Re: Facking over-governance
@Paul 129 "...an either/or affair."
Offering Somalia as a SF alternative counterexample to exemplify Uber's explicitly professed worldview is sort-of like a 'reductio ad absurdum' rebuttal. I'm holding up Somalia as a mirror to Uber's entire business model. It's not me that's the 'either/or' extremist.
In the context of Uber, the Somalia reference is perfectly fair. Uber explicitly wishes to operate free of any and all government regulation. On this point, they're indisputably extremists. They want extreme freedom. So they should move their HQ to downtown Mogadishu. It's a fair comment on *their* extreme worldview.
Personally, I'm an 'Extremist Moderate' (i.e. not really extremist, except in moderation). By way of evidence, I appear to have invented the concept that the Left/Right Political Spectrum is actually bent into a circle, with indistinguishable L/R (who cares?) extremist spittle-laced loons on the far side. I believe it's a very illuminating idea.
My next project is searching for the third axis of politics, to form a 3D sphere surface, or perhaps it's a 3D spherical volume. I suspect that the 3rd axis of politics will be an up/down intelligence scale where, again, the very clever consolidate into one indistinguishable point at the top, and the very dumb consolidate into another indistinguishable point at the bottom.
Taking it further, perhaps these two Top/Bottom points narrow into thin tubes that join (internally or externally? Not clear...), making (overall) some sort of torus. The extremely clever and the extremely dumb are sometimes indistinguishable. Genius and lunacy are often adjacent.
Anyway, sorry that my 'Somalia' post was too brief, and that it caused confusion about my views.
PS. Did you notice my Somalia post was 'AC' with the Beer Bottle icon? Bug is apparently now fixed, due to responsible disclosure upon discovery.