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Yeah, this article appears to be from 2023


> One singular nuclear warhead can be enough to eradicate the entire population in the US.

How big would this warhead be? "One singular nuclear warhead" wasn't enough to eradicate the entire populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, much less Japan.


2029? Wouldn't that be in the Vance or third Trump administration? Why would they send those CEOs to prison?


A lot of Hacker News posters work for Google and/or SaaS crapware companies. There's economic self interest at play here.


But how does raising awareness help anything in this case? In the current political climate, companies are likely more afraid of presidential punishment for not supporting Israel than of any public disapproval for supporting Israel.


> This is easier than it sounds from a military perspective because Israel is small and simple to isolate.

Does that sort of thing even work against nuclear powers? You could certainly isolate them like North Korea, but no country would be willing to invade for fear of seeing a mushroom cloud over their capital.


Fortunately, not even the crazier dictators have opted for nuclear war. Even Putin shied away from it, he understood the political price is preferable to the material price.


I thought that there were only four planets? Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune


The banner doesn't always seem to display; here's the direct link to the White House YouTube if anyone is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLhwIQUE0DU


Tax havens aren't immune to economic disaster though. If the US dollar becomes worthless, then it doesn't matter how many dollars you have in your offshore bank account. Ditto if you're storing wealth as equities or bonds. Real estate value will collapse if tenants can't pay rent or if the local government decides to confiscate land.

I suppose that you could keep gold or bitcoin wallets in a vault, but then it actually belongs to the vault guards, not to you.

Basically you need a collapse that's bad enough to shrink asset prices but not bad enough to break the social contact.


> Nvidia, the report said, will “continue to spare no effort” to make products that comply with regulations and “unswervingly serve the Chinese market.”

> A few weeks ago, Mr. Huang met with Mr. Trump in Mar-a-Lago at a dinner that cost $1 million per person.

Nvidia reminds me of third-world countries during the Cold War - playing off superpower suitors against each other. Potentially very lucrative, but also a very dangerous game.


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