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Silicon Valley getting back to its roots: the Y Combinator cruise missile (www.ycombinator.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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[–] 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

it's also "hey can you make our missile work for us"

you know, they're idea guys

they're also gonna need somebody that knows hydrocodes and microwave engineer and someone who knows imagers and comms and and and

and invariably, at some point, a lawyer

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    they’re idea guys

    Please, he prefers "Psychological Operations specialist". From the linkedin of one of the two:

    Devan served in the U.S. Army Reserve as a Psychological Operations specialist at a Tactical Psyop Company under 7th Psychological Operations Group.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Easy to arrive at that being the ideal profile:

    • Ufos are a psyop
    • Ufos fly
    • cruise missiles fly
    • hence, cruise missiles are a psyop.
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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (2 children)
    • birds aren't real
    • birds are government drones
    • birds fly
    • drones fly
    • cruise missiles fly
    • hence, government drones are cruise missiles
    • hence, just strap a claymore to a quadrocopter and government will pay for it
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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I mean, hand grenades dropped from quadcopter were unironically effective against Russia's invasion of Ukraine in the early days, and arguably a lot of the current emphasis on FPV drones and loitering munitions represent an evolution of the same tactical concept.

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