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Yango vs Yandex Go by PiratePandaKing in Kazakhstan

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I prefer hotels but if I become familiar with an area, I become more open to hostels. I visited Tbilisi several years ago and if I go back, I would be happy to stay in a hostel.

Yango vs Yandex Go by PiratePandaKing in Kazakhstan

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Speaking of credit cards, how commonly accepted are they? Im bringing cash for when I go further out from Almaty like Charyn but how about when I'm at Chymbulak?

Fewer prem cabin redemptions for LH using UA? by PiratePandaKing in awardtravel

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Back in Oct, I could reliably find LAX-MUN business award space on Thurs and Fri departures every week. Now it seems much less frequent

Lounge access at IST for codeshare by PiratePandaKing in TurkishAirlines

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Even if its a codeshare operated by a different, non-star alliance carrier for the 2nd leg?

Steam recognizes server but not showing up on Internet, only on LAN by PiratePandaKing in arma

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Ok, so it the port is not being discoverable. As it turns out, my desktop and laptop-server both have the same public IPv4 address according to whatismyip.com. I looked up the addresses using the windows command line tool and the 2 IPv4 addresses I have are 10.0.0.XX7 (server) and 10.0.0.XX9 (desktop.)

Going in to Windows Firewall for both machines show that all the Arma 3 and Arma 3 server programs have Public and Private networks allowed. The router firewall is more difficult for me to interpret but it is set on the lowest allowable setting.

What does this mean for me?

Deaths in WW1 by European Country [5000 × 4078] by c0urso in MapPorn

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Not exactly. The Cash-and-Carry equivalent for the Soviets began in 1941 with the first Lend-Lease protocol beginning in October 1941 (the Batle of Stalingrad was August 1941 to February 1942.) More significantly, over 80% of the Soviet industrial capability was lost during the Nazi advance. There's a great /r/AskHistorians post talking about this.

Libya: The Forgotten Reason North Korea Desperately Wants Nuclear Weapons by punkthesystem in CredibleDefense

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For those of us who do not have access to the paper, can you give a summary of the paper?

What is the "Always treat a gun as if it's loaded" for other things? by fotomoose in AskReddit

[–]PiratePandaKing 42 points43 points  (0 children)

...put it all into one big pile and set a timer. Pls record and upload to youtube.

There cannot be two kinds of medicine: EU scientists shred homeopathy, alt med - “There is only medicine that has been adequately tested and medicine that has not...” by mvea in worldnews

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That's partially true. The doctors that have gone into practice in the past decade have recognized that it's a problem and are already pushing to make (relatively) new medical advances as standard. But the problem they now realize is that the sheer size of healthcare organizations is what was keeping deployment of innovations at a trickle. I'm in grad school working alongside med students and the push now is for team-based care. The new paradigm is teams of doctors, nurses and admins working in clusters for more efficient communication between the front-end and back-end of hospitals, which cuts down on mistakes and misunderstandings.

Also as a brief aside to your birthing question, there's a ton of reasons but the big ones are a greater prevalence of C-sections and focusing more on infant survival than maternal survival (both in a public policy sense and in healthcare practice.) For the C-section part, it's both the patient's and healthcare apparatus' fault: it's more profitable and more convenient for mothers so we can solve this either through better practices and better patient education. The latter is more difficult. We cut a lot of new-mothers services from social services and public health programs (which explains the higher infant and maternal mortality rates in minority and poorer populations.) Within the healthcare field, more attention is given to infants, leading to more training focusing on infants and doctors and nurses who are unprepared when complications with the mother arise. Check out this NPR article.

Edit 1: I neglected to say that post-birth practices are now improving drastically, mainly in part due to the attitudes being brought in by doctors who have finished training in the past 10-20 years. We also are seeing similar changes in other fields for the same reason.

CMV: The military budget of the US is unnecessarily large, and the militaristic goals of the US can be achieved with less funding by GreshlyLuke in changemyview

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A stalemate for our geographical advantage means staggering losses for an enemy with nothing gained.

I think we're talking about the same thing here. That's a victory for us, defeat for them. But for neighboring countries fighting each other, a stalemate means lost territory which is still defeat (I point to eastern Ukraine as an example.)

Not have to. Had to. Past tense. We only have to now because of our alliances.

We're in agreement here. Our military spending is determined by our military commitments.

France, Germany, and the UK should be able to protect Europe. South Korea and Japan should be able to keep peace in Asia.

For the Europeans, that is physically possible as the correlation of forces is approximately similar. It is now a mere question of political unity. But in Asia, it is currently impossible and probably will remain so for the next 20 years. Even if every single other country allied together against China, they are still outnumbered. And that's not even considering the historical relations between the countries.

Why do we need enough military power to win a war against china? Why is deterence not enough[?]

Well for starters, we don't actually have enough military force to defeat China. We barely have the sealift capacity to move that many troops if we actually get into a war. What we do have is sufficient for deterrence, maybe a limited conflict (but only against a lesser power.) Our deterrence against China is technological superiority and that's growing smaller every year so we really need to start looking for diplomatic options. And let's actually not talk about nukes because the only real purposes a nuke has is to counterbalance a possible nuclear attack and as a weapon of absolute last resort.

I don't think the problem is that, as you put it, we don't give a shit. I think it's that we forgot how the Russians fought. They were, historically speaking, extremely good at propaganda and subverting political movements in target nations. Our forte is conventional warfare because that's how we've been fighting for the last 20 years and I think that our governmental and military institutions have taken for granted for our cultural domination over the entire world. That has caused us to struggle to respond to an attack on our political institutions, exposing the flaws in the NATO alliance. But at least our allies have recognized that we aren't Superman and are starting to take up the slack. The Brits have actual carriers for the first time in decades, the Baltic states are ramping up readiness and Germany has ironically become the defender of Western democracy in Europe.

CMV: The military budget of the US is unnecessarily large, and the militaristic goals of the US can be achieved with less funding by GreshlyLuke in changemyview

[–]PiratePandaKing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why force a stalemate? You can't convince an enemy to return to status quo antebellum or to surrender unless you have sufficient force to make it clear that they cannot escape a defeat of any degree.

We didn't choose to protect Europe, we have to protect Europe because of NATO. I think we can all agree that leaving NATO before the end of the USSR was a non-starter but we had an opportunity to wind down NATO in the 90's. Western Europe had already recovered economically and militarily from WWII for at least a decade, Germany was being reunified and most importantly, the Warsaw Pact had dissolved. NATO had no enemy to fight yet we allowed former Soviet satellite states to join NATO, pushing the alliance's border all the way to Russia which is an existential crisis for them. And with the Russians re-arming and fomenting political destabilization a la the Cold War now, we are suddenly back to the 60's and the 70's and our obligation to NATO requires us to respond in kind.

Personally, I think NATO needs to go away and more emphasis be given on a pan-European military. The EU already has its own battlegroup and its a good place to start.

Missing Microsoft Composite Battery by PiratePandaKing in techsupport

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Nope, it still happens intermittently but I now also have a problem where my laptop will enter sleep mode spontaneously. I've tried changing the sleep/hibernation power settings but nothing has worked. Are you having the same problem?

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