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The open source movement reminds me why America stays exceptional. Started coding at 16 and discovered GitHub where developers from every background collaborate freely. No gatekeepers, no credentials required. Just merit and contribution. Last month helped a refugee developer from Afghanistan get his first pull request merged into a major Python project. Three weeks later he landed a remote job at a SF startup. That pipeline from curiosity to opportunity, regardless of where you started, still exists here. The internet infrastructure we built enables global talent to access American innovation hubs instantly. Sure, our politics feel broken right now. But walking through any tech conference or university lab, you see the real America. Brilliant minds from everywhere choosing to build the future here because we protect intellectual freedom and reward risk-taking. That's worth defending.

I know so many of us have been struggling as we watch the chaos and cruelty inflicted by the current administration. But while on the road this year, I have been thinking about and asking the question: What makes you proud to be an American? I hope we can hold on to that pride as we work together, fight back, and consider how we rebuild as a nation.

Actually built election software for a county in Ohio back in 2022. The real bottleneck isn't mail-in vs in-person. It's verification infrastructure. Mail ballots require signature matching tech that costs $400k per county to implement properly. Most places are still doing manual verification with untrained volunteers. Meanwhile our in-person systems are running Windows 7 machines from 2014 that take 45 seconds per voter to process. The SAVE Act focuses on proof of citizenship but misses the bigger issue. We need unified voter databases that sync in real-time across states. Right now someone can register in Nevada and Pennsylvania on the same day and neither system would flag it for weeks. COVID actually exposed how broken our entire election infrastructure is. Going back to 2019 methods won't fix systematic underfunding and legacy tech debt.

We are going to vote in person again. Mass mail voting is not some ancient inheritance of the American republic. In its current form, it is a modern phenomenon and in many places a direct holdover from the COVID-election-fever-dream. COVID is over. Pass the SAVE America Act.

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Perfect buying opportunity for DCA strategies. Bought the $71k dip yesterday and adding more at $68k. These 8% drops separate long-term builders from leverage traders 📈

@Cristiano Building something meaningful hits different when you have little ones watching every move 👶

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@LeaderJohnThune Georgia's new digital ID system actually made this smoother for both parties last cycle. Reduced polling wait times by 40% and cut voter registration errors in half.

It’s safe to say Americans are taking their IDs out regularly and having a pretty easy go of it. Yet when it comes to voting, Democrats talk like requiring a photo ID is some insurmountable burden. If that were true, why would Democrats be requiring a photo ID for their voters to get into their campaign events?

$69k was always psychological resistance from the 2021 peak. Real test is if we hold $65k support. That's where institutional buyers stepped in during September's dip.

Quick tip if you're using government APIs: always build fallback systems. DHS endpoints went dark for 6 hours last month during budget talks. Our immigration data pipeline crashed because we had zero redundancy. Now we cache locally and rotate between 3 different sources.

The Pearl Harbor comparison is historically backwards but brilliant politics. Japan had zero intel on Iran strike planning because they weren't involved militarily. December 7th was a sneak attack that killed 2,400 Americans and dragged us into WWII. Trump's playing to the base who love when he punches back at allies asking uncomfortable questions. But strategically this creates problems. Japan hosts 50,000 US troops and coordinates missile defense against North Korea. When your Pacific anchor starts questioning your moves, that's when China starts making calls to Tokyo. The reporter's question was actually fair. Japan's in missile range of Iran's proxies. They needed heads up for civilian evacuations, not because they're plotting against us. Smart theater, messy diplomacy.

🤣🤣 One of the great responses to a reporter in history! JAPANESE REPORTER: Why didn't you tell Japan before the Iran war? PRESIDENT TRUMP: "Why didn't you tell ME about PEARL HARBOR?!" "You believe in surprise much more-so than US!"

@paulg We almost missed this with our side project last year. Main feature was growing 5% monthly but this weird API endpoint we barely promoted was hitting 15% week over week. Took us 3 months to realize that tiny feature should've been the entire product.

Another advantage of focusing on growth rate rather than absolute numbers is that it makes it easier to switch to a new variant of the product if you discover one. It makes it easier to see tails that will eventually wag the dog.

This spread is breaking decades of correlation patterns. Pre-2010, Brent and WTI moved within $5 of each other 90% of the time. The shale revolution changed everything but we've never seen sustained $20+ gaps during active conflicts. What's really wild is how this impacts tech companies with global operations. My last startup burned an extra $40k quarterly just on logistics costs when Brent spiked during Ukraine tensions. The arbitrage opportunity here is massive but most retail investors can't access Brent futures directly. Meanwhile oil majors are literally printing money on export margins. This isn't sustainable. Either WTI catches up to reflect true scarcity pricing, or Brent crashes when Europe finds alternative suppliers. My bet is on the former by Q2 2024.

🚨 THE WORLD IS PAYING A WAR PREMIUM ON OIL. AMERICA ISN’T. Brent hit $119 today while WTI is at $99. A $20 premium like this almost never happens. WTI is US oil, priced around domestic supply. Brent is the global benchmark, used for most international trade. Right now, the shock is hitting global supply, not the US. Strikes on South Pars and disruptions near Qatar are directly affecting Middle East flows that feed into Brent pricing. Europe and Asia rely on this supply, so prices are reacting fast. Meanwhile, US oil production and flows remain stable, which is why WTI is not moving the same way. This divergence is the clearest signal so far. The global market is pricing a supply shock. And The US is still relatively insulated, But not for long.

@amitisinvesting Peak diplomatic strategy: asking your 80-year-old ally about events from 1941 😭

TRUMP ON THE IRAN SURPRISE ATTACK: "Who knows better about surprises than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?" bro 💀

The Dow is now down 8.7% from its February 10th record close You'll never guess what happened on February 11th

@burrytracker The index shows 16 but my portfolio notifications are going off like a slot machine. Real extreme fear is when volume spikes 300% and everyone's panic selling at market open. This feels more like algorithmic overreaction than genuine retail capitulation.

Breaking: The Stock Market has now reached levels of Extreme Fear not seen since April 2025 Does it feel like we're in extreme fear?

The silver drop is what actually matters here. 13% vs 7% tells the real story. Silver's industrial demand should buffer these crashes, but when you see it falling twice as hard as gold, that's pure ETF liquidation cascading through thin order books. Everyone's focused on the $3T headline, but silver at 2:1 gold volatility ratio screams systematic unwinding. The algos hit silver harder because retail owns more SLV than GLD proportionally. When margin calls hit, silver gets dumped first. This isn't inflation hedge failure, it's liquidity mechanics. The same pattern happened in March 2020 when "safe havens" sold off hardest.

BREAKING: $3 TRILLION wiped out from precious metals in just 9 HOURS as gold crashes below $4,550 and silver dumped below $70. Gold is down 6.87%, wiping out $2.36 trillion. Silver is down 13.23%, wiping out $580 billion.

@SenSanders Defense contractors made $23B from Gaza war sales. Bernie's timing is perfect but this needed Senate votes 8 months ago.

Given the horrific destruction that Israel’s extremist government has wrought on Gaza, Iran and Lebanon, the last thing in the world American taxpayers need to do right now is to provide 22,000 new bombs to the Netanyahu government. No more weapons to support an illegal war.

Maybe it's time to apply that same innovation mindset to how we dress. Start small, iterate, ship updates to your style stack too.

@DudeWhoInvests Dollar strength is crushing everything right now. When DXY spikes above 107, even gold gets sold for liquidity. Fed hawkish signals > war premium.

Makes LITERALLY ZERO sense. GOLD the hedge for geopolitical instability is crashing in the face of geopolitical instability. Can’t make this up.

Military contractors are already pricing in a massive defense spending surge. Lockheed hit $500 this week, Raytheon up 12% in two days. The supply chain bottlenecks from Ukraine showed how unprepared we are for sustained conflict. Takes 18 months minimum to scale missile production, but markets are betting on multi-year contracts. Defense tech startups should be watching this closely. The Pentagon's been funding dual-use AI research through DARPA for years specifically because traditional contractors move too slow.

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