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US Air Force war game shows what it needs against China in 2030(defensenews.com)
9 points by Leary 5y ago|4 comments
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by Leary 5y ago
A lot of the times the top comment will be a rebuttal on the main thread. Although the rebuttal received a lot of upvotes, the main thread did too. It's just part of the HN dynamic, the people who are against the main thread will feel
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by Leary 5y ago
Peter Thiel started Palantir. Palmer Luckey started Anduril. I'm waiting for a complete set of Lord of the Rings company that will "defend the West"
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by Leary 5y ago
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. It was the epoch of self-made tech billionaires, it was the epoch of stagnant median wages. It was the season of free knowledge, i
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by Leary 6y ago
Funny people think entrepreneurs in China will no longer create companies because of this when in fact startups all hate Alibaba. Can't wait for a similar fine on Tencent.
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by Leary 6y ago
The Biden administration shows that America First continues beyond the Trump Age. Long-arm jurisdiction along with a broad definition of National Security means that anyone anywhere in the world can be sanctioned.
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by Leary 6y ago
Peter Thiel may be libertarian, but Palatir is certainly totalitarian.
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by Leary 6y ago
The US is a big place, so your experience will vary on exactly where you're going to. Take an inventory of things that you use in Argentina and how you plan on getting those in America (must-haves). Avoid discussing religion/polit
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by Leary 6y ago
Great idea, although it lacks network effect at first. I could imagine this being worth a lot more than $5 when it gets big, but hard to justify paying $5 for a brand new platform unless you attract good content creators to it.
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by Leary 6y ago
Here comes the adult audio content creators who will push the boundary on what's acceptable. The audio OnlyFans.
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Value of TikTok maker ByteDance approaches US$400B for new investors(scmp.com)
3 points by Leary 6y ago|0 comments
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by Leary 6y ago
They haven't been churning out amphibious ships that you would expect them to if they thought invasion was imminent.
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by Leary 6y ago
Better Dead Than Red is alive and well, hahahaha.
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by Leary 6y ago
I have never been on Clubhouse, because I don't own an Iphone. but I have listened to every one of the Clubhouse townhalls hosted by Paul Davison. He realizes that his app is only as good as the people who are on it, whether those peop
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by Leary 6y ago
This, this whole thread is both generic and ideological.
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by Leary 6y ago
H&M has a store in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang. I'm curious, who were they selling to? The Uyghurs that are being genocided or the Han Chinese doing the genociding?
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by Leary 6y ago
1. There are no set truths in business. 2. Learn some basic accounting/finance. For example, you should know the difference between equity and debt or the difference between Net Income and Revenue. 3. https://www.ycombinator
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by Leary 6y ago
2 is not unlikely just because they haven't found the intermediate species. It took 4 years to find the immediate species in the case of SARS (2002->2006)
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by Leary 6y ago
American films have not experienced an absolute decline in China. It's just their relative share have declined as Chinese films have improved from bad to passable. King Kong vs Godzilla is projected to do $166 million[1]. [1] https:&#x
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by Leary 6y ago
Declining economy? It's going to decline itself to 1st place by 2030.
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Just think of it as like a GAN neural network. The liar and the discriminator continue to evolve in an arms race. I, as an average discriminator can probably tell the bad liars but could be fooled by the good ones.
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by Leary 6y ago
2020: Nike cancelled by Trump supporters 2021: Nike cancelled by China
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"Among the many friends the entrepreneur made over his life, some said the cause of his death had spanned many months, in plain sight to those who surrounded him. Last summer, his Park City companions hired an on-call doctor. Unless Mr
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by Leary 6y ago
Great resource. Does anyone have a good free source for popular keywords/topics on google/the internet?
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by Leary 6y ago
discord is too big to be killed this easily. any msft copycat will be like facebook trying to kill snapchat
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by Leary 6y ago
HN also said China couldn't contain Covid through lockdowns, how did that turn out?
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by Leary 6y ago
The virus acquired the traits that made it infectious to humans either through natural selection or bio-engineering. If it was through natural selection, then it was likely such virus was going to cause a pandemic whether it was leaked by t
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by Leary 6y ago
Can't believe the BBC calls a piece of political art "fake", especially when Australian soldiers murdered teenage Afghans in cold blood. Does it no longer pretend to abide by media impartiality.
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by Leary 6y ago
How many people have died in this so called genocide?
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by Leary 6y ago
People don't realize that we are engaged in a great power competition with China. And the battle of information/misinformation is everywhere. Don't trust anything from the US/China about the other, rely on neutral third

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