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by memish 4y ago
The state also spends tax payer money on things like this: According to documents obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request by taxpayer watchdog group White Coat Waste Project, and subsequent media coverage, from October 2018 until
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If you were blind or paralyzed you might have a more nuanced opinion.
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Exactly. Hackers are naturally anti-authoritarian. Anyone who can give you orders can stop you from solving whatever problem you're being fascinated by -- and, given the way authoritarian minds work, will generally find some appallingl
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Paul Graham says it's more like 90 or 95%. "You could probably expand that 80% to 90% or even 95%. The extremists seem like they're more numerous than they are, because they talk so much and so loudly, but they're really
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by memish 4y ago
False. He specifically pointed out which one was fine and which one wasn't. "Just clarifying that his account is being suspended for incitement to violence, not an unflattering pic of me being hosed by Ari. Frankly, I found those
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SBF, we appreciate that you've been candid in your discussions(twitter.com)
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The article is misleading. You can go look at the thread to see for yourself.
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This is obviously an error or fake screenshot. The same thing and far worse is said thousands of times every day in his replies and it's fine. This is the same kind of thing the right was highly paranoid about and instantly believed ev
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I don't see how you reached that conclusion. If you look at the referenced thread, he was reporting accounts that were inciting violence.
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Just because you don't know what he's doing doesn't mean he doesn't know what he's doing. That's a common error in logic. You'll also have to ignore that he's built companies that land rockets back on
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Speaking of "pretending", that is false on both counts.
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It's just referencing the fact that the new Twitter is more open and transparent. I can't believe how many people are spinning this as a bad thing. We heard almost nothing from Parag and little from Jack when he was running it and
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There's another part of the interview where SBF says he donated about the same to Democrats and Republicans, contrary to the public record. https://youtu.be/6DezodR9hNI?t=775 His explanation and reasoning is that Democ
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SBF says he donated to Democrats and Republicans equally(twitter.com)
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Nat is doubling down on hard working builders and smart people. Oh no. Envy is a hell of a drug. Avoid it like the plague.
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My take on the future of Twitter Search(twitter.com)
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How much of Semafor does SBF own?(twitter.com)
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It would be less weird if people would apply even the tiniest amount of good faith. But no, everyone is so eager to dunk on people trying to build things. All this is going to do is discourage him and others from being transparent and build
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Authoritarians are never advocates for free speech. They are for controlled speech in every avenue. They silence voices. They don't free voices. When they silence voices they always given a greater good justification like you are doing
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The companies were advertising on Twitter, despite the relatively weak performance. They considered it worth the spend prior to activist pressure. If Twitter's ad performance was best in class, they would be less likely to fold. We see
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Right, people are confused about the timeline. 1. He met with them. 2. He agreed to set up a council. 3. He announced the council. 4. They kept pressuring advertisers. 5. He felt that broke the agreement, so he called off the council and mo
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by memish 4y ago
Is The Hill making up those quotes?
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These companies aren't making independent decisions on this. Here is how the system works. > A large coalition of political/social activist groups agreed not to try to kill Twitter by starving us of advertising revenue if I agr
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by memish 4y ago
"A large coalition of political/social activist groups agreed not to try to kill Twitter by starving us of advertising revenue if I agreed to this condition. They broke the deal." https://twitter.com/elonmusk&
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by memish 4y ago
It's hard to build. It's easy to tear down. It's an unfortunate asymmetry.
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Matthias is a good example of a 100x engineer. He's insanely productive.
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"Knowing that haters are just fanboys with the sign bit flipped makes it much easier to deal with them" http://paulgraham.com/fh.html
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There's an incredible amount of bloat in big tech. It's become an adult daycare, https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1561096423243800576 Twitter's layoffs followed by that 1AM photo of hackers at
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George Hotz thinks it's even less, on the order of 20-40 engineers. "20 with cloud, 40 without. So much overlap between iOS, Android, and the web, three people can do all three. More for the backend." https://twitt
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John Carmack, "Elon is definitely an engineer. He is deeply involved with technical decisions at spacex and Tesla. He doesn’t write code or do CAD today, but he is perfectly capable of doing so." Kevin Watson, who developed the av

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