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by maratc 6mo ago
When you consider that different ebooks and different font selection can result in lines and pages breaking at any random place, ebooks may actually be more expensive to produce.
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by maratc 6mo ago
I'd take these options from several companies (all selling hotdogs) and wrap them up in Collateral Hotdog Obligations which I'd then offer to investors.
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by maratc 6mo ago
> By September 2016, Lockheed Martin had delivered 2,000 total JASSMs [...] to the USAF. [0] So probably another 1k plus all production of the last 10 years is all that's left in stock. Nothing to see here, moving along.
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by maratc 6mo ago
I wouldn't call "letting a tanker pass in international waters without blowing it up" a favour either.
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by maratc 6mo ago
Not arguing about what that can mean; all I'm saying is that France and Iran exchanged favours.
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by maratc 6mo ago
France also joined China and Russia in blocking Bahreini resolution that would authorise "all defensive means necessary" to protect commercial shipping in the strait. That is why their tanker passed.
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by maratc 7mo ago
Tarmacs are really hard to hit exactly, especially so when you fire from 1500 miles away. Each angular second turns into a big miss. Also, the launch goes towards the area where GPS denial is assumed. This denial can come in many forms. Th
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by maratc 7mo ago
I don't think anyone should have any concern whatsoever regarding Qatar revenues vs. Qatar budgets, as they are nowhere near bankruptcy, with this setback or without. Their position by projected GDP per capita may decrease from 6th (
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by maratc 7mo ago
> that could be 100 billion USD in lost revenue that could be 100 billion USD in deferred revenue, if we assume that LNG is not going anywhere from wherever it's sitting underground, and will be simply extracted and sold later &gt
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by maratc 7mo ago
No idea about studies or GDP; just observing that the losses inflicted by Iran on Israel in June 2025 did nothing to deter Israel from going on offence again eight months later.
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by maratc 7mo ago
In theory; in practice however, there's been rocket fire from Gaza towards Israel where the offence was literally a metallic tube with a bit of TNT at a cost of about $800 per rocket [0] while the defence was $100,000+ per interceptor
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by maratc 7mo ago
Not if you (a) destroy their production capacity while they don't destroy yours; (b) you destroy their stockpiles while they don't destroy yours; and (c) you've found a bottleneck on their side (launchers) and destroy it whil
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by maratc 7mo ago
Cluster munitions are great against infantry in open field; less so against population centres equipped with advance warning systems. As it stands, they fail to even cause the damage worth offsetting by firing interceptors. The damage these
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by maratc 7mo ago
That's a false comparison. You want to compare between the actual options you have, which are either (a) firing an interceptor (or several); or (b) repairing the damage caused by a non-intercepted missile.
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by maratc 7mo ago
Are you talking about the stuff he used to gas 100,000 Iranians in about 1984, or the stuff he used to gas 100,000 of his own citizens in 1988? Oh wait he didn't, it's all propaganda and war scam I guess.
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by maratc 7mo ago
Well, maybe you have a plausible explanation for why Iran needed 60%-grade enriched uranium -- now that we've firmly established that it clearly was not for building nukes .
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by maratc 7mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMIA_bombing
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by maratc 7mo ago
They had a religious ruling on the range, and they also had a religious ruling on "not creating an atomic bomb." The question of whether the world can assume its security on some religious rulings of some Ayatollas is still standi
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by maratc 7mo ago
I don't think anyone cares. I remember the switch from a MacBook with a (no-adjective) trackpad to a MacBook with a haptic trackpad. There was absolutely nothing earth-shattering about that switch, it was a great trackpad before and a
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by maratc 7mo ago
Here's a basic one: https://www.sakurawatches.com/casio-oceanus-ocw-s100-1ajf Titanium, atomic clock sync, solar powered, $368.
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by maratc 7mo ago
Cluster munitions that have between 1 and 10 kg of explosives are great against the infantry in the open field, not so much against population with proper level of shelters and an advanced warning to get there.
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by maratc 7mo ago
I think you underestimate that. D_A only needs to get to coordinates ( X , Y ) with a minimal requirements for Z as "some meters above ground." It doesn't matter if it gets there in 15 minutes or in 20 minutes, or in 2 hou
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by maratc 7mo ago
This is brilliant. Did you copy verbatim what was produced, or did you add the lyrics?
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by maratc 7mo ago
> equally cheap or cheaper I doubt it, as D_A's target is stationary (and could be reduced to GPS coords) while D_B's target is moving.
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by maratc 7mo ago
There's an XKCD on licence plates ( https://xkcd.com/1105/ ) which is probably relevant to your case, too.
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by maratc 7mo ago
Did your LG Gram cost $450 (to make for $600 in today's money) in 2015-17? If it didn't, Apple has other laptops today with more RAM.
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by maratc 7mo ago
actual fidonet addresses are numbers, not letters.
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by maratc 7mo ago
I think that administrative charges do not need to clear the "beyond a reasonable doubt" bar -- that is reserved for criminal cases only. (So indeed, breaking in or killing.) "Preponderance of the Evidence" which is pr
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by maratc 8mo ago
In your opinion, a totally realistic AI-generated porn should be treated more like "cartoon" or like "two people having sex on camera"?
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by maratc 8mo ago
Not an expert but my uninformed assumption would be that there's simply more demand for "step-sibling" porn than there is for "sibling" porn.

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