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OrvalWintermute
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About OrvalWintermute
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Comment #49129873
$30 a month? Lolz, get out of here.
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Comment #49027585
You left out the bodypart business they are now in too.
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Comment #49027444
Huawei has a long history of “borrowing” IP & source code from US companies
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Comment #48992429
I’m happy to see our metrics being improved because much of the economic policy seems to have been based around what was good for boomers. Not what was good for young people who, f…
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Comment #48983602
That is hyperbole as Palantir doesn’t pull the trigger We could easily say: Microsoft, Red Hat, NVIDIA, Apple, Google, openAI, Amazon & Meta are all defense contractors too
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Comment #48982030
Local Private AI will kill off both Chinese Open Weights corporate AI as well as American proprietary corporate AI because they are not competitive on: $ efficiency Privacy Securit…
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Comment #48977493
no one is going to conflate a Palantir FDE with an actual pipehitter Contractors doing IT support aren't "Operators" in the tactical sense, nor agents in the LE sense, nor Officers…
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Comment #48977450
The same could be said about Oracle though, that they received the benfits of early investment by the CIA. However scary Oracle license auditors are though, no one conflates them w…
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Comment #48973853
I think this manifesto conflates Palantir with: The CIA The NSA JSOC The US Armed Forces Weapons Contractors Law Enforcement Federal Counter-Intelligence Various dictatorships Crim…
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Comment #48951579
Reusable launch vehicles were in their infancy during the Shuttle program days. Multiple launch vehicles and crew vehicles exist now, and more are on their way. Taking tech from TR…
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Comment #48951424
They found Planet X, Nibiru! :0
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Comment #48892566
Sam Neill had a great & prolific career; particularly appreciated his role as Cardinal Thomas Wolsey on The Tudors https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000554/
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Comment #48880927
I’m not quite how this relates to tech, hackernews or startups
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Comment #48835308
Grid patterns in image uploads are leading to automatic bans; apparently grid encoding of CSAM material overreach by AI treating all grid graphics as CSAM
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Comment #48756594
“Rare”? :) We don’t know the actual numbers as pericarditis and myocarditis can occur asymptomatically, and people truly need to be under very active medical surveillance to detect…
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Comment #48723768
Stripping of naturalization in the US is usually associated with immigration fraud. Terrorist/Nazi Concentration Camp Guard lies on immigration forms, decades later is found out an…
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Comment #48723635
Seems to be intentionally defamatory From the Wikipedia article on the Orebro party “ Split from the left The initiative to found the Örebro Party was taken in early 2014 by Markus…
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Comment #48663535
Word of Advice for OpenAI: Never underestimate Broadcom’s ability to shaft their own customers - VMware - CA Technologies - Symantec Enterprise Security - Brocade - LSI Corporation…
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Comment #48653259
I remember when Google was a bit rogue, full of brilliant people developing awesome things.
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Comment #48651594
The Pymetrics game is rigged by design: Only 40% self report gender/race no resume data, no education information, degrees, schools, GPA, major, work experience, skills/certificati…
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Comment #48644354
At best Wikipedia is a well-edited wiki of a smorgasbord, great writing, and an incredible resource that provides amazing value. At worst it can be a hive mind echo chamber where c…
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Comment #48635249
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Comment #48613648
VMware really damaged their business longterm, as anyone that can transition off, is doing so, and anyone else is planning on it.