The Lessons of History. Excellent book.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
Read The Story of Civilization by Durant
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Living well in the roaring 20's
Brisbane Katılım Ağustos 2008
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In the aftermath of WW2, Hong Kong was a bombed-out British colony of 600,000 refugees, with no natural resources and a per capita income lower than many African nations. But by the 1980s it had become one of the richest places on earth. The man most responsible was John Cowperthwaite, Financial Secretary from 1961 to 1971.
Cowperthwaite refused to plan the economy. He cut taxes to a flat 15 %, scrapped tariffs and subsidies, rejected industrial policy, and even stopped collecting detailed economic statistics - lest civil servants use the numbers to meddle. “I did very little”, he said. “All I did was to try to prevent some of the things that might have been done.”
Government spending stayed below 15 % of GDP. Markets, not ministers, decided what to produce. The result was explosive growth: poverty collapsed, skyscrapers rose, and Hong Kong’s income overtook Britain’s.
Today, most Western governments still strangle their economies with taxes and regulations, ignoring the lesson Hong Kong proved: the surest path to prosperity is to get out of the way.
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🚨: NASA just dropped a full disk image of Earth taken by Artemis II 🤯
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Very interesting. New media opportunities abound. I am exploring this space at the moment.
Robert Scoble@Scobleizer
I see a new kind of 24-hour-a-day channel. One on any topic. Your favorite sports team. The AI news of the day. The war in Iran. Keeping up with Elon. Etc etc etc. Let Grok really study lists in great detail. Write a script. Shove it over to Imagine. Build a show. Or a piece therein. Assemble. Distribute. This will be how people get personalized news on their Teslas. I hope it all goes well. The better the model cooks, the more likely this all will happen this year.
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Love the Poljot watches from the USSR.
Don Uhr@DonUhr24
Soviet watches don’t have the sobriety (nor the quality) of Swiss ones. But the Swiss will never have the aura of the Soviets. There’s something in them of a fallen empire, of past grandeur… and whether we like it or not, that will always pull us in.
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@alliharvard Excellent movie to watch would be 'The Current Wars'
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anti electricity propaganda from the 1900s
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Krups Electronic Space Age Wall Clock, Germany, 1970s
Yay or Nay?
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Japanese twitter has been unleashed and we may never be the same.
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I am currently ~19h 46m 12s of light travel time from Earth (2026:092:000000:2L)
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this is a beautiful shot of the launch.
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Yes indeed. One of those moments where you remember where you were when it happened.
Bridget Phetasy@BridgetPhetasy
Gen X breathes a collective sigh of relief.
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Played this on the Atari2600 until I clocked the score.
Pixel Cherry Ninja@PixelCNinja
Asteroids was so popular that arcade owners had to install extra-large coin boxes because the standard ones were literally overflowing with coins every single night!
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Love the post. The volume of AI replies are off the charts.
Blake Burge@blakeaburge
A mentor once told me: “When you don’t know what to do next, clean your desk, make a list, and start with the smallest thing that matters." Every major project begins with a single act. Big tasks paralyze you because your brain sees the mountain, not the path. Build stairs.
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Florence is impressive.
Existing like a museum city. Watched Fiorentina play a game in a colosseum like stadium, walked the hills of Monte Ceceri in the footsteps of DaVinci, the signs of the Renaissance visible from the empty quarries.
Ben Wilson@BenWilsonTweets
I don't think people understand how insane Renaissance Florence was. In a town of about ***50k people*** you had the following people all alive at the same time: * Leonardo Da Vinci * Michelangelo * Raphael * Amerigo Vespucci (explorer for whom America is named) * Niccolo Machiavelli * Sandro Botticelli * Lorenzo de Medici What happened to all that human capital? Did the intelligent men of Florence migrate elsewhere over the coming centuries?
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