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Taleb talks about these types of scenarios in Antifragile, where actually many of his predecessors took jobs with the Lebanese Civil Service in order to put bread on the table, and then were sort of philosophes in their spare time, writing and reading.

cf "Adecade ago, I stood alongside my 99 fellow freshmen as we were welcomed into the ranks of medicine in a ''white coat ceremony.'' Here, on our first day of med school, we were presented with the short white coats that proclaimed us part of the mystery and the discipline of medicine. During that ceremony, the dean said something that was repeated throughout my education: half of what we teach you here is wrong -- unfortunately, we don't know which half." via http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/16/magazine/16INTRO.html?page...

Cue the, "Half of everything we know about medicine is wrong... we just don't know which half."

TLDR 10/10 would make this assessment again. USSR Tech:US/British Tech::Bizzaro:Superman. Like them or not, but it is actually quite hard to copy-paste Raytheon, General Dynamics, BAE Systems et al into a system that uses force as its key mechanism of control.

I wonder what he would say about #jesuismilo.....

For those unwilling to click:

STATUS OF THIS MEMO

   This memo discusses problems that arise and debugging techniques used in bringing a new network into operation.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

DISCUSSION

   Twas the night before start-up and all through the net,
     not a packet was moving; no bit nor octet.
   The engineers rattled their cards in despair,
     hoping a bad chip would blow with a flare.
   The salesmen were nestled all snug in their beds,
     while visions of data nets danced in their heads.
   And I with my datascope tracings and dumps
     prepared for some pretty bad bruises and lumps.
   When out in the hall there arose such a clatter,
     I sprang from my desk to see what was the matter.

   There stood at the threshold with PC in tow,
     An ARPANET hacker, all ready to go.
   I could see from the creases that covered his brow,
     he'd conquer the crisis confronting him now.
   More rapid than eagles, he checked each alarm
     and scrutinized each for its potential harm.

   On LAPB, on OSI, X.25!
     TCP, SNA, V.35!

   His eyes were afire with the strength of his gaze;
     no bug could hide long; not for hours or days.
   A wink of his eye and a twitch of his head,
     soon gave me to know I had little to dread.
   He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
     fixing a net that had gone plumb berserk;
   And laying a finger on one suspect line,
     he entered a patch and the net came up fine!

   The packets flowed neatly and protocols matched;
     the hosts interfaced and shift-registers latched.
   He tested the system from Gateway to PAD;
     not one bit was dropped; no checksum was bad.
   At last he was finished and wearily sighed

Cerf [Page 1] 

RFC 968 December 1985 Twas the Night Before Start-up

     and turned to explain why the system had died.
   I twisted my fingers and counted to ten;
     an off-by-one index had done it again...

   Vint Cerf
   December 1985

@sama have you thought about running a kickstarter to publish a hard copy version?

I can't stop watching it.

that's crazy! what happens if we go into a recession and the top 1% aren't making enough money to pay 30% of the tax bill...

Cf. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/planning-machin...

Shouldn't someone simply build a "log-in-with-LinkedIn" website that allows people to list their current and former salaries?

Readers of this would do well to pick up a copy of Ghost Fleet (http://www.ghostfleetbook.com).

I like this idea, but the challenge will be building effective ammunition (I suspect depleted uranium might not be the best option here) for frequent engagement, and minimal (read: no) collateral damage.

yeah, they actually do!

Worth reading Zelikow and Allison's "essence of decision" -- now that they have evolved into a complex bureaucracy with multi-level masters to serve (middle managers, shareholders, political actors), they quite literally can't do anything except maximize profit by driving traffic via click optimization. Bureaucratic process and palace politics (models 2 and 3) are driving outcomes, not executive vision (ie Zuck, model 1)... Time for sadface.

The inverse corollary being the essay (I can't find it) about the sociology of lines at Tokyo Disneyland.

Question: what happens when there's no line for a specific ride at Tokyo Disneyland? Answer: nobody wants to ride the ride! Second question: what happens when there's a line for a specific ride at Tokyo Disneyland? Answer: everybody starts queuing up for that ride, even if they don't know which ride it is!

"As the ’70s wound down, Cerf and Kahn abandoned their efforts to bake cryptography into TCP/IP, bowing to what they considered insurmountable barriers."

Have any of your teams experimented with machine learning navigation?

All the people I know who have received theirs already have actually described just this experience (essentially, 'I didn't think it would be useful, but within a day, I realized it was pretty amazing,' &c.).

Do ou own one?

In fact, many Apple executives describe their strategy as "Last Mover" quite publicly. And I think that holds up to scrutiny. Remember the Rio? And I certainly recall pre-iPad tablets. And of course, as cited above, many, many Android "smart watches".

who is the competitor?

Looking at this, I can't help but see a few original Gits, forking into hundreds, then thousands of moral software programs, installed across human history.

What happens to the out-of-work truckers? Next-gen #highwayrobbery. https://medium.com/@AreDangerousMen/h-gh-n00n-bb645b6e04b1

see: http://www.wired.com/2015/05/worlds-first-self-driving-semi-...

Is I2 (Innovators' Initiative) still going? There is an FB group and they used to put on events. Loosely connected to the Defense Entrepreneurship Forum.

Probably also good (better even, perhaps) to add his "Endgame" -- a truly definitive study of the entire war.

...is it me, or did I miss the argument here?

Worth citing: https://medium.com/@AreDangerousMen/a-dod-embassy-in-silicon...

Context?? Is this a demo? Or new standard issue equipment?