Fear for retaliation from something like this is almost as if there’s a bigger problem we are not addressing here

Is palantir just a unifying api to google search history emails and Facebook messages and activities? I’m guessing it’s a query, background job, data request to these traitorous citizen civil liberty betraying American companies, comes back unifies the data set then allows you to run a needle haystack search on it?

Or like tableau- just connects a bunch of disparate databases that normally are very hard to connect and makes it easier to get relevant data. If every county has a different format for storing data on streetlight purchases, but there has been a code update on what makes them safe palantir tries to make it so one person can search for how many and where streetlights need to be replaced without calling up every county and writing custom scripts to parse 100s of DBMS's.

I know this example is less exciting than spying on everyone but despite how they try to hype it up it's a lot more realistic use case.

Or if you want to batch order data subpoenas

The suck up everything. Probably also got all the gov't restricted data from DOGE. The gov't does store vast amounts of encrypted comms to decrypt later in secret datacenters. And then there's prism. They are afraid of normal people, its McCarthy hunting Reds while high on coke raised to the next power

You are 1,000,000,000% more likely to die hit by a car as a pedestrian than die from a panhandler asking for a buck

Won’t be needed when no one has any money to buy what factories produce

I agree with your sentiment. But technically, it's possible for companies to produce exclusively for export.

Cities should have a little bit of crime

this benefits few and violates the privacy of millions… can we get a some fckin privacy laws yet

If you gave them permisison isn't that on you?

iOS you can

(1) Choose no permission - Then, if you want you can go to your photos in the iOS Photos app, select a few, pick "Send to App -> Facebook" when you want to give Facebook a few photos

(2) Copy and Paste photos

(3) Choose "only selected photos" - In this case, in the Facebook app, you choose to add photos, the photos you previously gave the app permission to view appear and there's a button "Select more Photos". You can pick that and select more. I use this option peronsally

(4) Choose "all photos" - I give this permission to Google Photos since I use Google Photos to make all my photos visible across all devices.

If you choose 4, that just seems on you. You told them they could access all the photos.

Is 2 years or so big enough sample size for any conclusions? You’re also seeing massive money movements; last quarter larger than consumer spending (!!!) This money isn’t going to junior head counts(labor), it’s going to compute(capital) Also what’s everyone’s balance sheet really saying? Will this money movement to capital rather than labor ACTUALLY pay off ? I think that would take a 10year hind sight to prove no?

I’m usually a fan of going the SPA route. But for something like version control of a code base, the mission critical nature of it, I think should have less frills and serve plain html and css with optional js enhancements

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