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by hga 10y ago
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? I don't know how the DPRK does it (it's notoriously opaque), but it would be astounding if they didn't follow the 20th Century Communist model of having political types police the military. A
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by hga 10y ago
As I understand it, this is the intent of the wording after a couple of previous, clearly worded ballot questions properly went down in flames at the hand of the voters. Also read there's a particular Supreme Court judge for whom this
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by hga 10y ago
Sort of, it's the least successful known, in that all others managed to light off a successful "full power" device on their first try, their first was a sub-kiloton fizzle ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2
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by hga 10y ago
I know nothing about the YPG/J, except what I just looked up to confirm that they've got a number of Kurds, and my point about Kurds is that in general, they aren't good at more than skirmishing. That a group including a lo
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by hga 10y ago
I've recently read an explanation for the end of that conflict that makes the most sense of any I've read, not that I consider myself to be even minimally informed about it, and it was that the series of anti-material bombings tha
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by hga 10y ago
Well, it's demonstrably not "unquestionable", since I question every paragraph you've written above after the first. And most especially the last, for the North can't even feed its own army, and one of the many thin
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by hga 10y ago
It is unfortunate that the SDF and related groups (ie: YPG/J) never receive the same political and military recognition that their radical Islamist counterparts do. Oh, I don't know, not counting those on the "Alt Right&quo
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by hga 10y ago
What extinguishes the war, is that the resources of those spending for it, are rerouted to other theaters of the great game. Doesn't always have to be that, they can end by enough men of military age being killed or disabled on one s
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by hga 10y ago
despite numerous border incidents And, oh, more than a few attempts to kill the head of the government of South Korea? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangoon_bombing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by hga 10y ago
But you're not counting the "Chinese volunteers" who completely turned around the result of the initial war. After they withdrew, it's very questionable the North could have fought some more.
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by hga 10y ago
I'm pretty sure the signal cut out because the Soviets feeding it energy realized we were on to it, the guys weren't hammer the seal with the device when it cut out. Unlikely we'd not finish the job in discovering it, but th
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by hga 10y ago
I suspect salting with something like cobalt would dramatically reduce the direct effects of weapons. Not based on my understanding of H-bombs. For one thing, you need a tamper made of something dense, and depleted uranium U-238 is use
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by hga 10y ago
TL;DR: If you weren't already convinced FBI Director Comey is a political weasel (and is there anyone anywhere on the spectrum of US political positions who isn't convinced after the last two events?) and the FBI as a whole is sus
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by hga 10y ago
Remember, that the Apollo program was initiated before anyone had performed an orbital rendezvous of any kind. And, yet, that became part of the plan rather quickly, it and EVA (extra-vehicular activity) were the big flashy parts of Proje
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by hga 10y ago
Given the massive thrust they produce, and how close they are to delicate things like the tank, it's hard to imagine a system that could possibly work. It would be exquisitely difficult to get the vectors just right, so they wouldn&#x
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by hga 10y ago
Read pretty much any SF story about getting to the Moon with chemical rockets prior to NASA, and it involves two transfer stations, one generally manned in LEO, and one in lunar orbit, manning seriously optional. You use rockets optimized
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by hga 10y ago
Errr, I should have said "(gently) throttle down", since that's potentially in the menu of options for liquid fueled rockets. What you're talking about sure sounds like an inherently violent deceleration. And the tops
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by hga 10y ago
In an analysis published in Science that I read, the biggest driver was development cost. SRBs, in fact, the kludge of the big tank, were all done to minimize that, while drastically driving up operational costs, which, of course, were s
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by hga 10y ago
There was a dead zone during SRB burn Those alone made it a serious death trap, if you're designing man-rated systems, you like the big boosters to be liquid fueled because you can turn them off if needed, and in many if not most of
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by hga 10y ago
Well, SpaceX does have a launch escape system, as did past US rockets and the current Soviet/Russian one ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_escape_system ), it's the Shuttle that was anomalous in having no
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by hga 10y ago
India ... may have a good chance at surpassing the US in terms of economic strength. I would think sufficient and reliable electrical power would be a prerequisite for that, and to my knowledge that isn't going to happen in India in
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by hga 10y ago
One other thought: were disposable diapers a luxury back then? (Are they today?) My mother certainly didn't use them, and dealing with a bin of my youngest brother's used cloth diapers was nasty enough inside a private house, ha
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by hga 10y ago
Errr, as a member of the middle class rapidly becoming "upper middle class" during that exact period, I don't think I have much visibility into this. I have the strong impression that white goods like your three or four basic
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by hga 10y ago
As I understand it, Speed Queen bought a Whirlpool factor making old fashioned, electrical-mechanical controlled washers (and dryers, I guess) for the consumer market, and they have a great reputation in the field. Unless one has a major fa
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by hga 10y ago
I believe that as more and more atrocities happen because people made the mistake of thinking something resembling free thought still pertains, we may see changes here. This harks back to some discussions we had where people were looking at
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by hga 10y ago
It's not clear to Rolling Stone is in such jeopardy, they didn't, for example, exhibit contempt for the judicial process from beginning to end, they, I assume, have real libel insurance and are cooperating with their insurance c
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by hga 10y ago
"Actual malice" is the high bar required for lawsuits made by "public figures" after NYT v. Sullivan ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._Sullivan ), which the Dean was inexplicitly
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by hga 10y ago
I thought so too, until they mentioned one of the events breaking someone's jaw. That puts it more into the land of permissible hyperbole, if you need riot gear level protection to safely approach one during its high energy stored spi
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by hga 10y ago
Yes, I both can and do do math, " Humans are very bad at reasoning about things that happen at earth scale and over long periods of time " is not a true let alone useful statement. Although I'll grant it's demonstrably
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by hga 10y ago
We normally look at crimes by rates, X per 100,000, so the fact that the total population is quite a bit bigger between the two periods is significant. So is the fact that the item you're comparing today's still living, old Boom

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