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by chriselles 5y ago
I was extremely grateful to have USAF A10’s in presence patrols orbiting overhead to deter activity against my partner and I in Afghanistan back in 2013 in a remote area. In conflict environments such as Iran and Afghanistan or against conv
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by chriselles 5y ago
I can confirm the Afghans I worked with between 2012-2014 maintaining regular contact with using Facebook and FB Messenger have all shifted coms to WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram. This all occurred rapidly in the last week due to fears stem
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by chriselles 5y ago
Gangs use of surveillance would ride on the back of their increasing awareness of counter-surveillance. They are increasingly using flight tracker tools to check and see if privately contracted aerial SIGINT services to local/state&#x2
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by chriselles 5y ago
I spent time there between 2012-2014. At the time, Afghan gov’t spending was approx $16 billion with only approx $2 billion actual national revenue. Which was a well known, but largely ignored, problem to anyone paying attention. It’s unlik
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by chriselles 5y ago
Very interesting. Here in New Zealand we saw the very quickly crowd-sourced mashup called Student Volunteer Army(SVA) in the wake of the Christchurch earthquakes. THW appears to be an organisation more thoughtfully designed and more generou
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by chriselles 5y ago
Stanford Professor Ilya Strebulaev put together a stock option valuation tool that’s really useful: https://valuation.vc/
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by chriselles 5y ago
Yes. We have a small holiday place in Lake Wanaka right down the road from Peter Thiel’s block of bare land and his substantial but not ludicrous holiday home. I suspect a fair few who planned on NZ as their international bolt hole are now
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by chriselles 5y ago
Harley-Davidson LiveWire. The best motorcycle I have ever ridden, and I’ve ridden most. It’s that good. But it’s still too expensive and short-legged.
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by chriselles 5y ago
Not entirely correct. The Soviet Union supported government of Afghanistan fell very quickly, and only after, Soviet aid was cut in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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by chriselles 5y ago
We’re in New Zealand and we have been down for 40 minutes.
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by chriselles 5y ago
If only the article included the shift from religious to environmental extremism.
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by chriselles 5y ago
ANOM seems like a shorter/sharper law enforcement version of the CIA's Cold War era intelligence operation when they purchased Swiss encrypted communication company Crypto AG. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry
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by chriselles 5y ago
Well, to be fair.....the professional career field that has the most overlap with intelligence collection/analysis is journalism.
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by chriselles 5y ago
Any combat arms officer/NCO that doesn’t know what happened in the Armenia/Azerbaijan disco dance off last year needs to find a new job. Moore’s Law price/performance has brought us to the point that individual soldiers can b
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by chriselles 5y ago
John Deere and their tractor dealer network have been fighting and delaying farmer owner tractor right of repair efforts for years. John Deere seems to be using the tactic that the tractor owner has the right to repair, but stalling on prov
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by chriselles 5y ago
Can leadership be automated? Persoanlly, I don’t see automated CEOs as a viable option for the foreseeable future. Automation usually works best with consistent and repeatable functions right? And automation usually works worst with diverse
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by chriselles 5y ago
I would posit that in the past we had a bias to over-classified things and today we bias towards under-classifying things. In the Cold War, when the Soviets got their hands on a few of the latest semiconductors there was a limit to what the
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by chriselles 5y ago
Thank you for that! Conceptually, I really like the idea of being able to monetise one’s own attention beyond just one’s own time employed. Ultimately, jt would be super cool to gain a better understanding of one’s own time value beyond jus
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by chriselles 5y ago
What I would find useful is a tool that accurately overlays what my attention & time costs & earns me. That would effectively convert every device/internet interaction into an individualised financial transaction which is not n
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by chriselles 5y ago
A similar story occurred from the pursuing end in the 1980’s South West African Border War. A special vehicle based South African unit called Koevoet(crowbar) was unable to capture an infiltrator who was on foot over hundreds of kilometres
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by chriselles 5y ago
I don’t disagree, but.... Peloton has freakishly high Net Promoter Score(NPS) from most high paying customers. The power of belonging, community, and shared effort/mission is incredibly powerful. Especially in a time of such COVID disc
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by chriselles 5y ago
I’ve had experience with both Lambda and Amazon. Everyone working as an Associate in an Amazon distribution/fulfilment Center from 20 or more years ago would have accrued well over $5m in stock options and units today. That’s for unski
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by chriselles 6y ago
Superficially, it appears to be a very significant achievement for South Korea on top of the existing FA/TA-50. However there is a long way to go, especially in terms of big unknown capabilities of network/sensor fusion and integr
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by chriselles 6y ago
I recall this making headlines in the 90’s in proximity to airbases in Pennsylvania. Specifically issues around drinking water for residential housing with wells in proximity to the airbases.
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by chriselles 6y ago
The concerns I have with a Digital Yuan are linked to China’s One Belt, One Road initiative with the adding of a digital layer to that effort. IF China is able to successfully export its Super-platforms into the developing world it will pro
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by chriselles 6y ago
This is a tough one close to my heart. Working in semicon back in the 80’s, my dad travelled once to the Soviet Union for a semicon show. Once returned, he had a debrief with someone from an intelligence agency. But the fact is that during
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by chriselles 6y ago
On the one hand believing such things can be viewed as funny. On the other hand it is a quiet serious issue. While deployed to the Solomon Islands 15 years ago in a very remote location, the indigenous folks thought our helicopters were ste
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by chriselles 6y ago
I wonder if we’re going to look back and refer to this as the Mona Lisa Meme? I’m only half joking. I wonder which one would win in terms of reach between this meme and the Mona Lisa?
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by chriselles 6y ago
Very interesting story. I wonder how it compares with more contemporary mostly open source intelligence collection efforts such as the Russians seeking value from US academic archives during the Cold War and China’s CCP doing the same even
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by chriselles 6y ago
Zipf’s Law still applies to the US Dollar, with 60% of the global currency distribution by value. But will Metcalfe’s Law kick in with the Digital Yuan over time? The Yuan has a long way to go from its current 2.5% share. But if Chinese dig

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