Not much to see here. Crowd sourced, vibe coded app. Not sure what "verified" means because the only verification they did was require a checkbox that "I confirm this is a genuine experience"
Fair catch, clustering does get flagged automatically, but that just means "multiple people reported it," not "confirmed true." Same issue: "verified" oversells it either way.
Fair on "verified" - it's really "manually reviewed" (duplicate/outlier checks), not independently verified. Should probably fix that word on the site.
Relative poverty and enforcement: if a cop accepts a bribe they can lose their job. It’s not worth accepting £20 (or even £2000) bribe and forfeit larger future earnings.
So when bribes do happen it’s for much greater amounts (or nebulous, hard-to-trace things like favours), which rules out bribes for minor infractions.
If I were a corrupt official in one of the departments I would simply use a vpn and submit a bunch of data for my specific specialty all across the country and then slightly fewer in my own department to drive demand and set market expectations
Counterpoint: if they have that much tech expertise and competency managing things they would have left and make more money doing more productive things :)
A lot of people in western countries are unaware of how bad corruption is in the developing world.
It's not uncommon for something like 80% of government officials of all types to be corrupt, compared to under 5-10% in the west.
Go to one of these countries and you'll see it for yourself first hand if you ever deal with the government in any capacity.
You may start to see the same thing in the west with idelologues such as Trump, who care more about loyalty and power than corruption. He has already removed a lot of checks and balances in the system.
Not much to see here. Crowd sourced, vibe coded app. Not sure what "verified" means because the only verification they did was require a checkbox that "I confirm this is a genuine experience"
> Others confirm the pattern When reports cluster around one office or officer, the algorithm flags a verified pattern automatically
It just requires enough others to say the same thing for it to be verified.
Fair catch, clustering does get flagged automatically, but that just means "multiple people reported it," not "confirmed true." Same issue: "verified" oversells it either way.
Fair on "verified" - it's really "manually reviewed" (duplicate/outlier checks), not independently verified. Should probably fix that word on the site.
> Not sure what "verified" means
If you want your post verified, that'll cost you $100
Ha, fair dig. For the record, it's optional and has nothing to do with what gets published, but I get why the timing makes it look that way.
makes me wonder, why aren't the western government as corrupt?
what's the whole mechanism keeping things functioning?
Relative poverty and enforcement: if a cop accepts a bribe they can lose their job. It’s not worth accepting £20 (or even £2000) bribe and forfeit larger future earnings.
So when bribes do happen it’s for much greater amounts (or nebulous, hard-to-trace things like favours), which rules out bribes for minor infractions.
If I were a corrupt official in one of the departments I would simply use a vpn and submit a bunch of data for my specific specialty all across the country and then slightly fewer in my own department to drive demand and set market expectations
Counterpoint: if they have that much tech expertise and competency managing things they would have left and make more money doing more productive things :)
Counter to that, they could bribe someone else to do it for them.
Agreed.
In India*
My bad.
How did you articulate this data? How real is this ?
Could providing a leaderboard drive competition in looking for the highest amount of bribes?
Fair point, hadn't considered that. A leaderboard risks rewarding exaggeration. Would think about this.
surprisingly accurate. I've seen the average between median and max being the sweet spot (based on 4 datapoints)
Ha, small sample but I'll take it. Curious what departments those 4 were from, if you remember.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49050566
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48969051
A lot of people in western countries are unaware of how bad corruption is in the developing world.
It's not uncommon for something like 80% of government officials of all types to be corrupt, compared to under 5-10% in the west.
Go to one of these countries and you'll see it for yourself first hand if you ever deal with the government in any capacity.
You may start to see the same thing in the west with idelologues such as Trump, who care more about loyalty and power than corruption. He has already removed a lot of checks and balances in the system.
What the west calls corruption the east calls tradition.
the west just formalizes the expedited processing fee vis “due process” or a “deferred prosecution agreement”