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utee94

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« Reply #18620 on: August 16, 2022, 08:40:39 AM »
We were in the car, coming home from a family summer trip. We'd been in the deep interior of Mexico for about 3 weeks, but had just come back across the border to visit my aunt and cousins in Albuquerque.  We stopped for dinner at an old diner-style restaurant and were about to go in, when it came on the radio.  I was young and it didn't really mean anything to me, but my parents were visibly shaken.  It was a quiet dinner.

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« Reply #18621 on: August 16, 2022, 09:15:15 AM »
I'm scratching my head here.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-approves-nearly-all-tech-exports-to-china-data-shows-11660596886?st=j94t4ic1nkql2gt&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-approves-nearly-all-tech-exports-to-china-data-shows-11660596886?st=j94t4ic1nkql2gt&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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« Reply #18622 on: August 16, 2022, 09:25:11 AM »
I'm scratching my head here.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-approves-nearly-all-tech-exports-to-china-data-shows-11660596886?st=j94t4ic1nkql2gt&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-approves-nearly-all-tech-exports-to-china-data-shows-11660596886?st=j94t4ic1nkql2gt&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I've been beating this drum for years.  It's quite... concerning.

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« Reply #18623 on: August 16, 2022, 10:03:58 AM »
I was at work and some girls started crying and when someone told me why it was a shock
They won't let me give blood anymore. The burnt orange color scares the hell out of the doctors.

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« Reply #18624 on: August 16, 2022, 11:06:11 AM »
I'm scratching my head here.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-approves-nearly-all-tech-exports-to-china-data-shows-11660596886?st=j94t4ic1nkql2gt&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-approves-nearly-all-tech-exports-to-china-data-shows-11660596886?st=j94t4ic1nkql2gt&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
In a sort of macro sense, I get why. In a micro sense, the mechanics of this seem antithetical to a lot of views folks hold. 

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« Reply #18625 on: August 16, 2022, 01:40:53 PM »

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« Reply #18626 on: August 16, 2022, 01:45:54 PM »
Nice. gEEK humor is best humor.

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« Reply #18627 on: August 16, 2022, 04:15:00 PM »
I'm scratching my head here.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-approves-nearly-all-tech-exports-to-china-data-shows-11660596886?st=j94t4ic1nkql2gt&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-approves-nearly-all-tech-exports-to-china-data-shows-11660596886?st=j94t4ic1nkql2gt&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
is it that confusing though? Biden's son has major business with China. Biden has always been a pushover when it comes to China, because his family has had major business interests with that country and Biden is a corrupt piece of shit. One of the most corrupt do nothing blowhard pols we've ever had in this country. 

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« Reply #18628 on: August 16, 2022, 07:13:29 PM »
Dick definitely is one.
What a Great song or a DICK ? ;D. Hope he gets Monkey Pox,Ebola,Mad Cow's,Diaper Rash,Dreaded Lurgi or the Great Siberian Itch. Apologies to any plagues not mentioned
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« Reply #18629 on: August 16, 2022, 07:21:39 PM »
is it that confusing though? Biden's son has major business with China. Biden has always been a pushover when it comes to China, because his family has had major business interests with that country and Biden is a corrupt piece of shit. One of the most corrupt do nothing blowhard pols we've ever had in this country.
Our softness on China is hardly related solely to the Biden family, it goes back decades.  But that's certainly one area where I was aligned with our previous president.

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« Reply #18630 on: August 16, 2022, 09:25:03 PM »
Our softness on China is hardly related solely to the Biden family, it goes back decades.  But that's certainly one area where I was aligned with our previous president.
In this particular case, it's interesting. We're basically saying, "the government needs to step in and stop business from doing business with customers capable of delivering serious revenue." Obviously it's not the first or last time the government will do something like that, but I think it important to put this particular thing in that context.

This might vaguely be a case of striking at China, but it's also a case of vetoing business deals to put sizable dents in Fortune 500 bottom lines as a first-order effect. And a second-order effect of possible reprisals that exacerbate our already sizable inflation concerns. And if that's worth the choice, all good, but important to note that.

(In some ways, China will always have an edge when it comes to old-school mercantilist d$^# measuring. It's a government that can make policy with almost no concern about what happens to its people, and it's willing to give away value, in a macroeconomic sense, to look good/intimidating)

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« Reply #18631 on: August 16, 2022, 10:55:33 PM »
We have all sorts of stringent trade restrictions with all sorts of countries out there. This is nothing new. I spent several years supporting Export Controls for the extremely large computer manufacturing company that I currently work for---  the government has no problem restricting trade when it desires to do so.  And companies always manage.

In many ways cutting trade ties with China is simple for us-- far simpler than it would be for many other countries.  In the grand scheme, we don't export all that much in finished goods to China.  Indeed, by their own design, China imports very little from anyone.  On the flipside, China relies heavily on exports to the USA and the West.  So from the perspective of trade balance, severing all ties with China would hurt them a lot more than it would hurt us.  Sure we'd need to develop new partners to fill the gap, but there are no shortage of more amicable partners globally, willing and able to do so.

The trickiest part, is untangling our own US-owned corporate manufacturing dependence from China.  But as we've discussed here several times, for several reasons, China is no longer considered a Low Cost Manufacturing Nation for a majority of the goods that US companies have outsourced there.  There are now numerous countries that can manufacture at lower costs, and that don't involve the omnipresent CCP... entanglements... that US companies must currently endure.

It took decades to get this mixed up with China, and it would take a long time to disentangle.  But it's not impossible, far from it.  Many companies are already engaged in the first steps.  The current challenges with the global supply chain, many of which originate in China, have put domestic companies on red alert.  It's not being taken lightly.

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« Reply #18632 on: August 17, 2022, 07:24:09 AM »
Our softness on China is hardly related solely to the Biden family, it goes back decades.  But that's certainly one area where I was aligned with our previous president.
very true. It goes back decades, and the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations were paper tissue soft as well.

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« Reply #18633 on: August 17, 2022, 08:43:43 AM »
Studies have concluded that all mammals get about a billion heartbeats per lifetime. They can use them at a rate of a thousand per minute, like the shrew, or space them out into slow, ponderous beats, over many years, as is the case for the Grey whale. But there are notable exceptions. Some species get more than their fair billion beats. The extent to which these species live beyond a billion beats must depend in part upon unique features of their biology. Whatever these features are, if we understood them, we might be able to figure out new ways to extend our own health, push our enfeebled and worn cells and hearts through a few more beats, maybe many. But first, we need heart rate data for as many species as possible.

Humans in modern times are over 3 billion on average.

If you use an average of 80 beats per minute, your heart beats about 4,800 times per hour. That's a whopping 115,200 times per day. Over the course of a year, your heart would beat about 42,048,000 times! If you live to be 80 years old, your heart would have beaten approximately 3,363,840,000 times! That's over 3 billion heartbeats! What a muscle!

 

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