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by zipwitch 6y ago
We've gone further than that. Here in the US, our current government has sanctioned the ICC, and restricted travel for anyone affiliated with it as retaliation for the ICC investigating war crimes (by all parties) in Afghanistan. http
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by zipwitch 6y ago
I've had these several times myself. For me, they start as a small "blind spot" at the center of my field of view, which was really scary, particularly if I was trying to read or do screen-work at the time. After the first on
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by zipwitch 6y ago
Using race to divide labor is a time-proven capitalist tactic. Go back to Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, where the system was made explicit after the mixed-race uprising again the oligarchs of the time. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by zipwitch 6y ago
I can't take Taibbi and Greenwald's antagonism against "elites" seriously when they take every chance possible to defend the actions of a billionaire President and his billionaire-stuff Cabinet.
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by zipwitch 6y ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2233/
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by zipwitch 6y ago
I've never had a Medium account. I had no idea an account was something you'd need, other than for posting stories. I use Pale Moon as a browser, with Noscript, uBlock Origin and Flashblock. (As a rule of thumb, if I can't re
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by zipwitch 6y ago
The military intervention in Libya was initially led by the United States and then handed off to NATO. The US contribution to direct attacks consisted mostly of cruise missile strikes. The British, French and Canadian air forces also played
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by zipwitch 6y ago
This is a farce. The United States is done fighting Great Power wars. No one talks about it publicly at all because doing so would shatter America's self-image as the Lone Superpower. The military the United States has now is quite
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New findings suggest strength of electromagnetic force is not constant(phys.org)
3 points by zipwitch 6y ago|0 comments
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by zipwitch 6y ago
The Whisperer in Darkness By H. P. Lovecraft http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/wid.aspx
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by zipwitch 6y ago
>* the SLS is what will be used to launch the Artemis missions* That seems overly optimistic for a system that is now a year and a half past it's original target launch date and has a current target date of late next year.
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by zipwitch 6y ago
It seems appropriate to mention The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi, a whirlwind sf novel where a large part of the story involves a city where the currency literally is Time. (When a person runs out of Time, they are transformed into a
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by zipwitch 6y ago
Huh. And here I had always thought that backhoes were the internet's natural predators.
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by zipwitch 6y ago
Which is fine. It's a tough problem, and I have no expectation that a random poster (myself included) is going to suddenly come up with a perfect solution. As we search for solutions, there are at least two fallacious lines of reasonin
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by zipwitch 6y ago
The expression is derived from 'Fabian strategy'[1], but the 'strategy' part didn't seem quite appropriate, since this isn't a military campaign. I've heard it before, but a quick round of googling shows t
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by zipwitch 6y ago
I reject the presumptions that the only possible response is a unitary authority and that we shouldn't do anything in response because any such response is automatically going to be bad. Come, on, this is Hacker News ! Why do we hav
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by zipwitch 6y ago
The facile answer is, "have an educated public who can make those decisions themselves". But it seems clear to me that the "educated public" approach has failed . The spread of memetic hazards has risen to the level whe
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by zipwitch 6y ago
This comment needs more upvotes. It's endemic to the software industry and far beyond. From employees who need to meet some arbitrary (and possibly unwritten) metric, to executives who are compelled to leave their mark on anything they
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by zipwitch 6y ago
Anyone who is interested in this sort of thing may wish to take a look at the seven-book Build Your Own Metal Working Shop From Scrap series by the late David Gingery. While intended as a guide for the hobbyist, the series could easily se
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by zipwitch 6y ago
I misread the title. I was really hoping this was a link to house-rules on playing the Pandemic cooperative boardgame with the COVID-19 coronavirus as the disease.
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by zipwitch 6y ago
The whole article reads like a punchline for a joke involving Admiral Rickover's famous letter. (We just had a thread on it here not two weeks ago!) "An academic reactor or reactor plant almost always has the following basic chara
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by zipwitch 6y ago
Years ago, I read decent alternate-history piece of fiction, set in a world where nuclear-powered bombers were put in service by the United States Air Force: Steambird https://www.fantasticfiction.com/s/hilbert-schenck
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Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by zipwitch 6y ago|0 comments
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by zipwitch 7y ago
Sometimes it doesn't have to be "I figured it out". Just being able to say to yourself, "I feel X about Y, but maybe I don't want/need/choose/have to feel X about Y" can be very empowering. And I
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by zipwitch 7y ago
Reminds me of E.E. "Doc" Smith's diesel-powered stealth spaceship in First Lensmen (1950) https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/smithee-firstlensman/smithee-fir...
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by zipwitch 7y ago
Interesting story about Norway's oil industry: The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil https://www.ft.com/content/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144feab...
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by zipwitch 7y ago
Only if there's a real demand for it.
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Closed Cities(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by zipwitch 7y ago|0 comments
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by zipwitch 7y ago
> WW II was probably the last conflict where all sides basically removed the gloves and fought with everything they had where everything on both sides included some very scary options. I think that would actually be the Iran-Iraq War:
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by zipwitch 7y ago
Playing without spoilers would be very challenging indeed. And you're right about the early game - there's a breakpoint where you've got enough food, hit points, AC, damage-dealing capability, and miscellaneous tricks (if you

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