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Lothenes
Lothenes@Lothenes·
@PeterDiamandis Every time we’ve been open with China, they trench transfer us, subsidize their own industry and then drive us out of business. The only way to fight is to not let them get first dibs and to make reverse engineering as hard as possible.
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Peter H. Diamandis, MD
Peter H. Diamandis, MD@PeterDiamandis·
If there's something true about the US/China relation is that an embargo that was meant to slow China down mostly taught it to build without us, faster, cheaper with less power and older hardware. This needs to be a lesson for everyone in America.
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Lothenes@Lothenes·
@souljagoyteller What is the difference between War and Genocide? The allies killed millions of German citizens with strategic bombing was that a genocide? The US killed millions of Japanese though fire bombing, nukes and famine due to submarine warfare/blockade was that a genocide?
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Sami Gold
Sami Gold@souljagoyteller·
Just a note that, by this point, the most conservative estimate for people killed in the Gaza genocide (around 70.3k) is higher than the largest estimates for the Rohingya genocide (around 43k), Yazidi genocide (5k), and the Bosnian genocide (60k). It’s at about the same level as the East Timor genocide (85.3k) and Italy’s genocide of Libyans (83k). If we go by the most maximal number given for deaths, 335.5k (as stated in an article by Devi Sridhar in The Lancet), the Gaza genocide outnumbers the deaths in Stalin’s Great Purge (about 248k), the killing of Assyrians by the Ottomans (200k), the Herero and Nama genocide (110k), Isaaq genocide (200k), Saddam’s campaign against the Kurds (182k), Maya genocide (166k), Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka (253.8k), and killing of Serbs in WWII (around 248k). At that point, you’re in the territory of the Rwandan genocide, Bangladesh genocide, Darfur genocide, and the Armenian genocide
Winston@Rinston99

@souljagoyteller To each their own, but I think any definition of genocide broader than “systematic extermination of a civilian population” is rather useless.

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Lothenes@Lothenes·
@sam_d_1995 Seems okay to me. Minimal red tape for value adding endeavors, intensive scrutiny for value taking endeavors. Would actually produce a very well run government.
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Lothenes@Lothenes·
@JordanSchachtel @MaxNordau Also think there is a good chance it was a lab leak, though it could also be wet market. Too bad the Chinese won’t let us figure it out and nobody wants to hold them accountable.
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Lothenes@Lothenes·
@JordanSchachtel @MaxNordau COVID wasn’t a scam it killed a lot of people but weather we should have shut the society down is another question. It’s easy to Monday morning quarterback but we were thinking it had a 10% CFR at the beginning. I agree with everything else though.
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Jordan Schachtel
Jordan Schachtel@JordanSchachtel·
Palantir is an exceptional American company. Benjamin Netanyahu is a great statesman of our time. Data centers are the heart of American technological infrastructure. Flock cameras are essential to city policing. Covid was a scam turned global hysteria, not a lab leak. Elon Musk is the most important innovator alive. Nuclear is the only path to abundant clean energy. School choice is the civil rights issue of our time. America first is not isolationism. AI will serve as a net benefit for human flourishing. I'll take my seat now.
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Lothenes@Lothenes·
@_TomHoward @ns So when Balaji makes it what stops the Khazaks from shaking it down and stealing all their shit?
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Tom Howard
Tom Howard@_TomHoward·
Balaji just maneuvered official nation state recognition of NS in a deal with a country that is economically similar to Malaysia. Now @ns has a new home, but on much better terms. Funny how the internet thinks the goal of those negotiations was to stay in Malaysia. Art of the deal.
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Balaji@balajis

I am pleased to announce that a memorandum of understanding has been signed between the Republic of Kazakhstan and Network School. Our new campus will become a haven for global techno-optimism, with expedited visas, streamlined redomiciliation, and active recruitment of talent.

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Lothenes@Lothenes·
@BeingJWood It used to be that we strove for a society where nobody was discriminated on based on immutable characteristics. Wokism devolved into reverse bigotry against white people or men. Anybody who is truly egalitarian opposes it just as fiercely.
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Being J Wood
Being J Wood@BeingJWood·
The literal definition of “woke” is to be aware of racial and social injustices in society. How does ANYONE think this is bad?
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Harshith🗽@Harshith740·
Student loans destroyed this signalling mechanism. Ending education su subsidies will solve it.
Lothenes@Lothenes

@RichardHanania I think a lot of this could be avoided if someone sat down with students and told them their expected salary based on their degree

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Lothenes
Lothenes@Lothenes·
@felix375 They stole Tesla’s technology not Detroits. Typical China cycle thievery.
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Lothenes@Lothenes·
@LeeKuanYimby You can’t create a real entrepreneurial system in a total autocracy because when you get wealthy enough you start to be treated as a threat or a community to shake down. It’s totally idiotic and naive.
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Lee Kuan Yimby
Lee Kuan Yimby@LeeKuanYimby·
This actually looks incredible. Kazakhstan is a beautiful place and they seem to want to run a decent society. Huge dropped ball for Malaysia to ban a city of entrepreneurship while their Islamist president flys out Sneako for special interviews.
Balaji@balajis

I am pleased to announce that a memorandum of understanding has been signed between the Republic of Kazakhstan and Network School. Our new campus will become a haven for global techno-optimism, with expedited visas, streamlined redomiciliation, and active recruitment of talent.

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Lothenes@Lothenes·
@okaythenfuture Almaty is in the middle of nowhere. What is the closest major metro? Moscow? Istanbul? As long as there is a DICTATOR your property and intellectual rights can never be secured. I can’t figure out why you guys can’t get this.
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OK Then
OK Then@okaythenfuture·
Gotta hand it to Balaji, he had the backup logistics already set in motion, in life you're a high cognitive dude with business sense, you usually can't fail, you're already ahead of the chess board by a few steps. Anyway sucks it ended like this, but NS will be very fine. Kazakhstan is also a very underrated country that I must hit up soon.
Balaji@balajis

I am pleased to announce that a memorandum of understanding has been signed between the Republic of Kazakhstan and Network School. Our new campus will become a haven for global techno-optimism, with expedited visas, streamlined redomiciliation, and active recruitment of talent.

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Lothenes@Lothenes·
@balajis Literally exiled to Central Asia by a pogrom, should we get Balaji a copy of Solzhenitsyn so he can learn to appreciate our great society?
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Balaji@balajis·
I am pleased to announce that a memorandum of understanding has been signed between the Republic of Kazakhstan and Network School. Our new campus will become a haven for global techno-optimism, with expedited visas, streamlined redomiciliation, and active recruitment of talent.
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Lothenes@Lothenes·
@nsbsnt @kevengogogo @petergyang Trade requires trust and playing by an agreed set of rules. If the Chinese want to keep the yuan cheap, that’s fine, but then you shouldn’t get access to our markets. Same with stealing our data and stuff.
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Peter Yang
Peter Yang@petergyang·
Banning Chinese models will be the same self own as banning Chinese EVs.
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Lothenes@Lothenes·
@mattyglesias Reminder that Deng Xiaoping turned Chinese college students into ground beef and washed them down the street drain
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Lothenes@Lothenes·
@Wpinman1843 @nypost Stealing is immoral you dolt. The end result of this thinking is everything locked behind a counter and security guards breathing down your neck. It wasn’t like this 20 years ago.
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New York Post
New York Post@nypost·
Steak 'n Shake allegedly installs anti-theft QR readers for their fountain soda machines - sparking calls for boycott trib.al/O7iND01
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Lothenes@Lothenes·
@StevenGlinert @MaxNordau Seriously, we need to force these vultures to bend the knee. No we are letting our enemy own all our strategic infrastructure because you get to pay 97 cents to the dollar.
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Glinert 🇺🇸 🏭
Glinert 🇺🇸 🏭@StevenGlinert·
VC patriotism is thin. 99% of the “patriot” VCs would be on a plane tomorrow swearing allegiance to Xi if it was in their interest. I’m old enough to remember when the VC consensus was American industry was dead and China becoming the factory of the world was good actually.
Alex Turnbull@alexbhturnbull

Level of hate for Ant and OAI is leading to some very weird “lets just outsource it all to China” thinking that - as an industrials person - feels very 2002 and like it has not been fully thought through.

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Nishant 🇺🇸 🇵🇸 🍉🦁😈
@CoreyWriting Imperial Japan had a massive war machine during WW2 and was capable of inflicting major damage to Allied Forces so the strategic intent was to cripple that and not eradicate the Yamato Japanese population in whole or in part.
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Corey Walker 🇺🇸
Corey Walker 🇺🇸@CoreyWriting·
The US firebombing of Tokyo during WWII killed 100,000 in 24 hours, including tens of thousands of women and children. They set wide swaths of the city on fire because the Japanese spread their military facilities throughout the city. Can someone explain why this isn't considered "genocide" but Gaza is?
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Lothenes@Lothenes·
@kevengogogo @petergyang You are poorer than our poorest citizens in Mississippi (average GDP $55,857) this is due to your government keeping the thumb on the scale to keep manufacturing competitive.
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Lothenes@Lothenes·
@mattyglesias A lack of pragmatism is a basic characteristic of left extremism. This goes all the way back to Robespierre’s ‘cult of the supreme being’. Leftists can’t help being caught up in petty, esthetic concerns. A feature, not a bug.
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Lothenes@Lothenes·
@RichardHanania I think a lot of this could be avoided if someone sat down with students and told them their expected salary based on their degree
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Richard Hanania@RichardHanania·
The most liberal voters in the country are those with postgraduate degrees who make less than $60K a year. Imagine going to school for 20+ years to earn what a freshly arrived immigrant can on their first day here.
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