<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Manuel_D</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Manuel_D</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:29:41 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Manuel_D" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Manuel_D in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2026/03/05/new-analysis-rtcc-triples-the-odds-that-a-victim-receives-justice/" rel="nofollow">https://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2026/03/05/new-analysis-rtcc-...</a><p>Seattle apparently tripled likelihood of perpetrators being identified.</p>
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<p>> that's still asking people to give up their most sensitive freedom, the right to move without being tracked, for speculative gains.<p>It might come as a shock, but there's nothing guaranteeing private movement in public in the US. It is totally legal for people to whip out their phone and start filming you in public. People can set up cameras on their property and film the road outside their house.<p>In fact, many of the municipalities that have "ditched" still have loads of flock cameras that they cant remove  because they're on private property owned by the property owners.</p>
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<p>The idea is that incurring a few hundred civilians deaths to liberate Iranians from a regime that slaughtered them by the thousands or tens of thousands is a net positive for human life. Of course this only works as a justification if the Iranians actually are liberated front their regime, which I don't think they will.<p>But the justification, if the liberation actually transpires, is sound. An order of magnitude more French and Dutch died at the hands of Allied bombing and shelling in 1944. I think most agree the the upside of being liberated from Germany makes the Allied landings a net positive, though.<p>But to reiterate, I really doubt the revolutionary guard is going to lose control of Iran.</p>
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<p><a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/Yud6EFprZeaVDaeQ6" rel="nofollow">https://maps.app.goo.gl/Yud6EFprZeaVDaeQ6</a><p>This is the view outside of Fairchild AFB, which runs the training course in question.<p>Wikipedia reports that Spokane has a Mediterranean climate, as does Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province where this F-15 is reported to have been shot down.</p>
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<p>Spokane is in the Eastern arid region of the state.</p>
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<p>If this behavior actually is a prevalent issue, then there will be many fines that add up. If Google doesn't rack up many fines, then this problem is evidently rare.</p>
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<p>A lot of renewables have intermittent generation. If daytime electricity demand is already saturated, adding more solar panels increases capacity but doesn't increase generation (or to be more specific, it doesn't increase generation that actually fulfills demand).</p>
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<p>The only quote from Thiel in that piece is the same "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible" I wrote about in my comment.</p>
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<p>But wouldn't all of that apply to Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, General Motors, Colt, Browning, and countless more companies that don't just build software for the military but actual weaponry? Yet those companies don't receive even a fraction of the hate that Palantir does.</p>
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<p>> Palantir controls insights, models, and outcomes,<p>No, Palantir's customers are the ones gleaning insights. To re-use the Excel analogy, this is like saying Microsoft is controlling insights and outcomes because organization use Excel.</p>
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<p>Responses  like these are a big part of what convinces me that the hysteria around Palantir is unfounded. I see broad claims about how the company is violating privacy, going to overthrow democracy, etc. but when pushed for details, most people just fall back on basic partisanship.</p>
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<p>What are those openly known facts?</p>
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<p>> When they talk about the ontology acting as a "digital twin" of the customer environment one could be forgiven for thinking this does actually mean Palantir is exfiltrating customer data and cloning it, which is not what happens.<p>This is basically saying you have the same DB schema on your dev environment as you do on prod. If anyone made that kind leap in logic, I would conclude they have little to no technical know how.</p>
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<p>This pattern in which people make claims about Palantir having access to private information, then retreat back to something along the lines of "I don't like the character of the company" is exactly the kind of thing that leads me to believe people don't actually have tangible complaints with the company.</p>
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<p>Can you point to where they have said so? The only one that comes to mind is Thiel's quote from 2009 about democracy being incompatible worth freedom (the populace will vote to remove freedoms, e.g. try to ban AI or other technological advances and whatnot). But pointing out flaws in democracy is a far cry from actual wanting to get rid of democracy.<p>If he's stated an actual intent to end democracy in the US, it'd be good to cite that.</p>
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<p>> The broader point is Palantir's specific confluence of:<p>> - access to granular, non-anonymized data across industry silos<p>Do you have evidence that Palantir itself - not customers <i>using</i> Palantir software - has access to this data?</p>
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<p>> This isn’t accurate, Palantir business model includes mass surveillance for military/security purposes;<p>You realize that this is not mutually exclusive with what I just wrote?<p>Palantir builds software for military and security purposes. But the customers don't give this data to Palantir, custody of this data remains with the customer.</p>
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<p>No, but I am curious why this one company gets some much hate. I can get being politically opposed to the conservative politics of some of its founders, but the vast majority of  conservative-founded companies don't get nearly as much criticism. A lot of it is seriously borderline Q-anon levels of conspiratorial talk. Just look at the comment in this thread insinuating that Peter Thiel is going to assassinate people with orbital weapons.</p>
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<p>Users choose whether to use Copilot, and are free to decline it's use.</p>
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<p>What is going on?</p>
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