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by hga 11y ago
If they didn't care about fallout, the Tsar Bomba would have had probably twice the yield, by substituting depleted uranium for the lead or whatever that was used for the fusion tampers. What I've read is that, aside from bragging
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by hga 11y ago
I use this extension on Chrome, both marks new comments with a vertical orange stripe, and adds expand and collapse thread widgets, including one to collapse the whole thread you're in in the middle of: https://chrome.google
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by hga 11y ago
You've largely got the lay of the land correct. I'd add: These two "religions" are irreconcilable; the pro-gun control group has, since at least the '70s when I started closely following this and being an anti-gun
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by hga 11y ago
Back then they could wave their hands and correctly say there were so many CB radios they'd be enough for post-attack civilian communications, at least at shorter ranges. But that doesn't mean you couldn't get by with many fe
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by hga 11y ago
In short, the study uses a 1 dimensional model of the atmosphere, a particle of soot can go up or down, but there are no winds, no oceans, etc. These models are said to be especially prone to failing hard when given extreme inputs, and the
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by hga 11y ago
Not sure how much they sound like guns, but there's a whole field of scaring off birds from farms, see e.g. http://www.birdcontrolpro.com/propane_cannons.htm
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by hga 11y ago
Certainly reading a lot of good C code is a part of this; for me, reading the predecessor Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions%27_Commentary_on_UNIX_6t... )
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by hga 11y ago
The TTAPS study is bullshit (more details on request); if you do thorough 3D atmospheric simulations, as was done later at LLNL, you get at worst a season or two of cooler temperatures, but hardly the end of the world. And I wouldn't r
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by hga 11y ago
Doing that would require both serious reconnaissance to know where to attack, and enough weapons surviving our counter-stroke. And of course we could play the same game, or at least continue hunting and knocking out their weapons. The stud
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by hga 11y ago
Well, we're also turning a substantial fraction of our corn output into ethanol to burn for fuel. Stop that, and the feed used for animals, factor in a much reduced population, and the numbers probably work out. How many people even
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by hga 11y ago
An amusing sample of the prose: Most usability studies last from 1 to 2 hours because it's hard to recruit users to come in for longer tests. In fact, unless we're testing kids — for whom an hour is the max — we usually limit our
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by hga 11y ago
Some notes: Yeah, per a later study as described in Wikipedia, slamming the control rods home was the final fatal mistake, because their tips were inexplicitly made of graphite (a moderator if pure enough), and they displaced light water th
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by hga 11y ago
As discussed briefly in Nuclear War Survival Skills , which also came from Oak Ridge, the real trick is food starting not long after the event, but it's not that difficult.
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by hga 11y ago
Those are excellent, and presumably are included in his book: http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Survival-Manual-Surviving-Econo... (which I've bought but not yet read).
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by hga 11y ago
The key decision there was made by IBM previously, they'd told their legion of CIOs that the PC-AT was the last personal computer they'd have to buy for a long while. Which required the foundational OS/2 1 to run on the brai
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by hga 11y ago
Well, as someone alive and politically aware during the period, and who's studied that event, no, that Manichean world view doesn't match what happened in the cultural '60s in the least, a period which includes much of the &#
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by hga 11y ago
Here's my recommendations from the classic era of survivalism (mid-late-70s through the '80s): Nuclear War Survival Skills , get a PDF to see if it's interesting to you (e.g. http://www.oism.org/nwss/ ),
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by hga 11y ago
However, a hunting rifle like the 742 Remington isn't necessarily going to have the tolerances to allow sustained firing that a proper AR-15 pattern rifle will allow (I'm sure many of them made for civilians cargo cult that detail
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by hga 11y ago
We don't trade with North Korea We're actually still formally at war with the DPRK, something they remind us and most especially our ROK allies of all too often. The rest are sanctions that stop short of using food as a weapon.
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by hga 11y ago
The Soviets attack our military establishment, and our moral response is to burn Soviet children to death in their beds? Yeah, right. And the Soviets most certainly took advantage of this moral error, for as you note, they're hard pre
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by hga 11y ago
Because that's a weapon to only use in a hot war? Because it's a fungible commodity in plentiful world supply, and we're better off benefiting from that trade ourselves? Because it most directly puts the lie to their claims t
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by hga 11y ago
That was the real start, for sure, but Reagan took the pressure of every type, except silly things like the grain embargo, to 11. For instance ... actually, I can see moralist Carter saying something like this after he saw the light, but
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by hga 11y ago
The article was recently changed, probably after tacon wrote his comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11556250
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by hga 11y ago
The "cut open an innocent's chest" "thought experiment" is what I'm talking about, but with the changing of the original URL to one that doesn't focus or start with it, this whole thread and many others ma
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by hga 11y ago
Worse than any since Kennedy, but to a purpose: the end of the Soviet Union, which he actually achieved. Kennedy blundered into his crises by projecting weakness, and being worse than weak in the Bay of Pigs invasion, Reagan at least was m
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by hga 11y ago
Eh, it was a propaganda attack on "Warmonger Reagan", who'd just become President, and the military he supported, disguised as a thought experiment.
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by hga 11y ago
In the MAD era, there was the theory that we (the US) had a sufficiently robust retaliatory infrastructure that we could ride out the first wave of a first strike and only launch, or in the case of bombers give the PAL codes to arm the warh
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by hga 11y ago
That's a thesis that noted survivialist Bruce Clayton developed in the early '80s or so, although he went with whole wheat, and add some salt and powdered milk for the Mormon Four plus the oil, which is needed by children for them
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by hga 11y ago
Eh, it's pretty safe, and the Four Rules most certainly apply, it's just that implementing Rule 4 is much more difficult. In ~70 years of it, one of my father's favorite pastimes, he got shot exactly once, although there wa
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by hga 11y ago
This was all in the context of "Warmonger Reagan" becoming president. Assuming bad will on the part of the author is perhaps not required , but it was a safe bet back then.

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