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White to play! Mate in 2!

@Tablesalt13 Jeremy Frimer (“Jer”) and I were in undergrad together (Eng Phys at UBC, he pivoted to social science for grad work). But this sounds completely on brand for Jer. Jer had zero tolerance for bull shit. If something was true he would say it was true. I can see him fight to the SCC.

Wow! A university of Winnipeg professor presented a totally FACTUAL and scientifically rigorous course ...on RACE, IQ and violence and NO ONE knows what do to about it.

@AdvancedForged A Ferrari doesn’t need a bumper sticker

Easy top 10 best decision in life : Not getting inked

Important to retweet this from time to time.

@daltonc This is our generation’s Pascal’s Wager. (I initially typed that “pascal’s wafer” and was kinda tempted to leave it)

What would you being doing differently if you knew for a fact we are in takeoff vs if you knew we aren't?

@KerstinKoepl Second source: @JamesSACorey (pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) used the word “rabbit” in their sci-fi / space opera series The Expanse as an adjective & verb in the belter (people who live in the asteroid belt) patois / dialect / creole for someone running away.

The year is 2426. The trendy new thing is to use "rabbit" as an adjective meaning "fast". It becomes annoyingly common. Someone points out that it sounds silly. Everyone responds with "it's been an adjective for hundreds of years!" Their source? (Cont.)

@paulg I can't tell if this is just a comment about watchmakers or if you're implying that watchmakers were 60 years ahead of the curve that's about to hit all knowledge workers.

When mechanical watches became obsolete around 1970 they represented almost exactly 700 years of refinement by some of the best minds of their time. That is a really long run.

@jhong Kinda cool that our cohort got to live through the elbow of the hockey stick.

1) The day I first got a modem. 2) The day I first saw a web browser. 3) The day I first saw Chatgpt. 4) Today.

@Andercot @ArthurMacwaters Let's just call it the protomolecule.

@ArthurMacwaters It is clearly designed by an advanced alien civilization and dispersed as von Neumann probes via comets

It just seems implausible this is what we are made of, essentially, nanotechnology about a billion years beyond anything we can design or make ourselves.

@garrytan @KenneyConor Garry is 100% correct. As a founder, convincing US VCs that investing into a CCPC (Canadian Controlled Private Corporation) is safe / good / efficient isn't a hill you need to die on. Just convert into a Delaware C and get back to building stuff people want. *ask me how I know*

@KenneyConor THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NOT CORRECT. We will continue to fund a ton of Canadian startups, it's just that 100% of them should do a flip to a topco that is Delaware C. You can still operate in Canada, it just increases access to capital by at least 2X or more.

For those who missed it, Y Combinator stopped accepting Canadian startups. Why? Because they found that Canadian startups would just move to the USA if they saw any success. Why? Because businesses need an enterprise-friendly environment to compete and build the best product

@garrytan @NRC_CNRC TLDR; there can be reasons to incorporate in Canada early. But if you’re going to raise meaningful US money, incorporate as a Delaware C or bite the bullet and convert to a Delaware C. Note: if you’re going to YC, you’re “raising meaningful US capital”.

@garrytan @NRC_CNRC Additionally, many provinces have tax credits to incentivize angel investing but those credits are only available if the investment is made into a Canadian corp. So being a Delaware C early can kneecap the ability to raise local angel money.

We're not saying Canadians should leave Canada. There are lots of reasons to build great companies in Canada, and there are lots of great YC and non-YC startups that thrive and are making the Canadian tech scene great. Where you are incorporated increases your access to capital. That's it. There's no drama here, and the clout farmers who are trying to make it drama: you know who you are, I see you, and you should stop.

@joe_hill Indeed. Sorry to see the old Twitter metastasize into X. The serendipity of connecting with you over BitLit / Shelfie all those years ago via old Twitter remains one of the coolest things that's ever happened for me on this platform. Bon Voyage to new socials!

@paulg I didn’t have “NIMBYs weaponize environmental regulations to create the first positive NPV industrial use case for orbital infrastructure” on my 2026 bingo card. Yet here we are. I’ll be over here working on my Lofstrom loop design. We’re gonna need a railroad to orbit.

I met today with the founder of Starcloud and I realized this is going to be one of the biggest engineering projects of our era. When you look at the tradeoffs, it seems inevitable that all the GPUs are going to live in space.

@DemosKratosCA As a Canadian, I'd support annexation by the US if (and only if) the US fully adopts the metric system for everything from baking (400F -> 205C) to tinder bios (6'1" -> 185.5cm) to machine screws (5/16-18 -> M8) to heating/cooling (BTUs -> kW). If everything goes metric, I'm in.

@paulg They were well made because they had to be. An inaccurate watch has negative value to the user. Watches were also expensive. A watch in the 50s cost what an iPhone does today (about half a month’s salary for a white collar worker). Beautiful engineering though.

One surprising thing I've learned recently is how well made 20th century mechanical watches were. Some watches made in the 1940s are still accurate to a couple seconds a day.