Comment Re:Direction? (Score 1) 48
I bet that's going to drive the tinfoil hatters nuts.
this link from 2018 gives a 5 dollar overview of the concept.
But they're not doing it "to" you. They're doing it near you. There's a difference. Until someone is blowing that smoke directly at you, they're not victimizing you. You're being inconvenienced.
That's an extremely insightful take.
So it seems that Twitter only used a sample size of 100 to get their 5% estimation. With such a small number protected by NDA, it seems like it was picked on purpose. With all the computing resources Twitter has, surely they can afford a larger sample size! Maybe that's the largest size they could run and get an honest 5%? With all the caveats and specific verbiage in their filing, they're not telling a lie so they're in the clear... But it definitely seems like an intentionally misleading statistic.
Not for nothing, Palantir has very real products and they're really controversial. This could also hedge against a takeover, since their products are some top notch internet surveillance tech.
It'd be nice if the company would die horribly in a tire fire, but this move makes sense
If a thing's worth doing, it is worth doing badly. -- G.K. Chesterton