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by dirtyid 4y ago
IMO nuclear game theory especially around Launch on Warning / immediate retaliation is going to change in the coming years as everyone builds up conventional global strike missiles. Decision makers will be incentivized to at least wait
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Were they at least paid?
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>many Asians support these measures (East) Asians that support these measures get the media platform. In East Asian dominant neighbourhoods I've been in, opposing these measures are one of the few things that has politically activat
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by dirtyid 4y ago
You can watch SAT prep videos and pirate prep books for free. GPA gets juiced all the time. Honor AP/IB had a solid premium. Very few extra curriculars that don't cost money / resources. The handful of kids (including me) tha
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by dirtyid 4y ago
I cannot believe how many creative professionals I know that uses blending modes for a living, still just flips through them one by one to see which one looks good.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>he's likely just a I'm a PRC born person who likes to keep up with PRC related geopolitics, now based in CAN but have lived/worked between East and West with experience in both systems if that helps you calibrate. Not an
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by dirtyid 4y ago
I remember being very impressed by these in the school's computer lab and trying to replicate the pixel art in the paint app.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
I think for high demand urban centres/markets, this is just going to lead to Braess's paradox of more roads = more cars = more traffic. More units = more people = more opporunities = maybe even higher rent. Unless there's rid
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>unless absolutely necessary I suppose high Soviet attrition/abandon rate during WW2 would have made air dropping tanks with some chance of survival worth considering. But it's nice to have skipped to air-to-ground missiles.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>People do not talk this in real life "American dream" / land of opportunity" "Government Assistance Lifts 45.4 Million Out of Poverty in 2021" - US Census Bureau >odd phrasing And accurate. Governance sy
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Regardless of which way the ledger tallies, there's enough skeletons no longer in the closet to warrant a cleanup + rebranding for optics. Launder that reputation.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Bright side is your mistakes probably don't haunt you as regularly or as long. Like say poor design detail on a building that will outlive you, that you see everyday on your commute, or when you look out your living room window.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Which animal has eyes best biologically tuned to star gaze? And when cam I get that transplant.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
IMO lazy surface level analysis (per usual Zeihan). Imagine if PRC replaced 200M farmers and un/low skilled workers with 100M skilled jobs (sci+tech, high value manufacturing, services etc) and 100M human labour equivalent of automatio
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>Mr. Xi’s ambition, according to China’s most recent defense white paper, is to complete a modernization of the military by 2035 and turn it into a “world-class force” by 2049, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republ
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by dirtyid 4y ago
One thing to build the infra but another to convince families to bike during Toronto winter.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Makes me wonder what's the largest web / service operated by the fewest amount of people?
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Helps to not have harsh winters as well.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Wonder how much of rent increase is attributed to airbnb.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>common enough to dedicate significant resources to try to build inhouse. Basically. Especially relevant for the ballpoint pen anecdote which wasn't about how hard it was to make ball point tips, but some products were not economica
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Good points. By "posture" I meant more in terms of new capabilities in sufficient stocks or even current ordnances in sufficient stocks which by most reports I've read US is currently lacking for full spectrum PRC war (and vi
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>A top US Navy official said on Wednesday that a mainland Chinese invasion of Taiwan could take place as soon as this year, based partly on comments by Chinese President Xi Jinping at a major political conference in Beijing this week. Su
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Incredible service. Just annoyed once I show it to my folks I'll be dragged into multi hour tutorial session on how to scan / upload old albums. Also curious which "filter" they feel will most reflect the subjective real
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>"oomph" Yeah, I think James Webb (being amazing) and resolving so much more stars in these photos kind of removes the oomph of original Hubble photos that showed seemingly lonely cosmic monoliths in largely empty void Which ma
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Wild picture, but less sublime than the original. Same feels when NASA/ESA deconstructed the gas layers in 3d to refect the thin layers (like old school parallax animation background) instead of the awesome awesome voluminous celestia
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by dirtyid 4y ago
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Handi-Snacks_-_open.... Feels like this but with peanut butter replaced by grape juice. I'm bothered the Truevine Chalice checks every box except "fits in communion
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Students also getting good at easing their own education requirements as well. >The internet ruined homework which hurt test scores. >When students did their homework in 2008, it improved test grades for 86% of them, but only helped 4
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by dirtyid 4y ago
He became co-CEO in March. Seems like getting scapegoated.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
It seems inevitable Starlink will prioritize profitable commercial ventures first. Industry is going to find more data intensive applications and squeeze out residential use.
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Why? PRC will be operating in TW EEZ which it considers Chinese waters anyway. What is Japan going to do except watch helplessly from Yonaguni. Practically, PRC can simply mine TW ports, crater run ways, via glide mines and MLRS all within

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