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>Hire mercenaries >Try to short their pay >Get fragged "I am very smart."

What sort of profit does the company they'd be copying post?

And I don't think China is 30 years away from today's state of the art. Do you mean billions in profit or billions in revenue? After how many billions of investment?

Because normal market incentives aren't enough to overcome the roadblocks to independent development. However, the picture changes if in the future there are extraordinary incentives, on top of a push by government, on top of artificial roadblocks like patent protection being removed.

This goes too far. China is facing demographic disaster but its foundations are not as rotten as Russia's. (Please note the comparison here; it allows for China's foundations to be pretty damn rotten.) Corruption is endemic but not to my knowledge spiraling out of control to the point that it...

Sorry for the lateness of my reply. I've heard that anecdote before, but I don't accept that just because something took 30 years to develop it would take 30 years to reverse engineer, even without the product in hand to study (which they would have). And if we were in a situation where a...

7nm may not be the current cutting edge but neither is it 30 years behind (in reference to your earlier post). It's definitely enough to be useful in the event of global supply disruption. And on the topic of quantity, if we're producing half of what we currently need why should we believe it's...

1. If you're worried about that you don't post a selfie. 2. Hey, I'm just answering the objection that was levied against the supposed "Nevada" location. It sounded like the poster took that claim at face value. Is there a different place where the account claims to be American?

Interesting combination of allegedly real photo and obviously fake voice. Also, the extremely serious self-reported location of Area 51, Nevada, which we were clearly supposed to take at face value instead of taking as an obvious joke.

@Agent23 your signature indicates that "This time it's different" is very expensive. Is that why everything you post is always the same?

Wouldn't it go to Germany?

I don't see reason to think there was any pressure being exerted on Ukraine against striking Russian oil infrastructure, except for the (I believe formerly) publicly stated part about not using US/NATO weaponry to strike Russia proper.

And I say this as someone who favors aid.

Hypothetically, if Putin offered Ukraine a total withdrawal including from Donbas and Crimea, of course Ukraine would happily accept. But it is equally obvious that this would never happen, at least not for a reason as relatively petty as this.

The idea that any "Nuremberg X.0" would be going after ground-level dupes en masse is ludicrous. Leaving aside whether it's "wrong", it would be at best a waste of time (in the sense of irresponsible use of finite time and resources), and at worst a vehicle for targeting a specific subset of...

"Proxy WW3" sounds to me like literal nonsense. What world is the proxy for what other world? Also, Ukraine is not on the cusp of sparking WW3. You might have a point that Ukraine is currently experiencing an ammunition crunch due to American domestic political stupidity, but that's not a...

Increasingly harsh terms as war goes on isn't unprecedented but certainly isn't so normal that "how it works" is a reasonable characterization. The examples that spring to mind are total wars, especially where one side has gained the upper hand and is clearly on a trajectory to crushing the...

I thought this was already being tried. Or do you mean "Ukraine and only Ukraine, not Israel or any other foreign aid"?

You're not looking at the actual results, though. You're getting your facts from somewhere that isn't personal observation. You choose to trust those sources and distrust others. There is more than enough reason to distrust official government narratives or unofficial media narratives without...

No, see, Navalny had early onset dementia, so he was in his second childhood, so he was an infant, so he had SIDS. Perfectly reasonable explanation that is even less tortured than Navalny himself was.