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Re:Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national s... by embedding-shape on Monday December 15, 2025 @02:26PM (#46279161)
Yeah, money machine go brrrr is a great sign of "footprint", lets just ignore millenniums of inventions, technology and others things coming from Europe, before the US was even a colony. Texas GDP was $x millions last year, clearly larger footprint on the world :)

It's actually pretty fun and interesting the different bubbles we all live in, for better or worse.

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Re:Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national s... by JumpCrisscross on Monday December 15, 2025 @02:57PM (#46279630)
> lets just ignore millenniums of inventions, technology and others things coming from Europe, before the US was even a colony

Those people are dead. They did great things. But it's irrelevant to their standing and influence today.

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Re:Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national s... by embedding-shape on Thursday December 18, 2025 @05:36AM (#46311043)
True, like how Silicon Valley should change it name, because Gordon Moore died so lets forget everything he ever did.
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Re:Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national s... by thesmtsolver2 on Sunday December 21, 2025 @08:56PM (#46350557)
No place in the US has "Silicon Valley" as its formal name.
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Re:Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national s... by sharkjacobs on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @02:44AM (#46299268)
I meant the geographic footprint. I was surprised by how big Texas is, even though it is famously big.
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Re:Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national s... by thesmtsolver2 on Sunday December 21, 2025 @09:00PM (#46350573)
A lot of those discoveries were actually made elsewhere ( not the majority, but an embarrassingly significant amount)

https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/indians-predated-new...

https://sd2.org/bibha-chowdhuri-a-woman-of-firsts-with-no-re...

> After the war ended, Cecil Powell, a British physicist, continued the research in England using similar methods with more sensitive plates, detecting a new particle and winning him the Nobel Prize in 1950. Chowdhury and Bose’s work was acknowledged in his book, but their recognition quickly faded.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/01/hidden...

https://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/BLOGPAPERS/fibfibs.pdf

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