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> To the extent that high value workers knew that they were treasure to be looted they might have decided that the US was a least worse option.

Yes, that lines up with von Braun's account of his motivations.

> We knew that we had created a new means of warfare, and the question as to what nation, to what victorious nation we were willing to entrust this brainchild of ours was a moral decision more than anything else. We wanted to see the world spared another conflict such as Germany had just been through, and we felt that only by surrendering such a weapon to people who are guided not by the laws of materialism but by Christianity and humanity could such an assurance to the world be best secured.

I'm not particularly convinced by this man's praise of America and talk of Christianity, I think he was brown-nosing just a little bit... but it does seem clear he preferred America to the Soviets.

von Braun and his team specifically sought out Americans to surrender to. Characterizing a surrender as "theft" (as though people are property?!) is truly bizarre.

What is this whitewashing? The Soviet Union never stopped assassinating people, and the practice clearly continued into present day Russia. Boris Yeltsin was one whim away from being assassinated in 1991 on orders from the KGB; the only reason it didn't happen is because the Alfa group commanders decided not to be bloodthirsty that day.

Just how many $5/mo subscriptions do you expect people buy, and how much does that all add up to per year?

The privilege here is real.

General anesthesia is fraught with peril. Every time somebody is put under they're dicing with death.

> Shouldn’t they have a paper-based/offline downtime procedure for this?

If they did, I would expect their employees to be out of practice with such methods since they weren't working that way day-to-day. Unless they're running regular "all computers are down"-drills to keep their employees sharp, downtime was probably inevitable.

Does it really make a difference, with respect to whether they should be kicked off HackerOne? Incompetence and disorganization is no excuse for what is essentially (if not literally) wage theft.

Exactly right. The American government considers associations inferred from this "metadata" to be sufficient evidence to execute people via drone.

Depleted uranium has indeed been used in airplanes. Some models of 747 have a ton or so of depleted uranium, though I believe this practice was phased out in later models.

It's not just planes though. Some sailboats have been made with DU keels. Usually lead is used, but DU would presumably allow for a smaller (thinner?) keel.

> Also, slightly unrelated but Cloudflare protected websites are almost impossible to access via tor, the captcha never succeeds.

Yes, I've never understood why it's seemingly so important to CAPTCHA me before serving me less than 100kb of read only plain jane HTML. What sort of "attack" is this stopping? I'm pretty sure the CAPTCHA itself is bigger than half the sites it blocks me from reading.

I did some more research and it seems I am substantially correct; paying a ransom to a terrorist organization is illegal.

Is this the reason Hydrogen is grouped with the alkali metals on the periodic table?