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Awaiting financial manumission …

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A decade from now, only countries who have completely banned social media for children below 16 … will survive as a functioning society

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@lisaabramowicz1 Optical illusion …

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Dunning-Kruger effect in action ..

[Michael Guimarin @Guimarin]

The fastest way to determine if Asians have assimilated to American culture is to ask them about schooling.

If they don’t realize that America and the West dominated their cultures/countries because of a childhood focus on play rather than memorization then they have not assimilated.

The reason their kids are in a school in Arizona, as opposed to the American kids in an “American School in X” is a lack of appreciation and understanding of this fact.

To the extent that demographics change the school system, like in Palo Alto/Bay Area, for these people, it is for the worse.

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@TrungTPhan Live by the Claude, Die by the Claude …

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@johnarnold Could be the location .. doubt systematic

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End Oct - Brazil election .. why should Americans even care who won or lost ?

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Tracking how American voters will be bombarded with news that has nothing to do with improving their own lives .. shit always magically happen 2-3 months before US elections

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Early Oct - Immigration war on “..legal but incompetent immigrants, companies pay 80 - 200k+ a year depending on location & role to sit and watch video games”). MAGA cheer it .. assume their wages + job prospects just went up ..

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I have watched 80% of World Cup games since 1986 .. people have no clue the aura he commanded in his peak years ..haven’t seen anyone like him

[90s Football @90sfootball]

Diego Maradona doing Maradona things!

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History has so many examples where empires were destroyed by devaluing their currency to fund external wars / internal conflicts .. reducing silver content (Roman), printing (Song), replace gold/silver with copper (Tughlaq), confiscating gold for paper (Yuan)..

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@ericweinstein You seriously believe 1 million active H1B’s workers would bring down wages of 33 million private sector STEM workers? You should push for the removal of conditions on the Kafala-style H1B, let employees have the ability to change jobs after a year .. let market set the wages

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80% of Silicon Valley companies would not exist, if US adopted strict privacy laws … there is no moat, only selling private data and behavior ..

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Around 4-5 Billion in revenue, 64 billion market cap .. not even sure if there’s a word to describe something bigger than a bubble ..

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Bloom Energy, $BE, earnings:

- EPS: $0.94, est: $0.67
- Revenue: $1.2 billion, est: $1.07 billion

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Crap .. looks like it was the bottom .. should have bought more $TLT

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My averaged down cost of $TLT now stands 78+ … think it still goes down .. at the rate it’s tanking. 69 might be the bottom 🤔

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@nntaleb Immediately software yes …robotics will be a slow adoption due to risk to life, property. >10 yrs rise of robotic, electrical, elecrronics, electro-chemists, applied math, control systems, and mechanical engineers, mostly providing independent closed ended systems / services

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@PalmerLuckey Always wondered, why any business leader would pay less to people who work for them (legal off-course). Must be so frustrating to these leaders, wish they could pay everyone 1.5 their current wage .. but just can’t .. awww

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@ericweinstein US was forced into science due to external pressure (WW 1-2, Space, Cold War). It made US a scientific powerhouse for over a century. Post Cold War and w/o competition, money disappeared and so did the passion.. we have to wait for an adversary to catch up first, then maybe ..

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@paulg Best way to become poor and suffer severe depression .. only 2/100 succeed .. not everyone is built or have capital to be an entrepreneur..

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I have a feeling that someone big is getting liquidated.. my guess is started End Aug - Start Sep..

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@nntaleb I guess shaming too… today I learned about 10 people I wouldn’t have cared otherwise

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A vast majority of Silicon Valley companies don’t make a profit (metric is revenue)..with high interest rates.. warm IPO market .. M&A down ...why not save capital by laying off employees and claim AI getting the job done more efficiently.. join them if you can’t beat them

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@nntaleb As an Engineer, and as someone who thoroughly disliked the work culture in the company I worked in. I can say 90% of the engineers knew what they were doing…disagree with “any profession”

Mistakes in some fields could be fatal, can bankrupt a company