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veritascap··on America didn't lose its rare earth industry, it sold it
We lost our industrial commons.
veritascap··on How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet
The funny thing is Amazon is awful compared to what Alibaba and JD provide to their customers in China. IYKYK
veritascap··on On social reality in China
The communists in China actively tried to replace old virtue (it was barely alive in China pre-revolution anyway) with new virtue. New virtue was hollow, shallow, empty and fake.
veritascap··on Ask HN: What are you reading?
The way of excellence and The Troubles
veritascap··on Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine
Everything goes back to plain text. Would be kind of nice.
veritascap··on How to run Qwen 3.5 locally
How does scaffolding work with these local models? Skills, commands, rules, etc. do they all work similarly? (It’s probably obvious but I haven’t delved into local LLMs yet.)
veritascap··on 2025 Letter
We used to build those infrastructure projects.
veritascap··on China allegedly dumps bad chips on Russia
Or they can’t make chips with decent yields.
veritascap··on How to Think: The Skill You’ve Never Been Taught
Check out the book Maxims for Thinking Analytically. Then read Power vs. Force by David Hawkins to get the other side. Even better skip both and read Iain McGilchrist’s new 3000 page 2 volume work: The Matter With Things.
veritascap··on Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016
We aren’t even looking at the same planet that we’re living on.
veritascap··on Is The World Deglobalising?
So low margin high volume versus lower volume high margin? Anyone have ideas where to look for data on that? Or what a decent proxy could be?
veritascap··on Officer who responded to US Capitol attack is third to die by suicide
odd
veritascap··on Bank of England to explore a potential Central Bank Digital Currency
The reason for a CBDC are new features. Money that can be programmed to only be used in certain ways, with certain groups, or at certain times, e.g. expiring money. It’s more nudging power for our unelected technocrat dear leaders. Imagine the possibilities!