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Peter Thiel is the largest shareholder of Palantir. They help spy agencies to data-mine their mass surveillance data, including that of Americans. Palantir creates spy profiles about everyone’s comms, movement, spending, etc.
Peter also gives speeches at #Bitcoin conferences 🤯
@Phil_Lewis_ Love you, Phil, but this article and headline are oversimplifications. I encourage everyone to read the @chronicle piece published a week ago highlighting how nuanced her case is and how UPenn treated her admissions essay like a legal artifact. https://t.co/e9TwTNBuJ7
My wife used to work on the caching team at Amazon and every few months someone would pop in to say "I wrote a simple cache (with no eviction policy yet) and it's 30x faster than memcached when pulling on the same key 50,000 times in a row, maybe you can use it instead?"
1/There are people who are genuinely trying to talk intelligently about cryptocurrencies, but can’t because they don’t have historical background. This thread tries to correct that by suggesting required reading. First, it’s necessary to know what problem it attempts to solve.