Garvi

Anyone know a good resource for searching through old DEFCON presentations? There's a couple I'd like to link in such cases, which will of course be swiftly taken down by the Dan, but maybe some lost soul will get the hint.

My point stands then :)

Would you care to elaborate with any source for this claim? Otherwise I have to crown this the dumbest thing that I've read on the internet this week. I see the HN moderation is doing a great job at keeping the triple digit IQs away.

The real info in this thread is in the flagged and dead comments that were removed by moderation "for your safety". To see those you need to be both logged in and have showdead set to "yes" in your settings.

You've lost all objectivity on this.

What you are doing is proving my point.

That's exactly like the travel advisories to the US for EU firms. If it bothers you this much, why this Don Quixote act, why not do something about it where you actually can? Otherwise it's just bashing the Chinese for internet happy points. Just like reddit.

Damn, this topic got downvoted onto the 3rd page by the HN hive mind in no time. Right after: SQLSync – collaborative offline-first wrapper around SQLite, 16 points, 20 hours old

..must have a hell of a lot of downvotes.

From the article:

> Satellites positioned closer to Earth in LEO can swiftly target and track objects on the ground, providing both low-latency communication and high-resolution sensing capabilities. They also hold the potential for offensive actions, such as deploying interceptors to shoot down rockets or ICBMs during their vulnerable boost phase.

How much is this going to cost? Considering this system can be beaten by scheduling a regular ICBM test and pretending until it's too late and the missiles split into dozens of warheads and destroy an equal number of cities.

When I first heard of hundreds of billions going unaccounted for in pentagon spending each year, that was 30 years ago and the images of f-117s bombing Serbia (and getting shot down) still fresh, that-s where I believed that money went to. I was around 12 back then, so don't me judge to harshly on my naivete.

It would seem Musk doesn't mind.

I'm presuming(hoping) you're US American and not European. Have fun with that attitude on your next election. I'll be consuming a lot of popcorn.

You chose an awfully complicated way to say something that's most simple: "Everyone's wrong". And if that's your point, it's a cheap cop out.

I don't think you worry about the Russian citizens of Ukraine more than you worry about cheering for your team. You could check the UN reports on what's been happening there during the 8 years of civil war we chose to ignore, as if the world started with Russians "completely unprovoked" invasion. I guess we can both agree that Russian actions aren't silly, dumb or random, but calculated.

I have to admit I don't follow journalism that has lied to me in the past, so I don't know exactly what they're selling you, but I am interested. So what is your position on why Russia attacked Ukraine? For natural resources(I guess geography was taken off the curriculum after I was in school), invasion of the whole of Europe (I remember friends calling me in panic what to do, now that the Russians are coming.. I live in a EU country fairly west), or just pure hatred for Ukrainians in their heart (Balkan style)?

You mean the ICC that Biden just announced is going to be sanctioned for being dishonest? The ICC the US has an Act about attacking in case US war criminals be held there? The court that keeps ignoring regular illegal US invasions of foreign countries (I don't have the memory to recall all of them in my lifetime alone.. must be somewhere in the high 50s). How's that invasion of Syria going? Do you even know about it? That's what my posts are about: our western world being anti-informed on important topics.

I am wondering how do you chose when to believe in the ICC and when not to?

It's hard to believe, but the times of "If I won't do it, someone else will." are back and it seems people forgot the lesson. It is my honest opinion that anyone who works on such weapons is a monster.

3 years ago this topic would be full of people protesting this. Pointing out the inhumanity, the potential for abuse, the hypocrisy, the dangers of desensitizing war. Censorship changed the game entirely.

People believing admins when they claim moderation and censorship is out of their hands and the result of a faulty system they have no control over, has to take the cake for this years distortion of reality.

Fact is very specific topics are routinely being suppressed systematically.

Another example of a defense mechanism: The strawman falacy. In other terms: That guy that said all moderation is bad - you sure showed him.

Somehow all the disinformation that gets posted on US economic rivals gets unmoderated, while all the shit that's going on in the US or is committed by it's military (or it's sibling the Israeli military) remain completely undebated. There is literally no forum to discuss the wrongdoings of the US in Iraq that lead to the war in the first place and cost over a million people their lives. Have fun repeating your mistakes over and over and sending your children to die and kill other children. And you morons hate the Chinese and Russians more with every day and for all the propaganda that gets posted on this forum.

I can understand now how the doctors must have felt during corona, with all the idiots telling them corona isn't real or dangerous, because they read a headline on reddit/9gag/HN.

People thanking the censor and exposing their defense mechanisms is quite the dystopian sight. I guess I must be one of those paid instigators and every positive feedback I receive is from people I personally brought in from the outside.

This whole thread could be full of people expressing their dissatisfaction with the way HN is being moderated and most would never know. At least everyone is safe from a healthy debate on important subjects like an objective comparison of the US health care system with comparable systems the moderators censored last week.

I have no more intentions of participating in this toxic community. It's pretty evident everyone with a brain left already.

Me too, buddy. Unfortunately I've had enough of my posts removed not to bother anymore. There is no free debate on HN, only a guided one with one side being amplified with the other hidden away. The mindless audience then adapts their views when presented with this fake consensus through censorship.

What the actual heck? I thought this was declared illegal everywhere in the EU? How and when did this happen and how did I miss this? Figures it would be Germany leading the charge in something this corrupt. Is this happening in other EU countries as well?

Edit: I'm an idiot. I'm halfway through the documentary now and realized this is about fracking in the US FOR the EU that made buying pipline gas from Russia illegal. Instead we're forced into buying 6x more expensive US gas. Heavy industry is dead, some of my friends are out of work. Enjoy the pollution. At least it's not just the EU population that is getting the shaft by US industrialists.

> I struggle with the freedom for personal choice to do what you want vs the collective better situation we get to form for ourselves as a society by banning these things

I'd say for many things it's no choice at all and it's why we have laws in the first place. You rights to speeding in front of schools are being suppressed everywhere. As is your right to homicide, infanticide. Any -cide really is not within your right to perform.

It's what living in a society is all about. "Every man for himself" is natures law; it's what we struggle to overcome and be better. I don't think we would have gotten where we are without rules that govern society.

Are you suggesting submissiveness to be an expression of strength and independence?

It would seem Spain lacks the political spine to even be outraged. Very telling indeed, but of much deeper problems here in the EU.

I'm positive every single individual in this thread that is justifying these actions, would have the opposite opinion if the roles were reversed. It's a shamefully ignorant position to have.

Apple customers are the fur wearers of the tech world.

Trusting companies to do the right thing has always been humanities most shameful indulgence.

Having been lied to 20 times in a row and still trusting the 21st time is a sign of other problems. It is a good indicator of a populations submissiveness. Admitting to oneself that one has made a mistake investing a lot of money in a product, takes some guts most people don't seem to have. Same as admitting your oh-so-democratic government has obviously been corrupted by the same corporate elements.

The issue is admitting this leads to admitting one was a coward for tolerating it. That's why people double down on the most idiotic positions. I've seen flat earthers and corona deniers do it same as dieselgate apologists.

Unfortunately many of the top trading companies invest a lot of money into anti-regulation propaganda. It's the "trickle down economy" of the 21st century.

> Fwiw, Without detail, your comment is automatically presumed in category 2

I presume only by people who don't know what yellow journalism is as I was quite clear as to why I believe the guardian to be a failing rag.

I would not recommend Safari as I have completely stopped supporting it many years ago due to Apples hostile approach towards developers and the fact it's broken beyond internet explorer levels and has been in this sorry state for at least a decade. I don't know if people still using it have some special use cases or just don't know you can install another browser.

That's interesting. Was that in a public school? Would you be willing to share your state and if you believe your experience represents a national average or is above/below the national average in regards to "at what age do children learn about square root"?

> Reconnaissance aircraft are a dramatically more economical

I really don't see how they could be reality. Do you have any specific arguments or sources for this claim?

> Those sensors cost tens to hundreds of millions of dollars each.

What sensors are you talking about that cost hundreds of millions and requires multiple?

I remember some time ago watching an episode of the Joe Rogan show(it had some comedic value back then) He and his friends were talking about the MIT admittance exam, pointing out the square root in the maths problem as an indication that this math problem was really hard. And I thought to myself "that's what primary school children learn around here at age 12 in my literally 3rd world country".

Pythagoras was around the same time. I'd like to warn people that not understanding these basic math concepts makes you appear uneducated to many people internationally.

I understand it is a drone.

You have a point there, but only marginally, as current rocket tech is making rapid deployment of satellites a breeze. I'm not talking about Musks or the Chinese reusable rockets - the military doesn't care as much about economics and had the ability to rapidly launch satellites from planes for a long time.

I would argue this is obsolete technology (extremely high-res satellite cameras, low altitude drones) primarily intended for poaching of public funds.

Is there any indication this thing will be able to do anything current methods cannot for a fraction of a fraction of the cost?