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New comment by erdos4d in "Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor"

erdos4d — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 16:03:22 +0000

WaPo, NYT, et. al. are tied to DOD and the intel community. They are the anonymous sources that provide many of their story ideas as well as quotes and sourcing. That doesn't come for free.

New comment by erdos4d in "Reddit using developers to suppress r/UFOs and r/SuperStonk?"

erdos4d — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 17:34:34 +0000

This isn't a theory: either that paper is right, or the US taxpayer is being defrauded by DOE to develop tech based off junk science. One of those things is actually true. Do you pay US taxes?

New comment by erdos4d in "Reddit using developers to suppress r/UFOs and r/SuperStonk?"

erdos4d — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 17:23:30 +0000

It means the guys a Lawrence Livermore are investing a LOT of money into technology that is based on physics which directly contradicts Einstein's general relativity, the best tested theory humans have. In my academic experience, government funders are unbelievably risk-averse, and I bet the ones who run major DOE labs are too. They know that equation is actually right, or are extremely certain that this thing will work even without a perfect understanding of it, or they wouldn't invest the cash. More fun facts: that equation contains a term that Jack Sarfatti has introduced (check citation 29 and the first paragraph of page.3). Jack Sarfatti is a UFO researcher, he studies UFOs seriously and writes physics papers on how he thinks they work. So DOE is pumping serious money into tech based off actual UFO science, which contradicts Einstein. Does this mean aliens are real? No. It does looks very suspicious though.

New comment by erdos4d in "Reddit using developers to suppress r/UFOs and r/SuperStonk?"

erdos4d — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 16:54:33 +0000

You seem appropriately skeptical for my purposes. Free answer time my man. What's your take on a major national lab investing big money into technology based on physics that is 100% wrong, according to what is publicly known? https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.06133.pdf (please note equation 15).

New comment by erdos4d in "Reddit using developers to suppress r/UFOs and r/SuperStonk?"

erdos4d — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 16:43:51 +0000

Reddit devs, care to comment? Who made the commit?

Reddit using developers to suppress r/UFOs and r/SuperStonk?

erdos4d — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 16:43:51 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/16cgq59/this_is_the_only_subreddit_that_refreshes_when_i/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37421733

Points: 4

# Comments: 10

New comment by erdos4d in "Lawrence Livermore Lab paper asserts gravity electromagnetism interaction"

erdos4d — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 14:43:54 +0000

I posted this once before and it got no traction. I decided this time to make the title more descriptive of what is actually afoot here. I'd like people to note the level of engineering in this reactor concept demonstrates a long term commitment of serious resources by LLNL to a modified Einstein field equation (equation 15 in the paper), which states that electromagnetism can affect the curvature of spacetime under certain conditions. Given that the method of operation for the reactor explicitly requires these effects, I also believe they must be substantial in magnitude and that they have actually demonstrated this experimentally to justify this level of commitment. I personally think this paper is a decade or more of work by LLNL. I hope this gets looked at this time, please upvote if you think this is interesting. I look forward to hearing everyone's take on this.

Lawrence Livermore Lab paper asserts gravity electromagnetism interaction

erdos4d — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 14:43:53 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06133

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37147854

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

The Warp Reactor Concept

erdos4d — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 22:41:07 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06133

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37127668

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by erdos4d in "I moved to Germany and regret it"

erdos4d — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 14:45:36 +0000

New comment by erdos4d in "Ask HN: Is everyone becoming a Product Manager these days?"

erdos4d — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 14:11:28 +0000

I have another question: why does a PM make more than a dev? My wife made that jump and her salary went up 50%. She literally just goes to meetings and talks now, yet she makes more than her old job that required real skills. Am I the only person who finds this perverse?

New comment by erdos4d in "I moved to Germany and regret it"

erdos4d — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 13:32:05 +0000

I also moved to Germany and bailed after 6 months. Unlike this article, I didn't care about the people or language, I was there to make some money and move on, so it wasn't a place I wanted to integrate into to begin with. The people in Germany, on average, don't like foreigners and don't want them around. That's true in Europe in general and definitely true for Germany, so I'm not sure what the article's author is really surprised at. That said, what made me move after such a short time though is that I'm 100% sure the same bunch of old money that supported the Nazis is still there today running things. Once you meet a few of the rich ones and see how arrogant and stupid they are, you realize immediately that their society is structured so that these people will remain on top no matter what. And from this fact you know all you need to about who you are really working for, and by extension, who their grandparents supported.

New comment by erdos4d in "US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has intact alien vehicles"

erdos4d — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 04:16:51 +0000

A lot of people have remarked that the government couldn't keep a secret this big for so long. This is correct but misses the point that this secret wasn't kept. I've heard this story multiple times in my life, it's been a staple of US lore for decades and numerous whistleblowers have come forward in the past to retell it. All have been discredited and often smeared as nuts and the media has reported as much and moved on. If this really is true and they really do have a massive disinfo campaign to protect it, we have no choice but to admit that they have never kept a lid on this through secrecy, they have done it through character assassination and control of the media narrative, turning anyone who speaks up into a lunatic off his meds, a liar, and so on, and then moving the public's eye onto something else. That this strategy has worked so effectively and for so long is scarier than aliens, IMO.

New comment by erdos4d in "US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has intact alien vehicles"

erdos4d — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 03:17:30 +0000

This 100%. If this turns out to be real, I bet anything that they are clueless how it works, if they can even get it do anything.

New comment by erdos4d in "US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has intact alien vehicles"

erdos4d — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 20:17:31 +0000

There is the fact that Grusch gave sworn testimony to congress on it, he's going to prison for perjury if he's lying. Doesn't prove it, but it's more than just saying it in an interview.

New comment by erdos4d in "US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has intact alien vehicles"

erdos4d — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 20:13:58 +0000

Assuming this is legit, what makes you believe they understand anything about this tech? They might literally have been scratching their heads all this time with this stuff. We might simply not understand the physics by which it operates and have no ability to do anything with it except dust it off periodically and let another team of eggheads strike out. I can't think of any major technology we currently have which doesn't have a totally legit origin story and which the prevailing scientific and engineering ability of the time didn't enable, so I doubt any real advances have ever come out of this.

New comment by erdos4d in "Military whistleblower claims US has UFO retrieval program"

erdos4d — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 16:39:34 +0000

> Is there something special about the US’s landmass that UFOs only crash there? Or do superior alien life forms who have the capability to travel between planets and probably solar systems, for some reason are only interested in the U.S. when they come to explore the earth?

Actually, it appears they like nuclear weapons and the associated infrastructure to make them. All of the US atomic weapons plants got a lot of UFO sightings when they were first built and operated, with very little after that. https://www.explorescu.org/post/uap-pattern-recognition-stud...

New comment by erdos4d in "Military whistleblower claims US has UFO retrieval program"

erdos4d — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 16:29:05 +0000

> On the other hand, the thing that has me very skeptical, is his claim that countries around the globe have been in open competition to retrieve this vehicles and all of the countries have somehow kept everything secret for over 50 years. I just don't find that credible.

It's not a secret though. Throughout my life I have heard this same story, from lots of people, though it has always been lore and they usually want to know your take on it. Many people will tell you they believe it if they trust you. There have been whistleblowers on this before as well, and each has been discredited and their claims denied, often with implication that they are crazy. The establishment line has always been that if you are into this, you must also be a nut, and so on. I don't find it too hard to believe that the government made a decision to just deny the truth and slander those who spoke it, rather than try to contain it. That's really their only move for a secret too big to keep.

New comment by erdos4d in "Chinese surveillance balloon spotted over U.S., Pentagon says"

erdos4d — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 02:25:00 +0000

Yeah, there are sites where these are being looked into. I'm not sure its the same thing you mean, but you can bet there are plenty of eager guys out there making sure these cams aren't going to waste.

New comment by erdos4d in "Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first encountered them?"

erdos4d — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 21:46:30 +0000

Frechet differentiation.