Hacker News: HenryKissinger

New comment by HenryKissinger in "California port truckers ‘drowning’ in supply chain inefficiencies"

HenryKissinger — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 00:04:49 +0000

> "All we hear in the news is the lack of congestion on the waterside and we can confirm that, but we are drowning on the landside by long lines and staffing issues at the terminals,”

Boston Dynamics has built droids capable of handling cargo.[1][2][3]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iV_hB08Uns

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7v8ZUq16F4

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkv-_LqTeQA

If humans are in short supply and these supply issues are causing companies to lose money, surely every business handling cargo from the ports will line up to buy some BD droids?

New comment by HenryKissinger in "Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert"

HenryKissinger — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 22:04:09 +0000

It seems like viruses always tread a spectrum between infectivity and lethality. Does or could a virus exist which:

- has a 100% fatality rate, like rabies

- can keep the host alive long enough to spread and

- cannot be defeated by any prospective vaccine or can evolve fast enough to evade them?

Basically, airborne and human-to-human rabies, with no vaccine. Or vaccine resistant ebola, but even more lethal, infectious, and a longer incubation period.

Put more concisely, could a virus exist with the potential to wipe us out.

New comment by HenryKissinger in "An “incident” with the James Webb Space Telescope has occurred"

HenryKissinger — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 13:34:33 +0000

Maybe, just maybe, if we stopped building telescopes like fragile porcelain dolls with glass heads that can't take a scratch and started building them like tanks that can take a beating..

New comment by HenryKissinger in "Chinese Hypersonic weapon fired sep. from missile, tests constraints of physics"

HenryKissinger — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 19:31:48 +0000

China’s hypersonic weapon test in July included a technological advance that enabled it to fire a missile as it approached its target travelling at least five times the speed of sound — a capability no country has previously demonstrated. Pentagon scientists were caught off guard by the advance, which allowed the hypersonic glide vehicle, a manoeuvrable spacecraft that can carry a nuclear warhead, to fire a separate missile mid-flight over the South China Sea, according to people familiar with the intelligence. Experts at Darpa, the Pentagon’s advanced research agency, remain unsure how China overcame the constraints of physics by firing countermeasures from a vehicle travelling at hypersonic speeds, said the people familiar with details of the demonstration. Military experts have been poring over data related to the test to understand how China mastered the technology. They are also debating the purpose of the projectile, which was fired by the hypersonic vehicle with no obvious target of its own, before plunging into the water. Some Pentagon experts believe the projectile was an air-to-air missile. Others think it was a countermeasure to destroy missile defence systems so that they could not shoot down the hypersonic weapon during wartime. Russia and the US have also pursued hypersonic weapons for years, but experts say the firing of countermeasures is the latest evidence that China’s efforts are significantly more advanced than either the Kremlin or the Pentagon. The White House declined to comment on the countermeasure, but said it remained concerned about the July 27 test, which was first reported by the Financial Times last month. “This development is concerning to us as it should be to all who seek peace and stability in the region and beyond,” said a spokesperson for the National Security Council. “This also builds on our concern about many military capabilities that the People’s Republic of China continues to pursue.” The NSC added that the US would “continue to maintain the capabilities to defend and deter against a range of threats” from China.

New comment by HenryKissinger in "The Age of AI by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher"

HenryKissinger — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 16:54:40 +0000

This looks great. I can't wait to read it.

New comment by HenryKissinger in "China's Foreign Ministry 'not aware' of situation of tennis player Peng Shuai"

HenryKissinger — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 20:06:23 +0000

The Party couldn't care less, unfortunately.

New comment by HenryKissinger in "FDA asks federal judge to wait until 2076 to fully release Covid vaccine data"

HenryKissinger — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 05:03:16 +0000

Throw the whole thing at Reddit or 4Chan... it'll be finished in under a day.

New comment by HenryKissinger in "To be energy-efficient, brains predict their perceptions"

HenryKissinger — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 21:25:24 +0000

Insufficient memory to perform operation. Your brain will go to sleep in 5...4...3...2...1...

New comment by HenryKissinger in "A 1980s space telescope may have seen planet nine"

HenryKissinger — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 21:25:59 +0000

If Planet 9 contains rare earth metals, mining and manufacturing facilities could be built there. This should help alleviate the chip shortage.

New comment by HenryKissinger in "The Perils of Bad Strategy"

HenryKissinger — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 03:10:33 +0000

This guy sounds full of himself.

New comment by HenryKissinger in "Air cargo is suddenly affordable relative to ocean shipping"

HenryKissinger — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 23:14:40 +0000

Cars are also apprecating in value.

What other economic oddities are happening at the moment?

New comment by HenryKissinger in "Russia has conducted an Anti-satellite weapons test. ISS crew sheltering"

HenryKissinger — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 17:30:20 +0000

> Russian astronauts took refuge in the Soyuz MS-18 capsule, while American astronauts went to the Space Crew Dragon capsule.

Each national crew going into their own pod.

New comment by HenryKissinger in "More than a third of women in tech eyeing the exit in next two years"

HenryKissinger — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 23:01:52 +0000

Could it be that women in tech are often partnered with men who also work in tech and, because of the above average total compensation packages offered at tech companies compared to other skilled industries, more dual tech households are considering transitioning to single income households?

New comment by HenryKissinger in "[dead]"

HenryKissinger — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 01:33:55 +0000

Am I the only one who feels like words have lost all their power in the political realm? There once was a time when speeches could be grand and alter the nation's consciousness. Words used to matter more. JFK's inaugural address is remembered as one of the greatest speeches in American history. That wasn't such a long time ago. Can the same be said of Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, or George W. Bush? Ironically enough, Trump's inaugural address, despite the fact that Trump is a terrible public speaker, will be more famous than those of his immediate successor and predecessor, because of the "American carnage" line. No one remembers what Joe Biden said in his inaugural address.

Everyone is so fazed, cynical, tired, and disillusioned these days that they wouldn't care if the president made the greatest speech ever. On the opposite side of the coin, Trump broke about every single rule in the book about what politicians shouldn't say, and he won 74 million votes.

Americans don't care about words anymore. No one can change anyone else's mind anymore.

New comment by HenryKissinger in "Crypto Is Forbidden for Muslims, Indonesia’s National Religious Council Rules"

HenryKissinger — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 03:42:13 +0000

> The National Ulema Council, or MUI, has deemed cryptocurrency as haram, or banned, as it has elements of uncertainty, wagering and harm, Asrorun Niam Sholeh, head of religious decrees, said on Thursday after the council held an expert hearing. If cryptocurrency as a commodity or digital asset can abide by Shariah tenets and can show a clear benefit, then it can be traded, he added.

I sense a business opportunity for a cryptocurrency that abides by Shariah tenets.

New comment by HenryKissinger in "Facebook Has 47 Data Centers Under Construction"

HenryKissinger — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 23:40:31 +0000

Google's stock is higher than when Google Plus launched. The same will be true of FB.

New comment by HenryKissinger in "Facebook Has 47 Data Centers Under Construction"

HenryKissinger — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 23:11:37 +0000

My point of view, as a non-techie: Facebook.com is running fine. Instagram.com is running fine. WhatsApp is running fine. Facebook doesn't need more storage space. Facebook active users aren't growing anymore (if you exclude bots, scammers, fake profiles, and double accounts), youngsters are fleeing Instagram for TikTok, and WhatsApp is at peak market saturation. Global human population is peaking and will start declining within a couple of decades, anti-Facebook views are more popular than ever, and deservedly so. The MetaVerse will be a flop, and Facebook won't get into the cloud business, because it's too late to disrupt Microsoft and Amazon. Ergo, Facebook doesn't need anywhere near 47 new data centers. If the Facebook app was experiencing regular outages I would understand. Am I missing something?

New comment by HenryKissinger in "I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old"

HenryKissinger — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 13:57:47 +0000

> Still way too many libraries and programs can't handle spaces in filenames.

"It's nothing."

"What do you mean?"

"It's nothing... It's empty space. I never taught the computer how to read empty space!"

"I never taught Virgil how to fly."

New comment by HenryKissinger in "The Slow-Motion Financial Suicide of the Roman Empire"

HenryKissinger — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 21:06:51 +0000

How far can we go back in history to find examples of advanced civilizations that collapsed, how can we make the case that the collapse was caused by [economic policy I don't like], and how does it prove that [economic policy I don't like] would equally fail today?

New comment by HenryKissinger in "Evergrande teeters on edge of default as $148M payment falls due"

HenryKissinger — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 19:04:24 +0000

The U.S. shouldn't protect investors from the free market? That's the free market at work. Investors are not entitled to be paid. All investments carry risk.