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Another examples is that the DoD has for quite a long time declared China as the primary adversary, or as they politely say it "pacing challenge".
This is simply untrue of the WSJ opinion pages, they've been publishing climate change denials for the last 30 years, so "factual" is absolutely not something you can just take for granted if you find it there. This is why I found it incredible that you implied it would be a mark of quality.
Am I reading this correctly when I take it to mean that you think something being on the WSJ opinion pages gives it credibility?
Anyway, Newtons contribution with Principia was to collect facts known in his time and put them into one unified mathematical framework, he didn't actually discover any of "his" laws (as predicted by Stigler's law).
> "I no longer believe that it is possible to build a competitive federated messenger at all"
Personally I think the new titles stays pretty close to the thesis statement, but it might be a bit exaggerated as clearly Marlinspike doesn't mean "technically impossible" but rather something more like "socially unworkable".
> By measuring the dispersion of the radio pulses with respect to frequency, we have localized the source to within our own Galaxy and suggest that it could be an ultra-long-period magnetar.
And if you don't see that as human rights problem, consider you're wasting your finite intelligence resources on dead ends and so you're not finding the traditional spies that's just some dude that's been bribed.
Have you also spent most of last year accusing George Floyd protesters of downplaying the importance of paying for cigarettes?
Probably the original craftspeople would be hella jealous about reinforce concrete and insist on building some big towering monstrosity that doesn't respect the architecture around it. That was after all what they set out to build, a big hopping temple to god that puts everything around it to shame: give those guys a big budget and reinforced concrete and you have a new flight hazard in the middle of Paris.
Some sort of reverse psychology plot to get the French to go ahead with the plans I presume?
If your ambition is a more detailed history of science account of the establishment of the distance ladder (up to some slightly distant point in time, as work is still ongoing, see the famous Hubble tension), try googling for articles about history of science and the distance ladder. That activity gives me this preview that might be interesting: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24536521
A full version can probably be found online.
Anyway, the real question is how the net income compares to living expenses, and how that had developed over time.