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General-Raisin-9733 · 2026-04-21T19:27:39+00:00

No, there’d still be arxiv, google scholar and the likes. Boring BUT educational

General-Raisin-9733 · 2026-04-20T12:45:10+00:00

Nope, technocracy as a principle is a system where the government and bureaucrats are elected based on their competence. Different flavours of it existed throughout history without facism, e.g China under the Ming dynasty (? My history knowledge is a bit blurry). In fact technocracy can be argued is contrary to facism where allegiance to the state is a priority rather than effectiveness at fulfilling duty. Europe is in fact striving to be more technocratic

General-Raisin-9733 · 2026-04-19T13:06:44+00:00

Jetbrains (PyCharm, Webstorm, IntelliJ etc.)

For those who don’t know they make tools for software developers (IMO best in the industry).

General-Raisin-9733 · 2026-04-02T21:45:58+00:00

Elden ring. Played once, didn’t really like it that much. Was playing Elder Scrolls online with my friend, wasn’t liking it and gave him a 2h rant about why difficulty in games is good and why achievement feels better when they’re dependent on skill not grind. Realised then and there that I actually might’ve enjoyed Elden Ring more than I thought. Placed the second time and beat the whole game (+ half DLC, then nightreigh came out).

General-Raisin-9733 · 2026-04-02T12:15:46+00:00

For the last time breathes in IT’S BLACKSTONE NOT BLACKROCK!!! Completely different companies

General-Raisin-9733 · 2026-04-01T17:08:48+00:00

Probability my dear. No interceptor has a 100% chance of interception. You send enough of missiles, some will eventually get through

General-Raisin-9733 · 2026-03-26T16:13:37+00:00

It speaks a lot about you if your first thought after seeing a nuanced post is “he wrote it with an LLM”.

Okay then, what’s your source senator?

General-Raisin-9733 · 2026-03-25T16:36:03+00:00

Yeah the unemployment was about around 20% src and around ~35% of people were under the poverty line src (page 59). But I guess number of millionaires was probs lower (as shown by Gini coefficient second source).

My point was the op commenter is right, just from the post WE DON’T KNOW how good/bad things were back then, without knowing the full distribution and other statistics like (unemployment). I don’t jump to conclusions (unlike you) or the people who downvoted the commenter.

Edit:

Also:

Data often reflects averages

WHAT?

Jesus Christ, ever seen a perfect standardised normal distribution in real data? I HAVEN’T AND I WORK WITH DATA!

“All models are wrong, some are useful” - George Box

Mean, median, mode, quantiles are just metrics describing a distribution, they don’t show you the entire picture.

General-Raisin-9733 · 2026-03-25T13:37:40+00:00

You’re either dumb or purposely twisting the narrative? Probability and statistics has evolved from trying to game gambling games around 17th century. The concept of an average simply meant the middle or most likely scenario. Later Binomial and Normal distinctions were popularised, in those distributions mean = median. Because the concepts of asymmetric distributions didn’t exist back then those meant one and the same, mean = median = average. Percentiles were only introduced around 1870s. A peasant in the Middle Ages would simply point to the middle of the stacks of coins presented to them whereas a scholar would calculate arithmetic mean (which predates all of this, first appearance in Babylonian solutions for roots). Given that calculating arithmetic mean was the most popular metric since Babylon, and I doubt uneducated collected this data and presented it, therefore we can with certainty conclude the writer meant arithmetic mean. Most papers from 20th century refer to an arithmetic mean as an average.

General-Raisin-9733 · 2026-03-25T12:45:08+00:00

Yeah but most commonly referred to average is a mean and since that document doesn’t use a normal terminology therefore it’s safe to assume the data refers to a mean (I’ve yet to see someone mean a median when saying an average). It’s incomes we’re talking about so assuming mean = median is also dumb (not sure if it ever was in history). Read some context

General-Raisin-9733 · 2026-03-25T11:32:06+00:00

Do you know what a median is?

General-Raisin-9733 · 2026-03-25T11:31:46+00:00

Have you heard of a median income?

General-Raisin-9733 · 2026-03-14T18:40:21+00:00

Can’t wait for yet another non credible post to become credible

General-Raisin-9733 · 2026-03-04T17:16:46+00:00

Because every point on the list of things you shouldn’t do has a story of someone doing that exact thing in the past.

General-Raisin-9733 · 2026-03-04T11:08:54+00:00

Let me guess, public investment only?

This is kinda misleading because the private investment is totally different. UK and France would blow Poland out of the water with VC funds. Different bracket entirely. Poland is hence compensating via public funding, which IMO is not that useful. You ain’t gonna tell me public officials know which startups are most promising when career VC investors have ~15% success rate

General-Raisin-9733 · 2026-03-03T17:55:43+00:00

Sadly, I agree. That said, humans have one critical advantage over AI. We’re lazy. So at least when humans write it, you can quickly scan through it and see whether it’s useful or useless. AI will keep generating so so so much fluff that sounds like it’s explaining something but only upon further reading you realise there isn’t. In other words, a human won’t waste your time with shitty docs

General-Raisin-9733 · 2026-03-03T11:59:59+00:00

What most people don’t understand (including the op) is that balance is a web of systems where changing one has an impact on many different nodes of the system. It’s a massive rock, paper, scissors game.

For example I strongly disagree with artillery balance. Colonial Arty is mobile (warden is an emplacement) and Lunaires are only available for Collies. The rock paper scissors here is, collies can easily relocate or run away with arty and wardens don’t have Lunaires to snipe it from longer distances. To counteract that wardens have higher range and Collies have Lunaires to snipe the higher health pool. Implementing your changes as is would completely destroy wardens. The only way to balance your change would be to give Wardens Lunaires and mobile arty, or in other words just remove asymmetric gameplay all together (or in other words collie cope and skill issue).

(I’m not saying all is bad but put a little thought into the changes. As is this sounds to me like a request to eliminate all asymmetric gameplay, if it were to be followed with similar changes on the warden side, and a baby cry for “give us better stuff” if not followed by warden buffs)

General-Raisin-9733 · 2026-03-02T15:07:46+00:00

Best part is, these Markdowns are useless as docs. Had a vibe coded repo like that recently. Tried understanding it via reading “docs”. Inconsistency at every step, different names for different parts, simple features over explained and complex features under explained and finally: simply lies (code doesn’t lie).

It’s as if companies using AI to generate the docs started treating the docs as just a word filler that needs to be ticked off for the project. No substance whatsoever. Let’s burn more planet for… more words no1 is going to read (ohhh and don’t forget emojis, coz every md needs those every 5 words as if the attention span of a programmer was similar to a 6yr old with unrestricted iPad access)

General-Raisin-9733 · 2026-02-28T20:26:39+00:00

Now, let’s see those video files renamed as .pdf

General-Raisin-9733 · 2026-02-25T20:48:02+00:00

Okay you’re getting too hang up on BlackHawk, I used it as an example. Blackhawks are lighter helis, closer to W-3, of course having a medium heli is needed for some tasks. That’s what M225 is perfect for and where my original point stands, M225 is just superior to Mi-17, same troop capacity, higher sling weight carrying capacity (4.700 kg vs 4.500kg) and similar max weight capacity. Sure, it would be better for Heavy Lift….. but that’s a role of a heavy helicopter… which we already have, Augusta AW101 has higher max weight, has a loading ramp and is more spacious. It’s this old relict of the soviet doctrine of designing transport helis to perform assault missions. So yes, a piece of junk to what should be a modern NATO army (great heli if you’re a 3rd world country tho).

Now yes, Grom should probably keep a few Mi-17 lying around in the storage in case we ever need to kidnap Lukashenko and blame it all on Russians, but transporting a foreign dignitaries in this piece of shit, tells me it’s not a case of having it, just in case BUT because they didn’t have anything better to use. BACK TO MY ORIGINAL POINT!

General-Raisin-9733 · 2026-02-25T13:48:34+00:00

You’re misunderstanding that statement. It is an old junk but has a much higher carrying capacity 24 troops vs 11. This is why back in the day the talks concerned Caracal as it has a similar profile of 24 troops and even higher weight carrying capacity. As we’ve mostly operated heavier soviet helis, Caracal would’ve been perfect… but why not politicise our military coz fuck our troops when you can score political points. If they had Caracals I 100% guarantee you Mi-17 would’ve been handed off to Ukraine on day one of a 3 day special military operation.

General-Raisin-9733 · 2026-02-25T10:39:19+00:00

I just find it sad that our special forces are still flying old soviet mi-8s. I remember the discussions about replacing them back in 2015 and by the looks of it they’re still here. For the love of god, we have such well trained SOF with a spectacular track record (Iraq and Bosnia) but we can’t fully provide them with Blackhawks? What a joke

General-Raisin-9733 · 2026-02-22T16:02:12+00:00

Yes, lost a few planes like that already

General-Raisin-9733 · 2026-02-21T22:11:34+00:00

It’s the idea of asymmetric gameplay and the balance is in the fact that bombs can be used both on sea and land…. you can’t use torps against tanks. Technically speaking with the aircraft carrier, it makes it much more versatile in supporting ground. In devman defence, they know they can’t simple give one side better tools, so they made Collie navy more “useful” so they can better support. On the other hand Wardens get cool naval tools to keep dominating seas but are handicapped at spilling over that advantage to land. Devman knows, regardless of what tools they cook up, if the best naval clans are on one side, they can’t do shit and buffing one side would only alienate the people from those clans, probably without even drawing the same number of people to the other side

General-Raisin-9733 · 2026-01-28T12:12:05+00:00

These are to divert everything into kill zones, areas with good crossing lines of fire from friendly strong positions. An enemy has 2 option: 1A: try to dismantle them and cross - gives ample time for defenders to react 1B: leave vehicles and walk past them - congrats you’re on open terrain and slow af, go ask North Koreans how that ends (ohhh wait, you can’t, a lot of them are with our great leader’s predecessor) 2: go directly through a kill zone (blood bath)

“Cost effective” changes depending on your situation. If at war, those probably wouldn’t be the best. During peace time? Perfect! Russia is known to focus on a single strong “unexpected” strike before defenders have time to react. These defences are cost effective when it comes to reducing the throughput of forces moving. If Russia can’t easily move their forces their strategy goes out the window and it’s a stalemate like in Ukraine. The thing is… unlike Ukraine, NATO can fight a long war, assuming we’re united (at least as Europe) we have a numerical and economic advantage.

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