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by cpleppert 5y ago
>> The people of Ukraine have overturned a fraudulent election, overthrown a president who betrayed his commitment to his people, and are now fighting tooth and nail to defend their country. But it's all 'just' power po
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>>You want to talk about power? China has certainly gained plenty of real-world power since the days of Mao Zedong. From the perspective of power maximizing their willingness to go to war is puzzling. But most research suggests states
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Defensive realism? “My theory, which I label “offensive realism,” is essentially realist in nature; it falls thus in the tradition of realist thinkers such as E. H. Carr, Hans Morgenthau, and Kenneth Waltz.”: John J. Mearsheimer. The Traged
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I used an intel macbook pro with an older version of Mac Os that had lots of background processes and features disabled just to get the performance I wanted. My M1 Air was noticeably faster even with spotlight indexing and a massive build i
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So much for a “green transition”: Carbon emissions from power sector soar(axios.com)
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Given that the last major technological generation of thermonuclear weapons in the US was the W88 (1988) nuclear warhead with a non-spherical primary I have a heard time imagining that spending tens of billions of dollars starting a decade
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>>But mostly, the war ended when the governments and economies of the nations fighting could no longer withstand the strain and started collapsing. (Russia is the most obvious example; Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire were sketc
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>> What they did not foresee was 1) how rapidly ad-hoc fortifications (i.e. trench lines) could be extended From the planning of the former chief of staff of the german army 1905: [Along the entire line, the corps] will move on the en
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Not trying to defend Microsoft’s behavior here by any means but the justice department clearly lost the case. The original favorable ruling splitting up Microsoft was conclusively rejected by the court of appeals on almost all points. The g
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The Itanium wasn't just designed as a workstation CPU it was designed to be superior to existing high-end systems and then over time with volume be the eventual x86 replacement. The business case for itanium didn't work as a works
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The competing unix manufacturers didn't need Itanium as an excuse to fold; they were completely non-competitive by the time the itanium came around. Customers didn't purchase a unix system because of the performance of the proprie
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Inside the risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan(technologyreview.com)
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The research papers linked in wikipedia don't really support what wikipedia claims even though they are very favorable to TSX. In one paper [1] the only way they could demonstrate a performance improvement in a real world benchmark was
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It isn't irrelevant in the context; by saying that they are only in range under 'perfect conditions' he makes it sound like the operation was barely doable. This is misleading. Air operations in WWII where continuously depend
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The entire book is written like that. It should be pretty clear by even his tone that he just speculating and creating his own opinions to form a story. On top of that it is casually written like a series of blog posts; I found it incredibl
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by cpleppert 5y ago
Michael Crichton's Gell-Mann Amnesia strikes again. >>You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well... You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the is
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I guess the simplest answer is they didn't launch an attack because they couldn't. Specialized torpedo boats cannot generally penetrate a destroyer or cruiser screen without assistance. There is no viable way to even get into posi
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The conflicts you mentioned were against non-peer adversaries. The belligerents had no naval or offensive air power to speak of.
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>>Also why would you pin the fundamental blame on FDR cutting off the oil? Japan was running a pretty brutal occupation of China at the time. See chapter 8 of The Challenge of Grand Strategy: The Great Powers and the Broken Balance be
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There has been a lot of studies into the economic performance of south korea and the other asian tigers compared to latin american countries that had similar levels of economic development after WWII and one commonality is the inability of
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Iran sold oil at basically the same price and with the same legal structure as Saudi Aramaco did. That shouldn't be surprising, both countries reliance on western expertise and capital investment lessened dramatically in the decade fol
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South Korea started growing rapidly by the beginning of the 1960's and its economic growth has been consistent regardless of the political regime [^1]. What has been consistent was a significantly different economic system than the Nor
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>> There's no easy way to cut a file/folder (Cmd-x doesn't work Cmd-opt-V will move the previously copied folder/file. I find this behavior superior to having to decide whether to cut/copy a file to select it
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>> Do you think credible witness testimony is admissible, or do you not? Millenia of justice systems are built on this concept. Even "hard evidence" all comes down to trusting the people in the chain of custody, since things
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That’s true but you might as well thank Standard Oil for being able to have a car. Being innovative and anti-competitive aren’t mutually exclusive.
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But iPhones and Android devices do have functionality that users can’t obtain anywhere else. What alternative smartphone ecosystem could the average user choose as a substitute? To say nothing of the fact a smartphone is essentially require
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Sure it is. A gaming console has a plethora of alternatives available to the consumer. PCs, other consoles, game streaming, mobile games and other entertainment options. If you need a smartphone ( and that is everyone for all practical purp
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I guess I’m skeptical as to what is being claimed here. There have been various attempts to use the Greek phonetic values and logograms of Linear B to reconstruct Linear A equivalents. The only known sentences partially deciphered are votiv
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Huh? The only thing I can think of is that the engine analysis can swing immediately once the move is played because it hasn’t thought about the new position for very long. Obviously if you just watch a stream the evaluation changes immedia
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Glad I wasn't the only one to notice that. No one idea what he could possibly mean but given that Java hasn't used x87 in forever and there is no reason to ever want to use them I guess he is just completely wrong here?

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