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It wasn't more fuel efficient than the standard plane? Was it because of the propeller up front?

Once they have enough airframes flying with the military, the logistics side of the equation should solve itself in quick time.

This is an issue, a question of an issue, with the maximalist position. By simply using trains wherever possible and avoiding 'frivolous' travel a huge impact can be achieved on on…

The scale of deep body trauma that has been done to the US will not seem clear today, but it will have dire consequences for the future trajectory of US. I am sad for this, for the…

>That is a great and underused method of evaluating moral judgments and I believe that it’s very suitable in this particular case. It also dilutes the current and very real respons…

It would be different materially. The rallying cry would be different for one. No matter who did it, it would still be 'evil'. There would be 'good guys' and 'bad guys'. Specially …

I wonder what would have happened if the Americans had taken the same approach with the Iraqis and the Afganis. As someone said, if your enemy is carrying a baby, you don't punch h…

>Fundamentally, China and Vietnam were able to succeed at pushing people into factory work because these kinds of subsidies didn't exist, forcing people to choose between working a…

I wonder if the Regulatory bodies and the NGOs can sufficiently express the necessity and severity of these new regulations to the high levels of radioactivity in the metal nodules…

This and other recent similar articles honestly sounds like someone paid a big bag of money to a very high profile PR agency, the one used by the Middle east dictators and BP, to r…

Their archive.org link ( https://archive.org/details/@noclipvideo ) and a link to the 2009 Microsoft E3 demo in 1080i ( https://archive.org/details/microsoftE32009PressConference )…

Meaning.. people prefer bluesky to mastodon?

From the above article. >Hergé met Chang Chong-Ren for the first time in Brussels in 1934 at the urging of one Abbé Gosset. Gosset, the chaplain to a group of Chinese Catholic stud…

Development costs of what? The trashcan? What could possibly have cost them 50,000xplane frames to develop it in the first place? The reading of the article implies the contract se…

Can someone tell me the answer to the problem in plain english? I have no idea what a beta is.

The emulator and code is available here - https://touchhle.org/

Thank you for sharing this. It was a wonderful read. I truly hope one day LLMs (or something else) can write something with this much heart. That would be a day I'd like to see. Pa…

I present to you Tu-128, the USSR's dedicated NATO balloon buster [0]. US found it quite funny to send in hundreds of balloons to reconnoitre and send a message[1][2]. [0] https://…

>Basically, space will be inherited by our successors. Artificial intelligences. Ha ha, I love this. The sentiment has been there for a while now in the zeitgeist but had been over…

So, people are suggesting UTC and such. Someone on masto suggested using Pulsars. https://mastodon.social/@CosmicRami@aus.social/1097534349342... > Why build a timescale that ONLY …

So, India inherited the British civil services system wholesale. The formal pseudo legal language used in the system, instituted by the British, continued. It was different enough …

> since Google's rise to mapping dominance, it has put the screws to developers with anti-competitive terms and rising prices. In 2018, Google Maps hiked the price by more than 1,4…