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by hguant 3y ago
This was a fun article, but I think the core argument - indeed the article as a whole - is lacking because it fails to mention the actual major influence on the German general staff; Clausewitz, who did not rely on ancient battles and poorl
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by hguant 3y ago
I disagree. Look at the history of the Mormons - they spent many years getting run out of town because they were a weird cult, culminating with a state sanctioned armed attack and destruction of the principle Mormon settlement (Navoo) and t
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by hguant 3y ago
Answering without doxxing myself is harder than I thought. The last time I was on a US military range, which to be fair was right before the pandemic so things probably have changed - we drew green tip (M855) from the range master. My under
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by hguant 3y ago
This post is a master class in why you shouldn't get all your information from Wikipedia. Press releases are not reality. Yes the M855A1 was developed and started operational testing in 2010. However, it wasn't available to anyone
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by hguant 3y ago
Sorry, but this is entirely incorrect. First, terms - brass is not used to "jacket" a bullet. Brass is used as the case material for the cartridge. Steel, and nickel plated steel are some times also used here. "Jacketing&quot
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by hguant 3y ago
I would argue that media pcs and home servers are becoming _more_ not less important, precisely because Netflix, Disney+ et al have become such bad stewards of movies and shows, both in terms of deleting content, and no longer being "w
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by hguant 3y ago
Which is doubly ironic, because (in the book at least) HAL-9000's murders/sociopathy were a result of a conflict between his superhuman ethics and direct commands (from humans!) to disregard those ethics. The result was a psychoti
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by hguant 3y ago
> 1. Stand on a street corner (if you're in a busy area) or make a call if you're not. If you have to make a call, there's a ~20% chance a taxi actually shows up. option 3 - go to a hotel, and have them call a cab for you,
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by hguant 3y ago
The penalty for having an allergen present is steep, and the process of certifying that yes, you are in fact allergen free, is expensive and difficult, while the cost of adding an allergen into your process, for pretty much any foodstuff, i
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by hguant 3y ago
Increased regulatory burden for US companies, increased labour enforcement targeting foreign companies in general, and preferential treatment for DE/EU companies codified in law.
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by hguant 3y ago
In 7 years? I think the current crop of pilot tests for UBI are set to finish up in 7 years. No way meaningful UBI gets well enough established in 7 years to be considered "a norm." UBI is this generation's fusion - it's
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by hguant 3y ago
It's not that you omitted nuance, it's that your basic premise - "cash assistance to the poor generally does not drive inflation in any meaningful way, because the cash used is extracted via taxation in the first place, its,
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by hguant 3y ago
My math teacher in 6th grade had a conversation with my parents that essentially went "he's not going to learn algebra from the Hobbit, but I feel bad telling him not to read" There are worse problems to have!
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by hguant 3y ago
1. Generally photos from active investigations aren't released until the investigation is completed. These are active records, and could potentially become part of civil or criminal hearings, so the agencies in charge of them tend to k
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by hguant 3y ago
This is something of a false equivalence - yes, "everyone" is at risk from a country ending event, but not all countries are equally at risk.
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by hguant 3y ago
>This has been known for a while yet does not receive any real attention. because school teachers are overwhelmingly female, and overwhelming biased against male students? And there's a political/cultural movement built around
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by hguant 3y ago
There's also some speculation that the Greek phrase he used was somewhat ritualistic and was potentially a curse, I believe acoup.blog or the associated Twitter account shared the research on that
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by hguant 3y ago
Not their human rights, but many of their civil rights, yes. A good example - the Sikh believe that men should maintain their beards, and should wear a specific head covering. Freedom of religion/expression laws in the US prevent schoo
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by hguant 3y ago
> What do we want from self driving cars Frankly? I want another 10-15 years of independence for my dad. His eyesight is failing due to a mix of wonky genetics, he's fine driving in daylight, but already has started being much more
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by hguant 3y ago
Yeah if you want to shut down a conversation in Taipei, or suddenly run into "oh no I don't understand your English," bring up the treatment of the native Taiwanese. To be fair to the ROC, the Japanese colonial era was FAR wo
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by hguant 3y ago
The FBI of course giving the credit to their "linguistic analysis team" and "fearless investigators" when Ted's brother literally turned him, told them where he lived, and that he had talked about bombing the target
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by hguant 3y ago
Just to touch on this - Cantonese is not really mutually intelligible with modern Chinese, that's CCP propaganda. They're big on the idea that there's only one Chinese language, and there are "regional dialects" but
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by hguant 3y ago
Eh, not really, seeing as those pre-existing organizations were themselves relatively recent wartime creations. The Office of Strategic Services was created in '42, the CIA in '47. "Intelligence" in the American sphere
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by hguant 3y ago
Yes. Horses are incredibly fragile, and over long distances would prefer to be moving at human walking speed. Horses also require continuous grazing to sustain themselves, and because of how their digestive tracts work, really need time to
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by hguant 3y ago
Generally AM is used in mountainous areas because it's MUCH cheaper than FM, and those areas don't have the population density to make FM stations viable. It's also used for natural parks, and anywhere you might need updated,
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by hguant 3y ago
Couple of different answers to these questions: a) whales don't tend to go where volcanos are. Whales dive to find food, and their food sources aren't near the seabed. I think the deepest diving whale species are sperm whales, and
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by hguant 3y ago
My understanding is that a lot of natural gas is used at refineries because, for so long, it was effectively "free" - there was a limited market for it and it was a byproduct of refining the stuff you wanted (light and heavy oils)
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by hguant 3y ago
>My favorite pet theory about Microsoft is that no one that works there actually uses any of their products and are just on Macs lol There have been multiple comments on HN from Microsofters (Microsoftarians?) about how the Windows UI&#x
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by hguant 3y ago
>Although C and C++ are also built like this, Lisp is different: the implementations of Lisp are often much different than each other, and one implementation can offer plenty of different features not seen in another. The author clearly
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Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, locking out some users(arstechnica.com)
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