poorjohnmacafee

Probing or partnering? The US is wide open for business, and foreign actors certainly invest billions buying influence in US politics.

"I'm okay with youtube censoring memes that make fun of the president"

It is is depressing, that clear and obvious solutions were missing at economy-critical supply chain infra.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

But also it's 2021 where people are the most cynical we've ever been, it's almost like there's interest groups in the US that want a fanning of inflation or delayed recovery through shortages.

Even so it seems the administration pretends they don't exist [1] or even wants to take their marketshare [2]. The established automakers have a cozier relationship with the established politicians I guess.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-05/biden-snu...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/14/tesla-toyota-and-honda-criti...

Not an important factor for many, but buying from a nearby supplier instead of shipping from other side of the globe is a lot better for the environment too, what our politicians should be incentivizing along with renewables.

The goal in Western capitalism is to create wealth for stakeholders. Those stakeholders can then get involved in politically impactful projects as wealthy individuals if they have a conscience. As competitive, innovative companies they will bring wealth and better lives to their communities long term.

There are many good reasons for this system.

Wanting companies to play politics means they will be choosing sides of a political establishment or party, and it is divisive to our society. You should not want to divide our society even if you think you're obviously right and they're obviously wrong. America does this more than any other nation, arguably because their media constantly does it. Shoving politics at others is still fundamentally divisive.

Or when countries like Denmark and Sweden halt moderna for under 30's citing inflammation reactions. As much as there is a crusade to dismiss the VAERS database it does pretty obviously suggest that there is quite a bit more risk here than in traditional vaccines.

He said: "treating people as members of a group rather than as individuals" is bad.

Does anyone actually believe that it's better to treat someone as a member of a group instead of as an individual? Why is this controversial? Isn't treating someone as a member of a group the essence of racism?

Teen depression and suicide rates plummeting right now

Or it's like 8 or 10G radio freq technology that certain govs use.

Our modern economy pushes people to appear as "experts" for the purpose of their career, personal brand, and earnings. If someone poses as smart/an expert/well-crafted or well-filtered it's because they are playing the career game, or they look at others playing the career game around them and guess that they are supposed to act like that. Real intelligence is playful, open, curious and comes across as ridiculous most of the time.

The lab's published research program, the lab's funding, the almost exact proximity of the outbreak, the lab's and CCP's actions since October 2019, the whistleblowers, the analysis of the virus's genome, does not add up to "pure speculation". We may never know 100% conclusively, but juries never do either.

You are aware that the mainland's new HK security laws allow extraction out of HK for anyone who "threatens national security", i.e. goes against the CCP and their system. [1]

[1] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/07/hong-kong-nat...

Well "dating app" is a bit of a euphemism here for no strings attached sexual encounters since will be leaving soon, isn't it? Met guys who hosted primarily just for "easy hook ups", and am sure many woman enjoyed it for same reason. Nature of travel for most 20-somethings anyways.

Risks for cardiovascular disease, stroke, cancer, and of course diabetes, are all significantly increased with obesity. Risk of getting severe covid-19 is significant increased with obesity.

I know plenty of relatively wealthy people who are fat or even skinny fat (arguably worse condition), it's not only about access to reasonable nutrition.

Definitely understand the appeal for first time founders, and founders who are early in their careers so don't have contacts in the industry they are building products for, but having gone through an accelerator myself, I can't really imagine going through an accelerator a second time. Maybe for second time it still makes it easier to get introductions for b2b customers? But the accelerator I went through also taught a ton of strategies/tools for getting early customers without depending on just other companies in the network using each others products.

If obesity it perhaps should be studied as a realtime pushback against modern diets by nature/natural selection, in reducing unhealthy people from the gene pool.

The decline of industry/manufacture is largely a fake thing American politicians pushed over the decades to enrich their overseas partners. It will definitely come back, especially with the rise of ESG where environment concerns means short supply chains, not shipping everything across the pacific and polluting the crap out of planet unnecessarily.

Regulatory capture is understood and happens in other industries (e.g. the MIC). Feel is pretty naive if you don't think politicians are willing to incur massive opportunity costs to society at large in order to enrich themselves and the establishment that they essentially work for.

Well the whiteboard is in my opinion not about technical correctness, and I don't appreciate companies that obsess on the technical aspect of it. It's about testing if it's the type of person you can sit down and work through a problem with. Some companies want all the programmers to meet up each day at stand ups, or sit them close to each other, and they can share problems and seek out help from each other. I get that. Working through a problem together on a whiteboard is a preview of that type of interaction.

Still that kind of coding environment can get annoying, so maybe you're trying to avoid those aspects too :) Personally now have enough money where I have zero interest to participate in those kind of employee environments, it's not something I'd choose to do and am happy to have exited it. Only want to work on own projects and ventures on own terms.

They disappeared into their own fantasy land long ago. They announced that investors will have profit caps because their magical AGI will learn how to achieve infinite profit one day.

Statements like this must be remembered so that in the future we can point to this era's most ridiculous companies and the people behind them.

Instead of emotionally reducing it to "don't kill grandma" you could join a reasonable discourse on the topic and look at other factors like...

The at-risk can get vaccinated - healthy youth don't get hospitalized - there are antibody and drug therapeutics available - youth don't need to risk novel vaccine adverse affects (they are documented - they are more prevalent in young than old) - you still spread it equally significantly vaccinated or not - the vaccine does not give robust coverage against new strains - natural immunity gives far more robust coverage against new strains than the vaccine (almost suggesting exposure for the low-risk is a better societal outcome).

Hand waving "all youth must get vaccinated" is not a rational course of action.

As others have mentioned here you pass it along vaccinated or not.

You can also have the vulnerable population take precautions, not the young population. To be frank what kind of sick society pushes the young population to take on risk (novel vaccine incomplete clinical trials, rare heart inflammation issues documented, spike protein membrane break off issue, etc) to protect the elderly population? This is the first time societies have ever called for risking the youth for the elderly and it's not morally right.

> are taking up a non-insignificant portion of available hospital beds

Healthy, non obese young people do not get hospitalized by this disease at any significant rate at all, most aren't even aware they got it. If you're a healthy young person you have rationality on your side to object to a vaccine. Especially one that is trying to hit a moving target as covid is probably now another mutating flu that will be around indefinitely. Especially because you still pass on the disease vaccinated or not.

Anything that raises your body temperature is not good before sleep.

Your body temperature has to actually drop a bit lower from normal before all your regular sleep cycles can kick in.

Taiwan did seek to preserve the heritage of China after the communist takeover on the mainland, which sought to pretty much destroy said heritage in a cultural revolution.

Si anode batteries weren't already being made? Are they really the first company to produce it, or is this a press release? Remember studying them years ago in Stanford Ph240 class.

That's a neat, pretty small scale set of jobs there.

While true, I'm not sure if you're suggesting that the war on terror and its intrusions in our domestic lives have to do with risk assessment? Don't think I have to say it out loud but it's about literal trillions of dollars that have flowed to MIC, expanded bureaucracy, surveillance, gov contractors, natural resource industries, foreign allies, and a whole lot more that could be noted.

I read because I was curious what "climate career" means. From the article they mention:

Urban farmer

Environmental consultant

Environmental scientist

Environmental lawyer

Environmental activist

Or joining the proposed "Climate Corps", a federal jobs program for young people to help fight the climate crisis [doing what though?]