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> handing Venezuela back to Western oil companies... Before the 2018 sanctions and after the American expropriation in the 2000s, the biggest foreign players in Venezuela's ONG industry were S…

Venezuela's GDP (ie. it's yearly economic production) is around $111B. This is a very large debt load and extremely difficult to pay off.

> It seems like China or Russia would expect to be paid not in dollars, but in Oil Wells and Refineries. Why would they accept restructuring of the debt instead of repo'ing the assets? Because…

> To hear Americans jump at the chance to comment about Europeans and their AC usage A lot of Americans would be indifferent if it wasn't for Europeans (mostly Germans ime - Southern, Central,…

This is on top of the $80B allocated to SMRs [0] by the US DoE with bipartisan support. [0] - https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/westinghouse-electri... …

> why not a traditional, homegrown card that is a direct 1-to-1 alternative of MC/Visa cards Because the European market is fragmented. France, Italy, Germany, etc all have some sort of establ…

They are available on archive.org - https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ITunes_U

> Judging from your career path, you shifted from tech to money towards the start What the hell does that even mean?!? I started my career working on on low latency computing at a networking compan…

> US folks coming out of university optimize for money and head for things like finance... Not really, and I say this as someone who works in VC with peers in PE, Growth Equity, and other segments …

> We could probably repurpose AP exams to fill a similar admissions role to A Levels They are already being used like that in college admissions today. > possibly use the AMC/AIME/USAM…

> There's a reason the west was so productive in terms of new scientific and technological discoveries in the twentieth century > it's not that our scientists were the most consistent …

> The system is rewarding conscientiousness and consistency over creativity This assumes that you can get to the top via rote skills alone. Rote learning only gets you so far and most of those kind…

As I mentioned elsewhere on HN [0], younger generations are much more competitive now. Visit and talk with undergrads at a top CS program like Stanford, Cal, UIUC, MIT, etc. The culture is different b…

That project was absolutely funded before Alberta slashed all funding for renewables projects [0]. This as well as the failed pipeline projects have made Canadian infrastructure projects very high r…

Meanwhile, Asian studios are much more open to experimenting with AI workflows, and will eventually build the next generation of Niantics and AppLovins if this neo-ludditism continues. Heck, 50% of al…

My point is, if you are going to use terminology then use terminology correctly. The signal to noise ratio on HN is already bad enough as it is. Implementation Consulting is always a separate practice…

The point about prototyping and vibecoding in this manner is to wargame and think about workflows and whether or not they are defensible. A product where the secret sauce is basically a distribution p…

> management consultancies for software... Management/Strategy Consulting is different from Implementation Consulting (eg. BAH building and operating a .gov site).

> The current AI boom has more to do with NVIDIA, and the popularity of computer gaming giving us GPU compute, than who was using neural networks back in 1990's I disagree. But more critically…

These already exist and have existed for decades. They're called fusion centers.

They also tend to license IP or subsystems to and from the US as well, similar to Israeli firms like Elbit so there is an incentive for the US to continue supporting Korean sales as they have a downst…

> I think that this is the particular threat that America sees from its own ally and there will likely be some efforts to curb or limit South Korea I disagree with that. The Korean defense manufact…

The posh parts of America are suburbs or outer neighborhoods, not the inner city which is where most visitors end up staying. For example, when you visit the San Francisco Bay Area, the actual posh ar…

FYI about terminology before people who don't read the paper comment 1. GPT means general purpose technology or any sort of new technology that has a compounding effect on productivity, not the…

This underestimates how friendships are made by younger people even via matchmaking in lobbies depending on the game. Heck, I have friends who are slightly younger than me who made durable friendships…

It might be to you, but then we wouldn't have seen the shifts away from LAN parties. The reality is for anyone below 35, their primary touchpoint with their friends is via social media, and they …