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by hylaride 3y ago
It's not necessarily listening or intercepting radio systems for eavesdropping, but getting locations for radar sites, etc.
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by hylaride 3y ago
Satellites don't collect electronic radio waves, among other things, the same way a plane can. And despite all the advances in tech, lower flying aircraft will always have better resolution, which can matter. There's a reason a
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by hylaride 3y ago
I lived in Germany about a decade ago. The Germany federal government’s procurement process is kafkaesque at best (especially the armed forces); Germany spends as much on defence as France, yet France has a nuclear deterrent, nuclear subs,
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by hylaride 3y ago
> but its administration is not one if its strengths, to put it mildly. You've just described the whole country, TBH.
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by hylaride 3y ago
I live in a central city without a car. Our stroller was used for carrying groceries and getting our daughter to/from daycare in a reasonable amount of time. But our sole focus deciding on the stroller was good storage for grocery ru
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by hylaride 3y ago
A surface road being cheaper than a tunnel shouldn’t surprise anybody, but a single highway lane can move about 2,000 cars an hour (much less for city streets). Assuming all the cars have two people (they don’t) that’s 4,000 people an hour.
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by hylaride 3y ago
"or example, it’s in the US’ best interest for people to think (re: Govs) “US has no defense against hypersonic missiles”." This is the crux of the matter. The USA was fine letting people think the patriot system was still suffer
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by hylaride 3y ago
Most modern anti-tank rounds (including the famous Javalin and NLAW) actually use a small "pin" object to penetrate the tanks, which causes a shrapnel or gas explosion inside the tank. Some antitank rounds (HESH) don't even
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by hylaride 3y ago
You'd do a better job convincing me if twitter/X/whatever was actually doing better than before Elon took it over. Also, everything you explained in your second paragraph I've rarely seen first hand, except maybe the tec
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by hylaride 3y ago
I've seen it used before commercial security/networking appliances got "good" (generally pre-2010ish), but I think its use has diminished. I was a huge OpenBSD user back then as the networking (routing/firewalling&
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by hylaride 3y ago
I'm not going to argue against the fact that the Chinese firms can't and don't do better than American firms (because they can and do do better in many cases), except that it's impossible to know how much or to what exte
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by hylaride 3y ago
Quebec was controlled politically and economically by english speakers when Canada was formed. The decentralized political nature was more practical due to Canada's sparse population at the time. It's a blessing and a curse.
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by hylaride 3y ago
The same is in New Zealand as well. Canada, NZ, and AU all have a points-based immigration system, which awards points to education and skills in white-collar areas. Over 40 years these systems have grown the population, but has kept trade
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by hylaride 3y ago
Historically, the maritimes (Atlantic) provinces and Manitoba and Saskatchewan were relatively dirt cheap, but their home values have skyrocketed since covid and WFH, especially in Nova Scotia.
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by hylaride 3y ago
It's been that way for almost a hundred years. It's not so scary when interest rates and values have stayed relatively steady (as they have in most of the post-ww2 era in inflation-adjusted terms). All that seems to have fallen
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by hylaride 3y ago
Storage is cheap, but moving it is expensive.
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by hylaride 3y ago
Difficult, no. But it does require different and new support mechanisms for long term use (eg not a temporary site). A lot of the controversy in Canada with our F-35 purchase is that we're going to have to completely overhaul our mil
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by hylaride 3y ago
Ghibli movies I've found are more like entering a state of mind or emotion than following a plot. I'm not sure if that's a Ghibli thing or a Japanese thing (I haven't watched much other Japanese content). We introduced
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by hylaride 3y ago
My comment was meant to be broad and a bit hyperbolic. I hate the historical country more than the modern stuff (which is thinly veiled pop music). I found it a formulaic kind of boring, uninspiring, and moaning about the writer's curr
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by hylaride 3y ago
I'm the OP. I agree with most of what you said. There are always exceptions to the rule, and the more fusiony types (like Cash) are listenable to even enjoyable. Same to Gordon Lightfoot, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, etc.
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by hylaride 3y ago
I hate the historical country more than the modern stuff (which is thinly veiled pop music). I found it a formulaic kind of boring, uninspiring, and moaning about the writer's current state of affairs or others not like them. What cau
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by hylaride 3y ago
I hate, hate, hate country music, but I have an enormous amount of respect for Dolly Parton. She's just a plain old good person, and also extremely savvy from a business and money point of view (while having to plough through patriarc
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by hylaride 3y ago
99% of my charging is overnight with the magnetic wireless charger and I love it. But it's slow. If you need to recharge more quickly, wired is significantly faster.
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by hylaride 4y ago
The way FAANG stocks have performed, you've already taken that if you work for one considering how much of their total comp tended to be RSUs (with the exception of apple).
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by hylaride 4y ago
It's not white hot like it was 1-3 years ago, but if you're qualified and experienced, yes there very much is still demand from non-FAANG companies.
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by hylaride 4y ago
Yes. At the moment, there very much is a shortage of qualified tech workers still. The market for them is now more "really hot" than "white hot".
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by hylaride 4y ago
Free advice to future managers: You don't need to write a novel with these. Also, writing an email about how you're going to can a bunch of people over the coming year and then droning on about how the results of that are going t
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by hylaride 4y ago
https://twitter.com/fabiusmercurius/status/16342279961723658... (The whole thread dives in more). Essentially, when interest rates go up, current bonds temporarily fall in value as people can buy higher yielding o
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by hylaride 4y ago
You think those elections were fair, that's cute. The 80%+ referendum rates sure are validated by the blue and yellow flags being waved when the Ukrainians return. Anyways, obviously no point arguing anymore.
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by hylaride 4y ago
Oh please. Any direct US involvement was long after the movement was well underway. The Ukrainians picked who should run the country (then and since), and the fact that they picked somebody who the US could work with is testament who they

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