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by laverya 6y ago
It shouldn't affect Boeing at all, in a logical world. Does anyone actually believe we live in such a world today, though?
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by laverya 6y ago
In a conventional war, "this weapons system works perfectly after we completely dismantle their air defenses" sounds pretty similar to "this works perfectly after we win", IMO. And, theoretically, the F-35 can be used fo
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by laverya 6y ago
I said "Vastly superior for providing CAS in uncontested airspace against enemies that struggle to acquire MANPADS", which I thought implied "enemies that have MANPADS in limited quantities". Yes, the A-10 does "fin
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by laverya 6y ago
> For close air support the A-10 is vastly superior. Vastly superior for providing CAS in uncontested airspace against enemies that struggle to acquire MANPADS, let alone a modern air defense network or their own air force, perhaps. But
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by laverya 6y ago
> So many questions here. What the heck is going on with Ohio and Michigan? And Illinois and Is it just me, or does the article end in the middle of a sentence with a few pictures left at the bottom?
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by laverya 6y ago
"Not proven" in the same sense that parachutes are not proven to protect people jumping out of planes, in that it's pretty obvious that they do but no one's done a double blind study. As it happens, people have since don
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by laverya 6y ago
I've done it a few times, and it worked perfectly well each time. Here [0] for instance, a couple repos had evolved to be codependent, and so we combined them into one. But it's something that you only have to do rarely. Projects
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by laverya 6y ago
Governments (in the west) don't hire their leaders, though. Same is true of schools - principals and the like might be hired, but the school boards that chose them are elected.
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by laverya 6y ago
Going from the lowest price and highest payload for the Ariane 5... $165,000,000 / 20,000 kg = $8250/kg, or still not really competitive. And in fact, the source spreadsheet [0] lists a few members of the Ariane family - so I thin
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by laverya 6y ago
1. No, I would expect people filling out a mail-in ballot for the first time to get it wrong (and thus have the ballot rejected) more often than people who have done it before. This would track with previous elections, where first-time mail
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by laverya 6y ago
But if two numbers have an equal chance of being drawn, it's better to choose a pot you won't have to share.
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by laverya 6y ago
> The evidence is that immigrants generate positive net tax benefits. Immigrants as a whole being a net positive might be clear, but the demographics most commonly under debate are things like "refugees" or "illegal immigr
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by laverya 6y ago
> By the time it got big in rural areas, we'd gotten a lot better at dealing with it. Or by the time it hit rural areas, we'd also gotten better at testing for it. Perhaps the IFR is the same across both demographics, but bet
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by laverya 6y ago
That is a much better ending, thank you! Not entirely sure why it wasn't included in the article's video. (Also really not sure what the idea behind using a shirt as a flag was) And of course there's a couple of Internet Hi
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by laverya 6y ago
Which is remarkably unclear. Did someone just toss a Trump hat into the air after pulling down the flag? Was the stream stopped before morning returned, and so the only shots are in the dark? Is it an important set of questions? No. But sti
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by laverya 6y ago
I wish the video there included the post-capture flagpole. Did the guy actually replace it with an American flag? Don't leave us hanging!
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by laverya 6y ago
I didn't switch it, and you're right - belt armor is most likely to be hit at shallow angles, and deck armor at high angles. That being said, a point-blank shot will still treat belt armor like paper - and a max-range shot will go
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by laverya 6y ago
> in the middle of the deck before dive bombers Commonly enough for people to plan for it before dive bombers became a thing. After the gunnery advancements of the early 20th century, engagement ranges could be long enough for plunging f
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by laverya 6y ago
How about this, then - the progress of human civilization relies on MAD being solid for all involved. The US is one of the groups involved, and thus human civilization relies on the US nuclear triad being taken seriously.
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by laverya 6y ago
If they ever actually use it, then YES it will have been worth it, and many times over. Because we'll still have Hawaii. (Hawaii's GDP is just a very ironic choice as one of the major reasons for AEGIS ballistic missile defense
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by laverya 6y ago
Is preventing wildfires even a desirable thing in the first place? Wasn't one of the major lessons of California's wildfires in recent years that if you don't have a small fire every once in a while, you'll have a HUGE f
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by laverya 6y ago
And the autogenerated playlists are static (so if you make a generated playlist from the same source on different days you'll get the same songs in the same order) and aren't infinite (so it'll eventually just repeat instead
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by laverya 6y ago
The only time I've used it is for inrange.tv content that isn't allowed on YouTube - things like uncensored gun manufacturing or assembly instructions.
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by laverya 6y ago
I'm pretty sure mcguire was quoting from that link to show how absurd it is, not to agree with it.
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by laverya 6y ago
"Here's a benefit that US hegemony provides" "But what about BLM and domestic conflict, US hegemony is dead, and the US has killed a lot of people overseas" I still don't see the connection.
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by laverya 6y ago
I have no idea how this is relevant to a comment on US hegemony. Is this the comment you meant to reply to? If you mean to say that BLM in the US is comparable to the great wars of the 19th and 20th centuries, I'd say that you're
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by laverya 6y ago
> Also, why is US hegemony a good thing? What good is it for the 96% of the world that is not the US? Does it even benefit anyone outside the US ruling class? As you alluded to in the previous paragraph, it's good for people because
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by laverya 6y ago
Perhaps we're using "blue wave" differently. To me, a "blue wave" would be Biden scraping a win on election night and then solidifying it into a 338+ blowout, not "Trump wins on election night and then loses as
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by laverya 6y ago
Yes, Trump performance decreasing as mail-in votes were counted was predicted. But people also predicted a lot more of a margin for Biden than actually appeared, and if we had had those margins the races currently under contention would not
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by laverya 6y ago
> so it's not that surprising that a couple seats when back toward the Republicans. My understanding is that Republicans were projected to lose even more seats this election - in the 10-20 range - and instead gained seats. So yeah,

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