RobertMiller

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by RobertMiller 5y ago
That number supposedly comes from official Russian sources. I say supposedly because I don't understand Russian and have to trust western sources about this, but these numbers have been widely disseminated for years and seem to be br
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
Instead of thinking of this like a missile, instead think of it like a submarine. Submarines don't use star tracking, they use inertial navigation systems to inform dead reckoning. This accumulates error over time, but my impression
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
> With the size of Russia's SLBM stockpile, this doesn't seem to change the deterrence equation Status-6 seems like a hedge against the possibility of those SLBMs being rendered obsolete by a theorized missile defense program
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
> They have a history of losing numerous planes in training excercises There is a reason virtually every fighter jet ever made was made with ejection seats or retrofitted with them later: They're inherently risky aircraft, and alm
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
"Known prankster pulls another prank" vs "Known prankster says aliens are here and you should believe him because he's a professional." Hmm.
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
> People read "Navy confirms authenticity of the video" as "This is important and Navy can't explain it." Precisely. There is a huge gap between what the Navy has actually claimed about the videos and what pe
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
Do you happen to have a copy of this supposed debunking debunking that isn't given by Alvin the Chimpmunk? Wtf dude.
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
> They’re barely even using fighter jets. Maybe because they've barely been training those pilots and know the planes would likely be lost if used above Ukraine? Pilots in the Russian Air Force have supposedly been averaging less
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
That is possible, but I think strains credibility. The GOFAST video is egregious, I find it hard to believe nobody in the US Navy was able to calculate the actual [mundane, very... balloon-like] speed of that object using basic trigonomet
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
Mick West debunked these to my satisfaction ages ago. The only question I have left is whether the whole thing was a US Navy psyop or whether the navy was just looking the other way and playing coy when those pilots were creating a retire
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
That's a small step in the right direction. Reducing the protection period to something sane would be nice too, but that's probably hoping for too much.
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
This reveal from Lockheed coincided with the 2014 IAEA Conference on Fusion Energy, which was being held in Saint Petersburg. Make of this what you will. https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/mediaadvisories/iaea-confe
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
There may be something to that with specific regards to jet aircraft, but even then I'm not convinced. More generally with regards to manpower, I think you're probably wrong. VDV have been ground up like cannon fodder repeatedl
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
The general class of 'They're pretending to be incompetent... as a trick!' theories about Russia all seem less likely by the day.
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
> The point is having a system that can react fast enough to remove the spam from most systems once it is identified. Then you need a system for distributing filter updates, and preventing the spammers from distributing bogus filter up
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
> It's about the strongest evidence possible. It's not as strong as the synthesis of all the other evidence, particularly: his actions and statements throughout life, none of which point towards him being a Nazi. That is st
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
Neither is your shell. You may as well complain that there is no way to use Linux at all without some form of 3rd party software one way or the other. It's a silly complaint; this is why distros exist.
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
> Surely you could have small bayesian engines running in each client, If each client has a copy of the filter, then so does the spammer. The spammer can use that to craft spam the filter doesn't catch.
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
The invasion is unwarranted, I would never suggest otherwise.
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
I do not believe Zelensky is a Nazi. The evidence against it is much stronger than the evidence for it. Your ire against me is misdirected.
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
It's a form of what is called 'black propaganda': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_propaganda
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
> He's not a Nazi, of course, him being of Jewish ancestry, That is strong evidence that he isn't, but short of proof. A counterexample from California: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Unz
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
I agree, specifically this part: > "In 2020 the German Environment Agency extended the award criteria to include software products, which was the first in the world of environmental certifications to link transparency and user auto
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
What are the odds he'd still be locked out of any online features that require a Sony account?
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
I think NATO would look the other way for a stray missile that could in any way be construed as an accident. Open war between NATO and Russia, weak as it is, could be disastrous for Europe, if not the whole world. It's much safer to
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
As I see it, the most realistic "good" resolution is Russia choosing to cut their losses and pull out of Ukraine. But I fear that is less likely than a long drawn out war, as you say. I think NATO likely has an intention to ble
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
Soviet Russians perpetrated genocide in Ukraine in living memory. Ukrainians are not fighting for their politicians, they're fighting for themselves. They're fighting for their families and communities.
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
That's what I mean by losing their innocence. This war (probably not unlike any other war) is desensitizing a ton of people to violence. The ramifications of this will be felt for generations. But this sort of harm needs to be consi
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
'Cope' has been a meme word on 4chan for a while now (along with 'seethe' and another that I won't repeat.) I believe 'cope cage' originally came from 4chan's /k/. 4chan culture bleeds ou
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by RobertMiller 5y ago
> Snide doesn't win Javelins do. > it's a losers attitude Losing their lives is what those Russian tankers are doing. People laughing at dead Russian tankers on the internet aren't losing much of anything, except m

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