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by gantron 1y ago
Agreed. You can really tell commenters' ages based on whether they recall this. The Gates you describe is the one I remember from the '90s. I have to assume that anyone who thinks of Gates as a rich old man who just wants to cure
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by gantron 1y ago
> To what purpose? Steel-manning: Gates has run a deliberate PR campaign for decades to rehabilitate his reputation. In the 80s & 90s (before the Gates Foundation) he was known as a ruthless corporate tactician who crushed competitor
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by gantron 2y ago
I really enjoyed American Prometheus. Might be a bit too focused on Oppenheimer for the original request, but it covers the Manhattan Project more broadly too.
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by gantron 2y ago
No. > That September morning, Krebs didn’t take up Waifu’s chess challenge. “What am I going to do, play him at chess?” he said. “He would have just screenshot what I said and send it to his friends.”
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by gantron 2y ago
I'd argue that working on the right projects reduces the likelihood of collateral damage. Take for example the R9X [0]. Instead of an explosive warhead it has a set of blades on the tip. The US has used it to assassinate single people
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by gantron 2y ago
It's actually exactly correct. That comment is referring to 1993's "last supper" in which the SECDEF gathered the defense CEOs at the time and literally did tell them to consolidate/merge. https://www.wbu
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by gantron 2y ago
Even this is almost certainly an underestimate. Open source intelligence that just the bill of materials for a Shahed is more than the tens of thousands previously estimated. These are probably more on the order of ~$400k [0] [0] https:&#x
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by gantron 2y ago
You're mostly correct that the older tech is the bulk of what's been sent, but there have been lots of batches of newer tech that the US has delivered. [0] These newer companies (Anduril, Skydio, etc.) do it for a few reasons. Som
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by gantron 2y ago
Optionality, even for a monopsony like the Defense industry, is good for the consumer (Pentagon). They still want suppliers to compete. What incentive is there for a company to innovate if the DoD allows their competitors to die out? When i
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by gantron 3y ago
Seems fun to me.
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by gantron 3y ago
> Same folks, everyone. Fewer than 5% of Anduril employees are former Palantir employees.
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by gantron 3y ago
I fail to see how a country maintaining awareness of passages across its borders is a bad thing.
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by gantron 3y ago
This really isn’t to sell any Roadrunners. Anduril has surely been talking to the right program offices and relevant government entities for some time now. This is more to establish the company’s general credibility & draw in new talent
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by gantron 3y ago
Scattering sensors in the desert is militarizing the border ? That’s an awfully dramatic characterization, no?
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by gantron 3y ago
A reasonable guess is that this is in response to the proliferation of group 3 UAS in the Ukraine conflict [0]. Personally, I am all for the US producing robotic systems designed to kill robotic systems that are designed to kill humans. [0]
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by gantron 3y ago
Sounds like an interesting story! How big was a pallet? How does one come to know the specific truck driver?
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by gantron 3y ago
Thank you, the hn title character limit wouldn't allow the flag. Actual title of the document is "Moneyball Military: An Affordable, Achievable, and Capable Alternative to Deter China".
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by gantron 3y ago
A poorly-written, self-posted advertisement for a morally bankrupt service that offers zero novel engineering or business approaches and is still carpeted with the same slimy low-res banner ads as its competitors. Why is this here? Go shill
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Moneyball Military: An Affordable, Achievable, and Capable Way to Deter China(hoover.org)
10 points by gantron 3y ago|10 comments
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by gantron 3y ago
But what’s driving people listening to white noise sometimes isn’t enjoyment, right? There have been cases of clear abuse [0] that Spotify is correct to crack down on. [0] https://www.theverge.com/2014/5/7/569
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by gantron 3y ago
How is this relevant? Subsidies are a fundamentally different model. I understand that dumping on Elon is popular now but c’mon.
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by gantron 3y ago
I don’t think calling Palmer a run-of-the-mill enthusiast does justice to his passion/obsession. Last I checked he had the largest HMD collection in the world. His passion (more than anduril) has been to bring VR/AR to the masses,
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by gantron 3y ago
I’m biased, I work with Palmer and have always 1) found him to be genuine, 2) reasonably impartial in how he judges these sorts of things, and 3) been blown away by his passion for head-mounted display tech. Some of the early Apple leaks sc
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Anduril Announces Lattice for Mission Autonomy(youtube.com)
3 points by gantron 3y ago|0 comments
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by gantron 3y ago
How does an article like this get published without summarizing the specific results or quantifying the drop?
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by gantron 3y ago
Does it dictate that you have to or that there’s an opportunity to do so without standing out?
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by gantron 3y ago
This is one of the more bizarre layoff announcements I’ve read. Vague title, spends most of the intro celebrating the success of different franchises and overall strength of the business, buries the lede in the third paragraph… if you skim
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Defense startup Anduril raises $1.48B in Series E funding(axios.com)
2 points by gantron 4y ago|0 comments
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by gantron 4y ago
I use your ADS-B feeds quite often! Keep up the good work :)
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by gantron 4y ago
Recent example (last ~6 months): Anduril acquired a 30-person company, Dive, that built autonomous submarines with some novel low-cost process. They had built a small number of vessels for internal testing and maaaaybe had started to genera

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