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I don't have a citation, just inferences based on years of observation. I also didn't lay OpSec is mostly useless. I'm not convinced that's true, though it may be. OpSec alone is useful but brittle . If it's all you've got, you'll probably eventually have a bad day. Looking at entities considered "masterminds", what I often find is ... some intelligence, yes, but a lot of shielding from, or disregard of, risk. Impuni…
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Which is all wrong. The monolith in 2001 had dimensions in ratios of 1:4:9 [and continuing into other dimensions...]. Why the heck would you go to all the work of putting a monolith of the wrong shape out there?
1:4:9 is too 2000's. 1:9:49 is what you want these days.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%E2%80%93East_Timor_s... Australia and East Timor negotiated a treaty to divide up oil and gas in the sea between the two countries. Australia bugged the East Timorese government offices to get an unfair advantage in the negotiations. The East Timorese government found about this, and then sued Australia in the Permanent Court of Arbitration to have the treaty invalidated. An Au…
I'm sorry but whats wrong with this? It's exactly the job of the Australian intelligence agencies to protect for the countries interests and gain advantages where they can. This case is even more reasonable as it's a country spying on a country so both parties have the opportunity do so. The NSA has directly spied on corporations (Airbus) and passed the information to their own corporations (Boeing) in the past which…
A reddit user [1] found its location [2] and another figured out it was installed sometime during 2015-2016 based on when the satellite imagery changed. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/k01dc3/mysterious_m... [2] https://goo.gl/maps/2xdrTqcnguX3ky8AA
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I mean, it’s pretty cool. There’s that fact. But my guess it’s probably being drive to top due to the parallels to 2001. I’d imagine there’s a large Kubrick fanbase on HN, if not just a 2001 fanbase.
Clarke. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sentinel_(short_story)
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Printer ink then ;-) On a more serious note, Rhodium fits the bill: super expensive, hard, durable, silvery and corrosion resistant. Using the 7,700 lbs estimate elsewhere here, and a price of Rhodium I randomly found on the internet of $16,100 per troy oz, the material of this structure, if made from Rhodium, would cost about $1,749,005. Which is actually not bad, for a very rich person. I guess they'd have to build…
I think you calculated that wrong. I get $1.8B at that price.[0] Though that 7700 lb estimate assumed the sculpture was made of aluminum; rhodium is about 4.5X as dense, so it'd be closer to $8.1B. [0]: 7700 lb * 14.5833 troy oz/lb * 16100 $/troy oz = 1,807,891,701
Your figure does sound a bit more realistic. Still, printer ink...
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The phrase "weaponized autism" used to be a thing on 4chan when I cruised that back in the day. It honestly opened my eyes to a severely under-tapped resource in the job market. Individuals with autism tend to be able to focus on tasks more, and tend to see things in a way that lets them analyze systems and logical steps phenomenally well. In the social-sciences fields, they tend to be overlooked, because of either t…
I love the phrase "weaponized autism" as well, speaking as someone on the spectrum. A previous manager of mine once told me I am great with coming up with unique solutions to problems. Like you said too, some of these people lack good interpersonal abilities. I know a friend who is also on the spectrum and is one of the smartest people I know, and excellent when it comes to math. However his lack of interpersonal and…
I wish there were a way to be more open about this. On the one hand, you have things like ADA really dictating from a legal perspective how companies can discuss these sort of things; on the other hand, you have very real stigmas that people have against neurodiverse people. (For instance, I have not and will never tell my boss I have ADHD; I have heard far too many stories of people being lulled into thinking it was safe to do so and then finding their professional relationship irrevocably changed.) It's a shame because I think it could be a net positive for all if done in a healthy way.
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I'm sorry but whats wrong with this? It's exactly the job of the Australian intelligence agencies to protect for the countries interests and gain advantages where they can. This case is even more reasonable as it's a country spying on a country so both parties have the opportunity do so. The NSA has directly spied on corporations (Airbus) and passed the information to their own corporations (Boeing) in the past which…
I think there's an argument that kind of underhanded behaviour is not in the best interests of Australia.
(deleting, because now my comment is getting pasted all over the Internet, and though it was not to my knowledge misleading, it didn't actually provide any useful information)