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by CPLX 3y ago
His values are completely aligned with the ruling class. Billionaires need on the ground types like him to actually do stuff. It’s hard to find people who are young and ambitious and effective, and yet fundamentally and ruthlessly aligned w
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by CPLX 3y ago
It has a Michelin star, pretty sure there ain’t no secrets involved in this story.
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by CPLX 3y ago
Yes conversation view is where if there's an email thread with, say, 8 replies, you still just have one "row" in your list of emails, and clicking into it reveals (usually) the most recent message with the others below. I fuc
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by CPLX 3y ago
I've tried it too, and it has some things I like, like the AI stuff seems pretty good compared to other solutions I've seen. But all these tools suffer I think from being too opinionated. Like I get why they do that, and to some e
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by CPLX 3y ago
Hijacking this thread (sorry) but does anyone really love Superhuman these days? I want it to be great, and have given it a couple chances, but it never has paid off for me. Having conversation view for email be mandatory is one of several
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by CPLX 3y ago
Of course you have a say. Many policies are made above the municipal level, and California is a good example of a place where people eventually got tired of not having a say in zoning decisions of neighboring municipalities and did somethin
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by CPLX 3y ago
I would hazard a guess that the amount of taxes avoided by the top 10% of wealthy in the United States is larger than the actual total income of the bottom 10%.
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by CPLX 3y ago
"The political-science professors, perfectly sane men, look at me with wonder when I talk about the ruling class in America. They say, “You are one of those conspiracy theorists. You think there’s a headquarters and they get together a
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by CPLX 3y ago
Yes it's widespread and frequent among the lower income classes for the reasons you mention. But it's a whole lot less money than tax evasion by the wealthy, for obvious reasons.
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by CPLX 3y ago
The argument is that Sam Altman is a central player among the small group of extremely wealthy people whose personalities and decision-making decides how you and me will live our lives. They buy and sell our politicians, set policy directly
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by CPLX 3y ago
Sam Altman controls billions of dollars in assets, and attends Bilderberg and Bohemian Grove events. He's sort of the walking definition of social and economic power.
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by CPLX 3y ago
This seems broadly accurate, in the sense that middle class wage earners cheat on taxes the least, and have the least ability to. Lower income workers don't cheat out of much taxes either, because they don't have much money and do
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by CPLX 3y ago
Because understanding where actual power comes from in society and how it is wielded in practice is both interesting and substantive.
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by CPLX 3y ago
It’s almost certainly true that the most commonly committed crime is tax evasion, with drug use as another contender. Neither are particularly confined to the lower incomes.
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by CPLX 3y ago
I think similar restrictions on tobacco, cannabis, and alcohol, including banned or highly restricted advertising, make a lot of sense. There’s a difference between personal liberty and the regulation of markets and commercial activity.
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by CPLX 3y ago
How effective were the laws against it?
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by CPLX 3y ago
The ruling class can always find a great use for extremely ambitious and energetic leaders who are absolutely, fundamentally, and ruthlessly committed to the interests of the ruling class.
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by CPLX 3y ago
I've never understood the cult around tech VCs, the ratio of self-regard to actual value delivered to the world (or even their own firms) has always seemed staggeringly out of scale with reality. And that's even true in a world th
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by CPLX 3y ago
Triply so when bad fuel is the obvious first guess.
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Someone Has Stolen Lots of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT's(twitter.com)
3 points by CPLX 3y ago|1 comments
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by CPLX 3y ago
If you're looking down on it from one of the surrounding hi-rise office buildings it's indistinguishable from a toilet.
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by CPLX 3y ago
Completely unworkable climate control and wild temperature swings. Blinding light at certain times of day that made it impossible to work. And of course the previously mentioned glass issue. I think it killed a couple people while under con
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by CPLX 3y ago
Wait they bought and are hyping up the State of Illinois building, that everyone use to call a giant glass toilet? Now I've seen everything. That building was a laughingstock of design when I was a kid, I had family members that worked
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by CPLX 3y ago
To get picky, it doesn't necessarily mean they "overpaid" it means the asset is now worth less. You could make an argument that the two concepts are the same thing, but that's not really how business works. For example y
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by CPLX 3y ago
Am going to need a source for a claim like that.
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by CPLX 3y ago
While interesting perhaps, your comment has literally nothing whatsoever to do with “the poorest people in society”.
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by CPLX 3y ago
Cannibalism isn’t inconsistent with a free market any more than a steakhouse is That’s the problem with free markets. It’s just a description of how people answer resource allocation questions. We still have to agree on and enforce our valu
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by CPLX 3y ago
> Why don’t you try to change society then? I do try to change society.
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by CPLX 3y ago
So we agree. Maybe not one potato. Sure there are things that you can do while growing food that do harm the environment, and certainly modern agriculture could be improved. But since we’ve found an example inconsistent with your blanket st
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by CPLX 3y ago
No it’s not. This is nihilism. Growing food and bringing it to you is one example of millions. And no it doesn’t “harm the environment” to dig a potato out of the ground every year or whatever.

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