alt Hacker News> And some people, specifically Vietnamese and Cambodian civilians, were on the receiving end of your fun little brain teaser.
To make it ABUNDANTLY CLEAR, I was referring to celestial navigation.
I guess we have to blame people who weren't alive at the time for wars we didn't participate in?
My wife is Vietnamese, btw.
I’m sorry. I’m in a bad mood and that was unecessary. That being said, given the current hyper militarized climate in Silicon Valley, I find this detachment of the science / engineering from its use cases to be more than a little distasteful.