Economic growth and development becomes much more cooler and awe inspiring when you think of it less as "line goes up" and more as "increasing productive power of the species".

RT @M_C_Klein: Wonderful article from @Urbandirt on the new generation of Chinese immigrants to Japan. Really worth reading the whole thing….

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RT @mspringut: The 1892 Decker building in Union Square. The lone surviving work of John Edelmann, the radical anarchist, who was friend an….

RT @atlanticesque: Reminder that every single reddit anecdote is fake and not worth commenting on.

RT @lefineder: Was Florence the most literate society in the Medieval world?.In the 1427 'Catasto', thousands of heads of households had to….

RT @powerfultakes: Very strong case all round that scientific (and later industrial) revolutions were downstream of local human capital acc….

RT @n30n5223434: I kneel.

RT @JZ281C: @k_kowshik53951 China is increasingly shifting toward its own operating systems, databases, AI hardware and software stack. Ind….

RT @JZ281C: @k_kowshik53951 Every country has their own demand drivers. China's main service import will be outbound tourism for the forese….

RT @JZ281C: @k_kowshik53951 A lot of the heavy transport/mine laying drones used in Ukraine are based off of Chinese agriculture drones. Th….

RT @JZ281C: @k_kowshik53951 In the past being a farmer was associated with being poor and uneducated. Now agriculture is increasingly high….

RT @JZ281C: FPV drones that can fly, park, wait are partially fulfilling the traditional presence mission of infantry. They can deny terra….

RT @kane: Audiophile hardware is like crystals for dudes.

RT @TatenokaiGael: @n30n5223434 My favourite Japanese nationalist tidbit was a 2003 manga called Kenkanryuu 'Anti-Korean Wave' which was pr….

RT @JZ281C: What is interesting is Japan's demographics actually give their young people the best employment prospects.

RT @WilliamEHillis: All of history's greatest geniuses were autodidacts. How does one teach a Michelangelo, a Newton, or a Mozart? There is….

RT @pplsartofwar: There's an assumption that if the US hits an economic recession, its limited to only the US. It won't be. And secondary….

RT @PAstynome: Just check out the admit rates. It keeps getting lower and lower despite what all the techbros tell you.

RT @Yussoonn_: It was so much about public safety that.Mikhail Mikhailovich Kim, a senior Communist Party official who had even met Stalin….

RT @PAstynome: I think one of the funniest things about this so called Axis is that China is far more integrated with Japan and South Korea….

RT @tszzl: peter thiel has been wrong about everything important for the last decade.