Manuel_D

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by Manuel_D 6mo ago
People are willing to tolerate worse service to avoid paying. And people still private even when the legitimate service is extremely convenient. Take Steam, for instance. You get fast downloads, cloud saves, mod support, etc. Yet games rele
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by Manuel_D 6mo ago
Piracy isn't a service problem. Many people just want to consume media for free. It's true that poor service can exacerbate piracy, but even a good service isn't enough to dissuade pirates. Games that are completely convenien
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by Manuel_D 6mo ago
So that they can sell licenses to proprietary software implementations on top of selling the hardware.
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by Manuel_D 6mo ago
https://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2026/03/05/new-analysis-rtcc-... Seattle apparently tripled likelihood of perpetrators being identified.
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by Manuel_D 6mo ago
> that's still asking people to give up their most sensitive freedom, the right to move without being tracked, for speculative gains. It might come as a shock, but there's nothing guaranteeing private movement in public in the
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by Manuel_D 6mo ago
The idea is that incurring a few hundred civilians deaths to liberate Iranians from a regime that slaughtered them by the thousands or tens of thousands is a net positive for human life. Of course this only works as a justification if the I
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
https://maps.app.goo.gl/Yud6EFprZeaVDaeQ6 This is the view outside of Fairchild AFB, which runs the training course in question. Wikipedia reports that Spokane has a Mediterranean climate, as does Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
Spokane is in the Eastern arid region of the state.
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
If this behavior actually is a prevalent issue, then there will be many fines that add up. If Google doesn't rack up many fines, then this problem is evidently rare.
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
A lot of renewables have intermittent generation. If daytime electricity demand is already saturated, adding more solar panels increases capacity but doesn't increase generation (or to be more specific, it doesn't increase generat
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
The only quote from Thiel in that piece is the same "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible" I wrote about in my comment.
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But wouldn't all of that apply to Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, General Motors, Colt, Browning, and countless more companies that don't just build software for the military but actual weaponry? Yet those com
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
> Palantir controls insights, models, and outcomes, No, Palantir's customers are the ones gleaning insights. To re-use the Excel analogy, this is like saying Microsoft is controlling insights and outcomes because organization use Ex
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
Responses like these are a big part of what convinces me that the hysteria around Palantir is unfounded. I see broad claims about how the company is violating privacy, going to overthrow democracy, etc. but when pushed for details, most pe
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
What are those openly known facts?
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
> When they talk about the ontology acting as a "digital twin" of the customer environment one could be forgiven for thinking this does actually mean Palantir is exfiltrating customer data and cloning it, which is not what happ
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
This pattern in which people make claims about Palantir having access to private information, then retreat back to something along the lines of "I don't like the character of the company" is exactly the kind of thing that lea
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
Can you point to where they have said so? The only one that comes to mind is Thiel's quote from 2009 about democracy being incompatible worth freedom (the populace will vote to remove freedoms, e.g. try to ban AI or other technological
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
> The broader point is Palantir's specific confluence of: > - access to granular, non-anonymized data across industry silos Do you have evidence that Palantir itself - not customers using Palantir software - has access to this
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
> This isn’t accurate, Palantir business model includes mass surveillance for military/security purposes; You realize that this is not mutually exclusive with what I just wrote? Palantir builds software for military and security pur
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
No, but I am curious why this one company gets some much hate. I can get being politically opposed to the conservative politics of some of its founders, but the vast majority of conservative-founded companies don't get nearly as much
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
Users choose whether to use Copilot, and are free to decline it's use.
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What is going on?
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The fine was levied in a US court.
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
Facebook moved away from chronological timelines as default in 2011. YouTube added "recommended" videos tab in 2007.
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Like all metrics, they fluctuate over time. But they've remained pretty for decades stable at around 10 per 100k per year. The recent rise doesn't really coincide with social media adoption. By 2008, >80% of teens were using so
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
> The teen suicide statistics do not lie. Teen suicide rates in the US are lower now than they were in the 1990s.
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
Not quite. If it's widely known that bot impressions aren't being filtered out, then people are less likely to place ads with Meta.
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
Sure, but tutoring involves learning and improving the skills at hand. Meritocracy doesn't mean equal opportunity, it means candidates are evaluated equally without regard to superficial characteristics like appearance. A meritocratic
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by Manuel_D 7mo ago
Sure, but tutoring involves learning and improving the skills at hand. Meritocracy doesn't mean equal opportunity, it means candidates are evaluated equally without regard to superficial characteristics like appearance. Of course candi

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