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by anovikov 7mo ago
With the strait being that narrow, missiles aren't even needed. Just artillery is enough. That's the main problem here. Forcible reopening is possible but it involves a lot of airpower, not ships. Make anything unable to approach
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by anovikov 7mo ago
Unlike with Russia in 2022, there's nothing Europe can realistically do about it, only path forward is now the renewable energy. Time horizon is too short for nuclear, Russian supplies are already outlawed and beyond realistic control
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by anovikov 7mo ago
What's more important is that before the crash there was a period of crazy market growth. So averaged out over ~10 years it didn't look all that bad. Especially accounting for deflation that happened in the same time. Arguably peo
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by anovikov 7mo ago
I understand that celestial mechanics are involved, because "stuff in space do not fly on straight lines", but why is the delta V budget 10x smaller for 2x more time? That feels counterintuitive :/
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by anovikov 7mo ago
Won't ion engines power by something like Kilopower reactor let us do better?
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by anovikov 7mo ago
Drones only matter because neither party has control of the air in Ukraine. If one side had air dominance, that air dominance will have had to be exploited using artillery and armour.
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by anovikov 7mo ago
Yeah i saw a 105 KWh (noname) battery pack offered for $3800... That's bonkers.
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by anovikov 7mo ago
Of course these exist by the thousand in many regions of the world including some developed countries. It is a major business. Many people don't realise how inventive do people who are cut off by Western VC-backed ecosystem, get to mak
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by anovikov 7mo ago
Indeed, thinking that people and the way they extract money from the environment is same is ridiculous and i've been teaching my kid from childhood that it's just wrong. We've been conditioned to think that way from the indus
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by anovikov 7mo ago
I really wonder how could it be that cheap...
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by anovikov 7mo ago
It only means that value of video content will vanish, and good quality video will no longer be made just because there will be no point.
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by anovikov 7mo ago
Competing with SpaceX is about as hard as competing with Boeing on passenger planes - except Boeing is also a corrupt, disorganised wreck and SpaceX isn't. And unlike Boeing, SpaceX is also an airline, and it's also a passenger. B
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by anovikov 7mo ago
But the trick is US market. For everything pertaining to tech, whatever happens outside of US is a rounding error. And ITAR protects US market from foreign competition - while in the US, no one could try beating SpaceX in launch costs.
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by anovikov 7mo ago
SpaceX has a giant moat in the launch business. They launch well... almost everything that goes up there, and can do it at truly unbeatable costs - and in a market that is protected from competition by ITAR. Within US, their advantage is so
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by anovikov 7mo ago
Why not just use a surrogate instead? That's what every one of my friends who faced infertility, did.
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by anovikov 7mo ago
Everyone is suffering sure, but what matters is relative degree of it. Side that suffers less, wins against others and that's the only thing that matters. And no, in China global warming means worsening desertification, in Russia it me
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by anovikov 7mo ago
Think of it this way: less trade deficit means more imports that come through without causing extra damage. It means more cheap products of all kinds for everyone. And yes this is exactly how petrostates work. I wonder why is it surprising.
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by anovikov 7mo ago
But US mostly wins from global warming relatively, right? I mean, it's going to suffer less than others (except EU), for geographical reasons, thus winning. I don't think global warming is a concern for US at all (some places sure
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by anovikov 7mo ago
But why does US need any of that? It's a massive exporter of fossil fuels and will be much richer as a result (but yes just as every other way of getting richer, it will also increase inequality).
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by anovikov 7mo ago
Is it simply normal supply and demand? They had massive surge of prices that made construction more profitable so after a time lag, building boom happened, bringing prices back to the average long-term trend. If some place becomes 'aff
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by anovikov 7mo ago
UK let Poles come in, let them learn things and earn money, and then kicked them all out. They had no other way but to do what they did... Other EU countries are a lot harder to work in because of language issues.
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by anovikov 7mo ago
If she wasn't offered a first class ticket on the next flight that's outrageous
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by anovikov 7mo ago
Perhaps because in autocracies there is no 'society' by definition? That's why they are called autocracies. Social trust is a way horizontal relationships between people are framed and organised - that is, relationship that d
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by anovikov 7mo ago
Biggest example of it, is Blackberry. It ceased to exist while being a great business tool loved by managers of fat ass companies everywhere - who were more than willing to shell out a lot of cash for Blackberry servers and handsets, so mon
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by anovikov 7mo ago
Next time they can just as well pick a Jewish ayatollah and thus solve the problem.
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by anovikov 7mo ago
I saw a great lot of forums decline and evaporate without being hit with any of the ailments you listed. People just lose interest because it is not "fun" enough - unlike the social media ragebait.
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by anovikov 7mo ago
Think of it this way: no one banned phpBB. There are plenty of 1990s style forums around. But they are deserted - precisely because they are not addictive enough and their engagement is poor. Same happens to everything that tries to opt out
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by anovikov 7mo ago
Layoffs happened because companies realised they overhired during pandemic and needed a ramp-off to fire people without having their stocks tanks as they always did during mass layoffs, and AI narrative came handy. People got bored with cry
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by anovikov 7mo ago
Exactly! This is what LLMs do: they bullshit you by coming across as extremely knowledgeable, but as soon as you understand 5% of the topic you realise you've been blatantly lied to.
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by anovikov 7mo ago
I think you haven't been following the news. US demographics is by far the healthiest of all halfway developed countries, with the exception of Israel. China has third low TFR in the world after South Korea and Taiwan, and is facing

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