If I were to ask 10,000 people selected randomly from outside the US. What percentage do you think would be able to name the naval commander of the US? I'd bet it's very close to zero.
What are you adding to the conversation with this comment? HN isn't the place for such remarks. Consider posting to the 100s of websites where comments like this are incentivised and not here.
Very pleased to see this comment here :). I would definitely recommend his essays and especially his book infinite jest, if you have the stomach for it.
I just use materialistic app on mobile and the website on other devices. I can save the posts on the app and for the website i just save it all as a list on dynalist that I have open all the time.
I feel like it was greatly due to the WWII. Those and so many other discoveries were the direct result of programs like project manhattan.
Maybe the human species really needs to be pushed to extinction to further tξhe human enterprise or maybe it was just the crazy funding similar to bell labs.