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thatguy0900yesterday at 7:36 PM3 repliesview on HN

I mean you can say stuff like that but the reality is they purposefully named themselves after a super villains magical spy apparatus so I'm not inclined to take his word about them being ethically neutral. Like I'm not really sure what they could name themselves after that would be more ominous


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ahazred8tayesterday at 8:10 PM

The palantirs were made by the elf lord prince Fëanor of Valinor, one of the good guys. The one we see in the film was given to the kings of Gondor and then pilfered by Saruman. (elvish palan 'far', tir 'watch over')

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ceejayozyesterday at 7:39 PM

> they purposefully named themselves after a super villains magical spy apparatus…

Worse, that spy apparatus inherently corrupts its users.

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tokioyoyoyesterday at 9:31 PM

Even if they’re the most evil corpo ever, the buyer is still the government. If a democratically elected government buys this products, I would assume, in large scale of things, the general population wants the most evil corpo.

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