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by wrp 4y ago
Ha! Just yesterday, I was talking to a colleague in the humanities about the relative pleasures of working in a field where there were practically no grants to be sought.
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by wrp 4y ago
> survive the big bang into the next universe to be born That's also in Poul Anderson's Tau Zero . ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/240617.Tau_Zero ) I vaguely remember that theme in a few other s
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The trains experience would be something children would voluntarily spend a few hours on occasionally. Farm life would be a daily responsibility that children would have no option of walking away from. I anticipate that children running a t
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by wrp 4y ago
So, these were educational projects, the purpose being to instill in children a sense of responsibility. I'd be interested in hearing about how well it worked. I've lived in rural America and I see a huge difference in maturity be
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by wrp 4y ago
One researcher the author relies on, Kenneth Pollack, published his dissertation work in two books Arabs at War (2004) and Armies of Sand (2019). The first gives very good overviews of Arab combat performance over the 20th century. The
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by wrp 4y ago
But, since the blade is missing, we don't know how big it actually was. It's funny to me that they have just a handle but they keep calling it a "sword". By the way, didn't Beowulf bring back just a handle after the
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by wrp 4y ago
I've read a bit on stealth design and the effects of body shape are not easily intuitive. It could be that the chosen external weapons have a small radar signature.
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>...in light of recent space team psychological problems... I saw this reasoning and thought, "OK, what about the survival knife, or potentially lethal pieces of rope, or in fact any small pointy thing like a screwdriver?" Also
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There are NGOs that report on civilian welfare in war zones, such as Amnesty International and the Red Cross. Has no reputable agency investigated Bucha yet?
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The government is requiring federally funded hospitals to set up review committees to monitor life-and-death decisions about babies who need immediate medical care. Also, notices are to be posted warning that it is unlawful to discriminate
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by wrp 4y ago
> No one is advocating for killing infants. In the 1980s, Surgeon General Everett Koop made a major effort to campaign against those who were advocating for abortion ex-utero . ( https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/
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by wrp 4y ago
Ancient Egyptian art was intentionally abstract. It has been called "conceptual" rather than "perceptual" in style. Figures were flattened to provide an abstraction of their most salient features, not because the artists
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by wrp 4y ago
Why are manufactured homes not more popular in American cities with very inflated housing prices? I read that they are unpopular because the cost per square foot is actually more than stick-built, but that is for the average cost around t
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by wrp 4y ago
Longer than that. Europeans have remarked on the corruption and inefficiency of the Russian state throughout history.
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Both Russian and Ukrainian sources agree that Ukrainian civilians are providing extensive field intelligence. That doesn't rule out satellite intel. Also, as the article points out, these ammunition dumps are huge and located in predic
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by wrp 4y ago
The key points are: America has provided eight launchers and on July 8th said it would send four more. Each one carries a pod of six gps-guided missiles accurate up to 84km... America’s army tends to disperse and conceal its ammunition d
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by wrp 4y ago
Water fluoridation was always controversial in Oregon, and I don't know how many municipalities do it. Many years ago, I heard from dentists in western Oregon that they could easily see differences in enamel quality of patients who did
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While I mostly agree with your overview, the OP pointed out that this article came from within Russia. Going back decades, Russians have felt some intimidation at the thought of superior Western arms technology. I read an interview with a R
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by wrp 4y ago
Guys...guys...let's not spoil the thread by getting snarky. :-)
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by wrp 4y ago
Another thing may be that reactive armor works. I read a Russian report claiming that only 1 in 10 Javelin strikes resulted in a tank kill. That's a plausible claim if you consider that Javelins are a bit old technology and reactive ar
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by wrp 4y ago
Ah, my mistake about nationality. Even if I don't agree with all the analysis, it's interesting to see what kind of conversation is going on inside Russia.
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There seems to be an increase in messaging like this from Ukrainians and I'm a bit confused about the motivation. Here's another one from France. ( https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2022/06
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by wrp 4y ago
My students won't use anything else, because it is probably the best free text editor on Windows. For me, configuration is exasperating and functionality has various areas of friction. I use a proprietary editor for my own work (EditPa
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by wrp 4y ago
I sense an effect in need of a name: Any discussion of a conspiracy theory, no matter how critical, only serves to spread belief in it.
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This is what I think about every time I hear that phrase. It Was A Dark And Stormy Night by Snoopy Part I It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly, a pira
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by wrp 4y ago
This is a really old question. Even in the 1980s, some people were saying that standard estimates of Soviet capability were greatly exaggerated, and that we were overestimating how strong NATO needed to be. Since the fall of the USSR, we ha
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The authors highlight one important factor that hasn't gotten enough attention, but completely ignore the factor that is turning out to be decisive on the battlefield. They correctly point out the effect of modern surveillance capabili
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> But as it turns out, there is a much simpler answer: The Thai government paid for it. So it was deliberate "gastrodiplomacy". I have mixed feelings about how well that's working, because the quality of Thai food I find
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The broad answer is no, first of all because the narrow situations where masks are believed to help would not amount to a significant difference when considering the effect on an entire community. Secondly, I said "believed" becau
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It will help to keep this kind of news in perspective if you remember that mask mandate studies are very blunt instruments. You identify (preferably large) communities experiencing an outbreak, some with and some without mask mandates, then

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