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by fuoqi 6y ago
It's an old well-known proposal to electrolyze molten oxides, isn't it? There is even hope for wide industrial applications on Earth of such technology for coal-free metal production. Though I don't see a particular novelty h
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by fuoqi 6y ago
No, it very much does. Laser fusion relies on creation of a spherically symmetric shock wave, which in turn momentarily creates huge pressure and temperature in the center of a pellet, thus igniting the fusion reaction. Any asymmetry (cause
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by fuoqi 6y ago
As far as I know laser fusion is not a practical technology for energy production due to the plasma instability effects, high pellets cost (several orders of magnitude more than necessary for economic viability), huge reliance on a very pre
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by fuoqi 6y ago
This was one of the argued motivation for introducing the Platon system in Russia in addition to the fuel tax. It's an electronic toll system mandatory for trucks over 12 tons and costs every such truck ~5 USD cents per traveled km. Un
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by fuoqi 6y ago
It's a weird article. It's a matter of priorities, a theory can be as beautiful as anything you have seen, but if it does not have any predictive power, then for "hard" science (i.e. physics, chemistry, biology, etc.) it
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by fuoqi 6y ago
How so? I wrote only factual, easily verifiable information about him. If someone does not want to judge by the video content alone and wants to learn more about the author, you can read the following wiki links: https://en.wikip
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by fuoqi 6y ago
See this branch which discusses Bellingcat: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25150913 (BTW it's interesting that the same link got mentioned twice here in comments, even though relation to the OP is weak in my opin
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by fuoqi 6y ago
No direct evidence as you would expect. We only have circumstantial evidence such as selection of topics to cover and general view regarding covered events, which align quite well with position demonstrated by intelligence services. It also
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Worth to keep in mind that Bellingcat is believed by many to be closely linked to MI6, so take their publications with a grain of salt.
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>what kind of design is going to replace it? FAST [0] can be considered an Arecibo replacement, see the comparison chapter on the wiki page. Though it is built in China, so some may say that it's not a replacement for the US and the
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by fuoqi 6y ago
I wouldn't call the Baltic states "the most heavily fortified border of NATO", even according to the NATO analysis they will not be able to resist a full-scale Russian invasion for more than several days. The goal of the forc
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>Most countries don't support terrorist (sorry, 'resistance') organizations and don't officially announce it on every corner. Yeap, and the US is not included into this list of the "most countries" as well.
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My opinion is that the main driver behind the rise of far-right movement is the refugee crisis, caused by the US-led destructive interventions to Syria and Libya, which got amplified by questionable refugee policy, effectively promoting hum
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by fuoqi 6y ago
>Yet nobody did that. Maybe the criteria aren't so 'similar'. For the same reason no one designated GRU or Mossad operatives. The weight of the state behind them and absurdity of the act. But the US government has decided
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by fuoqi 6y ago
>He was on both the US and EU anti-terrorism list No, only the US designated him as a terrorist and IIRC on a really flimsy grounds (as in CIA operatives could be designated terrorists using similar criteria). EU only personally sanction
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by fuoqi 6y ago
Carriers don't act in vacuum. In both cases the US has enough ground bases and allies around those countries to suppress anti-ship capabilities first and then move carriers in. Of course in a surprise attack a carrier could be sunk usi
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>Neither Russia nor the US would escalate an invasion of the Baltic's, Neither China nor the US would escalate an invasion of Taiwan. I highly doubt it. Baltic states are part of NATO, assuming Russia blitzkriegs them (it's a r
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by fuoqi 6y ago
Hopefully the idea is that any serious military clash with China or Russia will inevitably lead to a massive nuclear exchange ("hopefully" because it significantly reduces probability of such clash). In such war carriers will be e
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by fuoqi 6y ago
>because of the threat posed by Iran. Do you seriously believe this nonsense? The pull was clearly targeted against Russia, in the same way as pull from the INF was targeted mostly against China. Russia even has proposed to share radar d
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>It was doing it last year after the US unilaterally pulled out of the agreement And who are we should thank for it? Iran clearly sees the difference between North Korea and Libya, and it clearly does not want to be the latter. The US st
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by fuoqi 6y ago
I am not sure that you mean by "actual combat conditions", but Russia quite regularly tests its ICBMs by launching them to the Kura test range [0] in Kamchatka. Tests usually have distance of 5-6 thousand kilometers and often incl
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by fuoqi 6y ago
>And unlike bombers and tactical missile launchers, there's no ethical issues, because this saves civilians. Tell it to sanctions against Iran which blocked acquisition of the S-400 anti-aircraft system. Stronger defense capabilitie
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by fuoqi 6y ago
But electricity is not 100% efficient either. At the very least you have transmission loss (to compensate for renewables intermittency you have to transfer energy farther), round-trip energy storage efficiency, EV efficiency. Also during co
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by fuoqi 6y ago
>Nice way to revise history to make the Holomdor just a result of lack of computational power not a genocidal atrocity. The hunger at the time hit hard not only Ukraine, but also inner Russia (Volga region) and Belarus. It has even affec
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by fuoqi 6y ago
I don't think the military angle plays a big role in the British case. Hinkley C uses mostly foreign technologies and expertise, not domestic one. There were even talks about building a plant using Chinese technologies! Also submarine
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It is also important to note that bigger transistor size helps with radiation resistance, so it does not make much sense to use 5-30 nm chips in space and military applications. Smaller power consumption absolutely does not worth reduced re
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US actions for one thing. See the history of how the US has blocked China's acquisition of those machines by simply applying pressure (not even threat of sanctions) on Europeans. Also even you got your hands on them, you need a suffici
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by fuoqi 6y ago
High-end chip manufacturing is effectively a natural monopoly. You need huge initial investments, after which cost of production is too small to make creation of competing fabs a good investment idea (unless politics get involved). TSMC was
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As if "the West" and the US in particular don't lie left and right if it helps to promote their agenda. It's a simple matter of who aligns with whom.
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Obviously because of the geopolitical concerns and pride. Truth is the first victim as usual. The Russian vaccine was indeed registered just after the 2nd phase trials, but according to its website the 3rd phase trial has started on August

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