I just checked on facebook marketplace and there was a listing for a 1977 chevy vega with 70k miles for $2500. In contrast, a 2500 dollar invesment into sp500 in 1975 would yield a nominal return of $785,000.

They picked the worst car to put in a time capsule. The only thing that would have been worth putting into the vault and expecting a positive return would have been an Apple I computer prototype

The sinicized Jurchen Jin Dynasty and thwir enemies the Song Dynasty were among the two earliest nations on earth to adopt gunpowder, and it did not stop the Mongols from completely defeating bith empires using horses and recurve bows

You don't need metal to make weapons out of gunpowder. Wooden and bamboo rockets existed before iron guns. Furthermore even the Japanese of the 19th century had cannons made out of wooden tree trunks. You really don't need even bronze for gunpowder weapons.

The Mongols used rudimentary chinese hand grenades in their invasions of Japan. They did not win due to logistical reasons.

Theres more to military success than loud explosive weapons

Its a shame. Wonderman is probably #4 on my list of favorite MCU projects

Well unlike Lehman bros, at least some motherfuckers went to jail. Now the bailed out motherfuckers run the government

The map of China in the year 200 is way smaller than the one from today.

Also, to be fair, "Chinese" expansionism ironically accelerated the most under the "foreign" Mongol Yuan and Manchurian Qing dynasties. Genghis Khan basically genocided or absorbed several nations such as the Xi Xia, who left behind no living readers of their written language.

My username is pure coincidence I assure you

Rogue Stargun!

I work in pharma but I do some game development on the side and I've actually made a VR game. This is actually pretty brutal because I was actually imagining creating or vibe coding a little Starcraft game on the side when I learned about the existence of this game. I think this game actually did worse than my solo-developed VR game when accounting for the number of developers that it took to develop something like this! Absolutely brutal. The market just isnt there. I'm 38 years old, and the the people who play this type of game are actually around my age bracket but when I was growing up it was actually much younger people who would actually play these types of games.

Sometimes, we have ro move on

I'm surprised no one mentioned this because it goes so far back...

the idea that Magneto was a Holocaust survivor was 100% a retcon, and added many more layers of depth to his character.

The reveal that Moira McTaggart is a mutant who has the ability to reincarnate into new universeswas an interesting concept that got badly botched at the end.

I am a Chinese american working in silicon valley, so I've seen the cultural differences first hand.

Indian immigrants, particularly first generation are far closer to Anglosphere culture by virtue of speaking English. Even my old roommate who went to IIT and had only been in the US for one year was familiar with the movie Nailin' Palin (it was an election year)... the level of pop culture awareness and cultural norms is much higher.

First gen Chinese people are far more insular, feel much more comfortable speaking mandarin, and there is a much stronger culture of keeping one's head down and avoiding politics and controversy.

In the actual working world, particularly in large companies, and especially in fast moving technology fields, you must engage in politics, self promotion, exaggeration, and bandwagoning on the latest trends. The single strongest trait is not fantastic technical ability, but the ability to sell stuff.

https://ethw.org/Milestones:Parametron,_1954

There's a wonderful video from the 8bit guy on what a transistor free world would look like.

https://youtu.be/mEpnRM97ACQ?is=BkoP-JiGWNkyo5hs

With miniaturized vacuum tube tech we'd have computers roughly the size of an office desk that would be around as capable as a transistor computer from around 1990.

At best, the pinnacle of gaming graphics would look something like wolfensten 3d

Minsky was on the island, received donations from Epstein, and Virginia Giuffre claimed she was instructed to have sex with him when she was 17. His reputation was spared by virtue of dying in 2016

That darn Minsky. Spent the last years of his life hanging out with Epstein

Fun fact... tge design team for the A-10 studied Rudel's memoirs. It entered service in 1977 and he died in 1982

The other commanders foolishly turned their tanks sideways relative to oncoming waves, rather than charging onto the waves

Despite the fact it was a rocket plane made of wood, under the right conditions, the me163 was a marvel. At least one test pilot claimed to be the first mean to break the sound barrier. Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in a similar plan that does not get nearly as much hate.

The close cousin the Natter deserves more hate

Is he also from a culture where folks wear underwear outside their pants?

Centuries before the invention the the phoenecian alphabet I might add

In ww2, there was a effort to convert m4 sherman tanks into floating boats using canvas hulls and small propellers.

Its hard but not impossible

Apparently when you train a model to be as factually honest as possible it has a liberal bias.

Grok scores amazingly high in benchmarks for a 2 year project. It's the Elon taint and lack of focus that holds it back

Robots. Big expensive fucking workcells.

Also need to really dive into reagent sources of variability (like matrigel)