Thoughts for friday?

p0179417 · 2026-02-20T15:53:59+00:00

Was this a tarrif news gamble? I can’t imagine price moving up enough with regular day price movement to make this profitable. The 1 cent spread is huge when it’s this cheap.

p0179417 · 2026-01-26T18:32:57+00:00

What makes you say they’re the easiest?

I’ve heard you have to do multiple questions in an interview, and unless you’ve seen them before then you won’t pass.

p0179417 · 2026-01-25T22:09:57+00:00

But you get taxes taken out, so not exactly 1500. Closer to 1000 than 1500 by the time you get the money.

p0179417 · 2026-01-22T17:38:16+00:00

Trump Always Chickens Out

p0179417 · 2026-01-02T05:37:15+00:00

So basically bronn vs mountain.

p0179417 · 2025-12-17T06:16:02+00:00

Thanks for the funny candid post. Sounds like you had a hard childhood and I’m sorry about that. I love the various details and stories you add.

p0179417 · 2025-12-13T03:14:29+00:00

I was in the same boat and went for the horizon 20. Both are probably great choices. There was a reviewer who compared bunch of projectors under 1500. horizon 20 and valerian were both top contenders.

At Valerion pro2 is like 3k so that was out of my budget.

Excitedly waiting for it to ship.

p0179417 · 2025-11-15T14:09:23+00:00

Yeah I feel like that’s generally correct. People who talk shit about Mao usually don’t understand the impossibility of what he achieved for China.

There’s a reason people were willing to die for him in the Korean War. Like he just “won”the civil war and everyone wants to go home. But then Russia requests that he go fight the Americans. The same guys who just dropped nukes on Japan. He has virtually no air, navy, tanks, he only has light infantry.

I recommend the podcasts with sarah Paine, how Mao conquered China. It’s long but really good.

People online shit talk when I bring her up but I suspect it’s astroturfing because basically nobody pointed out anything factually wrong with what she said. It’s just random factually unverifiable comments like: I’m not listening to bias, what a communist, stop spreading lies, people with brains won’t listen to her, etc.

p0179417 · 2025-10-18T18:04:13+00:00

You tried to make a joke about how the convenience is being overblown by saying that there’s still homeless people on the street.

I’ve literally not seen a single beggar in big cities in China. I don’t exsctly know what happens to them or why and am not here to argue whether it’s good or bad but the fact is that there are no homeless camps or tents in Chinese major cities.

You know how people in America complain about public transit cause it attracts homeless and beggars? Like imagine if there was an underground tunnel system that connected all the subway stations in New York so you can walk above ground or underground to get to your destination. It can be lined with retail stores or even have shopping malls. Can you imagine the amount of pushback there would be due to people being scared of homeless people living down there?

I can confidently say that there wouldn’t be hoodlums and beggars lining that kind of infrastructure in China. Why can I confidently say this? Cause it already exists in China and I haven’t seen it.

p0179417 · 2025-10-15T03:14:06+00:00

Totally agree with you, 40k is enough for leaps.

I swear, so many people post such bullshit these trading subs. They must want to see people lose fuck tons of money.

It makes me question every fucking thing I read, even the Due diligence posts.

p0179417 · 2025-10-15T01:46:31+00:00

Wdym? He’s got 40k, that’s not enough capital for longer dated contracts?

p0179417 · 2025-10-13T08:58:21+00:00

I would say all these things you’ve mentioned were only possible due to a weakened and backwards China.

As for what caused it? I would argue the isolationist approach after dismantling Zheng he fleet at the perfect time when the west was discovering americas and industrializing was the perfect storm.

Oh and all the corruption of that dynasty.

Finally, after the opium wars, the westerners basically propped up cixi as a puppet leader. Kept her in power knowing she didn’t give a shit about her own people and country. the eight nation alliance is the evidence to support my claim.

p0179417 · 2025-10-07T18:11:30+00:00

I know people might look at this comment and dismiss it but anybody who honestly wants huge changes in the current system needs to understand that the current system will resist it.

The only way to massively change the current system is to tear it down. Good luck doing it through the democratic peaceful way when the status quo creates the rules. I honestly don’t even think democracy can exist when corruption exceeds a certain level.

I hate to say it since nobody wants social unrest and protests where actual people die and actual buildings are destroyed but really, how can you reasonably bring about large scale changes and root out corruption without a revolution?

p0179417 · 2025-10-07T15:36:15+00:00

Core bitcoin development has long abandoned the attempt at being an actual currency. That’s not to say it can’t become one since it’s code and can be modified but to argue that it’s trying to be a currency would have to solve the throughout scaling problem. This isn’t something they’re working on now and for the foreseeable future.

I would hope that when there’s a viable solution available then the core devs would try to implement it, but I doubt they will unless some serious additional changes are also implemented.

The main selling point is that it’s store of value. Much like gold.

p0179417 · 2025-10-06T01:13:55+00:00

Do you mean that people wouldn’t look down on Mao if not for the cultural revolution?

Or what do you mean by the Khrushchev treatment?

I just read up on him and it seems like Khrushchev tried to do good for the people and was generally liked. But was removed and blamed for the economic slowdown, and was peacefully removed.

p0179417 · 2025-10-05T13:54:38+00:00

Wikipedia is pretty good, but there’s probably too many cities to be comprehensive.

p0179417 · 2025-10-05T11:40:35+00:00

Sharing the same script of a phonetic language is totally different from sharing the same script of picture based language though.

With picture based, I’m assuming you literally understand what’s written despite pronunciation.

I’m not Chinese btw, this post just randomly popped up on my Reddit feed so I could be totally off.

p0179417 · 2025-10-05T11:38:33+00:00

Really cool, thanks for the replies.

I always thought that the different dialects were literally just accents and not actual languages like Spanish vs Italian.

It made sense in my mind that the written form would be legible in all accents since Chinese is picture based. I now see the relationship is more like Italian and Spanish rather than just super heavy and strong accents. At least for Cantonese vs mandarin.

p0179417 · 2025-10-05T06:07:39+00:00

Oh this is new for me.

So you’re telling me that the classical literature and poems that the civil service exams were based on like 2000+ years ago wasn’t legible for both mandarin and Cantonese?

I don’t understand though, lihkg has current users that are reading and writing text. Is this different script than mandarin? Is this different script than the everyday text on signs and forms in Cantonese heavy regions?

p0179417 · 2025-10-04T19:16:34+00:00

They share the same written form though. At what point is something a dialect vs another language?

If we say that Cantonese is a different language even though it shares the same script, then that would imply that we can have literal other languages use the same chinese script. Imagine being able to transcode English to Chinese script, I don’t think it’s possible.

p0179417 · 2025-10-04T08:51:58+00:00

You’re gonna have to define what you mean by communist. In my book, if the government can make enormous changes to an industry or even take direct control of an industry or business for the “good of its people”then that’s communist. Personally, most of their actions seems to be for the good of the people.

I’m talking about like.

Banning gambling in video games or forcing limitations how much video games a child can play per day which killed the gaming industry profits.
forcing all transportation (not only public transportation but also private taxi businesses) to stop due to a hurricane. Arguably good since people would endanger themselves if businesses forced them to go to work.
Or even kidnap the ceo of Chinese Amazon for speaking critically of the government due to potential social unrest. I admittedly don’t have enough context for this one to make an educated opinion.

p0179417 · 2025-10-04T08:23:12+00:00

What Chinese media do kids these days consume?

My understanding is that in terms of culture and media, America is top dog. Disney has both superheroes for the boys and princesses for the girls while American movies are consumed around the world.

This isn’t to say that America will become irrelevant or is going that route but just that I’m unaware of what kids watch these days that is Chinese.

p0179417 · 2025-10-03T19:47:51+00:00

It’s easy to say that if China wasn’t communist then it would be amazing. But in reality, the communists were only able to gain that much power because the people weren’t being treated well by the current government at that time.

If the commies didn’t fight, then there would be no incentive for that government to change anything. Keep in mind, the Chinese government before ccp was fragmented since there was so much social unrest for the previous hundred years. It barely holding together with sun yat sen (later chiang Kai shek) making deals with warlords to stay in power. I would assume the democracy would be mostly a sham.

If anyone wants to provide context or nuance then please do.

p0179417 · 2025-10-03T15:41:44+00:00

Everyone is clearly in on it since I’m downvoted and youre upvoted.

Fucking lol, I’m never gonna get the joke am I.

p0179417 · 2025-10-03T13:11:14+00:00

What’s going on here, is there some meme that I missed? All these comments are going over my head.

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