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by javert 6y ago
Palantir is a critical component of the "homeland security apparatus" which employs enormous amounts of Americans (especially in N. Virginia) and is becoming a powerful political constituency unto itself. This constituency has and
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by javert 6y ago
I would guess that too, but it would be nice to hear from someone who actually knows.
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Hey, this is a really good question. Any tax lawyers here? Has anyone tried to bring this to court?
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Ah, could be. But the argument that Boeing isn't responsible at the end of the day for software they outsource is... a really dumb argument.
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> No, the malfunctioning 737-MAX flight control software was NOT developed in India. The Boeing apologists on reddit have been making up those claims for months. I think you are using the word "apologist" backwards. An apologi
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Capitalism rewards workers according to the utility of their contribution. Consider Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, etc. Rentseekers in the literal sense (landlords) are not that big of a function of the economy. Rentseekers in the figur
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I think my statement applies, or at least is likely to apply, under any implementation of Marx's ideas, and also has applied under every implementation that has been tried. If someone has a real counterpoint to that I'd be happy t
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Thanks! I will look into that.
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Thanks for mentioning this. I can see on the monthly holdings report that FDGRX has some SpaceX. But - how did you figure this out in the first place? For example, is there a way for me to search for all the Fidelity funds (or just funds in
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by javert 6y ago
Where did you get SpaceX? It has never been offered on EquityZen that I can see; I haven't signed up for other sites yet, but planning to.
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Can you please tell me which platforms have SpaceX available? I'm already on EquityZen and it definitely does not. Thanks.
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Your post side-steps the issue I raised.
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Marxism rewards the vicious and punishes the virtuous. It's not in the interest of virtuous people to have Marxism. It's in their interest to have freedom, which implies capitalism.
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I don't think the question was in bad faith. I don't understand why it would be seen that way. Many people view affirmative action as racist. I could even imagine there existing a proponent of affirmative action who says, "Ye
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Bitcoin could be financially quite useful because of the liquidity and fixed supply. A single global currency that can't be manipulated or inflated would be wonderful. It would give us a way to store wealth that isn't the securiti
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Hi. You are are ruining bitcoin because it cannot be used for P2P transactions anymore, because you'll get tainted coins, that cannot be converted into USD, because the exchanges reject them. Please release a tool that allows regular p
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> How does the proposed US ban on transactions with TikTok violate users’ rights? Isn’t the application free? I think Trump is threatening to eliminate the app from the app store. Anyway, the app can't really function with a transa
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by javert 6y ago
Trump's action in trying to ban TikTok is actually anti-American. a) It violates the rights of millions of American TikTok users. b) It violates the rights of thousands of Americans employed by TikTok. c) It violates the rights of Amer
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> Who had oppressed if TikTok it's blocked Millions of Americans who use TikTok. Thousands of Americans who work at TikTok. American investors in ByteDance. And, when anyone's rights are violated, everyone's rights are vio
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I definitely think there is a correct way to write and speak. (I don't always succeed, but I try.) I think we should criticize Dante's Inferno for being fixated on guilt and being anti-science. If it is hard to understand (I don
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by javert 6y ago
I posted for the same reason one would call out false advertising. The article's title looked interesting and it was posted in an interesting place (Hacker News). I had every reason to expect it would probably be a great article, but
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Exactly the things I said in my previous comment. It may not have been clear that I dislike those things, but I do dislike them. I think they are ultimately anti-reason and anti-individualist, and also just in bad taste. Intentionally in ba
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by javert 6y ago
Yuck. I don't know how to categorize this kind of writing, exactly, but I recognize it when I see it. It's "intersectionalist," fixated on race, anti-capitalist, and written in a way that is very hard to understand. I&#x
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No. We should not respond to tyranny by being a tyranny. We should respond to it by standing up for our values: freedom, free speech, individual rights, open borders, free trade, and so on. If our system is so good---and it is ---China&#x2
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Aha. That makes sense.
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by javert 6y ago
Wouldn't this be better described as a tradeoff between accuracy and robustness? Interesting concept.
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This view was already expressed, except with some elaboration, hours before your comment. Why add to the noise with a post like this? Saying "no" is what the downvote button is for.
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I think you're reading more into what I said, than what I actually said. But I also think part of what I said was dumb, so I partially agree with you.
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The free market is very good at solving information asymmetries of the kind you are talking about. If it isn't being solved, it's probably because of regulation (regulatory capture). Or maybe it isn't a real problem. I&#x27

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