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by Eelongate 5y ago
You think the iceberg is coincidentally only as deep as what we've presently heard? That we didn't have the full story yesterday, but today we definitely do? Well I hope you're right, but I don't think you are.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
The public's elected representatives being easily blackmailable is obviously of great concern to the public, I don't know why you're downplaying this.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
The very left-wing Americans I know hated Trump a lot more than they love Biden. They have no particular love for Biden because Biden is not very left-wing at all. Biden comes from the old neoliberal contingent of the DNC, not the new le
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by Eelongate 5y ago
In principle, America could drop Hellfire R9X sword missiles through the cars of every NSO employee. In practice, would American politicians have the nerve to go to war with NSO, when NSO probably infected all their phones years ago? How
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Yep. Weak, incompetent or absent governments, with corporations governing most affairs in practice.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
I think that remains to be seen.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> Then there's the time they stole nuclear material from us https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apollo_Affair On a related note, JFK was trying to shut down Israel's nuclear weapons program in the months b
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by Eelongate 5y ago
At the time the cost to launch it would have been insane since it called for ten thousand or more satellites in LEO. However with Starlink, SpaceX has been promising to demonstrate the ability to economically launch such massive satellite
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by Eelongate 5y ago
The term tabloid has a literal meaning besides the pejorative meaning. The format of Yedioth is tabloid, not broadsheet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabloid_(newspaper_format)
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> "[...] instead of the current ones ascribing all agency and blame to just NSO." The article does not claim that NSO has sole responsibility for any of the crimes it was an accomplice to.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
In past HN conversations about this topic, there have always been some who deny or downplay the relationship between NSO and the Israeli government. This article paints a convincing story to the contrary: NSO and the rest of Israel's
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by Eelongate 5y ago
There's at least one exception to this; rabies. Wild animals can be vaccinated using baits containing an oral rabies vaccine.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
The USAF have a love affair with fast jets (who can blame them?) but I have a feeling that using manned aircraft as the first stage of missiles is an anachronism that won't survive the next major war.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Yes, 'fair shake' is the term. Wiktionary defines it as "Reasonable, unbiased treatment; a fair deal." and provides examples from both American and British newspapers, so it seems to be used on both sides of the Atl
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by Eelongate 5y ago
ICBMs by definition go to space, the B stands for Ballistic. FOB systems aren't ballistic either (that B stands for Bombardment), but still go to space and Brilliant Pebbles is designed to intercept missiles during the initial boost
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by Eelongate 5y ago
The US Navy could block all Chinese exports and imports by sea around the world, not only those between China and America. This is why China's "Belt and Road Initiative" (aka the 'New Silk Road') is so important to
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are all considered latent nuclear powers; they each operate numerous nuclear reactors and likely have the material and expertise on hand to create nuclear weapons in a matter of months (if they ever chose to.)
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Apple supposedly has a indefinite 'architectural' license to design and manufacture ARM chips. Presumably that cannot be revoked.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
It's not the job of any military to be fair.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Getting a close look at it, and seeing what it can do. For instance, seeing if it's capable of precisely the evasive behavior that it apparently demonstrated.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
The objective of the game is making the other guy feel certain he can't win. The only winning condition is when both sides believe they can't win.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> What counts as a drone? Satellites can be steered, are those drones? Traditionally, any remote controlled aircraft is a drone, it seems fair to say any remote controlled spacecraft is also a drone. The first drone, from which the ter
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by Eelongate 5y ago
If SpaceX can get Starship flying at the price they predict, it would be a game-changer. Presently that seems like a big 'if'. It would pay to be the first nation with a Brilliant Pebbles installation, since such an installatio
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> In my mind, if someone has already gained access to my user on the server, which has sudo privileges, they are only a couple of steps away from be able to take control over the server anyways. This seems like sound logic to me. If y
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> EDIT: I just want to see how many people died per capita in 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 and so forth, why is that not shown anywhere? Because that statistic makes the whole thing seem very mellow. Same thing as average life expectancy by
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by Eelongate 5y ago
Thankfully so, since "shouting fire in a theater" was an incredibly lame euphemism for telling people to dodge the draft.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
> We should remember that the freedom of the press exists because a well informed population is necessary for a functioning democracy. The text of the First Amendment does not contain this or any other justification for itself. And ri
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by Eelongate 5y ago
You can thank the CIA for justifying their suspicion of vaccination drives.
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by Eelongate 5y ago
You can't send everybody home for two months, even if you give everybody two months of shelf stable food. Somebody needs to keep the utilities running. People still need fresh water to bath with, to wash their shit away. You migh
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by Eelongate 5y ago
When people claiming to suffer from long covid are tested for antibodies, a substantial portion of them are revealed to have never had covid in the first place. And anecdotally, every last person I personally know that claims long covid i

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