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901.
by anovikov 2y ago
In fact, the most frustrating parts of living in Europe where this is not the case, is that too many things here are targeted at the poor because they make the majority of purchasing power due to forced equality of outcomes we have here in
902.
by anovikov 2y ago
So this pertains to jamming so strong that traditional jam-proof GPS that uses signal phase shift to weed out GPS signals coming from "wrong" directions, are insufficient? 100db attenuation of jamming signal has been achieved arou
903.
by anovikov 2y ago
Make passageways or even deactivate mines using signal from the same cable it is safeguarding. Ship needs to pass, captain sends an SMS from a sat and the mine is deactivated for half an hour. If ship is suspicious, a destroyer escorts at a
904.
by anovikov 2y ago
Well, if the maps of the minefields are public, why would any ship with the crew in their sane mind, sail towards it?
905.
by anovikov 2y ago
A mine can't harm the anchor, but to drag the anchor, the ship must cross the minefield first. What's going to happen? The ship will sink. In practice, that will either force Russians to sweep the mines thus attracting too much at
906.
by anovikov 2y ago
Stupid question - why not just protect cables with anchored mines? Of course, publicly declaring the minefields.
907.
by anovikov 2y ago
See. But building a jet engine that "just works" without a particular profitability is not at all hard. Like, one that burns 50% fuel for same thrust than the best state of the art. That's about the level of disposable engine
908.
by anovikov 2y ago
Arguably even doing it the first time around was a mistake.
909.
by anovikov 2y ago
Not just the reusable ones. Almost all of them do. Exception are monoprop ones where the temperatures are just not high enough.
910.
by anovikov 2y ago
It's not all that hard to build a jet engine. Nazi Germany built them being constantly bombed, with actively sabotaging slave labor. Starving North Korea builds them. War-torn Ukraine builds them. What's hard is to build a competi
911.
by anovikov 2y ago
That's where it is inevitably going anyway.
912.
by anovikov 2y ago
Why not just let some of the farms go under, thus lowering costs of operating the remaining ones (because of lower demand as fewer of them will operate), and raise prices of their outputs? Isn't this how farm economy operated ever sinc
913.
by anovikov 2y ago
I'm not speaking about overall economic level. I'm speaking about inequality. Which was low in the Soviet Union and top 1% - which was also the most educated class and had the best access to information too - could not miss the fa
914.
by anovikov 2y ago
Maybe it's just because people are finally developing critical thinking? Trusting anything you are being told in public was a very bad idea ever since the Catholic Church was formed.
915.
by anovikov 2y ago
China had limitless almost free labor. Soviet Union had a deficit of labor by late 1960s already, and again by late 1970s - in 1974 they did a temporary fix by liberating the peasants which helped for a few years until those ran out, too. C
916.
by anovikov 2y ago
As soon as all hope of ever achieving Communism was lost - and that was clear by XXVth Party congress in 1976 when it got all but replaced with so-called "advanced Socialism" - Soviet Union was done: keeping the system of thorough
917.
by anovikov 2y ago
That creates a hope for the positive outcome of midterms that should at least neutralise Trump for the remaining 2 years? In a way, deadlocked government - that can't do things but can't break them either - is a real Republican id
918.
by anovikov 2y ago
So it seemed to be the case of poor quality that's hard to quantify, right? Like if you made a bunch of aerial photos of an Italian division vs a Waffen SS division in 1941 you'd probably come to a conclusion they were about equal
919.
by anovikov 2y ago
Question that must be asked: who is responsible for such a vast overestimation of Russian capabilities? It certainly prevented the war from well, being prevented.
920.
by anovikov 2y ago
That's pretty much irrelevant. Engine replacement is about increasing range and/or reducing tanker requirement/airframe wear, and reduction of maintenance costs because existing engines are ancient and their maintenance costs
921.
by anovikov 2y ago
I wonder why anyone would sign up to pay US taxes regardless of their residence, if they have cash... Can't see it working. There are plenty of other places with good passports and countries to live that are either safer/more demo
922.
by anovikov 2y ago
In Thailand, sure it is legal! You can drive a BMW with a colourful swastika all over the hood and everyone is 100% fine with it. Communism is a no-no in Thailand, overt Nazism is fine.
923.
by anovikov 2y ago
Someone forgot to take their anti-anxiety pill...
924.
by anovikov 2y ago
You can't replace them with 4 engines because those will have to be of bigger diameter and they might scratch the ground of some less than perfect airfields. The engines HAVE to fit into the same nacelles. And they have to provide enou
925.
by anovikov 2y ago
Well, as i understood it has failed because it could no longer provide the main benefit over B-52 it was initially intended to provide: high-altitude penetration - over it's development time, engagement envelope of SAM systems expanded
926.
by anovikov 2y ago
That is a much smaller problem, most people in IT have it.
927.
by anovikov 2y ago
Someone who does things not because he read about them on the Internet, but because they were invented or co-invented, or owned by people he went to school with, or family connections. When "system" is not something you fight with
928.
by anovikov 2y ago
Equity business is thoroughly inaccessible to the vast majority of people, especially the IT people. It requires being an insider at least to a degree, and it requires apart from knowledge and skills, at least some luck. I've seen a lo
929.
by anovikov 2y ago
Cultural takeaway: don't shame the rich for being rich. Otherwise they will instead of spending their money thus both showing their wealth more, and helping economy spin faster, will invest it - further pumping up already unsustainable
930.
by anovikov 2y ago
Another bonus point: there are also two words for "graft" in Russian: "mzdoimstvo" and "likhoimstvo". The latter has negative meaning, the former is neutral. It is a "socially legitimised corruption that h

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