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Leibniz invented shift registers 270 years before it was used

I'm thrilled about reading this. One should never be a pacifist when being in a part of technology revolution

I borrowed 3 books from the Grand Bibliotheque during the weekends after I was disappointed that the US didn't continue Project Orion anymore. I wonder if Project Orion might be able to be continued in the future.

Couldn't be more relevant than today

“Jon Ruggles was working in his Houston office one morning early in 2011 when a headhunter called with something intriguing. Delta Air Lines was searching for a vice president of fuel, the recruiter said, and the person they hired would rebuild the carrier’s commodity contract trading, or hedging, from scratch.”

Excerpt From
The Secret Club That Runs the World
Kate Kelly
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“Over a leisurely lunch one July day a couple of years ago at a sidewalk bistro in Andurand’s hometown of Aix-en-Provence, the warm, bustling city near the Mediterranean coast in southern France, I asked him who was the best commodity trader in the world. “I’d like to say it’s me,”

Excerpt From
The Secret Club That Runs the World
Kate Kelly
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“Still, Andurand had something others lacked: fearlessness. He traded billions of dollars’ worth of oil contracts in the markets daily, exposing himself to potential losses that many traders couldn’t stomach.”

Excerpt From
The Secret Club That Runs the World
Kate Kelly
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Chapter 5 Jihad

Brutal

I realized now that the advancement of the Third Reich was because of technological superiority pf atomic - biological - chemical that were better than the allies.

“Two years later, in September 1995, thirty-three mercenaries stormed up the beach near Moroni after disembarking from an old freighter called the Vulcain. At their head was Colonel Bob Denard, obviously bored with early retirement. It was Groundhog Day in the Comoros. The invaders were mostly former members of the Presidential Guard and the locals, especially the women, greeted them warmly.

“They’d deliberately chosen this strategy because they had bought the intelligence explosion argument made by the British mathematician Irving Good back in 1965: “Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even bette

“On a chilly night in January 2009, a broad-shouldered, unshaven man in his early thirties was walking home from the Equinox gym in Tribeca, his shoulders curled inward against the cold. It was around 8:30 P.M., and Jonathan Hollander had just finished a ninety-minute workout, lifting weights and circuit training. He was damp and hungry, looking forward to getting takeout, going home, and doing a little work."

“Cohen approached every aspect of his life like a trader, and with his employees it was no different; many years, Cohen fired dozens of people for failing to deliver the returns he wanted.”

Excerpt From: Sheelah Kolhatkar. “Black Edge.” iBooks.

There tend to be two types of people who seek out jobs on Wall Street. The first are those with wealthy parents who were sent to the right prep schools and Ivy League colleges. The second type call to mind terms like street smart and scrappy. They might have watched their fathers struggle to support the family which would have had a profound effect on them.

Excerpt From: Sheelah Kolhatkar. “Black Edge.”