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venture capital has been very reluctant to unambiguously realise the losses

don't believe the broadsheets / the gravy train's a-rockin'

Technically he doesn’t have connections to Thiel directly.

minor nit: known connections. while "thielbucks laundered through 17 cutouts get used to fund useful idiots for stochastic terrorism to whip up an anti-trans panic" is a hypothetical I just pulled out of my ass for demonstration, it's also too fucking plausible in the current state of affairs

I have no idea how likely that scenario is, and just to be clear I'm not saying that anything like it did happen. more pointing towards thielbucks are in so of the bad places doing harm atm, that sort of thing. so much so that I'd be hesitant to concretely exclude anyone/anything from that without some data to back it up

(life has hella been burning mental bandwidth)

it took me until today to grok the VC double entendre

or how real states make it so that you can have citizenship of only one state, maybe two. there's nothing about it there

come on we both know it’ll be github badges or something like that

yeah shillrinivan's ideas are extremely Statisism: Sims Edition

I've also seen essentially ~0 thinking from any of them on how to treat corner cases and all that weird messy human conflict shit. but code is law! rah!

(pretty sure that if his unearned timing-fortunes ever got threatened by some coin contract gap or whatever, he'd instantly be all over getting that shit blocked)

But Hinton didn’t want Yu to see his personal humidifying chamber, so every time Yu dropped in for a chat, Hinton turned to his two students, the only other people in his three-​person company, and asked them to disassemble and hide the mattress and the ironing board and the wet towels. “This is what vice presidents do,” he told them.

so insanely fucking unserious

this article came to mind for something I was looking into, and then on rereading it I just stumbled across this again:

Late one afternoon, as they looked out the window, two airplanes flew past from opposite directions, leaving contrails that crossed in the sky like a giant X right above a set of mountain peaks. Punchy with excitement, they mused about what this might mean, before remembering that Google was headquartered in a place called Mountain View. “Does that mean we should join Google?” Hinton asked. “Or does it mean we shouldn’t?”

found in the wild, The Tech Barons have a blueprint drawn in crayon

speaking of shillrinivan, anyone heard anything more about cult school after the news that no-one like bryan's shitty food packs?

wat

copyright reform can't come fucking soon enough

also often double whammies with the predation thing (finding those down on their luck who just really need something, fucking over early-career people, etc)