solidsnack9000

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by solidsnack9000 9mo ago
It does not make sense that the US would pay the "protection money" for a vassal. The vassals pay the protection money! One clue that this discussion of vassals is not right at all.
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by solidsnack9000 9mo ago
The EU would also have opposed it if the US bought Russian, Chinese or Iranian weaponry. The EU does seem to willing to reduce itself to a Chinese vassal. That would not improve the situation.
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by solidsnack9000 9mo ago
It really did not mean that -- it meant to increase spending to the targets set by NATO and to meet realistic defense needs. A lot of EU weaponry was and is produced in the EU and the US has known that all along, cooperated and fostered it.
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by solidsnack9000 9mo ago
It was initially hard for me to understand how this could work but it looks like there is a plugin system?
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by solidsnack9000 9mo ago
This might be less about sovereignty for you, then.
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by solidsnack9000 9mo ago
The central spine of the building, 1.4m of stone or brick, could probably help cool a house, as well.
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by solidsnack9000 9mo ago
Ford actually makes vehicles in Europe. Does BYD? If push comes to shove and Europe needs to part ways with the USA, to greater or lesser degree, there will still be machinists, mechanics, and actual facilities in place to keep making Fords
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by solidsnack9000 9mo ago
How would this lead to sovereignty?
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by solidsnack9000 9mo ago
How would this marketplace be regulated? Is the idea that there would be an open app format (so that devices from different vendors could run these apps) or a regulated OS?
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by solidsnack9000 9mo ago
Not very much but there were some years where hijackings were 5% to 10% of air travel deaths. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-fatalities-from-av...
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by solidsnack9000 9mo ago
Lot of hijackings still to come in 1950...
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by solidsnack9000 9mo ago
Apple is abandoning Swift on Android?
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by solidsnack9000 9mo ago
Is sounds like you're saying something that "...was technically possible but not practical..." is no longer impractical, or at least is "...now quickly becoming technically possible and practical...", because of the
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by solidsnack9000 9mo ago
I don't think there is a clear argument that it isn't realistic to be done from a technology standpoint -- in other words, I don't think this laser meaningfully changes things from a capabilities standpoint. The necessary min
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by solidsnack9000 9mo ago
CIWS is big but this has nothing to do with it -- it's actually easier to make a small turret, and small arms precision has been well understood for a long time. Put a 6.5mm Creedmoor on a computer controlled turret -- 6.5mm Creedmoor
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by solidsnack9000 9mo ago
Does a reference to "...the judge, jury and executioner..." really make sense in armed conflict? Is there really a judge or a jury? There isn't really even an executioner, in the sense of a lawful delegate tasked with carryin
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by solidsnack9000 9mo ago
They do receive a lot of assistance, actually -- including military assistance -- but it is almost never put to defensive use. You can lead a horse to water...
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by solidsnack9000 9mo ago
The economics have been favorable to attackers for a while. Maybe precision systems like this can help to shift things in favor of the defenders.
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by solidsnack9000 9mo ago
It's been possible for a long time. For antipersonnel use, guns are perfectly adequate and guns on tracking turrets have been widely deployed (for example, CIWS). The underlying technology is a ballistic calculator and a fast panning t
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by solidsnack9000 9mo ago
Those kinds of tests have been done with lasers already. This is a defensive application of lasers, like CIWS is a defensive application of guns.
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by solidsnack9000 10mo ago
How would anyone be voted out in the EU?
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by solidsnack9000 10mo ago
It was not that long ago, that most countries regulated products, communications, food, and many other things, even arms & munitions, very, very lightly. In the UK in 1903, a law was passed prohibiting the sale of pistols to children. T
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by solidsnack9000 10mo ago
At one time, they were targeting much a broader array of languages -- it wasn't specifically a JavaScript tool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zSh0zYLTIE
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by solidsnack9000 10mo ago
It does stand to reason that all law could be formalized. For example, consider the definition of murder in the first degree from 18 USC § 1111: "Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought." You might
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by solidsnack9000 11mo ago
There is no country where a person has to declare all their possessions or they are otherwise forfeit. That is transparently bad policy. Possessions are one important basis of wealth. This is, I think, another example of people's int
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by solidsnack9000 11mo ago
I am not talking about hiding wealth. How do you find all of a person's wealth in a principled way? There isn't a central clearinghouse of this information. People can own houses, factories, &c, in indirect ways, or in other j
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by solidsnack9000 11mo ago
Interesting write-up.
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by solidsnack9000 11mo ago
The article mentions cathedral projects that issued their own local currencies. I guess they must have backed it with gold or silver, or some collection of valuable things donated to fund the cathedral? The article really is light on techni
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by solidsnack9000 11mo ago
Yeah, it seems like most people assume there is a reach and scope of taxation that isn't really possible. Wealth can be expatriated, it can be in non-fungible objects (paintings, &c), it can be in goods held in common such that no
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by solidsnack9000 11mo ago
I think it is more common for them to write 8:00 to 25:00 - omitting AM and PM.

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