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The entire medical industry is a market failure https://t.co/xVXDPuWAvJ

@pt Call up Chuck Schumer and tank this

South of The Border, they call me Juan Despacito

Alexander Walked to India

@AndrewYangVFA @hamandcheese I think d. trump proved that there’s far too much ado about hiding political calculations behind the curtain

@TankieSanders Do people not generally know this least interesting of crimes committed by one of the most vile people to ever live, responsible for engineering the death of millions?

@zatchry You are seriously misconstruing what she is doing here. She’s walking you through the mental trap that anti vaxxers that fall into, in a rare attempt to humanize “the enemy”. Read “On Immunity” to see why mothers specifically are so prone to become anti vaxxers

@DIorioNathaniel he paints a infotainment cartoon picture of complicated topics that people rarely have a second source on and convinces you of a bogeyman to pick. In topics where I know more than the average bear, he falls very short. can assume it's the same on everything else

@heiretik @DIorioNathaniel It’s a political infotainment product, with all the danger that entails

#YangGang is a grade A meme https://x.com/NateSilver538/status/1105181997792747520

@ProperOpinion @vanillatary the collective, religious delusion that every person's vote matters is what gives the vote power in the first place. Takes like this are true on a superficial level, but untrue on the level where it matters

Ya but how come there are no black White Walkers ... makes u think

@KCapo45 @DIorioNathaniel spreading misleading information makes you immediately complicit in any misunderstandings that occur because of it and it doesn't matter at all how it's marketed. we get angry for Tucker Carlson for doing the same thing

@KCapo45 @DIorioNathaniel Claiming that people should know better and do more research after watching funny british man tell you exactly what to think about <Sugar/Net Neutrality/etc.> is idealistic and crass. Look at the possible consequences and not the entertainment value

@KCapo45 @DIorioNathaniel It is fun and easy to make people angry and any attempts to profit off of this should be examined with intense skepticism. It is far harder to find the truth than to peddle outrage

@KCapo45 @DIorioNathaniel sure, but I don't have an audience in the millions nor do I sell outrage. News always biases towards outrage, grief, terror, but oliver's entire shtick is about owning some faction through political punditry. he has to be held to the same standards as other pundits

Warren's response to this is incredibly dumb ... FB bans the use of their corporate logo in ads to protect consumers against people masquerading as facebook TWELVE other ads stayed up, and they brought this one back too some incredible monopoly power there https://x.com/viaCristiano/status/1105235358596386821

@Astropartigirl B assures that anyone who also wants to witness an interesting C can do so — if humanity has reached a singularity, then their technology would surely allow a billion years of stasis. If not, humanity is likely dead and I have no care for a galaxy merger without humans.

@Astropartigirl Plus the merge will be slow and boring

@abbydphillip @KevinMKruse There should not be any surprise from this. Parents, rich or poor, will do whatever they can to get their children ahead. Instead of feigning shock over this, it’s far more useful to work on rules and processes that assure a socially optimal outcome

@rlmiller10 @abbydphillip @KevinMKruse Figuring out “socially optimal” in general is a hard problem. BUT In specific cases, It’s pretty obvious — admissions fraud by the well off is socially suboptimal. so we should figure out ways to disincentivize this rather than wallow in despair and condemn the whole system

@septembergrrl @abbydphillip @KevinMKruse Then you’re 1 in thousands. Given the choice to reach out and make the lives of their children extraordinarily blessed, most will accept. It’s just a matter of how accessible those crimes are and how detached from the consequences you remain

now do beto https://x.com/DavidKlion/status/1105480495993929728

@dsloandownes @septembergrrl @abbydphillip @KevinMKruse idk but i've see some shit growing up in an upper middle class town with very competitive high schools --- imo it's a matter of where people draw the line rather than whether or not people are willing to bend rules for their children. "illegal" is not the line for most

@dsloandownes @septembergrrl @abbydphillip @KevinMKruse it becomes even harder when you see other parents doing these things. How are you going to deny your kids privileges that your neighbors' kids are getting? obv admissions crimes on the scale of this scandal aren't common, but they're just scaled up from more common things

@dsloandownes @septembergrrl @abbydphillip @KevinMKruse There are like 50 extremely rich people involved in this lawsuit — 50 people doesn’t make or break a system. Everybody angry at this already recognizes that it’s a pattern of behavior where parents with power abuse it for the sake of their children. It’s only natural

@ubersuccess @dsloandownes @septembergrrl @abbydphillip @KevinMKruse That’s exactly what I’m saying boss. It’s not about the 50, it’s a pattern of behavior. This crime isn’t special

@BosToLax @dsloandownes @septembergrrl @abbydphillip @KevinMKruse No one is ever happy with “good enough” and thank god for that. We are better for that ambition

@ComfortablySmug Extremely Smug Voice: it is in fact the people who didn’t do crimes who are wrong!

This is what brings The Donald down https://x.com/PaulLeeTicks/status/1105227741484376064

@LaurenGoode @tsimonite Number of papers is a very bad metric

@devonzuegel Name them 🤘

@mistertodd @PNWwonk I’m sure nobody committed atrocities before pewdiepie

this is not an informed take ... powerful machine learning algos classify nudity in fractions of seconds bc computer vision is solved. reading through manifestos and politically charged language is a much harder problem https://t.co/rQVFL8ag9g

@Kehlani this is not an informed take ... powerful machine learning algos classify nudity in fractions of seconds bc computer vision is solved. reading through manifestos and politically charged language is a much harder problem

literally none of the internet giants wants death threats and fringe ideologies profaning their products. they spend massive resources to solve it, and fail.

@Hana_Coon U right

@marathiMaharaja We’re good

Tbh this is fucked up https://x.com/michigandaily/status/1107033123517317120

i https://t.co/a7wIw7kteZ

k dot

@drvox Urban bias collapses empires

kill me https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/hottest-chat-app-teens-google-docs/584857/

I always thought this was a meme

@binarybits @ne0liberal tl;dr "fb/twit has power over journalists, and they resent it"

@RMac18 why are you so concerned with ceremonial displays of goodwill that would be viewed cynically by just about everyone and have no consequences whatsoever

@RMac18 I can imagine your alternate draft for if he HAD published a statement "zuck apologizes and claims xyz while not doing abc. outrageous"

@ne0liberal all you gotta do is hire a moderator per fb user. easy

@ramramanathan1 do you simply compare metadata to known metadata, or is there more sophisticated video level ML going on? If so why were only 1.2/1.5mil caught at upload time? 80% is fairly unimpressive for a recognition task

@PNWwonk @ne0liberal Dude this is such uninformed crap that proves @ne0liberal’s point ... those PMs were“shared” so that Spotify and Netflix could use fb chat APIs to provide user features https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/facebook-new-york-times-investigation-spotify-netflix-messages.html

@PNWwonk @ne0liberal “... explained that these permissions were about allowing Facebook users to read, write, and delete their own Facebook messages from within Netflix and Spotify once they linked their accounts and logged in. “

@PNWwonk @ne0liberal Nytimes ran away with some non news about basic data sharing practices bc they knew people would gobble it up

@goodbyecomputer What game is this?

@PNWwonk This is the wrong order of concern. If a company doesn’t offer you a service you need, you take your business elsewhere. If your country doesn’t, now what?

daily reminder that standardized testing is progressive and helps the poorest. without them, the advantages of the rich would be even further pronounced. this is why rich people pay to cheat on them https://x.com/AndrewYang/status/1108479430958215173

@s_r_constantin P O R N

Central lesson of Game of Thrones: a good soldier does not make a good ruler https://x.com/BernieSanders/status/1108507878783111168

@latenitenoah the land belonged to the MEGAFAUNA, which your ancestors slaughtered :(

Mueller report twitter is the best twitter

NOBODY: CNN: Trump was bathed in golden light https://x.com/CNN/status/1109585387259875329

@_Astro_Nerd_ all serious professionals swear!

young people have a natural inclination for revolution, chaos, unrest and it's because these are the conditions under which the young have the best chance to wrench accumulated power from generations before them

pretty sure most bright eyed young activists are playing cynical power games

@saeen90_ p ridiculous to call it unscientific and anti-intellectual when he regularly cavorts with physicists, mathematicians, anthropologists, neuroscientists, etc... for chrissake Sir Roger Penrose went on

@saeen90_ he's a bit of a dumbass but that's not really a good reason to hate his show

@saeen90_ He’s never uncritical of the truly vile. Imo it’s not at all a bad thing to shine light into dark places When bill maher brought Milo on, he ended up destroying him

@RampCapitalLLC vc twit

@ne0liberal Unfortunate I think the aesthetic of a name matters a lot. Buttigieg is screwed unless he can somehow get everyone calling him Pete

@ne0liberal I don’t mean it can’t be foreign sounding — BarackObama is a great name. Rolls off the tongue

@ebruenig @nytopinion In 2000 years these simple arguments have not been satisfactorily answered

@ebruenig @nytopinion Best to remind everyone of simple critiques of religion now and then

@ebruenig @nytopinion Hume, for one. Are you claiming that mainstream philosophical debate over the problem of evil is settled and done? Many atheist philosophers are not satisfied. More importantly, I’m not satisfied. None of the resolutions are good

@TimHickson1 @link197 @ebruenig @nytopinion What a physicist does is 10x more intellectually rigorous than philosophy

@link197 @TimHickson1 @ebruenig @nytopinion Lol it just seems wild to me to rip on this opinion piece for the stated reasons. 99% of nyt opinion pieces are dumber than this. A public lesson / discourse on the problem of evil is valid and good

@link197 @TimHickson1 @ebruenig @nytopinion Instead of responding with this appeal to authority (“better minds than you have contended with this in the past 2000 years!!”) as is so typical of christian apologia, engage with substance. Again 99% of discourse is objectively dumber

@link197 @TimHickson1 @ebruenig @nytopinion I don’t mean any ill will my dude, just my thoughts

@Austen vc money redistributed to landowners :^}

@Austen WeDontWork

@NickMeier21 Why do you think so? Apple is not a monopoly. If the credit card doesn’t offer competitive rates, no one will buy it. It’s barely more convenient to have their card w/ Apple Pay than any card with Apple Pay

@NickMeier21 No one will apply for it*

@NickMeier21 Apples power is in their brand and not their market position — if any powerful brand made a credit card people would get it bc it’s slick. For example I see tons of people walking around with Uber cards

@NickMeier21 Overall this is a pretty uninspired product and I don’t think it represents scary market power in any way

@NickMeier21 The only thing that’s terrifying is their role in controlling the App Store. If they were, for example, banning the apps of other credit card companies there would be reason for worry. I don’t think that would happen at all

@NickMeier21 https://x.com/nikillinit/status/1110357649474969600?s=21

@cnimbelli @TimHickson1 @link197 @ebruenig @nytopinion This but unironically

@classiclib3ral The problem with plastic straws is not the inconvenience — it’s the dramatic misappropriation of legislative attention to a subject that won’t ultimately change any climate outcome. Instead cities should try a congestion tax, states a carbon tax

Fuck Apple https://youtu.be/l8SShgWqJvg

@fchollet extremely popular opinion (on twitter)

@erikbryn @codinghorror “Now imagine a photon jumping on a moving trampoline ... “

@RMac18 GoFundMe should have a feature to have your dollars count negatively

@beatface @RMac18 im joking

@ZachWeiner Yes

@TrevMcKendrick @waitbutwhy wya man

@abhiprofen @PNWwonk @trepur349 How does that make sense? Voting for Obama seems to be a pretty atypical thing for a racist to do

@Austen Tbh doesn’t Lambda also rent seek on its brand power, reputation, and placement ability I’m sure the product is great but if people are quitting hbs to join you have to think there may be something else at play

@jerryjackosn @abhiprofen @PNWwonk @trepur349 but it’s sure as hell not evidence in the opposite direction OP’s point is that racist sentiments stem from destitution

@SeekingReality7 "The Founders" intended literally nothing like the current EC system. EC benefits your side so you enjoy it, a respectable and fair motive imo. no need to equivocate

@SeekingReality7 my mistake. but my point still stands -- the founding fathers envisioned individual electors voting as they please based on the will of their district, as I'm sure you know. it was intended to be indecisive and to yield kingmaking power to the House in most cases

@SeekingReality7 nothing close to the current system in which we sum regional majorities and impel electors to follow them. This really has nothing to do with the original plan

@SeekingReality7 I will check this out, but I disagree with you in that the 1787 intended EC mechanism to prevent the excesses of direct democracy has not at all survived til present day the only remnant of this is in the superdelegate system, and not the EC

This but with literally ever Facebook story ever https://x.com/josephfcox/status/1114170527227183104

Locke and Demosthenes https://x.com/AndrewYang/status/1114702615974117376

@QTRResearch @elonmusk Y’all never have passengers huh

@PNWwonk public servants should be loved by the public. it's not too much to ask to find smart leaders who are avuncular and charismatic (OBAMA!)

@Noahpinion @IDoTheThinking It’s amazing how little political power the sv billionaires have considering all the wealth inequality hoopla

@Noahpinion @IDoTheThinking I’m sure tech companies would love to upzone every inch of California

This is a stupid authoritarian impulse, typical for the Guardian. The cognitive jump from “you’re free to share anything, but we reserve the right to remove it” to simply “we will scrutinize every last minute of footage uploaded” is massive https://x.com/alexhern/status/1114844718951796736

YouTube moderators probably removes something on the order of 0.01% of all uploaded footage. If someone was to watch everything and okays 99.99% of content, That’s 65 years of human life wasted daily

@PedanticRomantc Imagine thinking that paying after receiving the service (up to some upper cap) if and only if you're capable of paying is somehow worse than paying 2-3x that amount before, possibly with loans that you cannot default on and haunt you til your death

@kristoncapps Food is the closest we get to free markets. Landlords, not so

@JenandZen all kinds of equipment to detect things where our sensory machinery fails. a seismograph can tell you the same thing the dog could. there's a categorical difference between not seeing with the naked eye and not observing at all

@JenandZen I think that when someone begins a statement with “of course” and presents no evidence it should be viewed as skeptically as possible

@JenandZen When someone insists that something specific is real with the only data being “there are many things we don’t know/ can’t see”, we should be skeptical. This argument is old as time and it’s summed up as the argument from ignorance fallacy https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance

@JenandZen Are there real things that are as of yet undetectable? Of course Is that evidence of a superphysical order? Not even close

@PNWwonk why cap and not tax

True, but viewed another way it’s this divine discontentment that drives progress. Appreciate the results and move right on to making it better. Science never sleeps https://x.com/broderick/status/1116086396232577024

@alexhern It depends on the size. for a supermassive black hole like the one recently imaged, you can travel for thousands of miles inside the horizon before ever feeling serious tidal effects

@alexhern A black hole of ~20 solar masses would squish you a few hundred miles out before you reach the event horizon

@alexhern it’s not actually clear if you can survive passing through a horizon, so maybe a moot point. “Firewalls” and whatnot

@marathiMaharaja low conscientiousness people are more fun :)

@Birdyword @LukeFehsenfeld What exactly does translate to political acumen? If Dalio doesn’t understand the economic machine, no one does

@HeerJeet @TheodoreFogel Hello? What are you talking about? https://x.com/petebuttigieg/status/1116905331219685376?s=21

@HeerJeet @TheodoreFogel Do you pundits ever stop and look?

@pt @rsg @zck Total lie: https://www.salon.com/2016/04/18/hillarys_hot_sauce_long_con_if_clinton_is_pandering_with_this_latest_food_revelation_its_the_most_impressive_suck_up_ever/

@DrJonathanRosa everybody behaves like animals bruh thats the point of anthropology

@DrJonathanRosa if some anthro published some research along the lines of "how business leaders behave like animals" no one would have a problem

@robinhanson It is pretty clear that First Men tried to reason with the Others. In fact it’s pretty clear that one of the first Others took a human for wife. I believe the show has simplified their motive quite a bit — we’ll have to wait and see the outcome of the books

@PNWwonk @nolesfan2011 Why not?

@DIorioNathaniel There's a pretty close relationship between when Dan & David become convinced they're writers on par with GRRM and start veering from the books (S5+) and when the show becomes garbage. That being said, I think you're seriously underrating S4, a great season. true to the books

@chrisrmsu @DIorioNathaniel Not really a question of adaptation, as I think they did a great job for the first 4 seasons. Truly amazing at making internecine political squabbles entertaining as hell for a mass audience while being faithful to the complexity and history

@chrisrmsu @DIorioNathaniel but there’s really no reason they had to crush the fantasy epic down to 7 seasons when they could’ve done 10 or 11 (as grrm AND studio execs pleaded). D&D have basically been phoning it in for a while; they’re ready to move on to other things, and left devastation in their wake

@asteroid_saku What is deep tech?

@ashleyfeinberg micro...site...

@mmay3r Oh god this is why people hate Silicon Valley

Now quit twitter lmao u won’t https://x.com/washingtonpost/status/1117815705112645634

@primalpoly a reactionary heuristic that results in a world littered with arcane artifacts meaningful to no one. Destruction is necessary for creation. Statues, monuments, and names should all go when their time comes. (I am not advocating for terrorism, but progress)

@primalpoly I am reminded of the famous SF housing case where a serious developer was unable to go forward and build his high rise for worry of damaging a “historic laundromat”. Some things should be left in the past

@ne0liberal The most neoliberal bread is not the most foreign sounding one, but the cheapest, most resilient bread that global markets can provide: White Bread

@nimbyest You’re cancelled

@ne0liberal @nihilistspicer Is tipping neoliberal

@nihilistspicer @ne0liberal Seems to me that tipping distorts markets

@Noahpinion @JohnCarltonKing aren't all of these people powerhouses? I guess authority is no indicator of quality

@NotMyLinkedIn @Noahpinion @JohnCarltonKing you would think in a pedagogy as deep and old as economics we'd have some consensus as to what "income" means

@tonesatan No one is talking about it because there was literally no damage or injuries

Gonna join Mensa and change my twitter handle to something whack to own Ben Shapiro https://x.com/gina_goldberg/status/1118337546381959168

@homsiT @mmay3r find the algorithm that lets you know whether two startup ideas are "equally good" and you've already won

@danny_sprinkle @Quillette Where is the downvote button? It’s because of shit like this that nobody takes the above argument seriously

@GordPennycook Blank slatism, anti vax, rent control

@its_GTdawg @chris_harrod @GordPennycook The beautiful thing is with many imperfect measurements that have independent random errors you can get pretty close to the truth anyway

@its_GTdawg @chris_harrod @GordPennycook There are no other possible plans. Unless you have some damning statistical proof, the climate science consensus stands

@its_GTdawg @chris_harrod @GordPennycook You are also mistakenly ascribing the accuracy of a common household thermometer to extremely sensitive lab equipment

Acid Trip Comey https://x.com/Comey/status/1119049878347423745

@gdb How come you guys never turned off the item purchase scripting? Removes a huge dimension of complexity from the game

@PNWwonk None of Canada’s cities have economies centered on automotive behemoths You’re not wrong it’s just not apples to apples

@marv51 @gdb They likely aren’t running in train mode — that would increase the compute resources needed by 10

@igorbb @gdb 45,000 years 😗

@Austen Tbh what stops me (& most ppl probably) from buying new books is not the cost but the knowledge that they’re just gonna pile up at home without getting read

@bdmcclay Wow such a risk you’re taking making “strong” claims about some peasant’s lives 2000 years ago that we have zero capability of disproving

Need a review sent to me every time someone blocks me https://t.co/LCH1wzjzUx

@RiverTamYDN He said he read it first when he was 18

this also conveniently forgets the wall to wall international coverage that followed the christchurch mosque shooting literally everyone who died in Christchurch was a POC

the news coverage trickling out of sri lanka has been terribly slow and not of great quality by western standards

it's a poisonous thing to attribute other human failings (out of sight out of mind) to racism and hatred. I don't see yall lining up to donate & publicly grieve when a thousand african children die per day from malaria. not because you're racist. you're just human

@Noahpinion Bay City

@Noahpinion first American megacity

@anugov1 https://x.com/aiizavva/status/1120070732900384769?s=20

@paulg Elon totally would

@max_read read the books

@sherjilozair hard to make this argument after seeing how profound the AlphaStar losses looked

Forgiving all student loan debt is the exact same thing as bailing out the big banks ... you can’t honestly support one and hate on the other. The parallels are many

The banks preyed on people’s dreams to buy homes and colleges and their lenders prey on people’s dreams to get a degree

Humongous prices (college should not cost $100,000 to attend) and a lot of failing debt, which is bought out and forgiven by the government

The systems that created this situation in both cases still remain in place and bad behavior gets rewarded

@javeigh which u then buy and enjoy without much thought

@nikillinit This is the least interesting and most oversold question about AI— which human system or thought process more complicated than totally trivial can be said to be transparent or accountable?

@benedictevans But it’s also terribly anti competitive — Apple regularly throws its weight around to bully competitors

@tehpio This is the only good take

Game of thrones is irredeemable garbage 🙃

@acdlite I don’t think it’s screenshot compression — these sites seem to have some way of disabling screenshots entirely

@acdlite I wonder how they disable OS level screenshot tools from the browser

@ComfortablySmug Smug, why did you read the books. Reading books is for libs

Violently unfollowing anyone who thought got was good rn

@tomfgoodwin Netflix is just as predatory and autoplays tv and movies to keep you watching It just hasn’t had any smear campaigns run against it

@DouthatNYT Still unambiguous: the viewer always knows what Frodo, Theoden, Baromir *should* do: temptation arrives in complete transparency. In real life people make choices between many bad options and not just between goodness and temptation

@DouthatNYT Do you spare the lives of innocent children or let the country burn so that they might live? One incompetent king or another?

@DouthatNYT LotR is very beautiful and completely *untrue*. Not to say that game of thrones hasn’t failed completely, but the project was more ambitious

@ne0liberal @originalaznjer It’s also just wrong After housing, healthcare, education, all other costs are a rounding error. Taking a few less Uber’s won’t materially change your life

@TaylorLorenz @davidgoffin anyone can tell you that Sheryl Sandberg is the brains behind the FB ad machine

@yoda @TaylorLorenz @davidgoffin ?dude it’s not that controversial. She’s regarded as the queen of digital ads for a reason. Zuck sought her out bc he knew the org lacked expertise and competence in ads. She’s his most trusted lieutenant and “not even close to ceo” is wildly wrong https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/technology/04cnd-facebook.html

@yoda @TaylorLorenz @davidgoffin She built both AdSense and AdWords for Google per nytimes

@GrayMan42 @yoda @TaylorLorenz @davidgoffin Of course it is; I’m not contesting that. I just don’t at all believe that women are less morally dubious or that SV companies would be less cutthroat with women at the helm as evidenced by Sandberg, Wojcicki, etc. It’s patronizing in a way to believe this

@Noahpinion Has more to do with having the time and energy to fret over mental health than anything

@karaswisher @nytimes Wild that anyone intelligent believes creating some jobs with pleasant sounding names like “privacy officer” will have any actual effect

@mulad @jenny_schuetz @theoverheadwire EVs are much lighter than typical cars

@NickMeier21 Same goes for entire Bay Area

It’s not an achievement to have a policy page on your website. Every idiot polisci major in the country can come up with a binder full of reasonable sounding policy proposals if asked. “Philosophy/image over policy” is a shrewd & accurate assessment of the center left’s problems https://x.com/aidachavez/status/1123730682273042432

@PolicyOutcomes Serial ... marijuana users ... And we wonder why everyone hates the center left

@Altimor Clicking for approval is not interesting The second and third order meta and ironic clicking is where it’s at

@BernieSanders U right let’s take that $50 million, redistribute it among the 2 million Uber drivers and they’ll all have a whopping ... $25 extra per year 🤔

@vgr ‘15-‘19 .... honestly we don’t read much anymore Asoiaf is a standout though

@ashleymayer What’s the right answer to this

Breaking Bad https://x.com/jareddiamond/status/1125409831190507521

Follow me @tszzl

@trekonomics with any luck humanity will be able to bring back whatever it lost via genetic engineering within a hundred years

@Halalcoholism If it competes on price then it works — guilt is not a good long term solution

@NickMeier21 Por Que no los dos

@NickMeier21 More of a metaphor for using modern technology to communicate the goals of government better I think

@_claycoleman It’s always been said that lies travel faster than the truth Perhaps now we just have a way to quantify it?

zuck once said that twitter is like a clown car that drove into a gold mine https://x.com/mathewi/status/1125473174374666240

@AbhiDhabi5 @PolicyOutcomes Some people actually want to learn you feel

@AbhiDhabi5 @PolicyOutcomes Blind mistrust in grades and institutions isn’t contrarianism — that’s a leftist cop out

of all the bad GoT takes this may be the worst Bc the show clearly never killed a white person right

@ne0liberal Just gotta make it even bigger to fix the problem

@terronk @Sam_Dumitriu Market size: me

@TheTweetOfGod Delete this

Still shook that some people seriously think that an ethics class will make a person behave more ethically https://t.co/94l4aCjKcI

@ekp @TristanMiano @Ilhan You can’t seriously be applying ad hominem like this

We’re failing our kids by inundating them with news of school shootings Statistically they’re way safer at school than at home https://x.com/TiffanyBond/status/1126255160089509888

@nataliesurely This is 100% not true Imagine Elon musks grand plan being to abandon earth to climate change but then also starting an electric car company because ... it’s good for the Earth? Your position is completely untenable

@ComfortablySmug Which story pls link

@dtemkin What are your thoughts?

@benshapiro @afneil LMAO ur an absolute joke

@benshapiro @afneil Facts don’t care about your feelings bro

Indians were using war elephants 2000 years before Genghis https://x.com/FT/status/1126937321734012928

@DSilvermint Why, then, does the plot suck as much ass as the character development? There’s a simpler explanation here: D&D are terrible

@RiverTamYDN wrong. "plotters" would've managed to make a good plot even if the characters sucked. what actually happened is that the plot and the characters both suck. D&D just suck

@devonzuegel @googledocs @Dropbox useful as a length abstraction

@agraybee this take is far too generous tbh if d&d are "plotters" and not "pantsers" then the last few seasons should have very good fantasy plots and subpar characters. what we really got is terrible plot and terrible characters

@agraybee this take is far too generous tbh if d&d are "plotters" and not "pantsers" then the last few seasons should have very good fantasy plots and subpar characters. what we really got is terrible plot and terrible characters

@agraybee fair enough but i've seen no evidence that they had coherent plot ideas / outlines regarding the last few seasons beyond "I'm tired of this shit, we need to end it"

@redsteeze Did .. did you understand what she was saying at all?

@benedictevans VC job description includes arguing about history on twitter

@quantian1 Is this a serious take. My god

@vgr i've always thought this is the most likely one assume any rate of advancement in simulation tech and you come to a point where the brightest minds who might've been advancing space travel are stuck deep inside Eve Online version 1000

@Noahpinion @JHWeissmann Why not? You need to finance the cars somehow

@Noahpinion @JHWeissmann Driverless model actually turns Uber’s “have no inventory” model on its head

@Noahpinion @JHWeissmann I suspect OEMs have a significant advantage in this space — the ridehail software layer is a commodity

@Noahpinion @JHWeissmann Agree, I was pointing it out as minus points for Uber

@ne0liberal @trekonomics One main difference seems to be in seeing the world order as terrible vs seeing the world order as pretty good with some room to improve despite a similar policy agenda

@trekonomics imo — despite Westphalian sovereignty, nations that desire growth bow to international market logic If most of the west imposes a carbon tax applied at the border, China, India, and Indonesia have no choice but to participate in global carbon markets

@trekonomics Moreover, technological advances made under the pressure of carbon taxed environments in the west become globally available (and possibly competitive)

@trekonomics Markets are really the only tool for international cooperation with any teeth we have ever invented, perhaps somewhat depressingly

@SeanRMoorhead For what it’s worth, the slaves are not supposed to be black/brown in the books. It follows the Roman model of slavery I.e anybody anywhere could fall into slavery if the Romans came to conquer you

@SeanRMoorhead Dany understandably has a savior complex but perhaps not a white savior complex

@colinmort @ne0liberal -2014: lefty lib A month in 2014 after reading Zero to One: techno libertarian fundamentalist 2015-2016: Bernie Bro 2016- : neolib

Can’t believe maisie Williams killed the night king by age 22 ... brb have to go rethink my life ...

Looking forward to them ignoring every submission https://x.com/axios/status/1128807263282573312

@NickMeier21 But a UBI is progressive :^)

@NickMeier21 @sheriffkrabtree NIT is way better, I’m only trolling In the current policy framework expanding the EITC is the way to go rather than creating a ubi

@NickMeier21 @sheriffkrabtree EITC basically functions as a NIT

@NickMeier21 @sheriffkrabtree EITC has had strong bipartisan support for whatever reason — if it can be modified to be more helpful and expansive, that may face less political opposition than a true negative income bracket

How my grandfather had 2 kids at my age and I’m sitting in my bed until 4 pm

I am going to start an e scooter superPAC

“Average American scrolls 300 feet of social media per day” Fkin rookies

Lifting without a spotter hits different You get stronger when faced with certain death

#ThoughtLeader #Influencer

“Coleman-Madison compared Tuesday’s all-male yea vote to a “dentist making a decision about a heart surgery.”” Tbh this misses the point. Lawmakers vote all the time on stuff they don’t understand, but it can be taken as an assumption that someone in their chain of command does

Assume malice here and not ignorance. (Especially considering the governor who signed it into law was a woman, bill sponsored by a congresswoman)

@ahardtospell Delete where’s my water bro

@LondonBreed @Scott_Wiener Mayor Breed why did you vote no on the infamous SoMa laundromat development project?

Lmao weak https://t.co/YvfDjbaScC

@s8mb Neoliberal dictat #1: no one should be stuck eating stuff like this in a globalized economy

@AmazonKindle why is it literally impossible to buy a book on the kindle app?? Where is the purchase button? How come it keeps asking me get a free sample when I’ve already read the sample?

@AmazonHelp So you can’t even purchase in the amazon app? (Yes I’m on iOS)

@AmazonHelp What is the reason for this extremely bad UX?

nothing more infuriating than an otherwise smart person who refuses to question authority or try and lift the veil even a little

@Noahpinion @TopherTBrennan Bad take Noah, EoE is high art

@abrarisme In our time, being a contrarian is a prerequisite to reap any real rewards — and there are far more contrarian pretenders than contrarians So it’s crazy to me that some don’t even pretend to dig deeper

@spakhm @webdevMason Dooming some 6 year old to a life of mediocrity because they performed poorly on your test 😍

@spakhm @webdevMason Many schools do this already in spirit by creating separate gifted tracks as soon as such a thing is discernible

Love 2 see a twitter bio like “humanist, free thinker, otaku, proud furry, python developer”

Never stop posting

@icsllaf @facebookvillain From investors straight to movie studios *

@micsolana Which was which?

@jackclarkSF Fb and google are definitely not using RL for their recommender systems — many times they’re not even using deep learning

@jackclarkSF More traditional ranking systems like LambdaMART are popular RL is still extremely nascent in industry

@trochee @jackclarkSF these aren't similar at all?

@RealYeyoZa public threats and private olive branches is how it's been done for millennia

@RealYeyoZa in Rome they would just have the town news crier

I was expecting nothing and I’m still disappointed

@generativist This is truly a terrible take

What’s really concerning to me is all the politics adjacent people I’m following who thought any of these last bits of got have been good

@NickMeier21 Lmao it’s some journo I’m subtweeting but including u now

GoT is a geopolitical drama first and a fantasy series second. The books and the first few szns feature painstakingly accurate medieval military history, Machiavellian power players, a slew of 3D characters with different goals and aspirations, etc All of that is gone now

Oh god https://x.com/andrewyang/status/1130335529436876801?s=21

@waif0000 betrayed by tv

heads on spikes

@HITmonHusain Cancelled

@springsansa @ComfortablySmug The Tully’s are not Northmen

@BDSixsmith the queen and all her reply guys

@sansaslover @springsansa @ComfortablySmug I know but "Sansa is the North" seems a bit strong, and in the wrong direction. Sansa is Sansa

@BrentSirota This is a good thread, but a bit of background -- the Caesarean metaphor goes further than you think. Dany's ancestor, Aegon V the Unlikely, one of the last great Targaryens, created reforms detracting from the power the Westerosi noble Houses had over their small folk

@BrentSirota Aegon understood that with the last of the Targaryen dragons gone, he could not hope to enforce his reforms, and found himself backsliding and compromising away the new rights granted to the smallfolk at the behest of the desire of the noble lords

@BrentSirota He understood that he needed to bring back the absolute power of Targaryen rule, and set upon an ambitious project to bring back dragons to the world, which ended in disgrace and death.

@BrentSirota This is how the line of the Mad King came to power, with the smart Targaryens hopeful that the 'Prince Who Was Promised' would be born to the "the line of Aerys and Rhaella", which could describe either Jon or Dany.

@BrentSirota With Dany having brought dragons back to the world, she should able to enforce the rights of the smallfolk with absolute power over the high lords of Westeros. Like Caesar marching in the Gallic Legions to Rome, a proud Imperator.

@BrentSirota As Caesar granted land and other handouts to the free citizens of Rome, whose labor power was largely stripped by an influx of slaves from conquered territories, so too should Dany have been merciful to the smallfolk, while fielding absolute power against the Optimates/high lords

@BrentSirota That is the desired conclusion to a hundred years of Targaryen plots, which under good writers would have been subverted in interesting ways -- no such thing happened as DND entirely failed to see what they were working with

"Please give me attention, it counts as patriotism if you give me attention" https://t.co/uaxVNqWKF5

@can "some snark, some snappy dialogue, a few good looking people" this is every show on tv

@ManuclearBomb Naath is famous for its butterfly fever, a horrifying disease which kills all non natives Grey worm has it coming

@pt @kimmaicutler I don’t understand. Does he not get it or is he lying? How would benioff not benefit from loosening zoning

@ne0liberal We will “liberate” all the Chinese coal fired plants

@kimmaicutler I don’t get it. Don’t the most powerful SV founders and VCs have a tremendous amount to gain by liberalizing housing? They pay hugely inflated salaries to combat rents, and their own wealth is tied up in equity (not housing) Why wasn’t the government turned yimby years ago?

@kimmaicutler Still, if reports about the influence of money in politics are to be believed this shouldn’t be issue. Either political influence is not easily bought or they must not care enough to do so?

F off lmao y’all make millions you don’t need my respect too https://x.com/isthisgeorgiaa/status/1130797397544767488

Imagine if Amazon defended criticism by saying “excuse u that’s disrespectful”

@kimmaicutler Surely there’s more money in tech than housing?

@kimmaicutler Oversimplifying of course, I don’t know the details, but I was thinking there would be orders of magnitude separation in lobbying and political ad budgets

@mosheroperandi @pt @kimmaicutler He can pay his employees less if there weren’t extortion rents

Tyrion: *reads Sapiens once*

@JustinCaffier @dubstep4dads I’m gonna guess this is the horse cock one

“Most importantly, we must accelerate development of clear, stable carbon pricing systems first nationally and in time connected globally.” - BP Chairman

@nickbatz @jbouie @mattyglesias Fuck you pal

@chrislhayes Rent controls don’t work https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2015/08/30/do-rent-controls-work

@SailorHaumea This is the reasonable and popular take

@jdcmedlock why not NIT > UBI?

@jdcmedlock sounds much more expensive though?

@jdcmedlock but I see your point

@jdcmedlock Interesting, this is an order of magnitude more expensive per ton ($15-30 in Canada) than all existing schemes and the recommendations of the big think tanks. What's your rationale? Won't this make many of our sectors uncompetitive on the global markets?

@jdcmedlock I've heard about border adjustment schemes but don't quite understand how you'd reliably estimate the carbon cost of an end product. For example, if some software product based in Russia isn't subject to a carbon price, how would we add the cost to the import?

@jdcmedlock If we were directly importing coal, or direct derivatives like steel, we may find it easy, but complex goods like a car sound very difficult without carbon accounting on the exporter's side

@jdcmedlock Also, how do such schemes account for carbon offsets?

@justGLew Nah, this doesn’t even come close to being true Well dressed lies are how everybody interacts with the world and each other. Truth is corrosive and must often be compartmentalized to stay sane

@abrarisme The death of religion means that everyone is staring into the abyss all the time Only thing left to do is derive meaning from work

My Uber driver just tried to recruit me into his startup

@elonmusk What about egress points that aren't terminal destinations? Isn't there going to be a huge jam at every one of these merges?

@PROgrammer_8 @elonmusk Then it’s a pretty bad design isn’t it? Tunnels for me and nothing for everyone else

@AndrewYang Such a vapid take lmao ... the only thing standing between me and being a billionaire is a billion dollars

@DIorioNathaniel Extra hot take: all the Star Wars movies suck (but none as bad as the prequels)

@trepur349 @DIorioNathaniel If you’re talking about the third it starts quite solid but everything after Anakin’s turn is truly cringeworthy and terrible The dialogue, the 40 minute fight scene, the hilariously stupid moral universe, etc

Jane Austen, back from the grave

@ne0liberal Digging tunnels is deeply unprofitable and is pretty clearly an experimental side hustle for him. I’m sure there’s no 4d chess monetization scheme behind it

@ne0liberal The world he’s describing with all car infrastructure hidden below ground and public transit available on surface world is pro-density and pro-urbanist

@JohnCarltonKing @AndrewYang Mr moneybags over here

@mattcutts Facebook calls them “monthly active people” but I think this is a uniquely stupid form of virtue signaling. Get to pat yourself on your back for sensitivity without doing anything tangible

@MattBruenig @AlexFischCC @balcom_holly @aceckhouse @AlexAnotherOne @donewman @PplPolicyProj *trivially* easy to electrify car transit? I —— I’m astounded. This may be the most galaxy brain take ever

@MattBruenig @AlexFischCC @balcom_holly @aceckhouse @AlexAnotherOne @donewman @PplPolicyProj would just love to see some DSA state owned factory struggling to make a single functioning electric car

@MattBruenig @AlexFischCC @balcom_holly @aceckhouse @AlexAnotherOne @donewman @PplPolicyProj A paltry half billion dollar loan paid back WITH interest to the government. Tesla has raised around $20 billion from all sources over the course of its life. There is no part of your characterization that's correct

@MattBruenig @AlexFischCC @balcom_holly @aceckhouse @AlexAnotherOne @donewman @PplPolicyProj And if it's the ZEV credits you're referencing, carbon emissions are stolen from the public good anyway. ZEV only accounts for a small fraction of the positive externality of an electric vehicle

@Halalcoholism @M4rkusNoir it's assumed everyone on this site is too maladjusted to lead a normal life

@MattBruenig @AlexFischCC @balcom_holly @aceckhouse @AlexAnotherOne @donewman @PplPolicyProj This is the DOE's fault for not buying Tesla convertible bonds. If they offered a pure equity investment in 2010, that would still only be worth around $5 billion today. a nice one-time snack, but irrelevant on the DoE's $35b/yr budget

@MattBruenig @AlexFischCC @balcom_holly @aceckhouse @AlexAnotherOne @donewman @PplPolicyProj Is a ~10-15% stake your definition of state-owned? Is 5% of total capital raise equivalent to "entirely built on government cash"? And are any of these financing details evidence towards electrifying transport being *trivially easy* when so many well funded attempts have failed?

@nihilistspicer >instead trusting a mass of bored, half-asleep primate brains operating in a very shitty hive intelligence to move at high speeds Nice

@nihilistspicer @Simple_Peasant1 Sure man, we all agree trains are great, but automated trains are not any less susceptible to cyberattack, or just regular old physical attacks I think the security argument here is bogus. If you have a different view of the transportation future, just say that

@nihilistspicer @Simple_Peasant1 The neural nets run on custom built chips airgapped from the user console. Breaking the security would require no insignificant sophistication.

@nihilistspicer @Simple_Peasant1 Right, this is an adversarial modification made in the environment to trick the NNs— a flaw of the basic technology. But an attack of this nature doesn’t have the properties you describe. For example the quantity of the target is 1 — the same vision model running on every car

@nihilistspicer @Simple_Peasant1 On the other hand, there is a total lack of metal detectors or security staff required to board Amtrak or even New York subways. You could easily cause massive mayhem if you so desired, without having to understand the adversarial vulnerabilities of ML algorithms and whatnot

@MattBruenig @AlexFischCC @db_mcc @VladGutman @Andres4Seattle @dmtrubman @donewman @balcom_holly @aceckhouse @AlexAnotherOne @PplPolicyProj The basic idea that urbanism has nothing to do with climate change is ridiculous. Urban dwellers spend fewer of every resource to get by vs their suburban counterparts. it’s not just in units of transport (e.g. laundromat down the corner instead of owning ones own washer/drier)

@NickMeier21 @JonathanCohn Brand Advertising for politics is underrated

@NickMeier21 @JonathanCohn Marketing theory makes a distinction between brand advertising (3 minute Coke superbowl spot with some weird flowery messaging) vs direct response (we think you might like this shoe, click on this fb ad and buy it right now)

@NickMeier21 @JonathanCohn Majority of political promotion I see looks more like direct response. The M4A brand poster is stronger IMO

@NickMeier21 @JonathanCohn True, but ya gotta love some good old fashioned propaganda. Nothing inherently evil about using it imo

Sounds like some shit Jordan Belford said to scam rubes https://x.com/naval/status/1132798411630006272

gonna watch this Dan and David propaganda docu to find out how they ruined my precious Game of Thrones i'm like a Soviet historian digging through the falsified grain yield data and misreported famine statistics for the truth 🙂

@DavidOAtkins @NickMeier21 Death to suburbs

@DavidOAtkins @NickMeier21 No need to bulldoze those houses per se, but if these burbs thrive due to life support offered by parking minimums, subsidizing cars, market distortions from zoning law, etc. then we shouldn’t let them be. Would like to see how many of those suburbs survive if playing fair

@asteroid_saku Tbh I thought my physics classes were well grounded in the narrative of science but could just be me

@vgr Bender in Futurama

@johnnypgreco Y’all realize this is exactly the technology that’ll enable cheaper satellites? You’re literally complaining about the result of cheaper satellites at this moment. Launch costs are plummeting and we’re able to put things in orbit like never before.

is it perhaps possible that wealthy people both live longer and read more books https://x.com/WhatTheFFacts/status/1132670478336892929

@spakhm What do you mean by “good software engineer”

After that ending I need therapy too https://x.com/kimrrenfro/status/1133501666349551616

I would be depressed if Bran the Broken stole my throne

My whole brand is hating game of thrones now (Obv wishing best of luck to kit)

@spakhm This is what I would call a leetcode easy problem and I feel pretty confidently that there’s more than 25 kids from my graduating class at @umich who could solve this in no time flat — there may be more good eng by this definition than you believe

@icsllaf In 2017, there were more than 100 million million passenger vehicles traveling on U.S. streets. get spookd kid

@jeffreygmiller @Austen Because of the depth of the crisis

Be honest, do Dan and David deserve rights? https://x.com/tszzl/status/1133514164780113924

@vgr As a kid, I wanted my family’s totaled car put back together and repaired instead of sold for junk We ended up doing it despite monetary loss I think sentimentality / attachment to objects is a common manifestation of what you describe

@vgr Objective function more specified than to maximize economic utility and sell the car for scrap

He played Caesar, then 10 yrs later he played Vercingetorix

@meditationstuff @vgr This casual Evernote account comment hits way too deep; its time to go to bed

@zackkanter Gell-Mann .... memory effect?

@loopuleasa @robinhanson Everyone seeks power; to varying degrees of laziness and scope

@ne0liberal Distribution of the world’s tweet output has changed or just your mood? I’m thinking the second

@ahardtospell @jmhorp

The only right way to drink water or milk is with the majority of it dripping down ur face

@ne0liberal @soashworth Yogurt Free Trade Zone

@ebruenig Forget all that and expand the EITC

@ne0liberal There’s WAY more old people where they came from

@ne0liberal The population pyramid continues to invert; this isn’t a problem we’ll grow out of

@colinmort That’s the taste of free markets

@Noahpinion These gross margins are insane; you know as well as I do that they’re using that rev to subsidize growth wars elsewhere. Once that’s over they’ll both become wildly profitable

@Noahpinion Public companies are under far more pressure to become profitable than private ones; currently Lyft is fighting a Pyrrhic subsidy war, but the music will eventually stop

@Noahpinion The moat is simple — you have Uber and Lyft downloaded, as do millions of others. Phone real estate is not cheaply built. They’ll still bleed margins against each other but a two player oligopoly in a medium margin industry is not bad

@Noahpinion Possible Lyft IPO’d because private investors were no longer interested in supporting their subsidy war; they receive a lot of cash on hand from IPO but the demands for profit will start now

@Austen Can you sell an ISA for liquidity?

@Noahpinion In this too, software is eating the world

@ne0liberal reading about the fictional Jaehaerys Targaryen raising tariffs and getting rly pissed off

@HITmonHusain Rt

@PolicyOutcomes Love the libs in the comments having a field day about the guy being a janitor — absolutely gross. I hold anyone who thinks being a janitor is itself an own in less regard than some dirt poor white supremacist

@justkelly_ok This may be the dumbest misinformation campaign ever

@quantian1 The problems are more that everybody who lives there doesn’t want anyone new

@ne0liberal You can’t keep inviting him man

@nick_colletti This is a thing in South Asia :)

@kookie13 Sorry, what does “mtge finance” mean?

@ewarren doesn't make a single mention of carbon pricing schemes -- not good enough

@Noahpinion Relevant

@Mike_Barnett @Noahpinion “Order Without Design”

@LandUseStan Nah; blockchain is a bubble. Just because they made it an option doesn't mean anyone but a small minority will take it

@generativist I think the story painted of humanity’s prehistory and transition to agrarian society is very very good. Perhaps not through any narrative prowess of its own, Sapiens gave me this story for the first time

@generativist Everything after that is middling. Guns, Germs, and Steel does it better.

@generativist I think to answer your question though: religion is dead in the West. We are in a new weird age where it’s not clear what it is we should worship. Sapiens hands you a very digestible answer: humanity and its progress. I think it’s understandable why that appeals to so many

@generativist (That is, if you haven’t heard this argument before from scores of scifi novels)

@generativist It’s a humanism starter pack for the new initiates

@evopsychgoogle Gathered a whole bunch of variables and p hacked to get this monstrosity

@mchastain81 @RandyApa large tracts of it are just cited from urban myth

@mchastain81 @RandyApa

@tedcruz @scrowder Is this a ted Cruz satire account

@Tilbo_Tweets @mchastain81 @RandyApa This is a prime example; those divers did not volunteer for some brave death mission in real life. They were just whoever was on hand. The “bridge of death” scene is a disproven urban myth. The scene where the baby apparently dies bc she shielded the mother is laughably wrong

@HST_reincarnate @mchastain81 @RandyApa The helicopter mundanely crashed into a crane. The show would have you believe the all powerful “radiation” fried it. Take many liberties like that and eventually you’re telling as much of a lie as the Soviet state was https://x.com/tszzl/status/1137012176500269057?s=21

@ne0liberal @Aintropy Carbon price vs “green investment funds” is no contest which will be more effective. Obviously warren could subvert expectation and do both, but seems unlikely from the way she talks Just gonna drop this here: https://x.com/grogsgamut/status/1136441282010550272?s=21

@Tilbo_Tweets @mchastain81 @RandyApa I’ll listen to it later, but is it possible that this is not the ground truth source? Consider it’s in their best interest for these things to be true https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/06/06/why-hbos-chernobyl-gets-nuclear-so-wrong/

@anniefryman Tbh very surprising to me; everyone I know working at Fb gets excited and fired up abt questions like these. They’re much more interesting to solve and think about than the typical work of product people

@LondonBreed build more housing homie

@HST_reincarnate @Tilbo_Tweets @mchastain81 @RandyApa Yeah no knocks against this; it was great. The theatrics of the show trial though ...

@Tilbo_Tweets @HST_reincarnate @mchastain81 @RandyApa I know; the visualization is great. But a career Soviet scientist delivering a Shakespearean soliloquy on the nature of truth and lies during a trial? Stretches its credibility to the breaking point

@Tilbo_Tweets @HST_reincarnate @mchastain81 @RandyApa I understand it was made up; it should still be believable

@Tilbo_Tweets @HST_reincarnate @mchastain81 @RandyApa Let me just defer you to the show itself: “Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth”

@Tilbo_Tweets @HST_reincarnate @mchastain81 @RandyApa He killed himself because his fellow scientists were angry with him for toeing the party line too closely. The real world Valery is far more interesting; a gray character

@_claycoleman He deserves a medal and a bug bounty

😍 im famous

@KenGoldsholl @rolandlisf @MikeIsaac @SFjkdineen There’s this amazing thing called the market that’ll correct this imbalance if the city ends purely residential or purely commercial zoning

@mattyglesias Just charge at the true cost of maintenance by vehicle weight and size instead of a small deterrent

@Tilbo_Tweets @HST_reincarnate @mchastain81 @RandyApa https://x.com/shellenbergermd/status/1137056423580393472?s=21

@spakhm You can’t deliver so bold a take without further explanation 🙃

@Housecarlz @LondonBreed How about the entire 3/4ths of the city that’s single family housing

@spakhm For better or for worse?

@marathiMaharaja Ok lowkey I forgot about this one

@marathiMaharaja Don’t get me wrong I like RAM I just think Discovery and some others are better

@armandodkos Explain

@ne0liberal Very unconvincing— NIT is mathematically equivalent to UBI with a nominally smaller government expenditure that gets cancelled out by the lost revenues

@Noahpinion @kphextwin Where the Master's degree operates as a tax on being a job-seeking immigrant, the PhD obviously opens up new job tracks entirely

@pt @zackkanter Seems to change his mind in the middle of the tweet

@zackkanter @pt The companies running massive buybacks and holding cash are not the ones that are founder run. Has Amazon ever been accused of hoarding cash? Can you really convince yourself that Apple holds a quarter trillion in cash for protection against “existential downside”?

@zackkanter @pt Fair enough; but buybacks tend to be a corollary of not knowing what to do with your money

@JoeBiden @BarackObama people who think this is cringeworthy have got it all wrong. joe biden is a master of irony

@Sturgeons_Law wait... how can one be a 'het' asexual

@Sturgeons_Law 'het' -> 'heterosexual' appears to describe nature of sexual attraction, but i suppose that's the least of my concerns with this post

@Noahpinion @ne0liberal tbh this name is pretty unnerving ... but it's a response to the much more famous r/BlackPeopleTwitter

@Austen thoughts on this: https://cspa.io/?

@benedictevans @_omlinson Which also seems completely reasonable. Uber should use this data and work on their pricing model. Up the rewards for unappetizing routes

@CdnEconist @tobinharshaw @bopinion In relative terms it is much weaker

@SaraJChipps Facebook still uses Mercurial

@SaraJChipps Honestly Facebook mercurial is better than git

The American dream is to have people pay you for streaming games/podcasting/tweeting hot takes https://x.com/JordanPlain/status/1138492773705879552

@ShannonVallor All this proves to me is that there is no intellectual firepower behind the idea that technology is malignantly addicting us

@webdevMason @sonyaellenmann Ostensibly, there are those who make far less than $13k who are able to send their children to public schools.

@webdevMason @sonyaellenmann It seems to me that if the govt can fix a funding$ amt per child, then there is no incentive for a private school to run cost efficiently. You see all kinds of bloat and inefficiency in govt contractors in other areas. Would we truly get better service?

@webdevMason @sonyaellenmann For example when California says they’re going to build a $100b transit extension and name the total cost before even starting the process

@webdevMason @sonyaellenmann I’m skeptical of the charter school model after seeing the abysmal results and massive corruption in India. They perform worse than public schools by all measures. That being said, our institutional health is quite a bit better and more choice is always good

@micsolana @webdevMason So why isn’t this a thing already? Nvm I understand now: A cruise ship costs around $.5-1 billion jfc

@micsolana @webdevMason some quick back of envelope calculation says it would take ~10 years to recoup investment assuming no further costs

@micsolana @webdevMason $2k/room/month * 4000 rooms (optimistically) = ~$100m yearly rev

@quantian1 His argument is nonsense re: “grad students are not really employees”. Is that so? They take minimal classes and spend 40+ hours a week producing research, and this is not a job? Academics is truly archaic nonsense

@AdamSerwer If you’re a staff writer at the Atlantic you’re automatically a normie

@webdevMason @micsolana Then this sounds madly profitable Let’s raise $10b and get cracking 🙃

@LandUseStan Fuck yes. PeteHype

@terronk @ne0liberal Tbh this is not that compelling imo. VCs take great pains to fund women and racial minority founders, for example, dumping millions into Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes with little to show for proof of concept

@terronk @ne0liberal And if we’re talking about only non venture backed small businesses, the startup capital to create a business in a poor neighborhood should be respectively smaller

@terronk @ne0liberal Focus on ending exclusionary zoning, war on drugs, and private prisons

Nature > Nurture https://t.co/NSudk4aK99

In these trying times, I like to remember that I was voted Time’s Person of the Year 2006

@Noahpinion You’re TOO nice. We need to you to own people with FACTS and LOGIC more often

@enbx3_ Bro what

@mattparlmer Nah; they have more energy and somrthing to prove

@AmandaAskell tbh it's pretty strange that most purportedly liberal countries have outlawed euthanasia -- the right to die seems to me like a fundamental human right. I feel we will rethink this when faced with near infinite life

@agraybee How is it not? What the fuck are you talking about?

@agraybee you realize that natives will always think a group of people entering their border is a visigoth horde, a caravan of murderers, people looking to destroy their way of life? It doesn't matter that they're not -- tension is created and politics destabilizes further

@agraybee https://qz.com/1160101/trump-removes-climate-change-from-national-security-threats-after-military-says-they-are-real/

Holy shit https://x.com/USAmbIsrael/status/1140284207673090048

@erich_owens @alex_peys https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/11/openai-shifts-from-nonprofit-to-capped-profit-to-attract-capital/

@vermontgmg This is a blessing

@kchandwhipple U did mayor Pete dirty

@ne0liberal Women choose STEM less often in richer egalitarian countries https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more-gender-equality-the-fewer-women-in-stem/553592/

@M_Nerdskull @jhamby I know people who’ve worked at his companies and they all say he spends most of his time doing high level engineering work. Starting a rocket company isn’t exactly in the same envelope of responsibilities as being CEO of GM

@gerryfsmith @mhbergen @Lucas_Shaw and why should we trust their judgement lol? fuck that; let your kids be free

@BenRossTransit @MarketUrbanism What does the "Cap" do? Not liking the sound of that

@MarketUrbanism @BenRossTransit The Europeans get to implement subpar solutions and take credit for good governance anyway

@dillonliam @Google The admission that Google’s land is more efficiently spent on housing than software is depressing

@LandUseStan were you pnw policy wonk at one point? I honestly can't tell if yall are the same account or not

@JohnCarltonKing @LandUseStan Genuine question

@TwinklingTania This is the most entertaining show on earth

@JohnCarltonKing @LandUseStan Obama also made significant use of executive authority re: DREAM and Libya intervention etc. It’s not a panacea — also I don’t think there’s any way Biden survived the Obama White House with bipartisan idealism in tact (merely a tactic)

@generativist @AndrewYang This is a weak ad hominem argument

@generativist @AndrewYang You don’t know anything about how Libra works

Biden campaign is ovr https://x.com/nandorvila/status/1141353086830514176

@ne0liberal Bro this is just some idiot staffer; I doubt they speak for Bernie’s real feelings

@ne0liberal Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a Bernie fan. I just don’t see any point ascribing his agency to a twitter account run by overenthusiastic Mike Gravelesque teens

@LandUseStan On the contrary I think this is his best idea; no company should be “too big to fail”

@LandUseStan That’s barely better than a centrally managed economy if you have to bail out a handful of oligopolistic firms who have no concern for their own survival

@mnolangray @LandUseStan Toxicity of communities directly correlates with how high the m:f ratio of users is

@naval Number #3 is completely wrong, and since it’s more of my wheelhouse and I have direct evidence, I’m going to guess #1 and #2 are equally vacuous pattern matching

The experience of witnessing a total solar eclipse is Lovecraftian. Intellectually, you can probably explain to yourself what's about to happen and why. But when it happens you just scream just like all the confused animals around you

@cmhrrs @mnolangray @LandUseStan Lol I’ll amend my argument; lower m:f crossentropy (further from 50/50) correlates higher toxicity

@chrislhayes This is an exact relitigation of the Obama era Iran deal period

@GodsGayFriend lol she’s the villain the left has picked to demonize when the choices were all bad and decisions were made by various competing elements of the Obama administration

@GodsGayFriend Do we let Gaddaffi mow down 600,000 in Benghazi and have everyone angry? Do we intervene without knowing how the future will end is and have everybody angry?

@pt @rsg I feel like none of the twitter talking heads know what modern CS curriculums look like. They train for excellence in both complex systems and algorithmic thinking — syntax/specifics never considered a worthwhile use of instructional time