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Re: Anduril, a startup from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, now valued at $1B

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Post by kikokikokiko »

cr0sh wrote: post #39

It's hearing things like this that make me regret having supported Luckey on his Kickstarter. I had followed him for a few years on the MTBS3D forum when he was experimenting with various HMD prototypes (usually modding the heck out of the Forte VFX-1). He just seemed like a kid with a dream, and the will and ability to make it happen - and potentially revive VR for "Round 2". I suppose he did do that, and while I di…

Is everyone in silicon valley a flaaaaaming, communist level liberal? At least Hacker news is frightening so, and I believe a lot of commenters here live in California and work on the industry. I mean, I live in Brazil and it shocks me to see that the mighty US, the bastion of freedom and capitalism, can harbour such idiotic ideas.

Re: Anduril, a startup from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, now valued at $1B

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Post by whymauri »

riazrizvi wrote: post #102
Rebelgecko wrote: post #61

For various reasons, I'm slightly sketched out by pretty much every company I've heard of that is named after something from Lord of the Rings. Even when I don't think they're contributing to a dystopian surveillance state (à la Palantir and this one), you have the other HN front-page story about Mithril Capital being accused of mismanaging investor funds. Is there some weird self-selection that causes only certain t…

You think they are naming these companies on purpose after a glorious narrative of good vs evil that happens to coincide with racial characteristics, where all the good guys draw on Western European themes and all the bad guys draw on Islamic Empire ones? Nah, it’s just a cool sounding name brah.

Not only that, but Anduril literally means "Flame of the West" and Palantir means "far-seeing" or seeing-stone.

Re: Anduril, a startup from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, now valued at $1B

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Post by bazooka_penguin »

GuiA wrote: post #82
Rebelgecko wrote: post #61

For various reasons, I'm slightly sketched out by pretty much every company I've heard of that is named after something from Lord of the Rings. Even when I don't think they're contributing to a dystopian surveillance state (à la Palantir and this one), you have the other HN front-page story about Mithril Capital being accused of mismanaging investor funds. Is there some weird self-selection that causes only certain t…

The nerds have taken over the world, and turns out that liking fantasy doesn’t correlate to being less evil than other people who rule the world.

Doesnt help a lot of fantasy bad guys are cooler and more metal than the good guys. Especially appeals to outcasts of social groups

Re: Anduril, a startup from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, now valued at $1B

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Post by nemothekid »

hart_russell wrote: post #124
csb6 wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

MLK said something along the lines of, there is no problem with just laws (such as those upholding border security), but there is a problem when they’re applied unjustly. There is nothing wrong, all other things being equal, with enforcing border security. I think this is where your perspective comes from. Nations have sovereignty. Therefore, they can enforce their borders. If all else actually was equal, it would be…

Yeah but we're not discussing those other issues. We're specifically discussing using technology to enforce borders. If you want to make immigration to the US completely legal and unfettered that's a different conversation.

>Yeah but we're not discussing those other issues. We're specifically discussing using technology to enforce borders.

You can't remove Anduril from the cultural context it was born in. Handwaving away his entire post "because we are not discussing those other issues" is a cheap cop-out. Its akin to saying Facebook shouldn't have an instropective look at the way it collects data because "elections are other unrelated issues."

We agree that sovereign nations should be allowed to enforce its borders. But for what reason should technology like Anduril be funded and exist? It's more likely this technology is used in an Orwellian manner than in whatever noble "enforcing borders" principle you believe in.

Re: Anduril, a startup from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, now valued at $1B

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Post by sgpl »

4bpp wrote: post #108
jobigoud wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll bite because I'm ambivalent about immigration laws. Why should people that just happen to be born in a third world country live a shitty life with no way out? You can't just say they have to do a revolution in their own country, not everyone is interested in activism, why should this be the fight of their life instead of stuff they actually want to do? You were born in a nice place by sheer luck. It's unfair. I…

The standard counterargument is that not allowing mobility is what enabled us to have any nice places to begin with, in an "ant and grasshopper" way. Building a "nice" and affluent country is generally a multigenerational project involving plenty of individual sacrifice for the sake of a future that the sacrificing individuals will rarely themselves experience. If Norwegians knew that they all could move to any count…

This counterargument conveniently ignores the history of 'European colonization of America from the early 16th century until the incorporation of the colonies into the United States of America [0]'.

I'm not the most well-versed on these topic (colonization / mobility) but it would seem that that mobility is what helped shape America into what it is today rather than "not allowing mobility".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_history_of_the_United...

Re: Anduril, a startup from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, now valued at $1B

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Post by prepend »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #61

For various reasons, I'm slightly sketched out by pretty much every company I've heard of that is named after something from Lord of the Rings. Even when I don't think they're contributing to a dystopian surveillance state (à la Palantir and this one), you have the other HN front-page story about Mithril Capital being accused of mismanaging investor funds. Is there some weird self-selection that causes only certain t…

I like that I’ve never heard about the Tolkien estate threatening lawsuits. It’s hard to imagine that there aren’t licensing fees in place but I’d love to read an article about the amount of money it takes to name your company Anduril (or Palantir).

Re: Anduril, a startup from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, now valued at $1B

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Post by WillPostForFood »

DonaldPShimoda wrote: post #94
WillPostForFood wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why should a homeless person be forced to sleep on the street when you have a perfectly good couch in your living room. Yet you keep your door locked.

Because a country is not a house. The analogy is fundamentally flawed. Our government can provide for immigrants in ways that individuals simply cannot.

This is basically saying: I won't help, but I support the government forcing other people to help (and hopefully it won't affect me).

Re: Anduril, a startup from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, now valued at $1B

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Post by jamespo »

mc32 wrote: post #114
GuiA wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The US has been very hands on with South American politics (and not only those), so pretending now like their current state is solely the consequence of their own poor choices is ignorant at best.

The US has had hands in Chile and Panama. They’re doing pretty well. We haven’t touched Argentina or Uruguay or Bolivia. Uruguay is doing well, the other two not so much. The U.K. and France and others had their hands in the US, we’ve done okay. [and let’s not ignore the lengths the USSR went to try and destabilize us as well]. It’s not what someone has done to you, it’s what you do for yourself. Look at S Korea, Tai…

Yes, what a fine time the population had under Pinochet

Re: Anduril, a startup from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, now valued at $1B

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Post by auntienomen »

synaesthesisx wrote: post #123
Rebelgecko wrote: post #61

For various reasons, I'm slightly sketched out by pretty much every company I've heard of that is named after something from Lord of the Rings. Even when I don't think they're contributing to a dystopian surveillance state (à la Palantir and this one), you have the other HN front-page story about Mithril Capital being accused of mismanaging investor funds. Is there some weird self-selection that causes only certain t…

I've been considering Gollum Capital as a name for a VC fund. You have to admit it has a nice ring to it...

Well, Gollum did preserve the principal for hundreds of years, before becoming the victim of a thief, through no fault of his own. I'd at least consider investing.
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