HenryKissinger

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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
The Universe has always existed. It does not have a beginning, and it won't have an end. I'm not talking about the 13.4B old Universe we live in. I'm talking about the Universe that came before it. The Universe is cyclical.
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It's all of that. European tech companies are smaller than US tech companies, have lower gross revenue per employee, make less profit per employee. Taxes are higher in Europe, which disincentivizes risk taking and ambitious individuals
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
I'm a little angry at the lack of coverage of Eastern European history in most US schools. I never learned of this, and I consider myself relatively well informed on nuclear issues. Looks like I need to reassess that.
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Confidence can be ... enforced . (looks in the direction of an aircraft carrier)
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Maybe the source's rotation axis is responsible for this.
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> The brightness of the object also varies dramatically, by a factor of 100, and the signal switches on and off apparently at random. We've never seen anything like it." A signal-emitting star being temporarily obscured by mass
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I'm curious. Why? Amazon pays competitively, and they're the biggest player in online retail and cloud services. Why wouldn't engineers want to work for them?
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
I thought semiconductor factories couldn't work in places with lots of seismic activity.
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
Too many people earning 6 figures these days. Companies figure that they can raise prices and consumers will absorb the costs. Shampoo companies need to pay their software engineers 340k too. /s
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The last 80 years have taught us a few things: - State collapse is more common than we think, but not impossible to recover from (Germany post WW2, Iraq post 2010?) - The international community is willing to cooperate during major natural
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I (don't) like how online retail is now either "Amazon" or "non-Amazon".
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> During one of these routine maintenance jobs, a command was issued with the intention to assess the availability of global backbone capacity, which unintentionally took down all the connections in our backbone network, effectively disc
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"The Senate will decide your fate, Mr. Zuckerberg."
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They're losing millions of users in the free world. Most of their gains are from places like South America and South Asia.
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
At this point I would name my object something like iwif_eace and leave the longer name in a comment.
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
Redditors: complain about alleged market manipulation by "hedgies". Coordinate between one another on subreddits like /r/WallStreetBets, /r/SuperStonk, and /r/GME. Encouraging thousands of others to &
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I just hope we find the tomb of Genghis Khan before the body is too decomposed to be conclusively identified.
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
> PwC employees who choose to work virtually would have to come into the office a maximum of three days a month for in-person appointments such as critical team meetings, client visits and learning sessions, Seals-Coffield said.
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
The future is littered with The Onion headlines. "AI researchers drop silicon, turn to biological computers" "AI researchers discover AI biological computers not so artificial after all" "AI researchers to allow AI
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There are like 3 companies left in the entire country that can build fighter aircraft and bombers, after the mergers of the 1990s and 2000s. If you want to found a bomber startup, you must consider the fact that you will have only one custo
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All major nuclear powers have systems in place to guarantee the survival of at least some of their strategic nuclear forces in the event of a surprise attack, ballistic missile submarines being one of them.
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Milley said he would warn the Chinese if Trump decided to launch an attack during the presidential transition period. That doesn't mean the US will warn China if it decides to launch an attack in the future.
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The People's Republic of China is highly vulnerable to a missile attack. The Russian Federation is highly vulnerable to a missile attack. The Islamic Republic of Iran is highly vulnerable to a missile attack. For all the lack of covera
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by HenryKissinger 5y ago
What's preventing the average Joe from enjoying 1+Tb/s broadband? Fiber everywhere? A specific kind of fiber? Different tech on the ISP end?
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And the Demilitarized Zone between the Koreas, although it doesn't belong to the same category as Fukushima and Chernobyl. But it's a biodiversity hotspot. Lesson for humans: All we need to do is get out of the way.
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> There is absolutely nothing you can do to prevent individuals from choosing to participate in it. Governments in authoritarian countries have shut down bitcoin mining operations and arrested people.
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Trying to litigate a matter of national intelligence through the courts is the wrong approach to use. The government has nearly unlimited powers in matters of national security, which includes the collection of intelligence. The right appro
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I might buy the self-determination point of view if the ordinary people of North Korea had any input on their governance, which they hardly do. North Korea is ruled by the Kim family like a monarchy. There are no elections, no referendums,
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Initially? Successfully. Coalition forces overthrew the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein's baathist government in Iraq. It was the subsequent occupation and nation-building stage where things became hairy. Which is why I sugge
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War. War is the only thing that could still work. Of course, advocating for war, even against a country as dangerous as North Korea, is a huge taboo in our public discourse. But it is the only solution left to the North Korean problem.

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