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by post_from_work 5y ago
It took us NINE MONTHS to get a server installed in a data center a few years back. This was Marine-Corps fielded hardware running an ATO'd[1] software stack for real-world situational awareness, going into a Marine Corps data center.
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by post_from_work 5y ago
If that argument (that leveraging any available artificial enhancement is ok) held any conceptual weight, we would embrace PEDs in athletics. We don't. Ask yourself why?
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>Morphology of the avatar in your head can be different to your external appearance, ie. you always had large boobs? I wonder when the Overton window shifted and we began to accommodate insanity. I liked Dave Chapelle's take
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by post_from_work 5y ago
It's all the fault of those damn Puritans: people who were such sticks in the mud they were essentially kicked out of Europe because nobody wanted to hear their prudish nonsense. They were all about the "fire & brimstone"
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>I don't imagine many people would trade sitting on a throne in a grand hall enjoying a feast whilst watching the era's leading performers personally dedicate performances to them for the possibility of selling their bo
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by post_from_work 5y ago
Did you read the healthcare link I provided? Death from those sorts of diseases are a tiny fraction of fatalities in the US. They're so small that it is disingenuous to extrapolate them as indicative of the plight of "the poor in
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>if I had to be a medieval king or a poor person in Cleveland, it is such a no-brainer I can't even understand how the question is being asked. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_I_of_England#Death Th
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>At first, I was confused reading your assertions of what poor people of the US can do, things that obviously demand money - cash or credit - that a person in poverty don't have. A homeless, flat-broke prostitute can turn 4
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>> In fact, for many people (including many men), advice is the least important part and often unwelcome at first. What people are looking for is empathy, being heard and validated. Maybe I'm just wired differently, but I usu
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>The point flew entirely over your head. Funny. I'd say the same applies for you. The whole point of the article is that men and women have different value systems in how they evaluate interpersonal relationships, and your c
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by post_from_work 5y ago
Our previous Commanding General once quipped that PowerPoint presentations that transition between geographic focus areas should include slide after slide after slide of blue ocean, to communicate the vast distances involved in our Area of
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by post_from_work 5y ago
You are shooting at strawmen. No one is discussing severing existing relationship bonds due to evolving life circumstances. There are undoubtedly far more variables in such an equation, with complex mitigating factors. The article is about
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by post_from_work 5y ago
Consider the opposite characteristics. As a guy, I don't make time to hang out with other guys who are woefully out of shape / hideously ugly, broke, and with no Game(tm). Those people are not Force Multipliers ( https:/&#x2
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by post_from_work 5y ago
Recreational sex? (also I endorse sibling's comment of exercise + healthy diet)
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>That's essentially an unveiled admission of a want to hold the rest of the world hostage and establish domination. There's little rational nor justifiable about such a want from the perspective of anyone who isn't
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>I was only arguing against your point that this treaty was just a bunch of plebs signing a petition. I don't mind going down the rabbit hole on this word usage. I was trying to use plebs to communicate "not the people
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>They’re the ones surrounding a sovereign nation with military forces. Ever stop to wonder what triggered the change in Russia's force posture? https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11014-us-anti-missil
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>Some very powerful governments (like Austria, Brazil, and Indonesia) have already signed it and it is already ratified by 59 nations. This is hardly a bunch of plebs signing a petition. Austria? Brazil? Indonesia? None of those
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by post_from_work 5y ago
The Federal government should set standards for features that need to be present on a State/Territory ID card "in order to facilitate interstate commerce". Then offer to subsidize production/distribution programs run by
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>Third, the "lack of a contingency plan" is essentially part of the Prisoner's dilemma which the arms race during the Cold War was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma#Internati
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>Armies of nation states are responsible for the greatest of all human tragedies. Yes. So why advocate for a return to the pre-nuclear status quo: major powers use their large armies to influence each other, with millions dead. T
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by post_from_work 5y ago
I'm operating from a value framework that aims for building and maintaining multi-generational wealth. The family unit is the most basic, and arguably most important, institution over which we can exert influence. Can't link a rel
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>A good counter argument could be - what if your plans could change? Should you keep this change of plans possible? A multi-year dating period is advisable. Definitely don't RUSH into popping out babies, but don't wait
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by post_from_work 5y ago
~5 years is a reasonable timeframe for the scales to tip in the PRC's favor. The PRC is basically "flying the wings" off of the Taiwanese airforce: https://www.businessinsider.com/china-may-be-trying-to-wear-.
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by post_from_work 5y ago
Yeah the Ford-class is obnoxiously overpriced. There is no way the key metrics of an aircraft carrier (sustained sortie generation rate, survivability, long-term maintenance) improved by the leaps-and-bounds necessary to justify tripling th
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by post_from_work 5y ago
This is how you "protect yourself" dating during COVID: https://www.thesun.ie/fabulous/6112479/covid-sex-positions-l...
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>I'm an American man in my late 20s/early 30s in a large city 1. What is your long-term objective for marriage? If the answer does NOT include "successfully raise well-adjusted children in a 2-parent household&quot
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>I had no idea people outside of tech were taking this stuff so seriously I know a Navy dentist who told me back in February that he was putting all of his disposable income every month into Cardano. One of the Staff Sergeants I
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>Have you read the actual documents? Most of it is Murphy’s unsubstantiated opinion. His letter to the Inspector General lists reference documents. Even a cursory search via DDG yields some of them, which were covered on HN when
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by post_from_work 5y ago
I looked up Major Murphy using Marine Online's Locator: he shows up, with his place of work as the Office of Naval Research. My initial skim of the docs didn't raise any immediate red flags to me (things like poor adherence to Nav

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