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Citation please? The profit that Colorado and other states are reporting makes it hard to believe the black market is even a shadow of its former self in those states.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-20/californ...
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Skripal? There's a lot of contention and contradicting evidence that suggest it was a false flag.
Absolutely false. I didn't know Russian propaganda had reached into HN. Study Exposes Russia Disinformation Campaign That Operated In The Shadows For 6 Years: https://www.npr.org/2020/06/16/878169027/study-exposes-russi...
I strongly believe this is basically the great filter faced by all intelligent species in the universe.
Only way to overcome this great filter is by adopting policies that provide equal opportunities to each member of the species and create a non-divisive/united society where everyone practically helps each other. Aim would be to colonise other planets as soon as possible to decrease risks of civilisation destruction by technological offshoots.
I strongly believe that most of the alien species that achieve interstellar flight and escape the great filter must be benign, united, and highly intelligent for these reasons.
I also believe humanity’s chances of escaping the great filter is ~0%.
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To underscore your point, here's an example of how easy it is to get god-tier military hardware in Mexico from one of the many people breaking bad across the border in the US. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/arming... This fella in Texas was selling .50-cals and miniguns straight to the Cartels for years. There are likely many, many more like him. Mexican think tanks have spent years trying to f…
There was an absolutely trivial solution: send a few fighter planes to blow up the haciendas and spray herbicide on the plantations. But the US government prefers to profit and make political hay from the drug war.
Can't stop it at the source anymore.
Small armed drones could be the game-changer the AK-47 was. Before the AK-47, revolt against an army with machine guns was almost impossible. "Whatever happens, we have got ... The Maxim gun - and they have not." Post AK-47, the guerillas usually win, or at least can keep the struggle going on indefinitely. The combination of drones for assassination and Bitcoin for payment could force everyone with money or power in…
Drones are easy to jam. The communication link and GPS are most obvious targets.
This is going to be a major problem for the golf industry. It's the ideal target environment - high-value targets, no place to take cover.
[1] https://www.uavnavigation.com/products/ahrs-imu/polar-300
Short-range air defense (SHORAD) is going to be a huge growth area for defense contractors over the next several years.
I wonder if we can repurpose mm-wave 60GHz panel antennas and SDRs for cheap short-range radars. Then combine with a commercial infrared camera for multi-mode target acquisition. Put those on a mount with servos to control a PKM or M240 machinegun, and mount the whole setup on the roofs of buildings. Critical infrastructure anti-drone air defense guns at fairly low cost.
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Publicly traded? How does that work for illegal operations? And as far as I'm aware crypto currencies really aren't profitable anymore, ignoring needing an internet connection, leading to tracing the transactions back to this hijacked dam.
The only issue for an illegal operation would be paying dividends, where they need to get their illicit cash to the shareholders. This is solved by obtaining cryptocurrency and issuing that to shareholders whose record of ownership is tied to a cryptographic tradable share such as using the erc20 standard or erc1404 standard (for programmers that haven't really had an opportunity to see whats going on, these are just…
A fascinating idea, thanks for sharing
Short-range air defense (SHORAD) is going to be a huge growth area for defense contractors over the next several years.
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Elon's talked about this on stage, where easily could have 1,000 to 100,000 of them with just a tiny amount of C4 - and then have them swarm at one or many targets using AI or other training/data.
Killbots is a scifi short based on this. Don't watch if you're squirmish though.
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Drones are easy to jam. The communication link and GPS are most obvious targets.
There no reason it can't use Google maps to travel and be autonomous with facial recognition. Star-Tracker Algorithm for Smartphones and Commercial Micro-Drones - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7070887/ The short distance drones can travel is a big problem, you can backtrack to the launch location. Committing murder for money is mostly unheard of outside of Hollywood. It happens but it's generally somew…