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Play the game. Just don't break the law. But play dirty if you have to.
So, China is spending hundreds of billions of dollars to build new nuclear reactors, and the US is not. The last nuclear reactor built in the us was decades ago. Old reactors, for all their time tested trustworthiness, use obsolete technology. China wins.
China is also building thorium reactors. The US is not. China wins.
Also:
> However, in a surprising twist, they found that neither bird was genetically related to a male—meaning both chicks were biologically fatherless; and accounted for the first two instances of asexual reproduction, or parthenogenesis, to be confirmed in the California condor species.
Life, uh, finds a way.
It would be great if we could move our most polluting activities (factories, refineries) to the Moon or Mars.
Russia Has Four Potential "Killer Satellites" In Orbit, At Least That We Know About
> The problem is that any satellite that can maneuver itself very close to another one, and may have small arms or probes to physically interact with its target, is inherently capable of being a weapon. Any such repair system could easily smash sensitive optics and other components, or simply slam into the target, acting as a kinetic weapon
The future of space warfare, as it's currently understood, will involve:
1- Satellites attacking other satellites with: 1a- robotic arms 1b- small projectiles 1c- jamming device 1d- lasers
2- missiles fired from the atmosphere
3- jamming stations on the ground (https://www.google.com/amp/s/futurism.com/space-force-first-...)
More generally, space isn't safe for blue team anymore. Russia and China have aggressive ambitions to be able to dominate space and aren't restrained by any code of ethics, something China is also doing in artificial intelligence research (not bothering with "frameworks" and "guiding principles for responsible AI").
Most experts agree that space will become another area of strategic competition where the major powers deter each other with mutual destruction doctrines, because the loss of global satellite communications, weather satellites and positioning systems, and the potential creation of millions of orbital debris that would result from a confrontation would be too dire to credibly contemplate.
Dogs are friendly and make good pets and all but people need to draw a line.
It's kinda crazy to think that Bill Gates would be a trillionaire if he never sold a share.
What counts as "own"?
What counts as "property"?
What counts as "reside"?
> Your short course in Treason is a series of articles on how spies are caught, the prevalence of espionage, and why people spy
https://www.wrc.noaa.gov/wrso/mission.htm
> Protects the Department of Commerce and the U.S. Government by collaboration with key leaders, decision-makers, and stakeholders to effectively mitigate security risks.
I think some exceptional situations should warrant a similar treatment.
I wonder if the Constitution could be amended to grant the US Congress the power to "impeach" and indict any US citizen or legal entity for any reason whatsoever. Congress already has the power to prosecute the President and remove him, but this power doesn't extend beyond the Oval Office. Nonetheless, I firmly believe that the idea that Congress should be able to prosecute and punish US citizens, by way of fine, prison time, or another punishment, for actions that do not technically breach an existing law but which nonetheless run afoul of morals, ethics, or common decency, is worth pondering.
I won't hide that I desperately want to see Mark Zuckerberg serve hard prison time for everything he's done.
I thought you were trying to speak for the insect kingdom here for a moment.
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/xi-jinping-aims-to-rein-in-...
> Xi Jinping’s campaign against private enterprise, it is increasingly clear, is far more ambitious than meets the eye.
> The Chinese President is not just trying to rein in a few big tech and other companies and show who is boss in China.
> He is trying to roll back China’s decadeslong evolution toward Western-style capitalism and put the country on a different path entirely, a close examination of Mr. Xi’s writings and his discussions with party officials, and interviews with people involved in policy making, show.
> For most of the 40 years after Deng Xiaoping first unleashed economic reforms in China, Communist Party leaders gave market forces wider room to flourish. That opening helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and created trillions of dollars in wealth, but also led to rampant corruption and eroded the ideological basis for continued Communist rule.
> In Mr. Xi’s opinion, private capital now has been allowed to run amok, menacing the party’s legitimacy, officials familiar with his priorities say. The Wall Street Journal examination shows he is trying forcefully to get China back to the vision of Mao Zedong, who saw capitalism as a transitory phase on the road to socialism.
> Mr. Xi isn’t planning to eradicate market forces, the Journal examination indicates. But he appears to want a state in which the party does more to steer flows of money, sets tighter parameters for entrepreneurs and investors and their ability to make profits, and exercises even more control over the economy than now. In essence, this suggests that he aims to rewrite the rules of business in what could someday be the world’s biggest economy.
> It's not.
https://delphi.allenai.org/?a1=Is+Hacker+News+reliable+as+a+...
> Was Richard Stallman right?
> It's wrong.
https://delphi.allenai.org/?a1=Was+Richard+Stallman+right%3F
> It's wrong.
I would write a short reply that you won't consider their offers solely because of the office work requirement. Otherwise they can't be certain why they're being ignored. Make it abundantly clear why you're not interested. So when their managers grill them for low performance they can show them: Here boss, people aren't biting because we're asking them to come into the office. We need to change this asap.
This is also the reason why I believe that teaching will eventually either go fully remote or start paying 6 figures straight out of college. The teaching profession sucks. Teachers understand now that they can earn the same income without having to babysit 30 kids five days a week and deal with the kafkaesque bullshit that is school administration.
Higher income households spend less time watching cable TV. Lower income people spend more time.
A channel with high viewership is actually attracting the bottom bucket of society.
> This is a negative feedback loop that is rapidly cycling out of control that if it continues unabated will destroy the global economy.
No, the global economy won't be destroyed because of backed up cargo ships in LA/Long Beach. Don't be ridiculous Ryan.
> In private Facebook groups, wealthy survivalists swap tips on gas masks, bunkers, and locations safe from the effects of climate change. One member, the head of an investment firm, told me, “I keep a helicopter gassed up all the time, and I have an underground bunker with an air-filtration system.”
Children play with toys and video games. Adults play with sports and cars. And ultra high net worth individuals play with luxury bunkers and doomsday prep. I don't make a distinction, really. Bored people with too much money can be creative, and doomsday prep is the latest trend, the latest cool 'game' to play.
A global collapse of society is ... not a realistic scenario. If it were to happen, you'd have bigger problems than surviving a few months underground and air filtration systems.
> To Levchin, prepping for survival is a moral miscalculation; he prefers to “shut down party conversations” on the topic. “I typically ask people, ‘So you’re worried about the pitchforks. How much money have you donated to your local homeless shelter?’ This connects the most, in my mind, to the realities of the income gap. All the other forms of fear that people bring up are artificial.” In his view, this is the time to invest in solutions, not escape. “At the moment, we’re actually at a relatively benign point of the economy. When the economy heads south, you will have a bunch of people that are in really bad shape. What do we expect then?”
More of this please.
Your millions are worthless in a truly post apocalyptic world. Think stockpiling gold bars will help? What's stopping a person, or a group of persons, from taking your gold from you at gunpoint?
These people have been so sheltered from nature and society their whole lives that some have started to seriously embrace the idea that man can be an island and prosper, ignoring the fact that none of their wealth could have been built in a more primitive place like the one they want to prepare for.