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> The US Defense Dept. has said it will take at least ten years to rebuild the stock of anti-tank weapons that have been used in Ukraine in the last five months.

Reponding to this and some of your other comments elsewhere... These anti-tank weapons may be the best anti-tank weapons, but they're not the only ones. If all of these are used, there are plenty of other ways to destroy tanks, so it's important, but not required to have a large stock of them.

You could probably increase the rate of manufacture of these, but there's also value in having ten continuous years of manufacturing instead of long time periods between batches.

I may be overly cynical, but in some ways, this war seems like a warehouse clearance event. It seems like everyone is finding their old stockpiles of Soviet era equipment and sending it to Ukraine to be used and/or destroyed. And presumably afterwards, it'll be time for the military industrial complexes to turn back on and build new stockpiles. Add in a few field demos of new equipment too.
To quote exec1995, I made the number up for dramatic effect.

https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/1537137362391678976/...
FWIW, Jerome Powell is the Fed chair.
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Your comment is extremely misleading.

Modern militaries are rapidly transforming into what was science fiction, say, 50 years ago: almost exclusively remote-controlled robots and primarily (or even exclusively) autonomous robots.

If you call small, unmanned, armored vehicles "tanks" you are misleading people.

In modern militaries, whether it be surface ships, submarines, airplanes, tanks, etc.... within another few decades, people almost certainly won't be inside of them. People will control them remotely and/or algorithms/artificial intelligence will control them.

What we are seeing in Ukraine is Russia and NATO disposing obsolete military weapons in a disgusting farce of a war. Washington and Moscow should have divided up Ukraine like they did much of Europe in the waning days of World War II.

There was no need for a single bullet to be fired, let alone mortars and missiles. Washington antagonized Moscow ceaselessly. Eventually, Moscow took the bait. It's tragedy that could have, and should have been avoided.

Nonetheless, just because these days you see men in tanks fighting in Ukraine on your phone or laptop, don't think that "Tanks are still relevant in modern warfare!" They aren't. Tanks, by which I mean large vehicles with people inside of them, are obsolete in modern warfare.

People who claim tanks are still viable in modern warfare are either fools, liars, or manipulative purveyors of falsehoods who enjoy twisting words by referring to small, unmanned robots as "tanks."

The Economist.com is yet another legacy media property that regularly engages in obvious yellow journalism in a doomed struggle to remain profitable. Articles with headlines like, "Does the Tank Have a Future?" are clickbait.

I didn't take the bait; I didn't read the article. Why should I have? A better article would have been, "Does Economist.com Have a Future?"
Inflation isn’t energy. It’s labor shortages, supply shortages and logistics issues. Freight has more than doubled in cost with ship times double of what they were pre pandemic. Labor rates have increased 25% and there is still significant shortages of unskilled labor and skilled labor. I talked to one major company the other day and for their distribution warehouse, 40% of the scheduled workers don’t show up on any given day even after significantly increasing wages. If you try to use automation to mitigate labor issues, lead times are 1.5 to 2 years to get the equipment due to supply shortages.
Obviously which is why smart countries diversify and constantly adapt to changing circumstances.

The real capital of a nation is its people.
Can you elaborate on affect changes? I had a similar regimen and experienced a weird sense of mental clarity and sociability for a couple of weeks after. Never have figured out what the mechanism was.
And anyway, the Ukrainian population did take those steps when most of them voted for a political outsider from a Russian speaking background seen as sympathetic to Russian speaking culture and somewhat willing to negotiate better relations with the "independent Republics". Putin interpreted that as a sign of weakness...
>met a couple of them at the bouldering gym where I boulder.

That's why I stopped going to the local boulder gyms. Too many cookie-cutter "non-conformist dudes" who see the gym as their personal hunting grounds, creeping on the girls like a sleazy tennis instructor and bullying beginner guys because they don't like the competition.
Batteries will be a negligible fraction of utility storage, so that is moot.
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I miss the old £1 banknotes. They were much lighter than the pound coins that replaced them.

I do like the newer bank notes, being made of polymer they last much longer and are easier to clean.
He should just use the pronouns people prefer and not call people the N-word, but instead he has to have big sit down conversations where he explains why actually it's ok for him to use the N-word and ignore people's pronouns.

A bare minimum of consideration of people who are different from you goes an astoundingly far way.
Makes me think of unpacking - a low key game to unpack boxes with a gentle story behind it.
Gotta love slashing taxes for the sake of slashing taxes.
I’m talking post COVID when inflation started to kick in.
How do you handle upgrades for single tenant databases?
yes I don't think it's the case that inflation doesn't hurt the lower half of earners at all, but this entire post is filled with people assuming that inflation hurts poor people the most. I don't know where that assumption comes from but it doesn't make sense to me.
This would be of particular concern if Borrelia bergdorferi were spread from humans into the natural host pool. Without that, the selection pressure for a doxycycline-resistant variant of B. bugdorferi is low to non-existent.
It's an article meant for the general public. I think the visuals demonstrate the "it comes from above" nature of it quite well enough.
Is there some thing new somewhere? Each of the paintings in the article I've seen before in various copies of the books themselves.

Ah it's on the Painting section of the Tolkien Estate: https://www.tolkienestate.com/painting/
Once upon a time, yes. I mean, it was always a bit fluffy and lighthearted - that's the point, right? - but they often had quality articles. But then they were acquired in 2016 and it was downhill from there.
I agree.

Selfishly I want inflation to inflate away my debt. But I'm well compensated and able to pursue new opportunities even in pretty lean times. Practically we have to control inflation in order to avoid far worse problems.
So your code calls a function that is named in a way that indicates it might return a set or an integer (and its parameters make sense in both situations), then you take the return value and add() to it ambiguously, and then you do nothing else with it? You don't loop over it or query it for set membership or pass it to any functions or multiply it?

This is exactly the point of the article. Extremely extremely unlikely.

But if you have a real world example of this, I'm sure the article's author is interested.
Not accurate. If you read the original research study this recommendation is based on, it prevents the bullseye rash, which they used as a proxy measure. It's unclear whether or not it actually prevents lyme.

I personally got bitten by a tick, did the prophylaxis dose, and then developed joint pain which continued until I did a full 21 day course. Yeah it sucks not being able to go in the sun for an entire month and having acid reflux, but imho the evidence in favor of the prophylaxis is extremely dubious.

source: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200107123450201

"A theoretical risk associated with prophylactic antimicrobial treatment is that it might alter the disease presentation so that the characteristic erythema migrans rash might not be manifested in treated subjects, in whom a more subtle, nonspecific illness might develop or asymptomatic seroconversion might occur. In such circumstances, an unrecognized latent infection might eventually result in arthritis or neurologic disease. We believe that this is unlikely for several reasons. [...]"
james gurney is a great artist and I find his youtube videos instructive, although mostly it seems like he paints with gouache over casein and no matter what you might hear, gouache is NOT similar to watercolor even if they're both water media.
Ahh… diet advice from a psychologist is like cryptography advice from a game developer: it might be right, but you shouldn't bet your future on it without at least getting a second opinion.

Also, "deadliest hormone" is giving me DHMO vibes. Insulin does many things (way more than I realised before writing this comment), you don't want to eliminate it from your body regardless of you diet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin
Yes, you can actually. I haven't done this myself, but there are defconfigs for mmu less devices (stm32f4 series for instance). You need some more RAM though, but most evaluation kits don't provide this. Have a look here: https://elinux.org/STM32
I'm planning to give this a spin on an EVK that I got from work if I find the time.
Oh totally! I firmly agree that at some point you have to pull the ripcord.

The question becomes--where?

This company was incredibly successful up until COVID and is still ticking along, so it's hard to argue. I gather they've done significant work to rebuild the universe in that time, though. I might've just been early.
What are they going to do then? Go back to candles?
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“I have huge concerns with these voting machines,” said Otero County Commissioner Vickie Marquardt on Monday. “When I certify stuff that I don’t know is right, I feel like I’m being dishonest because in my heart I don’t know if it is right.”

Hoo boy.

These are Dominion voting machines -- the guys who are suing prominent figures over libel for asserting that their machines are invalid. They're asking for a rather remarkable $1.3 billion, but incidents like this do suggest that the assertions are causing them to lose trust.
I see it as a combination of demographics (less millennials than boomers to drive consumption) and a lack of investment 20 to 30 years ago into next generation infrastructure and institutions (energy, transport, healthcare, education, etc) that would have given us more productivity growth outside of software and the internet.
>that people like to vilify

Specially here.

Given HN's demographic there's a ton of people that had the opportunity to get into bitcoin in its early stages and make some unthinkable amount of money, private island amount of money, myself included.

Some people cannot come into terms with that and let cognitive dissonance do its work.

Ahh if only I had... better just go back to work.
And a mortgage came with a 16% rate. No thanks!
I thinks most becouse real growth only happens in Asian countries last decades, and usa and europe companies fake growth by overlabredge debt becouse of the lower inters rate, not productivity
Fixing supply chain shortages? That sounds hard! I’d rather believe there is a big knob somewhere underground that drives the entire economy, and that we can adjust its basepoint to make people richer or poorer!

More seriously, Ukraine is probably not the reason of scarcity, but if you want to solve the supply chain, you’ll hit China very fast: Their growing local population means that one day, they’ll keep everything they produce for themselves. And that’s big enough to be the cause of inflation: Mid-term inflation is probably due to lack of productivity during Covid; long-term inflation is certainly due to the lack of goods produces in the West, while the East starts to keep their production.
It seems like any such task or hobby - a major benefit is a feeling of mastery. To the degree that it is mastery, there are healthier ways to meet this natural psychological need.
Almost every one .. the big one that only supports a single MFA token that I'm aware of is AWS...
If they put you on probiotics at the same time, it might have been that. Took me weeks to figure out that it wasn’t the meds making me sick, it was the probiotics they recommended to keep the meds from damaging my gut. I just didn’t tolerate them well for some reason.
Some businesses have negative profits. If you want a share in the profits you have to have a share of the losses as well. That's what the bosses do.
Sure you do, you know his name now. You’ll notice James Patterson books everywhere unless you close your eyes
I used cookies to mean "generic sweets", as opposed to fruit. I don't particularly like "actual cookies".

I'm in France, so the only time I've seen beef jerky in my life was when some dude I used to know brought some from the US. Furthermore, I'm really not sure if we have anything similar over here.

Note, I said I wasn't doing keto (never have) so I don't specifically look for no-carb options. I just realize that those foods are more like "cravings", so they won't make me eat less during the regular meals. If I want to reduce my calorie intake, I need to cut somewhere. So I usually look into cutting the calories of the snacks. While I love almonds and other dried fruits (and their butter), they typically have a lot of calories. IIRC, pistachios have something like 600 kCals and I can easily eat way too many.
> (in the sense that they end up being paid different amounts because they do different jobs because of the discrimination)

Or maybe there's the idea that some groups of people are more willing to do certain jobs than other groups of people and money isn't the only factor? Take investment banking for example: it's incredibly stressful and also predominantly male. Is it possible that more men than women choose to do investment banking because they value the money more than having low stress? Money isn't the only factor in evaluating inequality.

Your line of reasoning assumes that there are no other factors at play and each person is just a bag of demographic categories and nothing more. Also (more importantly) it assumes that everyone prioritizes money to the same degree, but we both know that this is wrong and certain demographics are more money-obsessed than others. But hey, maybe we can fix things by guilt tripping everyone to worship the dollar in equal quantities, maybe that will fix our ails as a society?
No, the Democrats act as if they are there to govern, and force the GOP to admit over and over that they are there to prevent governance.

The problem is that too much of the GOP base actually wants that obstructionism.

Now, granted, the Democrats do have a big problem with admitting that the game has changed and changing how they do things to take that into account, but personally, I believe continuing to introduce bills to try to genuinely address some of the problems in our country, thus showing that they do have the will and the ideas to continue governing, is something they absolutely should be doing even in this situation.

What, exactly, would you propose the Democrats do instead?
But sometimes that's because it's fake.

Other times it has more to do with the particular brand of, ahem, fertilizer, they use.

Sometimes it really is greener and your side is shit and it's time to make a change.
That's the expensive drones. But there are plenty of kills attributed to octocopters dropping modified anti-tank grenades.
If you have experience with software, learning embedded concepts isn't a huge leap. At least in my area, aerospace, defense, and automotive tend to be the biggest, easiest employers to get started with. They will hire basically anyone with a solid grasp of C, OSes, and basic computer architecture (at an undergrad level.)

I find embedded really rewarding. A 20 year old embedded-C code base generally follows the same design patterns and coding conventions and styles that you'd use today, and don't feel "old" or like they need to be rewritten. A 7 year old JS code base, on the other hand, is largely outdated, and may be written in a nearly extinct framework by the time it is your turn to maintain it. If you get tired of giving up time on the weekends so you can learn a new framework, consider hopping over!
Exactly, who have the biggest mortgages?
Nukes' problems are not caused by activists. They have nowhere near that much influence. Nukes' problems are inherent.

Biggest, by a large margin, is capex which simply prices it completely out of the market.
Sick, I had that shit when I nearly died of leptospirosis. Honestly, I don't remember that much nausea, but I was delirious so who knows.
I can tell you from the farm my wife and I operate (currently in our 7th in game year), you will eventually become the giant factory farm to get to the end game.

But that’s why I love Stardew Valley in a different way than my wife. It hits the comfy aspect for her, a light dating sim, plus the combat is light enough that she’s gotten good at it there than she does in other games. For me, I get to optimize farm layout and selling strategies (like me realizing after all this time in-game that Slime Eggs are a high dollar item and totally should have gotten a slime hutch much sooner)
I think you're assuming some backstory to my comment that's not there.

But, for what it's worth, the rate hikes needed to start years before that, probably between 2013 and 2015. 2010-2020 was the window to make up for big spending.
and even more so the fact that 2008 resulted in no real punishment of this system like a real free market should have caused. The response to 2008 will be seen as a historic gaffe
Mind you, I think the electric future s 15-30 years away, not 8-15 - but the lifetime of a refinery is 40-50 years. Thats the issue, it wont pay for itself on a conventional amortization schedule.
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A huge component of American and British inflation is endogenous (stimulus checks, loose monetary policy, etc…). Both the central bank and the government can and should do something about it.

Core inflation in the UK is 6.2%, in the US is 6%, more than half the inflation rate. This is not the same in countries more affected by the energy shock, such as the eurozone.
During a period of low interest rates, yes this was the case, but now that rates are rising, this won't be as common.
I mean, the chances of it being *not* state-funded are.... really slim, right? The risk is just... off the charts. I do understand that you said it was just a possibility it wasn't state funded though.

It looks like this happened back in April and Homeland Security blamed "an international hacking ring" which always sounds like a nation-state organization to me.

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2022/04/13/hsi-agents-honolulu...
You're very right, but I think the trick is that prices rise faster than wages, if they ever fully catch up. That lag between price and wage increase is a super immediate problem for anyone going paycheck-to-paycheck.
Talk mentions this other talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5BLbnXPR5c
Hybrid semantic search.
Both speakers work on vespa.ai, which is at github.
Have you stopped beating your dog? Yes or no?

> So, let's try again: queer people should be expected to work with those who believe that they should be killed for being queer. Yes or no?

No. But what does this have to do with DEI programs? Is the expectation that people who want to kill queers all of the sudden see the light from a powerpoint provided by HR? Or do people who want to kill queers get so outraged by DEI programs that they quit?

I think, in many workplaces, if you express the serious desire to kill a coworker, you will be fired, regardless if the reason is because of some protected class, or they just hate blue eyed people, or whatever.
> Affluent Canadians frequently travel to the US as medical tourists and pay for treatment out of pocket in order to skip the lines.

This is exacerbated in the US itself, where only the top 10% have access to expensive and timely medical treatment.

I would argue that, at the very least, Canada does offer medical treatment to everyone.
I think this is a great opportunity for young people and they should take the chance to enter a field that even for electrical engineers is tough to enter. Chip design and semiconductor engineering is a bit of a black art, kind of like analogue electronics in general. I've got a PhD in EE and I still marvel at the engineering that goes into chips. If I was starting again I'd seriously consider this opportunity.
Good point - that's all true. Another important point is that the principal has also been impacted by inflation and the amount that needs to be rolled is less than the initial bond in real terms.
The company I work for is directly (negatively) impacted by rising rates, so I don't expect they'd be amenable to granting raises at the moment.
Our database is north of 20GB and backups work fine. They made improvements to this in Jan 21, which might have improved this? https://blog.heroku.com/faster-postgres-backups
First, the title is not the quote, the quote was "Whether it’s $150 oil, $200 oil, or $100 oil, we’re not going to change our growth plans".

Second, that has nothing to do with our production capacity, doesn't prove that "covid" caused us to drop our net export status, or that the industry is unwilling to fill production.

It's one misconstrued quote from an exec. He was talking about not collapsing the price when we overproduced for a brief period during our time of net exporting.

This is the REAL response from the oil & gas industry and it's concerning the federal lease bans: https://www.api.org/news-policy-and-issues/exploration-and-p...

When you're looking for the perspective of the oil & gas industry, API statements are a lot more reliable than an EnergyNow article.

Now that I've addressed your article, would you like to address the administration policy decision I linked above?

-- edit, at my post limit --

In short, this is the effect of the federal leasing ban:

https://www.api.org/-/media/Files/Policy/Exploration/2020/fe...

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@vel0city: the "if" was contingent on the federal ban on new leases, which happened... two years ago.

We are seeing these predictions play out. Tech support using the covid excuse is annoying, but when government leaders use it to hide behind poor policies, it's dangerous.
In German, this is known as Kalte Progression ("cold progression"). Apparently (according to Wikipedia), in English it's "bracket creep"?

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalte_Progression

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket_creep
At the end of the day, inflation on average hurts older people, and older people are more likely to vote.
You mean SA not playing ball?
No with a reasonably large grid you only need to overprovison no need for battery.

But this is really a question of economics, the mix of how much storage you want to include is really a question of cost and the specific grid. One should also say that pretty much every grid already has some level of overprovisioning, because otherwise you run into problems when some exceptional events hit.

In the end why would you pay for more expensive nuclear if you can get more capacity for the same price with wind/solar. So it is cheaper to build the overprovisioning with that. Moreover if the current trends for storage prices continue then things become cheaper still.
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They have debt, but they also have work contracts with out of date wages. But even in our sector, with the leverage that we as programmers have, companies don’t bother to match inflation. You have to make some risky or uncomfortable move to renegotiate your wage or find a new job. For many people it can be worse. So, everyone is under additional financial stress.