True US military costs and waste

The U.S. military budget is $824.6 billion. That’s the budget for Fiscal Year 2018 which covers the period October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. 1. $574.5 billion base budget for the Department of Defense. 2. $64.6 billion Overseas Contingency Operations for DoD to fight the Islamic State group 3. $78.9 billion Department of Veterans …

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US Nuclear forces costs $1.2 trillion til 2046 and yearly over half Russia’s entire military budget

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the most recent detailed plans for US nuclear forces, which were incorporated in the Obama Administration’s 2017 budget request, would cost $1.2 trillion in 2017 dollars over the 2017–2046 period: more than $800 billion to operate and sustain (that is, incrementally upgrade) nuclear forces and about $400 billion to modernize them. What Are the 30-Year …

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Alibaba’s Single Day sales 5 times US Black Friday+ Cyber Monday

Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE:BABA) announced that US$25.3 billion (RMB168.2 billion) of gross merchandise volume (GMV) was settled through Alipay on November 11, 2017, (Single’s Day) an increase of 39% compared to 2016. Mobile GMV settled through Alipay accounted for 90% of total GMV. The most recent quarter Alibaba’s revenue surged by 61 percent thanks …

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Quantum Computers Mainstream in 2018 and race ahead of Supercomputer power

Quantum Supremacy is when quantum computers become faster than classical computers. Once Quantum Computers surpass classical computers they will continue to improve at a FAR more rapid pace. Doubling the transistors on a regular chip might achieve double the performance doubling the qubits on a quantum computer can provide an exponential speedup depending upon the …

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Suborbital Spaceplane company XCOR files for bankruptcy

Xcor was making a suborbital reusable launch vehicle (a suborbital spaceplane). XCOR filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy Wednesday in the Eastern District of California. Money dried up for XCOR after its subcontract with United Launch Alliance wasn’t renewed this year. In 2016, XCOR began development on the full scale 25k lbf thrust liquid hydrogen engine, …

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Softbank and Bezos backed vertical farm startup has global expansion plans

Plenty is a startup that has big vertical farming expansion plans $226 million in total venture funding. They plan to build a 100,000 square foot (2.3 acres) vertical-farming warehouse this year in Washington state outside of Seattle. That farm is expected to produce 4.5 million pounds of greens annually. Plenty grows plants on 20-foot high …

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Trading your time and attention for cryptocurrency

mytime is a decentralized blockchain platform with its own cryptocurrency — mytimecoin (MYTC). The number of services that require a human’s attention to operate is growing daily. However, our time is finite and will never be enough for all the activities which genuinely interest us. Our time is the most valuable thing we have. So …

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