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At least 25% of us Americans have never had blood or ethnic ties with Europe. African Americans make up around 15% of the US, Asian Americans around 7%, Arab Americans around 1.5%, and Native American…

> I have an undergrad in Philosophy ... It is a highly underrated degree I agree with that. A philosophy major is the ultimate interdisciplinary major because it is essentially the theory of knowle…

And if you remember 2010-13 Egypt was also on the verge of collapsing into a civil war like Syria and Yemen yet didn't. That took a Herculean amount of effort.

And there was no guarantee that Egypt would have reached this point today in 2026. A decade ago, the safer bet would have been that Egypt would collapse just like it's then developmental peer Syr…

Yes. And they're the same companies that were contracted and subcontracted infrastructure across the Khaleej and ASEAN. Larsen & Toubro, Wabag, SP Group, EIL, Afcons, and others tend to have …

> It's practically a project of the Egyptian military who will mostly own the land It's a public-private project with Gulf and Asian financing and execution. Sisi is a dictator, but he ca…

How did India's water usage reforms fail? I've been in Egypt and India - they aren't that different, and it's Indian companies that are working on and helping financing these megap…

State and financial capacity is much stronger in Egypt today versus previous attempts. Egypt's developmental indicators have finally caught up to where the CEE was 5-10 years ago but with a bette…

Draghi himself has said the EU hasn't taken the steps mentioned in the report, and that every challenge in the report has only gotten worse [0]. [0] - https://www.france24.com/en&…

This is the issue. Both the US and China [0][1][2] are playing hardball against the EU because we both view the EU as a junior partner and tend to negotiate with individual states bilaterally. I think…

> How has France no cohesion Look at the Paraguay game. When striking, Mbappe was trying to optimize for making goals on his own instead of coordinating with Kone or Rabiot. There were multiple cas…

Costco always enforces strict opacity on it's vendors as a trade secret - it allows them to negotiate from a position of power with fairly large players as well as preventing competitors like Wal…

Columbia as a program isn't worth $70k in tuition, and the Columbia name doesn't open any doors that GT or UT Austin couldn't unless you live in NYC or China. Stanford HCP is great (I&#…

> got accepted at Johns Hopkins Masters in AI (online). Anyone had any experience with that program? Thoughts? Not worth the tuition. GATech and UT Austin is highly respected and they only costs $6…

> Nowadays I wouldn't recommend anyone to get a tech degree in a university unless it's a world class one This is horrible advice. Hiring is a zero sum game, and a college education is tr…

I've hired non-trad candidates. We'd treat them as any other hiring candidate. OP would just put "BSc Computer Science from Goldsmiths, University of London" on his resume and Link…

I'm not a fan of the geographic argument as it removes agency from state and non-state actors who are backing various groups partaking in the Sahel insurgency. The most obvious ones are the Franc…

> Also note that this specifically focuses on blogs designed to make money and dealing with general-interest stuff like fashion or travel. A lot of this has moved onto Instagram and TikTok as a byp…

They're shifting around 1,000 corporate roles from Issaquah to Hyderabad [0]. They're across the street from TJX and AMD [1]. [0] - https://www.reuters.com/world/india&#…

It's also different demographics. Costco shoppers have always been in the highest income brackets, while Amazon's are middle of the pack and Walmart's tend to be at the lower end [0][1]…

Costco's Spain operation is primarily for logistics and product test, not market penetration. Costco usually tests suppliers' packaging and logistics for products at their ExAmerica warehous…

The SVG acquisition was still part of the initial CRADA. Nor does it undermine my nor OP's point. And it's not about flexing. I've gotten tired of reflexive Euro- and American nationali…

Nope. OP's right (and the only other person other than me who has pointed this out on HN). ASML was one of the founding partners in Albany NanoTech in collaboration with SEMATECH which became the…

Excluding the White House, this is the correct approach. Each department and it's associated agencies have better domain experience in specific niches and access to capital. This doesn't pre…

In most cases, same as an L6/7/8 SWE at Google MTV but at the upper rungs closer to L8/9/10 EM ar Google MTV. Use levels.fyi to look at the Google payscale. Heck, I earn less as a …

Yes. This is called industrial policy, and there is bipartisan support for this. 2008 changed thinking on both sides of the aisle around leveraging state power to build industries. Plenty of us Obama …

Repeating outdated tropes ad nauseum is dumb. There is bipartisan support for industrial policy. 2008 shaped our thinking on this and most of our policymakers in the 19th century were influence by A…