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by rl3 2y ago
I'm not conflating anything. > There is no concept of deployment for these - it's simple and normal usage. They are absolutely deployed and accounted for. > ...and thousands of tactical nukes of all shapes and sizes. Most
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> Well I hope they're better than the Russian attack helicopters. They lasted ... I want to say about 3 weeks. NATO forces are very, very good at combined arms actions in conventional wars. Assets aren't used unless there&#x27
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by rl3 2y ago
> Approaching this sort of battlefield with conventional forces is not a viable idea. It's almost certainly unstated US foreign policy on the matter, and not just a media bluff. They might have thousands but they don't have th
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The West wouldn't be replying in kind with tactical nukes, because that leads to escalation as you said. It's about proportional cost imposition as a means of deterrence.[0] It's also possible the opening salvo of such a resp
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by rl3 2y ago
I’m sorry, to clarify: The US version of the aforementioned game of chicken. That is, the threat of conventional military action. It was widely reported that the US privately communicated the consequences of tactical nuclear weapon use to R
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by rl3 2y ago
> Whether such a game of chicken is responsible or not is its own discussion. I'd argue giving in to nuclear blackmail is irresponsible. Personally I'd like to see the US version, with the Russians having to pause and think ab
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by rl3 2y ago
> Air superiority means nothing when the opposing side has meat for the meat grinder and it's widely spread out. Western attack helicopters are just one prong in the meat grinder that would grind up enemy infantry formations and en
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by rl3 2y ago
Technically that's discoverable, too. Just needs to be a national security matter.
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> That however is a problem of capitalism in general, not Olive Garden in particular. Sure, but the lengths Olive Garden's marketing goes to present the facade of a soul is so cringe that they deserve to be emblematic of said probl
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by rl3 2y ago
I mean, if McDonald's along with every restaurant in SoDoSoPa wanted to join Olive Garden and Applebees on a voyage into the sun, that wouldn't be a bad thing. The fundamental problem is that all of these businesses are devoid of
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> However, safety requirements for late-stage patients with very few other options ought to differ from safety requirements for mass adoption. Do they not already?
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> Watching private equity take over and subsequently destroy businesses is so frustrating! I agree. I uh, hope they don't do the same thing to Olive Garden, or Applebee's. That would be tragic..
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"No, no no no, no , that's— 'The Pen is Mightier.' "
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On GPT-4 release I was able to get it to draw Factorio factory layouts in ASCII which were tailored to my general instructions. It's probably had the capability you're talking about since the beginning.
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> I’m sure this type of thing is fairly common. Unfortunately: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecomafia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_of_death_(Italy) https://www.vice.com&#x
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by rl3 2y ago
The hospital stuff was the least of our concerns.[3] The history of this actually gets better. Nixon was sloshed half the time and then rolled that fact into the furtherance of his nuclear brinksmanship[2] pioneering: "If the presiden
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by rl3 2y ago
Afraid not. I tend to prefer making comments like these: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40166472 Fortunately another user beat me to it.
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> spam ! You mean like this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40159801 Fresh account with one comment, and it's almost uncanny how similar their writing style is to yours. Feels a little self-congratulatory.
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My layperson theory goes something like: In the early 90s when the medical community had a hammer, everything started to look like a nail. The result being over-prescribing in children. Fast forward to pervasive digital devices which repres
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by rl3 2y ago
I just assumed the Magic Keyboard had the same water resistance rating as its parent device. Turns out, I was unfortunately right: iPads aren't rated for water resistance, unlike iPhones; TIL. At least the keyboard was kind enough to t
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by rl3 2y ago
> Drop some water on it? It's fine. Careful. I did this to my Magic Keyboard recently. $350 later..
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> aerospace https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-...
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by rl3 3y ago
Windows Millennium Edition was much flashier, although I particularly liked the blue background and white text.
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by rl3 3y ago
Curious how collection in the first place doesn't seem to be at issue, but merely access . I recall the days when it was more like a shell game between the words collect and access , where for a while denial of the former just mean
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by rl3 3y ago
> They will as a result probably avoid traveling to unfriendly jurisdictions without a diplomatic passport. First of all, it's not like their individual identities would ever be known. Second, they would already know that traveling
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by rl3 3y ago
I understood what you meant in your original comment and mostly agree. The sentence in isolation was too funny to pass up though. To your credit, you never said there was any guarantee HN would arrive at the truth.
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by rl3 3y ago
Honorable mention to the explosive rat, as well as Project Pigeon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_rat https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
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by rl3 3y ago
> The HN community is a bubble of radical truth seeking. To think some call us an echo chamber.
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> This cycle hasn't even begun to play out. Horses aren't unemployed just because we have cars. Mr. Ed has only been helped by streaming in recent years, despite the wider decline in television viewership.
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> Past a certain age if someone vividly wishes to end themselves and sees no hope whatsoever .. There's innumerable people who have fit that criteria, didn't do it, and are thankful they didn't. I sincerely hope you will

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