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New comment by agent00f in "Ares Industries – Building low-cost cruise missiles"

agent00f — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 03:05:05 +0000

This is the only comment that matters in this thread.

The US currently can only put 50 something hulls in the water, so even if they ALL somehow converge on TW, that's not enough to keep that factory busy for more than a week.

Also to contrast, equivalent Tomahawk production is down to 55 last YEAR, despite current urgency. Plus the Ike CSG just used up about 150 in that yemen excursion.

The real tragedy is all the STEM in the US can't seem to muster up the competency or fortitude to compare these basic numbers in any public facing material.

New comment by agent00f in "Ares Industries – Building low-cost cruise missiles"

agent00f — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 02:56:40 +0000

These are likely using smaller turbojets. Eg. the ADM-160 MALD were supposed to be using the TJ-50, all in for <30k.

Of course like most defense projects, they ended up with the "B" version which were supposed to be 120k, but ended up being >300k when said & done LOL.

Currently the Anduril 20lb suicide drone is being sold for $1M apiece LMAO

New comment by agent00f in "I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps"

agent00f — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 02:51:59 +0000

> Higgins' analyses of Syrian weapons

The ironic and actually instructive part of this is that his work was used to rationalize the Syrian war for the west, which has left an absolutely devastating trail of misery for countless millions of Syrian people.

Even more instructive is that the people responsibly for that misery all still pretend to be the good guys.

New comment by agent00f in "I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps"

agent00f — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 02:47:53 +0000

> Because of the greed and stupidity of Western governments and companies

Interesting how you left out the folks who buy the products in question.

New comment by agent00f in "I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps"

agent00f — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 02:00:00 +0000

Thanks for at least admitting the goal is regime change, same as for the "Arab spring" which has left much of that region as failed states.

It's always amusing when people who cause the most misery in the world shout the loudest about human rights and such.

New comment by agent00f in "I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps"

agent00f — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 01:54:21 +0000

Uh, there are many accounts from people who were at various camps if you just search, because the typical stay is much shorter than let on in propaganda. In fact, pretty much all accounts are from people who were released. These are much closer in nature to the US border detention camps, with "prisoners" entering and leaving regularly.

New comment by agent00f in "I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps"

agent00f — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 01:46:19 +0000

Tibet really is the perfect case study for US agitprop. The typical audience for this material literally know nothing about the region outside of state dept/cia pr. For example, the Lamas ran a feudal theocracy but get played up like disney characters. I guess those are only supposed to be bad to the atheists here if it's scary Muslims. Or how it's portrayed as some invasion about as much as the union "invaded" the confederacy.

It's also a perfect illustration of how otherwise supposedly intelligent people in tech are just as easily manipulate outside their area of expertise as the fox news audience.

New comment by agent00f in "Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China"

agent00f — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 19:31:55 +0000

Statements in sources you cite seem rather deceptive, for example insinuating that censorship delayed response. Wiki has a pretty factually sourced timeline with precise dates, and it shows the infamous Dr. Li in question messaged a private group about a lab report he saw from Dec 30 (authorities found out because it was reshared on public forum), when the WHO was notified if it on Dec 31. He was also reprimanded for claiming it was a sars outbreak, when there's no evidence at the time. I suspect many of these news sources are aware of these underlying facts, if they're the sort to do any research before publishing, so the only interesting question here is why they chose to be deceptive anyway.

New comment by agent00f in "Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China"

agent00f — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 19:17:35 +0000

The WHO said there's no clear evidence of h2h on Jan 14. The Chinese cdc team didn't conclude their investigation until a few days after, and the advisory was changed after. Your sort know perfectly well why your statements are misleading but will continue to make them for obvious reasons.

New comment by agent00f in "Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China"

agent00f — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 19:08:04 +0000

The comment you replied to asked for a source, the fact you can't produce any despite all this bluster is revealing.

New comment by agent00f in "Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails by Nassim Nicholas Taleb"

agent00f — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 07:23:08 +0000

The problem with Taleb is that he's incapable of recognizing any error, and he's not smart enough to do novel intellectual work. I recall pointing out some trivial mistake in the stat reasoning on some Facebook post of his, in a comment section full of fawning adulation by sycophants, and was immediately banned.

What really draws people to him is that controversial overconfidence, mostly from folks who don't understand the math anyway but are drawn to the personality. It's the standard confidence con frankly not much more sophisticated than Alex Jones. He mostly got lucky publishing a book about market crashes right as the market crashed, that's pretty much the extent of what his fans understand about the matter.

New comment by agent00f in "Terminating Service for 8Chan"

agent00f — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 09:52:53 +0000

Can you explain why you're taking conservative bigots seriously?

New comment by agent00f in "Hong Kong Leader Backs Down on China Law But More Protests Planned"

agent00f — Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:24:24 +0000

I'm curious where all these concerned westerners were when hk was undemocratically ruled by the Brits as a colony.

Were they ignorant of what they meant at the time or did they not care so long as others were ruled by their own?

New comment by agent00f in "Hong Kong Leader Backs Down on China Law But More Protests Planned"

agent00f — Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:18:16 +0000

These types of protests are largely encouraged by the West to deepen division within it's enemies, same as with sunni/shiites in the middle east, or gop/democrats by the Russians. You can tell because the West didn't give a single shit when hk wasn't democratically ruled by the Brits, but now democracy there is headline propaganda.

New comment by agent00f in "Ford Is Fined in China"

agent00f — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 20:13:42 +0000

The occasion political content here that's often just fox news level "we're the good guys" talking points makes me question the objectivity of the rest of the tech content.

New comment by agent00f in "Netflix Has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle"

agent00f — Sun, 26 May 2019 20:19:07 +0000

These are $10/month subs which are akin to channel packages. Just because some will also sub to the Disney chan package doesn't mean they'll drop Netflix. Would surprise no one if the author were shorting Netflix.

New comment by agent00f in "Huawei’s Yearslong Rise Is Littered with Accusations of Theft and Dubious Ethics"

agent00f — Sun, 26 May 2019 19:54:57 +0000

Huawei is a massive org which does tons of technical work, and beyond a handful of things it's already down to ring tones, which only shows how desperate the accusers are.

You might as accuse Google of ip theft due to that Oracle/Java thing. Or Americans of it since I'm sure it's happening at some level, eg Uber from waymo lawsuit.

New comment by agent00f in "Huawei’s Yearslong Rise Is Littered with Accusations of Theft and Dubious Ethics"

agent00f — Sun, 26 May 2019 19:45:21 +0000

> It seems like you went in with preconceived notions about the subject.

This rather seems more applicable to the wsj and you. The op points out how weak some of these claims are, which is a sign that the wsj is desperately throwing everything at the wall and hope something sticks. This figures given they're a largely conservative pub prone to supporting the gop/Trump econ policy, which I might add a disturbing proportion of techies are sympathetic towards.

What's particularly revealing about this issue is how many parrot the "stealing" talking point while at same time going on in the past about how software shouldn't be patented etc. Basically it shows they want to be able to use the ideas of others but not vice versa when they're getting beat, typical hypocrisy.

New comment by agent00f in "What if we hired for skills, not degrees?"

agent00f — Sat, 04 May 2019 20:37:14 +0000

This comment gets to the crux of this matter, where everyone recognizes industry coding is for the most part not sophisticated enough to warrant a university degree. The majority of jobs are technician 2 year trade school level, but just happen to be well paid for to scarcity. The same folks wouldn't claim the same for doctors or scientists, etc.

New comment by agent00f in "What if we hired for skills, not degrees?"

agent00f — Sat, 04 May 2019 20:29:27 +0000

The point of assignments and such is to guide students through the thought processes useful to understanding material in depth. It's arguably true that some students can get by via guessing or whatever, but the disservice is mainly to themselves. Might as well pay someone to do the work for you.