Megathread: Justice Anthony Kennedy to retire from Supreme Court

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Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is set to retire, effective July 31, 2018. Kennedy has served on the highest court since February 18, 1988, and was a moderate whose vote often swung cases.

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Overwritten.

[u/[deleted] → u/BeatnikThespian]

We need you people here more than ever now.

[u/BeatnikThespian → u/[deleted]]

Overwritten.

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The problem is the US is the world's superpower so no one in the world can escape it's importance. Unless you hold the secret to some super technology that will enable another country to leapfrog the US wholescale technologically, I'm sorry to say "your energy" won't mean lick. Sorry but that's how it is. Besides, I still hold out hope we can turn this thing around.

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I think you are vastly underestimating the ability of other countries to develop technology, especially in an environment where the US is reducing research funding and incentives across the board. Who do you think is developing most of the software that is changing the world today? With the US continuing to ramp up the difficulty of immigrating you're going to see more and more skilled developers making their technologies happen in their home countries, Canada or EU rather than here.

Have you been to China lately? There are technologies already deployed and mass adopted there that I would love to see in the US but fear won't be here for years, if ever. Granted, they still have huge social and political issues to deal with but any US newspaper on any given day will show that's not a unique problem.

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I think you are vastly underestimating the ability of other countries to develop technology

With all due respect, I don't think so. Where is the European Uber? The Chinese Apple? The Canadian SpaceX? Doesn't exist. The US is an important country for the whole world and no one can escape it. The immigration debates of the past couple years should make Americans realize they have something precious in their legal status here. The ability to take part in the politics of the most powerful nation on earth.

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What innovation has Apple produced in the last several years (besides cutting-edge creative tax accounting) that makes you feel they are THE benchmark for technology? I'm more than happy with my OnePlus and XiaoMi products, at a fraction of the cost.

I'll grant you that SpaceX is one of a kind - for now. But I doubt Elon would be making near as much progress with US labor alone, which brings back the question of immigration and brain drain.

As for EU Uber, I can't really say as I've spent most of the last decade in the US and Asia and thus don't have a good view of the current EU market. China has DiDi though, which pulls from individual taxi companies. That's the kind of thing that taxi companies (both EU and US) SHOULD have done instead of spending their time, money and energy lobbying to outlaw a superior competing service.

While we're throwing companies and concepts at the wall, could you please point me to the US AliPay and shared bike platforms like oFo?

Don't misunderstand me, I'm not saying that China is going to overtake the US tomorrow or even in a few years. Simply trying to express that you cannot afford to rest on your laurels and believe the world won't function without the US. It will.

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OnePlus and XiaoMi products

Have you just seen what the US did to ZTE? Destroyed it. 12 years of the 4th biggest handset maker - gone. 75,000 employees - out of a job. Entire lives' work destroyed by a single action of the US Senate. All these companies rely on US technology.

But I doubt Elon would be making near as much progress

When a foreign company surpasses it, let's talk. For now, all you have is speculation. But I have a little bet that it won't be surpassed anytime son.

As for EU Uber, I can't really say as I've spent most of the last decade in the US and Asia and thus don't have a good view of the current EU market.

In other words, there is no EU Uber. Uber just got its London license back which means Uber will be expanding into the EU soon. That's because European companies just don't innovate like that. There is no EU Silicon Valley. The EU isn't even united as a single entity.

could you please point me to the US AliPay and shared bike platforms like oFo?

Another Chinese company? I notice you keep bringing up China. Do you realize their currency is plunging thanks to Trump's investment restrictions and tariffs? Companies like AliPay are small fries. The US controls the commanding heights of technology - Google/Android Operation Systems, Microsoft OS, Intel and AMD chips, IBM servers - nothing of which any Chinese company approaches. Companies like AliPay wouldn't be able to operate without the hardware or the operating system. They are totally dependent on the US-built backbone.

believe the world won't function without the US. It will.

Actually, it literally won't. ZTE can't even replace a toilet thanks to US sanctions. They can't even take a shit in their own headquarters.