kosmic_k

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by kosmic_k 11y ago
The reason why it was negotiated in secret is because there never would have been a consensus. It's literally a learned best practice of trade diplomacy.
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by kosmic_k 11y ago
The performance of diesel car's in recent years has been quite literally miraculous. If you knew a little bit about engines you would know that something was a off for there to have been such a dramatic improvement in power, efficiency
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by kosmic_k 11y ago
Power, Efficiency, or Emissions. Choose two for diesel. We now know exactly what we got: exhaust spewing out deadly particulates and NO2.
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by kosmic_k 11y ago
Diesel can run clean, it's just they'll be far more expensive and produce far less power than their gasoline alternatives. The entire european diesel wonder was that engines of similar power were able to offer better milage than t
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by kosmic_k 11y ago
No. The air quality of paris for example is notoriously terrible, with many instances of worse air quality than Beijing. For a environmentally conscious and highly regulated nation that is an absolute disaster. Diesel has been linked to pro
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by kosmic_k 11y ago
Ultimately neither are ideal for the environment, it's just diesel by products are worse for humans than gasoline and contribute more to smog.
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by kosmic_k 11y ago
A-10 cannot penetrate modern armor with it's gun. It had difficulty with T-72 when it was designed and could only kill them from the rear.
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by kosmic_k 11y ago
The A-10 is an obsolete concept. Weapons are so much more advanced than armor that the best defense is to not get hit. If you want cannon fire supporting you from above then you want an Apache.
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by kosmic_k 11y ago
War is boring's reporting on the F-35 has biased and is considered among defense reporting to be very un-reputable. "Jack of all trades master of none" is followed by "is better than master of one". It's replac
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by kosmic_k 11y ago
Using capacitive touch sensors the iPhone6s measures the tiny flexing of the front screen as you touch it. Pretty clever actually.
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by kosmic_k 11y ago
Am I going to be the only one who is going to question the source here? The author has a clear opinion on the F-35 that he interjects inbetween the comments and War is Boring's previous reporting on the F-35 have been mostly trying to
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by kosmic_k 11y ago
So what is someone working with embedded devices for IoT supposed to do? Much of that work is based on ARM C/C++ Compilers.
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by kosmic_k 12y ago
There's something about these that just feels incredibly human.
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by kosmic_k 12y ago
Thank you, I knew I had to have overlooked some aspect.
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by kosmic_k 12y ago
Goodness me, I feel like I let myself down now by not releasing a flash game I made a while back.
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by kosmic_k 12y ago
I could see an indie game using this to great effect.
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by kosmic_k 12y ago
We've gotten above 40% before... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/PVeff%28r...
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by kosmic_k 12y ago
I'm not sure if its fair to blame contractors completely in this case. The government, their customer, defined requirements for a project. Halfway through the project with ~80% of funds committed they decided that they don't need
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by kosmic_k 12y ago
By the time that original program that justified the need of the facility was canceled NASA had already made a substantial investment of time and money building it. Only time can tell if this facility will help with future engine developmen
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by kosmic_k 12y ago
Just an fyi, Pierre Sprey is a bit of a controversial figure. He has argued that the army should abandon the M1 Abrams and go with M48's. Both war's in Iraq should have unequivocally shown that numeric superiority can be defeated
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by kosmic_k 12y ago
What do you think of the F-16?
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by kosmic_k 12y ago
It's a relic of the cold war that everyone seems to have a completely unrealistic and romanticized view of. Yes it's a heavy slow plane that was designed around a massive gun. But that gun actually isn't very effective agains