Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril, on why America needs to protect its innovations from China 🇺🇸🇨🇳
“We cannot beat China with 500 million Americans. It will never happen. Our only hope for some kind of systematic advantage against China is in innovation.
Patents are Chinese instruction manuals. You’re taking your most valuable stuff. The Founders never predicted a world where you would have a globalized economy, where the entire patent office could be downloaded every single morning and then ripped off and used to fight a war against you.
Western companies think that you can trade temporary exclusivity on an idea in exchange for eventually entering the public domain.
All that really means in practice is that for 20 years, somebody can rip it off right away, and Western companies can only rip it off after 20 years. Then you repeat this cycle over and over again for every single generation, and it’s killing us.
We need to really fundamentally revisit the patent system.
I think, for example, a lot of things around artificial intelligence are of national-security importance. They should be allowed to get a patent, and it should absolutely not be disclosed publicly.”
67 years ago today, ‘Take Five’ by Dave Brubeck Quartet was released as a single.
It went on to become the best-selling jazz single of the 20th century.
Sure, Joe wasn’t that good in the last couple seasons and his mistakes cost us a lot but him being with us for so long and sticking by us during the highs and lows more than earns my respect. Hope you have a great farewell game Joe!
Joe Says No! #EveryoneN
@AdamSchefter I’m just going to go out on a limb here…
For a guy whose nickname is Juice, could it not be “reasonably construed” that he is drinking… stay with me here… Juice?
The Mayor in Uganda who confronted the tofu Chinese scam builders isn't stopping his duty anytime soon.
Remember the weak, biscuit-like concrete that crumbles with a single hand, and the fake, skewed drainage layouts.
He's exposing the construction theft: corner-cutting, bad techniques, poor materials, weak structures, and every kind of shortchanging.
He will ultimately send them packing, let them go build trash back in China.
Ronaldo Balimwezo is what competence and real leadership look like.
Imagine how much money Uganda would have saved over the years by keeping profit-only scam contractors out.
This is called hands-on management, the kind that builds great cities.
Construction means structures on the ground, not reports on office tables or images on boardroom slides.
Uganda, this should be your everyday standard: inspect it, it's your money, chase bad builders away.
It's time to cancel contracts with bad builders, no more excuses, no more delays.
African infrastructure has become easy money for scam Chinese contractors and corrupt bureaucrats.
That era must end.
Former NFL star Chris Johnson opens up about his ALS DIAGNOSIS after realizing something was wrong when he struggled to LIFT A CUP, saying years of repeated head trauma could’ve played a role but he refuses to blame football 💔
He says he’ll keep FIGHTING to watch his kids grow up and one day see his daughter walk down the aisle at her WEDDING 🙏
“I still love football. It changed my life and gave me opportunities I’ll never forget… I’m gonna keep fighting to be here for my family. That’s what gives me hope.”
Former NFL star Chris Johnson speaks on his ALS diagnosis, revealing he knew something wasn’t right after having trouble lifting a cup. He says repeated head trauma may have contributed but doesn’t blame football and plans to keep fighting for his kids.
Imagine the next Halo game opens exactly where Halo 3 ended.
Master Chief floats through space.
“Wake me… when you need me.”
Cut to black.
Then we see Cortana’s memories....Halo 4. Halo 5. Infinite. Everything that came after Halo 3… distorted, fragmented, escalating into a horrifying dream.
Suddenly...
Cortana wakes.
She looks around.
Silence.
None of it happened.
It was all just a nightmare buried inside her neural matrix… the way a human mind can turn its fears into dreams.
Then we hear:
“Chief… I need you.”
And the pod opens.
HALO IS BACK.