Posts by Bbuckley 113 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jun 2013
Also every one of those tools would be destroyed well before the Chinese set foot in the factory. So not only would they not know how to maintain them, there would be nothing left to maintain. But as I said earlier, Chinese invasion threats do not come from some rational plan but from narcissist ego. Just like North Korea.
Here's the thing though. Some years back I was sent by my company to Phoenix Arizona for a couple of weeks. During my low-flying (20,000 feet) internal flight, the passenger next to me struck up a convo and, long story short, pointed out the *dozens* of big, black perfect circles down there. They were nuclear test explosions! Yep. The USA nuked itself many times during the 1950's and 60's.
What is really sad is that this state of affairs is the result of corporate greedy globalization (American spelling intentional). Did they *really* believe the poorer areas of the world would simply comply with USA corporate greed? It is the most saddest thing IMO, how can people just not learn about Human nature and History?
Is it just me or are we witnessing a historical event here. So-called 'FAANG' companies who used to be the private equivalent of job-for-life public service are letting people go! - people who performed like good little monkeys and jumped through the nerd equivalent of SAS Who Dares Wins to become the Google Golden-haired Children are BEING FIRED. And for nothing that is their fault. Wow. End of an era methinks. Thank God I am a nearly-60 year old bastard from the gutter who saved his pennies!
And. When they realise how unsustainable battery-fueled vehicles are (and when China cannot steal any more rare earth metals from the third world) millions will be left with useless flash-in-the-pan over-exuberance headaches. The future is a mix of biofuel and hydrogen. Eventually 100% hydrogen.
I disagree. Innovation does not come from meetings and 'water cooler chats'. Innovation comes from *individuals* who are smarter than the rest of the team. This notion that innovation somehow comes from serendipitous communication only inside an office has no basis in reality.
On the IQ anecdote - there is far more anecdotal evidence for the opposite - IQ of X-gen is lower and getting more so - e.g. there were no Greta Thurnberg/Extinction rebellion, etc. etc nutters with huge opionions on theings they know nothing about in the boomer populations
Exactly! And here in Ireland 85% of school teachers are female. And girls do better in exams here than boys. Could there be some correlation there! And through Covid we had teachers assess their students and shock-horror, the examinations board found 'unconsious bias' in favour of girls. So is that not MUCH more concerning than one university level subject? Not according to the Ministry of Truth.
Well duh! Anyone with an ounch of Statistics knows what the Central Limit Theorem is ... not the BCS though! Obviously the few females are from the upper tail of a (if there were more of them) normal distribution. The boys are numerous enough to have a normally distributed average. This is just another example of extreme left-wing soviet 'diversity and inclusion' from the Ministry of Truth. Or worse, maybe they really are that stupid.
But wait! Germany is one of the most privacy-defending countries on the planet. Germans do not trust politicians or (especially) experts and companies with their personal data. So what are you saying? I bet the vast majority of Germans would not support this idea. Btw, I work in a Big Pharma company as a data scientist and we simply cannot get health data from Germany (we have tons of it from the USA...).
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