OrvalWintermute

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by OrvalWintermute 9d ago
People have always said the idea of the devices listening to conversations was all a conspiracy theory. Welp, looks like it is a fact.
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by OrvalWintermute 10d ago
ITAR and EAR were built to keep U.S. military and dual-use technology from strengthening countries that could use it against the United States or its allies, like Europe
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by OrvalWintermute 12d ago
There is nothing illegal about using a contractor lawyer for both commercial work and your own business provided you get it reviewed by Ethics & Govt General Counsel. As this was done then I see no issue in it. There is a potential COI
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NASA's Roman Space Telescope Launches on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket(space.com)
5 points by OrvalWintermute 17d ago|0 comments
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by OrvalWintermute 1mo ago
The earth is both gaining mass and losing mass at the same time We are losing gases and energy (hydrogen, helium, radioactive decay) Concurrently, we are aggregating cosmic dust, micrometeorites, meteoroids, and the occasional larger body O
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by OrvalWintermute 2mo ago
$30 a month? Lolz, get out of here.
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by OrvalWintermute 2mo ago
You left out the bodypart business they are now in too.
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by OrvalWintermute 2mo ago
Huawei has a long history of “borrowing” IP & source code from US companies
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by OrvalWintermute 2mo ago
I’m happy to see our metrics being improved because much of the economic policy seems to have been based around what was good for boomers. Not what was good for young people who, for the most part, can’t afford to live in houses and these d
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by OrvalWintermute 2mo ago
That is hyperbole as Palantir doesn’t pull the trigger We could easily say: Microsoft, Red Hat, NVIDIA, Apple, Google, openAI, Amazon & Meta are all defense contractors too
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by OrvalWintermute 2mo ago
Local Private AI will kill off both Chinese Open Weights corporate AI as well as American proprietary corporate AI because they are not competitive on: $ efficiency Privacy Security IP Customization
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by OrvalWintermute 2mo ago
no one is going to conflate a Palantir FDE with an actual pipehitter Contractors doing IT support aren't "Operators" in the tactical sense, nor agents in the LE sense, nor Officers in the IC sense, nor a Boeing/Lockheed&
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by OrvalWintermute 2mo ago
The same could be said about Oracle though, that they received the benfits of early investment by the CIA. However scary Oracle license auditors are though, no one conflates them with the CIA. We're now in an era where people are activ
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by OrvalWintermute 2mo ago
I think this manifesto conflates Palantir with: The CIA The NSA JSOC The US Armed Forces Weapons Contractors Law Enforcement Federal Counter-Intelligence Various dictatorships Criminal Enterprises Hit squads
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by OrvalWintermute 2mo ago
Reusable launch vehicles were in their infancy during the Shuttle program days. Multiple launch vehicles and crew vehicles exist now, and more are on their way. Taking tech from TRL1 to TRL9 with 2.5million moving parts in it is vastly diff
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by OrvalWintermute 2mo ago
They found Planet X, Nibiru! :0
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by OrvalWintermute 2mo ago
Sam Neill had a great & prolific career; particularly appreciated his role as Cardinal Thomas Wolsey on The Tudors https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000554/
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by OrvalWintermute 2mo ago
I’m not quite how this relates to tech, hackernews or startups
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Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images(techcrunch.com)
4 points by OrvalWintermute 2mo ago|2 comments
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by OrvalWintermute 2mo ago
Grid patterns in image uploads are leading to automatic bans; apparently grid encoding of CSAM material overreach by AI treating all grid graphics as CSAM
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by OrvalWintermute 3mo ago
“Rare”? :) We don’t know the actual numbers as pericarditis and myocarditis can occur asymptomatically, and people truly need to be under very active medical surveillance to detect it
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by OrvalWintermute 3mo ago
Stripping of naturalization in the US is usually associated with immigration fraud. Terrorist/Nazi Concentration Camp Guard lies on immigration forms, decades later is found out and gets the boot
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by OrvalWintermute 3mo ago
Seems to be intentionally defamatory From the Wikipedia article on the Orebro party “ Split from the left The initiative to found the Örebro Party was taken in early 2014 by Markus Allard, who is also the first party leader. Allard had prev
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by OrvalWintermute 3mo ago
Word of Advice for OpenAI: Never underestimate Broadcom’s ability to shaft their own customers - VMware - CA Technologies - Symantec Enterprise Security - Brocade - LSI Corporation
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by OrvalWintermute 3mo ago
I remember when Google was a bit rogue, full of brilliant people developing awesome things.
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by OrvalWintermute 3mo ago
The Pymetrics game is rigged by design: Only 40% self report gender/race no resume data, no education information, degrees, schools, GPA, major, work experience, skills/certifications Zero job qualifications
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by OrvalWintermute 3mo ago
At best Wikipedia is a well-edited wiki of a smorgasbord, great writing, and an incredible resource that provides amazing value. At worst it can be a hive mind echo chamber where certain views are banished to the Abyss. Certain topics attra
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by OrvalWintermute 3mo ago
VMware really damaged their business longterm, as anyone that can transition off, is doing so, and anyone else is planning on it.
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by OrvalWintermute 4mo ago
I guess we should forget about: • Larry Wu-tai Chin • Peter Lee • Chi Mak • Katrina Leung • Shujun Wang • Fei Ye • Ming Zhong • Walter Lian-Heen Liew • Kun Shan Chun • Jinchao Wei • Eileen Wang All convicted of espionage
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by OrvalWintermute 4mo ago
I want to echo the comments that you just made. One of my primary methods of interacting with an iPhone is through speech and the state of Apple speech transcription is pretty horrible. It bothers me greatly. I know some of the workarounds

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