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by vtange 10y ago
Lasers are also cheap to operate compared to missiles. And for things lasers can't shoot, there's always that railgun the Navy made.
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by vtange 10y ago
It's also funny he said that while playing up the power of machine learning and recent A.I. advances. I thought we already have algorithms that generate news articles, poetry and music?
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by vtange 10y ago
I feel like the economy as a whole has been hit by this pattern. Call it "disruption","creative destruction", or whatever, but the general pattern has been that supply has gone up (it's never been easier to create c
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by vtange 10y ago
It should be noted that China also plays the "US double-standard" card, especially when it comes to human rights. They practically emulate Russia as well when it comes to cyberspace. What interests me is how the public is somehow
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by vtange 10y ago
There seems to be a lot of antagonism directed at Google and Facebook in this piece, making it sound as if those companies knowingly stole or forced people to fork over data. I know sometimes it's easy to play the evil mega-corp card,
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by vtange 10y ago
The ideal is that people genuinely are knocking on your door with a nice job for you. The reality is that most are just in it for commissions - which in some cases comes out of the salary you're promised - and you get thrown into a j
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by vtange 10y ago
We stand behind all of our candidates and will replace them if for any reason they do not work out. This sounds hilarious if you try reading it from the candidate's perspective. Imagine them sending the translated version to the cand
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by vtange 10y ago
For what its worth I still hold the glimmer of hope in seeing people believe (or try to believe) and fight towards free societies. We still have a spirit that has been smothered in other authoritarian states. You will know it's really
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by vtange 10y ago
You make it sound like we're the source of antagonism to the North. We're still technically at war and last I checked we're not the ones firing missiles and gloating about "setting Seoul or Los Angeles in flames. The thi
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by vtange 10y ago
8C ~= 14.4F for reference
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by vtange 10y ago
The original Tropico game from the series somewhat felt like this, especially when it came to construction. Unless you were cheating, you could only declare where a building would be built - you had no power to instantly "plop" a
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by vtange 10y ago
Agreed and edited to remove the quotes. Compared to the U.S. and Europe, China is very behind when it comes to racism.
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by vtange 10y ago
I'm Chinese American. I won't claim to represent everyone and everything Chinese, here are my two cents. China is what happens when you enclose a really big population in a box. And this box is really comfortable; you have little
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by vtange 10y ago
But to say Switzerland didn't invest in war would be horribly wrong. They are armed to the teeth with fortifications and a large militia force - ever check out the guns per capita in Switzerland?
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by vtange 10y ago
But this assumes that even without war and the attention it brings, rocket scientists could get access to the materials and manpower needed to further their work. The space-race arguably leveraged national-pride and used it to create demand
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by vtange 10y ago
While war itself is destructive and did exact a great cost to Europe (it arguably ended European colonialism as it made Europe unable to maintain presence in their colonies), preparation in the case of war is arguably constructive and lead
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by vtange 10y ago
Going to be devil's advocate here, but if a business has to be large scale to have a good ROI, then it should be reworking its business plan so that it profits at smaller scales. We can't just simply pump capital into all business
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by vtange 10y ago
China has done a really great job marketing their economy to the average American though. From the quick numbers to the glistening photos of Shanghai. Ask most non-China watching Americans, and they'll tell you that they're more i
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by vtange 10y ago
Wow this is a really good comment. Great analogy with relationships and all. Sometimes I think people naturally reflect who they are; i.e. a thief will naturally be aware/paranoid of other thieves snooping around his stuff. So I guess
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by vtange 10y ago
If it was really like that, people would not gamble or partake in activities that endanger their health such as smoke.
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by vtange 10y ago
Well, isn't that what happens in oceans already? That is why coastal cities are more temperate and experience more moderate swings than inland cities. I'd imagine there's not enough water to do this inland..
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by vtange 10y ago
Unless they're in your architecture studio. You basically live there while you work on projects.
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by vtange 10y ago
Reminds me of some college cultures actually. In architecture school you were almost expected to pull all-nighters for the sake of "being a dedicated architecture student". It is like hazing of some sort.
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by vtange 10y ago
But wouldn't that just burden American businesses against foreign competitors? It would make it so Americans would quit offshoring and simply incorporate outside of U.S. jurisdiction. That or lose to Chinese businesses that are less re
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by vtange 10y ago
There's no guarantee a "single, unified global effort" will be better than multiple different efforts though, plus it sounds like putting all your eggs in one basket. If events in 2016 has shown anything, it is that people ar
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by vtange 10y ago
This building is less brutalist and more postmodern - notice how it has a less obvious shape (it's not just a tower or a big rectangle or anything) and is instead made up by many different shapes. Postmodernism actually tried to remedy
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by vtange 10y ago
Apple already kind of does - their new "Mothership" in Cupertino is grand in scale and has a huge curtain wall that goes all the way around the building. I don't know if it's intentional, but in my mind Apple is also &qu
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by vtange 10y ago
Back in my days of architecture school we threw around terms such as "human scale" and "typology" in classes. The article demonstrates well the idea of "typology" - how we came to associate Brutalist structures
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by vtange 10y ago
The startup I work at really favors their data scientists, though I am not one of them (I'm a frontend guy). The CEO and CTO pretty much keeps a personal eye on those guys' work. Right now however the theme I've heard from th
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by vtange 10y ago
What scares me is how it's been mostly the western Pacific Rim (Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia) getting quakes. That tells me that things might be getting a little unstable on the eastern Pacific Rim, assuming the Earth keeps things "ba

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