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I walk with the dog and sometimes the kids every day, so I see police patrolling around. Had an interesting conversation the other day with the police officer:

  - So officer, how have things changed since covid?
  - Sir, you won't believe the stuff I get called for. Getting teenagers off their cell phones, wife angry that husband didn't do his share of the chores
  - What about what people associate with "crime"?
  - Down.
As crime declines overall (it has been for many years now), I believe we really need to rethink the jobs we ask police officers to do. They are hammers and they go into situations that don't require hammering and bad things happen.
Palantir S-1 6 years ago

Palantir is basically a private arm of multiple levels of governments.

No they wouldn't.

Every single plebeian on earth wants the polar bears to survive. But their own economic, day-to-day survival is first. These thoughts you have are only for those with the luxury of time.

Edit: so if you TRULY want to help the earth, help your own kind first.

I'm not sure if I'm misreading you, you're misreading me, or we're on the same page :-)

Ideally, I map out workflow and find tools that fit the workflow in the Unix philosophy. Well-defined, do one thing well. As opposed to monoliths that purport to do everything.

My experience has been that doing things in this way builds a system that is extremely robust to significant changes.

That's funny. I was the opposite. When I was younger, I would just say "lets default to other people's solution to similar problems and move on" but as time went by, I've become more "let's define our problems well and find surgical solutions by others". It's a slight difference but makes a huge difference in productivity.

Another way to say it is instead of taking someone else's blueprint, we build our own blueprint and use pre-fabricated parts to realize the blueprint.

In the end, sometimes solutions look very similar but there is that one little bit that gives you a competitive advantage that no one else has.

My opinion is that it's like tcp/ip, new plumbing (ethereum). So expect protocols and apps to be built on top of it, similar to HTTP and browsers. You just need one killer app to make all the hype worth it.

That killer app might be elections or possibly decentralized trading of electronic assets like stock ownership.

The data points to this but "Einsteins greatest blunder" and earth-centric universe come to mind.

Simply (and I'm sure many have thought of alternatives), it is based on what we see. If, as is commonly thought, the universe will expand till we are alone, then there is no guarantee that this hasn't happened already which means we may have no idea what lies outside the cosmological horizon.

There is no country on earth that is immune from willy nilly central bank printing right now. So everyone is in the same boat.

Now... If someone figures out how to stop the central bank printing and keep things going, that will be a problem for USD.