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Robot-soldiers, stealth jets and drone armies: the future of war

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    Eylrid
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    The outline link is dead. Here's the Financial Times article: https://www.ft.com/content/442de9aa-e7a0-11e8-8a85-04b8afea6ea3

    The outline link is dead. Here's the Financial Times article: https://www.ft.com/content/442de9aa-e7a0-11e8-8a85-04b8afea6ea3

    1. Deimos
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      Ah yeah, looks like Outline blocks ft.com articles now too. It's becoming less and less useful as a paywall bypasser, it doesn't work on quite a few of the major paywalled sites any more (New York...

      Ah yeah, looks like Outline blocks ft.com articles now too. It's becoming less and less useful as a paywall bypasser, it doesn't work on quite a few of the major paywalled sites any more (New York Times, Wall Street Journal, now Financial Times).

      I'll edit the link to that, thanks.

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  2. patience_limited
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    A little over 100 years ago, commentators predicted that weapons of war had become so technologically advanced, and so lethal, that no one would ever resort to using them. Many couched the relentless arms race as part of an economic effort to stimulate the domestic industrial base, and discounted that such jostling would ever lead to conflict. The first world war proved them wrong on both counts.

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