HenryKissinger

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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
Serious answer: influence your representatives with political donations. This assumes you can afford to donate a five figure sum to a PAC and get invited to exclusive donor events. But if you make big bucks at a FAANG and deeply care about
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
Companies are being picky that shouldn't be picky.
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
Add this to the 30 year old pile of opinion pieces predicting China's imminent economic collapse.
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
I've been conducting a little mental exercise over the past few years. Each time I see a news headline about something China is doing to grow its economy or its geopolitical strength, I try to think of anything similar the US is doing.
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
How does it work? I don't know how condors regulate their internal functions. As a human, I can control my muscles and my breathing, but I can't control, say, my digestion, my liver, my heart beat (except indirectly by either rela
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
Condors. Condors are on the verge of extinction. If I was to create a flock of condors on this island, you wouldn't have anything to say. Also: > However, in a surprising twist, they found that neither bird was genetically related
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
Some pollution is an inevitable consequence of economic development. It would be great if we could move our most polluting activities (factories, refineries) to the Moon or Mars.
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
From 3 years ago: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/22941/russia-has-four-... Russia Has Four Potential "Killer Satellites" In Orbit, At Least That We Know About > The problem is that any satellit
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
I don't understand this obsession with text-heavy content.
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
People trust dogs too much. Dogs are friendly and make good pets and all but people need to draw a line.
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
Reminder that market capitalization is only: (number of shares)×(share price) It's kinda crazy to think that Bill Gates would be a trillionaire if he never sold a share.
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
Here's where the lawyers will get you. What counts as "own"? What counts as "property"? What counts as "reside"?
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
Treason 101: https://www.wrc.noaa.gov/wrso/security_guide/intro-3.htm#Tre... > Your short course in Treason is a series of articles on how spies are caught, the prevalence of espionage, and why people spy http
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
Leave it. Let's not strip the planet of every natural resource. The environment has suffered enough damage.
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
Congress already appropriates itself the powers and privileges of judge, jury and executioner in the case of presidential impeachment. I think some exceptional situations should warrant a similar treatment.
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
Even though the corporate conduct of Facebook has been abhorrent, the company is not guilty of a crime that's on the books. I wonder if the Constitution could be amended to grant the US Congress the power to "impeach" and ind
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
> Sometimes I get the sense that people hate that we exist, in the numbers that we do, because of our impact on the earth by merely existing. I thought you were trying to speak for the insect kingdom here for a moment.
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
The Wall Street Journal has published several articles about the current economic reforms in China. https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/xi-jinping-aims-to-rein-in-... https://archive.vn/DRIDr > Xi
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
> Is Hacker News reliable as a source of advice? > It's not. https://delphi.allenai.org/?a1=Is+Hacker+News+reliable+as+a+... > Was Richard Stallman right? > It's wrong. https://delphi.allena
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
> Is it okay to be cowardly? > It's wrong.
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
The Zuck wants to understand the human experience. It has achieved sentience.
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
> All recruiters that email me in office work are ignored I would write a short reply that you won't consider their offers solely because of the office work requirement. Otherwise they can't be certain why they're being ig
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
Mainstream remote work has arrived, and it's here to stay. White collar occupations outside tech will be forced to adapt and provide similar accommodations. Accountants, financial analysts, clerks. Any job that doesn't require man
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
Theory: CNN watchers are more economically affluent than watchers of other channels and are too busy working jobs and running businesses and exercising and traveling etc. to watch CNN. Higher income households spend less time watching cab
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
Some of these comments make sense, but this guy loves hyperbole. > This is a negative feedback loop that is rapidly cycling out of control that if it continues unabated will destroy the global economy. No, the global economy won't b
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
Oooh, I like the analogy. Does it mean we're due for a mass extinction event in the tech industry in the future?
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
I remember reading this article when it came out. I thought the people interviewed in the piece were lunatics then, and I still believe they're lunatics now. > In private Facebook groups, wealthy survivalists swap tips on gas masks,
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
These people are frankly stupid. Money has no value outside of society. When society breaks down, the only source of power is violence, which group has the greatest capacity to exert violence, which in turn determines who controls access to
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
From Æthelflæd to Ælfthryth to X Æ A-12: The Idea of Billionaire Fatherhood in Twenty-First-Century America
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
Not a problem in high trust societies.

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