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  • They likely have little idea of what being governable means.

    They’re an uncontacted tribe. All they know is some strange people showed up on their land and started wrecking the place.

    If some people showed up at your house, wearing strange clothes and speaking a language you don’t understand, started tearing down your walls and throwing out your food, wouldn’t you resort to some kind of violence to defend yourself and your home?

    This must be terrifying for them, especially because a lot of uncontacted tribes have oral histories about being forced out of their original lands by what we know to be mercenaries.



  • I’m sure Intel makes all sorts of chips for military hardware.

    They won’t be allowed to die. How will the missile be able to subtract where it isn’t from where it is if the chip that does the subtracting isn’t made anymore.

    I’m wouldn’t be surprised if there hasn’t been a full investigation into the intel fabs due to this. If consumer chips have been melting themselves for years due to shit manufacturing, shouldn’t someone in the DOD be asking if the chips in their fancy missiles are going to melt themselves halfway to the target?






  • The problem is that this strategy is becoming more popular in physical product development, for things that we’ve known how to make for decades.

    You don’t need to move fast and break things when you’re making a car. We’ve been making cars on assembly lines for a hundred years, innovation is going to be small.

    Same thing for rockets. We put men on the moon 50 years ago for fucks sake. Rocketry is a well understood engineering field at this point. We know exactly how much force needs to exerted, we know exactly the stresses involved. You don’t need to rapidly iterate anything. Sit down, do the math, build the thing to spec, and it fucking works: see ULA, ESA, and NASA who have, all in the past few years, built rockets and had them successfully complete missions on the first launch without blowing up a bunch to “gather data”

    Move fast and break things is for companies that have crackhead leadership who can’t make up their mind about what a product should do. It should have no place in real world engineering, where you know what your product is going to be subject to.