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by pinkfoot 7y ago
I don't have a horse in this fight, but if I was on COMAC's risk committee I would also make sure that no foreign president could ever cut my company - and its enormous investment - off from critical supplies with no more than a s
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
5G patents by country… https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/htt... Answer: yes.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Yet Nigeria, Yemen, Pakistan, etc. with practically uncontrolled population growth are on the cusp of a golden age?
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Yip. Still not colonisation.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Just to be clear, Ski Lanka is not Africa. All debts have collateral. Don't sign up to loans you cannot afford. Any don't vote in governments that do. [And don't stuff up the maintenance of your infrastructure to the point yo
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
If I was a Chinese strategist, I would announce a root and branch re-certification of the 737-MAX (in Chinese of course) as a completely new type. Especially have just buttered up Airbus with 300 A320 orders in March. And even more so if I
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Where I live, Hitachi build the power stations. So we all now also believe the Japanese are colonising Africa? Outside of Twitter 'building complex machines for a fee != colonisation'.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
s/we have/some of us, actually just a small minority on Twitter, have/
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Its called Vancouver.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
"…Germany is now allowing the Chinese to enter their market." Out of curiosity, when did the Federal Government have a ban on Chinese companies doing business in Germany?
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Where and when.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
No idea. But free speech also accounts for the chilling effect of legislation on the populace.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Bollocks. 78% of American citizens live in the 25+ states of the union that have passed actual laws that will punish you or your company if you even so much as voice boycotting a particular foreign country. You really need to get out more o
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
4 official languages. German, Italian, French, and Romansh.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Not even in the slightest, but there was no CHINESE poster wondering why their CHINESE GDP couldn't fund bullet trains. The poster was wondering why his/her USA GDP couldn't support bullet trains. I was being helpful by point
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
"The US is the world's largest economy…" If your Federal Reserve stopping adding nonsense imputed and hedonic values to the tune of about ~$7 trillion to your economy's GDP, you would find yourself in second place. Which
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Airbus was a merger of smaller, individually uncompetitive manufacturers. Worked out ok for Europe.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
You will find on enquiry, as I have, that under continuous load the power density is a LOT lower.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Heat dissipation.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Nope. If you take the time to read Newton, you will discover he never wrote F=ma. His formula was equivalent to F=dmv/dt. That is to say, he anticipated the force to be a function of the mass.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Newtonian gravity put men on the moon.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Where I live any ferrous rails will be gone tomorrow morning.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
ipcc.ch From the proverbial horse's mouth.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
You forgot pyramids, cathedrals, and great walls :)
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
A major problem with mining rare earth minerals in the USA is the 1983 legislation to manage the Thorium that comes along with the RE ores. So, just as important is Senator Rubio's legislation to set up a "Thorium Bank" as a
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
I think a good argument can be made that Lockheed Martin and Boeing are extensions of the USG.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
> they have us to make safe airplanes You make safe airplanes? :)
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
"deny people you know can’t pay you back" The banks in Kenya do deny these lenders credit. Which is exactly why they actively approach the higher-credit lenders.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
"necessary contributions to extended kin networks" There is the root cause. Its simply not mathematically possible for a single salary in a competitive global economy to support more than an immediate family.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Spend a few days reading the scientific reports at ipcc.ch and see if you are still skeptic.

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