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=| When were they ever a 'Software Giant', wasn't he convicted of securities fraud in the Dotcom boom? Crypto people love to smell their own farts and it perfume.

Silicon Valley is a den of traitors.

This has been obvious since 2010 and even more so since Xi took over in 2012, anyone who says otherwise wasn't paying attention or was willfully blind. If there is a war, Silicon Valley will be need to be held to account for helping China develop technologically in the last decade to the point where it is such a potent threat to the US military. I mean it's been stunning and it would never have happened without Sequoia, Apple and Microsoft.

Companies do illegal things all the time, particularly if the people charged with enforcing this are inclined to look the other way, which the Biden DOJ and Labor Department are.

Everything already feels so tenuous for early career professionals at the moment, like you're just barely hanging on by your fingernails. Even if people don't say it, the amount of resentment is fierce. People (white people) who are already established and in charge are so eager to do this as long as it doesn't require any sacrifice from them.

To point out some context, 2021 was a hot labor market. However, S&P 100 jobs particularly for entry level professionals are the best jobs around so these are the jobs where there are always way more people applying than there are number of positions. This wasn't like, "we hired whoever applied because we really needed workers". These are the best opportunities.

It's even crazier if you think of the current demographics of the US mapped against this outcome.

It's been so obvious that this is VC propaganda.

Because people are nervous about their jobs....

The dude literally sided with a leader who threatened to nuke the United States. Putin is a a man with such a profound hatred of Americans he built a doomsday weapon like some villain in a comic book whose sole purpose is to irradiate the US coast so it is uninhabitable.

It's the same stupidity that has Trump boasting that he's 'the apple of Putin's eye'. There is a belief in an ideological affinity. It's absurd, because if Putin could wipe out the US without any consequences he would do it in a heartbeat, he wouldn't even think twice about doing so. He has a truly profound hatred for the United States that is layered with feelings of humiliation over Russia in the 1990s.

This guy needs to be crushed by the national security apparatus. I think it will happen eventually given that the threat from great power wars is acute.

At some point his love affair with Russia and China at the expense of US national security will come back to bite him. We live in a new era of great state competition. Freelancing by billionaires is just not acceptable.

'"You don't know?" inquires Stalin with marked surprise, staring at Mironov. "Do you know how much our state weighs, with all the factories, machines, the army, with all the armaments and the navy?"

Mironov looks at Stalin with surprise. "Think it over and tell me," says Stalin. Mironov smiles, believing that Stalin is getting ready to crack a joke. But Stalin is not joking. He looks at Mironov in earnest. "I am asking you, how much does all that weigh?" he insists.

Mironov is confused. He waits, still hoping Stalin will turn everything into a joke, but Stalin keeps staring at him waiting for an answer. Mironov shrugs his shoulders and, like a schoolboy undergoing an examination, says in an irresolute voice, "Nobody can know that, Yosif Vissarionovich. It is in the realm of astronomical figures."

"Well, and can one man withstand the pressure of an astronomical weight?" asks Stalin sternly. "No," answers Mironov'

Nuclear missiles can cause cancer? I'm shocked.

That's fair, I guess you could argue that willingness is a prerequisite of ability. Without will, ability is useless.

Definitely seems like they are seriously considering taking Taiwan in the near term.

How often do you ride public transit? Experiences in the past month include being threatened with horrific assault for just saying I didn't have cash on me and a bus ride where a guy talked to me the whole ride about how he was about to murder the bus driver. That's just recent.

It's just you.

They don't understand as in OpenAI learned that ChatGPT is capable of doing things it was never intentionally trained to do after it was released. I've heard anecdotally that self-driving cars can pick up the unwanted behavior of inching up to a red light in anticipation of it turning green and they were never trained to do that specifically.

I assume it defines all companies in China seeking these services. Any sort of ambiguity opens itself up for abuse.

That's because they asked for jet fighters and US military hardware to be in their movie. They were asking the government to participate significantly in the production.

The old Lenin line, capitalists will sell you the rope to hang them with. I would argue that this mainly applies to Western capitalism.

This was predicted. Remember when Ford decided they could make more money by only selling trucks and SUVs? Car companies made a decision that more people were going to die so they could sell more expensive cars.

You mean to tell me that you can't actually run a tech company with three engineers and a Mac Mini?

The more I learn about Stockton Rush, the worse of a human being he seems. He killed people because of his ego.

Technopolies are the blood sucking vampire squids of the modern economy.

Burn down the technopolies!

I mean I would put it this way, the left is the coalition of the ascendant economically / politically / culturally since the education sort. What it means to be on the losing end, to be descending into the social / economic abyss, is kind lost for the most part on the modern Democratic Party. Given that political power is heavily biased toward geography, catering ideologically only to the most educated coastal city dwellers is at best a formula to slowly lose out against fascism. At some point, the fact that territory is so heavily weighted in the American political system will win out, it's our political laws of physics. It may feel satisfying to write off a huge section of the country but it's also a long term strategy that will ultimately suck the life out of Democrats / left and doom Democracy.

Without the full data and an open investigation anything claiming any sort of definitive conclusion for or against lab leak is just propaganda. There are gaping holes in the evidence on both sides. Both the left and the right in the US are waging a political war on normal people.

The thing about tech monopolies are they operate at huge losses until they wipe out the competition and then they start jacking up costs way higher than the market normally would allow because they've laid waste to the competitive landscape by operating for so long at such scale at huge losses. That was what the argument against allowing tech platforms to consolidate was. Think about all the platforms that were bought or went under during the 2010s. By being able to operate at losses for so long while buying their competitors / putting them out of business, they've salted the ground in terms of competition for their categories.