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by astebbin 9y ago
We've heard this story before. In the West, the line (for years!) was that China's economic growth and foreign trade would _inevitably_ lead to democratization and widespread human rights improvements. That didn't happen -- t
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by astebbin 9y ago
Blind nationalist attitudes like those in the Crimea, Eastern Ukraine, and Moscow? The classic KGB tactic "accuse the enemy of exactly what you are doing" is all too transparent here.
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by astebbin 9y ago
If anything, that makes me worried that Russia cannot afford to properly maintain and secure their nuclear arsenal.
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by astebbin 9y ago
Indeed. For example, when you push into the Ukraine and annex Crimea via military occupation.
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by astebbin 10y ago
> Look at south korea. Plenty of military, no brain. I'm genuinely curious - what did you mean by this?
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by astebbin 10y ago
As a longtime Steam customer, I've also grown fed up with what I perceive as Valve's attitude of complacency. There are numerous GUI bugs and usability annoyances on Steam for Windows that have long gone unaddressed - for instance
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Google OnHub and Wifi randomly dying on people, requiring factory resets(androidpolice.com)
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by astebbin 10y ago
This message was an April Fool's joke: https://www.parple.org/will.partain/haskerl/hudak-2.html
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by astebbin 10y ago
To make my own position clear - if their alliance with China does crumble, and if the nuclear danger can be mitigated, I would like to see regime change in North Korea. I'm not one for military adventurism; however, I see the current s
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by astebbin 10y ago
It looks like those numbers are hard to quantify, since South Korea's expenditures include e.g. salaries for Korean workers at US bases and the provision of non-cash resources and services: http://www.latimes.com/nation
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by astebbin 10y ago
Ah, I understand now. Thanks for clarifying. In this light, I'll note that Bush the elder removed US all nuclear arms from the Korea peninsula in 1991 (although Pyongyang's certainly still in range of American missiles and bombers
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by astebbin 10y ago
What do you mean to imply? Do you refer to a specific incident in 1958? Or, do you blame US military aggression for the North's current nuclear program? Perhaps if North Korea hadn't invaded the South in 1948, there would be no ne
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by astebbin 10y ago
Thread provides a network, but no application-level semantics. In other words, Thread is to 802.15.4 as WiFi is to 802.11. Once you've set up a Thread network, you still need an application layer like CoAP or Weave to control your conn
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by astebbin 10y ago
Google Weave, aka libiota, is targeted at lower-capability MCUs like the Marvell MW302 with its 512kB of RAM: https://developers.google.com/weave/guides/overview/what-is-... Based on these two links (includin
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by astebbin 10y ago
Does the technology exist which could accelerate a nanoship to "one-fifth the speed of light", or perhaps more importantly, course-correct and slow it down as it nears its destination?
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by astebbin 10y ago
Indeed, early cruise missiles used terrain-following radar before GPS was available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM
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by astebbin 10y ago
Ex-DARPA gal, actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_E._Dugan
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by astebbin 11y ago
I don't know why you've been downvoted, as you're absolutely correct. A defective thermostat can easily shorten the lifetime of your HVAC system. If your furnace itself is already defective, a buggy thermostat could even caus
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by astebbin 11y ago
From The Verge, "Nest says it may offer 'compensation' to Revolv users for disabling smart home hub:" http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/5/11374358/nest-revolv-smart-...