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Hadrius (YC W23) – Founding Engineer for fastest growing compliance software(ycombinator.com)
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by tjs8rj 3y ago
I know you receive citizenship with birth on US soil, but that wasn’t implemented because the state has some obligation to someone simply due to the dirt above which they were born. The reason that law was implemented was to recognize the s
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by tjs8rj 3y ago
The immigration system has a duty to the citizens, not to the immigrants - except as far as it preserves human rights and serves the citizens. You’re not entitled to citizenship. We didn’t get it by birth alone, we got it because our lineag
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by tjs8rj 3y ago
Did you read the article? There are no laws attacking accepted science, there are laws pushing back on ideological capture. That the country is “systemically racist” and that “men can be women” are not scientific facts. These are increasing
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by tjs8rj 3y ago
In that case we should thank our stars it’s not a public company. Musk taking over twitter has done more to expose corruption and hypocrisy than almost anything else. The Twitter Leaks, balancing the algorithms, and even biasing them agains
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
That's exactly it. You're not interested in America's interests, and in this case that means you're putting the designs of an adversary first. Consequently when it comes to matters of American interests and national secu
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
I'm convinced half the comments are just Chinese bots. It's all the same talking points about how "we totally can't ban these tool developed by our adversary because they would just be so hypocritical!". Regardless
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
A foreign adversary injected a toxic application into our country, but because "people really like it" the government has no right to stop it? This is 21st century opium wars. Leaving the addicts to decide policies based on "
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
Why did the "coup" fail? We've all seen the videos, police never really showed up in force, army never showed up, national guard never showed up. It ended because...people went home. If it were actually an attempted coup, why
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
The difference is I'm of the somehow-rare (on Twitter at least) opinion that ALL racism is a problem.
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
A lot more overt racism? You could always search "white people" and find plenty of dark and nasty things, including from very public people who get plenty of praise for it. Overt and celebrated racism has always had a home on Twit
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
How is the coup narrative so pervasive? There was no institutional support, nobody got killed except for a rioter, they all cleared out promptly by curfew. By all indications it was a riot and a pretty mild one at that given the previous su
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
Maybe you're overreacting a little bit? This is an automated poop emoji email response from a social media site and you've quickly translated that into "poop emoji = BS = fake news = a tacit endorsement of raw power of the st
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
For a while, declining fertility rates were de facto considered a good sign in the demographic transition model. Usually experts would say "declining fertility is because people are chasing more fulfilling things! Our societies are so
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
It's not exactly a both-sides thing. I don't have a strong opinion on the topic, but the side with the gun is the AI art generator side (not the artists). The artists are saying "stop" and the AI side is saying "you
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
It's in US airspace with no apology or intention by the Chinese to remove it. Shooting it down is totally reasonable
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
They claimed to not moderate on the basis of political opinion but recent leaks reveal that's false.
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
This was EXACTLY the same case against Twitter though: they are obviously politically bent, but they market themselves as the public square. They pitch over and over that they absolutely don't moderate on the basis of politics. If they
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
Skipping all the baggage that's formed around the TikTok ban/no-ban, do you think nothing should be done about a powerful foreign country with ill-will having direct access to an incredible amount of US citizen data? Even if you d
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
Based on what? I’m close with a few higher levels at different strategy consulting firms, and most of their work at these firms we’ve talked about has been serious: how to respond to a firm you’ve heard of receiving backlash over a botched
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
Do it on the side, focus on finding a burning problem/serious pull from the market. Once you have it, raise money (at least enough that you can pay yourself comfortably), then go full time. Starting a company in your 30s has many benef
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
This is often touted as a good thing, but the more I think of it it just seems like it isn’t “having such a good life in a developed economy” that makes people have fewer kids. It seems more and more clear that increasingly competitive econ
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
Everyone said the reverse of this when the polling failed in 2016 - that Republicans were afraid to share their political affiliation for fear of being cancelled etc
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
OP said “if a company would never offer a dividend, an investor would never buy it”
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
They'll inevitably come back. Right now you can advertise to more people, more engaged people, and at a discount given these conditions. Why would an advertiser not immediately return as soon as the vitriol dies down?
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
Why would they never buy it? Art, crypto, NFTs, etc never pay dividends and have markets for them
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
I said explicitly in my comment that if he’s just doing it for his own enjoyment that’s completely fine, I agree that he does t have to grind endlessly
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
What does scale is his skills. If he’s able to pull off what he’s already done, get investors and do it on a larger scale.
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
Why is he driving a hotel shuttle? Unless he’s just retired and looking for something engaging to do, that’s a horrible waste of his clear talent for building wealth
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
I’m sorry, this post just sounds like the scribblings of an insane man by the end of it. George is obviously very intelligent and I like his other posts, but I think like many successful people he’s become lifted into a bubble of rarefied a

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