It's weird to see one's tribe, that is casually dressed nerds, produce weapons. When weapons are made by stodgy old guys in suits, produced through uncompetitive overpriced contracts, it's easy to disapprove. Yet, defense is rational. Regardless of any of that, this video was pretty excellent. Palmer Luckey is an interesting dude.
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139 sats \ 4 replies \ @gmd 20 May
It was surprising to see such a positive video about him, without some sort of backhanded political commentary attached.
It's pretty amazing how wasteful these government contractors that companies like Anduril and SpaceX can be orders of magnitude more productive/$.
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109 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b OP 20 May
I think the tide is turning politically. Both sides of populism have to atone now that Biden has had his run too. We are also fucked if the hurdle rate to building things is singing politically correct hymns like Mariah Carey.
Even the whole mission focused company thing is okay now. It all correlates well with ZIRP ending.
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108 sats \ 2 replies \ @gmd 20 May
Crazy how controversial that was for Armstrong at the time...
Funniest thing about Luckey is all of the receipts he's kept (Calacanis etc) of all the VCs and journalists who dog-piled him when getting ousted from FB/Oculus and when starting Anduril. They've all changed their tune now that Anduril is a media darling and he's refuses to forgive them..
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164 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 20 May
Oh man, I totally missed his speech about Calacanis. Brutal.
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109 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 20 May
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @OneOneSeven 20 May
https://m.stacker.news/31757
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 20 May
Anduril...interesting name choice
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