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Palantir is extending its reach even further into government

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> Didn't the Supreme Court, stacked by Republicans, decide that Presidents on official business are immune to prosecution, on a case against a Republican president? That's one massive check eviscerated for political reasons. The constitutional “checks and balances” are between the three branches. The prospect of the President being prosecuted by his own executive branch is not a “check” contemplated by the constituti…

They didn't ask you to define racism. They asked you to find sources for your claim, which you have conspicuously forgotten to include. It's a public source too, so it doesn't cost you anything to support your claim. Are you recalling something that actually exists, or trying to warp the narrative into whatever supports your perception?

> They didn't ask you to define racism

They raised the definition of racism by preemptively asserted that articles leveling “legitimate” accusations of racism wouldn’t count.

For example, here’s an article trying to tie Trump’s growing support among minorities to “multiracial whiteness” and minorities “embrac[ing] white power movements.” From where I’m standing that sure seems like calling minority supporters of Trump white supremacists.

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CECOT is part of US mass deportation operations. Sending someone to a concentration camp doesn’t become justified when the destination is a foreign country. In fact the US plans to expand the number of domestic and foreign concentration camps. > civil proceedings in the US do not ensure a right to legal counsel. You’re appealing to the law. But due process is violated even if there is a legal framework to justify it.…

>Sending someone to a concentration camp doesn’t become justified when the destination is a foreign country. If illegal immigrants were to voluntarily deport before becoming detained, could they avoid incarceration at CECOT? If the answer is "yes", then it seems their own actions/decisions cause this. Why then should I have sympathy for them? >But due process is violated even if there is a legal framework to justify…

People who aren’t trespassers or violating any law are punished and deported without a chance to make their case. You’re assuming that all people ICE sends to concentration camps deserve to be there? But these determinations have been made without fair hearings where people have a chance to formulate a defense. Due process is not afforded these people. Treating people this way is unjust.

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> Didn't the Supreme Court, stacked by Republicans, decide that Presidents on official business are immune to prosecution, on a case against a Republican president? That's one massive check eviscerated for political reasons. The constitutional “checks and balances” are between the three branches. The prospect of the President being prosecuted by his own executive branch is not a “check” contemplated by the constituti…

> So we’re going to judge what’s “legitimately” racist through what Democrats think is racist? It’s like you’re trying to prove my point! Expanding the concept of “racism” to encompass unrelated beliefs and preferences is a liberal idea, and baked into almost everything NPR does Are you claiming that lying about Haitians eating pets to get people to vote for your anti-immigration platform isn't racist? How do you fig…

The traditional definition of “racism” focuses on treating individuals differently because of their immutable characteristics. Democrats have turned that concept on its head, to encompass opposing cultural change to a community from mass migration of people from foreign cultures. Regarding the specific example, the “food versus pet” distinction is a core one in any culture.[1] Vance’s story aptly illustrates the cultural friction that’s happening. Stephen Colbert would call it “truthy.”

[1] When I was a kid, my muslim immigrant mom told me not to marry a white girl because “they eat snakes.” I married a white girl, and she had in fact eaten a snake before. Culture is a real thing that exists, and it’s okay to prefer your own!

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Wake me up when SAP provides productivity tools of the level of PalantirFoundry’s Pipeline Builder, Ontology Manager, Data Lineage and Workshop.

You are aware the product names are cognitive obfuscation that the underlying implementation is just vanilla open source data modeling services right? Linux. Windows. Both are "operating systems"? What actual novel data collating and anomaly detection algorithms does Palantir implement that no one else does? Oh that's right these services are all just different corporate branding atop the same old open source stacks…

Show me a fully graphical version controlled UI that hides PySpark behind visual widgets.

Show me a entity-relationship model management [with version control] that wraps Spark data frames into a fully ontology-based graph database.

Show me a low code/no code UI designer that is fully consuming the ontology layer abstracting your Spark dataFrames.

#meWaiting

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They are the tools why PalantirFoundry is worth every penny [not entirely true note: PalantirFoundry is a lowCode/noCode stack on top of a Spark cluster] Pipeline Builder : https://youtu.be/WIQA7u1tbsY?si=iG-N9xHpUPPVAqDX OntologyManager: https://youtu.be/SOW0IA_I0bk?si=u5eha0o-yrn4pHvu Workshop: https://youtu.be/Uh0zpMUR6wY?si=BClTTbch70ZolRCb

I am sorry but these look like very basic ETL/UI Dashboard tools. Is this all they got?

I would love to know an alternative to that superbly integrated stack . [be aware that none of those tools require coding knowledge, nor any DB administration, nor scalability consideration. But for me the most important part is that the data workflow is not dataFrame driven, but semantic entity/relationship driven. Think of that as if you had an ORM magically wrapping your Spark cluster, and make it look like a graph database. Oh, and the sync with ElaticSearch is built-in for a no-brainer semantic search feature on your objects]

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You are aware the product names are cognitive obfuscation that the underlying implementation is just vanilla open source data modeling services right? Linux. Windows. Both are "operating systems"? What actual novel data collating and anomaly detection algorithms does Palantir implement that no one else does? Oh that's right these services are all just different corporate branding atop the same old open source stacks…

Show me a fully graphical version controlled UI that hides PySpark behind visual widgets. Show me a entity-relationship model management [with version control] that wraps Spark data frames into a fully ontology-based graph database. Show me a low code/no code UI designer that is fully consuming the ontology layer abstracting your Spark dataFrames. #meWaiting

Yeah ok let me go expropriate other peoples systems.

They exist but are used in house not sold as products.

There are information theory texts with all these ideas written in them published back in the 1950s we just didn't have powerful enough computers

Thiel and Musk's only advantage is age. They were able to implement first due to a single property of physics.

Most "geniuses" today, like Tao, just like reading math. None of them have any truly novel net new ideas. They're parrots whose cages were in the nerdy section of a book store.

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You are aware the product names are cognitive obfuscation that the underlying implementation is just vanilla open source data modeling services right? Linux. Windows. Both are "operating systems"? What actual novel data collating and anomaly detection algorithms does Palantir implement that no one else does? Oh that's right these services are all just different corporate branding atop the same old open source stacks…

Show me a fully graphical version controlled UI that hides PySpark behind visual widgets. Show me a entity-relationship model management [with version control] that wraps Spark data frames into a fully ontology-based graph database. Show me a low code/no code UI designer that is fully consuming the ontology layer abstracting your Spark dataFrames. #meWaiting

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I am sorry but these look like very basic ETL/UI Dashboard tools. Is this all they got?

I would love to know an alternative to that superbly integrated stack . [be aware that none of those tools require coding knowledge, nor any DB administration, nor scalability consideration. But for me the most important part is that the data workflow is not dataFrame driven, but semantic entity/relationship driven. Think of that as if you had an ORM magically wrapping your Spark cluster, and make it look like a grap…

> but semantic entity/relationship driven

This is marketing speak who means nothing. What do you mean? Something like this?: https://www.ibm.com/products/information-governance-catalog

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I am sorry but these look like very basic ETL/UI Dashboard tools. Is this all they got?

I would love to know an alternative to that superbly integrated stack . [be aware that none of those tools require coding knowledge, nor any DB administration, nor scalability consideration. But for me the most important part is that the data workflow is not dataFrame driven, but semantic entity/relationship driven. Think of that as if you had an ORM magically wrapping your Spark cluster, and make it look like a grap…

> I would love to know an alternative to that superbly integrated stack

This one has 10 years of precedence: https://www.ibm.com/products/information-server

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I would love to know an alternative to that superbly integrated stack . [be aware that none of those tools require coding knowledge, nor any DB administration, nor scalability consideration. But for me the most important part is that the data workflow is not dataFrame driven, but semantic entity/relationship driven. Think of that as if you had an ORM magically wrapping your Spark cluster, and make it look like a grap…

> but semantic entity/relationship driven This is marketing speak who means nothing. What do you mean? Something like this?: https://www.ibm.com/products/information-governance-catalog

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