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Variants combined with climate change could keep this going for a long time.

No no, it's way->weigh.

Chickens weigh mosquitos.

There is no way to predict that. We can't even predict how many there will be this year or the next 5 years, let alone decades from now.

That's what he was told during the acquisition and he believed it. Many entrepreneurs learn that lesson the hard way.

I don't think it's meaningless. The head of WhatsApp publicly opposing it affects the conversation and social pressures. This matters because politics is downstream from culture. Certainly it's better than saying nothing or being in favor of it.

And the hundreds (thousands?) of millionaires who work there, designing and implementing all this stuff.

We are sitting ducks if you think about it. If a couple university researchers can get malicious code into the Linux kernel, just imagine what well funded state actors are doing?

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/22/22398156/university-minne...

Apple employees successfully pressured their employer to fire a new hire and are petitioning to keep WFH.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/5/13/22435266/apple-employee...

https://www.vox.com/recode/22583549/apple-employees-petition...

Will they apply that energy and leverage to push back on this?

How else can this be stopped before it goes too far? Telling people to "Drop Apple" is even less effective than "Delete Facebook".

Why is that weird?

You're right, but isn't the rapid expansion of censorship and surveillance the past year evidence that we are currently slipping down the slope?

How about not supporting it as a start? Approximately half the country, and a majority of tech workers, were happy with #4 and in fact encouraging it.

"Cannabis is a good proxy, states can keep it illegal and not make tax revenue or they can legalize it, control it and tax it."

That should be a great proxy, but regulators have so overburdened legal dispensaries that they need to be bailed out. Illegal sources could have been easily been made extinct or at least sidelined, but are still able to thrive because the overhead to get a license and stay licensed is so immense.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-14/californ...

Result: git committing, excessively.

"I am a profesional in the science industry and the profession is so debased I would not recommend my children to get into the field. We all talk about burnout and loss of meaning."

I'm curious to hear more about this. What's causing the debasement and loss of meaning in the field?

"I did well enough in law school to be hired by a big New York law firm, but it turned out to be a very strange place. From the outside, everybody wanted to get in, and from the inside, everybody wanted to get out."

— Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, on his “seven months, and three days” as a Sullivan & Cromwell associate, during his commencement address at Hamilton College on May 22, 2016.

Tech was once not that respected, & mostly full of nerds who were just way into tech. But then tech rose in status & income, & was invaded by top school kids seeking such things, who took over the top slots. These new kids didn’t much respect older tech folks from wrong schools.

https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1421212798881722368

That sounds like House of Cards.

These puritan activists larping as tech savvy victorian moralists should be ignored. While the “male gaze” jibe sounds enlightened and à la mode, it implicitly denies that women (especially the lesbian ones) have a gaze of their own, or asserts that it has been colonised by the omnipotent male gaze.

Don't take my word for it, here's noted feminist and professor Camille Paglia and Christina Hoff Sommers on the absurdity of the male gaze theory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3pjGd1v5xY

Walmart, which has a presence in communities of all shapes and sizes, is the largest private employer in the nation with 1.5 million workers. Yet the number of Americans who rely on the corporate giant for their livelihoods is dwarfed by the number who rely on the federal government for their paychecks. The federal government employs nearly 9.1 million workers, comprising nearly 6 percent of total employment in the United States. The figure includes nearly 2.1 million federal employees, 4.1 million contract employees, 1.2 million grant employees, 1.3 million active duty military personnel, and more than 500,000 postal service employees.

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/438242-the-federal-gover...