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by dogman144 1y ago
Rarely or never lost a tactical battle or a strategic conflict ther. Some big ones like Operation Anaconda are the obvious outlier. But what the Army, Marines, and all the Air Force can’t do: nation-building. What the State Dept is supposed
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by dogman144 1y ago
You’d be surprised
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by dogman144 1y ago
You’d have to define “good” and your understanding of fires targeting chains before I feel I could make a useful response! You’d be mistaken to think of me as a fan. But, I understand, I think you miss, what Palantir did as a net positive f
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by dogman144 1y ago
There’s some nuance to understand about targeting flows and precision strikes, and why “incredible” is suitable term to use. Not that what you list out didn’t occur, certainly
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by dogman144 1y ago
“Forwarded deployed” is just national security jargon adopted by to a tech co, as I recall.
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by dogman144 1y ago
It delivered two things, and the easy response to your fair point is tactical tools — a rifle, great software — don’t win wars on their own. 1) Palantir was the first breath of fresh air that brought actually good tech with modern tech supp
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by dogman144 1y ago
You should look into how the LA targeting works, and what vendor drove data-driven policing like this. If I recall, it might have been Chicago PD or NYC that dumped Palantir bc the issue you note + cost.
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by dogman144 1y ago
And facilitated it well. And now US fed law enforcement likely will have it.
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by dogman144 1y ago
Military integration with law enforcement -> military tech licenses -> focus on cities -> cities have troves of SIGINT Unencrypted group chat -> one friend hates one party -> another friend loves to talk about illegal habits
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by dogman144 1y ago
A helpful framework I’ve liked is - Palantir was incredible technology during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for putting the proverbial warheads on foreheads of insurgents with terrible SIGINT practices and a lot of generated data. You co
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by dogman144 1y ago
Yes, it is often missed but hippies are at hacker cultures core, in terms of the root file directory. John Perry Barlow’s resume shows it all.
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by dogman144 1y ago
Not a new topic - few years ago, the Jen Easterly-era CISA made a hard recruiting pitch at defcon. Patriotism and service-messaging one might recognize from their own time in the military. What was surprising was the intense applause from a
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by dogman144 1y ago
Agree with both. I’m undiagnosed and slowly wondering if I have it the more I see exact language matchups to what feels to be a very hard to describe experience. Puts me in a tricky spot as I experience similar descriptions of the problems,
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by dogman144 1y ago
I actually agree with your disagreement, and my answer is more scoped to a technical audience that has the know how base to deal with it. I wish it was different and I agree that there’s a massive accountability hole with… who could it be?
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by dogman144 1y ago
You raise good points but the target of your support feels misplaced. Want private ai? You must self-host and inspect if it’s phoning home. No way around it in my view. Otherwise, you are picking your data privacy champions as the exact sam
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by dogman144 1y ago
Correct
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by dogman144 1y ago
Well, with a bit of sarcasm/exaggeration added, it’s been a while since FBI seized a mayor’s phone and indicted half his staff.
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by dogman144 1y ago
Ya and it’s also granite on swamp, with significant cost multipliers to get anything built. Latter is a literal statement, engineering bids have geoloc multipliers for costs. To your later point, I’d love to see some data on why modern city
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by dogman144 1y ago
There is very little that’s unique about NYC’s ability to build a great public transit system, other than it is a uniquely very hard place to do it, and run by a uniquely crooked city govt. So, if somehow NYC could do it, what’s everyone el
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by dogman144 1y ago
NYC’s newer bus lane approaches and congestion pricing findings counter this. Also, you’re measuring pub transit by its economic sustainability. Pub sector services are not judged by this, nor should they be. See my OP.
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by dogman144 1y ago
- Uber serves routes that are difficult to reach - Those routes hit underserved communities (read: low income) - The $2 service becomes $10 after some loss leading, which is what Uber literally did. // - The lanes aren’t fully occ
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by dogman144 1y ago
- Uber builds a bus - Uber asks to use bus lanes because because once again, and ITT, private sector frames public sector as “a peer product” that should have competition because this is America and so on - Uber gets access to bus lanes - p
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by dogman144 1y ago
Layman’s understanding, but the only real prevention is time and if there’s an existing grizzly pop down there. Reason grizzs are expanding is the males have very large roaming territory, and each new adolescent male needs to find its own o
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by dogman144 1y ago
Right. What evidence is out there on the leak contents? All I have found is putting 2 and 2 together that this Signal variant has been used for months, the vendor was exploited and lost data, and vendor worked with clear texts logs. That le
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by dogman144 1y ago
No, I rarely think self-referential comments are useful, let alone interesting. I do think it’s useful however to claim information space on a serious topic before, interestingly, various apologists show up as is happening ITT now.
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by dogman144 1y ago
Have you found info on the chat texts? Referring to “a leak” as in these chats go public in some form vs into a RU SCIF somewhere, and that there’s some verification of what the clear text chats were/who’s in it. I am speculating it’ll
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by dogman144 1y ago
It’s probably against the rules to self-link old comments. And it’s hard to be remotely proud about having a good take on this news as it unfolded. However, when this first broke, select HN users were claiming this was OPSEC 4D chess and no
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by dogman144 2y ago
> Not even close… Belt and road? Investing in ports? Infra build support for owned to CN? This literally just happened over the last decade, that’s plenty reason.
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by dogman144 2y ago
For a tech forum, this take is pretty darn close to once again giving bad/dumb actors benefit of the doubt backed up by zero.zero% technical logic by claiming they’re actually playing 4D OPSEC chess. They replace “ideologically compro
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by dogman144 2y ago
Seems with southern UT, the three differentiators to your situation are the incoming summer heat, LDS and SLC tech. Heat - I’d try to get a laptop soon, and start scouting out your WiFi access points that have A/C. As you know the heat

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