DuskStar

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by DuskStar 7y ago
No, but by your standards 'Socialist' describes Nazi Germany approximately as well as it does China.
902.
by DuskStar 7y ago
In the counterfactual where the Soviets conquered Europe, I could easily see the USSR surviving to today... No liberal democracies on their borders to compare with, no need for a huge military on the western border, and increased resources
903.
by DuskStar 7y ago
I'm pretty sure that without the US, the 20th century would have seen Europe united under either Nazi Germany or the USSR...
904.
by DuskStar 7y ago
I'm confused - are you trying to say that the Nazis weren't socialist and so can't be compared to China, or that China isn't socialist and so can't be compared to the Nazis? Or just that we shouldn't use the wo
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Thought experiment - if you're Chamberlain, and want to postpone the war with Germany for a few more years while you build an army - what exactly do you say in a speech? "We're currently too weak to fight, but we'll ge
906.
by DuskStar 7y ago
Yeah, absolutely no parallels there. A rising military and economic power surrounded by historic enemies now weaker than them, complete with a governmental system that concentrates power in one man at the very top, a philosophy of racial su
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by DuskStar 7y ago
If you drive up onto the sidewalk and break both my legs, I would certainly expect you to pay more than $100k if my medical bills came to that. Or more generally, a human life is worth quite a few times more than $100k - does that make it n
908.
by DuskStar 7y ago
I agree that enforcing copyleft licenses is extremely necessary. My thought here was that "those who would want to use our software to take freedom away from others" is a bit too broad to apply to just that, especially when cons
909.
by DuskStar 7y ago
> We don't have to be friendly to those who would want to use our software to take freedom away from others. We should be friendly to everyone who wants to use our software freely, regardless of their skill level. "We should be
910.
by DuskStar 7y ago
Why does "they've been doing this for a decade" mean "they aren't trying to oust major free software figures"?
911.
by DuskStar 7y ago
Still seems like you're describing a spectrum and not two distinct things. Both journalism and propaganda - as you've described them - twist the truth to make you believe something else. Which is why I say everything on that spec
912.
by DuskStar 7y ago
The answer is simple - by lying, or by not understanding what rights they have. There's no repercussions, so why not?
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Why on Earth would propaganda always need to be false? The best lies contain a kernel of truth, after all. Yes, if you define propaganda as "intentional lies" then the media doesn't put out much of it. But that category also
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> skilled conservative tech people still get jobs, they just need to shut their mouths and blend in when people talk at lunch or whatever. "Skilled colored people get jobs, they just need to keep their mouths shut and respect their
915.
by DuskStar 7y ago
Objectivity is what separates Journalism from Propaganda.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Given sufficient power and seawater, we have unlimited drinking water. Reactors provide sufficient power. So I don't think "running out of water" is a valid concern here. (Though some plants have had issues from lack of water
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by DuskStar 7y ago
To clarify for others - LNT refers to "Linear No Threshold", the most conservative [0] model for assessing deaths from radiation exposure. Under LNT, if some amount of radiation leads to a 1% chance of death, 1/10th that amou
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Right, but presumably you'd be using a wavelength that's scattered a bit less than that.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
For certain wavelengths, yes. But others go straight through.
920.
by DuskStar 7y ago
Why would an airborne camera be able to pick ground-based lasers up easily? Wouldn't you need to fly directly between the satellite and the ground terminal? Same goes for laser-guided bombs - those home in on where the laser pointer is
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by DuskStar 7y ago
I've certainly gone on vacation and spent the entire time walking around to museums or lounging around on the beach - is that really higher carbon than driving around in SoCal?
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by DuskStar 7y ago
I think you misunderstand. We got the 737 Max because of competition from Airbus in the form of the A320neo series - otherwise Boeing would have taken a few more years and made a clean-sheet design. EDIT: I'm not saying the 737 Max i
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> And yet the data still shows widespread economic disparity due to discrimination The data shows widespread economic disparity. It does not show the cause, which may or may not be discrimination.
924.
by DuskStar 7y ago
It would be really interesting to see that getting applied to a fleet oiler design. A nuclear powered tanker that constantly refills itself for the DDs and CGs to use...
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Has anyone tried the new official terminal? [0]/[1] It looks rather interesting, if still in prerelease. (also, there's a trailer for it on YouTube - so weird [2]) 0: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal 1:
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by DuskStar 7y ago
This also assumes no risk of losing the plane, of course. If each sortie drops two bombs and has a 1% chance of airframe loss, that increases the cost/bomb for the drone by 500k or the stealth bomber by 5 mil. (which is part of why you
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> Predictions about climate change, while often imprecise, are largely evidence based. Religious prophecies are not. "The world will end in 15 years" is fundamentally based on faith, whether that is faith in science or in a pro
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Do those people contribute significantly more than they would have had they stayed home, though? If a person would have emitted X at home, but instead flew somewhere and emitted X there, I don't think it makes sense to blame the airlin
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by DuskStar 7y ago
A cruise missile that hits the bridge the first time every time might still be more cost effective than saturation bombing the square mile surrounding the bridge until you get that one lucky bomb to connect, though. And that's what a l
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Wouldn't a better analogy be to give free food and housing to women, but not to men?

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