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by tlear 13y ago
Interesting and really sad
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by tlear 13y ago
Would probably be easier to estimate the number from getting number of killed in all wars in last 60 years. Separating by type of war and then applying fraction killed by small arms
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by tlear 13y ago
AK47 is a masterpiece of design, I bet it will still be in wide use when all of the people reading this are long dead.
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by tlear 13y ago
There are many stories on that.. honestly I think a lot of stuff about Stalin disbelief are pure propaganda aimed at providing an explanation at how bad Soviet army did initially. In reality I think it was a combination of Soviet Army just
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by tlear 13y ago
Japanese goal would not have been advance through Siberia towards Moscow. They would have just grabbed everything on the Pacific coast. Taking it back with troops being moved from European USSR by 1 rail link.. would be an impossibility. Ru
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by tlear 13y ago
USSR point of view: 1. Elimination of opposition abroad, Trotzkyi assassination and many others. 2. Discovery that Japan will not enter war. Results in transfer of Siberian divisions to Moscow that play decisive role in war 3. Plans for ope
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by tlear 13y ago
People will do almost anything for money, just right people and enough money
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by tlear 13y ago
Supply and demand + costs of transportation I assume
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by tlear 13y ago
Really sad to see him pass. Some of his books were absolutely superb: Rid Storm Rising, Hunt for the Red October, Patriot Games, Without remorse. RIP :(
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by tlear 13y ago
In a novel he would enter the country get kidnapped, drugged, tortured and would disappear permanently.
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by tlear 13y ago
You need to find the carrier first, ocean is a huge place. If you found and got close you do not need to coordinate single sub will do the job. But getting that sub there is non-trivial. You could ambush the carrier as it transits a straigh
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by tlear 13y ago
Successful invasion of Taiwan? Most likely mad boom, total economic and political dominance of Asia would do that. Not to mention internally it would cement the government for a generation or two
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by tlear 13y ago
That was the theory in Vietnam, then jammers happened.. reality intruded and Mig17 with a cannon savaged far more advanced US craft that outnumbered them by orders of magnitude. oops. Drones are even more fun, notice how Iranians took contr
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by tlear 13y ago
Given fiscal being the cornerstone of the conservatives policy and wins in elections I think F35 is basically dead in Canada
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by tlear 13y ago
You become community organizer to advance in the Chicago political machine duh..
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by tlear 13y ago
Sad truth is that if you get hit and hurt or killed while riding a bike, chances of guilty part being punished are almost non-existent. In some places people will actively try to run you from the road, almost everywhere you gona get doored
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by tlear 13y ago
Do not understand someone else code, is a valid issue, if the project was development for a few month. Then team got switched around this is a huge RED flag by itself. Big question is why this happened. Staring at a large code base with 1.5
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by tlear 13y ago
Well you fire them in a way that does not get you sued, you have a whole HR and legal departments for that purpose, it is pretty damn easy
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by tlear 13y ago
Fighting back often all it takes, making bully pay that is.. you do not need to win every fight you just need to make people think twice about messing with you, there are always easier victims to play with.
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by tlear 13y ago
Since this is multi core test, how many instances of Node are running actually?
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by tlear 13y ago
When you benchmark Vert.x on a multicore system vs 1 node process. Now add multiple node processes to occupy the cores and store changes completely
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by tlear 13y ago
Happy I deleted my account a while ago, loved the design back when v2 came out but..
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by tlear 13y ago
Not sure it has anything to do with being expat, just living in a very remote area. I have no idea where exactly Tokushima is but perhaps you can join a club of some sort? I knew expats in Nagano prefecture who randomly became avid mountain
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by tlear 13y ago
They seem to be doing a really clever thing developing a full scale demo as Kickstarter progresses. They are making a graphics engine for mass scale battles and network/server piece separately. Then they want to put it together and make ava
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Camelot Unchained Kickstarter tech demo(kickstarter.com)
2 points by tlear 13y ago|1 comments
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by tlear 14y ago
Is there a plan for iOS sdk, or perhaps you know of someone working on one that is active?
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by tlear 14y ago
The best route is to not buy EA games. This is the route I been on for a few years now
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by tlear 14y ago
Another big hole is that best Ringbearer would be a Dwarf not Halfling. Dwarfs take decades to be affected and they never turn into specters and enter the spirit realm. So the best combo would be eagles carrying Gimli with the ring, which h
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BlackBerry says Z10 Canadian launch was best in company history(business.financialpost.com)
1 points by tlear 14y ago|0 comments
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by tlear 14y ago
Many would argue that in Russia tsars secret police did not not go nearly far enough. Except for those actually killed people they treated revolutionaries trying to overthrow the regime very mildly. There is really no reason why people like

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