emberrider

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   by emberrider 8y ago

   It's also that tech workers simply don't need the money. They aren't going to starve if they leave Microsoft or Google over some project dispute; they'll find another job in two seconds.
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   by emberrider 8y ago

   Nuclear weapons weren't necessary for that job, but the outcome was the same: the removal of the Afghani government through military force.
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   by emberrider 8y ago

   They're strongly incentivized to play by the game when the alternative is annihilation. For 70 or so years, that kept everyone safe.
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   by emberrider 8y ago

   I don't think they're entirely new, but consider that the average tech employee is in their late 20s or early 30s and the only major exercises of US military power they've seen were in Afghanistan and Iraq. The US has squande
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   by emberrider 8y ago

   Because defending themselves would necessarily require acquiring their own nuclear deterrent, and the US correctly realized that a world where every country had nukes was a world where they'd eventually be used. Alliances like NATO red