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Discussion on: What's your atomic bomb?

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Ben Halpern • Edited

I saw @calebthompson give a talk about working on cellular triangulation technology that can help the military track and kill people.

It was never pitched as such, the developers were just given exciting math problems to solve, but that was its ultimate purpose.

I don’t have much in my own past to offer. But we will need to avoid dark temptations in the future of dev.to. Many platforms turn awful over time and prey on the users. Trying to ensure that doesn’t happen here.

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rhymes

It was never pitched as such, the developers were just given exciting math problems to solve, but that was its ultimate purpose.

This reminded me of an article (unfortunately in Italian) that I read yesterday about the new chief of Mossad that created an operation in which the various actors involved (killers included) didn't know they were part of a Mossad operation.

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Ravern Koh • Edited

Watched a video yesterday on new research that creates photo realistic videos. It's really scary how if this is perfected, it could end the usage of videos as evidence.

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Andrew Lucker

Sell out early and sell out often. Urgency kills ethics every time.