Okay, so you're just a troll.

Nope.

I think it's an irrelevant question, tho. There is no evidence that a random Chinese resident would know any more about Chinese corruption than someone with decades of industrial experience interacting with Chinese suppliers, competitors, and coworkers, as both an internal auditor and tester.

I have a question for you:

Do you have any evidence to the contrary? Do you have proof that Chinese national statistics are reliable, and that the supply-chains and all levels of government are generally honest, efficient, and free of corruption?

Nope.

I think it's an irrelevant question, tho. There is no evidence that a random Chinese resident would know any more about Chinese corruption than someone with decades of industrial experience interacting with Chinese suppliers, competitors, and coworkers, as both an internal auditor and tester.

I have a question for you:

Do you have any evidence to the contrary? Do you have proof that Chinese national statistics are reliable, and that the supply-chains and all levels of government are generally honest, efficient, and free of corruption?

They do. That's why they regularly have anti-corruption purges and etc., but that is not effective. You can't cure a centralized system's corruption with random controls. Controls are only to identify problems, not to fix them. That is a core rule of Quality Assurance (which we learned from the Japanese).

Also, you don't know if the people in the control functions are not also corrupt. This is a deep, cultural problem inherent to centralized systems, that any problem becomes endemic, so that even the auditors end up in one the game.

Decentralized systems are messier and more chaotic, and harder to steer, but problems from one section tend to not spread as quickly to the others.

Because you can cross-check their data with statistical data that is more independent and objective, from other sources. Like satellite imagery, import/export statistics, etc.

If those data sets correlate well across all surrounding or economically-similar countries, but produce less correlation there, then that is an indicator that there is some "there" there.

We can also tell a lot from other information that they publish not aligning or even being at odds with each other. Both cannot be correct.

Great article.

Was thinking about death number and roads. I assume that a chunk of those death is all sorts of accidents that have nothing to do with quality of roads but poor driving and human errors basically.

I wonder what percentage of those deaths is purely bad roads though.

What makes Nostr feel authentic? Each timezone brings its own personality to the feed. Log in at different hours and you’re not just seeing different people, you’re experiencing different worlds, different conversations, different rhythms. That geographical diversity, unfiltered by algorithms, is what makes this place real.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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We are mere decades away from there being no more white women.

Under-discussed reason why artists need the V4V/Bitcoin/Nostr trifecta to protect their earnings from inflation and centralized social media problems:

Many of them are forced to spend way more of their time doing gigs & shows than they want to.

Sure live shows are tons of fun for lots of musicians, and for many that is the CORE of their music-production experience.

But there are others who would rather spend more of their time at home, in their own space, and CREATING in a relaxed environment, rather than constantly hustling on the road out of necessity as a means to opening up said free time.

Once they've fully embraced sound money & sound protocols, all artists of different social healthbars will be able to create the perfect art-creating environment for themselves, without being forced into a direction that doesn't resonate with their energy.

All of the above is relevant to other artists, too. Painters and other physical medium creators may just have to substitute "live shows" with other forms of going out and selling their art, which is often not their favorite thing to do (at least not as often as they have to).

Also, many artists of ALL kinds would love to escape the social media platform prison, and are really only on there for marketing purposes (which ultimately comes back to the same root problem of needing to hustle for money more than they truly want to).

If you haven't gone down the parasite rabbit hole... Let's just say it explains way too many things, particularly the morality around food and sexual mores of past societies.

As if he couldn’t have stopped the trial if he wanted to. When will you people realize he isn’t a fan of anyone unless it benefits him?

The price of snow plowing has risen 6% per year since covid.

Dollar Tree but in Sats instead

"100 SatStore" or something.

Now the quality of products will go up over decades instead of down

Solving a small problem for a lot of people is generally going to be more impactful than solving a big problem for a few people.

The former is usually the better fit for decentralized systems, anyway.

One might expect that, on average, a male masseuse might give a better massage due to having a strength advantage.

In my experience, females tend to give stronger and deeper massages. Perhaps because it's more about technique rather than strength?

Anyone else have experience with this?

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Eric Weinstein is back on the bird app talking shit about bitcoin.

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Mike Hearn is still the second Google result for “Whiney Ragequit”

exact same constellations for 6,000 years, try again

Anyone have any tips for dealing with / fixing couple month old baby sleep regression?

Is that warning about sola scriptura in the Bible?