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by rcarr 3y ago
That link seems to be about sea routes. I’m talking about a pipeline or most likely multiple pipelines that would be skirting around Mongolia. You’d have to do either a lot of dogfighting to get there if you’re using planes or hope you can
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by rcarr 3y ago
I’d argue both do it at the the same intensity, but one is using a false veneer of prestige and respectability as a cloak to try and give itself a legitimacy it no longer deserves.
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by rcarr 3y ago
I too loved the Boosh growing up, and I would still laugh at most of it today. So far it’s managed to avoid the retroactive judgement that other shows have. Why that is I don’t know - is it because it was cult and niche, is it because those
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by rcarr 3y ago
The US doesn't have a traditional empire but it does spend a lot of money on international military bases as well as protecting strategic infrastructure and resources across the globe. It's difficult, if not impossible, to maintai
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by rcarr 3y ago
> Whatever it takes? Yes but this is what the UK did in WW2 and ended up with so much debt that it could no longer service them and other countries lost faith in buying the debt and so they invested in the US instead. > If India were
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by rcarr 3y ago
> As soon as India see China is loosing they will likely use that to settle all the open territorial disputes quickly. This has fairly similar parallels to what happened in WW2 though. US entered the war mid way through after Pearl Harbo
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by rcarr 3y ago
I agree the US military still has a lot of significant advantages and that Taiwan would be difficult to take. I disagree that oil would be a major factor because China would just pipe it in from Russia.
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by rcarr 3y ago
Dalio explains it better than I'll ever be able to, I've timestamped the video to the relevant part here: https://youtu.be/xguam0TKMw8?si=j1n3nJqbsX2YJHLj&t=1921 The general gist is that the dominant country i
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by rcarr 3y ago
But how much debt would it be in at the end of it all and is it still going to be able to maintain it's status as the dominant power? If all this happened, my money would be on India leapfrogging to first place because it would be able
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by rcarr 3y ago
Well my thinking is that if your missile shield is broken, your fleet is now vulnerable and are likely to get destroyed and you're also vulnerable to an attack on home soil. If you can't get your boats across the ocean how can you
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by rcarr 3y ago
Well for one, I don't see how "innocent until proven guilty" posts should be flagged. Maybe they don't add much to the conversation, but people should be allowed to express such a simple sentiment without being flagged t
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by rcarr 3y ago
The amount of comments on this that are getting flagged whilst meeting the guidelines is making me question the state of HN as a platform for rational good faith debate. Has tribalism really took over here too?
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by rcarr 3y ago
I agree. It's not just that though, part of what gives the powerful country it's power is the belief from other countries that they won't back down when an aggressor comes knocking. The US can't really not get involved b
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by rcarr 3y ago
I don't know much about Chinese critical infrastructure. I would however say, that if a bombing campaign on home soil starts anywhere in the world, it is pretty easy to leverage that into a united front. If people start losing fathers,
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by rcarr 3y ago
> It makes no sense for USA to build hypersonic, because none of our foes are building a missile shield comparable to AEGIS. If I remember right, one US General did come out and seem to be pretty worried about these hypersonic missiles a
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by rcarr 3y ago
> A reporter telling lies would presumable be called into their managers office and told to shape up or be fired. I can't help but read this and feel like you must not be familiar with the UK press, particularly the tabloids. The UK
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by rcarr 3y ago
China has more warships than the US and can build them faster. It's also further along with the development of hypersonic missiles than the US and it has a much larger population to draw from in the event of a war. The US military is p
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by rcarr 3y ago
The mainstream media are trying to frame the argument as Russell Brand is a sex offender and that his mainstream media critiques are thus null and void as a result. Personally, I find it more likely that he is both a sex offender* and he is
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by rcarr 3y ago
There's a related phenomenon in women pursuing men who are already in marriages or relationships because they've essentially been pre-vetted and thus deemed desirable.
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by rcarr 3y ago
Whilst I appreciate that the site is addressing a primarily female readership, it does not serve women well to frame men as being the exploitable bad guys and the women as the unexploitable victims the way this article does. It's not a
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by rcarr 3y ago
I said this on another thread a few weeks ago but a lot of US citizens should be concerned about this. Debt levels adjusted for inflation put the US in a similar position as the UK when it was still the biggest economy just before WW2. If a
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by rcarr 3y ago
I'd also suspect it doesn't take into account that medical and safety tech is likely only going to improve. If people live longer, the pyramid is going to become even more top heavy.
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by rcarr 3y ago
This comes across as a very one sided article with "man = bad" framing. Are girls not going to use these services too for AI boyfriends? What this will do is eliminate OnlyFans and porn as a way to make a living, which in my opini
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by rcarr 3y ago
If he hadn't already tanked Twitter, this would have been a good thing. $1/month, people would have paid and it would have set a new standard that people start paying for online services and away from ad based models that are dest
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by rcarr 3y ago
I was discussing this with a friend today. In my opinion, the next generation of consoles will be the last. By the time the generation after that would be ready (12-15 years away), 5g will be widespread, 6g will be rolling out and satellite
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by rcarr 3y ago
I’d love it if the indie web guys made some kind of Astro style static site framework with built in components you can just drop in for integration with the various fediverse services. Every time I look at the instructions, it looks like a
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by rcarr 3y ago
Very informative reply, thank you
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by rcarr 3y ago
You literally sound like the kind of person who wants to reinvent the wheel.
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by rcarr 3y ago
I think I disagree with this. I taught myself web dev mainly through Udemy courses and managed to land my first dev job through that. I've been working my way through Algomonster and Neetcode and, as someone with no formal education in
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by rcarr 3y ago
The counter approach to this is buying the branded version, and then if you're not using it as often as you thought you would, to sell it. It depends on a lot of factors such as age, condition, the product type etc but you can often se

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