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Not trying to detract from the current crisis, but it is interesting to think that China would be looking at these issues and changing a lot of aspects to their military over the next half decade or so.

You learn more from failure than you do from success.

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That's not true. Think about it. In reality there's 10^82348733 or some other ridiculously huge number of things you can do. If you get it right, you know how to make it work, and there may be some obvious routes to improve. That's a LOT of information because you can effectively exclude 99% of possibilities.

If you can't make it work, you know that 1 out of 10^82348733 things don't work. Great. You can excluse 1% of possible solutions.

Success has WAY more information than failure.

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