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Jack Needham
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fixing healthcare in the UK
London, England Katılım Haziran 2017
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close to $1mil has been traded on restore's candidate rebecca shepherd on Polymarket
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@matbogus can we see the final result, cos if a robot poured me a pint with that much head, I wld become Luddite
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when people ask “what does it mean to be British”, i will just send them a picture of Ian Hogarth and this article
service, integrity, greater good
Oscar Sykes@OscarSykes7
Ian Hogarth is a legend
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if you ignore substance of what Louis is saying, there is an interesting implicit message in how he is communicating
he comes to twitter, bbc news, times radio armed with facts and decent rationale, making his points with a mature high-status, professor-ish tone
most regular people think of palantir as a big scary American spy company and when you watch or listen to Louis, the opposite comes across
smart
Louis Mosley@louismosley
A fair challenge, but i think it rests on a category error. The politics of a founder or an executive are not the politics of a company. Palantir’s founders - Karp and Thiel - famously hold opposite political views on many issues. Our employees hold every view in between. Which of them is Palantir’s politics? Or - worse - are we to assume the politics of our customers are ours, simply because we work for them? That every elected government we serve confers its politics on us in turn? Palantir is political, but not in the partisan sense your point implies. Palantir’s politics is a commitment to the West, to liberal democracy, and to the rule of law. That is precisely why neither of the above tests work: the moment a company’s politics is read off the views of its founders or its customers, we have left the world of objective standards and entered one of subjective association - exactly the test the Mayor’s office now proposes for public procurement. Public procurement decisions should rest on objective standards, not subjective tests of “values”. That is a principle I think is worth defending, particularly under pressure.
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To declare my position, I mostly agree with what your saying, especially that company and founder beliefs should be separated in public procurement. I just didn't agree it was a fair comparison.
Again, I would disagree with some of your framing. Where the left will get stroppy, is not with a vanilla pro liberal democracy stance, but instead ideas of national service, cultural supremacy and anti-pluralism. No doubt the media whips this up in much more of an issue than it need be. From those in government I have spoken with, most can't name why they dislike Palantir, but point generically distasteful (to them) political stances the organisation takes.
This is mostly semantics, I think your job is to make people like Palantir, not to frame things perfectly. Especially given the PR situation it currently finds itself in.
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A fair challenge, but i think it rests on a category error. The politics of a founder or an executive are not the politics of a company. Palantir’s founders - Karp and Thiel - famously hold opposite political views on many issues. Our employees hold every view in between. Which of them is Palantir’s politics? Or - worse - are we to assume the politics of our customers are ours, simply because we work for them? That every elected government we serve confers its politics on us in turn?
Palantir is political, but not in the partisan sense your point implies. Palantir’s politics is a commitment to the West, to liberal democracy, and to the rule of law. That is precisely why neither of the above tests work: the moment a company’s politics is read off the views of its founders or its customers, we have left the world of objective standards and entered one of subjective association - exactly the test the Mayor’s office now proposes for public procurement.
Public procurement decisions should rest on objective standards, not subjective tests of “values”. That is a principle I think is worth defending, particularly under pressure.
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I think this is slightly disingenuous from Louis - Palantir gets singled out bc it’s a very political organisation.
It published a manifesto, its founder wrote a book called “the technological republic” and it has three of the most politically vocal founders in the world.
This is not true of any other major tech company that works with the uk government.
Times Radio@TimesRadio
“He talks about values, but I think what Londoners value is not being mugged, not being raped by a serving police officer.” CEO of Palantir UK Louis Mosley says London Mayor Sadiq Khan is “putting politics over public safety” by blocking the tech firm’s deal with the Met Police.
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This was a wild experience
etn.@etnshow
F1 World Champion Nico Rosberg (@NicoRosberg) shares he's been cold emailing Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke (@tobi) for three years and that his competitive edge to success is having no fear of failing: "I'm cold emailing all the time and I get rejected 90% of the time...Rosberg Ventures is one of those chances because actually it was like 90% sure it's going to fail." "I've been trying to reach Tobi Lütke, the CEO founder of Shopify. He's a race car driver so that of course is my best angle and I've been trying for 3 years." "Guessing emails, his EA, common friends, everything...could not get him to even acknowledge or write me once." "And I was on the phone with him yesterday".
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@whoiskatrin what an achievement it wld be to create something as beautiful as a Mediterranean seaside view
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ElevenLabs hired just 150 people out of an 80,000 applications in Q1.
That's a 0.2% success rate.
On average a recruiter at ElevenLabs is filling 19 roles per quarter which is BONKERS.
The company is on track to surpass $1bn of ARR this year, and is currently hiring for 250 roles to help them get there across:
> FDEs
> Strategists
> AEs
> Engineers
I've now interviewed @mati, @Carles_Reina, @lukeharries and @vic_weller and if I wasn't running my own business it's the first company I'd want to join.
Shoutout to Victoria who must be working INSANELY hard to run operations while scaling headcount at an insane pace.
One of Europe's finest
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I’m building a multifamily office for this population, where philanthropic capital will be managed as seriously and creatively as investment capital. We’re not at “public launch” stage yet, but since Nan’s tweet is doing numbers I wanted to put up a signal flare.
Nan Ransohoff@nanransohoff
New blog post: The third wave of American philanthropy Hundreds of billions of dollars in new philanthropic capital will soon become liquid. The OpenAI Foundation holds 26% of OpenAI, worth about $220B at today’s valuation. Anthropic’s seven co-founders have pledged to give away 80% of their wealth and have instituted the most aggressive donor matching program for employees in tech history. How much does this all add up to? And how meaningful is that in the context of philanthropy today? I was doing some simple napkin math to wrap my head around the scale of what’s coming, and radicalized myself in the process. I had dramatically underappreciated the scale of the philanthropic capital that’s about to become available and the corresponding gap in talent and organizations that will be needed to make the most of it. This piece aims to directionally sketch the scale of what’s coming, the gap in operational capacity needed to absorb it, and what we can do to fill it. (Link to full post in reply)
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@Ronanchamberss this comparison hurts my soul
it’s like comparing Garfield to aslan
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the biggest problem with headlines like this, is not the absolute cost of building a fast thomas the tank engine but the message it sends to brits about the wider capability of our government.
if we can't build a train, what hope is there that the govt will actually make your life better
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In Britain, high-speed trains are banned from going fast.
GB Politics@GBPolitcs
🚨NEW: Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander is expected to confirm that HS2 trains will run slower than initially planned, in a bid to cut costs
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@Fremond_ not to challenge your great intelligence oh wise one but bookies are not saying that.
any reason why?
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As per usual, I was correct. It’s a 50/50 chance Burnham wins or loses.
Mac 🌹@mactellomckeown
He's the most popular politician in the country, be serious. He would easily win any by-election in most Greater Manchester or Merseyside seats based off personal appeal alone
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imagine someone has an internal injury and they are coughing up blood
and instead of fixing the actual issue, you decide to tape the person’s mouth shut because well then they can’t cough up blood any more.
that’s what rent control is.
this is what happens when you control rent:
- there is no incentive to build apartments anymore, and after a few years you get severe housing shortages
-incumbents get some short term benefits but landlords eventually stop maintaining apartments because it becomes prohibitively expensive
- incumbents hold on to rent controlled apartments and people stop moving away even for better jobs and this fucks up the labor market
this experiment has been tried many times before and the long term effects were disastrous every single time
but socialists don’t really care about 2nd order effects, if they did they wouldn’t have been socialists in the first place
the problem is almost always a lack of supply of decent housing, and the fix is to just build more apartments
Zack Polanski@ZackPolanski
Rent controls. Now.
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