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Africa is still colonized, so this idea that they picked "bad leaders" is comical. I would expect the owner of Glencore have more say in the next leader in some of these countries than the actual population.

Time to stop blaming the victims of crimes Europeans have been committing for 2-3+ centuries? now...

I've tried Ahmad's Ceylon tea in the past and enjoyed it, but not this particular product.

I bought it on Amazon on a whim and it ended up being a great purchase. Hard to go back to normal tea and we haven't found this kind of leaf anywhere else.

>Assuming the tea actually sells

I believe Celestial is in every Walmart, that must be quite a bit of volume.

Can't compare the grade of loose leaf I'm talking about to the dust Lipton sells, having tasted the difference. Even visually...it's like comparing champagne to cooking wine.

Elephant Chateau - https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61N4gza3WuL...

Lipton (similar look) - http://ongsambee.com.sg/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/tea-dust....

In this case the proof is in the pudding, and Lipton happens to make especially terrible pudding, regardless of any doubts you have.

My buddy used to work for Lipton. He explained that they use the cheapest grade of tea (dust) available. Also many tea companies mix non-tea additives (fillers) to their tea bags.

After hearing this I decided, if it's not full loose leaf, I don't drink it. We found that companies like Elephant Chateau (http://elephantchateau.com) deliver the 3 highest grades of tea direct from Ceylon mountain estates with the option for plant-based pyramid bags (soilon) or a free stainless steel infuser.

Bonus, the tea actually tastes like tea and is tasty enough to drink plain unlike Lipton dust. It always funny to hear people promote all the health benefits of tea then turn around and dump 100 grams of sugar into a cup to make it palatable.

I use companies like docker containers to protect assets.

Care to share your force reconnect script? I'm sure many would appreciate it.

>That’s wildly inaccurate. Arithmetic was very much a subject at several schools...

I'm talking specifically about "long division" in Europe... and have heard this factoid from multiple mathematicians including Nasim Taleb. So I expect there is a basis for the claim...

The dark ages also saw a huge disparity in education between the East and the West.

Until the 15th century less than 5 people in Europe could do long division. For comparison, Aryabhatta discovered calculus in 5th century India and Madhava made large contributions in the 13th century (Newton/Leibniz were wrongly credited for similar work many years later).

Huawei: MindSpore, All-Scenario AI Computing Framework https://youtu.be/3cvLXCzChhc

From the description "Huawei launches its Ascend 910 AI Processor & MindSpore Computing Framework in south China's Shenzhen. The company aims at boosting computing power for the development of artificial intelligence technology."

Democracies are not as agile as they used to seem. The ability to move with conviction on short notice is an edge that the Chinese government has over Western nations.

China decolonizing and unifying. Anyone aligned with the wrong incentives (undermining/sabotaging China) will get put-right shortly.

If a country is not ready for Democracy with the necessary amount of development/safeguards, this can be a disaster.

Like installing an internet connected Windows XP on your network with no updates, it introduces tremendous attack vectors that established actors/economies (UK, France, US, Germany) will be all to happy to exploit.

>You may be correct, you may not. I wonder if people said the same thing right up to the end of segregation, and other things. But that doesn't matter: might does not make right. Our predictions don't matter, our individual stances do.

Getting rid of segregation has a strong moral foundation and backing... keeping colonial roots in control of HK, not so much.

China, I expect has a bigger picture view. Our small brain framing "Move Manufacturing Good", doesn't play out when you realize China is an Asian power, not just an isolated country.

China's economy benefits from most business that enters the Asian continent, either directly or indirectly, and this "economic proximity" benefit only increases as they develop infrastructure (domestically and internationally) that streamlines trade.

The underdevelopment of Africa is/was a deliberate decision of the west that China is undoing.

Smart investors realize China/India's future economic status depends on being able to offset loss of western demand/trade with direct trade with African markets.

This is generally better for the whole planet but not if you have a "zero-sum game" mentality (seems more common in the West than East).

US police are the 6th leading cause of African American deaths.

I watched an HK detainee get tortured in a hospital in horror, then remembered we kill thousands of unarmed people every couple years without any trial (many of whom are innocent) and 50-60% of victims are either mentally or physically disabled in some way. Many of them get tortured in similar ways if they make it to prison.

In a different framing, the US looks pretty horrible in comparison to China. It's just that we have gotten used to our own brand of stink.

"I asked about the two most popular fentanyl precursors, NPP and 4-ANPP, but I already knew that my timing was bad. In late 2017, China announced that it would schedule both of them, and Yuancheng immediately stopped selling them. (The law went into effect on February 1, 2018.)"

It seems the major sources were banned, possibly need to schedule the other precursors that are less known if they don't have legitimate uses.

Except China isn't forcing us to buy opium at gun point.

Couple things that would be interesting to find out..

1. What percentage of the company's total fentanyl pre-cursor sales are for legitimate medical purposes?

2. What percentage of total orders are fentanyl pre-cursor orders?

Hard to assess scale without this information.

*The people downvoting don't realize there are legitimate uses for fentanyl or what? It's a prescribed painkiller (fyi).

I wonder what you think of this idea.

US, group protests allowed, gov't actively works for the benefit of industries to the detriment of the workers.

China, individual protests allowed, gov't actively and overtly works for the benefit of the workers through centralized labor union to the detriment of business.

In this framing, US population would need more rights to protest due to the odds being heavily stacked against them.

Interesting observation. Here is another one that I haven't seen yet....

Forcing criticism of the state to stay at the individual level drastically reduces the potential for foreign-funded fake grassroots movements to change the trajectory of domestic policy.

This stops a very common social attack vector that governments in the west readily employ around the world.

Anyone on the receiving end of American foreign policy hostility can understand this protectionist position.

They are investing in anti-fragility, scarcity, immutability, the world's largest super computer, instant transactions, tx volume, among other things.

You can arrive at a value of the network (and value per btc) using these numbers when you consider tx volume.

Quite a claim to make, have extraordinary evidence that this would be the outcome?

One would expect Trump has more reason to "save face" in this trade war, with an election coming up.

If you lose a major war, all you have is your pride. That's probably at the core of this observation.

"Strong sense of pride" perhaps, characterizing it as "face saving" seems to imply that a loss has already occurred.

> They are smart about what sells

Alternatively, they are being influenced by people who have ulterior motives.

History says, if you get in a trade war with the US and we don't end up funding your opposition, an error has probably occurred or you are not very important.