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I prefer to be judged on the content of my comments rather than the number of internet points displayed by my name. It allows for much more honesty and sincerity in discussions, and I think those are two qualities that HN could use more of.
Also I don't enjoy being profiled and I'll continue to play this game of whack-a-mole regardless of a change in the rules.
Bloomberg is trying to invent new, scarier sounding terminology, and honestly it's quite silly. What they're referring to are microbursts.
I skimmed the video because this is obviously very childish not really worth half an hour of my time.
That being said, I did not see him perform any kind of rigorous numerical or theoretical analysis of the problem, which would be the first thing an actual engineer would reach for. No finite element simulations, not even empirical napkin math: nothing. He didn't even analyze pi groups involved in the problem to prove similarity between his scale model and an actual functioning hyperloop. The end result is a for-your-entertainment-only youtube prop that has no bearing on the performance and reliability of the actual functioning model.
Cringey youtube personality breaks some stuff on camera and claims to know more than teams of certified engineers.
And yet a Democratic Party IT administrator was shot and killed in DC two weeks ago. The media is trying to attribute it to a mugging, but no items were found taken off of his body.
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Man-Shot-Killed-in-N...
The article is about highly advanced anti-aircraft and anti-ship weapons. They don't even have armored infantry, let alone those.
If they were ill-equipped in Vietnam, ill-equipped in Iraq and Afghanistan, then why would potential combatants suddenly come into possession of weapon systems more expensive than their nation's GDP? World powers don't just hand out state of the art weapon systems all willy nilly, lest they end up falling to the enemy.
It didn't stop Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iran/Iraq, or the two Persian Gulf wars from happening.
So why do we need lasers, railguns, and stealth fighter jets to fight bands of rice farmers and goat herders?
The author seems to be forgetting that no two first-world, nuclear armed nations can ever engage eachother ever again without total mutual nuclear annihilation occuring. He spends the entire time worrying about highly advanced technologies that are only possessed in sufficient quantities by nuclear armed states. If that equipment were ever used, it would become pointless in a matter of hours once the nuclear weapons start flying.
With that in mind we ought to quit pouring all of our money on weapons designed for enemies that we can never realistically fight. It would make far more sense to retool for conflicts against insurgencies and developing nations.
...until the interested business parties band together to form a government of sorts for their own benefit.
You're missing the point. If we magically enacted perfectly libertarian business policies overnight, business would immediately get to work creating new regulations because they're still self-interested like they were before. This is what they do now, this is what they would do then, and this is also why anarcho capitalism is a contradiction.
More like Elon Musk points out by example why libertarianism is an oxymoron. As soon as all restrictions are lifted on businesses and a totally "free" market is created, business interests move to enact new regulations that entrench their positions.
Quite typical for the mods to delete this. After all, wouldn't want word to get out that YC's political friends are crooks.
My guess would be that it was carried out by a different entity, i.e. some sub-faction of the campaign as opposed to occurring at the party level.
The public needed Russia (!) for a fresh dosis of unpopular truths
Do people honestly believe that evidence of electoral fraud is some kind of Russian scheme? Those claims strike me as an attempt to deflect the issue by the increasingly embattled affected candidate. That narrative seems to be designed to imply that the revealed wrongdoing is actually worth ignoring.