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by nosianu 5y ago
When a human is able to amass billions today it is not because of their own abilities. With their own abilities alone they could at most build a mildly nice hut from mud and forest wood. The reason they can build modern stuff is due to th
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by nosianu 5y ago
And his point was to actually provide arguments in support of such a "consideration" is how you argue.
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by nosianu 5y ago
I must admit I have no idea what your point is. Debt is a very specific word. Yes you can get capital by going into debt. But just "capital" can also mean it was yours to begin with. Debt means you created an obligation to somebod
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by nosianu 5y ago
It already helps A LOT if you decouple your thinking from "money". If you realize that "stuff" (tangible but also tangible) is not directly impacted, and that a crash that "destroys billons of wealth" in fact d
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by nosianu 5y ago
I'm fine with headlines as long as it at least tells me what the article is about, which this one does. What's more worth getting upset about are generic headlines that don't say anything about what the article is about. Most
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by nosianu 5y ago
That was actually a post here on HN just a few weeks ago. Here's one "point of entry" (to find the homepage and similar videos and pages): https://youtu.be/IS5ycm7VfXg "Upgraded Homemade Silicon Chips&qu
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by nosianu 5y ago
Wholesalers' key contribution is distribution though. They have actual infrastructure and do real work that is actually useful. They also do this continuously, providing a stable service, and not just sometimes to get in on some market
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by nosianu 5y ago
Do cigarette companies lying about health effects of smoking and Big Oil doing the same about climate change count? Just example links, I think I'm not making any outrageous claims but that this has long been established and discussed
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by nosianu 5y ago
> have an obvious and massive Conflict of Interest in destabilizing China? If only you would apply what you demand of others to your own brazen statements.
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by nosianu 5y ago
> Windows keeps waking up for random things, the problem is getting worse with every Windows release I resorted to removing the power plug from the PC every evening after it kept turning itself on during the night semi-randomly. It was
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by nosianu 5y ago
No benefit? They have a much better education. > it was a way to stand out and it no longer is Education is only good if you stand out? What a discussion.
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by nosianu 5y ago
When I first visited and then lived in the US for about a decade (coming from Europe) I was surprised about what I perceived as purely a jobs program kind of jobs. Examples: People at road construction sites holding "Stop" signs,
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by nosianu 5y ago
Tip: No idea how HN is used on a phone, but on a PC and browser I just CTRL-A to select all text on the entire page and the light gray text becomes clearly readable. Since this does not impact scrolling location or anything else I'm sa
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by nosianu 5y ago
Your argument overlooks the many examples of utterly wasteful military spending that happens even against wishes of the military itself because the spending itself really is the focus over the actual military effect. So we could easily comp
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by nosianu 5y ago
However, I would expect drones to be reusable and not of the self-destruct type like a cruise-missile, so that you get at least those drones back that were not shot down, and/or have them attack more than only a single target.
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by nosianu 5y ago
"Rent" as a word here refers to "regular payments to use something", of which rents for housing are only one specific example. For example, printer manufacturers who force you to buy only their (incredibly expensive) ink
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by nosianu 5y ago
> The space race was possibly the pinnacle of the principle that government spending can accelerate technological progress in particular fields by raining money on those fields. Actually, that might be electronics and computers. The ba
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by nosianu 5y ago
Yes, and a lot of those come from abroad, especially in STEM fields, and China and India lead the list by a significant margin when looking at where they come from, and the largest share by field go to engineering: https://crsrep
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by nosianu 5y ago
One of the best authors for these kinds of stories (about hard-core survival) is Jack London. You can even select a theme: Tropical islands and storms, ships and the ocean, or ice-cold Yukon and gold rush? Animal centric (Call of the Wild,
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by nosianu 5y ago
Well, CO2 in the atmosphere (and amount of carbon above ground in general, a lot has been brought up from below in the last 100 years) and plastic pollution come to mind. Ocean pollution. Bio-diversity. Less or no weapons of mass destructio
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by nosianu 5y ago
(I'm interpreting your comment as "portfolio of planets") But the corporations would want to spread to all of them. Just like big cities all over the globe look the same, you can buy the same stuff. Trade is good, and I love
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by nosianu 5y ago
Here is something similar ("useless" complex machine made from wood) that somebody made to create music: "Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles)" https://youtu.be/IvUU8joBb1Q
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by nosianu 5y ago
Funny you ask that, because people in Germany's software sector are about the least organized ones. (German) https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Viel-Arbeit-wenig-Mi... Also, there is nothing special abou
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by nosianu 5y ago
That is one city with its own very specific problems in a large country. Are we picking only the data that fit our narrative now? What about all the other big cities? Starting point for an example: "Reported violent crime rate in the
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by nosianu 5y ago
Clarification: When I said "trade" I meant trading the IP, exactly that. Not creation of IP. Different thing.
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by nosianu 5y ago
> Perhaps because laws and regulation are part of the market. To be more precise, there would not even be a market without regulation. Since IP can just be copied, only when "ownership" is artificially enforced by some suff
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by nosianu 5y ago
That's because your submission points to the copy of the Wired article now hosted by arstechnica... the question though remains when you ask why there are two threads for that same Wired article, on the same day.
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by nosianu 5y ago
I think to have once read that World War I fights against Zeppelins showed that igniting the hydrogen proved to actually be quite hard. Only when they were able to open significant holes and used special ammunition did that work. Not enough
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by nosianu 5y ago
Alternative hypothesis: What the US - and others, see my related comment about my own country (Germany) in this sub-thread - was not "questionable" at all. Instead, the way we defend "IP" today is what is questionable .
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by nosianu 5y ago
For my country (Germany), you just have to look up the history of "Made in Germany". Which Britain introduced to defend against cheap knock-off products made in Germany, which was learning from (i.e. "stealing" in today&

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