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US and Mexico border is 1,933 miles long. No one actually expected it to be built.

Maybe it is because I am an engineer, but tbh, I think there are more important issues. Don't get me wrong, raising living standard is very important, but I don't consider lifting people out of poverty and income equality to be the same issue. The former is a necessity because you need an...

Well, if F-35 project got cancelled, it will probably go down in history as one of the dumbest and most wasteful move ever.

Eh, gini index is good for small nations with relatively even demographic distribution or little variation on living cost. For large countries like China or US, the geographic difference in different part of the country alone is enough to throw off GINI index. IMO, analyzing large economies are...

The writer probably made a mistake. Techcrunch's article on the same topic says it is a swedish company. https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/05/dji-acquires-hasselblad-the-iconic-swedish-camera-company/

GDP calculation is a summation of the cash flow, itself is a temporary figure. Investment, particularly long investment, is judged by its overall effect rather than its cash return. For example, highway system is the artery of a nation's economic activity, but if you only look at it from current...

Right...so according to this joker, developing nations should "beware" of long term investment such as investment into domestic infrastructure and instead concentrate on "project level return", aka, short-term returns. It did not mention the little fact that EU's overall economic problem is: 1...

Didn't we already explained the difference between total debt and government debt in this forum? For many times and repeated if I remember correctly. I thought the BS finally died down in 2016, but within the first week of 2017, it came right back up. Edit: BTW, just copying this directly from...

Let me stop you right there. GDP is the most important indicator for your average internet forumer who does not have the knowledge or access to other more detailed indicators of the nation. (Okay, it is important for Indian leaders, because GDP number affects their voter and they need to it to...

To be honest, at the current technological level, the best we can do is alleviating symptoms, but not solving it at root. The primary sources of air pollution in any industrialized nation are: 1. Power Generation 2. Motor Vehicle 3. Heating 4. Industrial Production 5. Natural Geological Events...

To be honest, I think US does know. (Well, whether Trump knows it is another story entirely) It is more like US knows China will balance the region. By tipping over the scale, China may spend more effort and waste more resource on balancing the region. Historical reaction shows that at...

Japan and China had a few wars that lasted for a few decade and we never forgot it. The Cambodians and Vietnamese have been at it for thousands of years.

To be honest, I would say US' botched up job to overthrow and kill Duterte probably had bigger impact than anything else. There is a reason Zhou Enlai forbid PRC intelligence services from ever using political assassination. It may look like an attractive short-term tool, but it leaves way too...

Erm, you may need to verify the information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longyangxia_Dam at 850 MWp, Longyangxia photostatic station is the largest solar farm in the world, outstripping Kamuthi Solar Power Project by 30%. also, I thought CO2 capture technology have around for a quite a while...

Erm, Bill Gates started his business when he was taking a break from Harvad, he can resume it but since his business took off, he figured he no longer need it/doesn't have time for it. Also, his father is own his own law firm while his mother is the chair of the national United Way’s executive...

From the article you linked: "Attorney: FBI conned spy suspect into talking without lawyer"

It's mostly dietary habits and FDA approved growth hormones.

Erm, it looks like a scene out of "The Mummy"

Erm, isn't American's attempt to overthrow (and likely kill) Duterte the original reason why he turned on US?

Well, after the Vietnam war, it was the strongest military power in Southeast Asia and was poised to conquer the entire region and form a powerful nation------all the other powers did not want that to happen. So China spent a decade to full exhaust the Vietnam. The conflict is a low intensity...