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  • The drone strikes thing is a bad example. If he didn’t touch it, individual combat units could use drones with impunity. He required drone strikes to be approved by his office.

    Tell me if you had the choice between sending in boots to kill a guy, or drone strike, would you really ever risk your guys getting shot?

    He added red tape, the minimum thing he could do. I’ll agree with criticism that he did the bare minimum, but all these comments about this frame it like he was horny for drones. That’s reductive and misleading.









  • They are losing money on their 200$ subscriber plan afaik. These “goalposts” are all saying the same thing.

    It is a dead end because of the way it’s being driven.

    You brought up 100 billion by 2030. There’s no revenue, and it’s not useful to people. Saying there’s some speculated value but not showing that there’s real services or a real product makes this a speculative investment vehicle, not science or technology.

    Small research projects and niche production use cases aren’t 100b. You aren’t disproving it’s hypetrain with such small real examples.