Quite a few with exactly that argument, verbatim, almost as though it's scripted...

If the US is backwards, then China is in the neolithic period by comparison.

I can see why he's a former Google scientist.

I think you guys need to get better at pretending you aren't reading from a script.

https://www.imf.org/en/About

In fact it is, no matter how much you believe otherwise, or need to claim otherwise.

I think the more interesting question is how this data has actually been used to harm you, if it has.

For decades now there have been endless warnings of an emerging "surveillance state" just a step away from 1984, but... where is the harm being done? Where are the disappearances, the discrimination based on it, the equivalent of the social credit scores?

It just seems to be used for law enforcement and advertising we can all block for free.

The IMF is controlled by 190 countries, Chinese debt traps are just China, alone.

Lots of people and companies believe they're those people, but so far they've all been proven wrong and tossed to one side.

Who can't resist the promise of brutal state control, IP theft, and finally being ejected from the Chinese market so the state can spin up a company to use your stolen IP.

It's sort of incredible that SA both before and after Apartheid is equally awful, just in different ways.

No one really does, but they have to go somewhere, and "where they came from" seems like a fair choice.

My hope is that instead of degenerating into violence, the "loyalist" s$%m head back to Scotland and leave Ireland in peace.

I don't think China is delusional enough to think it stands a chance in a conventional conflict with the US and NATO, and a nuclear war is suicide.

Less moronic and more empty saber rattling that doesn't need to be platformed for karma.

What is the highest speed reached by the prototype, and how long were they able to sustain it? Can the prototype go hypersonic, land, turn around and fly again?

Two points there.

First, breaking up a company isn't a plan to keep it small forever, in the same way that pulling weeds doesn't imply some insane belief that you've conquered weeds forever.

Second, this isn't some "Oh dear, I say chaps, Alibaba has gotten rather large and it needs to break up" on the part of Alibaba. China doesn't allow corporate independence anymore than they allow personal independence, and after Jack Ma had to be "re-educated" for speaking truth to power, there has been a push to keep companies in line.

Clearly some people in power believe that Alibaba needs to be smaller and more manageable, but not for the sorts of reasons that we might hope to see in regards to big tech in the West.

I guess you should have opened your markets a bit earlier. 🤷‍♂️

Again... China seems to manage with six+ times the GDP of India, and they were colonized as well, plus they went through that dreadful period of actually trying to be Communist.

1.4 billion people in India, 1.4 billion people in China.

Generally population is a benefit, as in the case of China, which has the same population. After all more people = more people to generate GDP, which is why China has the world's second largest GDP.

India... well population appears to hit differently in India.

It's worth saying that the vast majority of settlements and plea deals don't involve the super wealthy. It's just what you said, cases are expensive and time consuming, both criminal and civil cases. There's another factor though, one that just can't be overstated: they're really uncertain!

A verdict is a giant gamble, even the most solid case might run into some unforeseen event, some crazy and charismatic juror or wacky judge. It's not just the verdict itself though, damages or sentencing can vary widely, and so a lot of the time people just don't want to take chances. If a company can settle a claim without taking the risk of a trial, they usually will, because even a slam dunk case has the potential to blow up.

Water weight refers to water in your cells and the spaces between cells that your body retains due to the presence of excess salt and sugar. When people begin to diet they tend to cut down on salt and sugar, which leads to a rapid loss of weight, but it's easy come, easy go. This isn't a loss of fat tissue, it's a loss of retained water, so it isn't what people usually mean by "losing weight" which to most means "burning fat."

Why must you people always make things personal? I think it's because on some level you know that angry confrontation is all you have, or maybe it's just that people drawn to violence tend to lack in... other areas.

What do you think?

You don't have to apologize, it's a complicated subject, I'm just glad that we could get to the same page.

You're incorrect, and should take a moment to learn about this subject, it's a fascinating one.

https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=108262

https://astronomy.com/magazine/ask-astro/2012/01/collisions-happen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annihilation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_creation

Conservation of mass, not matter.

There is a difference between mass and matter, the former can be created and destroyed, the latter cannot since it's a property of stress-energy.