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by jleyank 6mo ago
Wasn't referring to any particular industry. Pharmaceuticals, tech, ... China is big enough to make anything. But aside from food, how will other countries pay for stuff?
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by jleyank 6mo ago
Trade wars will force more of these kinds of decisions... Cheap stuff to buy vs. employed natives. My gut says to take the options that protect the local tax base, but my gut also says people don't want to pay any money for such prot
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by jleyank 6mo ago
I've never liked habits that must be shared by those who just happen to be nearby. It seems to suggest that my wishes < those of whomever is (in this case) fouling the air.
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by jleyank 6mo ago
I would not have stated that the skill set to be a “great engineer” are those to be a “great manager”. Looking back, there was a “do” portion and a “talk about doing” portion of my career, and engineer wea certainly the former. Any form o
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by jleyank 6mo ago
I think some of their games are available from others, and I hope there’s on line versions being created by hobbyists.
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by jleyank 6mo ago
SPI in the 70’s created an extensive list of paper wargames.
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by jleyank 6mo ago
Patents run out also.
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by jleyank 6mo ago
They had a biological model. They had multiple drugs that were showed activity against that model, and effectiveness in humans. Problem was, the model was wrong. Pharma’s burned billions chasing this as it’s possibly the biggest market i
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by jleyank 6mo ago
This is almost an infinite market, so the desire to stretch, bend and sneak something into play is huge. While the dead hand of the marketplace solves various things, it also provides (too much of?) opportunities to profit from the home an
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by jleyank 6mo ago
The world has changed in many ways. Countries might now consider having weapons systems that are less-dependent on the US/China/Russian triumvirate. And much of the defensive threats don't require stealth - they require ava
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by jleyank 7mo ago
Hmm... Maybe we taught people they could be what they wanted to be rather than what their society told them they wanted to be? Maybe they wanted to be parents, home or working. Maybe they didn't want to be parents, home or working.
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by jleyank 7mo ago
I'm going to be VERY disappointed if there's no Pink Floyd music or commentary from the Artemis mission. Particularly now. Life's short, and one can't be serious all the time... Wallis and Gromit would be a partial sub
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by jleyank 7mo ago
If this argument is true, who will pay the toll? Europe or the Gulf states or both? Oil is a global market, but the suppliers have to get to market. And the Gulf states sit behind a gate via a vis the straits.
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by jleyank 7mo ago
World-class faculty rarely teach undergraduate courses. They're too busy raising money, speaking and even doing research. And I suspect the Ivy League veneer is in the undergraduate business school and the graduate schools in busines
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by jleyank 7mo ago
Invertebrates all over the world have enabled the current situation. People and governments have to stop clutching pearls and start organizing and calcifying their spine. Local goods, regional goods, choice of international goods are there
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by jleyank 7mo ago
Gee, they could call such an effort “the voice of America/X”. Pity they killed the very mechanism they now propose to create. Planning and past history is a b*tch, eh?
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by jleyank 7mo ago
The problem shown by Ukraine was that large, expensive solutions were not effective when cheap weapons were used. The solution, which will take time, is to recreate some of the cheap defensive solutions that used to be available - guns, ra
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by jleyank 7mo ago
That’s why I mentioned roommates. People can share the cost of housing and the rest and be there when needed. But it lacks the full attributes of marriage (good and bad). There are things that really need somebody to help out with and as
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by jleyank 7mo ago
When the aches, pains and symptoms of growing old appear, you’ll appreciate having somebody to share the load with. This doesn’t have to be a spouse or a life partner, but having a strong friend or two, or a strong roommate relationship wi
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by jleyank 7mo ago
Sounds like an MBA: who'll notice, cut quality, avoid discarding supplier parts, ... Nothing about pricing, EV, ...
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by jleyank 7mo ago
Nobody will care if the conference isn’t held in Philly. Holding it elsewhere will probably make it a little easier and possibly a little cheaper for people to attend. I doubt mathematicians are part of the 1%, so cash and travel hassle sho
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by jleyank 7mo ago
Hold onto your hardware. Hold on to your existing software and the current version. Don’t upgrade without a specific need. None of the “progress” is actually helpful to hackers and I’m not sure it’s even helpful to typical users. There’s
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by jleyank 7mo ago
I’ve heard that various religious texts have strong, sensitive sometimes violent themes. Yet nobody bans them. Wonder why.
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by jleyank 7mo ago
Don’t think 100k is a large market price point. And Sony/Honda isn’t a Verblen good for those with oooh-gobs of money.
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by jleyank 7mo ago
How would it “know” not to do this. It can only provide you with a synthesis drawn from its training data. If your problem is within its training set, it’s not really research (which is what I assume “science” means). If its outside its
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by jleyank 7mo ago
the US has run deficits for years, so it's not reckless taxation in the form I think you mean. "Pay for its bills" would be a novel concept, involving undoing various "give money to rich people" tax cuts. In the cu
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by jleyank 7mo ago
Nature or $GOD likes to laugh. For classical, macroscopic approximations Newtonian Mechanics still yields useful results. I'm sure somebody, in the spirit of Klingon translations of Shakespeare, has validated how well the Ptolemaic s
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by jleyank 7mo ago
Aircraft, remember, are aluminum balloons with wings. Hit something solid, particularly if filled with incompressible fluid, is a bad day. People f*ck up, people die.
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by jleyank 7mo ago
Don’t forget the world needs LNG and the stuff made from petrochemicals such as fertilizer. They need to make chem plants as well as refineries to go with drilling new wells and run them harder. Get Venezuela up, but that’s probably O(yea
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by jleyank 7mo ago
To be specific, it’s tied to good employment. Part-time and low-salary jobs don’t often (usually?) provide it. So trading a good tech jobs for “things to keep busy” loses the insurance. Unless you can afford cobra and that only lasts 1

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