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by thu2111 6y ago
The point of the F-35 is to be so technologically superior that you do not get into a war of attrition where you are bleeding planes at the same rate as your enemy. If that was the case it would mean none of the technology upgrades actual
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by thu2111 6y ago
This comes up in every HN thread about fighter jets. Modern fighter aircraft are mobile missile launchers. They are judged primarily by whether they can get close enough to where they need to go without being detected, detect what they need
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by thu2111 6y ago
It's because UFO is never used to mean "plane of unknown precise identity or origin country". Other terms are used for those, like "plane with its transponder disabled" or whatever. The problem is, when UFO reports
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by thu2111 6y ago
I really hope nobody is testing cruise missiles by flying them close to civilian flight paths.
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by thu2111 6y ago
I never go through people's posting history and downvote them all, if that's what you're asking. It's a stupid tactic, it happens to me all the time and I wish HN had more advanced software and moderation systems to stop
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by thu2111 6y ago
Fair enough then.
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by thu2111 6y ago
I believe that post was a neutral reporting of the actual situation, or at least the user's perceived take on it, and not an attempt to introduce flamebait. It certainly isn't an unrelated controversy. The EU/UK disputes over
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by thu2111 6y ago
None of that is true. The modelling that predicted "death on a societal scale" has all been disproven long ago. If lockdowns ended tomorrow nothing would happen; they correlated with nothing at all. See most post here for links:
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by thu2111 6y ago
It is absurd and wrong that this was flagged and dead, so I vouched for it. If people are not allowed to even ask genuine questions about the safety of medical treatments then it will end up with people automatically assuming the worst, w
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by thu2111 6y ago
Did Germany "get it right" in March? To my eye it looks like it just missed the first wave by chance along with many other countries (Germany is not unique in Europe in having not really experienced a first wave). As we now know l
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by thu2111 6y ago
There have already been dozens of objective evaluations that support your intuition. You aren't reading about them because of political infighting: a huge number of powerful people have committed themselves publicly to lockdowns as a s
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by thu2111 6y ago
Note that with SubstrateVM/Graal native image, you get far lower memory usage and startup time equal to or even better than C.
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by thu2111 6y ago
It really doesn't. I've worked on upstream projects where a significant fraction of all bugs reported were created by distributions screwing up packaging and patching in ways they weren't at all qualified to understand and
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by thu2111 6y ago
That scaling argument assumes everyone pays the global network cost per node, which isn't true. Gossip scales because the cost to each participant is O(connections to my node), not O(connections in the whole network), and it's the
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by thu2111 6y ago
I think it's indeed a reference to wind and solar. There's a discussion of the problems posed by loss of system 'inertia' here: https://www.drax.com/technology/shock-absorbers-keeping-grid...
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by thu2111 6y ago
I think their assumption is that if the grid collapses completely it will take place in a short period of wild frequency fluctuations as generators trip out, demand swings wildly and so on, so you could get very large frequency distortions
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by thu2111 6y ago
Nobody tried to "cancel" the French population of America, did they? That's really reaching.
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by thu2111 6y ago
Uh huh, really. John Lennon formed the Beatles when he was 20, after flunking out of music school, failing his O-Levels and being written off by his teachers. He wrote his first top 10 hit when he was 15, just a year or so after getting his
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by thu2111 6y ago
tech is ridiculously easy to get into even if you are patently and demonstrably unskilled For what definition of "get into tech" is this? Be somewhere in the proximity of a company that calls itself a tech company? Maybe? Be hir
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by thu2111 6y ago
His entire post is about bad behaviour by employees, and he has just confirmed to you that if you were (visibly) LGBTQ it was impossible not to be hired there. Most likely also impossible to be fired given the OP's stories. That is exa
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by thu2111 6y ago
But the whole point of the article is that these events are not especially unusual, that they have happened quite a few times before, including several times in the last decade alone. One problem with the Texas outages is everyone seems t
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by thu2111 6y ago
That's a fascinating alternative take I haven't seen before. Thanks - will remember this.
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by thu2111 6y ago
That happens at any company that's sufficiently devoted to SJW principles. Though it's usually about women rather than gays as obviously the question of orientation can't usually be brought up at interview time. I thought eve
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by thu2111 6y ago
No, I don't think so. That's a 1980s era explanation. There are people who aren't especially attractive in all industries. Even in Hollywood, look at what Weinstein got up to, and he isn't exactly Adonis reborn. I think
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by thu2111 6y ago
French fries are not people or ideas, are they?
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by thu2111 6y ago
It increases your costs a lot. There can be benefits too of course but those costs have to be passed on to the users, so if there aren't any compelling reasons to run it all server side, it's unclear why people would want it. Cons
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by thu2111 6y ago
McCarthy was fiercely anti-communist, but so were most other people at that time. He became famous for alleging large scale infiltration of the US government by communist agents. He couldn't prove it, there are some historians who beli
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by thu2111 6y ago
I read the blog you mentioned and saw no mention of fabricated quotes. In fact Aaronson has blogged twice. The first time he said he words to the effect of: I talked to Metz extensively and told everyone else to, I didn't like the arti
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by thu2111 6y ago
I thought so too. But it's hard not to notice that this article was supposedly in the work for many months, yet reads as if it took a day's worth of work (being generous). Why did it disappear for months and then come out shortly
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by thu2111 6y ago
Ah. Well if that's how people are using the term, what I said wouldn't apply to that. The term asymptomatic is clearly defined as "no symptoms at all and never develops any". Presymptomatic means "no symptoms at all

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