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The Capitol Police seem to be a facade and don't stop crowds. Here's a different example from 2 years ago:

"@womensmarch just took the Capitol. Women, survivors, and allies walked straight past the police, climbed over barricades, and sat down on the Capitol steps."

https://twitter.com/EgSophie/status/1048634940169048064

Is gold a pyramid scheme?

You might find The Coddling of the American Mind[1] an interesting read. I think it explains a lot about the infantilization of the culture.

1. https://www.amazon.com/Coddling-American-Mind-Intentions-Gen...

But Twitter/FB/YouTube effectively drive the national conversation and consciousness at this point. Ben is correct to place emphasis there.

When you're 36, you're not really the same person you were at 19.

(hopefully)

That's something said by a 19 year old in an instant message. It doesn't mean anything, especially 17 years later.

> First off, they are more motor-hyperactive, they move, fidget, get out of their chairs: their very neurochemistry develops differently, making them less adept at "sit still and write notes" aspect of school.

Right. And instead of changing school to adapt to kids (e.g., less sitting in chairs, more free play), we change kids to adapt to school (e.g., medicate, discipline, hold back).

Our approach is completely backwards.

It's all but illegal to build new or higher density housing in SF. We need to start electing people who will actually embrace or at least allow construction.

This is what it's like:

"San Francisco Man Has Spent 4 Years and $1 Million Trying to Get Approval to Turn His Own Laundromat Into an Apartment Building"

https://reason.com/2018/02/21/san-francisco-man-has-spent-4-...

> mix of bean counters incapable of producing an original idea and a bunch of lifers running on nepotism.

"The father buys, the son builds, the grandchild sells, and his son begs"

The grandchildren are too far removed from what it took to raise the golden cow. So they just milk it.

America: Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations

China: Wealth does not survive three generations

Japan: The third generation ruins the house

Italy: From stables to stars to stables

Australia: From goon to Grange to goon

England: Clogs to clogs is only three generations

Scotland: The father buys, the son builds, the grandchild sells, and his son begs

I don't know, a $400 Apple Cam™ might do the trick.

Then they're not actually science-minded. They're just following what's in fashion.

SF doubled their budget over the past 10 years, while virtually every problem has gotten worse.

More money isn't always the answer. Maybe the answer lies elsewhere...

It's so bizarre that science-minded people are going along with this. Are they not familiar with Galileo and other heretics of their time?

This is worth a read for a nuanced, holistic look at the stats.

https://samharris.org/can-pull-back-brink/

> Would you have sold after Bitcoin has crashed from $30 to $2?

That's exactly it. Let's say you bought at $0.01. What are the odds you would have held on until the price per coin hit $10,000? Or $1,000? Or even $100?

What kind of return is Y Combinator looking at here? Probably more than covers all their investments?

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” -C.S. Lewis

I'll never understand why people embrace crab mentality.

He's playing a positive sum game - his ventures are growing the pie and moving us toward a better future (e.g., sustainable energy).

Focus on the rent seekers, not the pie growers.

At least an emblematic Tweet, and arguably the straw that broke the camel's back:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259638112688304129

Contrast that with leaders who are welcoming to tech and would be happy to be the next Silicon Valley:

https://twitter.com/zebulgar/status/1335715868487995392

Maybe you're thinking of someone else?

“You get really tired of hot dogs and oranges after awhile,” he said. “And of course pasta and a green pepper and a big thing of sauce. And that can go pretty far, too.

“So it’s like, ‘Oh, okay, if I can live for a dollar a day then at least from a food cost standpoint, well it’s pretty easy to earn like $30 in a month anyway, so I’ll probably be okay.’ “

This isn’t the only example of a young Musk roughing it. When he started his first company, Zip2, he and his brother slept in their office instead of renting an apartment. They showered at the YMCA.

“We were so hard up, we had just one computer so the Web site was up during the day and I was coding at night,” Musk recalled during a commencement speech at USC. “Seven days a week, all the time.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/03/2...

That's because Twitter is the platform of journalists.

If anything, tech is breaking up the education monopoly. Giving people more choices than we previously had.

Preschools would be a good fit. But they'd be infantilizing in a setting much older than that.

Enough billions to make up trillions.

Epic launched their store 2 years ago. Steam still very much dominates and Valve is stubborn.

But now Apple has weakened the case that 30% is industry standard, so hopefully they'll budge. And I think you're right that they'll eventually align.

It's unfortunate that Valve could have easily been a leader on this front. Now they'll be a late follower at best.

This is a great step forward. The extra 15% will make the difference between survival or not for a lot of small/solo developers.

Valve next, please.

Eric Weinstein makes the case that it's a wage tampering program for scientists and tech workers generally.

https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/107032731818526720...

https://www.ineteconomics.org/uploads/papers/Weinstein-GUI_N...

Breaking up tech companies would be using a 20th century tool on a 21st century problem.

Andrew Yang had a better idea. Put a VAT on big tech and use that to fund UBI.

https://www.yang2020.com/policies/value-added-tax/

> Isn't this kind of silly at this point?

Yes. Fortunately we're almost there. In the US we have majority support (68%) and is just a matter of time before it's fully legalized.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/323582/support-legal-marijuana-...