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by bhupy 6y ago
You're right — s/reparations/<responsibility [...] to reconcile our past actions that caused unmeasurable suffering for untold millions of people? >. Whatever it may be, I want no part of it. To assume that all immigran
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by bhupy 6y ago
> but by definition clandestine agencies cannot have public approval because there is no way for voters to know whether they should approve of it or not. Again, I am directly refuting that argument. Voters can approve of clandestine ag
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by bhupy 6y ago
Do you have a source on this? I’m interested to see if we’ve actually quantified the effectiveness of this delegitimization.
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by bhupy 6y ago
That’s rather presumptuous of you. I’m an immigrant (and now a naturalized US Citizen), and I want no part of “reparations”. Only 1 in 5 Americans supports it: https://thehill.com/homenews/news/504511-1-in-5-suppo
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by bhupy 6y ago
> No rights are absolute, and most uss of land carry some externality. I'm not willing to entertain that no consideration be given these. This is a bit of a deflection, since it’s entirely reasonable to enforce some property regulat
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by bhupy 6y ago
> Their largest project is Palantir Gotham which is exclusively for government agencies (federal, state, ICE, and by Project Maven after the tech companies abandoned it due to ethics concerns!) Did you even read their S-1? Palantir Gotha
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by bhupy 6y ago
> You can't just throw money at the problem to make it better. To really underscore this point, it’s worth looking at the inflation adjusted total per-pupil education expenditures over time: https://nces.ed.gov/progr
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by bhupy 6y ago
> when they hide what they are doing from their voters This is literally the premise of clandestine agencies, and it’s not a new concept. They’ve been around for 50 years now. This isn’t some bait-and-switch, voters have always known wha
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by bhupy 6y ago
Elected governments decide what is socially useful. And for better or for worse, the polity has decided that the government ought to engage in the invasion of privacy of foreign adversaries. The majority of Americans appear to approve of
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by bhupy 6y ago
Where in this filing does it say that their top 25 customers are governments? And where in this filing are the current revenue numbers classified as government vs non-government? Also, it’s important to consider their TAM projections becaus
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by bhupy 6y ago
Sure, but their current operations appear to be more diversified than that -> https://www.palantir.com/solutions/ . Even per their S-1, their market sizing shows "Commercial" to be a substantial proportion
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by bhupy 6y ago
The "sole" purpose (again, their website shows a ton of other use cases) appears to be to assist elected governments in violating somebody's rights/privacy. From where I sit, elected governments decide what's &quo
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by bhupy 6y ago
Per this S-1 filing, Palantir appears to be used by the private sector as well. > socially useful purpose Who decides what's "socially useful"?
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by bhupy 6y ago
Genuinely curious: at what point is it "okay" to create data analysis tools that might be used by 3-letter agencies? I imagine that before Palantir came around, the analysts at these agencies did what most other analysts anywhere
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by bhupy 6y ago
And Locke had a proviso: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockean_proviso In any case — it's a huge stretch to suggest that allowing other property owners to dictate what you can and can't build on your own prop
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Survey of Uber/Lyft Drivers and Voters [pdf](ac32b1ba-8f5b-411f-91ab-b7ae9a046606.usrfiles.com)
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by bhupy 6y ago
> "Markets" in this case eat themselves. Being able to pass local regulations is a perversion of the term "markets". By that logic, the entire world is a free market, even those countries where national governments ha
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by bhupy 6y ago
Something more similar to the Google or Bing search results for "VK"?
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Usually local NIMBYs
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It's fairly well established by now that the most significant drivers of housing unaffordability is the preponderance of zoning regulations that restrict the supply of new housing construction. https://www.nber.org/pape
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by bhupy 6y ago
> But my bet is that the future for ride hailing is one of hundreds of different competing local services around the world that focus on their locality, work directly with local officials and regulators, and provide good customer service
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by bhupy 6y ago
In the markets where housing prices have increased the most, housing is the least market based.
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by bhupy 6y ago
I think it’s the subtle audio interference combined with the distinctive commercial pilot vocal fry.
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Yup, point remains. Cash back cards maintain the same characteristics. Traditional cash back cards are arguably less regressive since it isn’t just the wealthy that have cash back cards. In theory, a broader set of people are beneficiaries
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by bhupy 6y ago
Yup, point remains. It’s an externality masquerading as a luxury. It’s also arguably regressive, since the beneficiaries of those rewards tend to be overwhelmingly rich, while the inflated prices are paid for by everybody else.
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by bhupy 6y ago
“Free money” paid for by merchants is a luxury, not a necessity.
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by bhupy 6y ago
In the status quo, drivers are able to turn off their dispatch whenever they want. They can drive 20 hours one week, 2 hours the next, take an indefinite break, then drive 40 hours. There's no boss, there's no clocking in. There&#
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by bhupy 6y ago
Sure, and in a world where Uber & Lyft drivers are employees, drivers would be forced to work shifts in the same way. They’d have to clock in a certain number of hours as part of the condition of “employment”, be it full time or part ti
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by bhupy 6y ago
Drivers usually keep both apps open and active, then accept the first dispatch they receive and temporarily go offline on the other app while finishing the trip. Then lather, rinse, repeat.
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by bhupy 6y ago
Uber now lets drivers set their own rates, with a multiplier: https://therideshareguy.com/set-your-own-rates-uber-feature/

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