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Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai

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Post by genxy »

MagicMoonlight wrote: post #155
toyg wrote: post #136

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> Do they really? Vietnam. Afghanistan. Iraq (it's an Iran proxy now). Korea was a stalemate. Pretty much every time the US goes alone against a medium-sized country, it doesn't end in victory.

Korea was wiped off the map… until the Chinese arrived with nukes and millions of soldiers. That wasn’t a Korean victory. Vietnam was wiped off the map… until the Chinese arrived with millions of soldiers. The Vietcong had something like a 99% yearly casualty rate. They were completely obliterated every year of fighting, but more villagers were simply conscripted and sent forward into the napalm.

The US military is the world's best killing machine, but the US as a country cannot win a war. These are different things. Hell, I'd say it didn't even win the first civil war. And with the bullshit that has been perpetrated on the world in the last year, it might not be possible for the US to ever win another one.

Re: Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai

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Post by genxy »

christina97 wrote: post #131
cypherpunks01 wrote: post #54

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US gov is not going to reimburse a private company for war damage caused by a sovereign country. Property insurance generally has war exclusions, insurance co will deny claims. Unless there is some affordable magic 100% war damage coverage policy sold in the middle east, which is doubtful, no insurer would be able to successfully underwrite anything like that. The company eats the losses and the recovery efforts it w…

No the US government legitimately sells this kind of insurance (and reinsurance): https://www.dfc.gov/what-we-offer/our-products/political-ris...

I wonder how much is/was paid out for The Excursion.

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Post by elzbardico »

teleforce wrote: post #117
elzbardico wrote: post #104

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> local politicians and monarchs who believe they have a seat at the table. Are you from another planet? They DO have a set at the table because gulf Sovereign Funds are one of the largest and most reliable LP pools available for VC funds for quite some time. The current AI buildout is heavily dependent on Gulf money. Oil is not forever and Sovereign Wealth Funds usually have goals that are not simply acruing direct…

>Nobody sane would predict Israel and the US would start this war. Israel predicted and started the war unless you consider they're insane [1]. [1] Iran is a distraction [video]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47640560

Well, it is a tall calling to pretend Netanyahu and Trump are well adjusted, psychologically sane men.

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Post by geraneum »

guerrilla wrote: post #127
geraneum wrote: post #116

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> I gave examples of it actually happening. Ironically Yemen (Houthis) are fighting not only with US but against other gulf sates like Saudi Arabia as well. It's not really an example that demonstrates unity in gulf. > The Taliban beat the US. Taliban, brought to you by US of A to combat Soviet Union's influence! Well, it seems they are done beating US and are now busy beating Afghan women. > The US tends to lose a l…

> Do they really? Yes, really. The US has rarely achieved its objectives.

US objectives are rarely as they are portrayed on TV.

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Post by cactusplant7374 »

sumedh wrote: post #142
cactusplant7374 wrote: post #90

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A lot of people don’t like bikes. I am down for salty licorice though.

Is it because they’re used to cars from a young age?

People don't like bicycling in the same way a lot of people don't like football. It's just a sport preference.

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Post by sumedh »

cactusplant7374 wrote: post #175
sumedh wrote: post #142

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Is it because they’re used to cars from a young age?

People don't like bicycling in the same way a lot of people don't like football. It's just a sport preference.

Any citations for that?

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Post by spookie »

cactusplant7374 wrote: post #175
sumedh wrote: post #142

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Is it because they’re used to cars from a young age?

People don't like bicycling in the same way a lot of people don't like football. It's just a sport preference.

Eh, I think its just that the infrastructure rewards having a car and not bikes. I thought the same before, only after experiencing for years the small things that make it possible, have I come around to it.

The little Honda City/Today with its trunk scooter from the 80's was ahead of its time, really. Its a path one should look at in large metropolitan areas. With electric bikes, even cities with large elevation deltas have a chance nowadays.

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Post by eli_gottlieb »

FpUser wrote: post #166
eli_gottlieb wrote: post #150

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But buying a lot of tacky stuff isn't independence in any meaningful way. It's just choosing a lifestyle with a larger dependency surface.

This sounds like a wise parent explaining some higher truth to a kid. Except that it is not truth but some our of blue baseless conclusion you've managed to somehow extract from my sentence.

Look man I'm just telling you about my own life. I feel more independent when I have a smaller space and less stuff that's easier to account for or move around.

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Post by c0nstantien »

andrepd wrote: post #17
tiew9Vii wrote: post #13

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Middle East isn’t some 3rd world. If you can imagine futuristic cities, rich Middle East countries are already living in them with all the oil wealth. They have phones, computers, digital services just like the US and Europe. Makes sense they want a data center in the region, close to them just like the US and Europe have data enters close to their users.

Slight tangent, but to me futuristic cities are actually places like Amsterdam, with cozy streets and bike lanes everywhere, not places like Dubai with 16-lane freeways and a quasi-slave underclass staffing the tacky malls.

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