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@FarRightSkip @NathenAmin Because the predominant race in England is Caucasian?

@NathenAmin If English isn't an ethnicity how can there be ethnic minorities in England? Take all the time you need with this and you have a great day.

While everyone rabidly debating online whether Aaron Rai is English or not, that guy knows who he is, where he's from, is happily married, living his dream, has just won $4m and achieved something very, very rare. Keep swinging, king 🏌🏾.

@_Dave__White_ "humans still build businesses, lead countries, fight wars" - none of those things happen within the culture. Think you are confused with contact

it’s interesting to learn the drums while thinking about the upcoming technical obsolescence of human intelligence arguably ever since the invention of the drum machine in (xyz year) human drummers have been superseded in almost every respect aside from (perhaps) deep expressivity but it still feels meaningful to learn and to play probably something similar here with chess or poker which are all still alive despite abject human inferiority. I guess what they have in common is they are all forms of *play* with, furthermore, some type of social apparatus built around it in which relative ability still means something if you’re human i guess this trend extended would lead to something like the culture novels where humans still build businesses, lead countries, fight wars, etc. but all as a kind of half-knowing game while the robots watch on, amused and hopefully tolerant i wouldn’t mind if capitalism itself persisted as this type of game, where you could still prove yourself the superior of your peers through wit and industry. i just hope that those who opt out won’t need to suffer as a result.

@8teAPi How can we explain that modern humans have no neanderthal mtDNA? Given homo sapiens outcompeted Neanderthals shouldn't we see the opposite?

Crazy. “In Columbia today 95% of the Y chromosome (passed down from fathers) is European and 95% of the mitochondrial DNA (passed down from mothers) is Native”

@Pontyprop @CThomas663 @thepaulwilliams Yes - 8 was lock in Australia when I was growing up. Was very confused when I found they called 2nd row locks in England

@CThomas663 @thepaulwilliams In my day, the forwards were loose head prop, hooker, tight head prop, second rows, blind side wing forward, lock, and open side wing foward. Numbers 8 to 15.

Always find it weird that hookers are the first number on the bench ie 16. But the second number on the starting squad ie 2. Why isnt the loosehead ie 1, number 16? Think I need to stop watching so much rugby

@medinism @SameerPatel I don't want to contradict your broader point - but you are wrong about Salesforce vs Act! And Goldmine. Act and goldmine did not develop cloud solutions until way late - like mid to late 2000s

My biggest regret as founder of Outreach: I stopped trying to kill the competition. Early on, I had no choice. We raised 2M. Yesware had raised 30M. ToutApp had raised 60M. It was either they lived and we died. Or the other way around. So we out-innovated them. And it worked. But then I got talked into getting soft. "Focus on your own race." "There will be many winners." "They can own X, you can own Y." "Focus on employee engagement and Glassdoor reviews." "Focus on brand and culture." That was all bullshit. Your job as a VC-backed founder is to win. And to win big. Full stop. You need to be a multi-x returner to your VCs. They hired you to do that job. If you split the market, the most likely exit is a PE acquisition. Not great for your VCs, not great for you. That’s how you get fired. Killing your competition IS your job description. If you're not up for it, don't be a founder. Let's be real. We all want to create monopolies. No one actually wants to compete. The founders who pulled it off had incredible runs. Made fortunes for themselves and their investors. They got disrupted eventually. But while they held the monopoly, it was untouchable. Here's how they did it: 1- Acquire your competition DiscoverOrg bought its two biggest rivals (ZoomInfo and RainKing) and became what is now ZoomInfo. They were the only contact data solution for almost a decade. OneTrust bought every top player in trust and privacy. They reigned uncontested for 10 years. 2- Drown your competition Salesforce was not the first CRM to move to the cloud and take on Siebel. But they outspent every other cloud CRM into irrelevance. Marketing. Advertising. Feet on the street. By the time competitors looked up, Benioff was on CNBC and no one had heard of Act or Goldmine. 3- Have dumb competitors ServiceNow was the first ITSM to move to the cloud. The incumbents (BMC and HP) just didn't follow. Who the fuck knows why. ServiceNow destroyed them. The playbook after that is simple: become #1 and kill #2. Then watch for any challenger coming from the side. Especially ones with momentum. Copy their offering. Bundle it into your product. Suffocate them before they scale. Apollo would not exist if Outreach had bundled data with workflows. Gong would not exist if Outreach had bundled call recording. Those are billion-dollar companies built in gaps I left open. Because I listened to people who told me to "stay in my lane." I watched Apollo hit a $1.6B valuation selling data to my own customers. I have to live with that every day. Founders who stick to their knitting end up splitting markets. Founders who expand to conquer everything touching their business live on. That's why Uber's market cap is 30x Lyft's. Uber was run by a maniacal visionary who would not stop at anything. I don't even remember who ran Lyft. Do you? Winners are expansive, aggressive, and they play to win. That's the job.

@JohnHar95851657 @JaneotN yes very unfortunate - but I don't think the judge had much option. The victim did not want to re-testify if it went to retrial. Begs the question why the jury was hung - and was the prosecution competent?

@JaneotN What does this have to do with Republicans??? He was charged with indecent assault (not rape) on a young boy. The trial resulted in a hung jury. So the prosecutor reduced the charges to get him to plead guilty, and the mother of the victim agreed with the deal.

Look at his face. Imagine being six years old, and this monster is raping and sodomizing you. He's been sentenced to 60 days in jail. He doesn't have to register as a sex offender. When you vote Republican you give power to men who violently terrorize children.

@gensler_john @ianbremmer He did not ask for troops to be sent. At best you could argue he implied it - but that would be a big stretch

@ianbremmer King Charles calling for US to send troops to Ukraine, however, not one person in Congress, Trump, or Ian Bremmer, will actually go to the front themselves, and neither will their family members. Never explains exactly how common Americans will benefit from another foreign war.

king charles bringing the most deft diplomacy—by a long margin—that we’ve seen visiting the trump administration this term.

@Clara_Gold Do agree with you about the meaning crisis

@Clara_Gold This is not San Francisco. Get out of your tech bubble and meet some real people

6 months ago, I moved to San Francisco. It’s the best place in the world to build, and one of the worst places to stay human. My unfiltered take: 1. SF is both overhyped and underrated The overhyped part: there are a lot of people with incredible resumes who are deeply unimpressive in real life. They were at the right company, at the right time, in the right market, and got carried by the wave. They made money, got comfortable, and now spend their time “exploring opportunities” over coffee, wasting your time. The underrated part: the top 1% here is insane. But almost impossible to get. Hiring in SF feels like being a guy on a dating app: everyone you want is out of your league, and everyone in your league wants someone out of theirs. The best people have unmatchable packages, endless options, and are optimizing for maximum impact: labs, frontier companies, or startups raising $100M pre-seed rounds. If you raised $10M from Tier 1 investors, you’re not hot shit here. You’re a B-player. It’s humbling. 2. There are fewer mission-driven people than I expected Especially on the application layer. A lot of people are in “secure the bag before it’s too late” mode. And honestly, it gives me the ick. The real religious builders I’ve met are often in labs, hardware, biotech, deeptech, defense — places where the work is hard enough that you can’t fake obsession. 3. The status game favors builders This is what SF does better than anywhere else. It rewards obsession. It rewards weirdness. It rewards people who make building their entire personality. Europe punishes that. SF gives it status. If you’ve felt like an outsider your whole life because you care too much, work too much, think too radically, or refuse to be chill about things that matter, this city will make you feel less insane. 4. The market liquidity is absurd Even if you don’t build a billion-dollar company, if you manage to build a strong product with a great team, someone smart might still acquire you for $ 100M. Yeah I know, it’s not your dream outcome as a founder, but on the days you feel desperate, it helps to keep going. 5. SF does not care about the meaning crisis that’s coming Anyone paying attention here can feel that something massive is happening with AI. But I’m shocked by how little people talk about the meaning crisis coming next. Everyone wants to talk about AI liberating humanity. Almost no one wants to talk about what happens when work — the thing that gives most people identity, structure, dignity, status, and purpose — starts disappearing. The vacuum will not be peaceful. People are underestimating the chaos that comes from humans suddenly having no idea why they matter. And I really feel like no one cares. 6. Personally, I’ve never been more unhappy I moved to SF and entered the matrix. I’ve always been intense. I’ve always worked crazy hours. But here, I lost the last parts of myself that were not about building. I don’t go to events. Most networking events feel like theater for people pretending to be important. The only events worth going to are small, curated dinners with people who are actually alive. I’ve made 0 real friends. I don’t do well with transactionality. I don’t do well with people constantly performing greatness. I don’t do well with rooms where everyone is optimizing and no one is being honest. So yes, SF is lonely, transactional, delusional, addictive, inspiring, boring, extraordinary, and completely insane. But it is still the only place to be right now if you’re a founder trying to build the next wave of humanity. And for now, that’s enough.

@RVarmaMD @richardvadon @alvinfoo @edwardstrngr65 Awesome!

@mspork @richardvadon @alvinfoo @edwardstrngr65 My teacher did that in 1968 on a bike from Ludhiana to London.

Did you know between 1957 and 1976, there was a regular bus service between London and Calcutta, India.The 32,000km, 50 day, 2-way bus route is the longest in the world. The bus had sleeping bunks and even a kitchen! For just £145, you get to travel with food & accomodation. The bus would stop at attractions and for shopping in Vienna, Istanbul & Iran The bus ride took passengers from England to Belgium, West Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Northern India.

@richardvadon @alvinfoo @edwardstrngr65 Kerman to quetta would have been brutal. Probably more so today. I did meet a guy who did this trip on a motorcycle in the 60s

@alvinfoo @edwardstrngr65 My mum did it.

@Noahpinion SF is not good for thai

SF is great for Vietnamese, Japanese, Nepalese, Thai, and "New American" food. It is NOT great for Italian or Chinese food, which it's traditionally famous for. This is one reason SF gets unfairly maligned as a food city.

@hihojimjim @gspeth @SeanR_1 @ianbremmer Constantly shouting "TDS!" anytime someone criticizes Trump is, well, a form of TDS

@gspeth @SeanR_1 @ianbremmer Exhibit A: An extreme case of TDS creates powerful delusions and owns the mind of the patient.

starting to think president trump’s unilateral withdrawal from the iranian nuclear deal wasn’t well thought through.

@elsbob @compliantvc Can't believe you're the only reply that got it

@compliantvc It took me awhile but I finally realized this guy is the king of sarcasm. Check out some of his previous posts. Quite funny actually.

Just spoke with dozens of European VCs They all agreed: AI is over No one is putting money into AI startups anymore OpenAI is likely going bankrupt I asked what the next big thing is They all answered in unison: Regulation. And the hot spot for the best regulations? Europe. Meanwhile, America is getting left behind

@SawyerMerritt I see very little discussion of the fact that waymo in SF is currently usually significantly more expensive than Uber. Despite all the negativity you hear people are voting with their wallets. They prefer driverless taxis

Waymo has announced that their fully autonomous robotaxi rides are now open to the general public in Miami and Orlando. Waymo is also introducing highway travel in Miami. I’ve added the service areas below in both Florida cities. “Starting today, residents and visitors alike can simply download the Waymo app and hail a fully autonomous ride immediately."

@mflambert @garysparole @omgmrtea @RepThomasMassie You have some kind of point in that US debt is so extreme that there must be some explanation why we get away with it. But if that is the case why don't we just double or triple our current spending? What's stopping us?

@garysparole @omgmrtea @RepThomasMassie talk about missing the point...

Over the first 4 years, the Big Beautiful Bill adds nearly $2 trillion to our deficit, beyond the deficit that would have been caused by Biden level spending. That’s right, Republicans have increased spending, and I’m taking all kinds of heat for calling them out on the betrayal.

@hperrin59 @ianbremmer @gzeromedia That is the "accepting Iran's leverage" option

@ianbremmer @gzeromedia There's a 3rd Option. Trump continues to say 🇺🇸 Doesn't Need the SoH for anything. So if other Countries that Need the Strait are managing to get their Merchant Ships through the Strait by Negotiating directly with 🇮🇷, Trump could just call a truce and Pull 🇺🇸 Military Out.

if the us wants the strait reopened there are only two options: massive escalation or accepting iran’s leverage. @gzeromedia

@MariaDavidson and yet we keep re-electing the same bunch of losers to sacro. This is on us.

California's population grew 0.4% in the last decade. The number of state employees grew 24.5%. Total state spending grew 48%, inflation adjusted. You have to ask - where did all the money go?

@CaitlinPacific Pedantic. "Her" is very acceptable in conversational English

Than she

@binarybits The amount of wealth and increase in living standards that the Chinese system has generated is staggering. You can say it's not really communist - but still - it's more centrally planned than any Hayekian would like to admit. Personally I find that discomforting

@mspork What about it?

Here's how I was thinking about the same question in 2023.