@cwebbonline We are fine with this kind of talk. The days of emotional blackmail have drawn to a close.
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Ramji Srinivasan b/ruv
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Ramji Srinivasan b/ruv
@hereisramji
Entrepreneur, CEO @ Teiko | “We put the ‘trap’ in ‘entrapreneur’” -Central Cee
San Francisco, CA Katılım Şubat 2013
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The level of disdain Spencer Pratt has for the unhoused is disgusting. And if you’re fine with this kind of talk, I don’t want to know you.
Josh Haskell: “What are your plans for the over 40,000 homeless people in Los Angeles?”
Spencer Pratt: “Well, they’re not homeless. They’re drug addicts. Most of these people are addicted to fentanyl and meth… They are choosing to be on the streets because they want to do drugs. They don’t want rules. They don’t want to listen. They want to have animals to abuse.”
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Unfortunately, libertarians offer few solutions for crime, and yet oppose Flock. Yes, there are important surveillance points to consider.
But if you really cared, you would raise a private security force.
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@romanhelmetguy Ok, so if the labor is not cheap, the equation balances?
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Gonna try to explain this to tech CEOs again: Young Americans are pissed. They feel betrayed. Half have embraced the far right & want to cut off your access to cheap foreign labor. The other half have embraced the far left & want to cut off your head. One side will win. Choose.
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It will escalate to physical attacks on data centers, so hopefully people start to invest in armed security and defense.
Ramji Srinivasan b/ruv@hereisramji
@feelsdesperate Water consumption in data centers is almost certainly their next battle.
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@Balder13946731 @yunta_tsai Doesn’t quite answer his question.
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Every PhD makes a contribution to their field—some small, some large. But most breakthroughs come from PhDs, and this reflects an educational model that has worked for thousands of years: people need time and space to pursue their curiosity and creativity for their own sake, not for money or any other end.
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Elon完全废止了SpaceX里面的researcher和engineer的区别，这是其企业文化的一部分，重工程轻研究。
Elon长期以来轻视科研重视工程，喜欢力往一处使，完全听指挥而不是自由散漫的的研究开发。他最崇拜的科学家，特斯拉，确实没有学士毕业，但是费曼却博士毕业。
Elon说希望250年以后大家记得他。但是谁还记得250年前的最富的企业家是谁，但每一个孩子都认识牛顿、高斯、爱因斯坦这些科学家。
工程和科学本来就是一体的，但是他们是推演和归纳的区别，Elon的公司可能会有高超的工程实现，却不会有魔法一样的技术突破。
Elon Musk@elonmusk
@iScienceLuvr Putting “Ph.D.” in your social media name is a sure sign of a pompous retard
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@feelsdesperate Water consumption in data centers is almost certainly their next battle.
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The Current Thing is the Current Thing until it’s not.
‘Israel’ and ‘Palestine’ aren’t going to be a durable, ongoing predicate for American politics no matter how much the worst people on the left and the right would like that to be the case.
Something new and stupid will have to emerge sooner or later. Maybe it will be data centers ‘turning the water brown’ or other nonsensical degrowth propaganda. The ‘Gaza genocide’ branding was obviously an attempt to extend the shelf life of those events but they’re well past their peak and people who are smart sold high and are moving on to something else.
Corey Walker 🇺🇸@CoreyWriting
I think people gotta realize that Israel-Palestine does not matter that much.
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I had a professor at Cal State Long Beach who constantly trashed America as racist, oppressive, and irredeemable. He mocked the Constitution, capitalism, and virtually every American institution.
At the end of the semester, he gave an emotional story about how his mother crawled through sewer pipes to reach America.
So I raised my hand and asked: if America is this irredeemable, oppressive country, why did she risk everything to come here? And why are neither of you interested in going back?
He didn’t answer the question. Instead he called me disrespectful.
That’s because much of this ideology is not rooted in reality testing. It’s institutional theater rewarded by academia, media, and activism.
The system incentivizes moral denunciation of America while simultaneously depending on the opportunities America uniquely provides.
New York Post@nypost
Anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil to appeal to US Supreme Court in last bid to avoid deportation trib.al/aayTnMJ
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LA PD budget is $3.6B per year and SF PD is $823M per year.
Zarathustra@zarathustra5150
A friend in LA says people have started doing this SF ritual: if they lock their car, they assume a break-in is coming. Calling the cops is pointless. So they leave the doors unlocked, windows down, even the back hatch open as a signal to crooks there's nothing worth stealing. That is what "crime is down" looks like after reporting collapses. The official numbers "improve" because people stop bothering to even report, because they know nothing will happen, and the people are forced to reorganize their entire day-to-day lives around open, pervasive criminal impunity.
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@zarathustra5150 This is why AI drone safety is so important. If the cops plan to stand down, the market will draw out a solution.
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A friend in LA says people have started doing this SF ritual: if they lock their car, they assume a break-in is coming. Calling the cops is pointless. So they leave the doors unlocked, windows down, even the back hatch open as a signal to crooks there's nothing worth stealing.
That is what "crime is down" looks like after reporting collapses. The official numbers "improve" because people stop bothering to even report, because they know nothing will happen, and the people are forced to reorganize their entire day-to-day lives around open, pervasive criminal impunity.
Zarathustra@zarathustra5150
“Crime is not down. Crime *reporting* is down.” Marc Andreessen & Joe Rogan on how the official crime rate doesn’t measure crime. It only measures the state’s willingness to record a crime. So it gets squeezed from both ends: 1) Victims stop calling to report a crime when they know nothing follows. 2) Police reclassify what does get reported into lesser charges that never reach the official crime stats. Residents are not fooled, read the “lived city experience” correctly and are forced to adjust their entire lives accordingly: where they go, when they leave, what they wear, what they lock, what they avoid, how much risk they absorb, etc. In DC the police just got caught blatantly cooking the books. More than a dozen officials are being fired after felonies were buried in lesser charges and kept out of the public count. Which raises the question: how many other cities is this happening in?
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@dawn_roche9 @kimmaicutler @moultano What would be the grounds? That is, how would you write the rule?
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@kimmaicutler @moultano They are Indians here on visas. They aren't Indian-americans and they all gotta go!
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It must be a really depressing life to be so racist that you have to pretend dancing isn't fun.
Info Battle Maiden@info_maiden
This past weekend in Dallas at American Airlines Center: a sea of indians turning the plaza into a chaotic foreign dance party. It doesn’t matter where you go in DFW anymore. They’re literally everywhere.
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@SahilBloom “Warren, you can always tell someone to go to hell tomorrow.” -Warren Buffett on some of the best advice he received
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I’m convinced that knowing when to keep your mouth shut is the ultimate life hack.
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@feelsdesperate The original dispute was more about opposing the big beautiful bill though.
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Massie will go down as a cautionary tale, as someone whose brain was boiled by the internet.
Massie went online and yada yada yada concluded it was a good idea to call the incredibly popular leader of his political party a baby-eating pedophile.
That’s all there really is to it, there’s nothing more to it than that, there’s no greater lesson than some people go online and fall victims to all sorts of bad incentives and end up doing all sorts is spectacularly stupid things common sense tells you you shouldn’t do.
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@PramilaJayapal Yes. Washington State has $77B. Perhaps start by stripping the state of its largesse and returning the money from whence it came.
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They said immigrants were taking jobs. They said immigrants were causing crime. They said immigrants were the problem. They were lying. Billionaires rigged the economy. Immigrants built it.
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Drug startup creates an amazing drug. It's groundbreaking.
They want to sell that drug for just enough to cover their expenses and to make a 10 pct return.
Where and how can they sell it so it reaches as many patients as possible ?
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The inverse is also true. If Jeff ran NYC public schools, he would make MIT and Stanford look like a daycare.
unusual_whales@unusual_whales
Jeff Bezos: "If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, packages would take 6 weeks to arrive, we would charge you a $100 delivery fee and when the package did finally arrive, it would have the wrong item in it."
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You stay competitively priced for normal people. How do all the “not normal” people pay for their care ? And if they can’t pay for their care, how do all the hospitals and doctors stay in business when everyone that is poor can’t pay for their care ?
Old people need the most care. And the don’t have much money. Let em get sick, stay sick, and die, so normal people get cheaper insurance ?
Archwinger@Archwinger1
@mcuban Run the numbers. Charge the lowest possible but still profitable amount to undercut competitors. Exclude all preexisting conditions, high risk, and low socioeconomic populations from coverage so I stay competitively priced for normal people
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This free market BS is ridiculous!! Capitalism (the basis of free market BS) is not the correct solution for social services. EVER! Once a social service system is implemented with a profit motive rather than a people motive, it is lost. Case in point, health insurance.
Mark Cuban@mcuban
Ok. Take government completely out of healthcare. No rules. No laws. No Medicare. No Medicaid. Hospitals, insurance companies, can do anything they want. What do they do ? If you were running any of the biggest insurance companies or hospitals, what would you do differently once gov was completely out of healthcare ?
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The argument is not that the incumbents are so good. It’s that the new entrants and competition would be.
Mark Cuban@mcuban
Ok. Take government completely out of healthcare. No rules. No laws. No Medicare. No Medicaid. Hospitals, insurance companies, can do anything they want. What do they do ? If you were running any of the biggest insurance companies or hospitals, what would you do differently once gov was completely out of healthcare ?
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@mcuban You would be exposed to a lot more competition, instantly.
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Ok. Take government completely out of healthcare. No rules. No laws. No Medicare. No Medicaid. Hospitals, insurance companies, can do anything they want.
What do they do ?
If you were running any of the biggest insurance companies or hospitals, what would you do differently once gov was completely out of healthcare ?
Matthew Bednarik@BednarikMatt
@mcuban @GovBillLee Or just let the free market compete and get the government out of Healthcare. A free market would inevitably lead to lower costs for consumers.
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