Please don't use Hacker News as a religious or ideological battleground. It tramples curiosity. Please don't pick the most religiously/ideologically provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.
This is interesting! People ignoring this, I think, is also interesting on its own. I respect if other people disagree, but that's my 2c. I think our overton windows may not agree here, but I think this is part of the value of discussions with other humans.
Are you a moderator? The directive tone of this post is as if from an authority figure, but, but I do not believe you are one.
I do not believe there is anything about a religious or ideological background here. Could you please clarify?
I also believe it is your post that could be more accurately described as trampling curiosity; I believe there is a role reversal, in that I think your comment is a better description for trampling curiosity than the post your are responding. I'm not trying to be snarky - I'm curious how you came to those conclusions.
No it's not. After a decade of the US-centric coastal leftist obsession with race and gender it is not interesting. It's about as interesting as Christians commenting on abortion.
>Are you a moderator? The directive tone of this post is as if from an authority figure, but, but I do not believe you are one.
>I do not believe there is anything about a religious or ideological background here. Could you please clarify?
US leftist's obsession with race and gender is religious/ideological.
>I also believe it is your post that could be more accurately described as trampling curiosity; I believe there is a role reversal, in that I think your comment is a better description for trampling curiosity than the post your are responding.
This is what every religious/ideological zealot says when they're denied a platform to spew their nonsense.
firmware should not have to be signed. it's a user hostile practice to prevent people from owning their machines. The real problem is the online update. put the firmware on a sd card.
>No, but I am curious why this one company gets some much hate.
Mostly because hating Palantir is a trendy leftist virtue signal. Defund ICE being another one. Defund the police was trendy five years ago, but is no longer popular.
>The problem with saying “good people on both sides” is that one side is literal nazis - the origianl quote is referencing a white supremist march in Charlottesville where marchers chanted “jews will not replace us”.
Your link that supposedly says it never happened seems to say that it happened pretty much exactly as i described.
> Trump did say there were "very fine people on both sides," referring to the protesters and the counterprotesters.
> He said in the same statement he wasn't talking about neo-Nazis and white nationalists, who he said should be "condemned totally."
If you are marching alongside nazis, at a march organized by neo-nazis, you’re a nazi. There are by definition no good people who march alongside nazis, so his (and your) attempt to differentiate falls flat.
They're getting old, and with that enough of them are getting rich. And that makes them worth pandering to so they can be parted from their money. See for example all the commercials that feature 90s crap and political talking points intended to appeal to them.
It's so funny when a member of the younger generation comments. Younger generations are always trying to kill off the older generations. Both physically and metaphorically, too!
It makes sense in a way. If you were actually successful in doing that, you could finally make the world in your image instead of having to work around all those pesky "legacy" viewpoints that hold back the True Progress of the Younger Generation. But alas, the older generation still exists, because the younger can't do it.
But do continue with the passive aggressive comments. While it keeps me spry, you still get paid entry-level wages when you should be kings.
I am OK with you personally practicing a religion and its rules.
I am NOT OK with you forcing me to follow some religion's rules.
And yes, I will look down on countries whom choose to force a specific religion on everyone. We can look in our own backyard, with multiple abortion bans, which lead to many women dying due to miscarriage and needing abortion. Was illegal (cause of baby Jesus, spit) so women died.
Or we can look at Saudi Arabia school fire in 2002 where the girls didn't have headdresses and were shoved back in. They died due to radical Islamic bullshit. Or the idea of "Religious police".
Religion and government should never mix. Not ever. Our founding fathers and Marx were all right about that.
Because people in the former group don't criticize those countries, they criticize Islam, and tend to categorize all Muslims (specifically Muslim immigrants) as ontologically evil.
Meanwhile people in the latter group tend to be very specific that their criticism is of a state and its policies, rather than the religion of Judaism or Jews in general, even though their efforts tend to fall on deaf ears.
>Observing Islam does not make one Islamic. Observing ontological evil does not make one ontological evil.
No, by your own words, "People who believe in ontological[sic] evil are ontologically evil people"
If you believe that Islam is ontologically evil, you believe in ontological evil.
Ipso facto you are an ontologically evil person.
This is basic kindergarten logic if it doesn't get through to you I don't know what to say.
"Observing Islam does not make one Islamic" is not an equivalent statement. You did not make a subjective statement about observation, you made an objective statement about belief.
>Dumb flex but OK.
I agree. It was dumb - "only Sith deal in absolutes" level stupid, and I don't know why you came back to double down on it.
>No, by your own words, "People who believe in ontological[sic] evil are ontologically evil people"
Yes, people who believe in ontologically evil beliefs (such as Islam) are ontologically evil people. Not belief in the concept of ontologically, this is a misattribution error on your part.
>If you believe that Islam is ontologically evil, you believe in ontological evil.
Islam is an ontologically evil as I stated above. I believe in ontological evil as a concept, but that does not make me ontologically evil.
Ipso facto you are misattributing this to ontologically evil as a concept. This is basic kindergarten logic and contextual understanding if it doesn't get through to you I don't know what to say.
QED.
>"Observing Islam does not make one Islamic" is not an equivalent statement
Yes it as, as the first sentence was "Islam is [an] ontologically evil [religion]."
>I agree. It was dumb
Glad you agree your flex was dumb, "ackchyually" level stupid, then you came back to triple down on it.
Maybe you're right though, no chance "The Religion of Peace" could be unpeaceful.
Indeed, it both feels like the same type of pro-theocratic propaganda. Its a way to disingenuously claim "you hate everyone of our group", when thats demonstrably not true. You likely hate the actions a country masquerading as the group inflicts against others.
My disdain is for all theocratic countries. I dont particularly care for any religion that takes over a government.
And I do include the USA in that, as theocratic fundamentalist christanity. Ive done so since changing the pledge of allegience and adding "in god we trust" on the currency.
It’s weird, my favorite band has been Deftones forever and I think they’re more popular now than they ever were back then. I thought rock died but it’s having a bit of a moment again.
Went to the zoo with family yesterday and saw so many kids wearing Deftones shirts. I told my wife “it’s like when us kids in the 90s wore shirts from the doors or the beatles.”
>I find it fascinating that all the discussion about climate change has largely disappeared after LLMs became mainstream, and the idea that state actors may be suppressing data is equally fascinating/terrifying.
It's just not as popular to virtue signal over. Everyone is discussing the wars.
>They have a government who arrested a data scientist when she published information about Coronavirus
That was fake news:
In May 2020, Jones was terminated from her position managing the team that created Florida's ArcGIS COVID-19 dashboard after being repeatedly reprimanded for sharing the department's work online without authorization. Jones alleged instead that she was told to manipulate the dashboard's data and that her firing was retaliation for her refusal. The OIG exonerated state health officials, finding her allegations to be unsubstantiated and unfounded. Jones later posted on social media a forgery of the dismissal letter from the Florida Commission on Human Relations, such that it appeared that her complaint had been validated.
In December 2022, she signed a deferred prosecution agreement admitting guilt to unauthorized use of the state's emergency alert system on November 10, 2020, which resulted in her home being searched under warrant by state police in December 2020. The execution of the warrant with armed police, widely referred to as a raid, was due to a 2016 battery charge against Jones by the Louisiana State University police. In 2023, Jones pled no-contest to a 2019 charge of cyberstalking a former Florida State University student. She was fired from both institutions.
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