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

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Post by exceptione » Sun, Dec 21, 2025, 8:30 PM UTC

siliconc0w wrote: post #20

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…

The debt will be inflated away, we'll lose access to cheap debt , and tech-company bonds will be the new treasuries. ultimately we may be better off over the long term since the firehose of government money creates a lot of market distortions and inefficiencies.

> since the firehose of government money creates a lot of market distortions and inefficiencies.

You mean elite capture¹ of government resources. Government money has repeatedly shown to create a lot of wealth, but the government should be free from the oligarchy. The monopolist sponsored narratives don't match with the data.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_capture

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

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Post by Y-bar » Sun, Dec 21, 2025, 8:46 PM UTC

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...

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

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Post by hulitu » Sun, Dec 21, 2025, 9:33 PM UTC

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

So the God's envoy on Earth, bought a house. Really sweet.

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

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Post by diydsp » Sun, Dec 21, 2025, 9:34 PM UTC

akudha wrote: post #44

Noaidi wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Buy gold and silver. Seriously. If you do not see the precipice we are a top of I have nothing else to say. ever since the great recession the Fed has been propping up the economy with low interest rates and Quantitative Easing. There is no way out of this but for an even greater depression. All these fake trump bucks and investment plans are not for the children, they are for the investors that need the money in the…

get ready to help each other This. This will make all the difference, everything else is secondary. In today’s media/social-media hellscape, how does one even begin to build a community? Every front page is filled with negativity, divisiveness. I used to think preppers are nutjobs. As I grow old now, it feels more like they have a point

Good question. First start as small as possible. You dont need to design a massive system and burnout is a real possibility... which leads to: find groups already set up around you. We have a local food pantry that also cooks for people. It's ok to test drive various groups until you find good fits. There are various ways. Im helping a group get their non-profit status atm. Not super visible or boots on the ground but needed/useful. Other groups just need people to help reach out on social media.

It's as much a state of mind as physical actions and good for you for starting to see the need and opportunities.

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

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv » Mon, Dec 22, 2025, 12:33 AM UTC

krautburglar wrote: post #28

It is probably for the best that Alex Karp is kept in isolation.

It's not that isolated, temporarily during a snowstorm, sometimes. Otherwise it's neither off-grid, nor at the end of the world.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=St.+Benedict%E2%80%99s+Monastery+i...

Several bizjet-capable airports near there. And that's all that counts :)

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

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Post by Noaidi » Mon, Dec 22, 2025, 1:36 AM UTC

ipaddr wrote: post #30

Noaidi wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Buy gold and silver. Seriously. If you do not see the precipice we are a top of I have nothing else to say. ever since the great recession the Fed has been propping up the economy with low interest rates and Quantitative Easing. There is no way out of this but for an even greater depression. All these fake trump bucks and investment plans are not for the children, they are for the investors that need the money in the…

Doesn't feel so roaring.

Not for you…

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

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Post by Noaidi » Mon, Dec 22, 2025, 2:28 AM UTC

alchemist1e9 wrote: post #46

Noaidi wrote: post #17

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I know who I was thinking of. Theil is looking fro the Antichrist, and the antichrist is Karp. Signs of the antichrist: 1. He will exalt himself. 2. He will heed his inner voice above others. 3. He will be hostile toward the true God. 4. He will exalt human logic above faith. 5. He will prosper for a season and be loved. 6. He will not desire women. 7. He will not follow the faith of his fathers. 8. He will viciously…

This list is all heavily extrapolated and there are good reasons to reject any antichrist is well defined or even prophesied as lists like this claim. The Bible warns of escalating deception and a future opponent of Christ through passages like John’s letters, Paul’s “man of lawlessness,” and Daniel’s prophecies, but the highly detailed profile of a singular Antichrist, complete with global empire, mark of the beast,…

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.

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

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Post by alchemist1e9 » Mon, Dec 22, 2025, 2:41 AM UTC

Noaidi wrote: post #57

alchemist1e9 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This list is all heavily extrapolated and there are good reasons to reject any antichrist is well defined or even prophesied as lists like this claim. The Bible warns of escalating deception and a future opponent of Christ through passages like John’s letters, Paul’s “man of lawlessness,” and Daniel’s prophecies, but the highly detailed profile of a singular Antichrist, complete with global empire, mark of the beast,…

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.

Yeah my bad I somehow thought you were serious and so I wanted to explain why even if you’re religious Christian that this antichrist concept isn’t really so well justified at all.

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

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Post by estearum » Mon, Dec 22, 2025, 2:52 AM UTC

Noaidi wrote: post #57

alchemist1e9 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This list is all heavily extrapolated and there are good reasons to reject any antichrist is well defined or even prophesied as lists like this claim. The Bible warns of escalating deception and a future opponent of Christ through passages like John’s letters, Paul’s “man of lawlessness,” and Daniel’s prophecies, but the highly detailed profile of a singular Antichrist, complete with global empire, mark of the beast,…

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.

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

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Post by jjj123 » Mon, Dec 22, 2025, 4:16 AM UTC

tt24 wrote: post #50

et-al wrote: post #31

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Because we're all temporarily embarrassed startup founders who haven't exited yet .

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.