he made $2 billion in 2 years and fucked over a huge amount of people
Source?
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That's a straw man. They're saying that hundreds of millions of Chinese people (and others around the world) have risen out of poverty because of globalism. You're only giving credit for the negative impacts of globalism, and in kind of a duplicitous manner.
I am not sure I understand this argument. The article states the "laborers" in question are given a choice as follows: submit to unpaid forced labor else go to a CCP reeducation camp. Nowhere is it stated those subjected to this choice have the opportunity to take advantage of rising living standards.
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this all seems reasonable on paper, but why does it _feel_ like it's going to be a failure?
Maybe I've seen to many instances where a non-tech company tries to run a tech company.
Because lulu is judged on earnings and mirror is effectively a saas company that needs to achieve breakaway scale to own its market. My hunch is lulu doesn't have the stomach for the cost of acquisition required to get mirror there.
Reading this made me realize how little Roman history I know. What's the best source for learning about the major people and events of that era?
EDIT: I guess what I'm really looking for is a hierarchy of topics, starting extremely broad (e.g. Roman Republic vs. Roman Empire) and drilling down into individual people and events. In other words, I want to do a breadth-first traversal, rather than depth-first.
Great books to start:
- Rubicon by Tom Holland - SPQR by Mary Beard - Dynasty by Tom Holland - Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy (more of a bio on Julius C, a bit drier than the above, has section on Alesia)
The book is a lot of fun, but it's also not a sacred text. It's a story about a pizza delivery driver who will be murdered if he delivers pizza too late and is also a hacker getting bound up in a story of Sumerian brain programmers run amok. (And somehow these brain programmers also can infect someone's blood?)
For all of its foresight, the book is goofy and dated as hell. If it's going to come to screen there's no way the adaption doesn't either:
1) Update some of the goofier stuff (upsetting the fans)
or
2) Leave it all in, in all its 80s action movie glory. (Which won't look all that great in the modern zeitgeist.)
I'm already expecting people will be disappointed with whoever they cast for Hiro, for either being not Black enough (or too Black) or not Korean enough (or too Korean). Similarly, do they outfit Y.T. with a retrofuturist 80s interpretation of what it means to be a skater punk? Or do they update it to be a 2020s interpretation of what it means to be a future skater punk? There's no answers to these that satisfies everyone. Someone will inevitably say it was 'ruined' no matter what the show runner does.
I remember reading the opening few pages and chuckling out loud:
“Why is the Deliverator so equipped? Because people rely on him. He is a roll model. This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world. When it gets down to it—talking trade balances here—once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here—once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel—once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity—y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else:
music, movies, microcode (software), high-speed pizza delivery”
I wonder if anyone has insight into how they have been able to do this consistently in the modern era of quantitative trading (this article had scant detail)? His returns are such an outlier and strategies such a closely guarded secret that they leave people on Wall Street in awe.