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by closewith 8mo ago
I wonder how that performs vs the CP3N. My own experience is that fit is as/more important than filters, and who knows how well civvies will fit their CBRN gear. It's _oppressively_ uncomfortable!
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by closewith 8mo ago
Interesting read as a former CBRN instructor NCO (for a non-US military). A 3M 40mm is definitely the way to go with CP3N filters. They were once cheap but seem to be no longer
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by closewith 8mo ago
No, the vast majority of terrorist truck, car, bombing, shooting, stabbing attacks have single digit casualties due to the security measures in place and the level of difficulty (thankfully) in killing large numbers of people. For a given n
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by closewith 8mo ago
Conveniently leaving out 9/11, was an attack on the scale of Bataclan, but due to the nature of air travel, had a much higher death toll.
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by closewith 8mo ago
> Most would-be attackers are not suicidal That's definitely not an assumption in the threat model.
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by closewith 8mo ago
As horrific as truck attacks, mass shootings, and suicide bombings have been, no-one have been on the same order of magnitude as airborne terrorism attacks. The Bataclan, Las Vegas, Nice truck attack - all enormous tragedies. But compare to
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by closewith 8mo ago
That's nonsense - if it was true, all anti-terrorism measures would be self-defeating, but they're not. Decades of aircraft-based terrorist attacks have been completely halted by airport security, and there's no been no corre
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by closewith 8mo ago
Flammable liquid and all high temperature lighters are forbidden, as are Li-ion batteries over 100kWh.
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by closewith 8mo ago
Is your contention that there haven't been any terrorist attacks, therefore airport security isn't effective? Because over the last 25 years, there have been a _lot_ of "successful" terrorist attacks in the West, and non
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by closewith 8mo ago
> But somehow also no bombs at sports events or music concerts, or on trains or subways, or courthouses or.... Boston marathon? The Madrid train bombings? 7/7? Ariana Grande? Airport security has been stunningly successful.
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by closewith 8mo ago
> TATP you could synthesize on a plane is entirely inadequate to bring down a plane Even a small fire can down a plane, especially when distant from diversion airports.
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by closewith 8mo ago
> You can't protect against an opponent who's motivated to learn the inherent vulnerabilities of our systems, many of which can't be protected against due to the laws of physics and practicality - short of forcing everyone
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by closewith 8mo ago
> they don't stop bombings (there are much better targets for that, which don't involve killing the bomber), I think you should read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_airliner_bombing_a... The on
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by closewith 8mo ago
> My point is that security can never be strict enough to catch someone who's truly motivated and funded, without making it impossible to admit people at a reasonable pace, and the current rules don't really help with that exce
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by closewith 8mo ago
Assuming this is about Harju, it seems the author read "245 million sq m" and assumed the m was miles, not metres. So the already large 24,500 hectare farm became a ludicrous 245 million square mile multi-planetary behemoth. Readi
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by closewith 8mo ago
Common enough error in the US when dealing with square meters abbreviated to sq m. Only off but a factor of 2.6 million. But yes, it does call into question the rest of the fact checking.
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by closewith 9mo ago
It seems from your comments that you are confusing power dynamics with coercive control. Power dynamics doesn’t refer to coercion, but to asymmetric authority wielded, social status, risk distributed, or cost borne by individuals in a grou
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by closewith 9mo ago
> Do my boss and I have a formal relationship based on expectations we have of each other? Yes, absolutely. Are there consequences if I repeatedly go against those expectations? Yes. Are we friends? No. Does that give him unlimited contr
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by closewith 9mo ago
> The “relationship” I refer to isn’t “they’re your boss,” it’s “how do you and your boss communicate,” which is a different thing altogether. No, they're impossibly intertwined and cannot be treated separately. > That’s not to s
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by closewith 9mo ago
> Seriously though, it depends on the boss and the relationship you have with them. Those are the power dynamics the GP is referring to.
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by closewith 9mo ago
> Or, you could have a central, federally run organization that takes responsibility for delivering sealed ballots to the respective states in a timely manner. Which is what we call voting by mail. No, postal voting is not the same as br
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by closewith 9mo ago
That only solves the double-counting problem, and it's fundamentally impossible to solve the voter ID and voter manipulation problems with postal voting.
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by closewith 9mo ago
I'm not American, so I don't understand the older republican comment, but except in exceptionally adverse circumstances (astronauts on the ISS or submariners, etc) the military can provide ballot boxes to it's personnel.
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by closewith 9mo ago
This is a solved problem for in-person voting with indentical ballots and self-depositing into sealed ballot boxes. It is an unsolvable problem for mail in voting, which is why it should be prohibited in most cases.
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by closewith 9mo ago
Many countries with far higher participation rates do not allow mail-in voting, which definitely should be banned to prevent voter manipulation.
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by closewith 9mo ago
How do you solve the issue of manipulated voting? That's solved by in-person ID-authenticated voting, but can never be solved by online voting.
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by closewith 9mo ago
As politely as possible, your experience is simply wrong, I'm afraid to say. US angel/seed round investing by EU-resident HNWs alone exceeds all angel/seed investing in the EU, by quite some margin. I'm actually quite cu
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by closewith 9mo ago
> But the claim was that early stage VCs in Europe invest in US instead, contrary to my experience. If they were instead investing in US companies, I'd see that instead, I don't know if I used the wrong word here, where exactly
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by closewith 9mo ago
I acted as a technical advisor on a raise in Q2 2025 and saw figures from the EI Market Research Centre that Q1 Series As & Bs totalled ~$35 BN USD vs ~€4.5 for the EU as a bloc, so very roughly an order of magnitude greater. 2025 was c
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by closewith 9mo ago
I’m not sure you read my comment. I didn’t claim LLMs have reached a ceiling – I’m very bullish on them. The point I was making is about the baseline capability that even sceptics tend to concede: if LLMs were “only” good at CRUD and task a

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