hopefulengineer

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by hopefulengineer 8y ago
>China is just catching up to what the rest of the developed world has gone through in the past there was no world trade organization and there were no multi-national free trade agreements. It's like saying china should be allowed t
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by hopefulengineer 8y ago
The biggest problem for small and medium communities is brain drain. It's a vicious death spiral because the smart and ambitious kids basically have to move away to large cities to get quality jobs. The only solution I can think of is
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by hopefulengineer 8y ago
Musk is a great marketer and communicator, he convinces people that making luxury cars is saving the world because they are electric. The people buying them also feel like they are heroes saving the world. Humans have a need to feel like th
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by hopefulengineer 8y ago
pretty depressing that you're better off buying politicians rather than actually building a good business if you want to get rich
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by hopefulengineer 8y ago
What is the US supposed to do? You literally cited two cases, Ukraine and Libya, which are polar opposites. Ukraine the US is criticized for NOT intervening, middle east and Libya US is criticized FOR intervening. And now we have Myanmar mu
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by hopefulengineer 8y ago
1. US military is only 16-18% of federal spending. Entitlements like social security, medicaid, and welfare make up 65-70% of federal spending. The majority of military spending is on salaries and benefits anyway, it's essentially a we
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by hopefulengineer 8y ago
>I mean Marin County is 80% Democrats is one of the best places to live in the world sure, if you're white and well educated. The brown serf laborers have all been nicely segregated away so you don't have to see the misery htt
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by hopefulengineer 8y ago
progressives would have an easier time convincing conservatives to support their policies if the most liberal places in the country weren't complete hell holes with the worst income inequality be the change you wish to see in the world
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by hopefulengineer 8y ago
why would any company invest in R&D if it could just be immediately taken for free?
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by hopefulengineer 8y ago
A russian newspaper was given access to the Russia dump in 2010 and there's no evidence they have conservative info, unless you're able to post a source
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by hopefulengineer 8y ago
Older family friend made $30/hr in the 60-70s with pension and benefits working in a meat packing plant with a high school education. Same job today pays $15/hr with no benefits thanks to illegal immigration. There's a reason
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by hopefulengineer 8y ago
The old media powers want their control back, so they say "see the stupid masses need us to distill the information to them, these plebes can't handle it themselves". It all sounds very similar to what the European monarchy s
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China's brightest children are being recruited to weaponize AI(scmp.com)
87 points by hopefulengineer 8y ago|111 comments
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by hopefulengineer 8y ago
The difference is that most people weren't aware or didn't care until he announced his support of Trump. Nothing objectively changed, but like a bunch of robots everyone immediately started calling for him to be removed from the F
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by hopefulengineer 8y ago
yup, Silicon Valley is a hivemind of people patting themselves on the backs as being intellectual contrarians. If you want to see what happens when someone with actual contrarian thought voices their opinion, see James Damore or Peter thiel
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by hopefulengineer 8y ago
you've romanticized higher education into something it's never been. It started off as a means for the children of the wealthy to network and show off that they were wealthy enough to waste years of their lives learning informatio
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by hopefulengineer 8y ago
Why doesn't the government just use eminent domain to buy out some Nimby's in crucial areas and build some high rise apartments? The housing issue is 100% supply and demand. If I could wave a magic wand and create 1,000,000 apartm
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by hopefulengineer 8y ago
Guide to implement neo-feudalism: 1. Remove all trade barriers, allowing corporations to outsource all low skill manufacturing jobs and ship back the finished product with no consequences 2. Don't enforce border laws, allowing the rema
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by hopefulengineer 8y ago
If Clinton got in we were basically 100% going to war with Russia since she promised to create a no fly zone in Syria. I consider that a win. Not getting into a nuclear exchange with NK is also a plus. Trump is actually punishing China for
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by hopefulengineer 8y ago
A couple I can think of 1. Zero to one talks about the importance of optimism vs pessimism for the future. Compare Obama saying the US needs to get used to sub 2% GDP growth vs Trump saying we can hit 5%. Trump isn't afraid to think bi
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by hopefulengineer 8y ago
reposting what I've said about this before: the US was the only country on earth that had nukes for 5 years and was unscathed from WWII. We could have demilitarized and enslaved the entire planet under threat of nuclear death, but inst
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by hopefulengineer 8y ago
>I think having the last super-power behave like a good neighbor and a role model would have a more positive impact on the world the US was the only country on earth that had nukes for 5 years and was unscathed from WWII. We could have e
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by hopefulengineer 8y ago
Brinn was well known for having sex with female employees, seems like a thin line when there's such a power disparity. Based on insiders it seems like having sex with Sergey was a pretty sure way to get a promotion https://q
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by hopefulengineer 8y ago
Everybody is talking about the social aspect of Bolsonaro in brazil, but the major thing people are ignoring is the impact on China. Together US and Brazil produce 80%+ of the worlds soybeans and corn. Brazil has been friendly with China fo
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by hopefulengineer 8y ago
My point is that we should be offering citizenship to these people instead of H1B, which is glorified indentured servitude that only benefits giant corporations. Not to mention the blatant fraud in hiring practices companies use to justify
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by hopefulengineer 8y ago
Majority of deaths are caused by fentanyl produced in foreign countries and shipped into the US to be cut into low quality drugs. So sanctioning those countries would be a good first step The initial addiction though is due to doctor's
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by hopefulengineer 8y ago
Government has no incentive to do anything about this. They would prefer disgruntled, jobless people keep themselves in a drug induced stupor to people getting angry at their government stabbing them in the back for multi-national corporati
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by hopefulengineer 8y ago
It's supply and demand 101, illegal immigration combined with offshoring lowers wages and increases profit margin for the wealthy. Low wage jobs are taken by illegal immigrants, forcing US citizens to take on debt to go to college, whe