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Is it "staggering" though? In the short term, it is more simple to point to human lives and deaths. In the longer term, the more complex contribution of industrial forces is easier to understand. At least some shift in public opinion is natural.

>(being a kind of political endorsement), and from that point Red Guard cells sprung up organically across the country.

This is a massive understatement of what Mao's support and endorsement meant, and understating the "organic” nature of what happened after.

Remington levered up and took on a ton of debt at the wrong time. The owners gambled and lost. It's a shame that people will lose their jobs over this.

Graham framing his essay as such is disingenuous, at best:

  And the call of the aggressively independent-minded is "Eppur si muove."

In case you had to search for this (I did)[0] It's a reference to Galileo being correct about the Earth orbiting the Sun, and famously so. The presumption of this reference is that "independent" thinkers are right - they are more often wrong. PG seems to presume, or lead the reader to presume, that these thinkers are more right... oddly the rest of the essay avoids the question of conventional wisdom being right.

This is also bad writing. The use of set phrases / quotes in a foreign language without citation is confusing for the reader, and also pedantic.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_yet_it_moves

You can't fund potentially breakthrough innovation and research and only get one tail of the distribution. It's a good thing, not a bad one, the the US government providers funding, and in this case, interest free loans for projects that sometimes fail.

This is controversial but shouldn't be flagged. It's a link to a factual news story. Dang could you unflag this or otherwise explain why this remains flagged?

A lot of flagged responses to this that are completely reasonable and respectful. I would encourage the moderators to take a look here.

There's been a ton of interesting research and progress on this in the last few years: https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/04/looking-to-listen-audio-vi...

Not apples to apples at all. This is the average daily COVID-19 deaths with extreme restrictions - so imagine comparing this heart disease with large-scale mandatory exercise, or cancer if cigarettes were eliminated entirely.

It's been reported in mainstream publications before this [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/05/31/us/politics/ap-u...

The largest exception is Domino's, which has outperformed essentially everything in the same time period.

Where does $5.73 billion come from? I searched and found figures in the hundreds of millions [1] along with other evidence of the Reagan administrations indifference to AIDS [2]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/18/us/reagan-defends-financi...

[2] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/11/reagan-administratio...

Sad to see this downvoted. Balmer moved MS into the cloud defeating IBM and into hardware over Gates' objections. He was imperfect and underrated. Microsoft under Nadella is built on Ballmer's shoulders.

The performance of the IRS is a strong counterargument to this.

Facebook just happens to get sent data... yeah, more like Facebook buys data. And invests heavily in tools to make it easier for its customers to send Facebook data.

Right, well I think the disclaimer at the top of this page says it all.

You're using the word "arbitrage" but you don't seem to know what it means. The simultaneous buying and selling of an asset is intrinsic to it. This is distinct from comparative advantage.

This is anecdotal to the point of being noise. How about comparing the top X grossing movies of 1999 vs. last year? Still subjective, but a step forward from "just the ones I enjoyed and I'm bothering to type" and two Netflix releases.

You're vastly overstating how much the author is "twisting" the 2016 election into this article. It's pretty straightforward from the app creator's mouth...

>>President Trump’s election inspired Ms. Guler to leave her work in fashion media and create Co-Star. “I was like, ‘We gotta figure out something more meaningful than what we are doing,” she said. The role social media played in the election — and how “it is changing how we operate as humans in the world” was a part of her concern, Ms. Guler said.

The first line of this article links to a source that appears to show this... is it wrong? It looks like it may fully source their claims.

Check ILL, talk to your local librarian - I've been sent books from overseas before.

Best comment here. Citation needed on this comment, especially when it can be disproven with a single counter case.

The author of this comment has a history of apologizing for Chinese crimes:

>>LOL, kill thousands of its own citizens in protests? The Chinese government never did that (even the famous tank man was unharmed and was not arrested), the truth is, many soldiers got killed because they were not allowed to fire at citizens. Even the Chinese government did kill its own citizen they learnt from the US (1932 Bonus Army, 1970 Kent state massacre, Jesus that was only 48 years ago, not mentioning almost every day someone is being shot by the police somewhere in the US. The funny thing is one shot won't even make it to the newspaper now.)

>>In a word, you have been brainwashed by your media. I know it's hard to wake up someone who pretends to be asleep, but it's good for you.

Meng Wanzhou is a the CFO of Huawei[0]

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-huawei/huawei-f...

>>>Meng, one of the vice chairs on the company’s board and the daughter of company founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested on Dec. 1 at the request of U.S. authorities and a court hearing has been set for Friday, a Canadian Justice Department spokesman said. Trump and Xi had dined in Argentina on Dec. 1 at the G20 summit.

She works for the company in question.

The largest, most monopolistic companies in china are deeply wedded to the communist party and enjoy the protections afforded by this authoritarian regime.

"disband" a union without considering the consequences or alternative ways of ameliorating a problem is unfortunately what I've come to expect on highly up-voted, top-level comment here when it comes to matters of public policy. This is a more complicated issue than you presume.

so American rail in the 1870's

This reminds me acutely of Jobs' criticism of Apple during the the Sculley/Spindler years: that the company got incredibly greedy and extracted as much value from its customers as possible, without fully delivering on that value.

Check out the article again - this is wrong. The reporter makes no claim about this.

>>Ms. Simpson went with her mother and said she thought it was an opportunity to talk to Mr. DeVaul about the job. She said she brought conservative clothes suitable for a professional meeting.