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Menace from the Deep: A Guide to All 24 Starting Decks

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Menace from the Deep: A Guide to All 24 Starting Decks

Four heroes in this Lovecraftian deckbuilder, six starting decks each. All 24 with official in-game descriptions, card lists, and a strength ranking where every verdict carries an evidence label. The mechanic the game never explains: unspent block carries over into the next turn in full, so a defensive turn is never wasted. Verified frame by frame. Plus a correction to a widespread error: the Abomination has six decks, not one. With a deck-picker, a filterable tier list, a status glossary and a run checklist.

  • ігри
  • роглайк
  • декбілдер
Defense Without an Interceptor: 10 Levers Against Ballistic Missiles

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Defense Without an Interceptor: 10 Levers Against Ballistic Missiles

Ten non-obvious but physically real levers to defend against Russian ballistic missiles without betting on scarce interceptors. The core inversion: "to defend" ≠ "to shoot down" — on each of the 7 kill-chain links there is a cheaper lever than a scarce Patriot: make the missile miss (GNSS spoofing), disrupt the fuze, let the target survive, free up kinetics with a cheap lower tier, win seconds of address-specific warning. With a kill-chain map, a summary board and honest limits. A concept review from open sources.

  • війна
  • ППО
  • балістика
Chat, Cowork or Code: Which Claude Mode to Work In

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Chat, Cowork or Code: Which Claude Mode to Work In

Not every task belongs in Claude Code, and not every task should stay in chat. A router across three modes: Chat (thinking and text), Cowork (files and folders on your desktop) and Code (repo, site, automation). The one rule — pick not the smartest mode but the cheapest one for the task. With a decision router, a 20+ task matrix, a wrong-mode-tax calculator, copy-ready prompts and a safety checklist — facts verified against Anthropic.

  • AI-операції
  • Claude
  • режими

31 min

A House on the Fault Line: North Cyprus Property, If You Can Do the Math

North Cyprus is sold as a cheap paradise with a guaranteed 12% a year. In reality it's a market that keeps no records of its own prices, where the developer behind the flagship resort just got five years, and the title under your villa might belong to someone who fled in 1974. And yet — for the right buyer, it can still be a rational move. The difference between a disaster and a smart deal isn't who got in early. It's who correctly stacked the title, the location, the developer, the management company, the liquidity, and their own life scenario.

  • real estate
  • Cyprus
  • geoarbitrage

1 min

The Hidden Economy of the World's Biggest Marathons

A research decision-guide to the 10 most scarcity-driven marathons on earth: why you can't just buy a start slot, and where willingness-to-pay actually flows. Lotteries, the $80M charity machine, tour premiums, Boston's qualification economy, the legal transfer valves of Valencia and Cape Town, and the black market in fake bibs. With a real-cost calculator, a lottery-portfolio simulator, a decision wizard and a scam checker.

  • markets
  • marathon
  • scarcity economics

1 min

The Shutdown Protocol: how to fall asleep in an age that steals sleep

An evidence-based 2026 protocol for falling asleep and sleeping well: sleep is a dimmer, not a switch. A step-by-step descent corridor, an honest comparison of techniques by strength of evidence (CBT-I, breathing, light, temperature), caffeine and sleep-window calculators, a bedroom audit, 12 myths on the table, and separate routes for sleep under hard conditions — war, young kids, ADHD, shift work, menopause.

  • sleep
  • health
  • focus