Optimists believe the new economic order will be mostly like the old, only perhaps involving a bit more trade[0] with cities like Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Shenzhen, and a bit less trade with cities like Houston, LA, and NYC.
(for Singapore, Mandarin would be better, but there English works, lah. Shanghai would need Mandarin, but we have our own financial centres)
[0] if the Don were serious about hemispheres, this might work. In practice[1], I believe there could potentially be issues running trade through chokepoints owned by USEUCOM (Gibraltar), USCENTCOM (Suez, Aden), and USINDOPACOM (Malacca). https://www.war.gov/About/Combatant-Commands/
Anyone know of any good minesweeping technologies?
[1] did "The Empire Strikes Back" not teach us that Sith always reserve the right to alter the deal?
thanks! I hadn't been thinking retail though; I'd been thinking of people who were studying a language in order to signal that they were both interested in and committed to cultivating 关系 before exploring wholesale possibilities.
Wouldn't cantonese help with that? After all, languages are accomplishments, not acquisitions: you can't just buy spoken facility, you have to earn it through study and practice.
Or am I mistaken there too?
EDIT: another practical advantage: polyglots can code switch to quickly communicate things monoglots might have to resort to lengthy circumlocution to communicate.
EDIT2: Walkable city! Sweet! I don't know about Houston, but it looks way nicer than what I remember of LA or NYC. Street trees, even.
EDIT3: do I have these prices right? 8,8 CNY ~= 1 CHF? Meanwhile, YouTube is serving me local ads for kitchen knives at 330 CNY!
EDIT4: "Muslim Restaurant" == halal?
EDIT5: final thought: the narrator, like my friend, could almost be from Louisiana, where the three main topics of conversation are: (1) the food you ate last, (2) the food you're going to eat next, and (3) the food you're eating right now.
In theory, and certainly that's how some rationalize it. In practice, compradores are the most sought after.. in the old days, some of those guys were fluent in English, but maybe the Judeo-Christian vibes* were just as relevant. As in retail VC, where lack of schlep-tolerance is a red-flag (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BA%A2%E6%97%97L5#/media/Fi...), so lack of interest in the details of the better life you're pursuing => ..?
Yes 清真 is the sinicization
3. Front men are also in demand.. different vibes expected of these (outer party?)
Front men? You mean like when Erik Prince was playing token gweilo for CITIC group?
(At least Prince, however much his attitude may resemble Mr. Twister's, is aware the rest of the world exists. I haven't read any of the Hunger Games, but according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games#:~:text=It%20... , despite the author's background [did she always live on base, never on the economy?], nothing beyond the lower 48 is a thing. As a contrast, Harry Potter is not at all solipsistic: it mentions about three dozen countries beyond its main setting.)
Dina's a bit boho; where are the oranges and sushki?
Santi? Barbara's the patroness of tunnelling; ܥܩܘܒ does fishermen and conquistadors? (I guess neither are known for paying much attention to sustainability?)
EDIT: Sorry Dina, didn't know it was in the kitchen.
Greenland (feint? The Man practising your fencing chengyu?) seems like an attempt to get discount on "something something China/Russia deals"? Reverse Bribery?
My definition of utopia allows for disagreement, my issue was with his methods, avoiding the original point and not the disagreement. I never tried to justify anything, at most I expressed a preference for killing serial killers over having wars.
Why? Because killing serial killers is good, and having war is bad?
I think the person you were responding to had a more utilitarian view. When war happens, the death of conscripted young people is unavoidable. It's kill or be killed. We prefer wars not to happen, and people not to die, but it's not a choice.
Killing a serial killer who has already been apprehended is a choice. And it's here that we can actually start weighting options and see what is better for the society, bringing up possibilities of wrongful convictions, Blackstone's ratios and second order effects of the death penalty.
I made no such judgement, just sort of but not really implied that I would rather serial killers die than random people and then admitted it in a purely intellectual pie in the sky sort of way—killing serial killers will not end war. Plenty of examples in history when a draft was used in times other than kill or be killed, when it was political. It is ok for the state to kill its citizens for political reasons but only when those political reasons are war? At what point does civil unrest become civil war? When that line is crossed the killings suddenly become OK? What if it were treason instead of murder and the execution of that traitor could help mitigate civil war and far more death? That comment opened a massive can of worms, it is more complicated than ideals and what we would like.
No, where are you getting this from? His value proposal was that he was a) an outsider in politics, b) russian speaking ukranian. He was elected on on the platform of reducing corruption and negotiating the end to the Donbas conflict.
Well, no. That money is the total grant sum, to be spent over multiple years, and PhDs are usually funded in full - in Germany a PhD takes around 5 years. Moreover, the money a PhD student gets after tax, is not the same as the money spent overall from the grant, see my other comment below.
In Europe a PhD student is a multiyear commitment, with a bunch of externalities, they are much simpler to manage as discrete units, and thus are funded as such.
At least in France, where they have PhDs which last only 3 years, a years of PhD would cost ~45K EUR in gross salary (granted the student gets around half of that after tax), then let's say ~10K travel and consumables costs, then add up the inevitable 20% overhead costs and now you're looking at around 200K for the shortest possible frugal 3 year PhD.
This sounds like quite an outlandish figure, could you please elaborate? For example, an ERC grant would allow for a maximum of 25% of the so called "indirect costs", that is, one fourths of all the the direct costs (gross salaries, materiel, travel, etc) gets paid as a lump sum, and this usually goes to the institution. How do you end up with over 100% overheads?
I recall putting a grant proposal together. An RA salary of £40K was charged to the project at £110K. Those numbers are roughly accurate, might actually have been slightly higher.
I’m not sure how that gets accounted in different schemes, perhaps it is somehow impossible in ERC grants, but it is certainly the case in some grants.
25% cap would I think make most universities bankrupt overnight.
I suspect a large part of that 110K would be the government's cut. Again, coming back to the french system, an employee getting 40K after taxes costs ~80K to the institution there. I didn't think of the salary taxes as overheads, we count them as direct costs.
I mean gross salary, for all 3-4 years for your employer. You‘d be surprised how much money is spent on paying your salary (as well as other expenses like traveling to conferences and equipment). No one is talking salary.
There are many good Chinese language films, not all of them Cantonese. You're forgetting about Taiwanese directors (Edward Yang, Tsai Ming-liang, Hou Hsiao-Hsien) and mainland sixth generation directors (Jia Zhangke, Lou Ye). There are also works by less known authors such as Bi Gan, Hu Bo, Xinyuan Zheng Lu - very unique and impressive.
One should not throw around ignorant blanket statements. There's a wealth of amazing Chinese language movie made outside of Hong-Kong, and yes, good artists can exist under authoritarian regimes, a prominent example of which would be Soviet cinema and literature.
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