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by pps43 7y ago
That high power 900 MHz broadcast will travel half an inch, then get absorbed by the metal housing. Military electronics are shielded, both to protect them from EMP and to avoid detection by passive radar.
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by pps43 7y ago
Pretty much everyone I knew, knew. Those who did not have a shortwave radio got gossip. Some of the details were murky, but the big picture was clear within a couple of days, way before official acknowledgement.
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by pps43 7y ago
Many people listened to BBC Russian Service, Radio Freedom/Radio Free Europe, RFI, VOA, etc. broadcasts on short waves. It wasn't that much of a secret.
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by pps43 7y ago
I did that with extra virgin olive oil a few years back. No leaks since then. I attribute it to higher oil viscosity.
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by pps43 7y ago
Be careful, Accutane can have some pretty bad side effects. I decided not to use it, and many years later still think it was the right choice.
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by pps43 7y ago
Second Amendment says "the right of the people", not "the right of the citizens", but I doubt Assange would be able to buy a gun in the US, even before all this.
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by pps43 7y ago
> Precedent has been set multiple times granting constitutional protections to anyone on US soil, no matter how they got here I doubt illegal aliens have 2nd Amendment rights on US soil.
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by pps43 7y ago
Revision makes it: https://www.revisionmilitary.com/en/eyewear/spectacles/sting...
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by pps43 7y ago
The popularity of Fried Liver Attack among beginners in the US is puzzling to me. When I was learning chess (in Europe), I was told not to waste time on it since it's not a "serious" opening. With black you just need to know
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by pps43 7y ago
If a bank did that, the regulators would shut it down in a heartbeat for redlining.
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by pps43 7y ago
In poor neighborhoods communal guns are quite popular. They are stashed at locations that several people know about and have access to.
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by pps43 7y ago
> How many guns does one need? I saw several estimates that agree on average somewhere between 8 and 10. A couple of bolt action rifles for hunting, rimfire for plinking with kids, a pump-action shotgun stashed somewhere for home defense
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by pps43 7y ago
I learned how to learn way before graduating. The waste was close to total, but this is only obvious in hindsight. Given the information I had at the time my choices were rational.
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by pps43 7y ago
Military camouflage like Multicam is optimized for the outdoors (forest, desert, etc.) It's unlikely to work well in an urban environment where most facial recognition takes place.
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by pps43 7y ago
> Wouldn't this value experience and knowledge (like everything you learned in university) at zero? Having switched professions twice, I now use practically nothing of what I learned in university from about second year forward. Mat
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by pps43 7y ago
I've been using ProtonMail for a couple of years. iOS client is usable and works fine. Web interface works fine with any browser I tried, including on Linux. I had problems with Bridge on MacOS, but after learning that Apple Mail is re
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by pps43 7y ago
NPT cannot prevent even moderately advanced countries like Pakistan, South Africa or North Korea from making nukes. There are also "turnkey" countries like Canada or Germany that can build nukes any time they want.
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by pps43 7y ago
They can do domestic nuclear weapons program any time they want. The technology is 60 years old, and they have enough money to do it.
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by pps43 7y ago
Discontinuing MagSafe should also be on this list.
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by pps43 7y ago
You are referring to thrust asymmetry, not dynamic stability. Thrust asymmetry is actually not that different between MAX 8 and NG. MAX 8 engines have more thrust, but they are also mounted higher (closer to the centerline), reducing torque
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by pps43 7y ago
The experimental reactor being sold to Saudis is not capable of producing enough plutonium. And they don't have any reprocessing or fuel enrichment capability.
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by pps43 7y ago
In nuclear planning, there are two main attack scenarios: counterforce and countervalue. Stronger side counts on preemptive strike which is counterforce (trying to take out enemy's missile silos before they can launch). Weaker side rel
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by pps43 7y ago
That's Status 6 [1]. Unlike other more questionable developments, this one seems to be real. It's even mentioned in US Nuclear Posture Review. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status-6_Oceanic_Multipurpose_..
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by pps43 7y ago
GPS receiver determines its position by measuring the distances to GPS satellites. Those distances are calculated from time delays. To get the delays, the receiver should know the exact time. Its own clock is not stable enough to do it, so
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by pps43 7y ago
Back of the envelope. The distance between Vnukovo airport and Kremlin is 30 km, speed of light is 300,000 km/s, time delay is 10^-4 seconds. Let's say it takes the moving car 100 seconds to get from outside the jamming area to in
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by pps43 7y ago
ICBMs don't compare terrain height, they use a combination of gyroscopes and telescopes instead. Cruise missiles can follow the terrain.
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by pps43 8y ago
Well, events over trials is frequentist definition. Unbiased estimate with nice statistical properties. You know that it's an underestimate because you have prior knowledge about cancer incidence. Bayesian methods let you incorporate t
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by pps43 8y ago
If 10 people live in a village and none are diagnosed with cancer, then cancer incidence in that village is 0%.
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by pps43 8y ago
So the effect was known for a long time, and the new development is that it was now observed at higher temperatures. But 120 K is still pretty cold, so it doesn't really matter much for practical applications.
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by pps43 8y ago
> The trouble is all the hypotheses are lies The problem with p values is the opposite: in a complex system, null hypothesis is almost never true. Everything affects everything else. It's the magnitude of the effect that is importan

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