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Agreed. You can really tell commenters' ages based on whether they recall this. The Gates you describe is the one I remember from the '90s. I have to assume that anyone who thinks …

> To what purpose? Steel-manning: Gates has run a deliberate PR campaign for decades to rehabilitate his reputation. In the 80s & 90s (before the Gates Foundation) he was known as …

I really enjoyed American Prometheus. Might be a bit too focused on Oppenheimer for the original request, but it covers the Manhattan Project more broadly too.

No. > That September morning, Krebs didn’t take up Waifu’s chess challenge. “What am I going to do, play him at chess?” he said. “He would have just screenshot what I said and send…

I'd argue that working on the right projects reduces the likelihood of collateral damage. Take for example the R9X [0]. Instead of an explosive warhead it has a set of blades on th…

It's actually exactly correct. That comment is referring to 1993's "last supper" in which the SECDEF gathered the defense CEOs at the time and literally did tell them to consolidat…

Even this is almost certainly an underestimate. Open source intelligence that just the bill of materials for a Shahed is more than the tens of thousands previously estimated. These…

You're mostly correct that the older tech is the bulk of what's been sent, but there have been lots of batches of newer tech that the US has delivered. [0] These newer companies (A…

Optionality, even for a monopsony like the Defense industry, is good for the consumer (Pentagon). They still want suppliers to compete. What incentive is there for a company to inn…

Seems fun to me.

> Same folks, everyone. Fewer than 5% of Anduril employees are former Palantir employees.

I fail to see how a country maintaining awareness of passages across its borders is a bad thing.

This really isn’t to sell any Roadrunners. Anduril has surely been talking to the right program offices and relevant government entities for some time now. This is more to establis…

Scattering sensors in the desert is militarizing the border ? That’s an awfully dramatic characterization, no?

A reasonable guess is that this is in response to the proliferation of group 3 UAS in the Ukraine conflict [0]. Personally, I am all for the US producing robotic systems designed t…

Sounds like an interesting story! How big was a pallet? How does one come to know the specific truck driver?

Thank you, the hn title character limit wouldn't allow the flag. Actual title of the document is "Moneyball Military: An Affordable, Achievable, and Capable Alternative to Deter Ch…

A poorly-written, self-posted advertisement for a morally bankrupt service that offers zero novel engineering or business approaches and is still carpeted with the same slimy low-r…

But what’s driving people listening to white noise sometimes isn’t enjoyment, right? There have been cases of clear abuse [0] that Spotify is correct to crack down on. [0] https://…

How is this relevant? Subsidies are a fundamentally different model. I understand that dumping on Elon is popular now but c’mon.

I don’t think calling Palmer a run-of-the-mill enthusiast does justice to his passion/obsession. Last I checked he had the largest HMD collection in the world. His passion (more th…

I’m biased, I work with Palmer and have always 1) found him to be genuine, 2) reasonably impartial in how he judges these sorts of things, and 3) been blown away by his passion for…