> Even if Silicon Valley comes out as arrogant to the outside world, it is quite justified. That's not hard to see. Just look at the appreciation rates of stock

> Even if Silicon Valley comes out as arrogant to the outside world, it is quite justified. That's not hard to see. Just look at the appreciation rates of stocks by category in the past 5 years, for instance. Were you around in 1999? People said the same stuff then too and look how that turned out. > "code" becomes the de facto law in many contexts. "It's the New Economy! Everything is different now."