Surveillance networks are commonplace throughout history. Classic examples include Renaissance Italian networks in Europe, Egyptian networks operating in the Levant, Nazi networks in Europe and the UK, and so many more.

Did the US bring technology to the game? Yes. Were they the first global surveillance state, no. Are they the first to bifurcate by legal statute domestic and foreign intelligence? Yes, and with Congressional and Judicial oversight I might add.

1) We DO actually need to detect crime if we are going to fight it. Sticking our heads in the dirt and strapping a sign to our rear end saying "no surveillance" may feel good, but it does nothing for the victims of crime.

2) The anti-Palantir cries are funded in part by state actors whose operations are constrained by technology that detects and predicts their actions.

The quantity of anti-Palantir, anti-America and anti-American ally threads on HN has grown substantially. YCombinator and HN owe something to this country for setting conditions for their success. How about returning the favor though diligence in moderating HN?

No, that doesn't mean over a long enough time horizon what most people think it means.

USD has declined significantly since 2017 (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUUR0000SA0R), but what it buys has substantively changed.

- You couldn't buy continous glucose monitors, OTC hearing aids, home heart monitors using your cellphone or watch or countless medications that didn't exist in 2017 (eg. Journavx, the first non-opiod pain med, smart insulin pens, etc.).

- You couldn't buy noise-cancelling earbuds, generative AI, somewhat affordable electric vehicles, PT and medical advice from Youtube/AI, self driving vehicles, more reliable electricity from grid-scale store, Satellite rescue from your cellphone, etc.

The retort will be daily items are about 30% more expensive since Covid. This is the result of Federal and State policies that have little to do with the White House and everything to do with Congress and State Houses. As just one example... ask yourself why so much ag is grown in Western states with water shortages and so far from the rest of the country?

- Many cannot accept its dangerous world.

- Many don't understand that stewardship of nuclear weapons alone is a major undertaking that Iran cannot be trusted to manage. US & USSR alone has several near-miss detonations/launches.

- Many will refuse to accept solely because 'orange man bad'.

- Some are paid to criticize on influential online forums and HN makes no effort to moderate or police such activity.

- $9b per month increase in US oil export revenue as a result offsets probably 40% of the cost.

- Several trillion (with a 'T") of realized and yet to be realized FDI commitments from gulf states more than offsets cost by about 3x.

- A nuclear Iran carries economic costs I won't detail here to prevent a wall of text. In sum, forces other countries to go nuclear and take other actions to manage risk, and this happens in ways that could severely impact US dollar standing, US debt standing and US military spending. Its an interconnected world.

I know its unpopular to be pro-USA and pro-government on HN, but someone has to be the voice of reason - even if its at the bottom of the page.

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- Not adjusted for strain, dose or delivery method across all studies.

- Not adjusted for receptor downregulation, for which rotation and/or drug holidays would be appropriate strategies.

- Not adjusted across all studies for time effect, e.g. 6 hours of relief, 1 hour, etc.

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- Amortized training costs.

- SG&A.

- Capex depreciation.

All the above impact profitability over various time horizons and have to rolled into present and projected P&L and cash flow analysis.

USD dominance isn't going anywhere despite hurt feelings over Trump or US policies.

I have many questions:

- Will Meta fuck this up as they seem (in my opinion) to do with most of the acquisitions? Oculus? Drop.io?

- Did they grossly overpay?

- Will innovation slow to a crawl (eg. Instagram, Whatsapp)?

- Will Manus' top talent bail?

- How is it conceivable Meta couldn't build this themselves. It can't possibly have been Manus' user base they were after, can it?

- How much trouble am I in for telling my wife to sell her Meta stock two weeks ago?

The acquisition is confusing to me.

Metals, eWaste, Batteries ... all profitable to recycle.

Paper & cardboard ... depends on market price.

Plastics ... depends on oil prices, market price and type of plastic.

Tires ... usually profitable, usually involves a hauling fee.

AMP's robotic solution is going to face immense competition from general edge models, probably very soon. The mechanical piece is simple engineering. All the magic is (was) recognition.

The revenue from AI is growing at a much slower rate than recurring capex and depreciation is accumulating. This will create distress opportunities that cash-rich companies like APPL may seize. Might be a private equity deal, might be in the public markets as some of the players dip hard after IPO.

As this plays out, APPL's silicon has unified memory, power consumption and native acceleration that gives it an edge running SLMs and possibly LLMs at scale. Wouldn't shock me to see APPL introduce a data-center solution.