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by XorNot 7mo ago
"what if I just had a better system with no downsides or logistical costs that was also cheaper". In reality: Ukraine reliably downs Shaheds using a mix of low cost technologies. They mostly can't defend against ballistic mis
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by XorNot 7mo ago
Because your low cost weapons will be intercepted by their low cost weapons. The enemy gets a say in your plans, and is much more likely to have low cost weapons available then high cost ones. The interceptor for a SHAHED is a quadcopter wh
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by XorNot 7mo ago
There is absolutely no way anyone is producing a manoeuvring mach 7 missile for $100,000 though. The term "hypersonic" is incredibly overloaded.
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by XorNot 7mo ago
6% is hardly a small fraction at scale.
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by XorNot 7mo ago
The point of low cost weapons is to give you options on high intensity warfare: namely your high cost weapons take out air defense capability, so you can stop using them and use cheaper more numerous systems to hit the now undefended target
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by XorNot 7mo ago
At this point "spotting AI" is IMO an irrelevant skill. It's something to be aware of but a bunch of the time I can't tell even with an extended look on static images, or if I'm on a phone and scrolling then nothing
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by XorNot 7mo ago
Making better the enemy of best is a sure path to failure. "Speaking fees" and deferred income are very different from being able to bank the profits tomorrow morning.
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by XorNot 7mo ago
Probably the best age limit argument I've heard really: whatever retirement and pension age is, for public office that's the limit. It's nice and clear, has obvious motivation and obvious sourcing. Also obvious incentives: e.
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by XorNot 7mo ago
I mean sure but... How much do you want to hold the Yuan? China has always had a huge population but nobody considered the Yuan the same way. Nobody thinks of the Indian rupee this way today.
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by XorNot 7mo ago
That's true. And while I disagree with the parent comment, ICBM interception remains enormously problematic and likely will remain so until directed energy weapons get really cheap. Fundamentally the rocket equation and orbital dynam
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by XorNot 7mo ago
But it's also the basic l basis of deterrence and the destabilizing nature of ICBM defense: relying on interceptors presumes the war happens.
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by XorNot 7mo ago
People honestly forget that Iranians aren't stupid. Some of them are crazy, but not stupid. Iran has been doing things like saying you're safe in the Strait as long as you trade oil in Yuan, for example. They know exactly why they
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by XorNot 7mo ago
And the Taliban were defeated in Afghanistan too...
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by XorNot 7mo ago
He also does everything Friday after market close. As an Australian the next dumbest thing I've ever heard of reliably happens mid Saturday as a result. The "5 day extension" is coincidentally exactly that timeframe.
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by XorNot 7mo ago
The Nazis were hilariously incompetent, but it didn't make them any less dangerous.
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by XorNot 7mo ago
Man do I hate this behavior because it would be really some by just using the branch names rather then "ours" and "theirs"
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by XorNot 7mo ago
The college indoctrination boogieman exists because it is coincidentally the first time in their lives a lot of people live away from their parents fulltime. How much your opinions change once you're not in that environment can be amaz
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by XorNot 7mo ago
I'd be real happy if we landed on "edibles" and not smoking though. Just about all drugs would benefit from people doing the unobtrusively.
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by XorNot 7mo ago
That's just arguing for drug legalization with extra pseudoscience. I am all for people doing however much cocaine they feel they need. In broad daylight - let's just drag that into the light and let people go to the dispensary fo
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by XorNot 7mo ago
I'm very okay with elif though because it makes it clear that the conditional is part of the chained block and not a brand new one.
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by XorNot 7mo ago
I don't get the complete certainty with which people post this opinion. You have no special access to data or insight that anyone else does, nor new evidence and the argument itself is always pretty specious (those patterns over the
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by XorNot 7mo ago
With games it's performance. I have a graphics card, I'm uninterested in losing %s off it for running on Linux. It's doomsday if Linux starts outperforming Windows. If SteamOS for PC still required me to dual boot - which I a
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by XorNot 7mo ago
A Ukrainian high speed Shahed interceptor costs that much and has a very short range. You're off by at least an order of magnitude. The camera mount you'd have to put on such a drone would cost about that much, probably more. You&
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by XorNot 7mo ago
How cheap do you think a drone which can cover a large area of ocean actually is? And not just search it - you have to get it to the sector as well.
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by XorNot 7mo ago
The Russians are having problems with Telegram because their own military comms don't work. Russian units have requested fire support via telegram.
566.
by XorNot 7mo ago
This isn't a competition. I just want those things gone.
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by XorNot 7mo ago
Russia spends a lot less and routinely assassinates foreign critics. India has targeted overseas critics as well. The size of ones military expenditure does not determine whether a foreign government can kill you, specifically.
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by XorNot 7mo ago
Well that, but Elon is also downplaying the quality of the human vision system compared to the cameras Tesla's have. They're just not that good - nowhere near human vision performance. And a human in a car has a surprisingly good
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by XorNot 7mo ago
I feel like downplaying 1.8 degrees C of performance is a weird choice in the article. 1.8 degrees C is a huge temperature change in biology. Human bodies keep thermal equilibrium in a margin smaller then that.
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by XorNot 7mo ago
Which is underplaying what "trying" means in this context: we live on a planet with a lot of life - life which by definition was a superior competitor to the much simpler life it supplanted. The world, even enzymes from our skin,

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