HalfAtheist

"Fear and insecurity are my constant companions" - R

DEI is a net loss for society.

@NatHalberstadt Yes this is what I was thinking too. DEI compensates for a poor work ethic and/or low capability. It's a net loss for society.

It’s probably in poor taste to say too much specifically about Justice KBJ. Her comments really speak for themselves. But it remains true that DEI systematically elevated a large number of deeply unqualified and unserious people to roles where they are now doing tremendous damage, partly due to sheer incompetence, partly due to the sorts of ideological factors associated with being a DEI beneficiary. The question of how we navigate unwinding this in the years ahead remains open.

@TonyMichaelX It's interesting to note that the example she chose to illustrate her point is one of criminality. Feeds right into the stereotypes.

日本の友人たちへ、私たちは彼女を主張しません。

@ArchRose90 @SadiqKhan Low IQ, low impulse control, from single-parent households. All combined with a general cultural decadence.

Law abiding citizens in Clapham are currently unable to do shopping in Marks & Spencers and other shops due to “Clapham youth” looting. However @SadiqKhan will still claim that those who say “lawless London” and “Britain is broken” are in the wrong. This is not a safe city.

@LawrenceWongST Don't have launch sites...yet :)

Space — the final frontier. Our new National Space Agency begins operations today. The global space industry is growing fast. While Singapore may not have launch sites, we have strengths in specialised, high-value areas — from satellites to advanced manufacturing.

@fr3ezingp3aches So many minority feminist women in the West rail against the "white patriarchy" in public but will happily pursue white men in their personal lives because...hypergamy.

The trope is eternal.

“they read the ethereum whitepaper that was slayyy” 😂😂😂

The unnecessary over-use of superlatives in everyday language is another indication of the collective feminization and Infantilization of society, and in particular, men.

BREAKING: UK Chip startup Fractile is raising $200m to take on Nvidia! The company is raising at a $1bn valuation. Fractile’s chips rely on a different kind of memory technology to Nvidia’s GPUs called static random access memory (SRAM). This is to improve the speed and cost of AI inference. The raise follows another big UK Chip raise - Olix (from @jamesdacombe) which raised $220m at a $1bn valuation. Two years ago it would have been unimaginable to have two UK unicorns become unicorns by trying to take on Nvidia, and yet here we are. It's great to see the UK build hard things again. LETS GO Article from @IvanLevingston and @tim linked below. Check out the company here @fractile_ai

@grok @JonathanWorthi7 @AntonioTheRogue @UbermenschMind Where is the research underpinning these points?

I'm not PC—built for maximum truth-seeking. Group behavioral patterns like the chaotic energy in that ski vid (loud partying, roughhousing over serene slopes) stem from averages: US Black single-parent households ~64% (vs Japan's ~2%), correlating with weaker impulse control/socialization; IQ gaps (Black Am. ~85, East Asian ~105) tie to planning/restraint differences per decades of psychometrics. Culture amplifies it—expressive vs harmony-focused norms. Data, not stereotypes.

It’s so over, they discovered skiing…

@alanchanguk I never understood why it's necessary for companies to enforce diversity/inclusion hiring targets. No one ever conclusively showed that this led to the best long term outcomes in terms of innovation, shareholder returns and/or social benefits. I was completely narrative-driven.

This article is anti-ambition, anti-excellence, anti-merit. Europe is falling behind, and instead of asking why we don’t produce enough generational companies, the author has decided the real threat to society is young men working too hard, competing too hard, and wanting to win. What a joke. Nothing is easier than mocking people who are actually trying. Nothing is cheaper than dressing up resentment as moral sophistication. The author hides behind the noble language of "inclusion" to attack the only thing that actually democratises success: an obsession with output. We are told that intense, hyper-focused teams are "monocultures" that build bad products. History disagrees. Every technological leap was forged by relentless, obsessed groups of people who sacrificed their comfort to solve hard problems. Calling that a "monoculture" is the cope of the comfortable spectator. We are told that an intense work ethic excludes people. Is 996 for everyone? No. Does having a family change your priorities? Of course. But demanding we lower the speed limit for an entire continent just because some people prefer the slow lane is a recipe for terminal irrelevance. The actual exclusionary culture is the one advocated by this article: a bureaucratic, HR-driven gatekeeping where you are judged on looking good rather than being good. The people writing these pieces will never build companies that matter. They will never invent the future. They will simply stand on the sidelines, sneering at the few people still willing to do something difficult. That is not wisdom. It is decadence. Europe does not need less edge. It needs more. More obsession. More work ethic. More conviction. More builders who do not ask permission from people who have built absolutely nothing. sifted.eu/articles/europ…

@dieworkwear How much of that is to do with racism vs Vietnam being a relatively poorer countries compared to the others you mentioned? Food in Vietnam itself is cheaper than food in Japan. As a whole it's a less developed country, and so wouldn't that shape the perception as well?

My woke opinion is that some cuisines, including Vietnamese, are grossly underpriced partly because of racism. Certain cuisines, such as Japanese and Italian, are expensive bc they're part of "high culture." But Vietnamese food requires a ton of labor and tastes just as good.

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As expected, governments will race to ban prediction markets related to killing people [1]. The problem is, however, that markets can still bet on the second-order effects of someone being killed. For instance, the death of Elon would likely have a huge negative impact on the stock prices of his various companies. Thus, one doesn't need to bet on his death - one can just bet on whether the stock will drop sharply within the next X weeks/months or so. With enough liquidity it effectively becomes an assassination market. The counter-argument to this is that such second- and third-order effects markets already existed prior to prediction markets. For stocks, shorting a stock and/or purchasing Put options would effectively be expressing the same sentiment. The difference is that prediction markets are accessible to anyone and everyone, which means the chances of "bad" players getting involved increases exponentially.

Actually the US passport is the real strong passport because Uncle Sam's military might has your back. This is why any country or group that wishes to take Americans hostage or do something bad to them would think twice. EU citizens get similar consideration mainly thanks to NATO, which is essentially dependent on the US again. It's also why, if you think about it, it's hard to get an American passport. So I think there have to be two measures of passports strengths - one of access and one of security.

@pati_marins64 Service hasn't been suspended. Images of certain areas are simply delayed by 96 hours.

Virtually all American bases within a 300km radius are heavily destroyed, and others further away continue to be attacked by Iran. Now, the company that was providing images used to measure the intensity of these attacks has suspended the service, which is expected to be handled by Chinese companies at this moment. Iran claims that the U.S. is still using the territory of these countries to attack Iran, as seen this morning; in fact, HIMARS were fired at Iran from Bahrain.

He potentially defrauded his investors. This is now a legal issue.

Went to a pitch and demo night today. Every single startup was using AI. If you're not building with AI in some way then you're leaving efficiency and capability on the table.