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Re:We Will Not Be Divided on Friday February 27, 2026 @08:23PM (#47188724)
>> you cannot be both moral and successful in the US.

I assumed the use of massive scraped datasets, with copyrighted material and without consent, to train large AI models, had already established this.

Re:Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019 on Monday February 16, 2026 @10:06PM (#47043221)
He is a Nutter...As daft as they come...Mad as a box of frogs...Not the full shilling...

"Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example" - https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-...

https://apnews.com/article/trump-rape-carroll-trial-fe68259a...

"Judge says E Jean Carroll allegation Trump raped her is ‘substantially true’ in court dismissal" - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/07/donald-trump...

Re:Suicide Linux (2009) on Monday February 16, 2026 @09:24PM (#47042978)
I run a custom build of Suicide Linux for compatibility reasons. It is called Windows...
I have reported the person currently holding the US Presidency.
Re:Richard Carrington's first portrait has been found on Monday February 16, 2026 @06:40PM (#47041839)
After the next Carrington Event, my home-based, dead-tree library will make me richer than Bezos. Appointments start booking five years out.
Re:Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019 on Monday February 16, 2026 @05:59PM (#47041518)
A five year old should not talk like that... :-))
Re:Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019 on Monday February 16, 2026 @04:50PM (#47040807)
Talk about missing the point...

Watch the videos again and try again.

I will indulge you enough to explain it to you like a 5 year old, what they show. Just in case you miss it the second time... :-)

Re:Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019 on Monday February 16, 2026 @04:46PM (#47040758)
You are getting closer to realizing that becoming a billionaire demands a psychological detachment most people would find disturbing...

It is not always brilliance that drives the relentless accumulation of wealth, but a deep, unresolved hole...an inner void shaped by trauma, by the need for validation never received from a parent, a world, or a past self.

That constant dissatisfaction fuels an endless pursuit of wealth they imagine will finally provide meaning or peace, yet never does. The accumulation becomes the self justification. The proof of worth in a game that can never truly be won. And from that height grows the contempt... Not for ignorance, but for poverty itself. Not because the poor are seen as incapable, but because they serve as a reminder of everything these individuals fear becoming.

Re:Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files on Monday February 16, 2026 @03:21PM (#47039816)
LLMs could never hallucinate anything as shocking as the current reality...
Except that is not what is happening:

"...To sweeten the deal, Lockheed Martin said it would buy parts and systems for the F-35 from Israeli companies at a cost of $4 billion..."

What is funny thing to say, since Israel, unlike the other nations, never supported the development costs of the F-35 program :-)

Re:Pentagon Threatens Anthropic Punishment on Monday February 16, 2026 @01:55PM (#47038760)
Is going to be lovely to see government approved LLMs

LLM responses:

Absolutely, sir....It was the most perfect election in history, possibly ever in the universe, until the windmills, very suspicious windmills, teamed up with Crooked Hillary and the deep state to do things nobody has ever seen before... Meanwhile your beautiful wall is already paid for spiritually by Mexico, which many people are saying. Water pressure is low because of global antishower conspiracies. Crowds remain the biggest in recorded human civilization. You officially know more about wind, walls, elections, plumbing, and reality than anyone...

I pay you 2 dollars and you buy 4 dollars from me. In the meanwhile I also get 20 F-35...
You completely misunderstood the money flow....
"IDF releases intercepted Hamas call on hospital explosion" - https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-releases-in...
You should look at Israel deal for the F-35. They got the only F-35 unlocked and non dependent on the US software lock. They were never part of the development program like Norway, Denmark, Italy or the Netherlands so did not have to bear those costs. Norway, Denmark, Italy or the Netherlands, still had to pay for their F-35...

Israel paid 2.3 Billion for their F-35, but the US committed to buy 4 Billion from Israel defense firms, so concluding with a net positive of +1.25 Billion for Israel economy....all at the cost to the US tax payer. :-)

"F-35I Adir: Israel’s Custom F-35 That No Other Nation Has" - https://www.19fortyfive.com/2025/04/f-35i-adir-israels-custo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning...

Yeap.

"F-35I Adir: Israel’s Custom F-35 That No Other Nation Has" - https://www.19fortyfive.com/2025/04/f-35i-adir-israels-custo...

And the ultimate kicker...They got them for free, plus 2 Billion from US tax payers...While suckers Norway, Denmark, Italy who invested billions in the program development plus Netherlands etc...Have to pay for them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning...

Attention ...Law firms and funders :-) this is exactly the kind of cross border data transfer case where billions in penalties and settlements, and major fees are realistically on the table. :-)

Clearly they did not transfer only US users but for sure EU users data. I guess HN here too? This would violate GDPR especially Art. 48. Companies can have fines up to 4% global revenue and mass collective damages claims in EU courts. Best fill in the Netherlands and or Ireland.

Coordinate with EU GDPR actions and U.S. discovery rules, that are the strongest in the world. Get the internal emails...Millions to be earned...

For US users you are out of luck. The US is the country of loopholes, and although these subpoenas were not from a judge, several agencies can issue them, under multiple jurisdiction laws.

Users of the F-35 have to send their data through U.S. controlled systems, depend on the U.S. for mission critical software updates, and cant even independently test their own jets outside U.S. soil.

There is a country that has a full exception to this. They run their own maintenance facilities, have their own software layer running on top of Lockheed system, their own EW suite, and significant control over the data flows. They negotiated this precisely because they understood the dependency trap. In addition they requested modifications to allow the F-35 to carry nuclear weapons.

The naivety of the Dutch Defense Secretary is what would be expected...Guess the country name...

Re:I’m joining OpenAI on Sunday February 15, 2026 @07:20PM (#47029302)
And do they approach Security as a Feature or as a Process. The fingers on one hand are enough to count them...
He did not even mentioned the Dow...
I speculate that curious minds, with a forensic inclination and free time, will go back to previous articles and find out it happened before...When you see a cockroach...
Did you notice how the Dow is 50,000 ?
Re:IBM Triples Entry Level Job Openings. Finds Limits to AI on Sunday February 15, 2026 @03:53PM (#47027430)
The whole point, that you seem to be have missed by now by the third interaction, is how was AI the crux of it...

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