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"Secrets of Sand Hill Road" by Scott Kupor (Managing Partner @ A16Z). Was recommended to read this by VC friends to prep for Investment Associate interviews a couple years ago

Within the context of the Ukraine conflict some elements do come up, but this is in general the "Near Abroad" doctrine - which has been a very public Russian policy since the 90s, as was see…

Dugin is bullshit. No one worth their mettle in the IR space cares about it. It's like saying the DoD's policy is based on Zeihan. Eg. the RAND Corporation (the goto think tank for the US Go…

Which region? - Indo/Asia-Pacific, MENA, CEE, Western Europe, North America, South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, ASEAN, etc Also which aspect of policy - business law, military technology, cyberse…

> Either as some sort of inferior ally or maybe trying to sign up as a full Indian state This overstates India's power projection and understates Australia's. Instead - Japan, Australia, …

I misspelled Saragarhi. It was a garrison slightly north of Thal. I think it was renamed Fort Gulistan after the 3rd Anglo-Afghan War.

Haha thanks! Some school districts do adopt informal tracking (college track, vocational track, normal track) but this is very much at the discretion of the local school district. IB is occasionally i…

Makes sense! Ik there was always a military presence in Kohat Agency since the British era (Battle of Saranghai for example) but was there a significant increase in presence in the leadup to Zarb-e-Az…

There most certainly is! But it's on hold right now and the security situation in Logar seems tenuous. If Mes Aynek actually happens, then Lithium mining would probably start in 10 years too, but…

The whole point of such investments is to be siphoned. You can't directly pay a bribe (do it enough and at a large enough size and you open yourself to FCPA violations which block access to Weste…

It was a mess before that as well. Before the Great Game between the Brits and Russians, it was a Great Game between the Sikhs and Durranis [0], and before that between the Mughals and Safavids [1][2]…

Especially because the lithium deposits are concentrated in Logar province, which other Pakhtuns stereotype as hicks (which is saying something). It's also adjacent to ISKP's and Pakistani T…

TAPI is a pipe dream (pun very much intended). It's been a Pakistani national security goal since the 1990s. As such, it's not surprising that Pakistan's closest ally announced their in…

There is no investment other than an MoU. Any foreign organization in Afghanistan (in reality Kabul) is operating on a bare bones capacity, and anyone who had the knowhow in Afghanistan has taken asyl…

If you didn't read the article - "American anxiety surrounding China’s potential moves in Afghanistan’s mining sector may be misplaced, for now" There's a solid chance Afghanistan …

There are different types of manufacturing. The supply chain to manufacture generic plastics (most concentrated around Guangzhou and moving to Northern Vietnam) is different from the supply chain need…

Yep! There are a couple versions of these docs floating around 4Chan and Telegram rn and I totally wouldn't be surprised if a couple are forgeries/disinformatzya. But one of these set of pho…

> because it's so hard to imagine why 4chan and Telegram. Two commentators on 4chan got into an argument surrounding the war and one of them leaked photos of the docs on Telegram - t.me/s…

Vietnamese textile manufacturing is moving towards Cambodia and Laos (both figuratively and literally - lots of garment factories starting to open in Tay Ninh and Gia Lai). The Bangladeshi textile ind…

I agree with the content of your comment but you didn't need to add the racist comment about Asians (bruh, us Pajeets and Wongs are Americans as well. Write that same sentence with the N word and…

To quote South Park, there are gods and clods. A Production Tech who is maintaining, cleaning, and repairing electronics would attend a vocational program/community college in the US. Admissions …

The Iran-Saudi talks have been overstated in American media. All they really are is the reopening of diplomatic communications between Iran and the KSA (aka a return to the 2014-15 time period) [0][1]…

Do you work in the tech industry? Ever used a computer running an Intel or AMD processor? Ever worked at a company with Microsoft Windows or enterprise Linux servers (IBM RedHat)? Ever connected to th…

History doesn't repeat itself but it sure as hell rhymes. Interesting to see this migration of manufacturing back to US+ now that Chinese manufacturing costs have caught up to Mexico (which is a …

It appears to be a NAND and DRAM glut. There still appears to be a shortage for power and analog semiconductors - specifically MOSFETs - along with FPGAs, but this is projected to ease by Autumn 2023.…

I think you are misinterpreting the article and my post above, and honestly it is kind of insulting to compare first world house ownership with building unused property in your ancestral town.

They're one of the old money families in SF - the Aliotos. His grandfather was the ex-Mayor from 1968-1976. Allegedly had mob ties as well, but NorCal ain't the Eastern Seaboard so ymmv. Aro…

Interviewed for an internship at Amazon years ago and there was a multiple choice questionairre about Amazon leadership principles/values and that was about it. The rest of the online interview w…