Chris P

CTO, Chef, Optimist

[Chris P @petrovchris]

@cornu__copia @teortaxesTex No, US absolutely knows that only Finland and Poland are willing to die for territory. The rest will not.

[Chris P @petrovchris]

@RnaudBertrand Singapore has quite high electricity price, plus no hydro or nuclear, almost all generation is natural gas. Plus emission standards and constant wind keep the smog in check. Not enough space for serious solar too.

[Chris P @petrovchris]

@bscholl That’s like lamenting selling Yugo to Tesla. The only asset left is the brand recognition.

[Chris P @petrovchris]

@eurofounder Fake. Any real European will know that you cannot just fire workers, you have to give them 2 year notice

[Chris P @petrovchris]

@AndyBxxx @iloveyatchan @takaichi_sanae May be in parts of China. For sure it was not blocked for me, I was able to use it without VPN in Shenzhen.

[Chris P @petrovchris]

Unexpected China:
1. X totally works without VPN
2. DiDi totally works with foreign SIM, and with foreign credit cards. And it’s in English
3. WeChat pay also totally works without VPN foreign SIM, it’s just painful to use.
4. They still drive like it’s the Balkans in the 90s

[Chris P @petrovchris]

@NukitToBeSure , my wife and me are in Shenzhen this Thursday and Friday, would love to take you and your SO to dinner and/or drinks to appreciate all the good stuff you do for humanity

[Chris P @petrovchris]

@nikstankovic_ Bulgaria had bad experience with hyperinflation. The peg worked for 28 years, but there is always a risk of devaluation if you get several incompetent governments in a row.

[Chris P @petrovchris]

@austinbarnard45 @packetsniffer99 If you do not party, skip Poland. Prague is magic, even if mega touristy. Spain is like 7-8 countries in one, always solid. Portugal is smaller and cheaper Spain, with some nature almost on the level of California.

[Chris P @petrovchris]

@austinbarnard45 @packetsniffer99 In that case, North Italy, nothing compares to it. Rome, Florence, Venice, Piza, Milan and all the places in between will barely enough for two weeks.

[Chris P @petrovchris]

@nikstankovic_ @uliang6482 More like a 1000 years. Tang is the first dynasty in which China becomes number one economy. In all recorded human history the West was more developed most of the time. And by West I mean Middle East. China is getting the top spot only when it has competent leadership.

[Chris P @petrovchris]

@cstanley Give us one click spam report, if possible. Also, in report posts we should have a scam category.

[Chris P @petrovchris]

@nikstankovic_ It comes from the other part of the Soviet-style education - give world class math classes to every boy and girl.

[Chris P @petrovchris]

@SciGuySpace @lilyjoyberger I have read the Treble Choir as Terrible Choir lol

[History Nerd @_HistoryNerd]

In 1945, Hitler had a secret plan to bomb New York from orbit.

A spaceplane faster than sound, a nuclear arsenal and flying saucers—this wasn’t science fiction.

It was the terrifying future Nazi scientists almost created.

Here’s the story of how it all began and why it failed:

[Chris P @petrovchris]

Nate is generous here. She was always a Democratic leadership darling, but terrible candidate. In the CA DA race she almost lost to a Republican, the senate race was against generally hated Loretta Sanchez, in 2020 primary she did not win a single electoral vote.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

I'm sympathetic to Harris, but she was a mediocre candidate. And I think the evidence points toward this being a winnable race for Democrats with a better one.

https://t.co/dUgICsU7b0

[Chris P @petrovchris]

@ErinIshimoticha One Starlink satellite can fit exactly 10,000 cubic votes, 700 got destroyed since the election, that’s why there are 7 million missing votes, qed, checkmate!

[Chris P @petrovchris]

@austinbarnard45 Most probably Siberian Tiger

https://t.co/YUScF6AGNf

[Chris P @petrovchris]

@NASASpaceflight The shots you took go beyond epic!

[Chris P @petrovchris]

@RnaudBertrand Those are highly suspicious numbers. For aircraft engines and space launch systems China is about 10 years behind. Goes in other direction too, in drone technology China is years ahead and literally every drone produced anywhere contains Chinese components.