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Adding this comment:

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?



> We DO actually need to detect crime if we are going to fight it

We DO need some privacy if we are going to stay in a democracy.

So, yeah, we'll have to keep not fighting crime, as they weren't fighting it before the invention of cameras and computers :/

> The quantity of anti-Palantir, anti-America

Thiel and Palantir are against several core principles of America (such as democracy). You can't sensibly be both pro America and pro Palantir.

> anti-American ally

I wonder who you refer to...

> How about returning the favor though diligence in moderating HN?

Yeah, by doing something about Thiel's bootlickers




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