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Silicon valley is increasingly adopting way too much of the PC groupthink as of late. There's absolutely nothing and nobody that is truly disrupting anything.
by elgabogringo 10y ago
Silicon valley is increasingly adopting way too much of the PC groupthink as of late. There's absolutely nothing and nobody that is truly disrupting anything. Even the word "disrupting" has become a cliche adlibs fill in the blank for pitching "new ideas".
Gone are the middle-class rebels (jobs/clark) that don't care what anybody thinks, in are the ivy-league-ish conformers that want wall street funding and friendly government regulation (basically everybody.
And hey, if wall street and friendly government regulators is what you want and if you have a few hundred grand (maybe a few million) to throw at her foundation or her friends, then Hillary is your gal.
- lisper 10y ago> There's absolutely nothing and nobody that is truly disrupting anything It's not for want of trying. http://urbit.org http://urbit.org And my own humble efforts in this regard: https://sc4.us https://sc4.us
- elgabogringo 10y agoThank you for your efforts. I will read more of this when I get a chance. You are right that the new tech barons are waaaaay too cozy with the government. They travel by private jet with armed bodyguards and share our info with the government and tell us to "relax" and "get along" while we are getting felt up by TSA and having our emails read.
- jackfoxy 10y ago> SC4 is Strong Cryptography (or Secure Communications) for non-technical people. Even technical people can't be technical about everything. We need useable and ubiquitous.
- elgabogringo 10y agoOh, and I shouldn't have said "absolutely nothing and nobody". That's not fair or accurate. I could have expressed that sentiment better. Incidentally, it's a POV Thiel shares, I believe.