magicsmoke

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by magicsmoke 6y ago
Wouldn't be surprised. Taiwan only exists as an independent entity because of American actions in Asia.
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
It's the equivalent of the Valley Forge Rocket. An arduous trial in the birth of a young nation which incidentally happened to go on and genocide an entire continent of indigenous cultures and people's and forever remove them from
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
More likely to be a flying guillotine. https://www.wsj.com/articles/secret-u-s-missile-aims-to-kill...
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
The EUV source inside ASML's lithography machines is from the German optics company Zeiss, and the lasers used in that system which generates EUV wavelength light by bombarding tin droplets is also from another German company, Trumpf.
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
Miniature blimps maybe?
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
WWI marks the end of the Concert of Europe system that prevailed over the previous century, and the cost of WWI and its subsequent aftershocks led to the collapse of European global empires and the rise of the American/Soviet century.
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
The causation could easily go the other way. In most societies, males are typically sent out to war because males can easily have more children than females since they don't have go go through a period of pregnancy, so a society that s
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
Smart governments would be using this pandemic as a natural experiment on their biowarfare preparations.
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
Nazi Germany's leadership and the German people are two different entities. Western allies also treated German POWs relatively well. The eastern front was a different scenario though, surrender for German and Soviet soldiers and civili
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
SK is ordering 40 F35As and 20 F35Bs. 20 will fill the one carrier they're building. You're right that only carrier compatible planes can use this strategy, but having some planes usable after the initial sortie is better than non
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
I doubt it. Losing a military asset means the US will start throwing civilian assets into the pot and gambling with MAD? The civilian population will revolt when they realize that the Navy wants to double down with NY and SF because they&#x
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
Even South Korea is building their own aircraft carrier even though they have no foreseeable overseas conflicts. That's because despite all the talk about anti carrier missiles, a carrier's combat effectiveness still harder to deg
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
NK is more independent from China and a thorn in their side than you might think. NK's nukes can fly to Beijing faster than they'll fly across the Pacific. Korean nationalism is also strong in NK and they have no desire to be Chin
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
>but there would be no counterattack against Chinese facilities and bases. I think this is the key asymmetry in a US-China war, and whether US aircraft carriers can be sunk or not is irrelevant. At the end of the day, a carrier is a floa
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
A drone that doesn't need a landing pad is a missile.
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
All the noise from the bubbles and rocket engine prevents the torpedo from listening to and tracking its target. Point, shoot, and hope the torpedo gets there before the target moves too far.
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
There are hierarchical levels to the "economy" and central planning may work well at some levels. Companies at the lower levels of the hiearchy are centrally planned entities with managers assigning tasks to employees instead of u
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
That and having Elections Canada run everything instead of each province rolling their own protocols.
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
"The Great Council of Venice was a large legislative body made up of a relatively small number of noble families" So in Venice's case, it wasn't so much randomly selecting representatives from all its citizens as it was
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikron_Group Currently at 65 nm, good enough to manufacture chips like these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbrus-2S%2B Russia still depends on TSMC for chips at 28n
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
Military equipment is built using older technology nodes because of how long military projects take to complete and military equipment having to be certified as radiation hardened. There are still plenty of US fabs working at above 50nm tha
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
My pet theory about why modern democracy appeared when it did instead of earlier during the Medieval period is that it coincided with the rise of cheap muskets, which overturned the power dynamic between masses of untrained and unequipped p
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
Sure, but after they move on you're left with nothing but your homes burnt down and your family dead, while they're still the largest economic and military power in the world living it up in their first-world mansions. Pyrrhic vic
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
Knights still have to be fed and armed with the taxes of peasants, and they'll follow the orders of the societal structure that funnels them those taxes. You protect yourself by getting involved in politics and shaping the economic and
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
That's an expensive non-food-producing piece of metal for an average medieval peasant to have lying around. Much more likely for your average knight to have one though, and as the link says it was used by Polish nobility.
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
If countries want to preserve their fishing stocks for local fishermen they'll have to set fishing quotas or no fish zones within their EEZs like the article suggests. But fish have no conception of EEZ boundaries and the moment they w
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
The industrial revolution has irreversibly changed how society and we as individuals within that society perceive and describe things. Less analogy to lived and experienced phenomena in the form of tales and myths and more mechanical breakd
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
The whole focus on Chinese fishing in foreign EEZs is a red herring (excuse the pun) compared to the real goal behind subsidizing a large deep water fishing fleet. http://cimsec.org/evolution-of-the-fleet-a-closer-look-at-th
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
Real-time systems are unfortunately named. Time-constrained systems would have been better. Variable naming is, after all, one of the two real hard things in Compsci.
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by magicsmoke 6y ago
This. The US's biggest future threat isn't having its military production choked off in a conflict. It's having its military complex become irrelevant as the world moves towards a model where money and consumer technology bec

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