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by closewith 7mo ago
BAE Systems Inc, a US-based subsidiary that operates entirely in the US and whose leadership operates under an SAA which means they report to the US Government and the parent in the UK.
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That's not true. Even including military aid to Ukraine, EU average defence spending remains at 1.9%. It's also the most expensive region in the world to raise a military.
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by closewith 7mo ago
Is it true? Most analyses show EU stockpiles overall still falling, especially for precision weapons.
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by closewith 7mo ago
Europe is not a megalith, there is no central authority to make any kind of decision, and no Government in the bloc has a mandate to destroy it's citizens quality of life and economy by engaging in armed conflict with the US. This incl
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by closewith 7mo ago
There is no appetite for war in Europe, zero. The Danes know it, the French know it, the US knows it. Every analyst knows it. The idea that France was going to engage in armed conflict with the US over Greenland is absurd. The US could prob
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by closewith 7mo ago
I did and it is 100% consistent with my comment. Nice sounds and token troop movements, but absolutely no commitment to fight, which simply wouldn't have happened.
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by closewith 7mo ago
I did, but it simply wouldn't have happened. Whatever about boots on the ground and ships deployed, they would not have fired a shot. There is zero appetite for war with the US.
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by closewith 7mo ago
Denmark is completely alone and helpless against the US. Other EU nations would protest, but none would enter armed conflict.
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by closewith 7mo ago
Those are exactly the types of problems that LLMs excel at solving.
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by closewith 7mo ago
Less than 1% of software developers work at FAANG.
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by closewith 7mo ago
> It turns out, this is not the majority of software people are paying engineers to write. The above are definitely the majority of software people are paying developers to write. By an order of magnitude. The novel problems for customer
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by closewith 7mo ago
In my experience, people outside of tech have nearly limitless faith in AI, to the point that when it clashes with traditional sources of truth, people start to question them rather than the LLM.
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by closewith 7mo ago
The cultural relevance of all kinds of American media has been declining as the U.S. is not cool or aspirational anymore.
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by closewith 7mo ago
Silicon Valley is a not a catch-all term for tech?
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by closewith 7mo ago
Yes, also in Ireland and while I wouldn't leave homemade butter out for more than a day or two, Kerrygold salted will last two weeks at 19C without issue.
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by closewith 7mo ago
It is in Claude Code, specifically for this use case.
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by closewith 7mo ago
But you can only remove them once, and then never recreate the original set. Not great.
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by closewith 7mo ago
Masseter and suboccipital muscle massage that I read about on Reddit of all places instantly reduced my subjective tinnitus by maybe 90% about five years ago. It's not permanent but lasts months and has worked for me for years. I now n
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by closewith 7mo ago
Nearly there! So how might a global and region powers engage in a war without engaging in territorial invasion? What kind of advancement might allow such a conflict to take place with only a tiny number of combatants?
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by closewith 7mo ago
So these nations are at war, but the ground troops aren't invading in foot? Instead, they're in barracks or never raised to begin with? What relevance could this have to the quote from Gattling? Probably none at all.
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by closewith 7mo ago
And what kind of advancement has allowed Iran to engage in numerous direct conflicts (ignoring the proxy wars) without engaging in invasion? At this point, I'm actually not sure if you're trolling or unironically don't get it
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by closewith 7mo ago
Is Iran enjoying an imperial peace, too? Even including Aative + reserves + paramilitaries, less than 2% of Iranian adults are in the military.
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by closewith 7mo ago
US/Israel and Iran each have millions of military and military-industrial personnel, and yet the actual combat is being performed by a few thousand at most. There might a thousand people in uniform for each one directly engaging the en
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by closewith 7mo ago
Yes, even for infantry, the tooth to tail ratio for deployed expeditionary armies is now 10-20:1. Even that's down from cold war ratios due to mechanisation and automation on the logistics side.
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by closewith 7mo ago
I was a CBRN NCO and this argument is not convincing. The author significantly underestimates the operational impact of chemical weapons on modern manoeuvre warfare and the cost of CBRN counter-measures. CBRN defence imposes a substantial b
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by closewith 7mo ago
> If you permit escalating mouth words to physical violence, I’ll have stabbed you in the face for your mouth words before you’ve gotten very far. Of course you would. What an infantile response divorced from reality.
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by closewith 7mo ago
> They are using all the fancy missiles first, but haven't made a safe path to do unguided cheap bombing. Global media is reporting B-52s over Iran, which implies complete air supremecy and complete Destruction of Enemy Air Defenses
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by closewith 7mo ago
Unpaid overtime is common across the continent for salaried positions. There's only a handful of jurisdictions where it's not the norm.
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by closewith 7mo ago
I think so, yes, or you could place the copyright in the public domain. Your current situation is a prime example of the failure of current copyrights. You aren't incentivised to produce any new art, it was unearned as you weren't
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by closewith 7mo ago
In the real world, many comments can and will provoke violence. In many cases, it's justifiable. > In what world do you live? In what bubble do you live? Go out into the world and behave like the GP. Your apparent mental model of s

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