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san francisco software consultant for turbines.io alum at illinois institute of technology.

mantas at turbines dot io

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It is extremely difficult to justify fake beef that costs more than real beef. Maybe for a niche group who care about the ethics of it, but they aren’t enough to support a market. Once fake beef costs 80% or less than real beef, it could get some traction

Not sure, but I believe that they were using some proprietary system to account for wind/temp, because over that distance they will have a massive impact. Adjustments via drone likely just means they used a drone to get a better idea of adjustments for follow up shots. I would imagine that the rifle was even held by a device to make more precise micro adjustments

Assuming his rifle was factory accurate to 1/2 MOA and he made zero shooter related inconsistencies, and all environmental factors between the shooter and the target were accounted for, at 4km he would expect to hit inside of a 60cm diameter circle

Shots like this are mostly luck

It might be hard to believe, but on the inside, people like this are pretty easy to spot. Crypto people are weirdly bad at scamming, compared to other con artists, but because the amount of damage is so fast and liquidity so easy, incompetent people can do a lot of damage.

The scammers also the most vocal. Partially because they aren’t building something novel or valuable, and make up for it in marketing and flash. It’s also faster to build a con than to build a real product, so you see more of them

But yes. It is exhausting. Honest parties in the industry need to build against a large and growing negative reputation. It may be insurmountable. And the industry, generally, does nothing to punish these bad parties or self-regulate. The industry likely has to die, and be reborn after the token/blockchain era

Well that’s a farce. Google wants an “open web” as long as the definition for “open” doesn’t infringe in any way on their data collection. If they could redefine SSL to give them access, they would

By adding 100% to the price on all cars sold that are produced from that factory as long as it is owned by an adversarial individual.

The factory can always be sold to another company.