Re: oscillator gain

On 21/10/2024 2:18 am, john larkin wrote:

On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 03:52:28 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:

On a sunny day (Sat, 19 Oct 2024 21:59:05 -0000 (UTC)) it happened Cursitor
Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote in <vf1a39$1su3$4@dont-email.me>

On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 07:05:08 -0700, john larkin wrote:

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Russia and China are doing just fine..

 Russia is falling apart. The real talent is leaving. I think Putin
wants them out, so he can have a loyal, patriotic, poor, stupid
population to rule over.
 Both Russia and China face a demographic disaster: people, especially
the smartest people, aren't having babies.

Smart people can work out how not to have babies, if they don't want them. Most of the smart people I know have two or three kids.
<snipped Jan being stupid>

The US is doing pretty well, given the ways the world is changing.
It's still the technology center of the world. Farm output is
fantastic and still increasing. We have huge energy resources. The
most talented people in the world emigrate here and get Nobel prizes
or start industries.

They used to. The rest of the world has learned how to bribe their best and brightest to stay at home. The US with its over-priced health care and gross social inequality, is a much less attractive destination for clever people than it used to be, so the bribes don't have to be all that generous.

It could be that the USA is actually the pioneer case for how the
world will be: super multicultural and super productive and lots of
outdoor recreation.

Except that it isn't super productive or super multi-cultural any more.

I read an essay by a half-asian half-anglo guy who moved to San
Francisco. He loves it here because it's the only place he's lived
where people didn't stare at him for looking different.

Australia would work just as well for him, but you wouldn't have read his essay if he lived in Sydney.

Ultimately, the world will homogenize and everybody will speak a sort
of English. Without racial and language-based tribalism, and everybody
moving around, we won't need wars.

Pretty much everybody can speak English in countries that do secondary education. They tend not to speak it at home.
The US has a lot of racial and language-based tribalism, so it has got a long way to go. It's military-industrial complex needs wars to keep it's turnover high, in the same way that the fossil carbon extraction industry needs to sell a lot of fossil carbon as fuel, despite the unfortunate side effects of burning it.
As prophet, John Larkin sucks.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney