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by WJW 1y ago
> it's not a legal text that you get to angle shoot out of LOL yes we can and we will. I can state this confidently because the entire agreement is exactly that. A bunch of terms with definitions too vague to matter. If Trump wants
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by WJW 1y ago
Picking a White House publication is going to give you the rosiest picture imaginable. Let's pick some claims apart a little bit to see how it might not be as rosy as you seem to imagine: - The mentioned EU investment is not at the dis
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by WJW 1y ago
Interesting statement, and I think this shows how different the viewpoints are on both sides of the pond. First off obviously, the EU absolutely doesn't see its pledges as "empty". If anything, the amount of weapons being use
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by WJW 1y ago
If I were to summarize: - Europe chooses to fight a war it wants to fight; - with the weapons it has decided are the best choice available at the moment (even though many of those are not yet produced domestically and so need to be imported
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by WJW 1y ago
> I think Trump has made clear that Europe has no meaningful sovereignty. How do you define "sovereignty" here? Because (for example) many European countries have made it crystal clear that they will continue to support Ukraine
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by WJW 1y ago
That's a US law effecting goods coming into the USA, and mostly affecting prices for American consumers. European goods going to all other countries are unaffected.
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by WJW 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamic_generator is the gist of it. If you have enough conductive plasma then just moving it through a magnetic field generates a current. Applied to fusion power, you heat th
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by WJW 1y ago
> If they were getting energy out, that would be big news. That's rather underselling it. If they have a proven, working, commercially viable design for a fusion power plant, they could probably just write a paper about how it works
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by WJW 1y ago
This is not at all what my previous comment said. I said that it might be a first step, but that first step doesn't matter if no further steps are forthcoming.
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by WJW 1y ago
Sure, but what kind of action does it imply? North Korea is recognized by (almost?) every country too, but that doesn't mean anyone is hurrying to provide aid to starving North Koreans. Similarly the international recognition of Azerba
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by WJW 1y ago
Sure, the same amount of stone could be used to construct several smaller churches. The US congress could also just rent a conference room at a nearby hotel if they chose. The Eiffel tower could supply iron for several kilometres of rail tr
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by WJW 1y ago
You know why they call it Medium, of course? Because it's definitely not Rare and usually also not Well Done.
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by WJW 1y ago
I think it is part of the point for a cathedral to take several generations. If you can point to a building and say "that took 5 years to build and I was there for all of it!", then that's great, but the building is in some w
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by WJW 1y ago
A judge will still find you guilty if you try "but the door was unlocked so anything inside was fair game to take".
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by WJW 1y ago
> BPS depends on terrestrial stations instead of satellites, like Loran, which was used in the past. > BPS is at least as easily jammed or disabled as GPS. So which is it? Because LORAN was much harder to jam than GPS. The jamming res
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by WJW 1y ago
You don't scan just a single website, you code up the bot once and then scan every site you can find. Your friends' service was just the proverbial paper car in a thunderstorm: the thunderstorm doesn't care about the paper ca
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by WJW 1y ago
It's with so many things! Some evergreens just from last week here on HN: - Rails is horribly slow! - Python is still stuck migrating to Python 3! - MySQL doesn't scale! - Haskell tooling sucks! - io_uring is insecure! - ... and d
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by WJW 1y ago
You would honestly pay 2k a month to an AI tool? Do you not have other costs like a mortgage or rent?
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by WJW 1y ago
Tragedy of the commons strikes again...
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by WJW 1y ago
It's a well known template from the internets, mostly popular on other message boards. I don't actually care about insulting you; it's just a meme that fit the situation well. If you get more value than annoyance from twitter
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by WJW 1y ago
Anecdotal evidence, but Steams' Proton compatibility layer that lets you run Windows-only games on Linux works really really well. I haven't had to log into years and years by now.
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by WJW 1y ago
When there's hundreds of drones raining down on your civilians every day, just disabling the production has a a higher priority than being cutesy with things that might work further away into the future.
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by WJW 1y ago
According to the internets, Ukraine is pumping out drones at about $300 to $500 at a rate of several tens of thousands per day. Of course a missile is faster and has bigger payload, but as a sibling comment mentioned, a javelin missile is a
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by WJW 1y ago
In the Ukraine war big troop concentrations have become almost impossible because the thousands of spotter drones in the air at any moment will spot them almost immediately, and provide accurate targeting information to (rocket) artillery w
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by WJW 1y ago
> Be OP > Get stuck in the same thought loops every time on twitter, remake your account in slightly different ways every time until the algorithm catches you again. > Still don't realize it's twitter itself which is the
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by WJW 1y ago
Sure but even at 32 km up it's still ~300 m/s, only about 15% less than the speed of sound at sea level. Let's say that by the time our hypothetical paper airplane start noticing drag the speed of sound is all the way down t
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by WJW 1y ago
It literally says that in TFA.
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That is a cool paper. "However, the paper space plane experiences severe aerodynamic heating in the order of 10^5 W/m^2 for several minutes." I can see how that might be a problem for something made of paper. Interestingly, d
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Cool, good for you!
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by WJW 1y ago
So for at least 12 years then. 2.0 was released in 2013.

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