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DARPA is now garbage

DARPA has ~200 employees. not bad for coming up with the internet, GPS, stealth aircraft, speech translation, and the failures are pretty telling too: project orion, hafnium bombs. now it looks like DARPA has been captured by security idiots like current director arati prabhakar where it is all talk about terrrrrrrrists: DARPA: Driving Critical Technological Surprise compare that to the previous darpa director regina durgan in : Regina Dugan: From mach-20 glider to humming bird drone

can we go back to actual innovation instead of this bs security theater?

Buffet on prosperity

No manager operates his or her plants at 80% efficiency when steps could be taken that would increase output. And no CEO wants male employees to be underutilized when improved training or working conditions would boost productivity. So take it one step further: If obvious benefits flow from helping the male component of the workforce achieve its potential, why in the world wouldn’t you want to include its counterpart?

buffett argues that fully realizing the potential of the women in the workforce will lead to more prosperity. obvious, but nice to be put so concisely by one of the smartest investors in the world.

Using Buttcoin as a database

people are “abusing” bitcoin to embed their own data into a distributed store:

if you are willing to waste money — albeit very small fractions like 0.00000001 bitcoins — by sending that money to invalid bitcoin addresses, you essentially have created a channel for random data transmission. The bitcoin blockchain is in one sense a massively replicated ~7GB database that stores data for all eternity.

Who has your back?

In this annual report, the Electronic Frontier Foundation examined the policies of major Internet companies — including ISPs, email providers, cloud storage providers, location-based services, blogging platforms, and social networking sites — to assess whether they publicly commit to standing with users when the government seeks access to user data. The purpose of this report is to incentivize companies to be transparent about how data flows to the government and encourage them to take a stand for user privacy whenever it is possible to do so.