This is Josh levine's site, the guy behind Island; he basically started electronic trading. He used to use this site to stream himself trading in the 90s/00s. Crazy seeing it on hn, I'm just finishing a book he was featured in
I'm no expert but pretty much everyone was for the Patriot act. It was voted on like 2 weeks after 9/11. Crucially, it was also supposed to retire. And now we have the freedom act, essentially the same thing...(I'm like 80% on it being called freedom act)
We're already working on putting missiles and directed energy in space at my job in missile defense. They are 'defensive' missiles but the new ones they're putting up there will have offensive capabilities as well