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The addition to the hangar, which is situated near Bosten Lake in China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Region, can be seen in new satellite imagery that The War Zone obtained from Planet Labs. Construction of the original 1,150-foot-long and 450-foot-wide hangar, which is also extremely tall, started in 2013 and looks to have wrapped up in 2015. To give…
I have a pathological aversion to personal debt. It has meant that I have remained a free agent for my 30 year career. I haven’t had fancy things, but I’ve alway had the freedom to walk. Turns out that scales to a country level too.. https://scheerpost.com/2024/08/06/debt-is-political-why-wealth-flows-from-poor-to-rich Debt and lack of taxes on the wealthy makes…
In a world of BS talking points… it’s heartening to see this one die. Michael Liebreich, chief executive officer of Liebreich Associates and managing partner of EcoPragma Capital, is more blunt. “There are no longer any so-called hard-to-abate sectors,” he wrote for BloombergNEF earlier this year. “There are only some sectors in which clean solutions…
Eight years ago, the PayPal and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel was an outlier in liberal Silicon Valley for publicly supporting Donald Trump. But now a number of prominent male tech plutocrats who previously opposed the former president have done an about-face: These broligarchs are publicly endorsing and donating to the Republican candidate—and revealing a lot about…
It’s well past time we start thinking of a new next model… An economy or economies based on manaakitanga, whanaungatanga, kaitiakitanga could set everyone up to live well, within connected communities and planetary boundaries. What if rāhui were respected and our ecosystems were regenerated, or our sense of obligation to each other meant that no…
He’s also not especially worried at the nationwide hostility currently directed towards the use of te reo Māori in everyday life. “I think it’s a dead cat bounce.” In other words, it’s a declining trend that makes a small uptick before it disappears completely. “You look at the young people in this district, you go…
ACT: All edge, no point. Props to Andrea Vance for calling the hypocrites out. The party has re-risen by stoking a culture war, peddling identity policies and putting a tale of Pākehā grievance at the heart of party identity. Part of that was relentless attacks on the character and motives of those with which it…
UPDATE: https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-market-stock-prices
It’s time for the next thing. I loathe JS in any arena outside of UI programming.
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