BANNED USER: long terrible record with no improvement just to see how much he can get away with
No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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so I could be wrong, but it doesn’t really make sense to me that Russians would be taking fewer casualties than the Ukrainians
According to Ukrainian officers (see e.g. the Sukharevsky interview in Economist), Russians have multiples of Ukrainian firepower. The war is slow moving, whoever has better and more recon and fires causes more casualties.
I’ve heard the opposite.
From where? NAFOids? 'The Sun' ?
No_one
14d ago
By most credible accounts (OS counts of Russian KIA, Rada leaks & amputee data derived estimates) Ukrainians are causing attrition to the Russians at a rate of .5 Russian per one dead Ukrainian..
As you'd expect with them having less than half the firepower.
No_one
14d ago
Lol no. You can easily kill someone with two bullets to the back. Clancy was good at a few things but realism and plausibility wasn't one of them.
Ukrainians finding some desperate boomer with money troubles and promising him asylum + cash if he kills a general is perfectly plausible.
No_one
23d ago
and you always have the twin problems of "lots of people will object to genocide
Even today you could probably take the cells of the affected individuals, excise the gene drive and do IVF.
No_one
23d ago
If such a gene drive were introduced to humans, genocide would be necessary to save the species.
How would you even introduce it in sufficient numbers? Also given that it only spreads during reproduction, it's really not that dangerous.
With humans, more of a big deal.
He's not talking about CRISPR in human context, but in general, no? And there it's a widely used tool.
No_one
24d ago
Captain of Industry. It's an early access game, sort of 3d Factorio / with a dash of colony sim and resource management(unlike Factorio, quite difficult on higher difficulties). I reviewed it here. Since the review was written, the devs added trains and made solid performance improvements, allowing more vehicles/larger maps. Next are, iirc, bridges and amphibious vehicles, sometime this spring.
Made it 2/3rds of the way through Encased. I'd say the criticism is somewhat warranted but more in the sense, by the second half of the game the whole things get repetitive. If the story and setting was engrossing, it'd be no issue.
But the writing was never that great to begin with and the story is uninspired. The combat gets laughably easy once you get a few companions. There's no scaling and the XP given is too large. Quests are mostly uninspired. It's sad that the development was unfinished as, with some effort, the game could be 7-8/10, instead it's like 6/10.
I might finish it eventually but I'm not expecting it to get much better tbh.
No_one
24d ago
I thought LTSC Windows doesn't have that. That's the stripped down one without all the fake BS like Store, Onedrive etc.
No_one
24d ago
- Things that are dangerous and forbidden Here is where we can put CRISPR and other weapons of mass destruction
This was in the email. Germline engineering was 'harmless and forbidden'.
No_one
24d ago
Because
- NSA can probably learn a thing or two from Google
- you can't always get a warrant
- you can't plant backdoors in Google systems with a warrant. Well, you sort of can but Google is going to make a huge stink and sic lawyers on you if you try. If you have agents, you may have the capability if they're good enough.
No_one
25d ago
Google is widely assumed to be infiltrated by NSA agents, who are probably mostly liberal politically, so honestly, who knows. I imagine their internal monitoring systems might be good, but who knows?
No_one
28d ago
I mean, the tech doesn't exist for either asteroid mining, or AI that could run and maintain mining for years. Also, on average you'd have to wait 2, 3 years before anything even arrives, lowest transit time is 18 months with about 5000 m/s dV. That's near the upper bound for what's possible in a single stage rocket.
No_one
28d ago
Unless someone invents an inertialess space drive you have nothing to worry about. All the promising asteroids are very, very far away, with a simple return trajectory being at best what, 3 years and at worst way more.
No_one
28d ago
but you can't help but notice that we've nearly x5 the money supply since December 2019.
Is that true? I was looking at M2 money supply recently and supposedly it's up by 50% since '19. So not 500% but 50%.
No_one
28d ago
That guy seems like a blowhard.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ceskPbDtTzY
He's talking how Grad missiles would look the same as GMLRS on Russian radar and thus could complicate shooting down GMLRS strikes. That's bullshit. Grad has a range of what, 20 kilometers. GMLRs, ranging 80 km was used for targets up to 50 km behind the front and was great for precisely that - forcing Russian logistics to move out of range, thus complicating it. Targets that can be ranged by Grads could be engaged with 6" artillery or rocket launchers, so he looks kind of stupid here.
Anyway, Ukrainians did manage to strike some targets by firing in salvos and making interception harder by also firing some of their old and probably irreplaceable Uragan rockets to saturate the defences, but they ran out eventually (probably in '23 or '24).
No_one
28d ago
does Xi really need to trump up corruption charges
It probably takes a fanatic or an autist to avoid doing even a little corruption if you're in charge of gigantic amounts of military procurement or a general officer in an army that is, then, very corrupt. Zhang looks like he was a competent but personable, likable guy. So, not a fanatic nor an autist. In addition, Chinese evolved to love to squirrel away a little money for harder times. There were huge amounts of corruption in the PLA in 90s and 00s. Combine the times and being selected from people who always saved something for a rainy day and the odds are there was no need to trump up charges because there was some little or not so little discreet cushion somewhere and Zhang didn't expect it'd be used against him.
There is no moral difference between being a liar and someone who achieves the same ends with deliberate misdirection.
One could even argue someone like NYT who is usually somewhat correct if selectively ignoring certain things, but will readily deceive in critical moments is worse than a liar, because they're better at deception.
I believe my parents were letting me roam the immediate neighborhood on a kid's bicycle (<1km), alone, at around age 6? And in any case I was completely unsupervised during the entire afternoon and early evening, I could have gone anywhere. I was allowed to go swimming in a lake with another kid at age 8 or so. Wasn't prevented from buying fireworks either, though I didn't have much cash unfortunately and due to stupid legislation, you could only work over age 15. Don't really see why children aged 8-12 can't stock shelves or work in warehouses etc. Given how much free time they have..
Pretty sure I was allowed to go anywhere around the city of ~300k by the time I was 9 or 10. Eastern Europe in early 90s.
I got caught shoplifting sweets at age 7. My parents weren't there, mind you. The shopkeeper told my dad and I got slapped so hard I hit the wall. It did work, I haven't shoplifted since though I did 'steal' food that was destined for trash for whatever reason when I worked in grocery stores later. Not sure if that counts, I never damaged anything so it could be thrown out.
Tbh, I believe when it comes to child-rearing, the communist era was much better than the present one. Maybe kids of really aggressive people got physically abused more, as it was rather common for small children getting hit with the belt when they deserved it, but I'm not sure that outweighed the salutary effects on the rest of the children. I got corporal punishment a few times, maybe less than a dozen, but it was always justified as far as I can remember.
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