Greek-Speaking World During the Hellenistic Period (323–31 BC) - After the conquests of Alexander the Great, the Greek language spread across an empire that stretched from the Aegean to the edges of India. For centuries, it served not only as a means of communication but as the

"Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late." -Thomas Sowell

It’s this mindset amongst Singapore elites that has caused a Singapore hedge fund Asia Genesis to close after losing big time on China bets, as well as Temasek losing big time on China bets in sector after sector when it kept seeing silver linings that were just not there.

This is how everyone who is incredibly bearish on AI will look like in 5-10 years

Its actually insanely crazy that the Chinese government had to start taxing China based Amazon sellers before even the US government took action, despite this being a huge issue raised by American sellers for a decade now. Like Shenzhen is actually shook right now, you have no

"human moral preferences are best construed as adaptations to the affordances of the fundamentally interdependent hunter-gatherer lifestyle of our hominin ancestors" doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2…

But some countries see China as a threat and many countries see China as both a threat and an opportunity. It is a geographical reality.

POV: it is the year 19000 B.C. in Ice Age Siberia. You are a proto-East Asian with poor anger management & impulse control issues. You throw tantrums inside the small confined igloo, annoying & scaring everyone. Your protoABG gf & the tribe is tired of your shit and decided to

Russia’s drone war has entered an industrial phase. Moscow now produces over 6,000 Shahed-type drones a month and can launch 700+ in a single night. Each costs as little as $20k–$70k, while intercepting one with a Patriot missile costs over $3 million. — CNN 1/

There’s a famous paper about fishing villages in Kerala, India. Before cell phones, fishermen would return to shore and sell their catch to whatever market they happened to reach first. Prices swung wildly from village to village, some fish spoiled while buyers in the next town

The price of everything on Earth. This chart is all of the natural occurring elements, their occurrence rate in Earth's crust (X-axis) and their price in USD (Y-axis). The chart illustrates three clear price regimes. 1. Yellow band is stuff that is economically priced this is

POV: It is 95000 B.C. in Africa. You are the first guy w tightly curled hair due to mutations in KRT74, TCHH, CUTC genes. You are better at dissipating head heat via evaporative cooling sweat, & more protected against solar radiation. You have less heat stroke & can hunt better

‼️ China's largest cybersecurity firm, Knownsec, was breached, exposing details of China's state cyber operations. The data includes cyberweapon documentation, internal hacking tool source code, and global target lists covering over 20 countries, including Japan, Vietnam, and

Genetic history of the Bronze to Iron Age Eurasian Steppe.

China’s Digital Silk Road Strategy: The Expansion of Chinese Cloud Computing Companies Across Emerging Markets

In his seminal article laying out the "long history" thesis, Samo Burja argues that new archaeological discoveries are adding millennia to our ancient history, and suggests we should expect more such discoveries in the future. Read online here: palladiummag.com/2021/05/17/why…

This op-ed by Jeff Mahon highlights why Malaysia and Cambodia signed a far-reaching trade deal with Trump, even at the risk of upsetting Beijing. Jeff says it is because China has a fundamental conflict of interest with the Southeast Asian countries. As manufacturing nations,

The original idea comes from Victor Lieberman: He divides the rimland of the Eurasian continent into two zones, one "exposed" to invasions from the steppe (China, India, Middle East) and another (W Europe & SE Asia) "protected" from them.

BREAKING: The $610 Billion AI Ponzi Scheme Just Collapsed Last night at 4pm EST, something unprecedented happened. Nvidia stock rallied 5% on earnings, then crashed into negative territory within 18 hours. Wall Street algorithms detected what humans couldn’t: the numbers don’t

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