bigpumpkin

TL:DR

"Steve Yegge is ex-Geoworks, ex-Amazon, ex-Google, and ex-Grab, with nearly 30 years of tech industry experience. Nowadays he’s pretty much retired."

"If you break up the Western Tech Giants, then they will be replaced with foreign companies that you cannot regulate. "

"Elizabeth, please stop talking about breaking them up. "

"The gap between most writing and pure ideas is not filled with poetry." - Paul Graham

"I dwell in Possibility –

A fairer House than Prose –

More numerous of Windows –

Superior – for Doors –

Of Chambers as the Cedars –

Impregnable of eye –

And for an everlasting Roof

The Gambrels of the Sky –

Of Visitors – the fairest –

For Occupation – This –

The spreading wide my narrow Hands

To gather Paradise –"

Emily Dickenson

I thought my space bar was suddenly broken and slammed on it about 10 times.

The Uyghur Genocide-

The genocide where the Uyghur population grows faster than the Han population in Xinjiang.

The genocide where a Uyghur actress- Dilraba Dilmurat remains one of the most popular actresses in China.

The genocide where virtually no Covid infections occured in Xinjiang.

The genocide where Uyghur workers can't find work because of American sanctions on Xinjiang cotton.

The genocide where western countries claim genocide but don't even boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics.

One has to wonder, if there's a genocide, why are countries sending their skiers to slide down some slope near Beijing?

In 30 years, China would deindustrialize just like the West in favor of services and finance.

They are generally written by really smart people/ geniuses who worked years on a particular book.

They also contain thoughts that were once likely mainstream/popular in a particular time/place.

Those with good literary taste could also find modern day classics.

Use the new words you learned in speaking and writing.

Wait until you see what it does to sperm count.

Hopefully they also address network stability, which can be more important for video streaming than the bandwidth speed.

When I'm drunk, I find my thinking rate is slowed by ~20%. Songs that sound normal during normal times sound ~20% too fast.

I wonder if there's any substance to speed up my mind. Coffee?

There's a social video app called "Monkey"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cool.monkey.an...

I'm guessing OP had "Monkey" as a keyword?

Other than F-35, what are the US going to field on its carriers? Super-hornets until 2050?

"I point out to him no American president can be sustained as a president if he doesn’t reflect the values of the United States, and so the idea I’m not going to speak out against what he’s doing in Hong Kong, what he’s doing with the Uighurs in western mountains of China, and Taiwan, trying to end the One China policy by making it forceful … I said, and, by the, he said, he – he gets it. Culturally there are different norms that each country and their leaders are expected to follow."

Biden talking about conversation with Xi

So are they going to boycott the 2022 Beijing Olympics?

Are they also going to stop exporting agricultural products to China?

Talk is cheap.

Most people (60%) don't care because they find everything they need on the Chinese internet anyways.

25% of the people find it a nuisance, but don't speak out against it.

5% of the people actively use a VPN to circumvent it.

5% of the people oppose it out of principle.

5% of the people actively support it because they think it's a way to prevent "information warfare" from the West.

One thing he didn't talk about was capital gains tax.

If I wanted to bet on the election, I would first have to realize my short term capital gains.

2021:

Clubhouse: $100 million to $1 Billion valuation

Agora: $4 Billion to $10 Billion valuation

What does Agora offer that is better than its alternatives?

Would love to hear more from Thea Fischer, who the WSJ quotes extensively.

I just opened up my margined account on Interactive Brokers and it shows a large negative cash balance (exactly equal to what I borrowed on margin). I guess an inexperienced trader could've mistaken the negative cash balance as having negative equity value. Alex Kearns had a negative cash of -730k but a positive equity of $16k . Why did Robinhood send him an email asking for $170k in a few days?

Then later after his death, he received another email from Robinhood:

"Great news! We're reaching out to confirm that you've met your margin call and we've lifted your trade restrictions."

Did Robinhood's margin call system make a mistake?

Yep. The returns on capital is much higher than the return on labor. On net, more people trading is reducing income inequality.

The NSA needs to hack into everything. Huawei everywhere makes it difficult to do so.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/27/nsa-hacked-...

Exited its bet doesn't preclude it from re-entering into a similar one a day later

This. China may have more factories but its focus is on industry not spirituality. India will achieve Religious Victory by 2050.

Would love to see "trending" stocks that see the greatest increases in popularity over the last 24 hours/ week, etc.

' She found that whilst Milgram's originally published article mentioned some forty participants, of which some twenty-six proved to be obedient, some seven hundred naive participants were actually "tested" in various experimental scenarios with varying results as to their "obedience". '

p-hacking way back in the day.

Only people in the US can become a birdwatcher, yet they can influence the whole of Twitter. Sounds like more recipe for centralization of discourse.

If they open it up to foreign countries, then Congress will complain about foreign influence in American politics.

Catch 22?

I wouldn't call the distinct African-American culture "Anglo-Saxon". It is instead rooted in the historical experience that black people have had. The black identity was already formed during the slavery period and incorporates elements of African, European, and Native American culture.

Similarly, just because people speak English does not make their culture "Anglo-Saxon". There are many different cultural practices that coexist in America whose origins do not originate from North Western Europe.

Facebook should not ban accounts unless they are doing things that are outright illegal. They should instead algorithm downweight those content.

If I started a small news aggregator app, would I also have to pay these sites or is it only for large companies.

I just want to say I support your views, which are obviously true to anyone remotely knowledgeable about China. Although that is apparently a rarity.