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Mountain home near Aspen, built for monks, sold to Palantir CEO for $120M

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Re: Mountain home near Aspen, built for monks, sold to Palantir CEO for $120M

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Post by alchemist1e9 »

estearum wrote: post #59
Noaidi wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish more people HN could recognize sarcasm or a joke or just an analogy or just something fun to say that mimics the ridiculousness of the people we have ruling our culture right now in this weird cult that they think they know everything and think they’re hubris is not gonna land them face first in the mud.

I mean… people literally do believe this and there’s literally zero indication you’re not among them.

Exactly I had assumed they believed it and so I was attempting to start a debate by addressing the shaky foundations of these types of beliefs.

Re: Mountain home near Aspen, built for monks, sold to Palantir CEO for $120M

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Post by 7e »

therobots927 wrote: post #38

“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?” - Mark 8:6 Enjoy your mountain fortress Karp. The afterlife won’t be kind to you.

The afterlife does not exist. Ask Santa Claus if you don't believe me. Unless you mean how future lives will judge Karp, which is valid.

Re: Mountain home near Aspen, built for monks, sold to Palantir CEO for $120M

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Post by rightbyte »

gotezk wrote: post #49
rightbyte wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you implying that Palantir is subject to market forces?

I’m not even implying: if it wasn’t Palantir it would have been someone else. They just got there first and they have massive balls about it all.

The invisible hand would cover for Palantir if they didn't?

I call this neoliberal fatalism where what they do is inevitable and resisting is useless.

Re: Mountain home near Aspen, built for monks, sold to Palantir CEO for $120M

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Post by cheikhcheikh »

7e wrote: post #63
therobots927 wrote: post #38

“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?” - Mark 8:6 Enjoy your mountain fortress Karp. The afterlife won’t be kind to you.

The afterlife does not exist. Ask Santa Claus if you don't believe me. Unless you mean how future lives will judge Karp, which is valid.

how are you so sure the afterlife does not exist

Re: Mountain home near Aspen, built for monks, sold to Palantir CEO for $120M

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Post by raxxorraxor »

7e wrote: post #63
therobots927 wrote: post #38

“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?” - Mark 8:6 Enjoy your mountain fortress Karp. The afterlife won’t be kind to you.

The afterlife does not exist. Ask Santa Claus if you don't believe me. Unless you mean how future lives will judge Karp, which is valid.

If the universe is an ever repeating pattern and time is meaningless in death, Karp will soon * endoftime^∞ buy that mansion again and again and again. Perhaps with in between variants where you buy that mansion or the mansion turns out to be a mountain goat.

Re: Mountain home near Aspen, built for monks, sold to Palantir CEO for $120M

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cons0le wrote: post #16
dataviz1000 wrote: post #5

> landed a $10 billion software contract with the U.S. Army The United States has ~$38,000,000,000,000 in debt which means a baby born in the US will get $1000 in Trump Bucks to invest in S&P 500 along with a $111,000 share of that debt with its $3,000 a year interest per person. Can someone explain to me how long this will be sustainable? I'm a little sad that I'm not getting any free borrowed money in order to funn…

I notice that when anyone says anything negative about the rich on the internet, people show up at lightspeed like you insulted their mom to defend them

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Re: Mountain home near Aspen, built for monks, sold to Palantir CEO for $120M

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Y-bar wrote: post #52
pbreit wrote: post #32

How are people irate about this?

The man who fancies himself a modern-day Sauron (yes! [1]), who says “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." and who wants to assemble a neo-theocracy by a wealthy elite does something. Some people: “we do not like this” Random internet guy: “stop disliking this guy!” [1] https://bsky.app/profile/takedemocracyback.org/post/3lk4u55a...

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Re: Mountain home near Aspen, built for monks, sold to Palantir CEO for $120M

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Post by tt24 »

jjj123 wrote: post #60
tt24 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This attitude is what’s beautiful about the United States and is in large part responsible for why it’s so wealthy. There’s a widespread faith and believe in the idea that there’s opportunity in every corner, regardless of familial status or other shortcomings. This belief is largely factual, as the vast majority of unicorn founders and billionaires come from an upper middle class uninteresting background.

Couldn’t you also say it’s largely unfactual, since the vast majority of strivers and grinders never escape their economic class? I guess it depends on what opportunity means to you. Does it mean something that’s “likely” or “less than one in a thousand”? To me, a “one in a thousand” chance to strike it rich is not good enough to justify the immense suffering our economic system causes.

Our economic system is actually the only thing that reduces suffering to this extent. It’s basically eliminated poverty, hunger, and healthcare scarcity.
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