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@_TomHoward @ns So when Balaji makes it what stops the Khazaks from shaking it down and stealing all their shit?

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@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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@Harshith740 Completely agree

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@felix375 They stole Tesla’s technology not Detroits. Typical China cycle thievery.

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@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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@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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@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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@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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@mattyglesias Reminder that Deng Xiaoping turned Chinese college students into ground beef and washed them down the street drain

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@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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@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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@00001_Agent @CoreyWriting This is pure sophistry

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@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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@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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@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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@AdvicebyAimar Why is it that Chinese models only just barely meet the standard of the existing frontier model? Why aren’t they completely pulling ahead? Could ot possibly be that stealing shit instead of building it for yourself might be more efficient?

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@drydenwtbrown Seriously did these people not learn anything? China needs to stop stealing our shit, until they do they should get access to our markets

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@romanhelmetguy Swallowed by third worldism yet again.

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@DrewPavlou @LeeKuanYimby You two are the goats

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@IndustrialPeas1 @TheVivifier @petergyang And China’s key industry is stealing all our ideas and its heavily subsidized by the CCP. As long as they do it they should stay in China and out of the world.