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VladRussian2··on How the U.S. and Its Allies Got Stuck with the World’s Worst New Warplane
yes, Moskit is primarily intended against smaller targets. It has too small range and too small warhead. For anti-carrier missiles look at P-500/P-1000 and P-700.

While all these missiles are very fast, they also very visible in IR because of their speed, so it makes shooting them down easier, so they expected to be fired like "wolf pack":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-700_Granit :

"The missile, when fired in a swarm (group of 4-8) has a unique guidance mode. One of the weapons climbs to a higher altitude and designates targets while the others attack. The missile responsible for target designation climbs in short pop-ups, so as to be harder to intercept. The missiles are linked by data connections, forming a network. If the designating missile is destroyed the next missile will rise to assume its purpose. Missiles are able to differentiate targets, detect groups and prioritize targets automatically using information gathered during flight and types of ships and battle formations pre-programmed in an onboard computer. They will attack targets in order of priority, highest to lowest: after destroying the first target, any remaining missiles will attack the next prioritized target"

VladRussian2··on How A 'Deviant' Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut
>What makes them cool is the fact that their products solve actual problems [...] instead of selling ads or trying to conquer to-do lists.

yes, The Pitch that youth is falling so easily prey for. Any country, any historic period. The great lie of this pitch only smartest(or luckiest) among us understand from the start, and it takes many years for the rest of us to understand it.

VladRussian2··on How A 'Deviant' Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut
>It's technologically damn cool, regardless of your take on a Forbes writer's take on one employee. If someone watches their demos or tours their offices and doesn't walk out at least slightly giddy, they're either paranoid of the solutions or ignorant of the problems. Or both.

i guess this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6209907 explains maximalism and arrogance of your statements. As i said - "cool" stimuli for young males.

VladRussian2··on How the U.S. and Its Allies Got Stuck with the World’s Worst New Warplane
>the only limitation to the F-22 was there were too few of them.

...

>the F-22's live,

F-22 is cheaper than F-35 (and btw looks better - weapons look is important for projecting power - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtahqXjFcxU :), yet F-22 program was closed because of cost while F-35 continues (and still seems to be in R&D stage, though the late stage of R&D). Something bad about F-22 vs. that being good in F-35? Or just government spending logic?

Interesting also that there is a ban on export of F-22 (even to good friends like UK/etc) while F-35 is supposed to be available for export.

VladRussian2··on How the U.S. and Its Allies Got Stuck with the World’s Worst New Warplane
>The A-10 problem bugs me more than the others. The A-10 is a proven warplane that ground troops count on for cover. The F-35 doesn't have the capability to fulfill its role, which could place our troops in greater danger.

It is hard to beat A-10 in its role, instead i think something new will be developed on the edge of its envelope, specifically on the low end - big RC planes (mid-size VTOL drones carry-able by one Hummer) with Hellfires/etc controlled by the troops who need the cover - that would provide more prompt (though less powerful) air support than calling in for big guys help and waiting for it to appear.

VladRussian2··on How A 'Deviant' Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut
yep, the article is thoroughly seeded with absolutely not subliminal "cool" stimuli especially effective for young males.

Living in the Valley, that one struck home with me, was hard to stop laughing. Aura of danger and secrecy... Dragging with you a 6ft+ 270lb ex-Marine bodyguard _conspicuously_ in Palo Alto. Friday night on University: I'm Dork, James Dork. Well, everybody has his own way to overcompensate.

VladRussian2··on What mercury being liquid at room temperature has to do with relativity
inter-disciplinary science of such effects

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_quantum_chemistry

VladRussian2··on How A 'Deviant' Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut
> the millions of pictures collected by San Leandro’s license plate cameras are now passed on to the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRIC), one of 72 federally run intelligence fusion organizations set up after 9/11. That’s where the photos are analyzed using software built by a company just across San Francisco Bay: Palantir.

it is beyond creepy, Stasi/KGB could only dream about it.

VladRussian2··on How A 'Deviant' Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut
>presenting data miners for the Man as rock stars [1]

these jobs and these companies are cool. You want to work for them. You want to be cool.

VladRussian2··on Icahn Enterprises Issues Statement Regarding Twitter Account of Chairman
what is protection from "pump and dump" here? He isn't allowed to dump the stock for some time? doesn't seem so. One reason Buffet, for example, has special reporting arrangement with SEC is to prevent such volatility, and as a side effect i think it also decreases potential for such pump and dump on his side (not that i imply that Buffet would succumb to such temptation :)

edit: after refreshing myself on Buffet's exception, it seems it protects his interests from volatility, not public's :).

VladRussian2··on Hyperloop
You are right, my bad with the low pressure speed of sound . Anyway the high transonic flow isn't a piece of cake as well.
VladRussian2··on Hyperloop
Mach value is lower for lower pressure, about 250 m/s for hyperloop proposal
VladRussian2··on DOJ Elevated Its Charges Against Swartz Because Internet Rallied on His Behalf
>defendant ‘systematically re-victimized’ the victim, and that was what Swartz was doing by dragging MIT through hearings and a trial.

Just surreal. Like Swartz was a sadist and MIT was a traumatized victim of violence, not like a young prodigy whose life were being crushed for the modern "Prometheus" action and a bunch of PC-sensitive executive bureaucrats augmented by a lawyer department.

VladRussian2··on DOJ Elevated Its Charges Against Swartz Because Internet Rallied on His Behalf
They wanted to send a message. Just like mobsters tripping on power do.
VladRussian2··on Hyperloop
the real future of space is Hyperloop v2.0 - 20 miles long or something like it, pointed at the end toward the sky with final exit speed of let's say 10 Mach (and this also will help to reach Hong Kong from SF in 1-2 hours)
VladRussian2··on Hyperloop
man, the air cushion behavior at 1200 km/h (speed of sound at normal pressure, and 1.2 Mach at the proposed decreased pressure in the tube) would be a subject of a lot of PhD works. Or in other words - it will be hell of an engineering (stability of the cushion and parasitic oscillations come to mind - that is with respect to compressor created cushion, and in addition to the compressor created air cushion the cushion's airfoil will be riding its own shock wave between tube surface and the airfoil in front of the cushion's high pressure volume) to make supersonic ground effect from concept into product.
VladRussian2··on Hyperloop
if you look at the original link (http://www.mercurynews.com/salaries/pensions), you'll see these "3% @ 60 Formula for Local Miscellaneous Members", "2% @ 55 State and School Miscellaneous" and "3% @ 55 Formula for State Peace Officer/Firefighter or Local Safety Member" - these formulas are mainly from union contracts.
VladRussian2··on Hyperloop
it seems you can do very well if you get into CA politics :)
VladRussian2··on Hyperloop
it describes his last salary, so if you know the formula, 3% at 55, and his years of service - 31 - stated in the article, it also allows to calculate his pension - 180K+
VladRussian2··on Hyperloop
>executives who weren't union members, it has nothing to do with unions.

http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=24566

VladRussian2··on Hyperloop
>I am not sure any line in the world has cost that much, even in inhospitable terrain like China's high-speed rail in Tibet, or Japan's high-speed rail through the mountains.

you should check cost of highways in Moscow - $300M/mile. Hint - it isn't about terrain :)

VladRussian2··on Hyperloop
>He's also traditionally been an opponent of government waste.

he is in bed with gov employees unions (the unions are primary driving force behind 200-300K/year gov employees pensions (http://www.mercurynews.com/salaries/pensions) with retirement age of 55, CA is something like $200B deep in that hole), and especially with prison guard union - of course huge prison population resulting from "toughness on crime" may not be viewed as government waste by some.

Building a bridge or high-speed rail to nowhere - just a [large] peanut in that picture.

VladRussian2··on Mio: A High-Performance Multicore IO Manager for GHC [pdf]
whenever i hear "lightweight threads" my PTSD from experience with Java "green threads" comes back. Of course, my rational mind understands that many years have passed and things may in other runtimes be implemented differently and there are many benefits vs. native, yet ...
VladRussian2··on How the Government Killed a Secure E-mail Company
>allows the BOP to monitor client-attorney communications.

here goes another one down the drain.

VladRussian2··on How the Government Killed a Secure E-mail Company
things seem to become interesting more and more, i mean the secret fines and secret jail time. The former i guess accounted and reported to [secret department of] SEC on secret 10K forms, while later suggests the following interpretation for this new brave world of the old Russian joke: "A CEO tells to his wife that his is going on a vacation with a mistress, and he tells his mistress that he is going on a vacation with the wife, while he is going to serve secret sentence in a jail".
VladRussian2··on President Obama Proposes Reforms To Surveillance Programs
http://treeofmamre.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/obamas-new-sloga...
VladRussian2··on President Obama Proposes Reforms To Surveillance Programs
would making public the legal rational for an illegal thing make the thing legal?

On the other side, they had legal rational for torture, and it did made the torture legal for some period of time - nobody was prosecuted for doing it, so de-facto it was legal at the time, despite later declarations.

VladRussian2··on Deutsche Telekom, Web.de and GMX launch "E-mail made in Germany" initiative
>If the NSA wants your data, they would actually have to justify it to the Germans.

does Germany still have "German bureaucracy" ? From my anecdotal experience with German business they seem to place huge value on the "correct" way of doing things.

VladRussian2··on 3D printing tiny human livers
>Once you have that conquered you should be good to go on Kidney's, Liver's, Spleen's, Heart Tissue, Etc.

and after that onto better kidney, better liver, better spleen ... like printing a cat-eye-style reflection layer into new human eye to increase night vision :)

VladRussian2··on The Concorde’s Cousins
The current big civilian aircrafts are all still mainly follow aerodynamics introduced by B-47. Conceptual models like one referred by parent are trying to break the spell, yet it doesn't seem to be happening any time soon unfortunately.
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