citrin_ru

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by citrin_ru 6mo ago
> So I think there will be another leader elected soon. Maybe not soon. The power now has shifted from mullah to IRGC commanders and they likely will want to keep it while having Khamenei as a figurehead.
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by citrin_ru 6mo ago
5 years is the worst case estimate, with 20 years lifetime this dependency on China is even less bad.
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by citrin_ru 6mo ago
A dependency on solar panels which needs to be replaced every 5 years is less bad then a dependency on gas which is burned every day. Having said that nuclear decommission was a huge mistake.
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by citrin_ru 6mo ago
In a long run people may become more positive towards renewables but in a short run many countries are ramping up coal use and oil companies outside the gulf are getting windfall profits which they’ll continue to use to bribe politicians.
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
Russia recently banned export of petrol, diesel and ammonia nitrate to keep domestic prices low so it cannot benefit from high internationsl prices for them (petrol shortages are caused by Ukrainian attacks on refineries, not sure why there
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
A-10 or propellor powered planes are more cost efficiteve but it looks like the US doesn't have enough of them and had to use much more expensive but numerous F-16 and F-35 e.t.c. The US was not prepeared to counter drones and even aft
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
I hope systems which separate helium: 1. have very good thermal insulation 2. use heat exchangers so separated gases can cool down incoming gas.
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
10% of saving for July's or August monthly bill will give less than 10% saving for the year as in the winter solar output is lower.
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. We know that Russian air force is actively using gliding bombs to attack objects on the front line while flying over the territory controlled by Russia. One would need strong evidence to
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
That's why gloves are used in scientific research in the first place - to avoid contamination (unless one is working with dangerous substances in which case it's also to protect a person). If they are not fit for purpose that&#x27
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
If lab gloves specifically designed to not contaminate samples are shedding microplactis particules I would expect plastic not designed for this to shed much more micro-plactis particules when it's used.
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
> Iran has 90,000,000 people. More than 2x Ukraine Population size is relevant but not the most important factor. Russia has 146,000,000, more than 4x than Ukraine. It doesn't guarantee that Russia will win the war. > On the nava
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
In my observations ninja more consistently uses multiple CPUs than GNU make. e. g. make -j40 will run up to 40 parallel processes (of clang/gcc) but a significant fraction of the time it will less than 40. With ninja average CPU utiliz
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
I don't think IRGC cares, they recently attacked a ship with oil for China even China is their main strategic partner (admittedly most ships which they are letting to pass the strait are China bound too).
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
From what I see in news both the US and the UK are using expensive missiles to shut down Shahed drones and laser weapons are not mentioned at all - either they are too rare or not yet working reliably enough to risk letting a drone to get w
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
Trump net worth is $3 billion more than it was before he become a president. Likely more money was made via insider trading by his friends and family. So it's not like no one did benefit. Net loss for the country and the world is order
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
Both can be true - carriers and traditional air force are not obsolete but also western armies are unprepared to deal with the threat posed by a large number of cheap drones which can quickly deplete traditional air defense (based on SAM sy
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
Salt mines are safe as long as you are careful to keep water and salt separated. If people operating a mine (or maintaining a closed one) are negligent or incompetent or under-invest into maintenance bad thinks can happen, especially in a w
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
Yes and no. Good defence is layered and an attacker needs to find a hole in each layer. Even if it is not layered intentionally a locally exploitable vulnerability gives little if you have no access to a remote system. But some asymmetry do
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
> unlikely unless AI crashes so hard it starts to actually kill companies. And not just any but big tech. I'm not seeing that in 2026 A month ago AI crash we looking unlikely but with the strait of Hormuz being de-facto blocked many
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
You can see percentage here: https://www.energydashboard.co.uk/live
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
Other Europe countries will be a better comparison. Domestic energy prices in Russia are de-facto set by the state so it’s not a useful data point. Don’t know about India but in developing countries electricity prices are often subsidised b
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
> It's so narrow that they can even hit ships with artillery fire. I'm not a military export but it doesn't look like a very good option. To get accurate targeting information Iran will have to use radars. Radars can be de
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
> The Straight of Hormuz is open to any country willing to pay $2M per voyage. Any country except the U.S. and Israel. The straight is not physically closed by Iran. It's closed by insurance companies which asking a very high war ri
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
According to this map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Strait_of_hormuz_full.jpg shipping lines are in Oman's territorial waters. Iran controls the whole area by creating a risk that a ship can be attacked. And
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
> Iran can block the Strait of Hormuz indefinitely. So can the US leaving Iran without means for existence. Right now Iran can export own oil but denies Arab countries form exporting their oil, I don't think such arrangement could l
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
One may argue that Lebanon is already annexed by Iran using Hezbollah which has more power than the official Lebanon government or at least had more power before attacks from Israel in recent years. Also I don't beleive Israel is going
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
Shaheds are launched not from the frontline (to avoid a launch site being attacked) but I would agree that a typical attack distance is around 500 km (which is much less than the range stated in wikipedia). Still this unlikely the max range
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
> And where exactly are you planning to operate that trawler out of? Or are you going to send it across the Atlantic on its own China operates fishing fleets all around the globe but Iran is not known for this so Iranian fishing vessel i
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by citrin_ru 7mo ago
2500 km is a realistic range of you follow the war in Ukraine. Kyiv is frequently attacked with Shahed drones and it is far from frontlines.

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