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by forgot_account 6y ago
>>>If someone needs something they should have it. What mechanism will exist to validate conflicting "needs" of different people in the not-so-distant future? Extreme example: we can't give everyone their own mansion
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by forgot_account 6y ago
A fair point on the ease of corrupting private contractors. If anything that suggests the National government should provide security, and bank on the cultural pride/integrity/professionalism of the military to serve as a bullwark
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by forgot_account 6y ago
Triple-strand concertina wire isn't that expensive, put that around the perimeter with a single entry control point. Two guards on shift, 4 hours on/8 hours off, twice per day = 4 bodies. Double that to cut the days worked down to
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by forgot_account 6y ago
Sterile and soulless? Even Sicario?
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by forgot_account 6y ago
>>>It has nothing to do with terrorism, it is purely for military domination and imperialism Nitpick: military domination is not an end-goal in and of itself. Arguably, it is (rightly or wrongly) the US government's primary me
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>>>This reads to me like saying "the best way to determine if god exists is to read the hebrew bible, the koran, and the book of mormon and take the average". That's kinda what led Aleister Crowley to create Thelema.
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by forgot_account 6y ago
>>>But what they don't tell you is their experience level, the context of how they came to believe Y, or really any supporting understanding of whether Y is an actual technical tradeoff that needs to be considered. Yes, thanky
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by forgot_account 6y ago
My physical education teacher in High School was the spitting image of Trajan (this was late 90s). We were blown away the first time we saw a picture of Trajan in our texts. He used to call his Cadillac a "battlewagon" but after w
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by forgot_account 6y ago
>>>I know the word and its meaning and my initial reaction was negative because I thought "this has very little metaphorical value for a physics engine." You think of kinesis, movement, reactions.... Rapier is - to me - j
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by forgot_account 6y ago
TDS Sufferer: "Trump is a dictator!" [1] Trump lets the States exercise their Constitutional authority [2] TDS Sufferer: "Trump is a disappointingly-WEAK dictator!"[3] It really is bizarre. As you say, there are things
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by forgot_account 6y ago
I'm a black American and I've been pulled over twice here in Japan (in the past 5 years) for what I concluded was basically "Driving While Black". I still think "Abolish/defund the police" are terrible slo
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by forgot_account 6y ago
>>>but can we make our own SDR LTE handset as well? Maybe if you put one these in a kinda-large handheld: https://tinysdr.org/ https://limemicro.com/products/boards/limesdr-mini/ ht
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by forgot_account 6y ago
I see the applications/overlap with driving down the costs/size of multi-mode precision-guided munitions: guided missiles and drones that use a mix of laser, radar, and infrared sensing for all-weather accuracy. I'm not reall
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by forgot_account 6y ago
I'm starting to wonder if there will be a growing market for car shops to do what I've done to my Supra: Pull out the entire wire harness and replace it with an aftermarket Power Distribution Module system, ECU, and CAN-BUS contro
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by forgot_account 6y ago
>>>One person dying is objectively worse than one person going bankrupt, this is ethics 101. The argument of the anti-lockdown crowd (at least as I understand it) is that the second- and third-order effects are just rich people goi
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by forgot_account 6y ago
I didn't bring family with me, I'm building one here. Re: neighbor acceptance, it's hit or miss but mostly hit. In my last apartment, my next-door neighbor was an older guy who spoke no English but always wanted to shoot the
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by forgot_account 6y ago
>>>I'm curious to know -- for people who seek residency in Japan, do they typically do it with the plan to stay forever? I do. It's a "sweet spot" place to live. No threat of violence from law enforcement, signi
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by forgot_account 6y ago
Another good example is the Battle of Cape Matapan where British battleships obliterated Italian cruisers at 3500m, at night, in a few minutes.
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by forgot_account 6y ago
One of my favorite YT naval historians, Drachinifel, constantly derides the Japanese 25mm AA gun, which was based on a French design. One of his longer podcasts (in the Drydock series) has a segment explaining the technical details of why.
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by forgot_account 6y ago
"Facebook Moderator Boasts Deleting Users For MAGA Hat" https://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/facebook-moderat...
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by forgot_account 6y ago
I'd probably start with Shenzhen I/O: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen_I/O It's on Steam.
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by forgot_account 6y ago
>>>I don't see violence. Show me the violence. How about shooting commercial-grade incendiaries at an occupied structure and causing injuries? https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/05/us/portland-riot