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It's sad to see that HN has fallen into Reddit world: anything that doesn't match the ruling hive mind is suppressed. I guess that's freedom of speech for ya - as long as that speech matches what the overlords want to see, you're good.

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The Rise of Hypersonic Weapons 10 years ago

you don't even need lasers to shoot them down. They won't be able to jink very well, so a scatter-shot shotgun type of defense system would work very well. The real key will be to have a point-defense system with look-down shoot-down capability that can be deployed at enough distance from the protected asset to ensure that even a detonation of a nuclear hypersonic missile would cause minimal to no damage.

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Why U.S. Infrastructure Costs So Much 10 years ago

I think you bring up a good point: the growth of the 50s-70s was an atypical period, large swaths of Europe and Japan were recovering from the after-affects of WWII. That put the US in position to supply the world, and we did. That is no longer the case, and we need to scale our infrastructure expenditures to match our reduced growth.

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