When you absolutely, positively need to beat Hitler to atomic weapons/defeat a virus, then time is the only thing that matters and you draw the appropriate conclusions. But it takes real guts and leadership to act on them.
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The Manhattan project didn't have Twitter or Hacker News, so they had to waste years and years of effort on problems those message boards could have solved a priori. On the plus side, though, there's no way humanity could have endured online Feynman fanboys without nuking itself.
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Good news for werewolves!
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the fact that he's going to just blow a billion+ dollars on what's going to be nothing is pretty much the only decent thing I have seen from billionaires in all this.
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What do you think will happen to his billionaire status if he doesn't do this and the economy contacts by "trillions" (his estimate)? This might as well be a cost-saving measure for him.
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Here is that part from The Making of the Atomic Bomb:pic.twitter.com/PKHY4Pf6sV
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The fact Bill Gates is doing this and not the US Govt tells you everything you need to know about our failed state “But muh Solyndra...”
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not just silver -- the project relied on a shipment of rare congolese high-purity uranium ore on staten island when they called the importer (edgar sengier), he was like 'I know what this is for, you don't have to say it, it's yours'
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If only the CDC has deployed such resilience in their development of a virus test...
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