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by greedo 1y ago
As you said, the outcomes are wildly different. A 0.3% risk of colonoscopy complications vs missing out on catching a mass when it's relatively easy to treat.
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by greedo 1y ago
What false positive would come out of a colonoscopy? You are visually looking for masses, and removing suspect polyps that are sent in for evaluation. The major potential harm of a colonoscopy is a bowel perforation. Serious complications o
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by greedo 1y ago
Catching colorectal cancer at an early stage improves survival rates tremendously. You have to weigh the risk of complications from the colonoscopy (primarily bowel perforation) with the improved outcomes. There's a cost element as wel
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by greedo 1y ago
You should look into how many homes are being purchased primarily for AirBNB/VRBO type income streams...
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by greedo 1y ago
No more expenses... Right! No property tax. No homeowner's insurance. No maintenance. Just living on easy street.
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by greedo 1y ago
Hezbollah has been completely neutered by Israel.
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by greedo 1y ago
Getting one annually is not recommended for most patients. After my bowel resection, I had annual colonoscopies for five years, then every three years, now every five (the normal recommendation for my age cohort). Colonoscopies are no big d
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by greedo 1y ago
"Or they can be involved with coordinating the production itself."
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by greedo 1y ago
Thanks for the correction. My brain always associates anything Phalanx with 30mm.
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by greedo 1y ago
Agree about the value of the START treaties.
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by greedo 1y ago
And those are almost exclusively launched by SU-27 derivatives, not strategic bombers like the TU-22m, TU-160 or TU-95.
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by greedo 1y ago
The Poseidon can carry the LRASM, which is a longer ranged version of the JASSM-ER, weighing in at over 2700lbs. True, it's designed as a stealthy anti-ship missile, but a land attack variant would be easy to manage. And the P-8 can ca
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by greedo 1y ago
It's much, much more collaborative than that. The role of a producer can be limited to managing the financial side of the production. Or they can be involved with coordinating the production itself. The director has the most say over w
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by greedo 1y ago
I would expand it a bit past CGI. It can include using a less interesting shot but adding ADR to it, filling in a gap between scenes etc.
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by greedo 1y ago
My argument is that countering this threat is non-trivial, there are no existing systems in the US that address this threat, and that simplistic solutions should be evaluated on their merits. It's far too easy to hand wave away the com
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by greedo 1y ago
Pretty sure that I'm not the one who brought up Trophy systems? Yes the technology exists to mitigate some of the risk. It's not deployed currently, and is very expensive. There are significant limitations to these systems, and mo
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by greedo 1y ago
As I wrote, Ukraine has no large bombers in this class...
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by greedo 1y ago
Ummm, bombers have no desire to be around things that explode. They want to drop their bombs/missiles, and then get out of Dodge as quick as possible. The munitions on the ground are (at least on Western air bases) housed in very well
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by greedo 1y ago
"new tu-160" is a stretch. These airframes were started during the time of the Soviet Union and are very very slowly being assembled. Russia has no ability to produce any of the TU-95/TU-23m/TU-160 past the few unassembl
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by greedo 1y ago
The P8-Poseiden is based on the Boeing 737. It can carry missiles like the AGM84 Harpoon externally, and also has an internal bomb bay for torpedoes and mines. Converting a modern airliner design to a cruise missile carrier would be a trivi
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by greedo 1y ago
Ukraine has no large supersonic bombers the size of the TU-95/TU-160/TU-223m. They do have a very small fleet of SU-24, but those are tactical bombers, not strategic bombers.
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by greedo 1y ago
APS systems like Trophy aren't anything special. And radar already exists that can track and target drones down to FPV size. Most AD radars are tuned to ignore birds and small objects that aren't moving in a consistent speed and d
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by greedo 1y ago
It already exists on the ground for armored vehicles, but is useless for protecting aircraft on the ground. The last thing you want around thin-skinned aircraft is something that explodes!
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by greedo 1y ago
B2 is definitely stored in climate controlled hangers to help protect their stealth coatings. START has long since been a dead treaty, replaced by New START. New START has two verification methods, none of which rely on overflight by satell
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by greedo 1y ago
Offut AFB is right next to Bellevue/Omaha and it would be absolutely trivial to attack all the STRATCOM aircraft located there. Think KNEECAP/TACAMO etc. Whiteman AFB in Missouri where the B2 bombers live would be an easy, easy ta
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by greedo 1y ago
That doesn't work on light-skinned vehicles, or aircraft.
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by greedo 1y ago
If you look at the rate of wage growth compared to inflation, it's pretty clear that wages have stagnated for a long time, with periodic bumps. The goal of most businesses is growth and increased productivity. The easiest way to have h
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by greedo 2y ago
<Trump merely walked through the cracks created under Obama.> Which were dependent on the GWB administration (forced renditions, torture prisons), the Reagan administration (Iran-Contra etc), the Nixon Administration (Watergate etc),
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by greedo 2y ago
You mean started before the US involvement in WW2. And the battleship was definitely NOT the king of the ocean. Carriers quickly took over that role, and aircraft quickly made mincemeat of the best battleships ever built, starting with the
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by greedo 2y ago
Most of the Iowa class battleships took less than four years from launch to commissioning, so in WW2 your last statement would have been challengeable had the USN not realized the folly of building more BBs.

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