> officials in Denmark and the Netherlands have similarly expressed a desire to uncouple from the US-based software group oh that is clever writing
I wonder which Danish official they are talking about. Lots of voices against it, but not from officials. The danish state is going full steam ahead. Just yesterday the Greenlandic police was integrated with Grotham from Palantir.
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I've pointed this out before, but there's an interview clip of Alex Karp saying that Trump won the election in a landslide[0]. If you look at the actual numbers, no one, with any idea of mathematics or statistics or even just basic analysis skills, would call Trump's election victory a landslide. It calls into question the fundamental raisin d'etre of Palantir. It makes Palantir look like a pure propaganda tool. Ther…
Alex Karp's transformation from progressive to MAGA is fascinating; more so knowing that his father was jewish and his mother was black. I can understand a zeal to "protect the country", but FFS, to be the brains of the secret police is a bit much. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/opinion/alex-karp-palanti...
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#65> officials in Denmark and the Netherlands have similarly expressed a desire to uncouple from the US-based software group oh that is clever writing
I wonder which Danish official they are talking about. Lots of voices against it, but not from officials. The danish state is going full steam ahead. Just yesterday the Greenlandic police was integrated with Grotham from Palantir.
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#66> officials in Denmark and the Netherlands have similarly expressed a desire to uncouple from the US-based software group oh that is clever writing
I wonder which Danish official they are talking about. Lots of voices against it, but not from officials. The danish state is going full steam ahead. Just yesterday the Greenlandic police was integrated with Grotham from Palantir.
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Well it’s kind of the same with Rand. That’s their thing, they read these books as preteens and the nuance is lost on them
I thought RAND was just a contraction of Research And Development?
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#68lol
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I've pointed this out before, but there's an interview clip of Alex Karp saying that Trump won the election in a landslide[0]. If you look at the actual numbers, no one, with any idea of mathematics or statistics or even just basic analysis skills, would call Trump's election victory a landslide. It calls into question the fundamental raisin d'etre of Palantir. It makes Palantir look like a pure propaganda tool. Ther…
Alex Karp's transformation from progressive to MAGA is fascinating; more so knowing that his father was jewish and his mother was black. I can understand a zeal to "protect the country", but FFS, to be the brains of the secret police is a bit much. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/opinion/alex-karp-palanti...
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He literally considers Saruman the good guy, Mordor the good place, and Gandalf the bad guy (holding back technological progress) Discussed previously e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45901389
Wait seriously? I'm pretty sure Tolkien would be furious at the mere idea. He could not have written more thoroughly black and white morality if he tried...
I haven’t read it but the premise is quite cool. Of course having Thiel as a fan kinda ruins it but I still wanted to read it sometime.