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I enjoy your magazine! Thanks for writing.
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Not military combat, which is the subject of the article.
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Around the halfway point of the article: > The main reason most European armies switched from bows to crossbows and then firearms was the short learning curves of these weapons. Crossbowmen and musketeers required little or no training,
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> Pulling the trigger of a firearm does not require any skill or practice. Learning and practicing how to correctly pull the trigger is probably the single biggest improvement to accuracy a new shooter can make. The difference between th
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Oh, the tweet is certainly true. There is systematic risk. I think the humor comes from the tweet being phrased as secret insider knowledge, when it's something that has already been happening, and obvious to anyone watching. (I tend t
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As someone who has worked for years in crypto, the tweet reads as very late to catching up with things. After the repeated huge insolvencies of the last few months, everyone in crypto knows there's massive systemic risk, and new risk
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Summary of the legal settlement: 1. One more year in which ChessBase cannot use stockfish. 2. After a year, they may use it, provided they are in compliance with GPL-3 3. ChessBase will never again distribute stockfish without obeying the G
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Ethereum multi-sig wallets do the trust side fantastically side very well. In addition you get ways to handle lost keys, ownership changes, and the ability to require multiple people to sign off on any action.
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We've already seen more than 10% of USDT cashed out in a previous exciting time a few months ago and the traded price value went down a few cents for a few hours. Nothing remotely like 99%.
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"In addition, Farnsworth and Lowe allegedly made false claims that HMNY possessed and used technologies – like “big data” and “artificial intelligence” platforms – to generate revenue by analyzing and monetizing the data MoviePass coll
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You are missreading it. :) That's one group of thieves selling 38 million worth to them. Later on in the document more groups of thieves are listed, getting paid 13, 45, and 6 million dollars. But that's still not necessarily the
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Another working link: https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-merrick-...
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I'm impressed with the elegance of this method to get a single nice number to determine how evenly spaced things are in the whole: > We chose our statistic based on principles. Since all fragments sum to the length of the genome, if
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The total number of moves made in the US has been declining over the last several years, even as the US population is increasing. https://www.rubyhome.com/blog/moving-stats/
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One of our local writing teachers has addressed this by having the students do some surprise writing in class, no phones, and comparing it to home work.
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Overall I understand, and agree with you. But the pendant must point out that the most well known sale of indulgences went to fund the construction of one of the most epic buildings on earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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One link is here (thanks to a poster downthread): https://www.msf.gov.sg/policies/Marriages/Pages/Finding-a-Pa...
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The government of Singapore has been active in this area since the 80's. Not only having run a dating site, but also subsidizing singles cruises, hosting mixer events, and grants to college programs to get people together. https:&#x2F
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This article points to the threat to Putin from both pro-war social media leaders and from those in power with their own militaries. And shortly after this was published, security forces publicly (dramatically) arrested Wagner Group's
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Clickhouse is so stupidly, mindbogglingly fast at what it does that you can often replace a much more specialized databases or specialized schemas / queries with brute force Clickhouse and come out far ahead. It really depends on the s
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One fun tip for anyone who wants to understand more how their prompts work - lock down to a single seed, no variations, then change one word at a time in your prompt. Then you can see what effects each word has. Or you can answer your quest
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This one is still on the small side, actually.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisat... (Though I'm fairly sure the protests are unrelated)
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This is the sixth occurrence of major protests in Iran in in five years.
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The NASAMS going to Ukraine are purchased by the US, not sent from the US. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/26/politics/us-missile-defen...
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Massively bigger network than the blog-o-sphere provides more value. Your new content appears in feeds in seconds. The small content size constraints allow readers to follow more people, making the network more connected.
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While McCrystal was in command, US caused Afghani civilian casualties went quickly down from what they were and stayed down while he was in command. However the Taliban had been killing around 400% of the number of civilians that the ISAF w
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As I said, McCrystal intentions were to reduce civilian casualties; he took drastic actions to reduce civilian casualties; and yet the overall number of civilian deaths from all causes went up. You can see that he was taking actions by just
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Sure, here's one source: https://direct.mit.edu/daed/article/146/1/44/27133/Limiting-... This paper is very in favor of paying the cost on reducing civilian casualties, but even so quotes
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McCrystal was in fact all about actually reducing civilian deaths. He drastically altered almost every aspect of daily combat life of US and Afghanistan government soldiers in that quest. An example from someone I know: Multiple helicopters

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