The US military's strategy seems to be to give potential adversaries just enough info to make them think twice about attacking, but not enough to mitigate the threat. Russia, China, and the US know the others have nukes, but they don't know where all the nuke platforms (mostly subs) are or what their capabilities are, so there's an unknown upper bound of potential retaliation.
And so it is with stealth. We know there are subs armed with powerful nukes, but we don't know where they are, or what cities they've been instructed to flatten in the event of an order to strike. Stealth planes are just nuclear missiles that fly up to the target.
...and even if it is revealed by radar, if it's revealed at a smaller radius or if the weapons radar has difficulty locking on or if the highly sensitive radar that is capable of seeing it is more vulnerable to jamming, those are all benefits.
What? You aren't familiar with one random guy on the internet that maybe makes some videos in a very niche market that you may have never even heard of before? What? Do you have some sort of life of something preventing from crawling every single crevice on the interwebs?
Not quite as niche as you describe. He figured out how to fairly consistently hit youtube recommendations / top videos. If you use youtube, there's quite a good chance you've seen one of his videos on the frontpage or seen his name a few times, even if you never watched them or aren't interested in his content.
This may be something you haven't considered, but there are ways of using YT with never seeing the front page. Some people don't just "browse" YT, or watch video after video after video following some algorithmically chosen playlist. It is possible to watch a single specific video and then leave the site. Just like you can also read a single tweet without infinitely scrolling through the bedlam.
Exactly, isn't it a little hypocritical to say that twitter users are simply "infinitely scrolling through the bedlam", while posting on a website that requires scrolling for content discovery? I admit that Hacker News has magnitudes better content than twitter, but it's ironic nonetheless.
I mentioned recommendations and top videos. It doesn't matter if you visit the front page - there's a good chance you've seen Mark Robber's video thumbnail, whether you browse YT for content or not.
I have a bad news for you: youtube tailors their recommendations to each person. I know! It is difficult to belive.
Sarcasm aside I don’t know who this Mark person is. Never heard of him, never seen a video from him. And I’m quite okay with that. If you were to ask me what is trending on youtube I would tell you it is woodworking videos, zany snippets from musicals, and people discussing how a windpowered car can travel faster than the wind. But I also know that that tells more about my media habbits than youtube itself so I don’t generalise from this to everyone.
Try reading with a stronger interpretation. Of course I know recommendations are per-person - consider why I wrote that comment anyway. There's also a few videos digging into why Mark Robber's videos are consistently winning the popularity contest while others aren't.
I've been on youtube since the first day. I have no clue who Mark Roper is and have never watched one of his videos, never had them suggested to me. My feed is almost entirely cooking videos. The rest is random electronica.
You are picking a really dumb fight to be frank. It's ok if people have no clue who this Mark person is or what he does.
It's good that I'm not picking that fight then. I wrote "there's quite a good chance you've seen one of his videos". If you haven't, that's not unexpected and it doesn't change that he's a widely recognisable person in current zeitgeist.
I don’t know him by name but the porch pirate glitter bomb project video and subsequent controversy about the legitimacy of some of the footage was sort of front-page-of-the-web stuff for a time.
I also saw the timer arcade beating device prior. It was well done. He makes some cool stuff, but the former nasa thing and sort of YouTube pandering takes away from it for me.
Hey, it's not cool to steal jokes from /r/antiantijokes. I am a mod there (as evident from my username), and don't appreciate this. The joke is hilarious though.
This is super cool and I can see tons of practical applications. I wonder if you could utilize this technology with SOFAR Channels in the ocean to create long range passive data transfers.
We have a rule when hiring people—we look for people with an internal locus of control. Roughly speaking, this means people who believe they have control over outcomes in their life, as opposed to external forces beyond their control.
It’s a small thing, but it’s surprising easy to spot once you look for it. And it really matters—startups are the business of building something from nothing. You need people who believe they can bend the earth.
