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Exactly, the fact that Cheney wants dems to win is an indictment of the whole party.

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same, any device that listens by default should not be trusted

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From what I know she seems legit, and PSL overall looks very promising.

I think that's actually the key reason. China accounted for 40% of chip sales from US companies. Cutting that off is absolutely catastrophic. Meanwhile, this also spurred China's domestic industry which is already dominating legacy chip sales globally, and will likely soon start competing in bleeding edge chips as well. So, not only have these companies lost their biggest market, but now they also have stiff competition. The whole chips sanctions scheme achieved the exact opposite of the intended effect.

China keeps winning

As always this highlights the contrast between Chinese and western development.

Yeah, I find his analysis tends to be sound and easily digestible. Completely agree that it's hilarious how he attributes China's success to Christianity as opposed to material development driven by the political system. Kind of illustrates how people come up with crazy ideas when they don't use material analysis of things.

Yeah, I think somebody linked to his weird take where he claims China's development is somehow a result of embracing Christianity. So, he's definitely deep into the whole religious thing. That said though, the analysis he has is generally sound and well sourced.

Yeah, I think it's a combination of all these things in practice. You want to make cities walkable to reduce local traffic. You want to have good train infrastructure so people can get around the country. And then you have cars for additional convenience. If public infrastructure is good enough then it reduces the need to drive, and cars aren't a problem at that point.

This one again highlights how market driven economies are simply not capable of delivering large scale projects. The horizon for profitability is simply too far for any private investors to bother funding such an enterprise. And people living in such societies become unable to even conceive of projects on such a scale because that's completely outside their lived experience.