There's a grim irony to naming military technology companies (Anduril, Palantir) after objects from a story written by a survivor of the meat grinder that was World War I.
He created Oculus headsets as a teenager, now he makes AI weapons for Ukraine
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#52One more comment: >"And the companies that did have expertise, like Google, like Facebook, like Apple, were refusing to work with the U.S. national security community." Idk if this is true. I suspect they--at a minimum--cooperate with the "soft" side of the defense industry (e.g. NSA). However, if they don't, I think there will come a time when we will have to bring them to heel. The world won't have the luxury of su…
> I think there will come a time when we will have to bring them to heel.
So what you're saying is that we need to restrain their freedom so we can protect their freedom?
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#53There's a grim irony to naming military technology companies (Anduril, Palantir) after objects from a story written by a survivor of the meat grinder that was World War I.
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#55There's a grim irony to naming military technology companies (Anduril, Palantir) after objects from a story written by a survivor of the meat grinder that was World War I.
"I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."
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No, it won't. The Russian government, while dumb and incompetent to an unbelievable point, isn't dumb enough to try killing on American soil. Besides, it's not like the CEOs of Russian defense companies aren't publicly known.
They have tried. Look up Aleksandr Poteyev, who was living in Miami when they came after him.
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#57There's a grim irony to naming military technology companies (Anduril, Palantir) after objects from a story written by a survivor of the meat grinder that was World War I.
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West coast nerds.
Where're the sci-fi references? The only ones I can think of are Elon's drone ship names and some old T-228 SCSI adapter...
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#58One more comment: >"And the companies that did have expertise, like Google, like Facebook, like Apple, were refusing to work with the U.S. national security community." Idk if this is true. I suspect they--at a minimum--cooperate with the "soft" side of the defense industry (e.g. NSA). However, if they don't, I think there will come a time when we will have to bring them to heel. The world won't have the luxury of su…
A company like Google (or Apple for that matter), with their own freewheeling project systems, would rather jump into an olympic pool filled with razor blades and used condoms before taking any amount of money from the hellish morass that is the defense procurement system. The instant you enter the MIC, kiss goodbye to any of your internal business systems - you will be re-writing the way you work every second of every day. And not for the better, I might add. I think Google looked at the costs of that, looked at the contract, and said, nah, thanks, I'm good. Then went back to feeding NSA/NRO for black money delivered by men in coats.
Of course, now, post-ZIRP, things are a wee bit different.
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West coast nerds. Where're the sci-fi references? The only ones I can think of are Elon's drone ship names and some old T-228 SCSI adapter...
They're internal to the companies. Our server racks are named after Futurama robots, but our customers will never see that.
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Maybe you can contact these guys for tanks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Army_Depot . What positive possibilities are you talking about? I only see some version of an arms race, which is undoubtedly a human nightmare
That's not a junkyard. It's a depot and logistical hub for tanks that are presently considered "in service." America has a lot of tanks in service, and the desert's not a bad place to store them. Where else would you put them? As for positive possibilities: Undersea exploration, development, resource extraction, etc. Some still dream of an expansive human future.
Sealab 2021 for real when? It's the perfect training for space colonization, and we gotta get off this rock for our survival eventually. (Especially by the time bioweapons start getting loose accidentally.)