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fewer government jobs, but highly paid. Singapore does this in order to compete with the private sector and reduce corruption.

> Everyone is interested in shaping the world we live in. Driven people probably more-so than average.

yes, so imagine a driven person who wants to solve the food waste problem, and there are two choices:

Food Savers A who is focused on developing a method to extend the shelf life of fruits and vegetables.

Food Savers B who is less focused on developing a method to extend the shelf life of fruits and vegetables.

Food Savers A is much more likely to solve the problem. it's the one that the serious, driven person would choose.

no doubt that's what 99% of people do. just like terms of service, it's an automatic click through and a waste of everyone's time.

> Gartner research shows that 74% of employees expect their employer to become more actively involved in the cultural debates of the day. I believe CEOs will have to respond in order to retain and attract the best talent.

the best talent won't be attracted to those companies long term. they'll seek companies focused on what they are building, focused on a well defined mission.

why? because they will get the most done and be more successful than anyone distracted by the day to day Twitter drama.

or early enough

$1,000 invested in AMZN is now worth over $1M. or $10 in Bitcoin would have done the trick.

> I agree that for someone living in US or EU there's no much point using BTC

at the moment, but we are seeing institutional failure all around. as trust in the institutions fall, the importance and value of crypto/decentralization increases.

it's volatile because it's still in price discovery mode.

also, volatility only matters if you sell it. if you're holding as a store of value, then you've done extremely well over the long term.

it does provide objective value. bitcoin is a store of value. digital gold.

even if it never proves to be a viable currency, a secure digital store of value is objectively useful. especially if you're in a country experiencing institutional failure, risk of hyperinflation and so on.

it was even hard to defend as a noble lie since it was an obvious self contradictory statement.

it just reflects how the ruling class view the peasants.

you are completely correct, but it's even worse than that:

politicians and partisans across the board have realized that consistency and facts do not matter. hypocrisy has no effect on any politician and their followers. they flip flop position with no hesitation at this point.

wtf. this is terrible. why didn’t the doctors support it? they couldn’t verify it was caused by the gas?

you're right, and James Baldwin and Martin Luther King Jr. would be fighting this.

it's deeply disturbing that we are seeing the reintroduction of segregation.

even in schools: https://www.bwscampus.com/our-community/commitment-to-divers...

what are the implications with regard to encryption and crypto, if any?

given how much Twitter influences elections and has clearly demonstrated the degree to which they put their thumb on the scale, countries will be making their own and/or block it. it would be stupid not to.

anyone who wants a decentralized financial system has an interest in Bitcoin.

do you have any refutations to Lyn's points in the article?

it's interesting that despite using real names and location(ish), the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory still seems to be in full force on NextDoor.

> Imagine what ordinary things you do every day that people a hundred years from now will consider a social crime

people judging and censoring content post-hoc will be one of those things, almost certainly.

this is a meta-analysis, not a singular study.

will you still be impressed if they also censor(ed) episodes of the Jetsons?

so let's figure out how to reduce the cost. no doubt it's far more expensive than necessary.

solar and wind are great, but they don't run 24/7, need a battery storage solution, and take up a huge amount of land compared to nuclear.

financial professional masquerading as a politician.

politicians are supposed to be public servants.

same with Elon talking about video games, he gets excited talking about them after this interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JoTw_JuE78

really, both are highly ambitious nerds who apply systems thinking to the real world.

i'm just saying that's what platforms that are the defacto town square should do. act as a neutral platform, not a publisher. the town square should not be governed by a few publishing giants.

they should only remove illegal content. that's it.

act as a common carrier.

the phones are even more of an environmental disaster.

planned obsolescence that leads to phones being upgraded every year or two, and barely working after 5 years, is so so wasteful.

what if not they're not actually seeking diversity? maybe that's a red herring?

what if the goal is to entrench an ideology?

a good strategy would be getting control of the hiring process. then adding signals and filters for like-minded people. CDOs may be highly effective if measured on that basis.

Remember, the official word just last March was that masks don't work. Those who pushed back on that were harassed, called anti-science and suppressed.

Why are people still under any illusion that they know what should be censored?

Right, psychedelics are really promising as a treatment.

Which I think makes it criminal that psychedelics are criminal.

> I’ve read that the vast majority of GME stock is held by institutions, mainly a dozen or so Wall Street banks

What %? And what's a good source to verify that number?

Blame the author who purports to speak for "the left".