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Here's another headline: Laws In Red States Actually Permit Gay Murder, According to Prolific Forums Poster
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Jun 21, 2016 12:29
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States like North Carolina, Virginia and Colorado are getting incrementally bluer thanks to a mix of growing minority populations and expanding urban areas like the RTP, NoVA/Richmond and Denver. The real issue is that coalition has a nasty tendency to focus on the presidential race and ignore the state level. They think electing Obama is a huge win (which it was!) and then don't show up in 2010 and get a state legislature filled with regressive shitbags. It's an enthusiasm gap.
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silence_kit posted:Here's another headline: Laws In Red States Actually Permit Gay Murder, According to Prolific Forums Poster Red states let people get away with a lot more, just look at Florida
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Somehow I doubt that tech owners/employees, being 95% white men, care whatsoever about what party is in charge of what state and move there based on that.
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This derail has not become less stupid this time over. Things are lovely for LGBT folks in blue cities ensconced in red states. Good on those who are willing to brave it or are forced to, but it's absolutely okay for one to say that this is not acceptable risk for them, or for straight white cis straight male business owners to pass on moving to Research Triangle, because as things stand, they wouldn't be able to hire trans (or gender non-conforming, really) developers without putting them at risk whenever they might accidentally wish to use a public toilet.
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Platonicsolid posted:States like North Carolina, Virginia and Colorado are getting incrementally bluer thanks to a mix of growing minority populations and expanding urban areas like the RTP, NoVA/Richmond and Denver. The real issue is that coalition has a nasty tendency to focus on the presidential race and ignore the state level. They think electing Obama is a huge win (which it was!) and then don't show up in 2010 and get a state legislature filled with regressive shitbags. It's an enthusiasm gap. It's also a 'decent local candidates' gap. I know out here the GOP get seats because the Dems can't even articulate why people shouldn't vote straight ticket.
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It's not like there are zero blue states in flyover country anyway. Colorado, Minnesota, and Illinois all have solidly Dem controlled state governments, and there are others where social conservatives are relatively weak.
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Palantir is flailing it seems Looks like their trying to lock down some of their ex-employees who have jumped ship, or trying to prevent the next round of ship-jumpers. Also, can we talk about how ominously creepy it is that the CIA has a VC arm?
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nowhinezone posted:Palantir is flailing it seems Always wondered about the name. Was EvilCo not on the nose enough?
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Platonicsolid posted:Always wondered about the name. Was EvilCo not on the nose enough? As soon as you are promoted to the C-suite you get a swivel chair, white cat, and a mustache to twirl.
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You guys are all acting like the military industrial complex isn't the Genesis of innovation in the usa
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namaste faggots posted:You guys are all acting like the military industrial complex isn't the Genesis of innovation in the usa A project hyped for world-changing potential, the object of cutthroat competition, that ultimately turns out to be a botch job that never works the way it's supposed to? Yeah, Genesis is a good metaphor for innovation in the USA these last 15 years.
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namaste faggots posted:You guys are all acting like the military industrial complex isn't the Genesis of innovation in the usa Truth, any day now we'll all be commuting in F-35s.
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namaste faggots posted:You guys are all acting like the military industrial complex isn't the Genesis of innovation in the usa I think there's a qualitative difference between things like Bell Labs, Lincoln Lab, DARPA, the Manhattan project, etc and funding a snooping tech company. Excuse me, data analysis company. I wonder what sort of large data cache the CIA/NSA have that might benefit from having analyzed? I mean if you're going to be reading my metadata like tea leaves at least have the decency to do it at Foggy Bottom behind some sort of cutesy code name rather than letting some tech bro get at it for his series A funding round.
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I always wondered about those Palantir guys. They'd always go out for lunch in a big group. I guess there's nothing inherently odd about that but I never saw the Tesla, Varian, etc staff all staying in a constant big group.
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Platonicsolid posted:Truth, any day now we'll all be commuting in F-35s. Not ones we own, of course. Ones that come and pick us up when we issue a request in an app.
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reminder The company is known for two software projects in particular: Palantir Gotham is used by counter-terrorism analysts at offices in the USIC and United States Department of Defense, fraud investigators at the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, and cyber analysts at Information Warfare Monitor (responsible for the GhostNet and the Shadow Network investigations). Palantir Metropolis is used by hedge funds, banks, and financial services firms.[3][4]
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duz posted:Not ones we own, of course. Ones that come and pick us up when we issue a request in an app. Autonomous airborne drone Uber will happen before self-driving car Uber.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:reminder drat too bad they're going to go belly up before launching Palantir Starling and Palantir Central
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Panfilo posted:I always wondered about those Palantir guys. They'd always go out for lunch in a big group. I guess there's nothing inherently odd about that but I never saw the Tesla, Varian, etc staff all staying in a constant big group. Joel Spolsky's Fog Creek is annoyingly cutesy about the way they're all one big happy family that codes and eats together. Then again, maybe I'm just jealous I'm not living or working in a Manhattan highrise.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:reminder Stop telling us about your homebrew Shadowrun adventures. 
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:reminder What the gently caress did we allow to happen
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nowhinezone posted:Palantir is flailing it seems They're flailing so hard their CEO is slowly morphing into Shingy: 
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Joshmo posted:Joel Spolsky's Fog Creek is annoyingly cutesy about the way they're all one big happy family that codes and eats together. Then again, maybe I'm just jealous I'm not living or working in a Manhattan highrise. I'd like to think they're all to  to trust anyone being alone at work, given what their business is.
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Joshmo posted:Joel Spolsky's Fog Creek is annoyingly cutesy about the way they're all one big happy family that codes and eats together. Then again, maybe I'm just jealous I'm not living or working in a Manhattan highrise. gently caress that, I work in a Manhattan high rise and I have no desire to eat with my coworkers every day
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Hi I don't really know anything about startups so I wanted to ask this thread which seems to be about startups; pundits the world over are using "Number of startups" as an innovation metric. Like there are a ton of articles saying stuff like "X city has Y number of startups, therefore it is z innovative." This strikes me as excessively simplistic and was wondering if I was right or wrong.
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Fojar38 posted:Hi I don't really know anything about startups so I wanted to ask this thread which seems to be about startups; pundits the world over are using "Number of startups" as an innovation metric. Like there are a ton of articles saying stuff like "X city has Y number of startups, therefore it is z innovative." No you're right, but politicians deal in overly simplistic soundbites. You'd probably bore anyone to tears with a more full model that looked at things like patents, sustainable growth, industry and expert opinion and then tacked on the obligatory "-But that doesn't reflect that most new businesses fail, and the crux of innovation is you can't really predict it." It's a lot like using 'jobs created' as metric for a president's performance really.
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The thing with republican areas is the fundamentals are bad. At best regionally good universities, 3rd tier or worse capital markets, poo poo public school systems, AND state government that is politically hostile to diversity. Not places where a good future for your kids us baked into the social contract either. If you live there, fine, if you move... probably a mistake w/o a family support structure already in place because if things go pear shaped you'll be flat out hosed w/o really good prep. FREEDOM! See also: how moving to Utah worked out for all those Iomega engineers.
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When You Dial 911 and Wall Street AnswersNew York Times posted:The business of driving ambulances and operating fire brigades represents just one facet of a profound shift on Wall Street and Main Street alike, a New York Times investigation has found. Since the 2008 financial crisis, private equity firms, the “corporate raiders” of an earlier era, have increasingly taken over a wide array of civic and financial services that are central to American life.
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The Real Foogla posted:wait those services got sold to private equity? FREEEDUMB!
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OCP was supposed to be a parody, now it's become a pretty accurate prediction.
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From the article:"NY Times posted:Private equity gained new power and responsibility as a direct result of the 2008 crisis. As cities and towns nationwide struggled to pay for basics like public infrastructure and ambulance services, private equity stepped in. At the same time, as banks scaled back their mortgage operations after the crisis, private equity firms — which face lighter regulation than banks, and none of their rainy-day capital requirements — moved in there as well. The guillotine is too merciful.
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Silicon Valley dissed Theranos in their last episode; they must film those pretty close to air date.
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Can someone please explain to me WTF Urbit is supposed to be/do/accomplish? And not just the easy answer "lol moldbug"
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neonnoodle posted:Can someone please explain to me WTF Urbit is supposed to be/do/accomplish? And not just the easy answer "lol moldbug" Ok let's go quote:A personal server is a virtual computer which stores your data, runs your apps, and manages your connected devices. I assume a personal server is what Uberbit is going to disrupt. Possibly by reinventing the quote:Urbit is a secure peer-to-peer network of personal servers, built on a clean-slate system software stack. I further assume that peer-to-peer network = + decentralisation worship + techie lolbertarianism + possibly buttcoin, and that clean slate system software stack = implementing special snowflake cases in a nonstandard and confusing software environment.Learn more posted:The path to digital freedom confirmed.quote:A frontier to homestead quote:A clean-slate platform Technical overview posted:A deterministic computer? Urbit's state is a pure function of its event history. In practice it uses a memory checkpoint and an append-only log. Every event is a transaction; Urbit is an ACID database and a single-level store. Urbit runs on Unix now, but it's easy to imagine on a hypervisor or even bare metal. tl;dr lol moldbug
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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blowfish posted:Ok let's go This could ignorance on my part but whats the difference between a decentralized peer to peer network of personal servers... and the internet? Like it looks like they're trying to build an internet inside the internet.
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So instead of buying a backup hard drive and using central cloud storage people will use a backup drive and decentralized cloud storage. But what happens if someone pulls their buttcoin cloud server offline?
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