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@Dan_Jeffries1 and for someone who has never actually done research, I'm sure pew research foundation sounds fake but I can assure you they are a trusted resource

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@Dan_Jeffries1 If it's because of push polls, then why is the negativity isolated to a single age group?

A push poll would skew the results for all age groups.

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@EP_EPRS @EP_Justice Interesting to note you do not claim that children use VPNs to bypass age verification. What is the downside when the users are adults?

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@EP_EPRS @EP_Justice @zarzalejosj @MarinaKaljurand there's literally no possible way that 37 percent of facebook users are 12 and under, and also not possible that 37 percent of children 12 and under are on Facebook

and since we can only verify the age of adults, how did you verify the users surveyed were 12 and under?

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@EP_EPRS @EP_Justice Both the US and the UK are not EU countries, so how is this relevant to the EU?

And where is there evidence that children and not adults are using VPNs to bypass age verification? If mostly all adults, then you are arguing a moot point.

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@MarcelF2006 @NoAIControl @vxunderground Neither country is in the EU

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@Dan_Jeffries1 We don't even know if those models actually exposed the cracks or if they simply mechanical turked the job as a PR campaign. Since cisco and firefox didn't use the models to find the cracks, it's niave at best to assume those tools are even capable of doing what they claim.

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@ColinEHunter @Erickschultz11 @MrEwanMorrison I understand this is done for coursework. But coursework is basically study material and if you don't do it yourself or if you cheat, you will not pass the exam. Some courses rely more heavily on writing papers but we've always had students willing to outsource to other students

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@JustinThomasAI @MrEwanMorrison They hire on certifications instead of degeees so they can pay an employee half as much to do the same job.

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@TheMG3D all they have to do is place the fan blades at nonequal distances to prevent the hum but they engineered it on the cheap

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.

6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.

7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.

8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.

9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.

10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.

11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.

13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.

14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.

15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.

16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.

17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.

18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.

19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.

20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska

https://t.co/8igjazz1On

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@secretsofprivac @Pirat_Nation Aside from meta, I believe most of the lobbying is from databrokers. As a third party, big govt can buy the data from them without a warrant.

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@APompliano @athenaeumbc 44 million are under 12 years old and another 35 million are over 75 the remaining is a very small percent of the entire population

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@Kelly4Info @juliecbarrett politically aligned with the head of plantir but youll never admit it to yourself because of cognitive dissonance and will continue to support the people you claim to be against because of their feigned allegiance to god and unamerican opposition to separation of church and state

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@juliecbarrett oh don't worry. when they ask you to do a selfie, it means they're going to deny you or permanently disable your account. it's the equivalent of the local gas station posting a polaroid of previous shoplifters

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@natenatenat5644 @mweinbach I can almost guarantee it's faster to parse your banking records with CTRL+A, CTRL+C, CTRL+SHIFT+V, and then grep | awk | sort. the luddites are the people who think they're going to break their compter if they open a terminal or refuse to learn basic regex

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@MadmanDotMoney @mweinbach Siri could do this better in2017. That's like going from cable to dialup, not the other way around.

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@eastcobbob @mweinbach and yet you are the person who saves time by spending 109 seconds using ai

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@RMac18 I'm not defending musk here, I'm defending mixed use zoning

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@RMac18 just make all buildings like a house on stilts. or more realistically, a penthouse at the top of every office building