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

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Post by prepend »

ndarwincorn wrote: post #168
prepend wrote: post #142

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I applaud your honesty in expressing a desire for open borders. I think culture would benefit from more open and honest discussions on this topic as all the double speak makes it frustrating and boring to discuss, normally. I’m not really very interested in borders one way or the other but national borders certainly aren’t “artificial.” There are certainly some artificial aspects (lines of longtitude, etc) but border…

> the border of France and Germany, for example, is very real and those countries have different cultures. You'd be hard-pressed to identify a more artificial border in Europe than that one (maybe the former Yugoslavia). Curious if you've ever been to Alsace-Lorraine, and if so why you think the culture there is distinctly French versus their German neighbors.

I have but only as a tourist. I called out that border because Alsace and Lorraine have gone back and forth quite a few times. I don’t think that’s a “natural” border but I think being exchanged by war and treaty is a pretty purposeful expression of local and national desires. So it’s not random. That wasn’t kind of what I was trying to express.

Some borders are arbitrary (Kenya and Tanzania) and some are based on rivers or natural borders (France and Spain, Nepal and India).

But curiously the people are different in Alsace than Germany. And also different from Alsace and France. Some differences are the result of French laws and culture, some differences are the result of local custom, some differences are the result of historical German laws and culture. This doesn’t mean that people here are alien or have no commonalities. I think that people have much more in common than they have different.

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

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Post by mistermann »

mistermann wrote: post #248
chipotle_coyote wrote: post #88

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> Most fentanyl in the U.S. comes in via the unsecured border with Mexico "Unsecured" is being asked to do an awful lot of work in that sentence. Smugglers aren't driving trucks full of contraband over the open desert through areas where Trump's (or Palmer's) "wall," whether real or virtual, would stop them. They're smuggling them through established checkpoints. If you want to reduce the drug trade, better technique…

> Smugglers aren't driving trucks full of contraband over the open desert through areas where Trump's (or Palmer's) "wall," whether real or virtual, would stop them. They're smuggling them through established checkpoints. I'm not saying you're wrong, but how do you know the specific means by which fentanyl is getting into the US? > The intense fight in the Trump era over this stems from the uncomfortable fact that th…

The amount of downvoting on legitimate questions is starting to get a bit out of hand around here. If people can't answer a mild challenge to their claim, should they be making it in the first place?

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

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Post by Fellshard »

pstuart wrote: post #27
alkibiades wrote: post #25

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the cartel is one of the deadliest groups in the world. now throw in ms-13 etc.

The cartel and ms-13 were creations of the US, so it's kind of a domestic issue.

'created /in/' is not equivalent to 'created /by/' or 'is a product of'.

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

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Post by auslander »

JDulin wrote: post #208

Awesome! Anduril is one of the few startups today I believe is solving a core problem in the United States' institutions - Defense industry dysfunction. It costs American taxpayers billions of dollars on weapons that under-perform at best and endanger American lives at worst. Palmer correctly identifies some of the incentive issues with current defense contracts. Rather than working on contracts pre-defined by the Do…

> core problem in the United States' institutions - Defense industry dysfunction.

Not Super PACs? "they can raise funds from individuals, corporations, unions, and other groups without any legal limit on donation size." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee

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

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Post by anigbrowl »

CapricornNoble wrote: post #272
anigbrowl wrote: post #243

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So let people have work permits as long as they don't commit serious crimes and the illegal work problem goes away. There is no necessity for the control freakery that has driven much immigration policy in recent years.

Two of the big problems right now are: 1. People entering the country outside of defined points of entry. We can't issue a work permit to people we don't know are here. Anduril's products are meant to address these gaps in the border, which should lead to all traffic being forced to official points of entry. 2. Illegals who commit crimes get released.[1] Sometimes released domestically, sometimes deported. Some of th…

1. people don't have an incentive to avoid ports of entry if we don't make the admissions process so draconian.

2. 'illegal' isn't a noun. These are people we're talking about. This is not a place for you to peddle your propaganda.

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Post by dmix »

mindcandy wrote: post #288
dmix wrote: post #179

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It should be pretty obvious to anyone using the internet for long to identify what's flamebait. If you need examples just look at the political sections of Twitter and Reddit where all sense of civility and intellectual debate has been abandoned. Or look at the headlines of clickbait news sites like Buzzfeed and Vice which target that demographic and do the opposite. There's no shortage of examples kicking around.

It should be for a lot of people. But, for more than enough people, it’s not. And, even if it is obvious, the drama it promotes even among the knowledgable is a big negative I’d prefer to avoid on HN.

Well dang is an expert in it by now and I 100% trust him to make the right choices. Not everyone has to 'get' it and if there was any serious problems they'd bubble up.

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Post by jack_pp »

neotek wrote: post #266
_iyig wrote: post #226

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You mean besides the mass sexual violence in Cologne, the Berlin Christmas market attack, or the fact that migrants in Germany are disproportionately more likely to commit violent crimes [0][1][2]? What really gets me is headlines like “German far-right capitalizes on migrant crimes,” as if those politicians were happy the crimes had been committed or consented to the policy decisions that led to them occurring. [0]…

None of your links support your claim that migrants are more likely to commit violent crimes, in fact they present evidence that dispels that (very obvious) lie. They also point out that the far-right groups that are spreading this propaganda as a means to promote their racist agenda are lying: >But it turned out, several cases did not take place in Europe, and, with the exception of one case, there is no evidence su…

I suggest you take a trip to Brussels and report back how safe you feel in central areas like Gare du Midi

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Post by filoleg »

chillwaves wrote: post #281
CapricornNoble wrote: post #273

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Because there is significantly less illegal immigration coming from those borders. Responsible resource allocation involves employing your assets where they will net the greatest utility. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_force https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_maximization_problem Let's say 1 Anduril Widget would stop 10 border crossings/year on the southern border, but only 1/yr on the Canadian border. I…

That's right, because most illegal immigration comes in the form of visa overstays. They are coming in the sky!!

Parent is not talking about illegal immigration as a whole, they are clearly talking about illegal immigration due to illegal border crossings.

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Post by tomhoward »

CapricornNoble wrote: post #252
anigbrowl wrote: post #233

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Is this like when the British settlers deliberately used smallpox-infected blankets to give diseases to the native Americans? Trying to associate immigration with disease is some vile rhetoric.

>>>Trying to associate immigration with disease is some vile rhetoric. Cross-border population movements are a potential vector for disease transmission. Just look at the Google Scholar results from some similar searches, especially [1] and [2]. Casting objective physical science concerns as some sort of subjective expression of xenophobia is unhelpful to mitigating or solving real problems. [1] https://www.ingentaco…

Yet no serious commentator advocates shutting down tourism out of concern for spread of disease, and it's long been found that the key to preventing infection outbreaks is to have a well-functioning medical system.

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Post by tomp »

chillwaves wrote: post #281
CapricornNoble wrote: post #273

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Because there is significantly less illegal immigration coming from those borders. Responsible resource allocation involves employing your assets where they will net the greatest utility. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_force https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_maximization_problem Let's say 1 Anduril Widget would stop 10 border crossings/year on the southern border, but only 1/yr on the Canadian border. I…

That's right, because most illegal immigration comes in the form of visa overstays. They are coming in the sky!!

Those people are quite well accounted for, right (IIRC they take your photos and fingerprints when you cross the border, presumably also for visa application). Completely different from an illegal "new-immigrant" that crosses the border unnoticed.
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