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It’s also in the Russian constitution that Putin basically gets to be president for life. Guess that makes it okay…
A democratic institution making laws is very different than an undemocratic institution making laws. Are you suggesting Ukraine wasn't democratic when that law was made? And like stated somewhere else, UK did the same thing during WW2. So it's not that uncommon.
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It’s also in the Russian constitution that Putin basically gets to be president for life. Guess that makes it okay…
A democratic institution making laws is very different than an undemocratic institution making laws. Are you suggesting Ukraine wasn't democratic when that law was made? And like stated somewhere else, UK did the same thing during WW2. So it's not that uncommon.
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China makes consumer crap not our guns and bombs. In a wartime situation maybe people can’t get iphone cases from temu, big whoop. Not the first time the american population rationed consumer products in wartime. We will still have power and air, sea, and space superiority which is what really matters.
This is really out of date thinking, even South Korea is better at making ships than America now. In wartime China would switch from gadgets to bombs and drones and out produce us by an order of magnitude. They already produce 3x more vehicles than America; It’s 2024, not 1956. Review the article called “The return of industrial warfare”. https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/comme...
Russia did not collapse. It got stronger.
All this talk of the danger of Russia is self-fulfilling prophecy.
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You talked a lot about how bad it is for governments to outsource stuff to Huawei and a handful of US clouds, but didn't really touch on what drive all those decisions beyond claiming it's due to non-technical leadership. It'd be great to see a somewhat deeper analysis than that in future. There are plenty of tech companies that also outsource a lot to the cloud, so it has to be more complicated than that, and there…
> Indeed, one reason to outsource stuff to a handful of giant providers is that they do a much better job of security overall. Is that really true? Shifting infrastructure to the cloud makes it cheaper, it reduces the incidence of security problems, but it magnifies the impact of security problems when they do occur. Is that a "better job". How do you measure that?
When I recently asked some air traffic controllers what would happen if GPS became unavailable, it was grumpy sounds all around. I understand a scramble to vector everything to land everything would result in a very busy day for them, because suddenly most planes would be unable to safely navigate, and thus effectively grounded. Cutting the budget for ground based navaids is nuts, in my opinion.
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Not sure I entirely agree? #1 > Or disable a hospital. The entire Ascension Healthcare system of hospitals (142 hospitals, 2600 total facilities) in on divert since 8 May because they had to switch back to paper records. Change Healthcare has lost $872M since it was attacked in February. Maybe it's more like the pandemic: seems like nothing, unless it affects you . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascension_(healthcare_…
The back of my head is screaming "defense in depth! Redundant systems!" The whole idea of the internet (and even some of our infra, like suburbs or highways/rail) is that there's no one single point of failure. Like designed-to-survive-nuclear-war redundant. Definitely incorporate the most advanced tech you can for when things are going smoothly to get that efficency gain, but there's a reason all branches of the mil…
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Your comment suggests this was some time ago, since traveling to Ukraine after the invasion doesn't seem to be something most people would do. I have plenty of Ukrainian colleagues, both still in and outside of Ukraine. Opinions differ a lot. There is only this truth: 1. Ukraine is at war 2. Martial Law helps a country at war It's logical that governments take decisions that some people don't like. Martial Law is the…
Call me crazy, but I believe the Ukrainians themselves should get to make the hard decisions involving their lives and future.
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A democratic institution making laws is very different than an undemocratic institution making laws. Are you suggesting Ukraine wasn't democratic when that law was made? And like stated somewhere else, UK did the same thing during WW2. So it's not that uncommon.
Do you believe that the current Ukrainian government is a democratic institution up to Western standards?
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Sure thing: http://clugproject.eu/en (Edit: they even have a 2.0, see my sibbling comment)
From https://clugproject.eu/en/presentation > A failsafe on-board multi-sensors localisation unit consisting of a navigation core (IMU, tachometer, etc.) brought in reference using GNSS, track map and a minimal number of reference points From https://www.clug2.eu/objectives/ > to complement the existing European Train Control System (ETCS) odometry system by using GNSS to enable absolute safe train positioning whilst…
Second, in a war-like scenario, do we really want to have our critical infrastructures unable to operate at full capacity?