jacquesm

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691.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
Unfortunately there are more than enough idiots in the current line of command.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
> and it could actually garner a win No, it could not. It would be a massive loss. For those that lose their lives, for the rest of the world.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
> The US navies ships are good for real wars This is a real war.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
> That said, if and when Mango decides to land troops in Iran, the fleet will be an irreplaceable piece of that operation. Against all available evidence I still hope he's not that stupid. > That is global force projection. I thi
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
A linter or a formatter does not open you up to compliance and copyright issues.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
I've seen the range of drones that is available and they are very impressive, the variety is precisely what makes them so powerful: you can adapt mix and match to whatever mission profile you have in mind and there most likely will b
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Keeping the strait of Hormuz open would be one of those functions, wouldn't it? Oh, wait... Seriously, your question is borderline trolling, you know exactly which functions of a carrier group are and are not matched by drones flown fr
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
True, but it is close enough in time that we should heed the lessons learned lest we repeat the experience.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
That you can process many operations with a single instruction.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
"The Roaring Twenties roared loudest and longest on the New York Stock Exchange. Share prices rose to unprecedented heights. The Dow Jones Industrial Average increased six-fold from sixty-three in August 1921 to 381 in September 1929.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Fortunately, I was afraid that this was another bubble. /s I wonder what the bet is here, long term that valuation is going to have to go up even further for this investment to make sense so they're clearly betting that at IPO tim
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
> Europeans are typically not willing to place the US above China. This is not a scalar, it is a multi-dimensional array with tons of values that all individually can be ranked. One some of these the USA is better than China on others it
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Fair, it's not an aircraft carrier. But you can turn any container vessel into a cheap rough equivalent. Take the coastline, then maybe 30 km inland and see what installations you could reach. Pearl Harbor on a shoestring budget is a r
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Here in NL you can't and there is this massive push to get a smartphone and a banking app. Hardware attestation coming to a device near you soon.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
You seem to be completely out of touch with the way the USA has been behaving towards the EU as of late, maybe get with the times and then report back. Last I checked China hasn't threatened to take over either Canada or Greenland, has
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Both China and the USA have made many moves that benefit Putin. I would say neither party is a friend of Ukraine. China plays its own long games and the USA is being run by madmen. Why do I have to prefer one over the other? I don't li
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
While I appreciate all of the effort you put in this and respect that you trust this to be bulletproof I'm always going to be skeptical of silver bullets. Your level of certainty is the thing that frightens me more than the confidenc
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
I think when you start to threaten your former allies by wanting to attack/invade them you probably should be dinged in the trust department for that. The same goes for when you try to strongarm a country into fabricating evidence to s
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
That's true, but when things get cheaper you can afford to lose a lot of them. Suddenly every container vessel is suspect. That trick has a lot of potential and harbors are relatively soft targets and easily accessible from just outsid
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Somewhere in the next decade we'll wake up to a large military base, port or airport utterly wrecked by some party spending << $100k.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
The problem is all it really takes is one edge case to successfully break a web of trust to the point that the web of trust becomes a blind spot. Instead of distrusting everybody (which should be the default) the web of trust attempts to cr
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
You could do this anywhere in the world for a very small amount of money. The implications of the Ukrainian war have changed the balance of power for ever. No airport will ever be safe again.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
> We could learn from our allies in Ukraine. Should have worn a suit. The US is not an ally of Ukraine, it sees Ukraine as a nuisance that should have rolled over long ago but somehow refuses to and because the US still needs Europe for
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Spiderweb
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
> Oh yeah, we can't do this to Russia because they have nukes Why would the US want to bomb an ally?
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Who is we? There is absolutely no way I'm going to allow any kind of agent access to my file system, that sounds like a massive compliance nightmare besides the security implications.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
No, there is no alternative. Everything eventually dies, so you better make peace with it. The only people who believe that they won't die are religious people who believe in an afterlife (which is a preposterous position) and the peop
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
Why stop at one? Make more such underground community supported internets. The more the merrier. Monoculture ends with death. The only question is how long it will take.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
That's like saying you can use a chisel for woodworking.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
George Carlin would be very pleased. They missed quite a few of the heavy seven though.

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