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by hudibras 10y ago
“If the U.S. doesn’t want this, fine. But why not let us sell to friendly nations? We’ve had so much interest from countries like Japan, Korea, Qatar.” My guess is that he's blowing smoke on both the capabilities of the ship and the in
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In that case, it would be a no-brainer for the Big Defense Contractor to buy him out...which leads me to believe that the BDC has a better version already and doesn't need this guy's model. So he's in a tough situation where
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by hudibras 10y ago
These don't seem so bad to me: http://ns3ns.muji.co.jp/store/cmdty/detail/4547315758371?rec...
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by hudibras 10y ago
Here's a similar blog post from 3 years ago, with similar HN comments... https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-awesomes... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6081501
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Amazon Japan Introduces 'Manga Model' Kindle Paperwhite(theverge.com)
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by hudibras 10y ago
Gelman is being a bit modest (for him) because he only mentions in passing probably the biggest recent example of the "social media takedown of psychology research" phenomenon: he was the first person to publicly raise questions a
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by hudibras 10y ago
It's called "rhetoric" and it's been around for thousands of years.
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How to Make a Twitter Bot with Google Spreadsheets(zachwhalen.net)
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by hudibras 10y ago
Am I too late to mention the University of Washington's More Hall Annex? It's perhaps better known by its original (and, yes, official) name, the Nuclear Reactor Building. http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news&#
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One of the few things I remember from my 20-year-old meteorology degree is that 1 meter/second is very close to 2 knots. This conversion was also useful when I was in the Navy, especially for coming alongside piers or other ships.
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Apple Is Still Ignoring One of the Biggest iPhone Engineering Flaws of All Time(motherboard.vice.com)
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>There's tons of companies in Silicon Valley that are trying to do audacious things that people's mothers never did for them. Can you name one?
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In the USN now, it's completely voluntary and there are very strict rules on what can occur during the ceremony. And probably close to 100% of the senior officers in the Navy are (at least privately) completely supportive of the new po
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Wow, didn't know that. That's some serious next-level stuff.
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When you say "projector," do you mean a projector like in a movie theater (shooting rays of light out at a screen, etc.) or something else?
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How One of the Deadliest Hajj Disasters Unfolded(nytimes.com)
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The Terrifying JFK Airport Shooting That Wasn’t(nymag.com)
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by hudibras 10y ago
It's interesting how this article thinks it's inevitable that wargames have had their day in the sun and will now die away almost completely, when in fact the wargame world is far stronger and the games far more interesting now th
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by hudibras 10y ago
>Now, the demand for housing is so high that the unions can only delay the inevitable. The unions agree with you here, that's the whole point. The demand is so high that the developers will soon agree with the unions' requests
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by hudibras 10y ago
It's satire, bro. Chill out.
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But "crash" is also a perfectly good word; what's wrong with using that word instead, especially since some people don't like the word "accident?"
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by hudibras 10y ago
"OSS is great! Anybody can make a fork and improve the software!" "Hey guys, it's me, Microsoft. I made a fork and improved the software." "BURN THE WITCH"
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Growing up in suburban Seattle in the 1980s, all of us kids had great fun speculating on whose dad could secretly be D.B. Cooper.
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Maybe. You might be right, who knows?
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Maybe. But the wording you mention[0] is generally thought to avoid having relatively minor and perhaps disputed border conflicts, such as what we're seeing now between Turkey and Syria, from dragging the entire alliance into the fight
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by hudibras 10y ago
Absolutely. But (speaking in very broad terms here), the potential conflicts which would involve NATO in Europe today are dwarfed by the requirements for the Western Pacific conflicts. This may not have been the case in, say, 1985, but it i
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by hudibras 10y ago
It can be easy to lose sight of in this new era of America intervening and starting conflicts of our own choice throughout the world, but the U.S. is still 100% committed to total defense of both Taiwan and South Korea. I'm not talking
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by hudibras 10y ago
Since this is published in a newspaper, the terms that are generally used are "headline" or "title," not "click bait."
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by hudibras 10y ago
I was going to put this in reply to the article, but I'll say it here instead. Karl Marlantes' Matterhorn is one of the greatest American novels written in the last decade. Read it and you'll see that both of you are pretty
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by hudibras 10y ago
> who is seeing prices increase As the chart with the article notes, these price increases are now at -0.1% per year.

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