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by nappy 6y ago
This is clearly not an exclusive license though, right?
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by nappy 6y ago
This is explicitly NASA's strategy, and it is the correct one. NASA wants to be pushing the bleeding edge of possibility in space, and prefers to contract out the "everyday" stuff or orbital flight, in order focus on deep spa
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by nappy 6y ago
Is it "staggering" though? In the short term, it is more simple to point to human lives and deaths. In the longer term, the more complex contribution of industrial forces is easier to understand. At least some shift in public opin
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by nappy 6y ago
>(being a kind of political endorsement), and from that point Red Guard cells sprung up organically across the country. This is a massive understatement of what Mao's support and endorsement meant, and understating the "organic
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by nappy 6y ago
Remington levered up and took on a ton of debt at the wrong time. The owners gambled and lost. It's a shame that people will lose their jobs over this.
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by nappy 6y ago
Graham framing his essay as such is disingenuous, at best: And the call of the aggressively independent-minded is "Eppur si muove." In case you had to search for this (I did)[0] It's a reference to Galileo being correc
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by nappy 6y ago
You can't fund potentially breakthrough innovation and research and only get one tail of the distribution. It's a good thing, not a bad one, the the US government providers funding, and in this case, interest free loans for projec
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by nappy 6y ago
This is controversial but shouldn't be flagged. It's a link to a factual news story. Dang could you unflag this or otherwise explain why this remains flagged?
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by nappy 6y ago
A lot of flagged responses to this that are completely reasonable and respectful. I would encourage the moderators to take a look here.
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by nappy 6y ago
There's been a ton of interesting research and progress on this in the last few years: https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/04/looking-to-listen-audio-vi...
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by nappy 6y ago
Not apples to apples at all. This is the average daily COVID-19 deaths with extreme restrictions - so imagine comparing this heart disease with large-scale mandatory exercise, or cancer if cigarettes were eliminated entirely.
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by nappy 6y ago
It's been reported in mainstream publications before this [1] [1] https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/05/31/us/politics/ap-u...
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by nappy 6y ago
The largest exception is Domino's, which has outperformed essentially everything in the same time period.
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by nappy 7y ago
Where does $5.73 billion come from? I searched and found figures in the hundreds of millions [1] along with other evidence of the Reagan administrations indifference to AIDS [2] [1] https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/
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by nappy 7y ago
Sad to see this downvoted. Balmer moved MS into the cloud defeating IBM and into hardware over Gates' objections. He was imperfect and underrated. Microsoft under Nadella is built on Ballmer's shoulders.
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by nappy 7y ago
The performance of the IRS is a strong counterargument to this.
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by nappy 7y ago
Facebook just happens to get sent data... yeah, more like Facebook buys data. And invests heavily in tools to make it easier for its customers to send Facebook data.
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by nappy 7y ago
Right, well I think the disclaimer at the top of this page says it all.
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by nappy 7y ago
You're using the word "arbitrage" but you don't seem to know what it means. The simultaneous buying and selling of an asset is intrinsic to it. This is distinct from comparative advantage.
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by nappy 7y ago
This is anecdotal to the point of being noise. How about comparing the top X grossing movies of 1999 vs. last year? Still subjective, but a step forward from "just the ones I enjoyed and I'm bothering to type" and two Netflix
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by nappy 7y ago
You're vastly overstating how much the author is "twisting" the 2016 election into this article. It's pretty straightforward from the app creator's mouth... >>President Trump’s election inspired Ms. Guler to l
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by nappy 8y ago
The first line of this article links to a source that appears to show this... is it wrong? It looks like it may fully source their claims.
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by nappy 8y ago
Check ILL, talk to your local librarian - I've been sent books from overseas before.
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by nappy 8y ago
Best comment here. Citation needed on this comment, especially when it can be disproven with a single counter case.
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by nappy 8y ago
The author of this comment has a history of apologizing for Chinese crimes: >>LOL, kill thousands of its own citizens in protests? The Chinese government never did that (even the famous tank man was unharmed and was not arrested), the
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by nappy 8y ago
Meng Wanzhou is a the CFO of Huawei[0] [0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-huawei/huawei-f...
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by nappy 8y ago
>>>Meng, one of the vice chairs on the company’s board and the daughter of company founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested on Dec. 1 at the request of U.S. authorities and a court hearing has been set for Friday, a Canadian Justice Depa
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by nappy 8y ago
The largest, most monopolistic companies in china are deeply wedded to the communist party and enjoy the protections afforded by this authoritarian regime.
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by nappy 8y ago
"disband" a union without considering the consequences or alternative ways of ameliorating a problem is unfortunately what I've come to expect on highly up-voted, top-level comment here when it comes to matters of public poli
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by nappy 8y ago
so American rail in the 1870's

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