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by fork1 4y ago
I would be wary of those numbers. There is a heavy selection bias, as we don't see the videos where the AT weapons fails, where the operator gets shot, etc. We'll have better information once the fog of war lifts.
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by fork1 4y ago
A guy hiding in a bush was able to defeat tanks since the invention of HEAT in WW2. Before that, they were other ways as well.
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by fork1 4y ago
I do not know for tanks, but for artillery, it tends to be much higher (few thousands) It is quite variable depending on if you re firing full charges, firing when the tube is hot, etc.
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by fork1 4y ago
There is an issue with that, being efficient in conter insurgency warfare doesn't necessarily translate into High Intensity warfare. Infantry support for armor is one, but things like maneuvers, operating under contested skies, EW, etc
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by fork1 5y ago
The issue is not overthrowing them, but finding a good replacement. Overthrowing one just to get another similar one is kinda pointless.
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by fork1 5y ago
The overall population is still way better now than it has been historically. I don't understand why both cannot be done in parallel anyway. It's not like we are investing everything in the space race, plenty goes on more earthly
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by fork1 5y ago
Not just bones. Muscle mass and the rest doesn't just disappear. In the sport i do (rugby), it's been evaluated to be a danger to players (increased risk of injury), and i would wager most contact sports are similar.
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by fork1 5y ago
There is plenty of brackets so all can play at their respectives levels, separation in different leagues for collective sports, different levels in individual sports, etc. You can have fun in your local amateur <whatever>, but there w
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by fork1 5y ago
Or you simply don't believe in it. Which is a perfectly valid reason. Not everyone is just either ignorant or risk averse for crypto.
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by fork1 5y ago
Why put something else than meat though? I never understood this.
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by fork1 6y ago
I know you weren't, just providing some background information. If you were a local living in the colonies, any of the imperial powers were going to treat you rather poorly. But in continental Europe, the treatment of occupied Belgium
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by fork1 6y ago
In WW1, the rape of Belgium might have been used by propaganda and some parts fabricated, but was still pretty real. And it was not an isolated incident, but a policy.
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by fork1 6y ago
How come a double brick home would be worse for tornadoes and hurricanes? At a pinch i would say the first weaknesses would be windows and roof, not the walls.
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by fork1 6y ago
Yeah, a lot of companies that enter bankruptcy end up with wiped shareholders and new owners in the shape of it's creditors. It's not really news. Then if some idiots think it's not the case, and there is value, let them bet
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by fork1 6y ago
Lectores is still a masculine. And it doesn't work for "Lectores!".
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by fork1 6y ago
There is such a push in French, works fine with some words, much less with others. A much more ridiculous one is to change the word endings to reflect gender neutrality. You're supposed to write both endings separated with dots. "
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by fork1 6y ago
Two wrongs don't make a right. The issue is when you reduce people to nothing but their "color".
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by fork1 6y ago
How low are you talking about? And hidden fees such as the spread do matter. Last i checked, which was a while ago, paypal wasn't that flash compared to alternatives.
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by fork1 6y ago
Usually, when i do international transfers, i expect a fixed known rate. Transferring to bitcoin or whatever and then having to carry the risks in wild swings in value is not really my cup of tea.
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by fork1 6y ago
While violence is not always a tool, it is an evolutionary strategy. Before the advent of the state, it was already a tool, or could be at least. It, and other adaptive behaviors still hold some sway on us, and our societies are still shape
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by fork1 6y ago
> People do not fight for the protection of reproductive resources. The peaceful way birth rates fell around the world these days is proof of that. People have fought for a number of reasons, material resources AND reproductive resources
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by fork1 6y ago
>Evolutionary biases are also essentially irrelevant in how societies are structured. The structures of societies are very intentional and based on material reality, not mere biases. Evolutionary biases are fundamentally relevant to the
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by fork1 6y ago
Polygyny was not restricted to Islamic societies though, and was a common occurence accross many societies. It was always restricted to a limited amount of men of course, as only the most successful/powerful/whatever could afford
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by fork1 6y ago
Vae victis. Losers of conflicts against non-western expansionists were no better as a general rule. NZ itself was hardly a haven of peace in pre-european times, and Maoris didn't have too many qualms exterminating Morioris either.
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by fork1 6y ago
I've written a DB2 FDW that is used in production. Not as good as direct access of course, but very practical still.
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by fork1 6y ago
From experience, i have seen cobol code stashing entire copybooks into char/varchars, along with some binary switches to select the appropriate copybook. Unless you have the copybook or a translated version, it's pretty much unrea
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by fork1 6y ago
We did it to replace a Cobol core-banking system. The hard part is not so much the code as all the interfaces (DB, queues, printing, etc).
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by fork1 7y ago
You tend to have two types of processing done in a mainframe, batch and online. Transactions usually refer to online work. In the old times, it used to be someone connecting in 3270 and issuing a bunch of "transactions" to bring u
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by fork1 7y ago
We migrated the core banking from a small private bank, and that was 12 million COBOL lines. It actually seems like a "small" system. We used the same approach (java translation). Running the cobol is actually the easy part. The h
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by fork1 7y ago
Not just the OS, legacy applications tend to rely on DB2, CICS, IMS, and what not. All of those have expensive licenses and cannot readily run on emulation. Switching to Hercules does not solve the issue, unless your cobol apps are barebone

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