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CapricornNoble

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About CapricornNoble

Defense industry consultant.

Information management, knowledge management, C4ISR systems, electronic attack, command & control, operations research, modeling & simulation, amphibious warfare, joint operations.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49064362

    > They are advancing, but incredibly slowly Their tactics have settled to extremely-small infantry infiltrations across almost the entire frontline. Warfare has evolved and concent…

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    Comment #49060158

    > Ukraine is gaining some ground, but very slowly. It's basically a stalemate. Ukraine has been gaining some open fields, while losing major urban areas. Kostyantynivka just fell a…

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    Comment #48855470

    Yes. It depicts how supplies arrive at a port, move via roads to a logistics organization that is brigade-sized, assigned to support a corps. It depicts the subordinate units withi…

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    Comment #48847874

    >>Probably the biggest learning from the Ukraine war alone is the effectiveness of cheap drones. It was suspected for years but hadn't been put to the test yet. Some of us were pay…

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    Comment #48596643

    I haven't seen this GPU mentioned on HN. 24GB DDR6 @ ~$500 USD. Can we finally stop buying used RTX3090s if we wanna run LLMs at home at a reasonable price? Any Chinese HN members …

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    Comment #48573886

    I actually completely agree on all points. #47/DJT2 is uniquely disastrous for the American Empire. I think Kamala is a narcissistic sociopath but DJT is that PLUS a bully with a f…

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    Comment #48568011

    Kamala "the greatest adversary of the US is Iran" Harris? That Kamala? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/8/kamala-harris-says-... I kick myself every time I fail to place bets…

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    Comment #48540931

    Hard for me to judge your bubble-ness, as I'm in a different bubble of ....I dunno, a recovered former Wehraboo? Those people who "study WW2" mostly to edge themselves about how mi…

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    Comment #48161072

    Same. Thought I had a copy of Uthark [1][2] on my shelf too but alas I seem to have only retained Svartkonst [3] during the tragic downsizing of my library. [1] https://archive.org…

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    Comment #47996789

    >You don't hear american expats or expats from any other western country talking about how much they hate their regime. As an American expat this is laughable to me, plenty of my p…

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    Comment #47901947

    >What is the use case for keyboard shortcuts on handheld devices? As someone who bought an HTC Dream / Android G1 when it was new, and wishes more handhelds had a similar form fact…

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    Comment #47736840

    >this is perhaps a once in a century opportunity to end the Islamic threat once and for all. If Iran folds, Hamas, Hezbollah, and others will quickly follow and the region will be …

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    Comment #47706865

    >Iran wants nukes. Entirely rational, given their desire for sovereignty and avoiding getting bombed to oblivion. > Iran has stated it would like to destroy the US and Israel. The …

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    Comment #47706191

    Don't give Secretary of War Crimes Pete Kegs-breath any ideas. He's already all-aboard the Crusade-train.

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    Comment #47692857

    Didn't Tornado Cash get un-sanctioned recently? Can't you just use that?

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    Comment #47685571

    Why should I try to learn this instead of Slint?

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    Comment #47685486

    Mint Press News has a good article about why Gamaan's methodology is unsound: https://www.mintpressnews.com/gamaan-iran-polling-regime-cha...

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    Comment #47685126

    >That’s millions of Iranians. My in-laws who lives in Tehran are anti-regime, along with every single person on my wife’s side of the family: aunts, uncles, cousins. Everybody. How…

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    Comment #47685041

    > What news are you even reading? You are terribly misinformed or out of touch. What news are YOU reading? https://time.com/article/2026/03/18/tulsi-gabbard-iran-nucle... "As a res…

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    Comment #47357059

    >Israel started the war in response to the genocide of Oct 7. So all the legitimate collateral victims and damage from Israel's actions here is responsibility of the perpetrators o…

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    Comment #47356994

    As the sister comment alludes, how many of those 15 families are in Iran? My professor from my graduate program and his family are all Iranian. It's no surprise that they anti-regi…

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    Comment #47353254

    Telegram is full of gigantic rallies all hours of the day and night supporting the Iranian government. Even street interviews with young women (no hijab!) claiming they were former…

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    Comment #47353128

    >why would they boast about it and invite attacks upon that weapon and its deployment systems? To complicate adversary targeting priorities. If you have to shift your pre-planned b…