did the author ever finish the series and is there a link to the most complete version? stopped reading it like ten years ago due to the sporadic updates
meth_dragon
joined 2 years ago
big reason they use windows is because a lot of front line workers dont understand computers and windows is still the least annoying os to use at least for those people
like yeah 10 and 11 are mostly shit but it beats having to teach the vocational school grad (who doesnt know english) basic bash commands just to do shit he already knows how to do in windows
there is also the fact that junior chinese programmers are more familiar with windows in general and that plays a part, but its mostly for troubleshooting convenience
this pretty much. if anyone took a survey of how many manchu nobles are still rich despite all the shit that happened in the entire past century i'd put money on the number being upwards of ~80%
going off completely unsubstantiated folk sayings, it takes around 3 generations of failsons to destroy a family's wealth
i choose to interpret this as an approximation of the half life of personal wealth under about the worst conditions possible (my made up justification being that most social structures are more vulnerable to internal risks rather than external, see: every empire in history), so given this it would make sense that accumulated wealth will not instantly evaporate to baseline when exposed to mere adverse external pressures. also, like, the sheer amount of wealth hoarded by feudal ruling class people probably would take way more than 3 generations of failsons and a cultural revolution to reduce down to pleb level in absolute terms.
US is aimlessly flailing, they can't dollarize anything with high interest rates since all the money they pump out just gets sucked right back in instead of infesting the host countries and growing to maturity as it did with past cycles. in any case, i'd imagine any country that does get dollarized can probably just go the china route in the future and have china dump some more tbills to patch over however much debt got grown in the meantime
they're trying to sow and reap at the same time currently and while it's not the end of empire, it probably won't provide the results they're looking for
as i said before, so long as brandon doesn't do something extremely funny before the elections, this cycle is probably a wash. one to look out for will be the next one
energized them all
children of a dead earth
you could probably play this game for heat transfer and intermediate aerodynamics lab credit
jpy's been getting btfo past couple weeks, did not expect american satrapies to get cannibalized this quickly lol
honestly woulda gone with sk first since its basically a lost cause in the event of anything kinetic but whatever 
i could see israel having a failed plan a considering the limp dick response but nukes and shot down f35s are a bit too tom clancy
by compradors, for compradors
even something dumb like taiping 2.0 woulda gotten more traction
because no one in the factory has ever used a linux machine and the none of the engineers want to be the go to hand holding guy when your prototype inevitably shits itself so they just use windows and hope that its one less thing to have to worry about.
its about convenience, perceived or otherwise. nobody gets paid enough to care about the politics or the tech