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by dirtyid 4y ago
IMO yes, mass attritionable UAVs exacerbates fundemental disadvantage of anti air - hard to defend everywhere vs air power easier to concentrate to create local tactical superiority. Countermeasures can keep pace but doesn't mean they
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by dirtyid 4y ago
> autonomous driving Autonomous driving is "hard", where hard is mininizing unintentaional death for domestic adoption. Autonmous murdering is easier, perhaps much easier. Because flying from point A to B without obstacles is s
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by dirtyid 4y ago
The success story is Laos, a shit tier landlocked country with no development prospects has defied all sense, roughly parallelling trajectory per capita GDP growth with booming Vietnam next door, who has the option of replicating maritime e
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by dirtyid 4y ago
This is fantastic.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Big events gets posted on PRC social media faster than censors can censor. Much of Chinese with mobile will see this, the biggest problem is people in west thinking they know better, overindexing on a bunch of students stuck in shitty dorms
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Urumqi ones, yes already relaxed covid measures because frankly XJ lockdown past 3 months was stupid excessive and protest by actual commoners. CCP listens to these, even Uyghurs in XJ. These "rest of China" protests which are mos
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by dirtyid 4y ago
https://i.imgur.com/fTE2wi3.jpg Tsinghua students being cheeky protesting with the Friedmann Equation i.e. expansion of space / open up.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Yes and? You eating biased media diet doesn't invalid the statistical reality that PRC, relative to her signifcant trade volume and relationships is objectively one of the better adherents at WTO relative to countries that whine about
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by dirtyid 4y ago
> they believe in free trade at all More than US seeing how PRC has significantly less disputes (normalized for acession time), both as initiator and target per WTO stats and generally abides by WTO disputes ruled against her favour. Eve
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Yes, for me reading can be replaced and optimized by listening text to speech at speeds at faster than my typical reading. Writing still essentialto retain and formalize ideas. Listening doesn't fully replace reading, still need to go
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>assembled in China, and most under even worse conditions than FoxConn Citation needed. There's a reason Honhai / Foxconn / TW businesses have decades old bad rep in East Asia, in terms of working conditions, mistreating w
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by dirtyid 4y ago
> The workers at this factory rioted because they had been held there against their will due to a Covid lockdown Literally the opposite. Foxconn was trying to kick workers OUT of factory which had to shutter due to covid - the riot was o
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by dirtyid 4y ago
With respect to point of original argument: >get old before it gets rich If PRC's official population is as low as Yi thinks, then her per capita GDP is already "secretly" high income at ~14000 USD. She would technically a
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Current vax capability is a solution to PRC dealing with covid with 1-2 millions of deaths, maybe not as high as 3-5M estimated excess deaths in India but within that ball park. Issue remains PRC's health care capacity isn't suffi
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by dirtyid 4y ago
It's customary western MSM wank, if only PRC imported superior mRNA narrative. mNRA data from HK/SKR/TW/SG extrapolated to PRC population = still millions of deaths and more from collapsed underdeveloped medical system.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Prevents spread, like original mRNA claims, which pfizer admitted wasn't even tested for. All current vaccines merely prevents serious cases, that PRC traditional vaccines with booster is about as competent in, but will still lead to m
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>US helped them IMO more accurate to insinuate whether countries succeed or fail to develop is ultimately at the discretion of the (wealthy) hegemon. Especially more so in recent history with the viability of export led growth models and
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Basic some-what educated napkin math: Qatar: ~650 deaths per year from ~2M low end migrant labours doing construction under harsh conditions. USA: ~900 deaths per year from ~1.5M "temporary workers" AKA migrant labours in various
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Loyal Wingman specifically intends to do all that, remove pilot and associated operation overheads with lower cost MQ28s as force multiplier to support/augment expensive manned overseer. Next potential step is to make overseer unmanned
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Currently aren't, otherwise go tell the navy and airforce that. There's a reason programs exist to train AI to out gun topgun, because the current roadmap leads to large UAVs more performant than current manned fighters specifical
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by dirtyid 4y ago
I remember. IMO they tried outrageous microtranstions on fanbase who were demographically resistent which TBH some practices are more acceptable 5 years later. Disney also has other women oriented franchises that seems to have big mobile po
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Considering how much they've squandered Star Wars video game IP, or video game IP in general, probably leaving billions on the table. That said, maybe it's to prevent cannibalizing other divisions, but it's hard to imagine ty
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Not bad series at the time and still relevant to non peer "enemistan" powers, but 4 years is long time with respect to PRC military modernization - and there's a reason the series correctly distinguishes between generic Enemi
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Depends on goal of war, whether war of aggression or conquest. If conquest, yes there's need to follow up with invasion, of which mobilization can be done after preemption. If aggression, i.e. goal is to merely want to cripple a place
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Depends on capability of attackers. Even medium range hypersonics strikes = minutes of warning. Coordinating a bunch of TEL launchers to pop out of their cave for quick launch = maybe an hour to determine whether movement is training exerci
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by dirtyid 4y ago
High is relative. Remove multiple pilots that cost 10M+ over course of life of air frame. Adopt hi-lo mix of master UAVs with full sensor suits mesh with simplified bomb truck units. Cutting out manned training will also dramatically reduce
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Exaggerating for effect, but I think the tech you described for most nations relative to developement capabilities is basically magic, and most F35 partners will be relatively secure in their back yards. Realistically we're talking abo
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>more advanced at shooting down planes One thing to consider is kill envelope / no escape is also function of manned fighters being restricted to manned limitations. An autonmous fighter that has bigger fuel tank than missiles (more
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Deemed not survivable. Hence US trying to get JP to do distributed basing across islands (ACE /agile combat employment), but for obvious reasons, JP is reluctant.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Fair point, but IMO increased dependancy is more about joint developement and getting level 1/2/3 partners emeshed into the program's supply chain. Side effect is tying up development resources in partner programs while under

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