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tlear
7y ago
That does not sound like a good argument at all. Metal for vast majority of human history gave you massive edge in weapon technology. Some Mandarin just shut something like that down? Seems super unlikely Vikings transported Crucible steel
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7y ago
But there is so much more you can put there.. mine has: Kids sticker my daughters put there, cartoon like power rangers(some new one but same concept) Trail running club that I ran some races with Some star wars sticker Friends startup comp
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7y ago
Russians did enough Is the Churchill the new thing to divert from Holodomor they promote in Petrograd? Been seeing it mentioned by Russian trolls/bots/“patriots” a lot recently
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7y ago
Claim is not about the ideas but people. It is like a fudge who build a website completely from scratch vs one who did it in Wordpress. Talking to first one is interesting, second one not so much. The second website is most likely much bett
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7y ago
Early morning is gorgeous, we stayed before near Arsenale and I would go on a run every morning around 6am. It is the most beautiful city I ever been in a that time. It is a tourists attraction mainly now but still running alone through it
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7y ago
This is very good news. Maybe few years late but better now. Current situation is a disaster waiting to happen Stuxney penetrated a heavily guarded, monitored, secured with air gap facility. US power grid systems are child’s play in compari
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It is far more then that. State actor has people working for it who will serve as honey pots, it has people working for it who Will drug you stuff you in a box and send you back to the country. It has a huge capacity for physical violence o
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You should wonder why did ACW did not degenerate into slaughterhouse like Russian or Chinese civil wars.. A lot of people now dream about such a thing, they have not perhaps read what that actually means. US let South get away with this cra
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Story of the author is quite interesting. Fought against the reds, then became one. This criticism of US was created as communists in USSR were in process of murdering millions. He did not have much to say about that. In fact he went back t
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7y ago
The thing with mastery in software is that it is a fleeting thing. There is always more and more and more.. Number of “masters” I have met in my career who were really barely intermediate in a narrow area. I been doing it since my early tee
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They are idealists, their parents and grandparents were not subjected to Cultural revolution and rest of the brutality of PRC. They think they can keep the city they love as it is. Realistically their only hope is collapse of PRC. Never say
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Thing is that SA is incompetent. Really incompetent. You can say many things about IRGC but they are not incompetent. The only possible actors are..(without taking video into account). Iran, Israel(incredibly unlikely but they could do it a
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7y ago
I think this a perceptions issue. IRGC done VERY well recently, successes in Syria, Houthis, Iraq, much closer ties and success in Gaza/Hamas. They feel good about themselves and view US as impotent(as in Syria). It could be a threat a
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Jamming, hacking, possibility of being exploited(thing adversarial ML) etc etc If we get real self driving cars how long till someone figures what you need to plaster on a tree to fool ML into crashing a car :) now imagine full nation state
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7y ago
Backup autonomous system is how Iranians(not Russians or Chinese..) managed to take over and land completely in tact top of the line US drone. Autonomous fool proof weapon system that are actually given freedom to kill things are VERY far a
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That is not what the link says it did not pilot even simulated jet. It issued orders as a controller would on border of AWACS I guess.
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7y ago
WSJ is one of the very few news outlets that are worth reading now. Keep up good work. I am glad to pay subscription
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To me this was the most fascinating bit: “ Historically the Mosuo lived in a feudal system where a larger peasant population was controlled by a small nobility. The nobility was afraid of the peasant class gaining power. Since leadership wa
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You do know Red army invaded and occupied Estonia first? With all the fun things that getting occupied by Red army and purged by NKVD entails.
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It seems like miracle that company actually survived. Was it bailed out at any point or they managed to make it through that cleanly?
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The first is thing is pretty horible, it is however an interesting thing to learn as you WIll encounter people who do this in your career. Second is probably the best way to learn about a topic and how to debate. Take something you abhore a
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7y ago
Japan, Korea. It is like a different world. Why, I don’t have a clue. Maybe it is the last 200 years in China, civil wars, then Communists and Mao. It is weird because there is not much violent crime at all. You won’t get kidnapped or mugge
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They got away from that idiocy once they starved 10mil+ people to death. Money was there and barter(vodka as premium item that could get you anything, like seeing good doctor, getting car fixed, getting caviar). Also those stores also sold
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7y ago
You don't need coverage for MRI, as Canadian there is whole industry near border dedicated to servicing Canadian on wait lists. You drive over border, get MRI done(tomorrow), then get a dvd with results. Done. Cost is less then a $1000
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Or even better have colleges administer their own exams. Oral ones are best ;) this is how it worked in USSR. Nobody cared what marks you had in high school as village school and good city schools were completely different. You came to exam
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Anyone who ended up in Guntanamo would have had a bullet to head in PRC, they would not bother with a camp. It is for hundreds of thousands of undesirables(like Muslims etc). When USA ships it’s Muslims into a camp in Nevada desert and star
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UTMB is probably the most famous Ultra, if you win you will get sponsorship, huge exposure etc. Check the finisher times. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-Trail_du_Mont-Blanc Spoiler. It is not even remotely close
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100ms is pretty bad in shooter. Around 60-70 is where I cant distinguish the difference. But I am very far from a great player. I can see this working very well for games like Total War where hardware specs are super high but response time
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I am really curious about the company that you work through. Place I contract with right now really could use some of that expert advice(not software engineering issue)
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No Мы с женой оставались на местах после удара — она пыталась встать и побежать, но я сказал сесть, потому что ждал, что из-за паники в проходе начнется давка.
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