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by greedo 5d ago
That is a non-sequitur. Many societies and governments (the leadership you're referring to) are not "doing something right blah blah blah." They're using "tradition", "culture" "respect for the p
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by greedo 5d ago
That purpose is to further entrench and protect the power of those in power.
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by greedo 6d ago
"coming out of early development" that has been going on for almost a decade...
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by greedo 6d ago
Considering he wanted to rescue those poor kids trapped in an underwater cave by building a submarine, the parallels are closer than you'd think...
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by greedo 15d ago
LVM for a *nix sysadmin is cheat mode for managing storage.
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by greedo 15d ago
There are also controls that specify noexec, nodev etc for filesystems.
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by greedo 17d ago
Healthcare costs (what I assume you mean by prices) are the least market-driven items in the US economy. And as much as the medical community would have you believe, the primary driver of costs are labor costs. If we had twice the number of
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by greedo 17d ago
You sound like ESR ranting about how Apple was doomed by Android back when the iPhone came out. He would rant and rant every time about how there was no conceivable way that Apple could survive. Somehow, Apple has managed to survive by the
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by greedo 17d ago
I'll criticize Apple with the best of them, but AirPods being "middling?"
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by greedo 17d ago
Since Apple doesn't release iPhone sales figures per model, I'm suspicious about your sales metrics.
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by greedo 23d ago
Yes. As a father of two (grown) children in the US, this is the default assumption for most men.
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Industry Standard Tools(industrystandard.tools)
12 points by greedo 25d ago|2 comments
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by greedo 26d ago
I don't think there's anything to back up your last sentence. In my small city, there's at least four convenience store chains, and many of them use the owner's name as part of the street (advertised) name. There's
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by greedo 26d ago
Back in the 80's you still needed to have multiple stores. Otherwise your overhead from back office and maintenance stuff would just eat up too much profits. Once you hit three stores, you could start to make serious money if you ran a
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by greedo 2mo ago
KH101 is a cruise missile, not ballistic.
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by greedo 2mo ago
Ballistic missiles have limited maneuverability, and what little they do is not very significant for a system like Patriot PAC3-MSE.
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by greedo 2mo ago
Ukraine had to become extremely parsimonious with their Patriot use as supplied dwindled to a fraction. In many cases Ukraine simply chose not to engage unless the Kinzal/Iskanders were optimally detected and attacking a significant ta
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by greedo 2mo ago
It was definitely Creech. I remember the spate of articles discussing how the officers (the USAF requires drones to be piloted by officers) were both struggling with the close up nature of drone strikes combined with fewer or even non-exist
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by greedo 2mo ago
Some minor quibbles... It's Offut AFB, home of StratCom. Eppely is the municipal airport. And Offut doesn't have any drone units, nor do they manage any. They due process reconnaissance for sure, but actual drone strikes aren&#x27
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by greedo 2mo ago
PAC-3 MSE can take down Iskanders. Not a very favorable exchange rate when you fire 2-3 per Iskander, but still doable. If NATO was fighting Russia, launch aircraft (and airbases) would be prime targets. Ukraine fights the way it does becau
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Mykhailo Fedorov reveals struggle to secure Patriot missiles and Western support(uawire.org)
38 points by greedo 2mo ago|35 comments
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by greedo 2mo ago
350º internal temp for medium done? Maybe you forgot to include the glue on your pizza as well.
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by greedo 2mo ago
ATACMS and PrSM would definitely be used to strike air defense systems. The US military is very joint and the boundary you're delineating isn't part of the mission tasking.
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by greedo 2mo ago
No PrSM were donated to Ukraine, and only a small number of legacy ATACMS were delivered. Under 200 from open sources...
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by greedo 2mo ago
Civil War casualties were over 700K...
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by greedo 2mo ago
Also, you can jam JDAM (GPS) guidance. The Russians are masters at jamming and I'm fairly confident they've shared some systems with Iran.
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by greedo 2mo ago
I think you should avail yourself of this thing called the Internet to research before you beclown yourself. US missile production is extremely, painfully slow. From Standard missiles used by the Navy to Patriot. From THAAD to PrSM. LRASM,
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by greedo 2mo ago
As much as I support Taiwan, there's no realistic timeline where the US goes to war against the PRC over Taiwan. None.
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by greedo 2mo ago
If my grandmother had wheels, she would have been a bike. The article didn't mention anything about US strategic or tactical nuclear weapons, though that must be a fantasy of yours (along with the Chimp in the Whitehouse).
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by greedo 2mo ago
Desert Storm was 35 years ago. Almost everyone who fought in it is out of service or dead. Iraqi invasion was 23 years ago. Again, almost everyone who was part of the initial invasion is out of service. I wouldn't call the occupation o

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