Nick Denton

I was once Valleywag, bane of the oligarchs. Now I trade securities as well as tech information. I have skin in the game.

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Isaac Asimov: "The fall of Empire is a massive thing and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative...

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@echetus @Italians4Brexit Pp

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@tphuang That changed quick!

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@Noahpinion Quite moderate overruns in the scheme of things. Spare your sympathy for the Anglo projects like California’s or HS2 in the UK. https://t.co/1QZezRh9Vx

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@Noahpinion @AccelCurious Please expand.

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@FistedFoucault @LastDaysofRome Ukraine, which also brings a proven military and dynamic arms industry.

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@Noahpinion The US is in a proxy war with China — and Europe and Russia are their respective proxies. There, fixed it for you.

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@daveg Seems more likely to me that there will be different tiers. Fast cheap ad-supported answers, for the masses, and subscription services for the more expensive queries. As it ever was.

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@Noahpinion Average merchant fees for WeChat Pay and Alipay are about 0.5%, compared with 3% for traditional US credit and debit cards. Might be boring to you, but all these US oligopoly rents add up. Helps explain why US GDP is so high, while people feel so stretched.

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@daveg Tons of companies have tried subscription services throughout the Internet era. But — with the exception of Netflix and a few others — it was the ad-supported services that achieved massive scale.

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@pegobry_en The old blogosphere was one big tent, for sure. Elizabeth was friends with @balajis back in the day. And Andrew Breitbart threw the party for Gawker’s LA offshoot. And then new lines were drawn.

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@daveg I read somewhere that developers need the commitment of rails. It’s the state putting skin in the game.

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@charlesmurray @antlionai All this subterfuge. What a waste of mental energy.

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@pegobry_en @Noahpinion @Steve_Sailer argues that many film directors are inherently right-wing. https://t.co/o7zCaE28ze

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@daveg Alternatively, when does US meme money begin to spill over into companies like Nio or even Alibaba?

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@Noahpinion This the Pax Americana you’re talking about? Pictured: crater ponds in Cambodia. Yeah, I think Southeast Asia is doing fine without y’all.

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@curtis_yarvin So an executive president with a 7-year term, as France had in the late 20th century. Would that do it?

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@pegobry_en @esaagar More likely he was a source than an agent.

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@daveg Don’t we just end up with databases, again? (With natural language queries and fuzzier results.)

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@Noahpinion Cuius regio, eius media socialia. It’s the only way that the dissension can end.