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Within the neighboring region, China has also been sending extensive signals of "we support you and will engage in full trade with you, and retain full diplomatic relationships, etc, no matter wh…

> leadership doesn't trust China because they undermined Iran's position on Hormuz by backing the UAE [4] Would you say that in the broadest possible sense, this is because China cares m…

Exporting oil from the west side of Saudi Arabia works until some armed group like the Houthis with drones/missiles places a credible enough threat at another chokepoint that the ships won't…

My understanding is that they have a rocket body fabrication facility in NZ, where some of their historical institutional carbon fiber fabrication knowledge and stuff is, the engines and avionics an…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18427351 Design and manufacturing is in the los angeles region aerospace industry cluster. It's been a US company for the last 13 years. htt…

One example of a typical liquid fueled small third stage would be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fregat …

Rocket Lab is a US company, they would not have been able to build what they did without full ITAR and MTCR compliance.

And MTCR

I presume they're thinking any potential adversaries have functioning intelligence agencies, so something as public as a launch is sufficient. No need to come out and explicitly state it. If I, s…

Note to self, never buy any hardware product, move to a yurt in the woods, start an alpaca ranch, write a manifesto

Liquid fueled launch vehicles aren't storable/able to be made ready at a moment's notice, unlike solids. Liquid fueled historical artifact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…

Right, but see the details for estimated range and the map. Not that India has any foreseeable need to nuke Argentina but it's not in range. It's entirely possible the public data is wrong a…

It's three solid rocket boosters stacked on top of each other and a very tiny liquid fueled engine on the 4th stage. I would be interested in what the delta/v stats/capability of the 4t…

The first, second and third stages all being solid rockets also means India now has a global-range ICBM, with only a little bit of modification needed to make it storable in a silo. Privately develope…

> consider the tedious entirely worth it. Entirely without LLMs, I'm imagining an office of North Korean compsci graduates doing astonishingly tedious tasks, for whom an office job on a basic …

> Note to self: never buy a Korean security product. The Canadian Navy very recently made a major choice and agreed with you https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=h…

I made things easier by setting the permission action link on all my nuclear weapons to zero https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=permissio... …

the entirety of 10/8 and 172.16/12 and 192.168/16 wasn't large enough for your house?

I'm not just talking about within the context of Cambridge Analytica / USA specific things. For a more immediate example, look at Russian weaponization of social media in Mali for a pro-russ…

My criticism is specifically with the use of text-to-image and text-to-video generators that will create fully artificial video and image content. I've seen the uses that these tools are being pu…

I reserve my opinions on microsoft fuckery for more practical and immediate concerns like the recent LG monitors and device drivers auto-installing adware.

Making the airframe even more rigid and capable of resisting extreme forces also makes the wings and fuselage and control surfaces much more heavy, so you end up in diminishing returns. Look at the &#…

It would be a very uninformed world view and naive to say that the people who build and implement cutting-edge technology shouldn't be thinking about its societal implications and dangers. Or eve…

I'm a person who is making extensive use of current-gen "smart" LLM for coding tasks and building automation tools, doing some of the drudge work of gluing disparate open source things …

If you're actually calling the Ukrainians, defending their own country against invasion, "terrorists", at this point you're just parroting RT and Sputnik English-language talking p…

Thing is - there's no need to break the Russian civilian resolve, because nobody has the goal of invading and occupying Russia. It just needs to become far too painful for Russia to continue on i…

> By contrast, bombing can have some effect on industrial production, but only in wars where that production matters and is available to be bombed The russian oil refineries that have been very suc…

It remains to be seen once it's released, let's say theoretically unsloth quantizises it to their own version of Q8-XL, and it's 2TB in size. But we don't know what speed it will r…

There's plenty of screenshots and info online showing that wildberries was (and still is) stocking and selling single use munition FPV parts for use by russians building drones for their own offe…

I think this says more that being very good at theoretical math does not at all translate into intelligence or subject matter experience about how humans will realistically handle potential armed conf…