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by trhway 7mo ago
>Israel/CENTCOM did not expect that after 4 years of Ukraine war where those tactics have been widely used, in some cases by both sides, and where Russia has even been using the same Iranian drones
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by trhway 7mo ago
Looks like Iran is doing what i suggested Ukraine should have done to Russia https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42529638
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by trhway 7mo ago
How they were hit? Multiple drones overwhelming relatively small number of air defense systems. Systems like Patriot are great against several very capable targets like ballistic missiles. Such (expensive centralized) systems do much worse
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by trhway 7mo ago
>We've built trillions and trillions of dollars in infrastructure in the peace time since, and it seems fairly concentrated. and thus is easily defended. It would be a pocket change - tens of millions - for AMZN to put say a Rheinm
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by trhway 7mo ago
For some time it worked in Germany and USSR too. Paradigm shifts are natural part of technology development. Somewhat similar to large companies, societies without individual freedom tend to have harder time making through such paradigm shi
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by trhway 7mo ago
> In the 1930s the fascists, communists, and New Dealers all took the reins and governed their societies in new technocratic ways. ... They are technological means by which to manage populations. As Yuval Harari puts it, the answer to
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by trhway 7mo ago
we're going back to Moon and going to Mars too on Starship, and it is just a normal roadmap of the SpaceX. And that makes me excited about space future - normalcy of it just being a business, a good profitable business. Where is existe
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by trhway 7mo ago
a good attempt at popularization of the issue in Big Bang Theory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrX3EmdKtRc
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by trhway 7mo ago
>- building functionalities as components that are swappable on a whim requires a level of careful thought, abstraction and architecture that essentially is the exact opposite to ai slop that is only for humans really. Why we need these
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by trhway 7mo ago
alternatively the code can go the way of "fast fashion" and even "3d-print your garments in the morning according to your feelings and weather and recycle at the end of the day". If dealing with a functionality that is s
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by trhway 7mo ago
>energy required to vaporize one ton of iron produces .... so you would need a nuclear reactor. it is less than 2500KWh - under $250 of nuclear generated power on Earth. The best - fastest and efficient - way to travel outside planet&#x2
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by trhway 7mo ago
>concentrating one gram of platinum from one ton of iron would be tremendously difficult, requiring a huge amount of energy. melting one ton of iron requires 500KWh, 12 gallons of gasoline, less than $100 on Earth. Or 5 Tesla car batteri
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by trhway 7mo ago
The expanse future isn't that bad - even at the start of the series we've already made it to the asteroid belt and Jupiter moons, and the civilization consists of several sovereign self-governed entities with individual entreprene
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by trhway 7mo ago
like with meat eating, they aren't going to see the actual killing and cutting. >Presumably they'd also have to be incredibly narcissistic aren't most of them ?
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by trhway 7mo ago
just wait until influencers start flying there. Not on SLS of course. Flyby on Starship cattle class - say 100 people (500 for LEO and "SFO to Shanghai" while for Moon - several days would require better accommodations, thus 100)
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by trhway 7mo ago
>The engineers at NASA believe it is safe. it doesn't matter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_II "It will be the second flight of the Space Launch System (SLS), the first crewed mission of the Orion
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by trhway 7mo ago
it isn't brainless : "a baby version of yourself with only enough of a brain structure to be alive" "A key inspiration for Schloendorn is a birth defect in which children are born missing most of their cortical hemispher
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by trhway 7mo ago
even if you were right (and you're totally wrong) with your "nobody watches state TV in Russia" - it wouldn't matter. State TV expresses the state ideology that i described earlier. >"Evening with Solovyiev"
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by trhway 7mo ago
>Yes, and these TV channels now have less popularity than gardening channels. Nobody knowing anything about Russia would make such a gross mistake like you've just made. It is like you'd be discussing physics problems while no
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by trhway 7mo ago
>There are no mass rallies in support of the government. for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzaoHPWfkbE >No official sets of books, new unified history textbook. The "Talks about Important" school i
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by trhway 7mo ago
>Totalitarianism is not becoming more popular. Russia is not totalitarian, Russia is totalitarian today. It transitioned from authoritarian to totalitarian slowly starting about second half of 201x and very quickly down hill during 2022
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by trhway 7mo ago
reminded :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AswHFBS7p2E
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by trhway 7mo ago
i'm from USSR, so pretty familiar with it. The issue here is whether it is a fluke, or the world is really going into new phase where totalitarianism and authoritarianism are going to become dominating state of affairs. For example man
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by trhway 7mo ago
Hegseth - Signal app Noem - habeas corpus definition she gave at the Congress hearing Kennedy Jr - vaccines and the rest of his view on medicine Now Patel's unhackable FBI. I think the world has changed, and i really need to update my
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by trhway 7mo ago
>And categories 1 and 3 would likely always have exactly the same winners? no, the point is that you can't compete in more than one category. >so trans men/trans women would never be a likely top competitor in any category?
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by trhway 7mo ago
that brings the question - given the amount of media and propaganda, is it a failure or a result of that media and propaganda.
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by trhway 7mo ago
why US wouldn't block those tankers? Is there 5-dimensional chess somewhere here that i don't see? One can also wonder what money and through which banks Iran is getting for that oil - i'd find it hard to believe that Iran wo
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by trhway 7mo ago
>This is one of the rare problems where there exists no good solution to the issue. similar problem in boat races - different boats have different characteristics, thus PHRF rating. Not perfect, yet it works. The same thing i expect to h
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by trhway 7mo ago
Reminds that time when cheap Celeron with small cache was beating expensive Pentium with large cache (if i remember correctly that Celeron's cache was running at the core frequency while Pentium's was a separate die on half-freque
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by trhway 7mo ago
lithium cost $22/kg. 1 KW/h is 0.2kg lithium in 5 kg of batteries that costs $100 retail on AliExpress. So it isn't about lithium price. It seems that just manufacturing and delivering a 1kg of low-mid-complexity stuff comes

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