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by sfifs 11mo ago
Isn't the historical answer to why regime change usually Oil
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by sfifs 1y ago
I think you're underestimating how quickly users can move to another platform if something better / cheaper shows up unless there are user network effects that benefit / keep people on a platform. We've lived through sev
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by sfifs 1y ago
Not an expert but there was a court ruling in the US I think last year where circumventing login protection through bot operated accounts when the login is intended for human use was ruled as violation of CFAA. The current state of litigati
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by sfifs 1y ago
The problem with operating this way is it's very easy for the same gun to be used against you when political winds inevitably change. In Bangalore famously, one administration's politicians had bought up all farmland and then anno
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by sfifs 1y ago
We're starting to see the impact. A number of our older peers have kids beginning to graduate high school or undergrad. I personally know of 3 situations this fall/next spring already where very talented kids have chosen European
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by sfifs 1y ago
Isn't the historical voting pattern something more of a legacy thing dictated by limited edge compute of the past vs necessarily a best practice. I see in many domains a tendency to oversimplify decision making algorithms for human und
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by sfifs 1y ago
What makes you think a typical corporate board actually acts in the interest of its shareholders?
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by sfifs 1y ago
So one of my teams was struggling with Figma to work with users. Then someone had the bright idea to just prompt an LLM to generate code for the mock UI and made it happen in 2 days. Far better user experience.
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by sfifs 1y ago
The biggest driver i feel is increased financialization of company ownership. Since the 80s, financiers essentially punish any boards or CEO who prioritizes longer term impact items like goodwill at the cost of short term quarterly results.
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by sfifs 1y ago
Let's not confuse capability with intention and consequences Straits of Hormuz is barely 40km wide and the Persian gulf is very shallow. Blocking it very feasible for nations bordering it who are willing to take the consequences. We d
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by sfifs 1y ago
I would worry about the fallout to the rest of us - Persian Gulf closed to shipping,maybe oil fields attacked, Oil at 300, Recession.
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by sfifs 1y ago
Yes. I find addressing people by surname uniquely stupid. Like are you calling the person or the historical clan? It perhaps made sense for medieval lords to address their underlings as if they were interchangeable, in our modern context th
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by sfifs 1y ago
I've seen most of these in Asia. There's a lot of experiments going on.
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by sfifs 1y ago
Looking at Google satellite imagery, there's quite a bit of farmland and even a golf course in Vancouver. I'd guess challenges would be mostly cost of land and local zoning politics related,
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by sfifs 1y ago
> The US has an embarrassing amount of money, it’s just all manipulated away from the market and the people. Well if the people consistently elect the wealthy to govern, would that not be the direct result of the wealthy looking after t
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by sfifs 1y ago
More charitably, America's current government has an unusually large concentration of business people. Interestingly, they were elected as a vote for change by a population of non business people who were tired of the economic marginal
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by sfifs 1y ago
Wouldn't such capacity be relatively easy to build quickly if needed. Paved lots with a cranes?
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by sfifs 1y ago
Material science is still largely an art consisting of educated guesses, formulation followed by exhaustive (and exhausting) testing of very tiny variations in composition and process. This is mainly because while we have good theoretical f
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by sfifs 1y ago
If it's a 4200 dollar purchase, shouldn't there be purchase verification like 3DS?
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by sfifs 1y ago
You do realize one of the main reasons the US spends so much on defense is to enrich the owners of defense contractors? There's no area with bigger documented history of sheer waste and price gouging.
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by sfifs 1y ago
You can right click a body and export as mesh locally
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by sfifs 1y ago
At one point, Bose was a few scientists who happened to have a consumer tech company.
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by sfifs 1y ago
The phrase "Dark Matter" literally means we don't know and therefore until something testable is postulated and tested (to be fair i believe some candidates have fallen by the wayside over the years as measurement has improve
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by sfifs 2y ago
My partner just canceled her trip where she'd have easily spent 4-5k in the US economy due to uncertainty in the border governance. A lot of my friends are rethinking sending their children to US for college education while Trump is in
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by sfifs 2y ago
Not at all. I buy these services in a large Fortune 500. Consulting is the least used model for us.
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by sfifs 2y ago
It takes 2 generations of concerted effort. Your great grand children will have a different attitude if you start now. Evidence : untouchability is virtually gone in India (at least the urban part). I remember my great grand parents still h
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by sfifs 2y ago
Countries like North Korea and Pakistan managed to build nuclear weapons and credible enough delivery systems a couple of decades ago How difficult do you think it will be for other countries with today's much more modern technology if
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by sfifs 2y ago
I don't think you should be down voted for opinions. The question is how to organize incentives to make anti-war ideal a reality. As the last 70 odd years have demonstrated, Economic development as a carrot alone seems to have not work
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by sfifs 2y ago
> and idiotic sycophants made him believe he was above the law and deserved even more Well in all fairness he is above the law. He walked out of Japan and is free in his country.
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by sfifs 2y ago
Everyone outside of the US already knows the American three letter agencies and their allies like the Mossad can access, hack or destroy all their networks if push comes to shove. Most network services all over the world are run on infrastr

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