• @Blue_Morpho
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    71 month ago

    They’re billionaires. You don’t think his “little shelter” doesn’t have automatic turrets guarding it?

    • @grue
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      71 month ago

      His “little shelter” is, together with Larry Ellison, essentially the entire island of Lanai. It has a 7-mile-wide moat separating it from the higher-populated parts of Hawaii, let alone the US mainland.

    • @lordnikon
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      61 month ago

      It will run out of bullets at some point with no way to reload a few RC cards should do the trick

      • @Blue_Morpho
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        31 month ago

        I’m sure they’ve done the math and have enough bullets to kill everyone with the resources to reach his island. They probably used the same employees that plan their server capacity.

        • @lordnikon
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          41 month ago

          But your assumption is they have infinite space for ammo and the guns don’t jam. It’s not like they can run them 24/7 with zero maintenance and its not like they will have a staff. If they are at the point of bunker time money is worthless. I remember reading about how there is a lot of talk in ultra wealth spaces about how do. Stop your security force from just taking your bunker. No one has a good answer for that problem and it puts a smile on my face knowing that will be their fate.

          • @Blue_Morpho
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            1 month ago

            Of course there will be staff. He’s not going to clean his own toilets.

            50 million 50 caliber bullets assuming 2x overhead for packing occupies a cube 6 meters on each side.

            And automatic turrets don’t shoot wildly like humans. It’s 1 bullet, 1 headshot. Even YouTubers can do it with a $5 microcontroller and nerf gun.

            • @lordnikon
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              21 month ago

              Yeah but staff requires payment and if society collapses. That means money is worthless so it falls back to biggest person with the biggest weapon gets your stuff. So his head of Security now runs the place.

              • @Blue_Morpho
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                11 month ago

                If it were that easy, his head of security would have already killed him and disappeared with $100m.

                You do it like all dictators have done throughout history. You have several security guards each watching the other. It requires all security in agreement to overthrow the dictator like the Praetorian guard in ancient Rome.