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Chariots go back to the Bronze Age. To extend your analogy, charioteers were the fighter pilots of their era - a loss of even one was a blow militarily and financially.

There was a whole logistics train of chariot craftsmen, etc. to maintain them, and charioteers took decades of training to master fighting from them.

The advantage of the chariot was that they travelled twice as fast as the average soldier, but if your soldiers could run fast while fighting, that advantage disappeared.

(There's speculation the Seas People, who were involved in sacking all of the major cities of the time, could run.)

> Many Chinese felt that America deserved what they got.

I don't see how their opinion matters, since they're misinformed and orchestrated by the CCP.

The Hainan incident was caused by a Chinese fighter pilot running into a US surveillance plane. The former is agile, the latter is not, so that's the fault of the fighter.

Also, a plane in distress doesn't need permission to land. For the CCP to make a big deal out of that when there's no other runway available shows their true nature - evil and authoritarian.

The CCP has been at war with the US since the 1950s over ideology. If the US was not their enemy, the CCP would just pick another country.

I've noticed that otherwise intelligent people seem to place significance in "man in the street" conversations with people who live in totalitarian countries and have no power.

There's a phrase for that, useful idiot:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot

> It feels like a passion project

FS was Bill Gates' hobby project. The game team was disbanded (licensed to Lockheed as Prepar3D) one year after he stepped down.

Around FS2000 an oceanographer was hired to model the ocean waves.

So very focused, deliberate effort has always gone into FS, but that's more to achieve realism than for fun.

My theory is that military sim applications drive the realism, and probably there is military funding, so it's not really a "passionate gamers" angle. This would explain the quick licensing to Lockheed (for govt. contracting requirements), which is unprecedented for a game if you think about it.

(Atari Battlezone was likely also studied and used by the US military. I have some high scores on that. There's one in the SF pier historical arcade, as well as most of the Atari classic machines.)

I've used MSFS from the early days and here's some random facts:

- the model in the article foto is holding the yoke wrong - you're generally supposed to use one hand, unlike a car steering wheel

- FS2000 was used in some commercial simulators, as seen in various ads in Aviation Week & ST. In the pre-digital era, often sectional maps or video of models were projected for the pilot

- I aced my instrument checkride after practising with FS5, which essentially had no terrain.

If you're an experienced, motivated, results-oriented developer, then "coding" is an easy but still time-consuming thing.

But that's a very, very small percentage of the population.

When I talk to non-programming founders, they're insanely jealous that I can write a product and support it myself - because they can't. You can tell because they keep asking over and over, "You wrote that yourself?"

And a couple years later, their runway is spent on eng. salaries and they shut down.

> So we asked them what their wishes were

I thinked you missed that point.

> They want to be alive to see that.

No, nobody in my family wants to undergo chemo or surgery at an advanced age to see grandkids.

> So in his late 80's, with terminal cancer, they have him on chemo, pumped full of an ever changing diet of pills, going through one invasive procedure after another.

My family came to a different result for somebody the same age.

We looked at it from the standpoint of, "With blood cancer in their 80s, is there an endgame that resulted in getting better?"

If you think about it for a minute, you don't get better in your 80s in a meaningful way, since you aren't going to live forever.

So we asked them what their wishes were, and did not continue treatment. Everybody reached an agreement that wasn't all about the emotions of people who weren't ill.

> having an advocate that help you

Just highlighting this in case people overlook it, since it's a very important concept.

If one of your friends or relatives is ill, going to the doctor or hospital alone should be considered a mistake. The advocate ensures enough questions are asked, despite the condition of the ill person.

I talk to a lot of people in developing countries who have little money, and I tell them to take their ill relative in a taxi or rideshare to a clinic, do whatever tests are necessary, and take them home if possible.

That way the patient can get the most out of the healthcare system for a minimal, controlled expense before checking in.

For perl programmers, you want CGI::FormBuilder:

https://metacpan.org/pod/CGI::FormBuilder

> made it politically viable for the US government to inject a massive stimulus into the economy

Well, Britain transferred all its money to the US for arms, so that would help the US economy. (Churchill spent the last year of the war concerned with how to pay for it.) Also, there were wage and price controls to control speculation (and inflation.)

In the US, providers typically negotiate exclusive long-term contracts with local government. The argument is that's the only way to make it profitable enough to invest in building out the infrastructure.

The only way around that is for localities to build out the backbone themselves and then request competitive bids, but the providers counter that strategy by lobbying state representatives to ban local Internet infra in the name of privatization or core competency.

One workaround for that would be what's done in old European cities where you can't dig or easily run wires/fiber: just build out a backbone for wireless infra, then let providers compete on last mile wifi/billing/service/price.

> I'm not a fan of maintaining bad/harmful industries

US defense is not a bad or harmful industry - it protects the free world.

WW2 wouldn't have happened if the US wasn't isolationist. We've had 75 years of relative peace thanks to being a superpower.

Precision weapons are a bargain.

With B-17 level bombing in WW2, you're looking at dropping 100 - 1,000 iron bombs to maybe accomplish the same thing.

Note the Stuka was a precision bomber, but required air superiority and good weather.

I understand your POV, but there is a risk with severing your friends and relying on your wife for social engagement: if you're ever divorced, you will have nobody but yourself.

Men should always be on their purpose and improving their life, including cultivating your own friends and family.

Note that during any divorce, your ex-wife will actively and immediately poison mutual friends and family as part of her playbook to make it look like it's all your fault (female shaming tactics) and that she's virtuous. Many men lose their own side of their family as a result, much to their surprise.

The MSM owners want that, but the actual staff and journalists are mainly trying to not get their career cancelled.

Same in Hollywood. Studio owners care about profits, but everybody working in the industry is trying to stay employable.

(It's rumored that if you complain about wokeness in your private school in LA, they'll put you on a "racist blacklist" at other area schools. So this is affecting even parents now.)

Pre-2010, the MSM was often wrong but only slightly biased: journalists made an effort to find 2 sources. Sure, owners and local real estate developers had a lot of influence.

Today, the MSM is literally fake news that conforms to leftist/DNC dogma. See my other post in this thread for why.

You can see this in the common use of narrative keywords like "no widespread election fraud" and "insurrection" across multiple MSM media properties. Everybody knows there is always election fraud (voters moving to another state and voting in their old state is considered voting fraud by the FEC), but inserting "widespread" in the phrase makes it easy to keep moving the goalpost.

The motive of MSM journalists today is to conform to the DNC/leftist narrative to avoid being fired and disowned by their colleagues. Source: 2020 Greenwald interview.

If you watch interviews with former US leftists who became centrists and spoke out about burning downtowns, deplatforming, etc. they all had to find new careers.

Nope, I've watched a few recent interviews with Greenwald, and everything he said matches non-MSM media sources (NTD Media, other interviews.)

Don't believe a single word on cnn.com for starters.

You know, there were more than 100 tunnels dug in WW1. Most were used to insert explosives to blow up the trenches above them. The largest man-made explosion at the time was one of those.

Losing track of one of those tunnels isn't really noteworthy, and the French have no love for the Germans. On their retreat back to Germany, they destroyed the Alsace region "just because."

Most people today think of the Allies and Axis countries as equivalent, but even as early as WW1 the Axis had a reputation as mean and brutal.

What he means is that if you're completely ignorant about business, then reading a financial magazine will help you level up over time.

(Related: I've worked with new managers in SV who couldn't define what the words "leadership", "responsibility", "planning" or "accountability" meant, since all they knew was PHP programming.)

It's a good post mortem read.

I gave the same advice about "use case" as in the post mortem to a YC database company a few years ago. The "founders" also thought they were building a better (technical) mousetrap, but I told them nobody was going to pay anything if it did the same as an existing database - it had to do something unique and be cloud-based, like Snowflake, or RDS. They were crestfallen, but still didn't listen to me. I even got hate mail from them before they went under - talk about being clueless to the bitter end.

What RethinkDB did wrong was what was in their post mortem, but also not having experienced DBAs to review the use cases. As a DBA, my default is to say no to new databases, and being the audience, that would have been valuable for them to know.

An example of how DBAs and devs think differently is the Jepsen database reports - devs fetishize those, but DBAs are like, "We already know corner cases aren't going to work most of the time. What's your point exactly?"

Source: experienced DBA.

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but extractions can be cheaper and more effective than root canals, fillings, and crowns.

If you have a tooth with only 2 roots and one of them cracks, then it's better to just remove the tooth. Besides chronic infection that can hemorrhage, it will have to be extracted within 5 years anyway.

With 3 roots and only one cracked, sometimes dental surgeons can do something.

Also, the comment about dental x-rays being a profit center are clearly true. In SV, it's like they put you on a calendar for them, and they're usually done before an exam.

> It's a bring your own job and bring your own friends kinda place.

Very accurate. If you didn't go to the local schools, you really won't fit in.

And most locals have 2 (or 3) jobs to pay the rent, so if you're not a bartender or waiter in a crew, you won't meet locals either.

I once asked a passenger on a plane going to the mainland what he thought of the economy in Honolulu. He answered, "Oh, it's great. I own a grocery store chain." :)

> Amazon runs on AWS

That's not a given.

At least in the early AWS days, internal sites had special configurations.

Source: worked there.

Bolt was fast when he was 10 years old, and probably was still naturally fast when he was 21. After any injuries though, it's likely he started peds.

I was the strongest man in one of the Bay Area gyms for a while, all natural, but essentially that was the focus of my day for several years while I worked at home (next door to the gym) and I had 10 hours of sleep nitely.

I went to a natural bobybulding conference once and all the pros were staring at me - I was huge. So it can be done while you're young, but under perfect conditions and until you get injured.

In case you were hoping for facts from the MSM, that hasn't existed for a few years now. I mostly watch NTD Media now.

Back in the 80s/90s, although it had inaccuracies, the US media wasn't part of the Red Terror.

Glenn Greenwald, who's based in Brazil now, has explained that his US journalist friends must toe the cultural Marxist line or they're cancelled (fired and disowned by all journo friends.)

If somebody has an informative link, I'm curious why this is still an issue.

My understanding is that guides are using children as accessories/human shields, so the US govt. is unsure of who the parents are or where they're from, so they're detained?

Prior to 2020, I considered this one of the country's greatest shames, but maybe there's some plausible operational excuse for it. I sure hope so.

For those not up-to-date, the article covers "cultural Marxism" and "intersectionalism" in schools today. It's not exaggerating about anything.

LA is one of the worst areas because getting cancelled means certain loss of your job and any friends, both inside and outside your industry.

Everything is "mismatched types" in Rust, literally it doesn't do any automatic type conversion (casting), so it's not the right language for most people.

You're correct that the US MSM has poor coverage on China because of pressure from the CCP, ad placements from the CCP, and journo-leftist solidarity.

To learn more, you can watch the NTD media Youtube channels, especially China Uncensored and Crossroads. NTD is affiliated with Falun Gong, so they don't pull any punches - their reporters are based in the US, but still get death threats from the CCP.

https://www.youtube.com/user/NTDChinaUncensored

Also, there's a few vlog channels like serpentza/ADVChina that provide more background from people who lived in China long-term. Note these vloggers have all been forced to leave China in the past 2 years by the CCP, or face imprisonment.

https://www.youtube.com/user/serpentza

The reality is that most people can't handle the truth about what the CCP is doing - who wants to study the horrors of a 2021 version of Auschwitz?

For example:

- women are in the camps to disrupt their reproductive cycle (live births are down 90%)

- the camps are organ harvesting pools. China's hospital system is funded by organ medical tourists and organ exports.

So ... how much do you really want to know?

n=21 is not necessarily a small population from a statistical standpoint.

Anyway, would be interesting to get comments from doctors who trest vegans. I'm not surprised at the result (we are what we eat), so perhaps vegans really should be on vitamins.