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I have HPPD and it is kind of fun and not at all distressing or problematic for my life. Cool part of how my brain works.

Doesn’t require it but it is ok if that happens.

Change by definition requires breaking established rules and is how societies grow. Normal part of the process.

Yep my thoughts too. He writes like a juvenile philosophy student who has attended one too many gender studies class. The insecurity and mediocrity seeps from every sentence.

she will, and she will be heavily funded. i'd love to invest in her next thing.

he is a genius and one of the most talented people in the world. just watch this video and check out his charm, communication skills, ability to speak: https://www.youtube.com/watc…

right, everyone can build one of the world's best-known brands and become a billionaire. super easy, no talent needed.

just watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgp-CM-gQik&feature=youtu.be the guy is an absolute genius, master of charisma and communication, one of the best speakers i'…

Because he’s a very talented entrepreneur and that’s who investors want to bet on

Ahh, so nice that we developed cryptocurrencies with the explicit goal of making it impossible for UN trade bodies and other centralized actors to halt their rise :) But good luck …

well, the thing is existing institutions are completely fucked. governments simply do not represent us and there is no trust for them. we have not opted into these systems, they do…

I’m not ignoring this. You are making the moral assumption that just because someone has a better negotiating position in a situation there is a moral obligation to intervene in so…

Interesting. I must have missed the point when unions became about voicing concerns. Last I recall, creating unions is an attempt at monopolizing labor to extort the employer. When…

An extremely efficient and competent corporation doing everything it can to deliver goods cheaper and faster to hundreds of millions of people while creating value for tens of mill…

Unfortunately what you refer to as a “problem of currency losing value” is a feature for a government, not a bug. They want this because it allows them an additional path to taxati…

He’s not saying society “should” be structured this way. It is more about that it “already is” and “will be even more so.”

Glad that someone is talking about the reality of how things are. The death of the nation state and other hierarchical organizations and of broad-based democracy is written in the …

A lot of people are excited about that. For good reason too. The very idea that two people exchanging private value should be subject to “democratic oversight” is a totalitarian ni…

very consistent with my sense. it has become much easier to raise money from US VC while being based internationally in the last 12 months

There’s something quite un-human about this idea of just being content and accepting and not standing out. Yes this is what a lot of meditators aim for and it likely means less emo…

Yep. The reason was that geography based communities were relevant. That reason is getting out of date. And it is important to remember that nation states are a step in an evolutio…

A lot of what they are saying is that governments are losing legitimacy and ability to deliver what people want, and this will shift governance and power to other institutions that…

Legitimacy is generally not an objective thing. So there’s not much of a point in arguing here further.

i'm not in the US for that reason. and very many people are not following laws.