jacquesm

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by jacquesm 7mo ago
You should live up to your nick and do some of that thinking. I never said we should accept 'terrorist[s] regimes'. But there is a massive difference between actually doing something about terrorism and bombing large numbers of
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Very interesting, thank you very much for the detailed answer.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Now or never. If the stock market goes bust because of the war then most IPO windows will close or will result in a much lower subscription rate. You can expect a flurry of these in the next few weeks.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Yes, and before you know it we're at the Balfour declaration. But none of that matters in the context of the situation on the ground (and, crucially, in the water) today which was entirely predictable (except by Trump, Hegseth &
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
This is one of the dumbest things I've ever read on HN and I've been here for a while. Iran was always going to blockade the strait of Hormuz if attacked, as would any other country in their position. What do you expect, to tell
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Tourists visiting NL also think we love tourists here.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Indeed, it is breaking trust.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
What's the quality comparison between US/CA/PRoC?
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
> fundamentally incompatible with customary international law So is bombing countries on a whim. If you want to take the high ground you have to make sure you don't first poison it with your own stupid mistakes. Iran can make a pret
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
(1) he has to stay alive until then (2) he has to overcome an absolutely massive approval deficit (3) he has to be able to run a credible campaign (4) he has to get around the term limits (5) I would expect there to be a fairly large number
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
They have goals? That's news to me.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Have you seen the 'no smoking' signs on those vessels?
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
That's a movie. This is about reality.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
> Which is why the US proceeded to (attempt to) flatten Afghanistan instead. It seems to have made things better for the Taliban.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
You'd think after 9/11 that the US would approach all of this with more forethought but the opposite seems to be the case.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
All this does in the long run is set the stage for another 9/11.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
> it would ensure survival first The US was ensuring survival just fine when it was big on soft power. If you let go of soft power your remaining choices are diplomacy (which takes skill) and hard power (which takes a different kind of s
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Yes, and then they will be welcomed with open arms, right?
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
What about Israel? Do they care about the world economy more than they care about Iran being further diminished? Because if Israel isn't on board with this they can unilaterally continue the war and Iran will continue to strike back. T
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
> I recall during COVID it was discovered that Zoom was sending traffic to China. Yes it was. Imagine, all those (lower) governments holding crisis meetings and sending the video and audio to China. What are the chances that all that stu
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Yes, it's is a submersible, but it is also a drone. > Which is notably not going to be launching a drone the size of a even a Shahed, nor anything close to the same range. It doesn't need to. It is its own munition with a anywh
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
> The US stock market has nearly tripled since then. Literally the best period of stock growth in history. The only thing I meant to point out was that a very high stock price by itself is no guarantee that there isn't a crisis arou
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Why would he care? He's not going to be up for re-election anyway and besides he's not paying for his own gas. But the price of oil going up helps russia in a considerable way and that could well have been one of the drivers (and
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
You are conflating execution capability and force protection with achievement. Meanwhile, lots of innocent lives have been lost, the regime is still where it was before even if some of the faces have changed, there is an E2 that is missing
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
You had me for at least 10 seconds.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Flamingo is pretty close to a cruise missile in many ways. You correctly observe that this is a continuum but most but not all drones have props whereas all missiles are either rocket based or jet engine based and missiles tend to be a lo
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
You need to define some kind of objective to be able to say whether or not you've performed well or not. Nobody doubts that USA can destroy a significant chunk of the planet, but to what end?
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
The ones that are decimating the russian oil industry are a bit more impressive than that. The foam wing ones are mostly Shaheds, the Ukrainian ones tend to be made of various plastics and/or fibreglass or composites for the more speci
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Check out the 'Toloka' family for one sample of what drones are like. They've been used in strikes already.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
> Drone means foam wings, plastic body, propellers, cheap camera, simple inertial navigation, maybe GPS, maybe 10-30 kilogram payload. You need to seriously upgrade your level of knowledge about what is available in terms of drones today

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