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This letter is clearly written with dumb, naive retail investors in mind. Anyone familiar with Palantir’s history knows that their first headquarters was a building they took over from Facebook. The two companies are intertwined in many, many ways.

Best investments of the 21st century:

1. Peter Thiel, Facebook, $500k

2. Peter Thiel, Donald Trump, $1m

No matter who wins the next election, Thiel and his buddies are guaranteed more contracts. Welcome to the new American plutocracy!

Yes. Since he is the Roger Stone of the PayPal Mafia, he’s not going to go away anytime soon.

Reminder to those who aren’t aware: Quora is a rich man’s hobby business. You aren’t going to get practical knowledge from their decisions.

What do they look like! How do they function? How did they retool to make them so quickly? How do they compare to normal ventilators? What’s the UI on their control panels?

This sounds like a fairy tale to me, with the governor covering for Elon. But maybe they did, in fact, retool in 48 hours and deliver a working product.

How is this some sort of prescient statement? There have been movies made about this exact issue for decades. On a societal level, it is a bug marked WONTFIX similar to preparing for asteroid impact, the next Big One in SF (come on guys, we arent prepared for it), the next volcano, large scale terrorist attack using chemical weapons, and so on.

It seems nobody has a memory to remember that Microsoft hobbled local governments attempts to build and use open source software instead of paying their tax. In a way, you’re basically thanking Bill Gates for redistributing a small fraction of the money he’s stolen from global governments through the Microsoft monopoly.

If you think this is a conspiracy theory go talk to IT staff who worked in the German government in the late 90s.

For reference, someone might want to post a chart of the gains the markets have made in the past 5 years. I would hardly call this a crash.

There’s a VC firm that already uses this model with their billion-dollar investments. It’s called Benchmark. Several of their former portfolio company founders can tell you all about how it’s worked out for them.

They didn’t actually have $300m, it was a commitment based on milestones that weren’t met.

Until the richest YouTuber isn’t an adolescent set up to prey on his peers with unboxing videos, these measures are all half-hearted attempts at keeping the cash flowing. More regulation is probably needed.

This is pretty tame and actually sounds pretty pragmatic and well-organized in a non-threatening manner, especially given the target audience (kids). Moderating for different countries’ rules is a requirement unless you want to get kicked out of lots of markets.

The real concern I have is in the fact that things below 50 views don’t get much moderation attention, which is the same across all platforms, and where we see the most risk for these platforms to be used to bully people within small social groups (such as at school).

Anyone who thinks Facebook doesn’t similarly optimize the content within Explore etc is delusional. It would be interesting to compare the information these companies offer national security organizations.

This seems strikingly similar to Travis Kalanick being paid to leave Uber. Is Benchmark involved?

> Mr Gates had made a $2m donation to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s prestigious Media Lab at Epstein’s behest.

> “Although Epstein pursued Gates aggressively, Gates had absolutely no business partnership or personal friendship with Epstein,” the statement said. “Gates never socialised with Epstein or attended parties with him.”

Something about these statements doesn’t add up. The fact that there was another public statement seems to indicate they’re feeling that no additional evidence will come out that will once again contradict them, as it did the first time.

I am guessing this would lead to solar system-scale destruction? Putting a base on Mars doesn’t seem like it would do much to counter such an event if it headed our way?