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by lainga 5y ago
>US Air Force Brigadier General Edward Lansdale reportedly told McNamara,[3] who was trying to develop a list of metrics to allow him to scientifically follow the progress of the war, that he was not considering the feelings of the commo
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by lainga 5y ago
Put another way, one might say he borrowed from the future to save the present.
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That was also the policy of the Third Reich at multiple levels. Give overlapping tasks to competing organisations. Let the strongest win
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by lainga 5y ago
A bit like a lightning rod. The OCD is going to fixate on something... give it a target you can control
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by lainga 5y ago
Maybe press-hold TAB view them, like the production markers on tiles in Civ 4
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by lainga 5y ago
The nuance is slightly different - it's like the CEO's breaking into the homes of millions of Americans . The fellow participants in his democracy (in Israel) were not affected; there are two separate jurisdictions.
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by lainga 5y ago
Same with flechettes, to which end they were stamped with "INVENTION FRANCAIS, FABRICATION ALLEMAND" ("Invented in France, made in Germany").
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by lainga 5y ago
And for about 150 years they enjoyed such a rise in living standards, until the gains were erased in the early 1500s, leading to the Great Peasants' War in Germany.
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by lainga 5y ago
Same in Canada. The CBC was particularly egregious. The "World" section was just the "US Politics" section. I stopped reading; but, of course, like all Canadians, I have kept funding it.
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by lainga 5y ago
> So effectively they helped the biggest players by making it harder for the small to mid-tier [insert entity here] do conduct business Well, at least the government is consistent. When all you have is a hammer...
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by lainga 5y ago
Misinformation? Do you think the screenshot from TFA has been actively manipulated? I don't think the title is true either, and should be changed. But that's not misinformation ... it's a petulant reading of a statement by a
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by lainga 5y ago
Plenty of time... the totalitarian principle of QM notwithstanding, not everything not forbidden is compulsory at a macro level; academia is not a deterministic machine for yielding studies given the appearance of a phenomenon. Otherwise I&
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by lainga 5y ago
Well general and specific, and short- and long-term, are orthogonal. Oil is also generally necessary in the US economy in the short-term, if (conceivably) not in the long-term. On the other hand electricity is not necessary in the short-ter
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by lainga 5y ago
The US military is currently having to rethink its whole power projection approach from "place something here" to "place something near here, but out of A2/AD range, and then go to the place". Because everything on
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by lainga 5y ago
Do you have any thoughts on Lentz's comment that IPWD "made a rush to judgement" on his draft of Hyper-Fast []? Or has anything changed in your assessment between the draft and publication of his paper? (I did not see anythin
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by lainga 5y ago
Wow, is that paper saying what I think it is? Previous papers only found a negative energy requirement (pg. 12) because they only considered interior spaces which could reduce down to a point-like region? That's an extraordinary claim,
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Exxon Lost a Climate Proxy Fight(bloomberg.com)
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by lainga 5y ago
So the trillions being delivered to the rich is the source of inflation (per your comment above) because of... other nefarious things the rich people did, and also other events that they didn't do? Did they need those trillions to be i
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by lainga 5y ago
yes, but that's putting it into circulation, isn't it?
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by lainga 5y ago
Well printing it and putting it into circulation causes inflation. If you give Bill Gates $1Tn and he hides it under his mattress, that does not cause inflation.
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by lainga 5y ago
How does buying up assets lead to price increases in "groceries (96%), gas (93%), dining out (57%), and clothing (42%)"? Are the Koch Brothers hitting up Costco every day?
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by lainga 5y ago
It would be very disruptive given that Shell is headquartered in The Hague, and NL has small but not insignificant oil reserves of its own on both land and sea.
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by lainga 5y ago
The "singularity" is 60's High Modernism come back in sci-fi clothes.
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by lainga 5y ago
Out of interest, was it the Ottoman conquest of the Mamluks (who were later replaced by the Brits or French)?
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by lainga 5y ago
The secret meaning is "anyone I disagree with and wish to hush up", and the ones who hear are anyone who also wishes the interlocutor would hush up
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by lainga 5y ago
You aren't my peers, guy!
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The balance of seats in the Senate
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by lainga 5y ago
Same thing happened to me with Domino's Canada. The call to place the order was returning a well-structured JSON error message (it didn't recognize the city I had entered, which was my suburb rather than my "post town")
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by lainga 5y ago
Having read your comment first (ooh, horribile dictu on HN) I decided to try playing by only looking at the left paper and deciding if it was fake. Luckily the model seems to have picked up that "last names can be units" too stron
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by lainga 5y ago
> Moreover, all lines [of the TGV] are very profitable excluding the cost of fixed capital. Why say this? It's a big capital-intensive project. A nuclear power plant is profitable if you exclude the cost of building the reactor, but

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