chriselles

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by chriselles 10mo ago
I think biggest threat of invasion for Australia is illegal immigration. It’s happened before, and Australia has used discrete and unconventional means to disrupt it. RAN could probably surge 3 Collins boats depending on timings of depot le
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by chriselles 10mo ago
I need to push back on your analysis on this. Quite hard actually. Indonesia lacks the force projection capability to even project an expeditionary force into Northern Australia. Sustaining an expeditionary force into Northern Australia by
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by chriselles 10mo ago
I think some are too focused on recruiting or conscripting citizens for fighting a kinetic conflict. For the Five Eyes(Canada, US, UK, Australia, NZ) that don’t ever need to worry about conventional invasion, it’s far more about national re
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by chriselles 10mo ago
Terrible idea. But if it mimics the rise of the same idea in Japan, it could indicate peak real estate as coincided relatively closely with the introduction of the 50 year mortgage in Japana, Different circumstances, different “song”. But p
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by chriselles 1y ago
Quick Sink is a very cheap solution to disrupting that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmfRi2Vl3JQ
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by chriselles 2y ago
Pizza Hut opened in the Soviet Union in 1990 prior to collapse the following year. Although many might contest Pizza Hut qualifying as real pizza. :) It’s a shame authentic pizza didn’t grab hold earlier, especially with the origins of pizz
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by chriselles 2y ago
Wouldn’t total cost of ownership be a better measure? Maintenance, repair, insurance, fuel, residual value. I would think Tesla’s lower residual value from price declines would result in a poorer(possibly much poorer) showing using a total
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by chriselles 3y ago
I don’t understand the numerous efforts, or appeal, over decades to develop a single product combining driving with flying. Compromises due to conflicting design and regulatory requirements seem destined to result in The Homer: https:&#x2F
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by chriselles 3y ago
It might make sense to maintain a few with the 105mm gun for low intensity conflict against non state actors. But we seem to be moving at velocity towards a peer or near peer adversary environment. An AC130H Spectre(Spirit03) was shot down
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by chriselles 4y ago
Replit 100 Days of Code https://replit.com/learn/100-days-of-python
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by chriselles 4y ago
I don’t think or believe Putin will necessarily win the war by escalating to the use of nuclear weapons. I just think he has been very consistent in “doing what he says, and saying what he does” over the long-term. And that his personal cre
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by chriselles 4y ago
It might be worth looking at Russia’s unusual nuclear doctrine of “escalate to deescalate.” I agree numerous tactical nuclear weapons would be required for combat operations, but not necessarily for information operations designed to shape
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by chriselles 4y ago
This ends, or escalates further, with the use of nuclear weapons by Russia. People can debate all day on whether Putin is a genuinely and popularly elected President, a totalitarian dictator, or a mafia boss. But what’s not up for debate is
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by chriselles 4y ago
“ >Does anyone have examples of a world power funding a revolutionary force and it ending in peace and prosperity?” Solidarity in Poland, supported with plausible deniability at arms length by the CIA. Solidarity was a Polish labour unio
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by chriselles 4y ago
Camouflage for high value assets is rapidly becoming a point of focus. The Armenia-Azerbaijan war of 2020 and the Russia-Ukraine war of 2022 have both displayed the growing need to prioritise sensor camouflage. The contemporary peer on peer
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by chriselles 4y ago
I wonder if your personal situation is an example of the changes we’ve seen with the increasingly central role online dating has on individuals matching with potential partners. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles
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by chriselles 5y ago
I’m just not buying the Russian invasion story. Putin profits most from tension that maximises profit and influence. So optimise for tension beneath the threshold of war. Because war is bad for business. And business is booming selling ener
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by chriselles 5y ago
While it’s possible Russia could invade Ukraine, it’s probable that Russia will not. The vast majority of both Russian government revenue and Russian export earnings is energy and energy royalties. Russia’s foreign policy is optimised for t
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by chriselles 5y ago
My first computer was a TRS-80 32k. It also had the CTR-41 tape deck with data transfer at roughly the speed of a good typist. I learned BASIC by copying short word game programs from magazines and just playing around with it. Things have c
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by chriselles 5y ago
I took the family to the Mount John Observatory near Lake Tekapo here in New Zealand thru the Dark Skies Project. It was quite impressive. As was the considerable efforts the town of Tekapo has gone to in order to limit light pollution with
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by chriselles 5y ago
Lots of stories about this being the first recorded incident of Orcas hunting a Blue Whale. There’s at least one colour photo with the associated story of an Orca pod hunting a Blue Whale in the 1960’s/1970’s timeframe, published in Na
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by chriselles 5y ago
60 Minutes broke this story a decade ago. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/congress-trading-stock-on-insid... Due to the traction the story got, it led to the Stock Act. But once the news cycle was over it was quietly, rap
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by chriselles 5y ago
There’s a great book on Boyd written by an acquaintance of mine(Major Ian Brown) from Marine Corps University’s Krulak Center for Innovation and Future Warfare: https://www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/ANewConceptionOfWar
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by chriselles 5y ago
This i becoming quite surreal. First the Russians use very limited budget/capacity to beat Tom Cruise in making the first film in space for optics. And that’s after a series of serious quality control and operational errors. And now th
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by chriselles 5y ago
I am so very sorry for your loss. As a parent, your post is incredibly impactful. As a company owner(20 FTE), I've had several staff take leave for catastrophic health issues in their immediate family. It's been incredibly costly
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by chriselles 5y ago
Momentus YC S18 as well. https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/momentus They went public via SPAC listed as MNTS A classmate of mine was the founder, but he ran into issues being a Russian citizen dealing with restrict
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by chriselles 5y ago
True story… I grew up within walking distance of Byberry Mental Hospital. I could see it daily thru the window in the distance from St. Anselm’s Catholic School. In the 1980’s, after school my friends and I would take our pellet guns in the
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by chriselles 5y ago
Actor Morgan Freeman was Easy Reader on Electric Company. Morgan Freeman's voice is one of the most distinctive for me as I've been listening to it since I was a very young child learning how to pronounce words and read. No wonder
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by chriselles 5y ago
I don’t know the subject of the story, but I knew the brother who worked for Amazon and died of pancreatic cancer. The date has been adjusted. A truly wonderful person who exemplified the oustanding people at Amazon in the early days. And a
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by chriselles 5y ago
This is the BladeRunner and Rollerball(original 1975) world we increasingly live in, with corporate exchanges reminiscent of Cold War spook exchanges. Corporate senior leadership, especially in Big Tech, are moving along the continuum towar

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