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by sprafa 7y ago
True. I believe the idea is more that Government does a TON of basic R&D, while private industry is not that good at doing 10-20 year programs while Government can do pretty decent things with it. I don’t think it’s an either/or, i
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by sprafa 7y ago
True. The analyst says the fusion centres model is relatively unique and quite “good” tho. He seems particularly impressed with it and how effective it is at “piping down” information.
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by sprafa 7y ago
Someone explained to me recently that it might be that part of Trump’s strategy is that by cutting off technology transfers and attacking Chinese IP theft (ie “fusion Centers”) he wants to block China’s way into high tech entirely.
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by sprafa 7y ago
I didn’t say it was solely due to espionage, only gave an example I found interesting of how they use it for their benefit really.
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by sprafa 7y ago
https://cybersecpolitics.blogspot.com/2017/04/fusion-centers... Here it is, just found it. My description was completely from memory so I hope I told the story right!
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by sprafa 7y ago
Actually just realised. The CyberSecPolitics blog has book reviews. The guy clearly knows what he’s talking about so I have no qualms saying he probably can do better book recommendations than I can.
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by sprafa 7y ago
I don’t know of any books. This talk was in featured in a blog called CyberSecPolitics which I follow.
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by sprafa 7y ago
It was in a great blog by a guy who seems to be former NSA or similar - CyberSecPolitics Looking for it right now tho is beyond my capabilities - I am on mobile and it’s 4Am where I live.. Most of the talk is centered in which cyber capabil
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by sprafa 7y ago
There’s also something the Chinese state calls “fusion centres” which is one of the most interesting facets of this intelligence-industrial complex in China. Essentially the state decides, let’s say high tech cutting edge batteries for stor
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by sprafa 7y ago
The thing is this beautiful new freedom from labour is also freeing us from subsistence. I see it all over London where I am - there’s now a permanent underclass with no chance of getting up in the social ladder because they are doing jobs
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by sprafa 7y ago
If you’re going against a three letter agency, Israeli or Chinese intelligence, you also have to consider all of your hardware sourcing. They don’t even need to compromise vendors, they just need to intercept a package en route. Not sure wh
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by sprafa 7y ago
Unfortunately, because otherwise the models wouldn’t work. Tell you more about the models than people.
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by sprafa 7y ago
That’s the only scientific part about it but afaik it still only applies to micro not macroeconomics. To quote Charlie Munger: “it economics is not behavioural, what the hell is it?”
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by sprafa 7y ago
I am at work but the whole article is very interesting and completely focused on other things other than what you mentioned - basically failed policies to encourage private investment have caused lower and lower investment. The article then
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by sprafa 7y ago
Please share sources and data and stop posting blanket statements.
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by sprafa 7y ago
You couldn’t really expect me to understand all that from what you said. Thanks for explaining in the end but I wonder if your specialised knowledge and thought into this made it harder for you to explain the concept in plain language. Mayb
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by sprafa 7y ago
The article is about renewables becoming cheaper and more competitive with hydrocarbons as we speak. Even in the absence of a carbon tax to pay back for its huge externalities. Do you have some evidence the fall in prices of ie solar will n
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by sprafa 7y ago
Have you worked with clients? If you have a good producer/leader yes you can get a lot done. But many times this just happens as A. Client approves design B. You build the Beta of the website and launch it for testing with client C. Cl
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by sprafa 7y ago
What? You have literally written 0 arguments that relate to the text in any meaningful way.
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by sprafa 7y ago
The Central line was the one I was thinking of. I was wrong and I’ve edited the post above. The reason for this is clear tho - those lines are sometimes upwards of 100\80 years old. It’s still probably the one of the best public transport s
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by sprafa 7y ago
Really? I was under the impression Central was one of the few. Maybe it’s an air circulation thing, but for someone reason I can only think of the northern and central as being insanely hot. Will google. edit you’re right I’ve just change
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by sprafa 7y ago
London has incredible public transport and only one line has no AC so it’s hot (edit) this is completely wrong, actually quite a few lines lack AC.. On being overcrowded - sure, during rush hour. Even then you marvel at the TfL’s effici
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by sprafa 7y ago
I wrote them in Portuguese because I don’t feel like explaining my opinions too much in English. I don’t find it productive and it might just bring other people into the discussion, which I didn’t want. I hope that was clear. I hope you’re
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by sprafa 7y ago
Looking back at this particular comment with less of a hothead, I can sort of see where you’re coming from. I still don’t understand how you would get this to work unless it was some sort of universal agreement. If it wasn’t such, what woul
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by sprafa 7y ago
All I meant is that he is removing all responsibility of the population for their own government and effectively saying “other countries should force the US [to take action on climate change]” It’s like any internal change is impossible i h
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by sprafa 7y ago
If you’re Brazilian then you’ve made your own bed. I won’t criticise, because why would I. E sim meus pais e minha família são brasileiros. Portanto, boa sorte meu compadre. Se o Bolsonaro resolver algum problema no Brasil, que Deus abençoe
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by sprafa 7y ago
Corporation with financial interest in disinformation spreads it through press release. News at 11
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by sprafa 7y ago
American fat cats should buy up the amazon for the purpose of protecting it. I’m obviously not defending the idea that they exploit it same as the Brazilians.
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by sprafa 7y ago
Meh. Are you Brazilian or just a news reader?
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by sprafa 7y ago
There’s a strange sort of perversion to your idea that other countries should shoulder the responsibility to change your climate and carbon policy. Essentially the citizenship gets off free for not voting in more responsible politicians, an

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