Yep. You can expect the same type anti-chinese comments in every china related thread. It's become comical at this point.
I would love to the media look into how Israel got hundred of our politicians to do their bidding. I doubt a Josh Rogin wouldn't write such an op-ed though.
> Conquering parts of the flat lands could have been pretty easy but the Swiss strategy was retreat into the mountain area. That isn't a strategy. That's how you lose. So they hide in the mountains and starve? > And if…
I agree that facebook is terrible and I think I'm one of the rare individuals who never created a facebook account. But I find it so odd that someone would find facebook as terrible but praise the wsj. WSJ is easily far…
Power abhors a vacuum.
> LOL Techmeme River : Oh god. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11637697/Catcal... Yes. There are bad people everywhere. Did you lock your children in the basement? I'm not denying there are dangers in the…
> It probably wouldn't have been at peace since 1815 if it had not had enough defences to put off other countries from invading in WW1 and 2. This is a oft repeated myth. Switzerland would have been conquered within a…
>I don't know how old you are, but personally (in my early 30s) the internet of my youth was pretty vastly different than the internet of today, i.e. as you say: I too was a 90s kid. No. It really wasn't. The same…
Every HN thread about china has the exact same anti-chinese comments. Every single one.
> but I have a hard time believing that foreign tech investments in China really pay off. If it didn't pay off, apple wouldn't be the most valuable company in the world. > The Chinese strategy seems to be to woo big…
> At its core, the current cryptocurrency craze is simply an unprecedented wealth transfer to China from the rest of the world. Actually it's a wealth transfer from china to the US. The chinese are using bitcoins as a…
> Children given unsupervised access to the internet is ridiculous. Why? > People freak out if a predator lives int heir neighborhood but they let their child be accessible to millions of predators via their phone or…
You could argue that government help in wiping out the natives and stealing their land and giving it to the white settlers is an agricultural subsidy. It's true that we've never had persistent hunger in the US. But…
> In the USA, welfare spending dwarfs farm subsidies by a factor of >50. That depends on what you count as a "subsidy". Are all the roads, dams, diverting of rivers, etc counted as "subsidies"? > Its effect has been…
> There is nothing specific wrong with industry people working at regulatory agencie Sure. In the abstract. But in practicality, it doesn't pass the smell test. Just like if I committed a crime and my mother was judge…
It's like speculation on top of speculation. Reminds me of the MBS/CDOs of the housing crisis. Speculative loans of speculative loans. > All we need now is someone adding leverage and hilarity shall most certainly ensue…
> He was brazen enough to admit, early on, that he does not care whether or not his plan is unpopular and that what the public thinks makes no difference whatsoever. Looks like it. It's pretty surprising how ambivalent…
> I am in my mid-60s, manage a machine learning team at a fine company, busy writing a new book, and getting close to being an investor in a new company. I think you just proved OP's point. Seems like you have nothing…
That's blatantly false. The US, Europe, China, Japan and every top agricultural nation subsidizes agriculture. Subsidized agriculture has been responsible for pretty much ending hunger in most of the world. Free market…
Yep. You can expect the same type anti-chinese comments in every china related thread. It's become comical at this point.
I would love to the media look into how Israel got hundred of our politicians to do their bidding. I doubt a Josh Rogin wouldn't write such an op-ed though.
> Conquering parts of the flat lands could have been pretty easy but the Swiss strategy was retreat into the mountain area. That isn't a strategy. That's how you lose. So they hide in the mountains and starve? > And if…
I agree that facebook is terrible and I think I'm one of the rare individuals who never created a facebook account. But I find it so odd that someone would find facebook as terrible but praise the wsj. WSJ is easily far…
Power abhors a vacuum.
> LOL Techmeme River : Oh god. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11637697/Catcal... Yes. There are bad people everywhere. Did you lock your children in the basement? I'm not denying there are dangers in the…
> It probably wouldn't have been at peace since 1815 if it had not had enough defences to put off other countries from invading in WW1 and 2. This is a oft repeated myth. Switzerland would have been conquered within a…
>I don't know how old you are, but personally (in my early 30s) the internet of my youth was pretty vastly different than the internet of today, i.e. as you say: I too was a 90s kid. No. It really wasn't. The same…
Every HN thread about china has the exact same anti-chinese comments. Every single one.
> but I have a hard time believing that foreign tech investments in China really pay off. If it didn't pay off, apple wouldn't be the most valuable company in the world. > The Chinese strategy seems to be to woo big…
> At its core, the current cryptocurrency craze is simply an unprecedented wealth transfer to China from the rest of the world. Actually it's a wealth transfer from china to the US. The chinese are using bitcoins as a…
> Children given unsupervised access to the internet is ridiculous. Why? > People freak out if a predator lives int heir neighborhood but they let their child be accessible to millions of predators via their phone or…
You could argue that government help in wiping out the natives and stealing their land and giving it to the white settlers is an agricultural subsidy. It's true that we've never had persistent hunger in the US. But…
> In the USA, welfare spending dwarfs farm subsidies by a factor of >50. That depends on what you count as a "subsidy". Are all the roads, dams, diverting of rivers, etc counted as "subsidies"? > Its effect has been…
> There is nothing specific wrong with industry people working at regulatory agencie Sure. In the abstract. But in practicality, it doesn't pass the smell test. Just like if I committed a crime and my mother was judge…
It's like speculation on top of speculation. Reminds me of the MBS/CDOs of the housing crisis. Speculative loans of speculative loans. > All we need now is someone adding leverage and hilarity shall most certainly ensue…
> He was brazen enough to admit, early on, that he does not care whether or not his plan is unpopular and that what the public thinks makes no difference whatsoever. Looks like it. It's pretty surprising how ambivalent…
> I am in my mid-60s, manage a machine learning team at a fine company, busy writing a new book, and getting close to being an investor in a new company. I think you just proved OP's point. Seems like you have nothing…
That's blatantly false. The US, Europe, China, Japan and every top agricultural nation subsidizes agriculture. Subsidized agriculture has been responsible for pretty much ending hunger in most of the world. Free market…