Yeah nature got us here, but "here" is a local optimum based on evolutionary selection forces. If you were to design things based on biomimicry rather than first principles, planes would flap their wings, cars would gallop, and computer vision sensors would only perceive visible light. These people are building solutions rather than solving the problem.
As a 12-year post-9/11 veteran with 7 years at a Tier 1 SOCOM unit and currently a successful BD guy at a Top 5 SV unicorn, your post is filled with misinformation, generalities, and is frankly offensive. Many of my brothers and sisters from the SOF world have successfully transitioned to the civilian world and are crushing it. Are there dark times - yes. But we either choose to let them define us or choose to rise above and move ahead with our goals.
Your comment about bankruptcies and poor credit is not even worth responding to.
What...is with that UI? Between the cut-off titles and the mouseover image spinning, I left in less than 10 seconds. Here's a better, non-seizure inducing list: https://github.com/mvillaloboz/open-source-cs-degree
This constant barrage of FUD from the cybersecurity community is exhausting. The real story here is that a combination of misconfigurations resulted in a system being exposed to remote exploitation. Until we in security move away from producing this noise about the latest clickbaity hack and start professionally addressing underlying hygiene, root causes, and config laziness at scale, we will never drive the conversation forward. But that doesn't get your talk accepted at Black Hat.
Yeah super. Let me scale that for my bank, car loan, house loan, credit cards, FB, IG, Twitter, Email, HN, Coursera, EdX, Udacity, Udemy, Concur, forums, Netflix, LinkedIn, Paypal, Slac, Spotify, Hulu, AppleID, Reddit, Amazon, health insurance, college alumni page, Digital Ocean, WSJ, GoDaddy, hotel points, and airline miles sites.
This is tinfoil hat nonsense. The feed goes out for a couple of seconds due to the vibrations caused by the incoming 10-story booster retropropulsing its way to the deck. It always comes back after the rocket has shutdown.
Half a trillion dollars is spent every year in advertising to those poor people to buy things. Trillions of dollars were spent on chasing jihadis around the desert for 16 years. There is enough money floating around currently spent on nonsense to achieve both yours and Musk's goals.
And if you do not see the potential for positive externalities created here on Earth by arguably the most ambitious project mankind has ever endeavored to undertake, your aperture on the world is quite narrow.
Explorers will recognize the harshness of the universe as a forcing function for bettering ourselves and our species, not a null terminator to sit on Earth and outsource our futures to AI.
I have no LEO experience but I'd imagine increased mobility, decreased chances of rounds exiting the target and hitting an innocent bystander, and cost are the primary reasons.
Don't want to derail the thread too much so I'll keep it short. I did technical "things" that correlate to my current civilian career. Lessons: biggest one was to eat humble pie and realize past performance =/= future success when different domains are involved (mil vs civ). Useful things: I'm generally pretty chill when things are going wrong. I.e. client meeting goes horribly -> "Hey at least we're not in X country getting shot at / how do we optimize for next time / etc."
Former JSOC dude here. Circumstances requiring engaging with pistols == bad day for everyone, so only a few things matter. Front sight focus (which implies maintaining equidistance from the rear sight posts), both eyes open, fast presentation, parallel grip, smooth trigger pull, reacquire, repeat as necessary. And optical sights = more things that can break / run out of batteries / fall off and make noise / etc etc.
Correct me if I'm wrong. Here of all places on the internet, an article with the title of "Ten Years at X" is expected to encapsulate some kind of intellectually rigorous narrative about the passing and the meaning of those 10 years to both the author and the organization. Or are we to assume that such standards no longer exist in order to receive upvotes on HN?
It may be worth the risk but that doesn't change the fact that what you refer to as "Chicken Littles" represent power players in an intractable political dynamic. The only way this kind of cooperation happens is when humans move past current notions of nation states and begin to think strategically as a species.
MongoDB is In-Q-Tel backed - so by that sensationalized metric - anyone who runs a MEAN stack is thus "CIA Backed" as well. Hilarious to see the kneejerky lack of intellectual rigor around HN these days.