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tcoppi··on Thunder Run to Seoul: Assessing North Korea’s War Plan
I think this is probably how the Chinese intervention, if they choose to intervene, would start, to restore the current DPRK/ROK border after a ROK/US incursion into the North. It seems likely that if that happens, DPRK would escalate with nukes in order to force China's hand into full intervention on their behalf, as USA's current doctrine, to the best of unclass knowledge, is to respond in kind to nuclear aggression. Once that happens all bets are off, unfortunately. I don't see how it ends well for anyone once China decides to get involved, given the current doctrines and state of military technology.
tcoppi··on Thunder Run to Seoul: Assessing North Korea’s War Plan
The UK received quite a lot of Marshall Plan money. Nearly $3.2b of it, in fact.
tcoppi··on Thunder Run to Seoul: Assessing North Korea’s War Plan
This and the OP both discount the small, but very real possibility of conflict escalation with China, completely unintended by both sides. If China enters militarily(big if, given recent statements) on the side of DPRK and the conflict has escalated to using nukes, it will be very hard for it to not spiral out of control into a full-on regional, if not worldwide, war.
tcoppi··on Thunder Run to Seoul: Assessing North Korea’s War Plan
Here's a decent analysis of the artillery situation https://www.stratfor.com/analysis/how-north-korea-would-reta...

TL;DR; DPRK can probably get off at least one good barrage, not enough to level Seoul but it would hurt.

tcoppi··on Thunder Run to Seoul: Assessing North Korea’s War Plan
This leaves out some issues such as likely targeting of Japan by DPRK, but otherwise a clear-headed analysis of the dark and sobering reality there.
tcoppi··on A Lot of What You Know About North Korea Is Racist Nonsense
This article ignores the fact that the stated goal of the NK Regime is reunification of the peninsula(under their rule, of course), and that they were the ones that started the war to achieve that goal in the 50s.
tcoppi··on The De-Electrification of the U.S. Economy
> The decline in the industrial sector seems more likely correlated to the general decline of US manufacturing capacity.

There hasn't really been a decline, simply a plateauing https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OUTMS

It is probably more related to general efficiency and productivity improvements that affect every sector.

tcoppi··on Tesla Semi truck unveil set for September
I'm guessing it will be closer to a large moving van rather than a real over-the-road semi. Probably 200-300mi range.
tcoppi··on SEC Rejects Rule Change for Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund [pdf]
Are you seriously comparing the type of fund that VXX and UVXX are to a hypothetical Bitcoin ETF?
tcoppi··on AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive
They did what they needed to do, get close enough performance and undercut on price. Should be a winner until Intel makes their next move.
tcoppi··on White House Bars NYT, CNN, and Politico from Briefing
Sounds like he is getting desperate.
tcoppi··on Republicans hope to overturn internet privacy rules
Jesus, it's $3k per YEAR now? My house built in 1995, also AA county, is only $300 per year, but it is for 30 years. Still quite a significant difference, and not fully explained by inflation alone.
tcoppi··on Nintendo signals end for Wii U
"Enterprise, Embedded, and Semi-Custom". Conveniently left off the first part there, of which is definitely not all GPU. And even if it was split like you want to imply it is, that would at best make it a minor majority, definitely not dominating revenue like it does with nVidia.
tcoppi··on Nintendo signals end for Wii U
AMD's primary business is not GPUs.
tcoppi··on About backdoors in crypto messengers
Can we please stop calling these types of vulnerabilities "backdoors"?
tcoppi··on Americans Are Putting Billions More Than Usual in Their 401(k)s
401(k) plans are set up by your employer but any money you put into it and gains are legally yours.
tcoppi··on Americans Are Putting Billions More Than Usual in Their 401(k)s
There are also potentially even more people withdrawing money from the markets as baby boomers are retiring en mass now.

But also having said that, they haven't been flat over the past year. 2015 was a flat year, maybe that's what you're thinking of?

tcoppi··on Chinese warship stole US underwater drone
http://ticdata.treasury.gov/Publish/mfh.txt

Oct 2015 - Oct 2016 they've reduced their total holdings by ~139 billion. This could have been through either outright selling, or just letting them mature and not reinvesting, or some combination.

Either way that doesn't really look like dumping and is practically pocket change in the scheme of US debt.

tcoppi··on Tech workers pledge to never build a database of Muslims
Are you serious? Do they even teach history in High School now?
tcoppi··on AMD Gives More Zen Details
They are staying consistent with a 40% IPC improvement number, which is great. This should finally be competitive with Intel's current offerings.
tcoppi··on New Mirai Variant Has a Domain Generation Algorithm
It is both intuitive and not intuitive... Download the free edition and play around with it. You will definitely learn something.
tcoppi··on Barely Half of 30-Year-Olds in the U.S. Earn More Than Their Parents Did at 30
Here's savings rate data: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT

Note that this is savings rate net of taxes. It has been on a mostly steady decline since it has been calculated, with some spikes and a leveling out slightly higher than the rate before the last recession.

tcoppi··on Pebble's next step
I have an OG pebble steel and it does everything I currently want in a smartwatch. I don't expect it will stop working for some time, and I plan on using it as long as possible.
tcoppi··on Reflections on Rusting Trust
Well it looks like this answers the question I posited above. Very interesting work, surprised I hadn't seen it.
tcoppi··on Reflections on Rusting Trust
An interesting experiment would be to see if a modern, easy(relatively) to audit compiler like tcc can still be used to bootstrap a more full-featured compiler like gcc or llvm. That would provide at least some protection against this, in that it is unlikely a backdoor in your binary version of gcc will have a trusting trust backdoor for tcc, which can then compile a clean gcc.

I know this was possible in the past, but I'm not sure if tcc can still compile a relatively new gcc.

tcoppi··on “AV is my single biggest impediment to shipping a secure browser.”
Most software you use doesn't inject shoddy, high-risk code into nearly every running process on your system and the kernel, though.
tcoppi··on “AV is my single biggest impediment to shipping a secure browser.”
He's not wrong, most traditional AV is complete hacked-up shit. Some of the "Next-Generation" AV(I think they are trying to rebrand this as Endpoint IPS too) like Cylance, CrowdStrike, Webroot are better in that they do a lot less crap on the endpoints to begin with, so there is less to screw up.
tcoppi··on Introduction to strace
Pretty hairy is an understatement. There are so many edge cases with ptrace based on how it works(interactions with signals especially) that make it almost impossible to make a truly robust debugger with it. Solaris did it right with their procfs debugger interface. I really wish Linux would step up the game here.
tcoppi··on California Secession Making Headway in Silicon Valley Community
I said if you are an American and a true patriot. Of course you can be a patriot of another country.
tcoppi··on California Secession Making Headway in Silicon Valley Community
If you are an American and a true patriot you cannot support Calexit. We need everyone in this together for the future political battles to come. Isolation will not help anyone.
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