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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
Not sure Iraq and Afghanistan are the best examples of success. I do have a good idea what their grips strength were, the US armed forces do such studies all of the time, sometimes they publish them. The statistics around this are well know
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
That is a shifting of the goal posts and a whole other discussion.
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
Even with training the gap still persists, albeit to a lesser extent. Elite females are roughly as strong as the median male (without any extra training post drafting).
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
A small set of counter examples do not invalidate broad generalizations. And if my state wants to commit economic suicide and there is no way for me to stop it I feel no need to join it.
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
I’m vehemently against the draft in general. I saw this war coming over a decade ago and live as an expat in part to avoid being press ganged into drone target duty. Grip strength is a proxy for general strength, and I think it’s safe to as
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
In measuring grips strength, which is a good proxy for general strength, 90% of females producing less force than 95% of males. In other words almost all men are stronger than almost all women.
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
Presidential pardon insurance, like audit insurance but for breaking laws instead of filing taxes.
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
I would term it; the US has air dominance but the airspace is still contested as evident by the recent losses. Also, I think the US is still predominantly using standoff munitions instead of switching to dumb munitions because the airspace
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
We must be using different definitions for ‘complete’. I think Iran is using loitering anti-air missiles with IR seeking which seems to be effective. Maybe this sudden spike is reflective of receiving new equipment from China.
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
It’s not not woke, it’s wokeness of a different kind. They exclude those who disagree with their brand of orthodoxy, it seems like to me they’re firing anyone who says no to the ground invasion.
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
I’m reading one of those Blackhawks was shot down. An A-10, F-16, and a refueling plane, in addition to the F-15 so far today. Which, if true, is not a good sign.
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
It is emblematic of a crash out, I’ve seen a lot of them, and I’ve thought about doing it myself. I understand the impulse first hand. I did quit over my misgivings but I did not write a blog post about it, that would have been a career end
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
Microsoft has a large PR department to put out such false impressions. The culture has changed, AFAIK you used to be able to email Bill Gates and be fairly confident he would read it, but you better be sure it was worth reading or he would
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
As a former MSFTy it does sound weird to me too. I didn’t see what Axels level was but a lot of people work for Microsoft and not many of them can expect to email the CEO and get a response. It seems a bit like a crash out, not the first I’
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
These two statements don’t mesh “They very much want” and “They just don’t realize it.” It seems both you and I agree that manufacturing is an essential component to war-fighting and the health of a nation, but I think it is safe to say tha
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
We are assuming a resource curse on steroids, the ability to sell the ‘resource’ is used to distort the economy and pay for the cost of running an empire. The US chooses to do this because it is controlled by those who benefit from this not
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
Countries are starting to criminalize ‘misogyny’ which includes interrupting women during meetings. I think Brazil is in the process of enacting such laws. These are usually being bootstrapped on civil right and hate speech laws.
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
The petrodollar confers a huge advantage to the US, which is the whole point of it. It soaks up liquidity and allows the US to export inflation which allows it to be in the insanely profitable business of printing money. An argument could b
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
4th times the charm. You’ve provided no evidence for indifference. My point remains, given industry standards indifference would be highly unusual and not at all a safe assumption. The vast majority of high volume consumer manufacturers use
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
It is a negative as it is creating a market for deception, by paying for it they are giving money to people who specialize in deception who otherwise would have to do something else. These people will continue improving their abilities to t
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
My position is entirely consistent, it is cheaper to signal premium quality than actually deliver it. The point I am making is that there is immense comercial pressure to do this is a highly competitive market when selling to consumers who
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
My point on weight was that the market for that it is common, which is probably a stronger statement than needed. I should have made the weaker argument and said the market exists which only needs one example. The company Beats can serve as
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
“I don’t think..” Ok, you’ve made a number of assumptions and we don’t share the same priors so I’m unable to follow you to your conclusion. I think you are underestimating the importance of perceived premium combined with the pressures of
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
It’s common to add weights to headphones to make them feel premium which is bizarre since actually premium headphones tend to try very hard to reduce weight as the weight makes them more uncomfortable. I don’t know how to fix the market esp
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
Microsoft wanted it to be a social network because they couldn’t buy Facebook. They did buy Yammer though. A lot of the bad policies were implemented when getting LinkedIn ready for sale to boost the short term gains and maximize the sale p
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
That’s the greater variability theory. The male median is also higher so when you combine the two the long tail to the right will be dominated by males, so will the long tail on the left but to a lesser extent. Many IQ tests have been desig
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
I'm not sure the democrats could give such assurances either. If domestic manufacturing is 2x as expensive that's a lot of money that could be spent on campaign donations and still break even.
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
In theory but the difficulty in practice is that if you were to invest in local manufacturing you'd have to be sure that someone else won't be given a waver via lobbying / corruption and will then be able to completely underc
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
An non-US anglosphere country. Our adversaries do not underestimate us, 'we' are over estimating ourselves. Corruption necessarily impairs the feedback loop of information so the participants lose the ability to properly understan

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