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by chriselles 6y ago
Egypt literally dies as a nation without Nile water. Uganda purchasing SU27 advanced long range fighter bombers and Egypt recently placing increased emphasis and resources on training military units(including western training efforts) respo
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by chriselles 6y ago
I was in a part-time Lambda School cohort caught in the middle of the significant changes made at the end of 2020. It very much felt like a bait-and-switch. The experience prior to the changes was what I paid for. The experience after the c
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by chriselles 6y ago
Isn’t cryptocurrency fundamentally about real or perceived lack of equity and trust? Isn’t the real aspirational promise of cryptocurrency really just a container that will retain the purchasing power of your savings with low friction?
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by chriselles 6y ago
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? China’s Three Warfares(non-kinetic/pre-kinetic warfare): https://cryptome.org/2014/06/prc-three-wars.pdf Professor Anne Marie Brady: htt
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by chriselles 6y ago
The US led western coalition militaries are all now pivoting to peer level(Russia/China) military threats. Russia was a great power in great decline, but still capable of great disruption(Georgia/Ukraine). China is a great power w
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by chriselles 6y ago
Things got so bad in Japan during their property bubble that it led to such bad ideas as 100 year multi generational mortgages: https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990...
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by chriselles 6y ago
One of my favourite professors at GSB was Baba Shiv. He was quite generous with his time. But the only catch was you had to walk and talk, usually to the dish. Personally, I’ve shifted from running to rucking(walking with weighted pack) and
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by chriselles 6y ago
In 2008 and again in 2011 there were clusters of incidents involving undersea cables that led to disruption. I can’t imagine a single ship being able to effectively monitor undersea cables. But I can imagine a mothership deploying semi-auto
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by chriselles 6y ago
I’m a non-resident fellow at the Krulak Center for Creativity & Innovative, Marine Corps University. It wasn’t just fighter pilots, the United States Marine Corps were deeply influenced by John Boyd’s work and his body of work is held b
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by chriselles 6y ago
I definitely want government to support onshoring items in the supply chain deemed to be of national critical importance. https://steveblank.com/2020/06/18/the-coming-chip-wars-of-th... How government does it
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by chriselles 6y ago
I spent a lot of time kayaking around Monterey in 2016. A couple of observations. We were constantly reminded to maintain distance from endangered Sea Otters. The Sea Otters were pretty cool, but it quickly became annoying at trying to avoi
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by chriselles 6y ago
The former Soviet Union built approx 250 nuclear powered submarines. Many of which rotted alongside piers for decades in the post Soviet collapse. Literally rotted. Western aid was provided to fund decommissioning and secure removal of nucl
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by chriselles 6y ago
Voters are far more likely to reward disaster relief than disaster preparedness. National leadership face a considerable disincentive from investing in disaster preparation. If voters rewarded disaster preparation, elected leaders would fun
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by chriselles 6y ago
Thanks so much! This arrived at exactly the right time for me.
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by chriselles 6y ago
Hotel Potemkin? :) Interesting story behind that hotel going back 30+ years. I always thought it looked like a place Darth Vader would call home.
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by chriselles 6y ago
Isn’t the Apple Watch certified as a medical device, unlike all other smart watches?
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by chriselles 6y ago
Thank you! I’ll take some time to try and better understand your post.
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by chriselles 6y ago
Interesting. On first pass, Benford’s Law looks a lot like Zipf’s Law. What differentiates Benford’s Law from Zipf’s Law?
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by chriselles 6y ago
I thought so.....but it's always good to hear validated or contrarian thought on the topic. Maybe I'm just in a self-created confirmation bias loop or force fitting, but I'm noticing what appears to be Zipf's Law all aro
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by chriselles 6y ago
Has Zipf’s Law ever applied to the distribution of music consumption? When shaped by industry, algorithm, or serendipity?
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by chriselles 6y ago
There are a range of options to defeat drones that include kinetic(birdshot and specialist shotgun rounds, netguns), non kinetic(electronic attack), as well as anti-drone drones(Anduril Industries). There have also been trials on using falc
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by chriselles 6y ago
Well, he is investing on behalf of his Berkshire Hathaway shareholders.
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by chriselles 6y ago
I’ve been on a disciplined ketogenic diet for 3 years now. I had put on weight due to a few persistent training injuries. I lost 22kg fairly quickly combined with a return to durability/longevity focused fitness. Anecdotally, I actuall
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by chriselles 6y ago
I’ve used the teloyears service a few times with results that put me in the 96-99% percentile. It’s an interesting concept with one of the founders Dr Elizabeth Blackburn awarded the Nobel Prize for her work on telomeres. It’s worth mention
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by chriselles 6y ago
Well, it will be 3 years next month since the first open source kinetic attack by non state actors using commercial off the self drones was conducted. Frankly, I’m surprised it has taken 3 years for them to be used for kinetic attack by exc
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by chriselles 6y ago
That was a really cool visual, thanks for sharing.
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I know Warren Buffett is catching heat lately for his poor investment returns. But it's worth looking at his recent investments in 2019 in energy and gold mining. He didn't buy them for 12+ months, he bought them for 12+ years. I
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by chriselles 6y ago
I’m a 51 year old interested amateur. While I’m hopeful bio/chemistry/genetic research will help enhance life quality/longevity my focus has been largely lifestyle to go along with a few supplements. Sleep: minimum of 7 hours
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by chriselles 6y ago
Is Big Oil really in trouble? Or is it just the aspiration of so many hoping Big Oil is in trouble? EVs are starting to sell in some volume in some locations. Exxon Mobil has just been replaced on the S&P 500. CV19 work from home is lim
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by chriselles 6y ago
Is this the first step in an inevitable move towards healthcare as a service for big tech?

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