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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
Suppose the 60ft high concrete panel Wall is to cost $25 billion. Add $20 billion to condemn a mile buffer back from the border to the wall giving a cleared surveillance zone. The US imports $300+ billion annually from Mexico. Trump to Mexi
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
Off topic for hackers?
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
Solar energy with battery storage provides 24/7 electricity for the most economical new power plants. By 2030, fossil plants will begin retiring as too expensive to operate. Meanwhile, electric vehicles will replace ICE vehicles. Regar
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
Trump's supporters can only wish that the US president achieves the level of approval that Putin gets from Russians.
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
The LA freeway system never completed its original rational design. As a result a vehicle must take a round-about path to get from one place to another. Musk's tunnel would be a direct express route between popular endpoints.
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
I will miss Elon Musk when he becomes the president of Mars.
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
Would be great for Republicans if this boom persists through the 2018 midterm elections. When Trump's trade policies take hold there should be a rush to form manufacturing startups to make stuff in the USA for the industrial supply cha
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
Obviously it does. Bernie Sanders and big labor applaud.
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
This hypothesis is falsifiable. Let's see what happens to US manufacturing when protectionist trade policies take hold.
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
Awesome record for history. Go for it!
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
Industrial policy to ensure German dominance in the future car manufacturing. Protects them during the transition. US trade officials take note.
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
Turns out that Republicans had a better data system and algorithms than did Democrats this cycle of the US presidential election. Trump, who was capable of many campaign rallies per week, was sent to wherever there were pools of persuadable
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
AEI does not care about American workers. Back in 1964, a union factory worker could have the spouse stay home, send their kids to college and have a nice home and American car. Defeating globalism will bring about a great manufacturing boo
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
Spending much more than Trump, campaigning in the wrong places. Winning the popular vote big and losing the election is a manifest sign of a failed campaign.
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
Your notion, shared by Clinton, cost her the election.
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
Visa restrictions would raise the wages of Americans competing for those jobs. And allow more entry level Americans to enter high paying technical fields. Visa restrictions thus would be a step towards fixing troubling USA income inequality
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
But where are the libraries? Compare the size of Smalltalk's ecosystem to Java's. Not to mention the various competing flavors of Smalltalk, whose code bases may be incompatible with one another.
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
Given that humans are otherwise well adapted as pursuit hunters, able to select a single prey animal and run it to heat exhaustion - it makes sense that bipedalism is another adaption for endurance running. https://en.m.wikipedia
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
Free Trade is the problem. The developed countries must impose 50% or higher tariffs on imported goods, services and intellectual property to protect their workers. The USA enjoyed very high growth rates in the 1800s. When economists
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
"But there is nothing wrong with protecting people, and there is everything wrong with globalization. Globalization isn't about respecting other people's culture, or treating everyone fairly regardless of their race. Globaliz
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
I would like to see agent-based models of protective tariffs. Free Trade has been US policy post WWII. But the US had its best growth rates in the 1800s and early 1900s with high protective tariffs. Lets see what agent-based models predict.
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
Trump is right to go after Amazon on monopoly and antitrust.
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
Notably 76% of respondents are using Docker in production.
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
The tech apparently works for 80% of color blind persons, by blocking certain wavelengths that otherwise overwhelm the color blind person's perceptions of certain colors. Once the eyes adjust to the diminished total light transmitted b
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
The programming classic "Mythical Man Month" had a chapter for the "second system effect". Its where developers put lots of complicated features in to the second system in a series. Its a pattern for failure. In this cas
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
The Ethereum community proposes to roll back their blockchain to reverse the theft of 3.5 million ETH. Here the thief proposes to independent ETH miners that enough of them refuse to rollback the ETH blockchain, by virtue of staying with th
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
Wrong. Islam is inherently violent towards apostates, heretics and unbelievers. I wish the author would live in the Islamic State for just 12 months and see for herself. Anyone else just view a bit of https://www.thereligionofpea
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
In some possible world, a US president Trump and congress should impose a 50% tariff on imported goods, services and intellectual property, in steps, over a five year period. BOOM.
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
I read the convincing CrowdStrike detailed and technical description of how the DNC server got hacked. CrowdStrike saw the tracks of two known Russian groups. The published documents to me look real. The SECRET document from the State Depar
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
Essentially you describe the current path of the United States government finances.

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