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spent ~5min to find where the title comes from

> However, such debate might now be irrelevant, as battery electric vehicles outsell fuel cell vehicles by a factor of 1,000:1 worldwide, with annual growth of 36%60 in 2023 compared with a 40% market contraction for fuel cell vehicles61,62.

3521%? typo?

thank you very much, just learned that there's a showdead option, i turned on it and go to https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=bigbacaloa and holy what an apocalyptic scene

it's [dead] but not [flagged], so maybe it's the user deleted the comment by him/herself?

> Just wondering if there could be some sort of bot doing that?

My conclusion is no: some of my comments survived for a while, then were all flagged at the same time, so it seems like there’s a powerful user who checked my profile and decided to clean up unfriendly or low‑quality comments

Based on the timing and context of the refereces articles and comments, I'm more inclined to see them as a wishful thinking rather than propaganda

What’s funnier is:

Between the 1830s and 1860s, the British Empire widely adopted Adam Smith’s theories as its policy framework, most notably through landmark events such as the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846, which secured the dominance of _free trade_

At the same time, the British Empire invaded China, twice

> But what is the purpose of having a trade surplus? This goes back to Adam Smith, who famously said that the purpose of exporting is to be able to import. To be able to consume other things. That’s the big thing that’s missing in China. They don’t import enough, they don’t consume enough. China’s exports last year grew four times as fast as world trade, and imports didn’t grow as fast as world trade. Something’s wrong there. The philosophy behind China’s economic model is pure mercantilism. They make a virtue of export surpluses and accumulating foreign exchange reserves. That’s what’s wrong.

sayings like this always remind me this:

> In the 18th century, the European demand for Chinese luxury goods (particularly silk, porcelain, and tea) created a trade imbalance between China and Britain. European silver flowed into China through the Canton System, which confined incoming foreign trade to the southern port city of Guangzhou. To counter this imbalance, the British East India Company began to grow opium in Bengal and allowed private British merchants to sell opium to Chinese smugglers for illegal sale in China. The influx of narcotics reversed the Chinese trade surplus and increased the numbers of opium addicts inside the country, outcomes that seriously worried Chinese officials.

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

I'm waiting

in short: the system corrects itself

basically this is the way that all political systems work

it has a positive feedback mechanism internally - this caused its internal contradictions to continually intensify until they finally erupted

and it has a negative feedback mechanism externally - this enables it to resist external influences, thereby preserving its form, this makes it difficult to be improved effectively.

related:

The Programmable State: The e-CNY and China's Quest for Smarter Surveillance (lawfaremedia.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43723269

This is a matter of value orientation

Some prioritize one over the other, while others hold the opposite view, and neither side can persuade or understand the other

it's never about the trade war

NVDA reached its peak after the release of DeepSeek‑r1, and, more importantly, the entire AI industry is extremely overpriced

I explained it a little here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42558187

It's a market bubble - or a ponzi scheme - it just burst at the best time

> a Chinese company explicitly 1260H-listed by the Pentagon calling attention to their direct ties to China's military-industrial complex

> This is not speculation—it follows the CCP’s proven playbook, replicating Huawei’s telecom networks, ZPMC’s ship-to-shore, Port-based cranes, and TikTok’s data harvesting models.

> Yet beneath CATL’s EV battery veneer lies a deeper, more sinister strategic geopolitical calculus: reinforcing China’s near-total monopoly over rare earth minerals and critical materials that power nearly all semiconductor and advanced technologies.

> China has spent decades infiltrating American artificial intelligence labs, quantum computing firms, and advanced materials research centers—stealing $400-600 billion annually in intellectual property (IP).

> America Must Act—Decisively

I love this article, and the site

The Chinese people are suffering from this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43703166

i copied "Deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia" from wikipedia directly

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Kilmar_Abrego...

That's what I meant

the key is if there is a court or not, everything else is only secondary importance

Because I think this comment is very insightful.

what does "more than" mean?

Indeed!

America's tariff move under Trump is a symptom of mass psychosis. But I think China's response is a huge gamble that the psychosis can be broken with careful application of pain - before that pain hurts China even more.

There is some hope that they'll revolt against Trump if things get bad enough, the way there's some hope for democracy in China, I suppose. But at the same time, I don't know that China's aggressive response is going to politically move things in that direction, because it's so easy for the nationalists to rally around the flag - regardless of the economic pain they're experiencing. China itself knows this and leverages it with its own nationalists. And this response is going to cost China dearly.

OMG dailynk.com is such a treasure

> Launched in 2004 and based in Seoul, Daily NK is a media organization that provides news about North Korea from a wide range of sources inside North Korea.

Added it to my feed list, along with RFA and VOA

interesting, i wonder how much it is related to this.:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/c...

it mean it's harder for the us gov selling bonds

interesting

> Alphabet's Google on Thursday laid off hundreds of employees in its platforms and devices unit, which works on Android software, Pixel phones and the Chrome browser

i don't know what to say, it just looks very familiar

in a certain stage of history, some theorists also had 'reimagined' socialism

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

one of them 'disappointed by the lack of results of his writing (he had hoped they would guide society towards social improvement), he attempted suicide in despair'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_de_Saint-Simon

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it"

> uncouple the $ from the oil markets and let it float downward - the cost of imports would go up and exporters would earn more

can you explain it with more details?

interesting

hi dang, it would be very good if you can explain the standard of determine what is "political flamewar comments"

for example, how is the parent _not_ a political flamewar comment but my comment is

i mean, there are political submissions, and there are political comments, but my replies are political flamewar comment?

how many comments are flamewar comments in 1000+ comments under https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43634806

to me, it seems like a mega warfield

thank you! didn't notice it!

> Japan and Korea will absolutely introduce retaliatory tariffs

I really doubt about this, but I will wait to see