CerealFounder

I dont understand for the life of me why the state cant get tough on masks and distancing with the rule of law. All they do is put out suggestions and guildelines. Until they flex the guidlines with some muscle it's just theatre

They've always been censoring is my point. Profanity, porn and hatefulness is a normative decision. This also doesn't touch the problem that the platform based on its content structuring and targeting will always reward emotional ideas over everything.

You're just frustrated now because they came for your voice. If they're going to put advertising up against it, they should be held to the same annoying process and responsibility that broadcast media is.

What? Did you just read the headline and assume? If we're gonna hold the community responsible for quality of discourse than this should be downvoted. These are just finger pointing with not support. It feels like Twitter comment with no intellectual rigor. This isnt a shot at the writer, instead a commenting on the value added to the dialouge.

This seems to be much more "squeaky wheel gets the grease" than some political ideology.

Also, this argument is ridiculous. Facebook is NOT US democracy, it's a media company that gatekeeper, like TV before it, Radio before that and townhall meetings before that. Theyve never allowed sex work or profanity on the site and there was little fanfare over that decision. These companies are the next "Type" of media and the extension of that is the power to shape acceptable culture. The real problem is that its being hearlded as both a utility (citizen communication right) and a media company (broadcast and ad network) and dodging the historically clear responsiblities of both camps by claiming to be the other when it comes time to pay the piper.

To end with a clearer analogy. Facebook is cable TV where you are the channel. Then they add commercial breaks between your rants, pictures of cats and support of some political idea. They even ask you to stump for your own "subscribers." Cleverly they've simultaneously made it a messaging product as well to dilute the metaphor above.

Wild plot twist

Its worse, its bad business.

Hijack. Has ANYONE found a way to play multiplayer Catan online? All the sites dont work it seems.

Im a white man who looks like a wrestler, while also the CEO and founder of a pair of very well known companies and I without fail will get "bro" talked to upon first meeting by other guys in all contexts.

Hijack for good:

If you guys love this story, read this: https://www.amazon.com/Unruly-Places-Spaces-Inscrutable-Geog...

Its a book about places with odd borders, histories and futures that is tantalizing.

The full Sealand story is told here an its breathtaking.

There actually is a more technical reason. Running up to an election, brand advertising performs SIGNIFICANTLY worse. This is probably pre-emptive.

I like what you wrote here. I think you're right

Libertarians are real free enterprise until it affects their lives...

But before I get thrashed for hurthing feelings, the real problem is these networks act like pubs and open networks. Paid amplification is almost certainly the problem in that it allows money to act as speech. by allowing it to reach more people that didnt seek it. Historically a wild fringe idea stayed that way because it was hard to convert people at scale. Now a fringe/bad idea coming from a group of power and "pump up the juice."

It would be interesting if they either limited the pay for audience equation or create hypertransperency around who is behind the message.

All in all, Facebook is going to be heavily regulated over the next decade and I hope they're diversifying somewhere. The newspapers were fractured, "The Bells," and it seems historically governments step in after about 10-20 years of abuse.

The irony of your generic complaint followed by overstatement about my what you believe to be my generic complaint is genuinely fun.

This isnt a character attack, it's a substantive attack. And you should care. This ego maniac has his sights set on being the representative talking "tech guy" at the highest form of culture. He was a featured guest on Joe Rogan spouting his empty rhetoric and he indirectly represents us.

This dude is the absolute worst. His brand is taking the platitudes of a "wellness influencer" and applying it to tech and investing. He uses logic/rhetorical fallacies to say things that sounds smart/deep that dont say anything. He also, anoints himself at every turn.

He's a walking manifestation of the reputation tech has built as being elitist and out of touch.

Appreciate the response, but didn't skim it. The "details" are inconsequential here. Im not bailing out the media, because their job has morphed into an attention megaphone in order to survive. The reason details dont matter is that the core problem is police acting with impunity. The problem becomes even worse when you look it relative to the victims accountability in all these cases.

Theres that video from two days ago of that (white) union chief screaming and spitting about "how deserve more respect and we are tearing them down" and it was accompanied by an array of tweets that said "He gets treated like a black guy for 2 weeks and he has a mental breakdown." I think this story even in it's detail loose state is an appropriate weapon to even the fight.

Are they? If a group of people feel preyed upon and these, plain clothes officers with weapons, no-knock entered, they got what they deserved period.

The onus is on the enforcement to manage damage, not a citizen who doesn't even know its coming. The intelletualizing of this is ridiculous, its a common sense issue.

You're telling me, an island, literally connected, to our greatest current world foe (sorry Russia), is geopolitically meaningless?

You think Newsome would would be indifferent if China grabbed Catalina Island?

I just picture a cardinal banging on your moms window saying "hey, I heard you're talking shit"and pacing

nice work.

Thats the main false assumption about venture. Given the stage of venture investing, there is way less true evaluation and understanding of risk going on than they care to admit.

Yup, your "hot take" is the core of "Lifespan" by Dr. David Sinclair.

I mean, if you dig with any seriousness, it's pretty likely that THEY actually manufactured it.

Here's an interesting question.

CEO's, will seeing Juul on a resume preclude you from hiring that person, even if they are a technical fit?

It's pretty anti-competitive that a company can operate a marketplace and sell on the same marketplace. It would seem like an obvious law to enact.

Did they? They raised a billions of dollars to try to basically try to drag reality to this demo. It feels like a bigger version of a regular venture story.

"Gimme a ton of money to run this experiment. If I'm right you'll be rich"

This argument is it, but it says something different than you realize. The bigger problem is that as cities become less financially and culturally relevant/desirable their revenues decline at faster clip than their investment and spending. Its not infrastructure or anything in particular it's just a problem of congruency.

Its pretty simple. We didn't scale testing at all which turns a national isolation into just isolating people that are potentially infected. Then you keep isolating those people until it dies on the vine. This current solutions SUCKS, but it silver medal sucks to just letting the disease roam free and infect everyone.

Also, the whole "young people and what not are at low risk" is anecdotal. We have no clue what the longterm, and passive ramifications of this virus are.

Yea that's wrong. I think many our the most profitable, but the model requires consistent volume in a way that the other models dont.

Theres just less room for error.

Man, amen. This is the worst one yet because it was clearly political. If this wasnt an election year, theres no way we get a .5% cut

Incomplete. Its all the DNA business.

Thats not whats happening. This guy is an angel of death (to landlords). His career skills/responsibility is going to be to basically renegotiate every lease to make it viable for WW. Its going to cause problems.

This company is a huge VC darling. Take it with a grain of salt. Once your texts become a noisy comms channel itll get rough.