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US economist Richard Wolff - “Can’t we build trains? Of course, we can. Do we have the technical knowledge? Of course, we do. We built a lot of railroads in the history of this country. It’s not profitable, so we don’t have it. There is not profitable there (in China) either,

China and Vietnam -- which implemented a similar model of a socialist market economy* -- are, objectively speaking, some of the most successful examples in history of development and poverty reduction. (*China's system is officially called a socialist market economy; Vietnam's

Ben Norton What do they have in common? Both got a huge leg up by learning from Singapore model, guidance & training on economy, governance & administration. Since late 1970s for China & early 1990s for Vietnam. China has been better at learning, execution, youtube.com/watch?v=ilRwxp… China

🚨 For the first time since records began, the UK is no longer classified as an “Open” country in a leading global ranking of freedom of expression. This latest drop continues a pattern of decline since 2014, across indicators including media freedom, internet censorship,

Dorje Gurung, ScD (h.c.) Why didn't it happen? Gurkha/Gorkha (Nepali soldiers) were bodyguards for this economic advisor (Goh Keng Swee) and Singapore's fmr prime minister (Lee Kuan Yew). The Gurkhas could have asked them. Regardless, Singapore provided China with more than an economic advisor. Since the

Yeah, but who funds these people?

The EVM is broken. Bitcoin actually got a lot right. We owe Urbit an apology. And R3’s forgotten Corda may be our future. Let me explain. 1/18

If we look at the world that way and step back from the blockchain. The blockchain is simply a slow, but necessary bottleneck through which our signal pass to be globally coherent. R3 Corda, got this right, making consensus a secondary consideration in its model. 8/18

I wrote more or less this in a longer form with references to non-determinism, monads, and functional programming in 2018. I think only Oscar D Þorson 🇺🇦 read it! Do take a look if you liked this thread. 17/18 thomasbarker.com/blockchains-de…

"The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through

移民局说以色列收到2.7万份庇护申请，给出了各国申请人数的统计图。就算这两年以色列处于战争，还是收到几千份申请。令我惊讶的是来自中国的竟然有139人。

We live in an extraordinary era where the President boasts how the Iran/US attacks were performative. Little more than weeks after... Normally we'd have to wait a decade for confirmation of the real purpose of the attacks.

i get it now, this is legit. reddit objects are objects recommended to _entry-level enthusiasts_ by topical subreddits because they work well to improve lives over baseline with a relatively low level of effort for a majority of cases reddit objects are high ROI! for example,

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Further: Reddit objects are the apex point agreed on by everybody who has a life outside of this specific hobby, but still cares about quality.

Welcome to the empire, where peace activists are called terrorists, where hospitals are called military bases, where people opposing genocide are called hateful Nazis, where genocidal soldiers are a protected group and chanting for their death is a hate crime.

The reason I quit my BBC show; got strict orders not to mention Israel in any context. This kind of censorship leads to #Gaza horror.

BBC Pt2 50yrs of #Mi5 vetting BBC senior positions & editorial narrative x.com/colvinius/stat… BBC HR Staff x.com/ianpuddick/sta…

Max Keiser #Mi5 vetting of Editorial Narrative & Snr Positions at #BBC by Richard Norton Taylor x.com/ianpuddick/sta…