I find it perpetually funny that his name is Alexandr Wang

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Wang_(designer))

Really disappointed in Tester about this

“They (palantir) have a story to tell”, what a shameless sleezeball.

They are politicians and they are not your friends nor do they care about us.

Some things really start to make sense when you look at the political landscape from this point of view.

It’s a career that self-selects for narcissists and sociopaths. What kind of person thinks they should lead others and is willing to treat them like resources and pawns?

I am the tool that babysits my agents lol

Hahahaha

Law enforcement is held accountable for anything so rarely that it's silly and disingenuous to bring up a couple high-profile examples as if they actually matter.

Even after these cases you mention, for example, that 1 year old was shot by a police officer somewhere in Missouri or Mississippi I think, within like the last year, right

I do agree with you, and can admit that the position was weak from the get-go. However, I do strongly oppose the fatalistic mindset as it - in my opinion - lulls people into complacency and acceptance instead of fighting for change (e.g., civic oversight boards, external audits of misconduct cases, collaboration with local government officials for reform, etc.).

Thanks for your reply though, it did help me see I’m arguing from a charged and unequal assertion. Maybe not an outright fallacy, but I suppose fairly close.

We should indeed bring that back

i'd even settle for japanese style intense shame

Can do the same with Amazon

nice

Would be incredibly inefficient and non-competitive to operate without LLMs. It would be an exaggeration to say they are as necessary as the internet or electricity, but it feels kind of close. Can't operate a software business without them.

well if a bunch of other stuff he said that ppl thought was false turned out to be true, why not that too lol

so, to be clear, are you seeking to mislead us into thinking there is something fundamentally different between gambling on sporting events versus on things like election outcomes?

> there is something fundamentally different between gambling on sporting events versus on things like election outcomes

Yes. Everyone seems to like sports gambling and no one whatsoever cares about non-sports-gambling prediction markets. Thats the difference. Framing this as an issue about prediction markets is misleading. It’s about sports gambling only

A lot of people are pretty puritanical about gambling in general. I think prediction markets just push themselves harder and have an air of tech bro douchebaggery about them, so that's why they are currently getting most of the hate.

From the linked survey results:

Percent who say they "frequently" or "sometimes" engage in:

online sports betting: 23%

prediction markets: 14%

Not a huge difference. I would say the two things are not materially different in popularity (in this one survey).

The article (which I agree is a bit crappy) even goes out of its way to mention the two things separately in the sentence "For someone to win in a prediction market or sports bet, someone else has to lose." They are different things, but they are both zero-sum, which is the point of the article. So the two things are not really different in principle, either.

I can't really grasp what your point is or how you can criticize the article for not being unsupported by the link, and then misrepresent the contents of the link.

> prediction markets: 14%

Doubt