for fear of the virus. At least now Australia has such a small amount of cases there's less fear when you go out to spend money.
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  750. 7:14 As a new subscriber (who didn't initially like this channel from just the YouTube shorts but has slowly warmed to it), I think this video glossed over the 'excess deaths' as attributable "mostly to covid" just because they are coincident to the spikes, as that was when the hospital systems were under the most intense strain so people chose (or couldn't) visit hospitals. I am not ready to become a Patreon just to watch that discussion on the 'recent research' though.
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  751. Chas is great! I like that he doesn't need to be polished and wear a suit to have a successful prime time TV show for almost 10 years. The difference in style works really well with John Barron
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  752. 1:38 "To simply yell at each other, and me, does not help anyone. That’s what shouting into a pillow is for. And I suggest you do that if you have anger issues that need to be worked out." 😂
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  753. As far as the democrat run state thing, you need to carefully correct for population density to avoid lying with statistics
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  754. I go into SpaceX economics in my video titled "SpaceX: UNBUSTED!! Debunking Thunderf00t". SpaceX has demonstrated 8 relaunches with a $15 million marginal relaunch cost, so with 10 launches the cost to orbit HALVES the cost.
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  755. The followup is on Patreon Early Access
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  756. I usually only watch the sepentza and advchina videos because I find them more in-depth. But this was thorough, informative and very well produced. You've earned yourself a subscriber!
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  757. I don't think saturation of internet businesses is a big deal. The low-hanging fruit may have been picked in mature fields, but the world is always changing. In virtually every niche there are highly profitable software businesses just waiting to be built. And not every software business needs to grow to employ tens of thousands of people.
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  758. To finish off your sentence: If China had been more honest, the world would be much more accepting (even if they weren't able to contain the virus within their borders). The world can tolerate big mistakes only if the country responsible learns from it and changes their behaviour. The Chinese Communist Party are not known for their honesty, so good luck to them. The rest of the world understands what went on and won't hesitate to destroy the CCP's economy. The only reason China became rich is because the world let it in to the international system. The world can (and will) cut the Chinese Communist Party right out.
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  759. Self reliance is good. Rebuilding our manufacturing is also good. Doing all that while trading with people who respect human rights is even better.
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  760. I would assume most Taiwanese don't care about what the World Health Organization says, given Taiwan is blocked from even joining that body
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  761.  @rickyelvis3215  They will stand up against the CCP because they choose to. I can only convince people to avoid made in China products, and make it as easy as possible for them to do so
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  762. If Bloomberg doesn't change their editorial policy towards China then bad things will happen to that arrested Bloomberg News Beijing worker (Haze Fan). That's called hostage diplomacy.
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  763. The United States having a 20% budget deficit is mind mindbogglingly crazy... The US has a major debt problem. It's also getting older at a fast rate (falling birth rates and falling rates of immigration). This is very worrying for the future of the free world :/ Once the health crisis is over you need to fix your budgets sooner or else a future financial crisis will do it for you much more painfully.
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  764. That's for the insightful thoughts Ian. Keep doing what you do and making GZERO Media videos. More rational voices and analysis is good for democracy.
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  765. True, but not everybody lives paycheck to paycheck or have a mortgage etc. A big chunk of Australians save a lot during the good times while working full time and are luckily in a sector that can work from home without any change to finances... Not that that fraction of Australia is enough to save tourism sector by themselves, but it might help tourist operators survive
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  766. DW News, the word "youngsters" is rarely used in modern English. Instead, call them "young people" or "young adults", If they're a bit younger, maybe call them "teenagers", "children", "kids" as relevant. Also the word "tween" is popular among marketers and demographers (but nobody uses it outside of those groups). Finally no need to capitalize a common noun.
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  767. I have confirmed with Asianometry that this was a typo. It's 14km (8.7 miles), not 140km (87 miles). The description and subtitles/transcript has been updated. The number comes from a book: "Over 1973-4, the new disk brake was tested in wind tunnels and in drops from helicopters and aircraft from altitudes as high as 14,000 m. The spacecraft model was also dropped onto simulated Venusian soil made from foam concrete." (from the book "Russian Planetary Exploration History, Development, Legacy and Prospects: by Brian Harvey).
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  768. If Trump experiences only very mild symptoms and recovers quickly then this will strengthen his re-election prospects
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  769. FormantX - Uncharted Planet
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  770. It's a widely-used phrase among analysts: "China doesn't have rule OF law, it has rule BY law". This is to say that the Chinese Communist Party uses their legal system to achieve their own political objectives, and their legal system does not even pretend to apply to everybody equally. Remember that old quote? "My Dad is Li Gang!" Even after constant anti-corruption drives, CCP officials and their families (or really anyone with connections) have near-complete legal immunity in China. Don't knock Ian Bremmer for using a term that's widely used.
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  771. Nah, geography is definitely not the issue. Policy response is the issue. Australia had terrible problems with deaths at sea when a strong deterrence policy was lacking. When borders are controlled you are still able to take a significant humanitarian intake each year. Just that you can fully vet them, and take the most deserving from UN refugee camps. That is a much more organized than letting whoever can pay the people smugglers into the country.
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  772. I'm 10 minutes in. You've earned yourself a new subscriber. Good stuff -- detailed and informative.
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  773. Everyone operating razor thin margins to gain market share because there are big economies of scale if you dominate the industry. Everyone likes to manufacture on the leading edge node, if possible.
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  774.  @iShavedYesterday  As the world slowly moves to electric vehicles (and US achieves oil self sufficiency) thinking about ceasing financial and military backing of Saudi Arabia (unless they reform) should be very much on the table! Which countries receive a "free and open" label even though they're not? If you're referring to Vietnam, I don't hear anyone using that label with them. I guess India would count, given the horrendous caste system mean people are not born equal?
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  775. Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MCZrZiq9BE
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  776. Best way to put pressure on the CCP is to avoid buying Made In China
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  777. It's GOVERNMENT* of China is the hostile and unreliable trading partner that calls Australia "gum stuck to the bottom of China's shoe" and a "giant kangaroo that serves as a dog of the US" through it's propaganda mouth pieces. Use your words more carefully to distinguish between the nation, its people and it's (corrupt) government!
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  778. No, they use Australian iron ore as input in their massively inefficient state owned steel factories. They build steel to build many ghost cities. Sell as much iron ore to China as we can. Australia earns $60-$80 billion dollars in iron ore exports, which is great for the national interest. Admittedly, it does get used in PLA Navy ships but they can easily purchase enough iron ore for that elsewhere. Australia benefits more than China from the iron ore sales in my opinion.
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  779. Communist Party of China and Chinese Communist Party are both used. Everyone says CCP when the party refers to itself as CPC. I agree they should change the headline to CCP though.
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  780. I like that this channel is starting to gain more of a following. These sorts of geopolitical discussions are good for democracy.
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  781. Doug Williams Small arms aren't going to defeat a totalitarian dictatorship that controls 1.4 billion people and has ICBMs. They also won't protect many politicians from being captured by the Chinese Communist Party narrative. The best way is to destroy the Chinese Communist Party economically. We should vote for politicians who will do this, whatever side of the aisle they belong to.
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  782. Well China represents 1.39 billion people. India represent 1.35 billion people (and growing). Both countries deserve a spot on the UN Security council. I agree the government of China is corrupt and dangerous to all humanity, so I hope the people of China overthrow their corrupt government!
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  783. 19:49 LOL I can't believe that was actually the Wikipedia photo of Tony Abbott when you took the screenshot.
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  784. No evidence that it was a modified virus, in fact there is evidence that it was not modified
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  785. The key indicator for an aging population is the 'total dependency ratio' (the working age population divided by the number of children and elderly) and the median age. The cost of an aging society is (at least initially) economic stagnation (while the rest of the world marches forward). Consider that Japan averaged 0% economic growth **1980-2020**. While high-tech industries like semi-conductors tend to require relatively small numbers of extremely highly skilled engineers, they work closely with a large numbers of skilled technicians and need extremely good communication. Even an aging Taiwan (and South Korea) can retain leadership in these industries if careful. The next 60 years are going to be brutal for Taiwan's demographics (and also for Korea, China, even the US). For more information search for the "United Nations World Population Prospects" website. Select Graphs and Profiles -> Taiwan -> Probablistic Projections -> Pop Ratios -> Total Dependency -> Age 0-19 plus 65 and over by 20-64. Well managed aging societies can retain their infrastructure and industries but once you're in a "low-fertility trap" with high debt it's difficult to leave.
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  786.  @etbadaboum  Immigration can definitely reduce the impact. I hope Taiwan (and Japan, South Korea) consider allowing more foreigners to immigrate and assimilate. But fixing the root cause is important: the cost of having children is too high for many families. Especially the cost of housing and child care. The developed world should at least achieve 2.1 children per family (the replacement rate).
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  787. Best way you can do that is to avoid buying made in China. Buy ABC (Anywhere But China)!
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  788. Yes, the competition for US government launches is very limited. It's a duopoly between SpaceX and United Launch Alliance (which is a cartel between Boeing and Lockheed Martin). To see SpaceX's real prices, it makes a lot more sense to compare to the more competitive commercial launch market where the Ariane 5 reigned supreme until the Falcon 9 entered the market. There is so much more wrong with this video, so I made an 8 minute video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" -- I hope everybody reading this comment takes a look! Especially those skeptical of SpaceX.
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  789. Let the ambassador stay and give him enough rope to hang the CCP. He's doing a great job showing Australia what our largest trading partner is really like.
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  790. Peter said they prerecorded a couple week of videos for release during the holidays
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  791. Exactly which part of Australia would you like the nation to focus on?
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  792. In some way I'm inclined to agree. Almost all areas in Australia without HFC keep their old (formerly Telstra-owned) copper telephone cables (so no digging up people's gardens) while the rest of the network is upgraded to FTTC (so fiber-optics all the way to those oval shaped pits in the footpath). Everyone on FTTC has the option to pay $3000 per residence to upgrade to FTTP (under the "Technology Choice Program"). Side note: I heard from ISP owners that installing a fiber-optic "lead in" shouldn't cost more than $300, so NBN Co charging $3,000 is still a bit crazy. For FTTN, getting FTTP costs a crazy $10,000 upgrade per premises under the "Technology Choice Program". As you may know, FTTC can in theory ~1000mbps speeds with G.Fast, but you may have to replace ageing copper telephone cabling to get there (at which point you may as well install FTTP because most of the installation cost is labour). FTTP is absolutely not "glorified HFC": Yes, HFC can in theory also have speeds in excess of 1000mbps, but you need to have "DOCSIS 3.1" modem endpoints, high quality cabling and most expensively restructure the entire HFC network in a way that allows end users to get those speeds. Australia's HFC network was decided for cable TV (where there's a common signal broadcast to many houses), and restructuring the HFC network to handle this is extremely expensive. While the term GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) is sometimes used interchangeably with FTTP you should be very careful: GPON can refer to the standard "G.984" (which NBN uses to provide a maximum 1000mbps connection), but by simply upgrading the modem in your kitchen (and some equipment in the exchange) you will be able to 10G-PON (10,000mbps), and I believe even NG-PON2 (40,000mbps). Because fiber-optic cables can handle far more data than HFC. The HFC/FTTN/FTTC sounds cost-effective in theory, but so much money has been thrown at trying to make those ageing copper networks fit for purpose. It costs a lot of money to rebuild the HFC or FTTC network to be capable of 1,000mbps. But now there are 10,000mbps and 40,000mbps network speeds that are being rolled out in countries with with fiber-optic networks. Even the Adelaide CBD has that, see GigCity. Starlink and its 150mbps download will not be widely used in dense cities. NBN's FTTP network can get you 1,000mbps download today. And in future 10,000mbps under 10G-PON, with hopefully 40,000mbps under NG-PON2 being rolled out eventually. Simply put: for high-speed internet, nothing compared to fiber-optics.
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  793. No, sell China all the iron ore it wants. Let the the Chinese Communist Party and state-backed property groups go into huge amounts of internal debt continuing to build ghost cities. Keep the game up for as long as we can. They will have decades of economic stagnation because of the CCP's awful economic mismanagement. It still will hurt Australia a lot, but we have built an unsustainable export economy so that's our own fault. We should build other export markets as fast as possible though, to minimize the inevitable pain.
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  794. John-Patrick Dickson, maybe start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loiltpe6q-s&list=PLKtxx9TnH76SRC7ZbOu2Nsg5mC72fy-GZ This is like the 40th video in the series that spans multiple playlists. Start on the first video and go from there.
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  795.  Morahman7vnNo2  I agree that supply chain issues meant all medical grade masks need to go to health workers, but there was no reason that Fauci and others couldn't have strongly encouraged everybody to wear cloth masks whenever outside your home.
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  796. your map of the US at 4:55 goes well into Canada, at least on the west coast
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  797. You can do more that thoughts and prayers: where possible, try and buy ABC (Anywhere but China)
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  798.  @WarblesOnALot  Ahh ok, that makes sense!
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  799. Yes it's to differentiate. With Vietnam there's no longer North and South Vietnam, but that's the case with other places: North and South Korea, East/West Germany (back when that existed), Soviet Russia (as opposed to the modern Russian Federation). Even to distinguish between Imperial Germany (the Kaiser's Germany) and the WWII Germany (Nazi Germany). With Communist China sometimes called Red China (the People's Republic of China), there's also Taiwan (The Republic of China).
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  800. She's saying that her neighborhood usually doesn't have a huge amount of homeless people peeing on walls/pooping on the sidewalk/shooting up. But with the psych hospitals now closed, the streets are more dangerous.
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  801. For those who don't understand what this video got wrong, please checkout my video titled 'SpaceX Unbusted' :)
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  802. The puppet regime comedy almost always doesn't land for me. The segment has potential though.
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  803. 8:46 You got to respect anybody who shamelessly self-promotes their book on national TV when the ABC bans such commercial references / advertising under their strict editorial policies.
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  804. The 6G story was very superficial
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  805. I agree we should carefully lift restrictions as soon as we can but remember the only reason the numbers are so low is because we've been in lockdown for a month. Sydney could have looked a lot like the disaster of New York. America would have ONE MILLION deaths without a lock down (versus 60,000 deaths from the typical seasonal flu). This is not the flu.
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  806. He has Armenian heritage. That's why he always manages to say "Nagorno-Karabakh" in a very impressive way
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  807. I know SARS came from a Guangdong wetmarket in 2002, but what's the other recent virus from China? I am not as interested right now about some ancient viruses like the bubonic plague spreading along the Silk Road over 100 years etc, what's the other recent virus?
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  808. ​ @BalkanMode  The Yugoslavia is very reasonable: a communist dictatorship that rules multiple nation full of people which don't want to live under its rule. Many parallels to east Asia today. In Yugoslavia's case the most stable solution was to form multiple sovereign and independent nations, including Serbia and Croatia. After a rocky start this seems to have formed much higher degree of stability than before. After so many centuries, the people in Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Tibet still don't want to be ruled by China, so this balkanization idea is actually very reasonable. Thanks for bringing up this idea Roger Xia!
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  809. At least historically, people in well-connected border regions like Shenzhen could buy Hong Kong sim cards and connect to the unfiltered internet through Hong Kong cell towers just across the border. But with the recent complete breakdown of "One Country Two Systems" I would expect Hong Kong to see its own internet censorship being implemented eventually. It's possible that the new low-earth orbit satellite internet systems like SpaceX's Starlink could have a similar effect as Hong Kong sim cards. Elon Musk has played this down, pointing out China can shoot down his satellites with anti-satellite missiles. While true, the ability remains for satellites to broadcast unfiltered high-speed internet to border regions like Shenzhen and Inner Mongolia without incurring Chinese military escalation. As China continues to close and move towards what financier Kyle Bass has called a "richer version of North Korea" I would expect it will become increasingly dangerous to even own satellite internet dishes or to use computers without the Chinese spyware since the Chinese Communist Party believes it needs absolute control over information to hold on to absolute power indefinitely.
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  810. Frank Garrett, Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou for doing business with Iran against international sanctions (they're trying to get a nuke), and now China arrested two Canadian citizens in response. Seems like relations aren't that great in Canada either.
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  811. The Asian Renewable Energy Hub (a different proposal to the Sun Cable) is suggesting something similar after they changing from their original submarine cable approach. Solar + wind farm in the Pilbara region of Western Australia to produce ammonia and ship that over for "green hydrogen". The Sun Cable company is pursuing the (much cooler in my opinion) HVDC approach. Right now it's all private investors betting on these renewable energy megaprojects, so it doesn't hurt you if their investments fail. I'm glad there are people with the capital and risk tolerance to invest in these really exciting solar farm and HVDC submarine cable approach! For the sake of our carbon dioxide levels I hope they succeed :)
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  812. I think reparations are non-starter (how far in time do you want to go back?). Best thing you can do is to avoid buying Made In China products.
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  813.  @geetay4618  No we should diversify ourselves away from China, convince all consumers worldwide to boycott Made In China as much as possible, while convincing the United States to continue to decouple from China. The CCP can't survive in a dwindling economy. Even without decoupling the CCP is facing massive demographic issues anyway ("China will get old before it gets rich"). Get off the China bandwagon before we go down with the sinking ship
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  814. Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCnF-i1XDiU
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  815.  @justfly1984  I don't think it's green screen: at 1:20, look at the lens of Tim Cook's glasses refracting and distorting the guy in the background's striped shirt in a way that cannot be done without complex augmented reality tracking and rendering.
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  816. Good overview of the year that we call 2020
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  817. I'm not sure if Australia a mature enough democracy to have a reasoned, logical debate about immigration from China, given we have had a history of anti-Asian migration issues (Pauline Hanson's mid-1990s proclamations that "Asians form ghettos and do not assimilate"), but really need to. While there are definitely certain areas where integration hasn't happened, overall Australia has definitely very successful at a huge number of integrating people. **But there's good reason to think this won't last Australia's immigration success won't last**. Since about the mid-1990s China has had a patriotic education system indoctrinating its people from birth. We all saw what happened at university campuses around Australia with pro-Communist Party students versus the small group of pro-Democracy Hong Kong students. Selling higher education to hundreds of thousands of pro CCP zealots from China in exchange for a large (but fair) amount of money is one thing, letting similarly brainwashed pro CCP zealots to become residents and citizens is a completely different thing.
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  818. Premieres receive a bunch of comments and likes before the video goes online, and YouTube's clock only starts counting once the video is released. From what I've read, this makes premieres do better than non-premieres in the long-term, because the algorithm takes into account the number of comments and likes since the video became available. I agree it's annoying that you can't watch instantly as soon as it's scheduled. I have an idea on this which I have messaged Asianometry about.
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  819. The only way to do honest polling is with regular free and fair elections: even the Trump vote was higher than polled in 2016 and 2020 due to the famous "shy Trump voter". I'm sure there's a massive "shy CCP supporter" (and "shy staunchly anti CCP" groups too). High-ranking members of the Taiwanese government have said that Taiwan is not going to unify with China unless it becomes a full-fledged democracy compatible with Taiwan. And the Taiwanese people have been voting clearly against unification with Xi Jinping's China. Especially along generational lines (and everybody sees what happened to Hong Kong). And the most likely way that China will become a democracy is if a reformer like Taiwan's Chiang Ching-kuo makes the Chinese Communist Party a democratically competitive party and slowly loosens the restrictions like Deng Xiaoping did for the economy. It may take a few decades from the leadership to come to the realization that this is the only path forward that would see China growing. Though Xi Jinping may still be in power in 3 decades, so I doubt this will happen. If China doesn't have democratic reform it's a just a matter of time (a few short decades away) until Taiwan formalizes its status as being an independent and sovereign country for more than 150 years (since 1912) and it will formally rename itself the Republic of Taiwan. Time is ticking for China, so the next few decades are dangerous. I recommend listening to Jim Fanell's "Decade of Concern" arguments. The easiest way to do this is from episode #45 of the China Unscripted podcast, which is available on YouTube under the titled "#45 How Big a Threat is China's Navy? | Captain Jim Fanell".
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  820. It's as easy as "ABC" (Buy "Anywhere But China"). Companies like Samsung do smartphone production outside of China. Vietnam but increasingly India is where electronics assembly and manufacturing is moving.
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  821.  @MrSparkle404 I'm trying to tackle Thunderf00t's disinformation, but OK I'll stop
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  822.  @naguoning  Dude, don't call China the enemy. It's the CCP that's the enemy. Your words matter and calling China the enemy just riles up regular people in China who then understandably feel compelled to defend the honour of their motherland. It's the CCP that's the enemy (of all humanity)
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  823. In this video Stan Grant doesn't ask his classic way too long 60 second questions, but has started making more short and sharp questions and comments. Much improved.
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  824. "TSMC - Essays" Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loiltpe6q-s&list=PLKtxx9TnH76SRC7ZbOu2Nsg5mC72fy-GZ
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  825. ​ @trueppp  Yeah it's not spun off, but Starlink Services LLC appears to be a wholly owned subsidiary of Space Exploration Technologies Corp and there's FCC documents referencing them and also Space Exploration Holdings LLC. I don't know the exact structure, but they are separate legal entities associated with the tightly-held SpaceX. I'm not a lawyer but the point of complex corporate structures are so the limited liability corporations like Starlink Services LLC could fail (ie go bankrupt) without affecting SpaceX's main business that much (and also presumably for other things like tax efficiency)
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  826.  @remo27  "Not going bankrupt" a weak argument right now (but it's getting less weak every Starlink launch). They don't need to reach 12,000 satellites for adequate service: Starlink's 550 km orbital shell needs 1,440 satellites. It's only 6 launches from completion. SpaceX could potentially stop launching Starlink after that. SpaceX has done several capital raising of close to $1 billion in the past several years (from Google/Fidelity $1 billion investment to the most recent $750 million capital raise). They've only launched 19 Starlink Falcon 9 launches so far, each with 60 satellites. That's only about $1 billion for launches at the $62 million sticker price, and building 1200 small satellites (I believe they weigh about 200kg each) at $100,000/each (I'm not sure the exact number) which would only be $1 billion. Because of the continued investment, SpaceX detractors can make the case that the manufacturing and launching Starlnk is completely funded by investors, and SpaceX is not actually saving money on reusability. I definitely don't agree with that assessment at all (see my video 'SpaceX Unbusted'), but I can see why people could believe that given SpaceX's continued capital raising their savings from reusability hasn't panned out. Again, I definitely don't agree with the assessment, and every Starlink launch the evidence that SpaceX is saving a lot of money on reuse is increasing.
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  827. Everybody around the world should avoid Made In China, not just Australians people
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  828.  @ricchmus  As you know there's a concept called MAD ("Mutually Assured Destruction"): basically both sides lose in all out nuclear war. There's a lot of consideration of whether use of tactical nuclear weapons (small yield weapons used carefully on the battlefield) would cause MAD. Missile defense systems (like THAAD) change the equation and may prevent adversary from succeeding in nuclear retaliation. That's why China was so scared of South Korea installing THAAD.
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  829. Never forget Dr Li Wenliang who gave his life after being detained for simply raising the alarm. Also never forget the citizen journalist Chen Qiushi, Fang Bin and others who got the news out of China before it could be suppressed by the Chinese Communist Party. Those heroes are still missing by the way. They're rotting in jail if their lucky, but they might have ended up like the man in the 1989's Tiananmen Square Massacre "Tank Man" photo (whole likely had a bullet to the brain straight after that iconic moment)
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  830. The cars were exported. Higher exchange rate makes the exports more expensive for overseas buyer. Basically Low exchanges rates are good for exporters, high exchange rates are good for importers (or people who import raw material to produce their stuff)
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  831. Don't US minorities have higher rates of obesity and chronic illness (diabetes, high blood pressure, other cardiovascular problems etc)?
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  832. The 60 second tick down counter animation didn't play in this video.
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  833. My company gives 6 months leave to birthing parents (which people in their child bearing years can take multiple times!!), and I believe there's also state and federal tax credits for children. I know married people filing taxes also get advantages on taxes compared to filing separately. I think America's system is stacked towards those who have children. I'm not complaining (well maybe a bit), but such child-friendly policies generally makes sense from a demographic perspective. State and federal governments should do more to encourage a stable demography and birth rate. Best approach is tackling cost of housing by allowing people to build more
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  834.  @NordicDan  You probably shouldn't be posting about that on YouTube, my dude! 😅
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  835. Two couches facing each other and no TV... That's how you know you belong to the elite!
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  836. The legacy of Rudd's 2008/2009 stimulus is Australia having a structural budget deficit for the last 12 years. Debt to GDP was at a low of 9.7% in 2008 now it's currently 40.7% in 2020. It may not sound like much, but continuing a budget deficit year after year after year is not sustainable. With this new round of stimulus by PM Scott Morrison, the budget is blown again. It's worth if the massive debt is spent wisely (on an fibre optic national broadband network), but it's not being spend wisely.
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  837. Being able to do mass psychological evaluations on millions of teenagers and young adults over many years (while recording their GPS movements) is very useful when they join the workforce down the track (some will join the army, some will join tech companies). For black mail etc
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  838. It's not an overreaction. It's just that 1% of people need to be put on ventilators in intensive care. If tens of millions of people are infected that's the parents and grandparents of you and you and everyone you know. Once the ventilators run out the death rates a much higher. Though almost all healthy young people just get a mild to moderate cold. It's definitely worth taking serious. We will eventually have herd immunity protect our elderly.
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  839. 5:10 when stating pounds of fuel per mile, please state the metric figure in kilograms of fuel per kilometer!!!! You wrote kilograms per mile! The do the mileage of L/100km as normal
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  840. 1:05 "Maybe it's better that the Great Firewall exists so as to keep the Chinese in rather than the foreigners out" That's an awful argument (which happens to be used by wumao and the CCP). The Great Firewall prevents 1.4 billion people from connecting the the global internet and freely communicating with the rest of the world (and getting news from a source other than their totalitarian government). The GFC is a huge human-rights problem and I hope governments around the world pressure the CCP to tear down the Great Firewall.
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  841. I've done reading about the GFC in the past and it's indeed very sophisticated. They also approve many VPNs that allow punching through the GFC. Hawkish former Trump advisor Steve Bannon has said ""if we were to take down the firewall which is a 100% within our purview to do" on an interview on YouTube titled "The Chinese Communist Party Is Our Enemy - And What We Must Do To Defeat It" so at least some in the national security sphere are considering the problem. To adapt an old comment of mine from that video (sorry for the length): I think broadcasting 4G/5G mobile internet into China from say Vietnam would not work perfectly, neither would using other mobile-internet based technologies like Google's Project Loon high altitude balloons would not work. Because in the worst case China can always achieve censorship "client-side" (using their total control over end-user devices (eg, any Huawei/Motorola/etc smartphone, or any phone with Chinese spyware including WeChat etc) to block access to external websites. Traditional geostationary satellite internet, or new technologies such as Elon Musk's Starlink would also not work (they need ground-based receivers, and China can and will use spectrum analyzers to track down and immediately execute anybody who is transmitting using an illegal ground-based dish. China could also potentially shoot down the satellites) Cyber attacks against the GFC risk escalating cyber retaliation (not just more hacking/stealing from China, but the United States suddenly experiencing a few Chernobyl style nuclear power plant meltdowns). It's a tough problem. I think economic sanctions (including consumer boycotts) is the only way for the West to eventually cause a peaceful revolution in China (by the people of China) which would bring down the GFC. Other than Trump's tariffs nobody is considering anything like this at the moment.
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  842. Better video (starts at 26 minute) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7mw2_pfcz4
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  843.  @richardrustle4752  Don't knock Thunderf00t for making videos debunking false claims and bad science. That's a very important role, and he has almost a million subscribers so is making an impact. But in this video he gets his numbers completely wrong, conflates price and cost and makes numerous other errors, so criticizing his arguments is warranted. I hope everybody reading checks out my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" for accurate analysis!
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  844. ​ Karlos Khaos  Easy to make allegations but you haven't even linked to any evidence. Google doesn't show up any articles with the keywords that you've suggested. Your comments reek of disinformation (and whataboutism) unless you have actual citations to link to.
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  845. I don't think you should let the spam comments from CCP indoctrinated people like wumao change the way you write or think. You're not a diplomat who needs to tiptoe around face saving policies. Why call China "the Mainland"? When you're talking about China, then say China. When you're talking about Taiwan, say Taiwan.
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  846. Why isn't Western Australia connected to the Australia's National Energy Market (NEM)? I thought it was because Western Australia was like Texas: wanting to be independent and secede from Australia at any moment. Then again the Northern Territory isn't connected to the NEM either.
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  847. It was the Chinese Communist Party's coverup that prevented the world from understanding the serious of the disease and closing the world's borders very early on. A huge fraction of the deaths could have been prevented if the CCP was transparent and wasn't on a corrupting influence on the WHO.
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  848. 8:07 I didn't know Derek Muller from Veritasium works as a money launder in Africa
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  849. @Dean D LucasFilm President who had a huge impact on Disney Star Wars including episode 7-9. She was placed there by George Lucas, but it's universally considered a bad decision, with Disney Star Wars under performing financially and now very damaged creatively.
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  850. This is an old episode from a few years ago. The only clear indication of this is the word "throwback" in the video description.
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  851. 3:34 Ian Bremmer should be more careful when talking about masks. Yes, mask mandates might not be a good idea, but masks always helps slow the reproductive rate of any respiratory pathogen. Vaccinated people don't get severely sick, but they still can get it and spread it to the unvaccinated. Since the United States is unlikely to get to an ultra high level of vaccination, it will help if tens of millions of considerate people wear masks.
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  852.  @ElGovanni What country are you from that Uktrainians prefer your country over Germany due to culture?
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  853. Just played with Riffusion's generation capabilities. It's free right now and really good! Definitely much better quality than YuE as you say
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  854. Yes, wet markets are open air meat markets which often don't just sell live animals but also butchering them right there in the outdoors. With all the bugs/flies/ants and poor sanitiation that you can expect from an outdoor butcher. Decade after decade they are the source of disease outbreaks through zoonosis. I actually don't mind if these markets in Asia double as a live animal abattoirs/butchers, I can understand the cultural preferences to freshly slaughtered meat. But they at least need brought INDOORS and under better sanitation. Is this too much to ask?
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  855. Yeah 180+ seconds is a good length
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  856.  @benjamins9873  Not about race. About socioeconomic class (plenty of poor rural white people in Ohio living in trailer parks or addicted to fentanyl)
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  857.  @dexterd486  I agree Australian politicians are not blamless but Nixon played a key role in "opening up China" and Australia just took advantage of the new economic playing field. I apologise if I made it sound like it's all America's fault -- it's definitely the fault of the entire free world to have cosied up to the CCP.
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  858. Fair point, but a profitable side hustle means they won't kill the show if times got tough
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  859.  @business  How does the economics of Ashlee Vance's great documentaries even work? Like these documentaries ain't cheap, and the YouTube viewership numbers aren't that high. How is it sustainable? Will the great content go behind the Bloomberg's YouTube paywall at some point?
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  860.  @SajidM12  Sure, but if it also gets to a point where it generates significant amounts of self-sustaining revenue then that's even better. It's definitely a great marketing arm though! Especially when he interviews world leaders and has met them many times before. Appearing on TV news as a talking head expert with 'Eurasia Group' as a byline is also great.
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  861. Buy Samsung. Everything made in Vietnam. Also stuff like Western Digital (hard drives) are made in Thailand. Other stuff is made in Vietnam. Do your research and stop buying Made in China!
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  862. 13:51 Platypuses
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  863. Just buy a Samsung phone. Made in Vietnam
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  864.  @Mehwhatevr  George Lucas wrote that line, but surely he would know: He was on set during filming all the Tatooine scenes in Tunisian deserts in Africa. This was from the first film back in the mid-1970s all the way through episode 1 in the late-1990s. So when he wrote that line for episode 2, he really had no excuse not to know. So maybe desert sand is also course, rough and irritating. Just not as rough as course and rough as sand eroded by water.
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  865. Guaranteed 100 million doses order (which cost $2 billion) certainly helps
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  866. High art and NFTs is mostly money laundering. Anybody can create an otherwise worthless NFT out of nothing and sell it for a high price. It's a great way for criminals to launder dirty money.
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  867.  @samberhanu  That's such a great video. More people should watch it. Kudos for posting it
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  868. ForUploadin Anti government* of China
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  869. I agree Daniel Andrews should not have signed on to the Belt and Road Initiative, and joining the government of China's "debt-trap diplomacy". Given the history of kickbacks and bribery associated with the Belt and Road Initiative elsewhere, I hope Victoria's IBAC (Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission) investigates the details of how the BRI agreement was signed. There's likely another corrupt $100,000 "donation" given in cash in an aldi shopping bag, or Andrew Robb (China-Aus FTA architect leading to $880,000/year consultancy job with CCP-linked company with no job expectations, simply as thanks, in other words revolving door corruption)
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  870. Good to see Congress (both sides) are level headed and know Trump's unilateral withdrawal was a bad idea. There's definitely scope for a massive shakeup of how US puts troops around Europe (Trump's general idea has some merit) but any decision needs to be fully thought through with all the NATO allies at the table.
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  871. Inflation is the least of this video's issues. Checkout my 8 minute video titled "SpaceX Unbusted".
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  872. Nobody trusts China's numbers..
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  873. Deng Xiaoping who held on to political power until he died at 92 years old! Xi Jinping is only 66 years old. I hope he has a long healthy life and China can look forward to another 26 years under Xi's glorious leadership!
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  874.  @hoptoit5910  Yep you're right, Payne confirmed the zoonosis origins will be examined. Earlier reporting on Sky News Australia only mentioned that the public health response was being examined.
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  875. If you're spending $93 million, surely you can earmark some of that to start building storage capacity TODAY. Low prices will remain for months as the US, UK and other places remain on lockdown. Why not announce investment in petroleum storage WITHIN AUSTRALIA today?
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  876. Do you have any more information about the claim that Professor Edward Holmes is employed by the CCP? I think I saw him on another YouTube video (can't remember where) with similar claims that align to the government of China's state media narrative. I am interested in knowing his affiliations with the government of China.
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  877. Facebook (and Twitter) can't even ban those crypto spam bots posting under every Bloomberg post.
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  878. Direct link to the Joseph Wu interview for anybody interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3D0_Bhzbyo
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  879. I have confirmed with Asianometry that this was a typo. It's 14km (8.7 miles), not 140km (87 miles). The description and transcript has been updated. The number comes from a book: "Over 1973-4, the new disk brake was tested in wind tunnels and in drops from helicopters and aircraft from altitudes as high as 14,000 m. The spacecraft model was also dropped onto simulated Venusian soil made from foam concrete." (from the book "Russian Planetary Exploration History, Development, Legacy and Prospects: by Brian Harvey).
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  880.  @maze1189  Convince the people in your school class to avoid buying Made in China where possible! For smartphones look into Samsung, it's all made outside China these days! Stop funding the government of China with your purchases!
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  881. Trump absolutely should pardon convicted felons with low level drug offences. Who cares if the only reason he'd do it is some theorized new constituency. The US jails way too many people who were simply born into unprivileged circumstances.
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  882. Come on guys, you can have a higher level of discussion than this.
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  883. Chas*
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  884. Put your feeling of disgust towards abolishing the death penalty (if your country has it)
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  885. MINDisLIFE, The purpose of ScoMo's press conference is to create international headlines. To draw red lines where the Chinese Communist Party will be called out and lose face for this kind of diplomacy. They'll never apologize but I doubt they'll be doing it again. Otherwise the European countries will be seeing headlines of Australia calling out CCP tactics weekly.
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  886. Use the Video Speed Controller extension. Then you can watch him talk at 2.9x speed!
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  887. Yes, the video thumbnail has been updated with the correct map but the video itself shows Darwin in the wrong place, and does not show the cable starting point correctly either
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  888. ​ @CautiousKieran  The same thing that stopped Japan from growing for the last few decades: China is becoming a country of mainly elderly people. The reason is the Chinese Communist Party had a brutal One Child Policy for decades, including forced sterilizations and abortions. This helped created a massive "demographic dividend" since the 1980s, but now China will pay the price as these people start to retire and there is no one to replace them. The 2020s is China's last decade of potentially moderate growth before they enters many decades of Japan-level economic stagnation. A widespread consumer boycott will hurt the CCP a lot. Please avoid buying Made in China as much as possible.
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  889. Addressed at timestamp 2:00 with "Pioneer-Venus doesn't count" comment. I don't really agree with that comment though.
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  890. Don't hate the player, hate the game
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  891. 0:34 I'm not Russian, but the proper pronunciation of "Energia" in English (from "энергия" meaning Energy) is not En-er-jia but En-er-gee-a.
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  892. Have you heard of "mutually assured destruction"? Attacking China with nuclear weapons would cause every capital city in Australia (plus Alice Springs) to be flattened. Also it would lead to New York/Beijing/Los Angeles/Guangzhou/Chicago/Shanghai/San Fransisco/Shenzhen also being flattened, as well as billions of people around the world starving to death through "nuclear winter". We need to destroy the CCP without violence. We have economic weapons. Please stop buying made in china and convince those around you to do the same!
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  893. It's like a Marvel What If scene narrated by Jeffrey Wright as The Watcher
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  894. The Qatari version of "I'm Ron Burgundy?"
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  895. Pauline Hanson needs to read up on China's fertility rate. China's population isn't growing. Far from it. The presenter should have called her out on that.
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  896. Given the public mood, enterprising local businesses should start doing "Fxxx the Chinese Communist Party" sales. It would help sell Australian produce locally.
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  897.  @NoBody-oq8nn  I agree Trump's China policy is far from perfect. I would prefer coordinated action with allies like Europe who are appalled by the Xinjiang concentration camps, destruction of Hong Kong's freedoms and China's constant technology theft. I would also prefer systematic action by Congress, and much broader scope than just Huawei and TikTok. But as imperfect as it is, Trump's policy is still far better than the policies of the prior 40 years and I hope this new hawkish direction continues no matter who gets elected.
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  898. I agree it was a mistake by prior administrations. But the government of China chose to annex the South China Sea and build concentration camps. The US and EU are free to choose to completely decouple their economy from China. Getting rich by trading with United States or European Union is not a right but a privilege. There's no reason to believe even a complete economic decoupling with China would lead to war. The Soviet Union had virtually no trade with the US and Europe and that conflict was called the Cold War because it never became a "hot war" (arguably except for some proxy wars including Korea and Vietnam).
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  899. 9:45 That same argument was made about NVidia (maker of high-end graphics processors) buying ARM (the creator of the CPU reference designs which other companies like Qualcomm, MediaTek, Samsung license, modify into their Snapdragon, Exynos etc chips), yet NVidia still bought ARM for $40 billion. Apple has $200 billion in cash on hand and more importantly they have a $2 trillion market capitalization. Raising $500 billion in cash (and debt) to buy TSMC outright is definitely possible. Especially if they guarantee TSMC will stay in Taiwan. The move would have anti-competitive undertones, but in my opinion so does NVidia's buying ARM.
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  900. Try to avoid buying Made in China when you go shopping. There's plenty of alternatives from Korean/Japan/Taiwanese brands. Eg, Samsung smartphones made in Vietnam, Bicycles and many computer components are often made in Taiwan etc.
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  901.  @graysonmcmillan8690  The reason manufacturing is leaving China to other countries is because wages are too high there
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  902. I'm still annoyed most high-end Android phones no longer have headphone jacks because manufacturers mindlessly copy Apple. I have Pixel Buds which are OK, but using my nice wired headphones with a USB to 3.5mm dongle is just not that good
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  903. 51 second video that just reaffirms people's pre-existing beliefs because the 51 seconds didn't provide any context for anybody to actually know what the heck they're talking about
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  904. Actual discussion points are sandwiched between crass, low-quality humor that prevent sober analysis of the arguments. The style seems to be entertaining to a lot of people here, but I'll read analysis from elsewhere, rather than rot my brain with whatever edginess this is trying to attempt.
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  905.  @DWDocumentary  There is an audio editing mistake at 1:22:46 when Niall Ferguson speaks
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  906. The chest pain you experienced was probably due to hyperventilating. Pretty common physical symptom of stress/anxiety. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is the most evidence based mechanism to fix panic attack disorders. Brains re-inforces what ever you think about, making you dwell on it further. Recognizing that and changing thought patterns is one cure.
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  907. I thought it was a terrible piece. Australia can and should "sell mutton to the Hindus and beef to the Muslims". We should increase productivity and go up the value chain, but we're not about to give up agriculture. Our agriculture, education and minerals exports are very important and we should find ways to continue to sell them to friendlier nations (as China faces 5 decades of economic stagnation as it pays back the demographic debt bubble created by successive CCP leaders).
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  908. ​ @hayekfriedman9078  Yeah you're right. I (wrongly) was interpreting his "bigger priority" comment at 5:30 as saying Australia should give up on agriculture and minerals to focus all effort on becoming smarter. I watched it again and he was indeed saying to do both. My apologies.
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  909. You're comparing the one side of US politics to a murderous Communist dictatorship
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  910. Agree with all the comments above. If Rey joined with Kylo it would have completely changed the dynamic of the entire trilogy. That scene was basically a "No, I am your father"-level hook to cause a HUGE turn out for episode 9. Finn's character was really wasted. If all he is a coward always running, they should have made him complete his sacrifice on the salt planet. JJ Abram's Finn appeared to be a pacifist stormtrooper with mild PTSD. A pacifist who hates all killing would make a great Obiwan Kenobi-type Jedi (by the book). Having two Jedi, one (Rey) who turns dark joining Kylo (and completing her training with him) and one (Finn) who trains with Luke between ep 8 and 9 would make an absolutely mind blowing episode 9. They can even use the original Jedi textbooks to bring back the fun-to-watch prequel-style highspeed combat techniques (basically it's an art lost due to the fall of the Jedi Order, and Darth Vader's injuries and Yoda and Old Ben's advanced age). You can really imagine the trailer for episode 9 showing evil Rey in imperial attire and a red lightsaber fighting Finn's blue lightsabre. That twist of Rey turning to the dark side would have made the new trilogy actually good. What a wasted opportunity, Disney.
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  911. I'm not a fan of the seemingly pervasive idea that China is moving fast in its development of space technology. They put people into orbit in 2003 but 18 years later they've done little else. China's new super-heavy lift moon rocket (Long March 9) won't even be ready until the 2030s! That's the kind of snails pace that NASA's Space Launch System works on. By contrast, it look America just EIGHT YEARS to go from launching a person into space in 1961 to Neil Armstrong walking on the moon in 1969! That was of course spurred on by the Soviet Union during the first Space Race. For those of us who want to live through a new space race back to the moon and onto Mars, I hope China lifts their game and soon!
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  912. 11:43 Here's a direct link to that amazing photo of the Queen of England wearing protective shoes while visiting this Siemens factory at Wallsend, North Tyneside: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/the-queen-wears-protective-shoes-to-be-shown-around-the-new-news-photo/829922156
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  913. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7yiqiu
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  914. Ian you talk about China's corporate debt bubble, which I agree is huge and unsustainable. How is US government debt (especially at the federal level) and too a less extent corporate debt? Will interest rates staying at 0% to 0.25% mean this all doesn't matter?
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  915.  Y Liu  There's definitely risk for both US and China debt crisis. Though the United States is still the world's reserve currency, and most of China's savings is to help pay for old age (because unlike the US pension system people in China know they can't rely on the government/taxpayer to afford even food in old age) and also gets pooled together with many relatives to buy their children real-estate holdings for the dowry system over there. But I agree from my layman's perspective there seems to be a big risk of a US crisis.
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  916. Trump = tough rhetoric, trade war and high tariffs, but hurts the US alliances and international leadership Biden = Softer on the CCP in rhetoric, won't increase the tariffs, but more likely to bolster US alliance and international leadership, and do longer term economic integration through things like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (a trade agreement designed specifically to exclude China)
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  917. Both sides of politics are doing a good job calling out China right now. But I get what you're saying, they did tie Australia's economic future to an unreliable trading partner that constantly lies and eventually shooting itself (and the rest of the world) in the foot. The China growth story is over. They'll hobble for a decade or two then stagnate for at least 50 years. We need to move on to better export markets.
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  918.  @Asianometry  Oh, if that's the issue I would suggest almost approaching it like a university lecture: whenever talking about complex concepts eg, the TCP/IP stack, VPNs etc you can just show the textbook diagram (but presumably without the textual dot points, because that's not your style). I wouldn't worry too much if the diagram is too complex for the audience. If showing the diagrams is not covered by fair use copyright, places like Wikimedia Commons should have freely licensed diagrams.
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  919.  @valleyhack  Can you upload the unedited interviews somewhere? Even behind a paywall
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  920. Australia exports large amounts of both thermal coal and metallurgical coal: Australia’s exports [of metallurgical coal] are forecast to lift from an estimated 163 Mt in 2022–23 to 175 Mt in 2024–25 as several new mines open. A gradual recovery from recent supply outages is expected to see Australian thermal coal exports rise from 178 Mt in 2022–23 to 202 Mt in 2024–25. Source this June 2023 update: https://www.industry.gov.au/publications/resources-and-energy-quarterly-june-2023
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  921. What the heck. It's nothing to do with "eating bats", and don't call people "primitive" or "troglodytes". The problem is with the corrupt government of China, I agree by "dancing with the devil" (making economic deals with the corrupt Chinese Communist Party) we haven't changed the CCP but it's corrupted ourselves to some degree. The people of China aren't the problem. I agree there are some problems with consumption of animal products from unsanitary outdoor butchers called wet markets, so the point is we need to fix the unsanitary outdoor butcher issue (by eg, moving them into indoor facilities with improved sanitation)
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  922.  @Mohit-uk6pm  You're not helping the situation with your wording calling it "CHINESE VIRUSE SPREADERS". Also coronavirus has killed 358,000 people so far (though we know the government of China's figures of 4,000 deaths are wrong, maybe by 10 times, maybe more). Russia and other places lie about their figures too. Even with all that I haven't seen any "3M+" killed estimates. Though official figures are 5.6 million infected.
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  923. Please search YouTube for my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted". It's 8 minute long video and debunks this video (which is borderline outright misinformation).
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  924. Those are the better aspects of the movie. From the Star Wars series perspective, a lot of TFA's decisions don't make sense and were never explained (fall of the New Republic etc) even in passing. It makes the entire context of the story non-believable and have no ramifications (eg, the loss of the resistance fleet probably won't matter by next movie).
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  925. I agree that we should burn down the Chinese Communist Party! Destroy the CCP but don't set living people alight! Be careful of "mob mentality", violence and choose words carefully as the people of the world consensus collectively decide to destroy the Chinese Communist Party once and through non-violent economic means.
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  926. Any agreements can supposedly be blocked by the Foreign Investment Review Board. Though I suspect the already signed agreements have to go to federal court to be nullified, but I am not a lawyer.
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  927. I have confirmed with Asianometry that this was a typo. It's 14km (8.7 miles), not 140km (87 miles). The description and subtitles/transcript has been updated. The number comes from a book: "Over 1973-4, the new disk brake was tested in wind tunnels and in drops from helicopters and aircraft from altitudes as high as 14,000 m. The spacecraft model was also dropped onto simulated Venusian soil made from foam concrete." (from the book "Russian Planetary Exploration History, Development, Legacy and Prospects: by Brian Harvey).
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  928. Informative interview. Keep interviewing Alexander Downer. Diplomats (Rudd included) usually have insightful things to say.
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  929. Paul Keating must have been unavailable? He's younger than Howard, but still over 80 wow
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  930. Maybe my lack of morning coffee, but it wasn't immediately clear that Peter was talking about a metaphorical 1980s "facts machine" rather than a literal 1980s fax machine
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  931. If the US closed the border to Europe at the same time as China and went into a pre-emptive lockdown, the economic cost would have been far less. Look at Australia. Barely 100 new cases each day and dropping fast and one of the highest testing rates per capita in the world. And even Australia closed the border weeks later than they should have. Lesson is, don't listen to the World Health Organization. They screwed up so badly (to the cost of tens of percent of GDP, ie trillions of dollars). Heads need to roll at the WHO. And really, at the CDC too. There was way too much complacency.
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  932.  @richiesd1  The World Health Organization was constantly advising AGAINST international travel restrictions from January. The politicians in USA, Australia and UK commendably saved thousands of lives by banning anybody returning who has visited a hotspot country (first China, then Italy) in the prior 14 days. If the World Health Organization was every day yelling from the rooftops to temporarily suspend international travel, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of lives would have been saved (not to mention the world would be trillions of dollars better off economically). According to modelling, if they did this just THREE WEEKS earlier, 95% of the cases will have been prevented. As I mentioned, heads should roll at the World Health Organization.
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  933. I can listen to Peter Robinson interview Peter Thiel about science and politics for hours. (Though I don't like the previous interviews when they go into esoteric philosophy and religious stuff)
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  934.  @bibleguy1207  Your memories are encoded in the structure of your brain, and consciousness is electrical impulses happening in your brain. People who have traumatic brain injuries can lose memories and have their personalities change. When we die our brains immediately start decaying due to lack of oxygen. If your resuscitate somebody who drowned they might live but sometimes with brain damage. The borderline between life and death is pretty fuzzy
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  935. I'm not sure Peter is even sober in this video LOL
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  936. Facebook already has non-anonymous real-name accounts (in theory). This is massively controversial especially when a Facebook account is required to use the Oculus virtual reality headsets (and video game players tend not to be too fond of Facebook and its privacy reputation).
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  937. If wages rise due to falling labor supply it reaches a tipping point where manufacturing moves to other countries. The promise has been increased labor productivity (through automation) will stop this, but I'm not so sure. Just something to keep in mind. Taiwan is very important to the global electronics supply chain with so many products manufactured there. I would hate to see that capacity move to the countries which are not as free, open and democratic as Taiwan.
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  938. If you are reading this comment and don't understand why Thunderf00t's video is wrong on many levels, please checkout my video titled 'SpaceX Unbusted'!
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  939. The video correctly uses the word pandemic (ie multiple continents) but the title incorrectly uses epidemic (single place). GZERO Media please change the title to 'pandemic'.
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  940. Just to clarify, Trump banned export of *semiconductors (not superconductors) but that's specific to Huawei only. Other companies in China can still buy semiconductors which contain US technology (right now, we'll see if that changes)
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  941.  @observeoutofthebox7806  No, Falcon 9 is human rated. You human rate both the capsule and the rocket its launched on. You may be thinking of the Falcon HEAVY indeed is not human rated and they're not pursuing human-rating on it last I checked. Which is why they can't use it to launch people around the moon just yet.
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  942. As Lisa Simpson once said, "Why would they have our National Grammar Rodeo in another nation!?"
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  943.  @gracecollins8415  It also helps that the US Marines are stationed nearby. Eminent domain (compulsory land acquisition) is always controversial, but the government should use it (and any other power they have) to kick the the Landbridge Group (controlled by the Chinese Communist Party) out of owning the Port of Darwin. Should not have been leased.
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  944. Australia needs to proverbially sell mutton to the Hindus and beef to the Muslims (including Indonesia, Bangladesh and the Middle East)
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  945.  @Parasol_b  It's currently only available on Patreon Early Access. This First Half Mega Review is timely so was scheduled for a fast release and therefore bypassed the usual 3 months on the Patreon Early Access backlog.
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  946. No need to spend 10 minutes Googling to debunk this video. Watch my 8 minute video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" which explains why Thunderf00t's numbers, math and logic is wrong. It's not just inflation that's wrong in this video. And if you watch my video at 2 times playback speed (which I recommend). It only takes 4 minutes to debunk Thunderf00t :)
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  947. Man, I love this channel. Hilarious and informative.
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  948. Mad respect to ScoMo for actively standing up to the government of China. Countries need to react strongly when the government of China engages in disinformation campaigns otherwise it will continue its "salami slicing" behavior -- the same way the CCP annexing and militarized the South China Sea islands. The only way to stop the CCP's disinformation is to cause the government of China to massively lose face internationally whenever they do it. Great job ScoMo!
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  949.  Karlos Khaos  Do you have any links to the allegations of U-238 ammunition being manufactured in Australia and that this causes birth defects in Iraq? Please trustworthy sources only, not CCP disinformation or RT (Russia Today) disinformation. I am happy to condemn such acts if there's real evidence of it.
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  950.  Karlos Khaos  OK I found a link on the Exercise Talisman Saber FAQ "Depleted uranium munitions are not in the Australian Defence Force inventory and are not permitted to be used for use by foreign or domestic forces within Australia. Depleted uranium munitions will not be used". You are spreading disinformation.
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  951. I agree Sky News Australia is generally an anti-science (anti-Climate Change) news organisation, as is the case with other Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation owned media organisations like Fox News. BUT in this case Media Watch is being extremely misleading to a situation that's not resolved. It's clear from the clip we just watched that Media Watch thinks "leaked from lab" and "genetically engineered" are synonymous. Yes, the scientific consensus is the virus was not genetically engineered. The "leaking from a lab" avenue is a legitimate investigation and has not yet been resolved. I am surprised how misleading Media Watch is being by suggesting the "leaking from lab" avenue of investigation has been ruled out scientifically.
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  952. Germany still doesn't treat the Chinese Communist Party threat with careful the attention it requires. The "Change through trade" policy worked great for South Korea and Taiwan but failed spectacularly for China. Now, the "United Front Work Department" is corrupting your local politicians, and infiltrating your local Chinese diaspora community to try and switch their allegiances. Germany needs to first understand the situation to even begin to fix it.
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  953. ​ @fredbloggs5902 It's from an Ars Technica article titled "Gwynne Shotwell talks about selling flight-proven rockets, Starship". Here's the full quote: Unless a customer has a strong argument one way or the other, the decision on what booster to use is left up to SpaceX. "You're buying a launch service, and we will provide you the best vehicle that we can in the timeframe that you need to fly," she said. "And we basically put the control for the most part in our hands."
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  954.  @fredbloggs5902  That was just a citation for the flat price. There's an article from mid-2018 by SpaceNews titled "SpaceX targeting 24-hour turnaround in 2019, full reusability still in the works". The full quote is: Musk said SpaceX lowered prices from “about $60 million to about $50 million for a reflown booster,” and expects “to see a steady reduction in prices” going forward. Of course, they still haven't achieved 24 hour turnaround. They are only up to 27 days. And they gave up on second stage reusability. But the $50 million figure was in the past tense. Almost every Falcon 9 launch is landed, and has a sticker price of around $50 million to launch 15,600kg when landing out at sea. My reading of what I quoted in my previous comment is Shotwell is also saying the SpaceX sticker price is schedule dependent. If you want to launch in 6 months you will need to pay a big premium because you'll need to kick somebody else down the list. But if you want to launch in 2 years time, you get the $50 million launches. Seems pretty reasonable. Also, it looks like SpaceX are not launching any expendably much anymore. I think they want to upsell customers to reusable Falcon Heavy, but haven't had much takers because the Falcon 9 is pretty cheap. For many years they did sell expenadable launches which were priced at $62 million for 22,800/kg, any they passed on inflation costs until they started dropping prices in the last few years.
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  955. ​ @fredbloggs5902  You are correct in this comment thread. The sticker price of a reused booster has to be lower than that given they are still selling expendable 22,800kg launches for $62 million. One counter point could be that the high price for kilogram included moving up the schedule, but I'm not seeing any evidence of that here. The "about $50 million" figure I referenced in this comment thread was from mid-2018, and appears applicable for the reflight of the Falcon 9 Block 4 (which were all expended). I have edited my original comment in this thread to clarify this, to help prevent the spread of misinformation. In my "SpaceX Unbusted" video I did the comparison calculations for the sticker price between the Falcon 9 and Ariane 5 and marginal cost of 10 reflights using the $15 million marginal cost. All of which we have better documented numbers on (Musk repeatedly referencing the Falcon 9 can do 1 tonne to orbit for $1 million). I didn't use the sticker price for reflown boosters because I haven't found any recent numbers. If you find any, please let me know!
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  956. Yes, the line going through Darwin was in the wrong place, and so is the starting point (near the town of Elliot, NT). I have helped get this corrected for this video's thumbnail but unfortunately the video itself is already released and can't be changed. Side note: there is/was another similar project called the "Asian Renewable Energy Hub" that wanted to build a submarine cable from a solar farm in the Pilbara, Western Australia. But they've switched to a plan involving using solar power to produce hydrogen/ammonia fuel and transporting the energy by cargo ships not electrical cables.
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  957. Landing people on the moon was pretty cool too
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  958. When the "progressive agenda" includes Bernie Sanders' policy for 100% free college education (without even a small annual co-pay), and Andrew Yang's universal basic income which would all be funded through massively increased taxes, then I'll happy accept more moderate center-left policies from Biden-like Democrats, or the moderate center-right policies from Mitt Romney-type Republicans.
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  959.  @judywaddell6065  India is 5 times poorer than China, it has incredibly bad industrial policy and the infrastructure is terrible: reliable electricity in factories is not a certainty and there is high absenteeism etc. It will take decades for the world to help India and Africa replace China for our manufacturing supply chains. Automation may reshore jobs faster, but we'll see. We should still immediately stop investing in China and start building better supply chains in places like India, Vietnam, Indonesia and Kenya.
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  960. LOL at 5:10 with Niall Ferguson ignoring Bremmer's joke XD
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  961. they got it 12 years ago and space isn't an issue an the middle on nowhere. Also there might be benefits about lower self discharge rates. If you were to build it today you'd use Li-ion batteries.
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  962. Bob Iger is still going have creative influence!? After what he helped do to Star Wars!? Madness.
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  963. By the way, the UK-based Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is an adenovirus-based vaccine -- which is NOT a new vaccination technology and only needs basic refrigeration. The governments of China and Russia (and India) are not known for their transparency (or high medical and pharmaceutical standards). You are free to take the China's vaccine but I will always choose either Germany (Pfizer-BioNtech), the United States (Moderna) and the UK (Oxford/AstraZeneca) because they have independent regulatory oversight and whistleblower. Also remember that China chose to allow international travel from Wuhan but blocked domestic travel (thereby infecting the world). Because of this it's wrong to support that regime by taking their vaccine.
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  964.  @MRTY323  No, the repatriation flights started after the international airport closed. There was 1 week where international flights continued as scheduled but domestic travel from Wuhan to the rest of China was locked down. That's the pivotal moment when the virus could have been contained to just Wuhan but was allowed to escape to infect the rest of the world. The reasons behind closing domestic travel but not international travel should be examined very closely by the independent international coronavirus investigation.
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  965.  @leanfang7386  It's the Chinese GOVERNMENT that chose to lockdown the domestic travel to/from Wuhan but not international travel. Nothing to do with Chinese state-owned companies or non-Chinese companies. This was around the time Xinhua news agency (very closely linked to the government of China) was talking about plunging the United States "into the mighty sea of coronavirus". We need an independent investigation to understand who knew what when, and the reasons those decisions were made. There is *absolutely* reason to suspect that the government of China chose to allow large numbers of people to travel globally (but block all travel to/from Wuhan) knowing that some of travelers will have been infected in order to let the infection take hold outside China (but restrict it within China only to Wuhan).
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  966. Great interview, thanks for making it.
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  967. If he got a 2160p camera we'll be able to read the bookshelf in the background and the photos on the left. So maybe best to keep it 480p!
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  968. Totalitarian China is very rapidly growing old and infirm, but China's mass brainwashing system (their K-12 "patriotic education" and media censorship including the Great Firewall) will be a danger to all of humanity for many decades to come. Hopefully the European Union will step up and create a hawkish policy against the Chinese Communist Party based in human-rights and universal values. We should have done this after the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, and shifted all the successful anti-Soviet policies to anti-CCP policies. But better late than never! I am very happy the world has woken up to China's dangerous dictatorship :-)
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  969. Australia has a strong welfare system, so the homeless part is unlikely without first developing drug, alcohol or mental health issues
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  970. Australia should need to worry about offending China when calling for an investigation in the worst disease outbreak in 100 years. And we shouldn't need to worry about offending China during a national security debate. I agree ScoMo could have handled it better by getting the Europeans on board earlier (before asking for an inquiry), but Australia is doing the right thing for the people of the world
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  971. Great video! Hopefully governments all around the world start to treat Taiwan as the beacon of democracy that it is.
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  972. Lots of Korean and Japanese brands are not made in China. Eg, Samsung phones are all made in Vietnam. A lot of clothing these days is made in eg, Bangladesh. The world is already decoupling from China but right now you still have to do a little research to avoid the Made In China stuff
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  973.  @eddybulich3309  Australia has a 40% debt to GDP ratio with government deficits funded by issuing Treasury bonds (which need to have a buyer, offer a fixed interest rate and also needs the principle paid back eventually)? Sure it's increasing the "money supply" it's still debt.
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  974. Consider Samsung smartphones! South Korean company (nation that respects human rights), assembled in Vietnam. Still a communist dictatorship, but far more open the PRC, mostly on the right track by not teaching its people to be endlessly angry about historical wars and also not trying to destabilize the world constantly. Go Samsung!
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  975. Modern wars aren't necessarily a "meat grinder": between cyber warfare, anti-satellite weapons, biological weapons and nuclear weapons you can probably "win" a total war without first needing to have a baby boom 20 years earlier.
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  976.  @Asianometry  I read 81% of Singapore's natural gas comes from Malaysia and Indonesia but I didn't look into the fraction that was "LNG". My understanding is LNG and natural gas are equivalent with the large and expensive liquefaction systems being the only way to convert gas to be transportable long distances. My impression is Singapore's natural gas powered power plants are dependent on Malaysia and Indonesia natural gas not "Qatar, Equatorial Guinea, and Australia". But I am happy to be proved wrong.
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  977. The pseudo-intellectual analysis by this video is mostly untrue. If Disney itself was the problem, Marvel Studios would be doing poorly. Instead it's achieving unprecedented success in popular culture. Resetting the canon is not itself a problem. Of course they wouldn't create movies based on Expanded Universe storylines such as the Yuuzhan Vong. The reason for Marvel Studio's initial and continued success is largely down Kevin Feige. He understands the characters and the universe. LucasFilm does not have an equivalent visionary. Few people are excited for Star Wars episode 9. Many people are excited for Avengers 4. Why is this? It's because Marvel Studios makes fun, well-written and interesting movies that people want to see. LucasFilm in the modern era mostly does not. TLDR: Bad writing is causing modern Star Wars movies to be uninteresting. It's perhaps a sign of a deeper problem at LucasFilm. And pseudo-intellectual analysis citing the history of organized religion doesn't actually allow for a deeper understanding of the root causes.
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  978. ​ @piratesofthedeepweb9873  It's from a British satirical television puppet show named Splitting Image, specifically episode 2 of season 1 of the 2020 revival (at timestamp 19:18 minutes of that show). I tried to upload to YouTube but it got copyright blocked. I've uploaded to Vimeo see reply to this comment.
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  979.  @piratesofthedeepweb9873  It's on Vim eo, specifically video 512,337,259. Remove the commas and enter it. The YouTube spam filter is tough
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  980. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7yiqiu
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  981. Shoulda closed Australia's air border with Italy, US and the rest of the world 2 weeks before we actually did. Political reasons are why Australia closed the China border but not then the US border when it was clear that they weren't doing enough testing. The two schools of pandemic control: go fast and hard, or go proportionate. They're currently trying the proportionate approach and got way too many imported cases from Italy/USA.
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  982. Yes the numbers are wrong. Checkout my video title "SpaceX Unbusted" for accurate numbers. Now that SpaceX has demonstrated almost 10 reflights, the economics of reusability has become highly favorable.
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  983. The video creator just copies and pastes the video script he was reading from into YouTube Studio and it automatically sets the timings with no additional effort
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  984. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7yiqiu
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  985. GZERO Media are still making "Puppet Regime" comedy shorts (complete with the singing title branding too). I'm not a fan of "Puppet Regime" as comedy has never landed for me (though the rest of the audience might like it), but the title branding with the people singing the word "PUPPET REGIME" will be stuck in my head forever unfortunately (good thing from GZERO's perspective I guess). On the other hand "The Red Pen" is a more serious show than Puppet Regime so the singing title branding is more out of place. I can see why GZERO Media would want to keep the branding each series with a consistent singing title "brand language".
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  986. There seems to be a lot of breaking of international treaties recently (including the Sino-British Joint Declaration by the CCP). Between North Korea and Iran (and other countries in the future), some experts have said the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty may also collapse. Very dangerous world. Europe, the world needs your core belief in multilateral (but crazy slow) diplomacy to stabilize things. That said, I support sanctions on Nord Stream 2 and Europe reducing Russian gas dependence. Putin is an autocrat who destroyed Russian democracy. Don't enrich him.
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  987. ​ maggie craigie  ​ Read Glenn Wood's comment, I was agreeing with you that there is evidence that COVID-19 is a naturally occurring strain and was not manufactured in a lab, but that provides no indication about the lab leak hypothesis.
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  988. Oh it's out now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k3Xc7dNi-s
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  989. 5 liters of water for every single almond grown 😂
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  990. There is indeed many question marks around the Victoria's Belt and Road Initiative agreement. We know from elsewhere that the government of China exports corruption, bribery and kickbacks to defraud all people (including people in China and around the world) and the BRI is no exception. Other countries have found corruption/bribery/kickbacks with respect to BRI intiatives, and Australia has already had many cases of "revolving door corruption" (Andrew Robb, China-Aus FTA architect getting a $880,000/year kickback to do nothing as a "consultant" paid by the CCP, after passing the Free Trade Agreement). Other instances of $100,000 in aldi shopping bags. CCP corruption is alive and well in Australia. All involved with the BRI should be investigated by Victoria's Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission due to prior experiences (locally and internationally) with CCP corruption, especially BRI related.
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  991. You should walk around the city you're in while you do your talk like a vlogger. Use a selfie stick too. Makes the video part more interesting than a static background. Audio content was good though!
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  992. A return of US government shutdowns next year? Ugh...
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  993. How are questions submitted? Via twitter?
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  994. ​ @crackpotpolitics5986  Well my video has 900 views, and Thunderf00t's video has 210,000 views and of course gains viewers faster than mine. My channel will never be monetized (I post random content that I find interested, some of which is copyrighted). A lot of people take Thunderf00t's at his word without critical analysis and fighting misinformation is important, so I'm happy to shamelessly plug my video wherever I can.
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  995. It's nothing to do with the Chinese people. The United States chooses not to transfer technology to the government of China and their military. Tech transfer to China gets used to suppress Uyghers in concentration camps.
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  996. Much improved audio over your previous videos, but Ian Bremmer desperately needs a teleprompter so his eyes are looking directly at the camera as he reads the script. Teleprompters are cheap and ubiquitous. They can just be glass and mirror with a tablet PC behind them. TechnologyConnections has some great videos on them
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  997. The WHO's corruption by the government of China has cost trillions of dollars of wealth and hundreds of thousands of lives. The world should never forget this and should work to fix these organizations. China lied, people died.
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  998.  @mitua604  The $50 million numbers is from mid-2018, and seems to be talking about the price to reuse a forth generation Falcon 9 ("Block 4") which is only launched twice, with the second launch being in expendable configuration. Thus it's actually $50 million to launch 22,800kg. Those numbers aren't relevant now that SpaceX are launching the fifth generation Falcon 9 and getting almost 10 launches out of each booster. I know they no longer charge a difference whether the launch is made on a new or reused booster, but it's unclear what the exact price is for a 15,600kg launch
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  999.  @mitua604  There's no reason an expendable launch needs to be done on a brand new booster. If SpaceX launched a bunch of times reusably they could do an expendable swan song. The Falcon 9 is a bit overpowered for a medium lift vehicle, so for most commercial payloads the reusable payload load loss is not that important. For SpaceX's part they used to encourage larger payloads to use the Falcon 9 Heavy. At least until it turned out that the Falcon Heavy basically has no market since the Falcon 9 is so much cheaper than the competition.
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  1000.  @ivantan4537  Hindus can't eat beef but anything else is a cultural preference. Eg, Many Indians and Hindus can and do eat chicken, eggs, fish, mutton, lamb and goat.
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  1001. "Astra" not to be confused with "Ad Astra" creators of the VASIMR engine
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  1002.  @bennyloyed3402  You won't convince him by attacking him. Always attack the argument being presented
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  1003. Why give Alexander Downer a 6 minute 19 second interview when he clearly had more points to make. Just record a longer interview and edit it down for TV broadcast.
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  1004. China and the WHO claimed it couldn't spread between people until late January 2020. That's how it escaped Wuhan
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  1005. Great to see you interview anti-Chinese Communist Party politicians in addition to people like Ambassador Cui Tiankai
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  1006. Also I should also mention that I don't actually support the general legal concept of pardon/commutation/clemency. It's too much power in the hands of a corruptible executive (see Trump), and even though it's a legitimate part of the legal system it always feels like an eroding of "rule of law". I'd rather the courts and judges give people reasonable sentences for the crimes they commit and not need to rely on a sentence commutation to make the punishment fair and reasonable.
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  1007. I'm sure Putin is very happy whenever he sees the US spending trillions of dollars in an inefficient and unproductive way.
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  1008. Squandering the opportunity to install universal Fibre To The Premises is one of the biggest mistakes in Australian political history. At least it will happen *eventually*, but at far greater tax payer expense :/
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  1009. There's 16 unreleased videos available for streaming on the Patreon Early Access tier. I highly recommend the first Carl Zeiss video. It's a great story.
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  1010. Isn't Communist Party of China the more correct term? But I agree everyone uses CCP and it rolls of the tongue much better, so it's better if the headline uses the term CCP. It's still a to-mate-oh, to-mah-toh situation.
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  1011. Yes, the video thumbnail has been updated but the video content is fixed.
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  1012. Singapore's strategy is to diversify, diversify, diversify. Spreads the risks. Rely on the United States for security (including free and open sea lanes and at least currently, dollar-denominated clearance system), Middle East for petroleum, Malaysia for water, China as an economic partner. Spreading risk to Australia for electricity doesn't sound too bad!
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  1013.  @yaucharles91  Thanks!
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  1014. Victoria needs an inquiry into the BRI decision making process. We know how CCP linked infrastructure projects work. They'll be $880,000/year consultancy gigs (that require no work to earn that paycheck) handed out to those involved in the Belt and Road Initiative. Just like Andrew Robb and the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement.
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  1015. Yes, the arguments in this video are weak. Lack of abort system, questions around robustness of the engine out capability and climate change are the major issues. Planes can at least glide and land without power. His argument that rocket engines are mature after 100 years of development could easily be applied to launch cost but between Falcon 9 and Starship, SpaceX has dropped the cost of launch by 2-3 orders of magnitude in the past 20 years, so such reasoning doesn't hold up to scrutiny. As it is currently designed, Starship will always fundamentally be less safe than planes, but it may still be able to be engineered to be an acceptable level of risk. I think liquid methane from fuel wells provide sufficient supply (though at great climate impact), synthesizing such quantities through renewable means is another huge project, but worth doing.
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  1016.  @Asianometry  Don't forget to add a visual like/comment/subscribe popup at the bottom of the video at various timestamps. It's natural that users (particularly mobile users) will forget to do this unless reminded.
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  1017. ​ @GlobalDrifter1000  Well Joelle Aittama is correct, in that if the WHO actually rang the alarm bells it would have been much easier to act fast.
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  1018. I've come across multiple people that believe in a conspiracy theory that China's "Later, Longer, Fewer" policy and the One Child Policy were not designed by the Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and the rest of the Chinese Communist Party. The theory argues they were tricked by economists working at Western charitable foundations (the Rockerfeller Foundation and Rockerfeller's "Population Council") who convinced them to implement the family planning and population control policies. The reasons they argue were not even based on managing the number of dependent children, but to curb the populations of Asia for racial supremacist reasons. As far as I can tell, it's all conspiracy theorist nonsense, but I've come across a 30 minute documentary on YouTube from 2013 titled "Population Control: The Eugenics Connection" that at least starts out arguing a similar point (I haven't been able to sit through the whole thing yet). The video quality is grainy but it's otherwise relatively well-produced (going as far as including the same background piano track I've heard in actual PBS documentaries grainy 1990s VHS tapes). My concern is that when the Chinese Communist Party eventually comes to the realization that they have made a massive mistake with their population management policies allowing the total fertility rate to fall so far below 2.1 children that they will end up reviving the conspiracy theory in their propaganda to whip up nationalism (in the same way China's propaganda arms have convinced people in China that COVID-19 did not emerge in China).
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  1019. Here's a direct link to the conspiracy theory video titled "Population Control: The Eugenics Connection": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcmqkboIOBQ I don't actually recommend the video (and haven't been able to sit through the whole thing yet), but its worrying and kind of interesting that at least some people I've come across online believe China's population control policies were actually a Western conspiracy.
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  1020. Woah, woah. Term limits are important. I hope the US doesn't repeal term limits like the dictatorships of Russia and China
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  1021.  @hariranormal5584 It's recycled water. It's drinkable, but it's not 100% H2O. Pure water ("distilled water") is not healthy because it pulls minerals out of your cells. Checkout the video titled "Singapore's 50 Year March Towards Water Independence" for more information on New Water. Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCova_p72Ck
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  1022. Good retrospective. The Russia Federation of the 1990s was a once in a century opportunity to help create a new peaceful and prosperous democratic state, like Germany and Japan. This once in a century opportunity was squandered by the United States and the European Union. Now the world is again stuck with yet another Russian dictatorship. Hopefully next time we'll be less shortsighted.
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  1023. The Chinese Communist Party is trying to scare regular Australians into tiptoeing around their sensitivities. They say "Don't bring this topic up or you'll suffer" and then politely threaten to stop buying Australia's world class agricultural products, minerals and education. Regular people and the news media shouldn't need to tiptoe around the "sensitivities" of any nation state when within Australian borders, especially not the sensitives of a murderous totalitarian dictatorship. Either way, China is facing a deep economic recession (maybe even global economic depression) so it's no longer even in a position to afford to buy large amounts of discretionary goods and services from Australia. It's an empty threat. Everybody should avoid buying Made In China. Let's tighten the screws on the CCP, and start trading more with countries that don't cover up disease outbreaks or actively prevent inquiries into the origin if the outbreak.
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  1024. This is great!
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  1025. What about the daigou attack on the woolies?
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  1026. 3:54 A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
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  1027. In mid-April, the bi-partisan non-profit the "Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget" projected the United States to have a 18.7% budget deficit for 2020, quadruple the prior year. That's crazy, but we should not be afraid to spend whatever it takes to get the economy back on track (as efficiently as we can).
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  1028. Lisa Simpson: "As you know. we've inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump" Remarkable how accurate a throwaway line from an episode of The Simpsons from more than 20 years ago ("Bart to the Future") has become. 😂😢
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  1029.  @SilentStorm_5  If you want to start posting YouTube videos then just do it. The worst thing that can happen is nobody watches your videos, which doesn't matter. Sounds like it would be a hobby you would enjoy
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  1030.  @SilentStorm_5  Who cares if the video you make is garbage. You'll build the skills by doing it. Just remember that quote "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take". Create your videos anonymously under a new YouTube account using a pseudonym if you're so concerned.
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  1031.  @joebloggs5387  I agree with your sentiment, but careful selling beef to India due to cultural considerations with the Hindu majority.
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  1032. His work on keeping Feige in charge of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is to be applauded. But the severe damage he did to Star Wars will never be forgiven! I am only half joking!
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  1033. This is the just the Korean version of people's obsession with Japanese pop culture (anime and computer games). These people are sometimes derogatorily called weeaboo or otaku.
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  1034.  @mclanaford2957  Yes you are right on both counts.
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  1035.  @justsandra71  It's a clown
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  1036. It's not at all about religion. It's about non-proliferation. The more nukes that are around the greater the risk of more Hiroshima and Nagasaki type warfare. Including complete nuclear war between countries. World War 3 can happen within our lifetimes and leave billions dead. That's what this is all about.
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  1037. China Uncensored and other "conservative" media organizations have started using Locals in addition the Patreon, due to perceived left-of-center bias that large tech companies tend to have.
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  1038. For what it's worth, wind and solar are actually the cheapest form of power these days. At least as far as the spot price goes.
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  1039.  @jocramkrispy305  The "call it a million" booster refurbishment cost is not important compared to the $15 million marginal cost per flight, which was referenced several times in the May 2020 Aviation Week podcasts (timestamps in my video description). And with 8 flights per booster demonstrated with a record 27 day turnaround time, their numbers do pass a sanity check. And the turnaround times of the Falcon 9 have only been improving the past several years. I didn't actually call TF out on the 10% vs 20% sticker price reduction issue. The $50 million figure it derives from is actually pretty dubious as it's a figure from 2018 that refers to the 4th generation Falcon 9 reflown on its second flight in expendable configuration (thus launching 22,800kg into low-earth orbit), and expendable flights is something SpaceX don't do much anymore. I haven't yet found the sticker price for the 5th generation Falcon 9 launching 13,600kg into low-earth orbit.
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  1040. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7yiqiu
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  1041. It's not clear to me that for music generation if open source will win. It seems more analogous to Photoshop or FL Studio to me, than VLC. Riffusion is very good
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  1042. This is great technology. What's the name of the amazing music at 3:45 (and throughout the rest of the video). So futuristic and relaxing! Please reply the name of the song as YouTube hasn't detected it, neither did Shazam.
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  1043. Both the CCP and the people of China are well within their rights to choose who they trade with based on ethical considerations!
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  1044.  @aniksamiurrahman6365  0:05 "I was hoping to spend my weekend working on a video about the bubble tea industry, but I have gotten far more emails asking me to do this one"
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  1045. Very much enjoyed the video. Thanks for making it despite the chances it won't be a successful video in view count! Hopefully more people become patrons!
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  1046. I think the point some here are missing is Stan Grant is usually NOT concise. He typically gives a lot of background information and asks very long questions, so we hear more from him than the person being interviewed. This interview wasn't so bad.
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  1047. There already is an Asianometry twitter: https://twitter.com/asianometry/with_replies but it mainly posts videos links without additional commentary
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  1048. If Democrats put forward likable and charismatic candidates like Obama and early 1990s Bill Clinton then the Republican Party (Trump or no Trump) will struggle. But instead Democrats choose candidates that are either mindbogglingly unlikable (like Hilary Clinton, who called half the country a "basket of deplorables" with a long list of insults), or at best MINDNUMBINGLY BORING like John Kerry, Al Gore, and Joe Biden. Democrats needs to start putting forward more charismatic and likeable candidates in every future election.
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  1049. Thanks for the thorough mini-documentary on the subject. No other YouTuber covers so many subjects in such depth so often. I'm very happy to be a patron on the Early Access Tier!! Hopefully this 27 minute documentary will get the recognition it deserves from the YouTube algorithm!! Keep up the great work!
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  1050. I think it's great for back benchers (from either party) to regularly spout lots of wild ideas (with wild being actually very reasonable and truthful ideas that cannot otherwise be expressed by politicians). Remember such wild views expressed by back benchers don't actually represent their party's position, or the position of the Australian government.
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  1051.  @melodyz8331 Given the issue of the day is an agricultural export tariff, it's really China who is biting the hand that feeds it...
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  1052. ​ @melodyz8331  ​ By the way, just for future reference only The Australian, Sky News Australia and regional newspapers are Murdoch owned. The newspapers AFR, SMH and The Age are owned by Channel Nine (used to be "Fairfax"), and Guardian is owned by an independent trust.
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  1053. Agree that Rey joining Kylo would be a fresh take on Star Wars and make an exciting episode 9. Have Finn (the pacifist stormtrooper) be trained as a Jedi by Luke (with Obi-Wan's lightsaber stolen from Kylo that he took from Mustafar), and you have a mindblowingly great trilogy of light Jedi versus grey Jedi. Bonus points if Rey's lifetime of darkness turns her fully to the dark side. Pity Disney didn't go down that path and we have the awfulness of TFA and TLJ. Won't be seeing Solo or ep 9 in cinemas either. LucasFilm has lost all good faith from me, though Marvel Studios has earned 100% good faith to see every movie after how good Ragnorok and Homecoming were.
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  1054. MA X, the COVID recession is FAR larger than the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. the stock market is doing very well in this massive recession though
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  1055. Your arguments here are reasonable, I have similar views (except maybe on Starship Earth-to-Earth which I chose not to analyze). This video annoyed me so much that I created an 8 minute video titled "SpaceX: UNBUSTED" a few days ago. I hope people watch it (at 2 times playback speed). It goes into a bit deeper analysis than your great comment, and shows just how much SpaceX have dropped prices compared to the Ariane 5.
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  1056. From Dr. Li Wenliang dying, to Fang Bin and Chen Qiushi rotting in a jail cell (or potentially having a summary execution), the Chinese Communist Party strategy of lies and coverups is not something that anybody in the world wants to follow.
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  1057. Is there an archive of such Planet America retrospectives?
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  1058. People use China and the Chinese Communist Party interchangably. I agree the CCP is the enemy of all humanity, but please try not to calling that "China". It's the government of China that's the problem.
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  1059. Daniel Ellsberg (of the Pentagon Papers) recently released some documents he obtained in the 1950s about the US military planning on bombing China with nuclear weapons during an invasion of Taiwan. There's a New York Times article from a few days ago titled "Risk of Nuclear War Over Taiwan in 1958 Said to Be Greater Than Publicly Known" that covered the story. Very relevant to the situation we find ourselves in today.
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  1060. Listen to Andrew Bolt's views even if you disagree with everything he says. Otherwise Australia will become more divided over partisan political lines like America is.
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  1061.  @bojangles8572  I made a 8 minute video on my channel. Watch using at least 2 times playback speed.
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  1062. NATO's first secretary-general described the purpose of the alliance as "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down". This was in the 1950s when the world was worried about Japan and Germany re-militarizing. But on the other hand I'm pretty sure people of France remember the "freedom fries" thing after France chose (correctly) to not support the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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  1063. I think the world is at a very dangerous (but in my opinion, intellectually interesting!) tipping point around nuclear proliferation. Iran is likely to have a major political transition at some point in the next 20 years. The Iranian youth are very different to its conservative and aging leadership. I think if Iran is delayed for just a few years in getting the bomb, they will likely never get it. But if they do, they'll be quite a few new nuclear powers trying to counter-balance. Fun times!
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  1064. Looks like electrical arcing/spark
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  1065.  @huehuehuehuehuehuehuehuehuehue  YouTube's Vulgar language policy is clear that it's about excessive profanity. I don't think that song qualifies
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  1066. The guest used a landline telephone handset to talk but we also had video!? 😁
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  1067. Rubber stamp parliament. "NPC", non-playable character like a bot in video games. Mindless drones.
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  1068.  @monkeybusiness2204  ​The exact quote was from Trump's April 30 2020 "Coronavirus Briefing Transcript on Protection for Seniors" was "Have you seen anything at this point that gives you a high degree of confidence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was the origin of this virus?" Trump answers "Yes, I have. Yes, I have." How do you know Trump was lying? And who said anything about going to war over it?
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  1069.  @lenmccoll6731  He didn't. Sorry for my lack of value add in that comment. I've modified the third sentence of my post to contain more of a call to action! I'll try and have less repetitive, more unique insights in my future comments.
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  1070. I can really see why Trump lost Arizona :O
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  1071.  @smileyeagle1021  Please watch my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted". Falcon 9 can launch payload into orbit for a third of its nearest competitor, the Ariane 5. Refurbishment cost of the Block 5 Falcon 9 is $1 million and a new second stage cost $10 million. But more importantly the Falcon 9's marginal launch cost at $15 million (which includes fuel and operations). Under Thunderf00t's very own spreadsheet, with the correct 68% payload figure it would take 3 launches to "break even", and after that every launch saves money over the expendable configuration. And after 10 flights kilogram per dollar is halved. SpaceX has demonstrated 8 flights of a single booster so far. Put these two facts together and SpaceX is operating at about one sixth of what the industry was before the expendable Falcon 9 entered the market. Yes, it's not one tenth, but it's still very impressive. SpaceX are not passing on the savings from reusability. My video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" is 8 minutes long uses correct math and numbers to explain SpaceX is not a scam, and why Thunderf00t's arguments are a strawman. They say "a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes", so I hope everybody reading this comment checks out my video "SpaceX Unbusted" to help stop misinformation.
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  1072.  @vilmospalik1480  Checkout my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" which provides a clear example why Falcon 9 is on third the price of the industry before Falcon 9, and has dropped the COST to low earth orbit by a further half. It's clear SpaceX is operating at approximately one sixth the cost of the rest of the industry, but not passing on the savings. My video examines these economics with the most commercially competitive example: the Ariane 5.
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  1073. "Communist Party of China" vs "Chinese Communist Party". I believe CPC is technically the more correct name but you don't see many people use it.
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  1074. I love meat, but people don't require it to survive (plenty of countries are full of vegetarians). Australia should continue to make as much money from China as we can (export minerals/education/agriculture) but we need to get off the sinking ship of China's economy. Demographics mean China is going down whether we like it or not, better we get off now and start developing export markets that share our values.
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  1075. Great video. It's important the world understands Taiwan's predicament so is psychologically prepared if totalitarian China decides to invade. We know from history that 'appeasement' doesn't work. The world will need to help protect democratic Taiwan from annexation even if it means World War 3. The free world will prevail, and it's highly likely the totalitarian government of China will finally fall. The cost of any third World War will be high, but the risk of not preventing an annexation is higher. I hope Xi Jinping comes to his senses though before this. Keep up the great work, VisualPolitik!
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  1076. Very good video Shirvan
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  1078. 6:38 I know the comment was in jest, but wow: Congress would approve military force against China, but not do anything else.
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  1079. My understanding is a pending petition does not confer lawful immigration status on an applicant. I'm not a lawyer though
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  1080. 23:00 price per unit weight is probably another interesting metric I think. Probably some shrinkflation going on
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  1081. No Turnbull is not at all pro-China. He got a huge amount of flak for his "stand up" speech. But this video didn't provide enough context for whatever domestic Australian political point they are trying to argue for here.
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  1082. The reason China was excluded from the ISS was the fear that it would accelerate China's use of space for military purposes and give China more espionage opportunities. Whilst Russia / Soviet Union already had space technology that had already been mature, and the Russian Federation of the 1990s was a full blown democracy (for an extremely short period of time). This video isn't thorough enough about the geopolitical reasons of China's exclusion.
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  1083. Also now that Russia under Putin a authoritarian nation that annexes territories like Crimea the political will of including Russia in international space missions is definitely waning.
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  1084. Oprah Winfrey: You get a payout! And YOU get a payout! EVERYBODY gets a taxpayer funded payout!
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  1085. Here is Alexander Downer's AFR article: https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/china-must-be-held-to-account-for-unleashing-a-global-catastrophe-20200419-p54l3o
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  1086. Yes, but not using violence / military, but with economic sanctions and trade embargoes. I think the best model is the first Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. Major reform to the Chinese Communist Party (or even its outright collapse) is very important milestone for the future of humanity and democracy. I believe that Trump is helping precipitate this and Biden and his congressional Democrats colleagues are moving in this direction too.
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  1087. Woah, what the heck! Nobody is talking about violence especially not nuclear war. This is about reducing our reliance on China economically.
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  1088. Absolutely. I ended up creating a video named "SpaceX Unbusted" to address the misinformation.
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  1089. Beverley O'Connor?
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  1090. It's still 5 times poorer than China. Until India becomes a manufacturing export powerhouse like China it won't be in a position to replace China. Setting up factories in India involves building a reliable electricity supply with new power stations, so only the biggest suppliers are in a possible to move to India. India has government corruption at every level including people asking for bribes and if you don't pay you have to wait years through the redtape. I agree India replacing China as the worlds factory is a good thing, but people of India will need to agree to stop the corruption and other problems while the world begins to invest in that country. Then India will take off.
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  1091. Certainly GZERO Media will be unprofitable right now. Though they do have sponsors and TV broadcast deals. But the channel is definitely a side project (and marketing arm) of the Eurasia Group consultancy's main business. I do worry they're not doing enough to make it sustainable in the long term.
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  1092. Watch the Sun Cable video by EEVBlog2. Dave is an electrical engineer, and he ran the loss numbers and seemed relatively impressed. This is not to say the economics of the cable and the other engineering challenges (like tectonic activity) are easily solved problems, but it seems at least from an electrical engineering perspective the project passes a sanity check.
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  1093. No, we do NOT need threats of violence just to "give them a scare". That's just "might means right" approach which is wrong and should be called out. What we need clear and well designed economic policies to pressure the corrupt government of China. As an individual person please avoid buying Made in China were possible! Ultimately it's the people of China who need to overthrow their corrupt government!
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  1094. Many of Trump's STATEMENTS on COVID-19 have definitely been grossly dishonest and inaccurate. Whether Trump himself meets that criteria is a different question.
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  1095. USSR? You mean the Russian Federation right?
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  1096. As much as possible, the United States should only trade with free and open societies. Trump had the right idea when he said Germany should not make Russia rich by buying their gas.
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  1097. This video annoyed me so much that I created a video titled "SpaceX Unbusted". Sorry for the spam, but I hope people check it out. I'm only at 0.7% of Thunderf00t's view count. Fighting misinformation really is an uphill battle!
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  1098. Stan Grant is at his best when he isn't given an opportunity to give endless 5 minute monologue type questions. He's a talented and effective journalist and moderator, but generally just needs to be more short and sharp with his input.
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  1099. Agreed, it's far to dangerous to continue buying made in China. When you have an alternative get the product that wasn't made in china!
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  1100. He's already done one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXG447KQLwg
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  1101. Also the inference step (using the trained model) requires very little compute compared to training the model. And you can fine-tune the model without much needing compute too. In short getting fully trained models is very valuable for entities that have limited access to compute resources, including universities, companies and individuals. But there's a bunch of good open-source ML models that such entities are free to use, like Meta's LLAMA LLM or the diffusion models from StabilityAI
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  1102. @Jeremiah Teoh Nintendo have started moving manufacturing of some Switch variants outside of China!! If you can't find a console that's not marked "Made in China" then you buy a Switch off eBay, or from a friend who no longer uses theirs. And also you might be interested in the experimental "Yuzu" emulator. Everything we do helps put pressure on the CCP. Most of all convince anybody you can to avoid Made in China!
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  1103. because the countries they come from often don't have the culture, work ethics, capital markets and risk tolerance as the San Francisco Bay Area
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  1104. Exactly, Taiwan was so successful precisely because they understand better than anybody how the CCP operates and has lived through 2002 SARS outbreak. History repeating itself (this time with CCP corrupting the World Health Organisation and over 346,000 dead because China's lies).
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  1105. This is an old episode of G-ZERO World. Other than "Throwback" it's not that clearly marked as an old episode. He never mentioned COVID but he mentioned "Rex Tillerson" in the video too.
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  1106. *Chinese Communist Party. But yes: diversify, diversify, diversify.
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  1107. 24:22 Is there a YouTube playlist of the John Barron narrated history video like the one at 26:36? I find them a very fascinating part of the show. After 10 years there's probably 100+ of these well edited clips that have been made and I want to binge them. (I will keep posting this comment on every Planet America video until somebody creates a YouTube playlist)
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  1108. 3:55 "While the company doesn't have a reusable rocket yet, it sent a liquid fuel rocket into orbit for the first time earlier this year. Experts say this is a crucial step to creating a reusable rocket" The experts are right: getting into orbit with a rocket once is crucial to getting into orbit with the same rocket twice
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  1109. Great video! Never heard of him or his products before
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  1110. Milan Pintar As former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull famously once said "The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia”
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  1111. The level of debate and discourse on Sky News Australia's YouTube channel should be higher than this...
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  1112. Bring back the golden age of Star Wars video games. Bring back LucasArts!
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  1113. I wish we had 10 years to decouple!! Anybody who understands demographics knows that China is no longer on the "up and up", in reality it's entering into a crippling slow motion demographic car crash and facing a 40+ years of stagnation, while countries like Australia and the US keeps moving forward. It will be similar to Japan's lost decades and stagnation but MUCH worse! Australia should start sell less to China in relative terms. We should be selling mutton to the Hindu's and beef to the Muslims (including Indonesia/Malaysia) because those billions of customers are starting to have enough money to afford our high quality exports!
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  1114. ​@roguemale TheOne&Only You have the freedom to organise grassroots/bottom-up consumer boycotts against any thing you feel like! Every unit of currency you spend is a vote you can cast. The hard part is convincing those around you to is a cause worth supporting (eg, let's say buying fair trade palm oil products). But if enough regular people decide to change purchasing and stop investing in a totalitarian dictatorship it will make an impact! If the people of China choose to do this against a country then that's great! Not so much if it's because their totalitarian government told them to!
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  1115. @roguemale TheOne&Only While China doesn't have democracy it still has mindless consumerism, absurd property prices, absurd health care costs, widespread crime and a vast gulf between the rich and poor. In the US you don't need to worry about your children being kidnapped while you go for a walk, no good Samaritans calling an ambulance, or losing a your life if you're a prisoner and a government official needs your liver. China doesn't have mass shootings (neither does Europe, Australia etc) but it has it's own massive race issues (1 million Uighers in literal CONCENTRATION CAMPS), and it's run by a totalitarian government that's more corrupt that the US. My point is both countries have major problems and the world needs to try and fix all these problems!
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  1116. You probably didn't have to spend THREE YEARS of your life conscripted into a military of a country you only had a smallest of connection to. But you do you.
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  1117. Vote with your wallet and avoid Made in China!
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  1118. It's about buying less Made in China in future. Supply chains are now leaving China because it's become impossible to work there under the current CCP leadership. Electronics manufacturing is shifting to Vietnam and elsewhere. Trump's tariffs helped accelerate this
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  1119. Carcass... Or Caracas!! haha, I'll see myself out! :P
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  1120. I hope people reading this comment checkout my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted". Sorry for the spam, tackling misinformation is important!!
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  1121. I believe you're right, but the US government has guaranteed 100 million doses order (which cost $2 billion)
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  1122. Singapore is definitely a COVID-19 success story. Same with South Korea, Japan and Taiwan. China appears to be doing well, but it had a big lockdown something that a few other nations in Asia avoided. Also the trust in the numbers coming out of China is pretty low. The actual number of infected and dead in Wuhan is likely much higher than has been reported.
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  1123.  Ron millis  I guess, but most people in China who have money (including billionaires and corrupt CCP officials) already do everything they can to get their money out of China and into "safe" assets like Western real-estate. As soon as they get money they get their families out of the country. They already understand the system. I guess maybe this trend will accelerate..
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  1124. The audio quality of Winston Peters is very bad. So low that I can't watch this at my usual 3 times playback speed. Get Winston Peters to use a high quality VOIP service. Even Skype. New Zealand has an actual fibre-to-the-premises National Broadband Network, why does their deputy prime minister settle for the terrible audio quality provided by the telephone network? Such low standards. Up your game New Zealand.
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  1125. You mentioned bat soup being served up at the Wuhan wet market. There is no evidence of this. The video that went around was from Palau. However, there is plenty of evidence of Pangolin and bat feces being consumed as part of traditional Chinese medicine (the concept of Jinbu 進補). Make sure you get your facts completely correct, or else you're just giving ammunition to people who defend the CCP. Please read the New York Times article "Why Did the Coronavirus Outbreak Start in China?" op-ed goes into more detail about the concept of Jinbu.
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  1126.  @ouss  Yes it's absolutely a straw man argument. His figure for refurbishment cost is also 4 years old. Even before reusability the Falcon 9 was a third the price of the most competitive rockets before SpaceX entered the industry. This video was wrong on so many levels that I made an 8 minute video titled "SpaceX: UNBUSTED!! Debunking Thunderf00t" to help stop the misinformation. I hope people check my video out.
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  1127. Great video! Makes me want to try traditional Mongolian goat
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  1128. Previous coverage of Carl Zeiss: "Carl Zeiss, Explained: Germany’s Semiconductor Optics Master": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0teMtLT9XI "How Carl Zeiss Crafts Optics for a $150 Million EUV Machine": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V__HbVlnICc
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  1129.  @WarblesOnALot  You actually have some really great wildlife content, I like how you're feeding the wild animals in your backyard while talking about the differences between kangaroos, wallabies and wallaroos. Can you please configure your all the playlists you've made to be "featured playlists"? That would make it much easier to see all your videos at a glance, especially when viewed using a normal computer! It might help boost your subscriber numbers over time too!
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  1130. By the way people do refer to modern Japan separate from the previously regime: Imperial Japan
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  1131.  @jhrusa8125  What the heck! China is a big country full of 1.4 billion people. You should use your words more carefully. Yes, the government of China is a viral pandemic spreading totalitarian regime, but don't tar the whole country by the deadly and dangerous actions of a government.
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  1132.  @jhrusa8125  War is hell. I agree the USA would win in any war against China, but it would mean several hundreds million of deaths, possibly billions including nuclear annihilation of dozens of cities (including New York, Beijing, Shanghai, Los Angeles, Guangzhou and Houston), as well as famine. There will be humans still living but humanity and civilization will be in ashes. War is hell, don't wish for it.
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  1133. Oh, there's a playlist now. Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZSvDYDfd78&list=PLKtxx9TnH76QEYXdJx6KyycNGHePJQwWW&index=3
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  1134. Great video! Looking forward to part 2
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  1135. It's interesting because many engineering fields can safely Work From Home (WFH) more easily than other workers, so in theory AI will continue progressing during any economic depression. Though I am sure the Chinese government hackers are enjoying breaking into those companies, installing backdoors and slowly siphoning off all their data over the next 20 years.
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  1136.  Shadow Master 3  My apologies, I agree the government of China have done huge amounts of atrocities: Mao killed 50 million people, mostly through starvation. The Chinese Communist Party have done huge atrocities against minorities such as Tibetans, Uyghers, Falun Gong and other people. I will try and mention that more!
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  1137. Just keep in mind this is "opinion news" and is owned by News Corp, the same as Fox News. "Opinion news" argues for a position. That doesn't necessarily make those positions wrong, but just keep that in mind as you think carefully and critically about the things you read and hear.
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  1138.  Cammdc 1  Can you post the YouTube link in response to the comment?
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  1139. The Chinese Communist Party (Red China) was NOT Australia's World War 2 ally. Australia was allied with the Kuomintang. The CCP just waited until the Kuomintang was weakened after defeating the Japanese then came in and defeated them. They ended up retreating to Taiwan. Unlike China, Taiwan is a prosperous and democratic country that shares universal values with Australia.
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  1140. Yeah, down to the title: "Portugal’s Insane Plan to Double Its Territory"
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  1141. If you're lucky, you'll be instead getting cooling to the curb (reverse-powered by your home's electricity). Innovation nation 😎😎😎😎😎😎
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  1142.  @Sosapotence3001990  I googled it and there was an article about it on Snopes which I skimmed, didn't seem too far fetched
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  1143.  @JamesBideaux  A city in Antartica AND a city on Mars. And you ship in material. All those new cities (and ghost cities) in China are built from iron ore from the Pilbara region in Australia, as well as from Brazil.
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  1144. Great video, would be great to see a follow up about the second pestilence
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  1145. Yes, the line going through Darwin was in the wrong place, and so is the starting point (near the town of Elliot, NT). I have helped get this corrected for this video's thumbnail but unfortunately the video itself is already released and can't be changed. Side note: there is/was another similar project called the "Asian Renewable Energy Hub" that wanted to build a submarine cable from a solar farm in the Pilbara, Western Australia. But they've switched to a plan involving using solar power to produce hydrogen/ammonia fuel and transporting the energy by cargo ships not electrical cables.
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  1146. He has like 4 audiobooks. All great, with the very slight exception of the shale one which was merely good
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  1147. Ian, did you see that in early July 2020 Steve Bannon (the mastermind behind President Trump's 2016 election win) said that "President Trump will win re-election if he makes China and the liberation of China from the Chinese Communist Party the central platform of this election" (source: timestamp 55:58 of an interview on YouTube titled "The Chinese Communist Party Is Our Enemy - And What We Must Do To Defeat It" by the Committee on the Present Danger: China). The Trump administration is already trying to position the 2020 election as a referendum on who is tougher on Chinese Communist Party. In the past several days there has been coordinated speeches on the China threat by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, FBI director Christopher Wray and Attorney General William Barr. Remember that Biden was a member of the Obama administration, who has a poor record on China compared to Trump (for example, taking China at its word on the US-China Cyber Agreement). What do you think of this? Do you agree with Steve Bannon's suggestion that a China-centric 2020 US election would see Trump win?
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  1148. I hope everybody reading this comment checkout my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" and make up their own minds :)
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  1149. Oh the song I Dunno by Grapes apparently leads to copyright claims now apparently. So perhaps don't use it. I'm sure there are other similar tracks!
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  1150. Thunderf00t's science literate skepticism is very important in a society where many people believe in things like "healing crystals". But he's wrong on this video, checkout my 8 minute video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" to see why.
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  1151. I analyze Falcon 9 expendable versus its most successful commercial competitor Ariane 5, and the economics of reusability (using the most up to date numbers) in my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted". I hope people check it out!
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  1152. Calling SpaceX an arm of the US military is disingenuous because many of their US government contracts are to NASA (a civilian organization), including flying people and cargo to the International Space Station. They do launch a lot of satellites for the military though, but so does ULA (the Boeing/Lockheed Joint Venture) The Falcon 9 itself was originally funded by NASA contracts. Re-usability development was funded by external investors and earnings from existing contracts with commercial customers and governments. These days most of their launches are for Starlink, which is funded largely the same way (capital raising from external investors). They are definitely overly reliant on taxpayers, but NASA is definitely more important to them than the US military. This may change if they can win more business at the expense of ULA.
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  1153. Here's a direct link to random video from the channel: https://youtu.be/1MCZrZiq9BE
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  1154.  @naguoning  Good point, I always forget about the Taiwanese island of Kinmen just off the border of China. I can see China blockading and annexing that island as part of their highly successful "salami slicing" strategy that militarized those the South China Sea islands
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  1155. Export income underpins Australia's prosperity. Yet we can't even balance the budget when the economy is booming. We should have reduced our reliance on China a decade ago and instead focused on developing export markets in India/SEA/Middle East/Africa. We are now paying price for our over reliance with China. We never should have let ourselves get into this position.
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  1156.  KS Goh  My quote is we should "proverbially sell MUTTON to Hindus and BEEF to the Muslims" and by proverbially I mean not just agricultural products but education, minerals etc too
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  1157.  @fredbloggs5902  It's not fair to expect the random viewer to already understand the satellite launch industry, so I made a video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" that explains it very clearly.
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  1158. ​ @plantbasedsenior4240  No it's paid leave at my company, it's very generous. especially when people have multiple children over a few years. It's the people who don't have children during their time at the company who naturally will take up the slack. Hence the system can be (overly) generous stacked towards those who have children.
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  1159. Why was this re-uploaded?
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  1160.  @WallJumpGaming  Falcon 9 has already proven 8 reflights with a $15 million marginal cost. Reusability is economical. Checkout my 8 minute video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" to see why this Thunderf00t video is completely wrong. SpaceX and Falcon 9 have been a revolution in access to space, 3 times cheaper than the rest of the industry before reusability, and 6 times cheaper after reusability (but they're not passing on much of the savings of reusability)
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  1161.  @gregparrott  You missed this Asianometry video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZBaDle5NbU
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  1162.  @nochance3914  Lookup the US National Debt Clock. Countries (and companies) can stay in huge debt forever as long as they are able to manage the cost of servicing the debt. As long as the country or company grows at least at the same pace as debt is accumulating this is completely sustainable. In the case of the United States, if they had a balanced budget then inflation would slowly eat away at value of the debt until in 300 years time it could be paid for with pocket change. There were big European war bonds from hundreds of years ago that were "paid" in the same way. When the cost of servicing a loan is so cheap, paying off the principle of a loan is usually not the right strategy. But I agree: for individuals, unfortunately interest payments are high enough that the "wait and inflate" strategy probably won't work.
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  1163.  Google fan  Give it another week or two and the shelves will stop emptying. It's already starting to come back. You can only buy so much toilet paper. Might be a bit more expensive ($eg, 12 instead of Coles $5.80), but there will be stock. Tissue boxes will take a bit longer before stocks return, because there so easy to store. But go to ALDI, you can buy a pack of 6 of those plastic wrapped pocket tissue for like $2.50. Each contains 6 very thick tissues. That's 36 tissues. It's not a box of 100 tissues for $1 like ALDI normally has but just by 2-3. There's plenty of stock. Tissues will eventually return, but it will be long after toilet paper.
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  1164. Crazy that Australia went into budget deficit after the 2008 crisis and was about to return to surplus before the current crisis. Now we have several more years of record deficits ahead of us. And this time China won't have the economic growth to bail our economy out. Also reaching surplus only means we have stopped increasing government debt. Then we actually start to pay the debt off. The tide is going out and we're discovering the Australian economy has been swimming naked, fueled by endless deficits and China building ghost cities.
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  1165. Both are acceptable: pronunciation as "Neesh" is British English and pronunciation as "Nitch" is American English.
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  1166.  @rinmartell2678  The UK directly trains Ukrainian soldiers, and supplied a lot of key weapons like javelins early on.
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  1167. It's CPTPP. It stands for "Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership". Basically the follow up to the original Trans-Pacific Partnership that President Trump pull out of, which as you may know it's was the Obama-era trade agreement specifically designed to exclude China.
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  1168. The Falcon 9 before reusability was not 20% cheaper than Arianespace (makers of the Ariane 5, their most competitive commercial rival). They were 67% cheaper. Since then the Ariane 5 has had a major price cut, so the Falcon 9 expendable is "only" half the price, not a third of the price. I hope those reading this comment checkout my video titled "SpaceX Unbusted" which debunks the key points made in this Thunderf00t video.
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  1169. Indian Ryan Reynolds had some interesting thoughts on the US wealth gap
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  1170. Yep I found it! It's from the second episode of a UK comedy show called "Spitting Image" from last year. Timestamp 19 minutes.
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  1171.  @Apistevist  I've uploaded it to Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WjL1nmKC8c Enjoy! :)
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  1172. Overlooked in the video is that fact that Bush administration deserves the credit for starting the COTS (Commercial Orbital Transportation Services) program -- effectively funded the Falcon 9 and saved SpaceX with the CRS missions. Obama deserves credit for the Commercial Crew stuff (the fruit which will be bore in the coming 2-3 years). Also Dragon 2 no longer has landing legs (no more Red Dragon)
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  1173. That's his apartment. His office is an open-plan place called the "Eurasia Group". There's videos of it on this channel, but also I believe random interviews on CNBC etc.
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  1174. Nothing wrong with getting Australia rich by selling China iron ore to build unproductive ghost cities :/
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  1175. I have confirmed with Asianometry that this was a typo. It's 14km (8.7 miles), not 140km (87 miles). The description and subtitles/transcript has been updated. The number comes from a book: "Over 1973-4, the new disk brake was tested in wind tunnels and in drops from helicopters and aircraft from altitudes as high as 14,000 m. The spacecraft model was also dropped onto simulated Venusian soil made from foam concrete." (from the book "Russian Planetary Exploration History, Development, Legacy and Prospects: by Brian Harvey).
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  1176. +1
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  1177. Nobody: Ian Bremmer 6:29: Nagorno-Karabakh
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