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More that Amazon can take away your books. Don't need to burn them, just remotely remove them.
Then more applicable advice seems like it could've been "Everyone should go to their Kindle library and download their ebooks as soon as they purchase them."
the "current thing" refers to everyone bandwagoning on supporting ukraine when they didnt do anything to help them for like 10 years and there were tons of people warning "putin is going to invade someday."
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As a person being surveilled, censored and my ability to travel impaired, how would you suggest I best frame the argument? While you're at it, I'm rather tired of the value of the money I saved being destroyed by lifetime high inflation rates. Thanks for helping me frame my arguments better.
Frame it as a percentage of the total population.
He is talking about all time high levels of censorship if you count the number of humans being censored. I've been banned and unbanned 4 times (130k subs on youtube.) An ex president was removed everywhere. Tons of people are banned every single day, with no recourse but to go to empty alt-tech sites where no one watches. You are also at all time high surveillance. You're also at all time high freedom of movement res…
We are also at record numbers of humans speaking their mind freely, record numbers of humans keeping secrets, and (if we stop ca. pre-2020 or project current trends a year or two in the future) record numbers of humans moving between countries. Maybe "number of humans" is not a good metric.
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> He seems like a caricature of a Silicon Valley programmer who got lucky and made a bunch of money who now thinks that makes him a genius … okareaman typed into a web browser, the very technology Andreesen became wealthy pioneering.
Right, Andreessen wrote it himself without the help from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and it was a totally new idea since three other GUI browsers didn't exist and he never saw the source code for these other browsers that didn't exist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViolaWWW
He is talking about all time high levels of censorship if you count the number of humans being censored. I've been banned and unbanned 4 times (130k subs on youtube.) An ex president was removed everywhere. Tons of people are banned every single day, with no recourse but to go to empty alt-tech sites where no one watches. You are also at all time high surveillance. You're also at all time high freedom of movement res…
We are also at record numbers of humans speaking their mind freely, record numbers of humans keeping secrets, and (if we stop ca. pre-2020 or project current trends a year or two in the future) record numbers of humans moving between countries. Maybe "number of humans" is not a good metric.
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I would have some reverence for the man. This isn't someone who "just got lucky". We was working on the forefront of the internet with Netscape IPOing in 1995 and being bought by AOL for 4 billion in 1999. He then went on to found another company that had a $1.6 billion exit just 4 years after the AOL acquisition. He then ran a VC that went from 300mm to 2.7bn in three years. I would say he knows something about the…
I was responding to OP's question about how to react to the statement "Buy physical copies of any book you plan to read in the future. Do it now." I don't think OP needs to worry about it because Andreessen likes to be a cool kid on Twitter. If I need a physical copy of a book to read it then I have bigger problems than figuring out a way to read a book. Btw - I made a bunch of money in the dotcom bubble of the late…
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We are also at record numbers of humans speaking their mind freely, record numbers of humans keeping secrets, and (if we stop ca. pre-2020 or project current trends a year or two in the future) record numbers of humans moving between countries. Maybe "number of humans" is not a good metric.
As a person being surveilled, censored and my ability to travel impaired, how would you suggest I best frame the argument? While you're at it, I'm rather tired of the value of the money I saved being destroyed by lifetime high inflation rates. Thanks for helping me frame my arguments better.