And this position conflates free speech with consequence free speech.
You have the right in the US to openly be a Nazi. I also have the right to call you a fucking Nazi for it. I am also free to remind you what the US did to Nazis in WW2 and in the Nürnberg trials. And I can remind you that anyone that thinks that the US did the wrong thing back then, well, is a Nazi enabler.
So, you see, if you join a club that calls for the extermination of whole races - you yourself should live with the consequences of that decision. Unlike being black, gay, etc being a Nazi is a choice. You choose to try to send women and children into gas chambers.
So FUCK Nazis. Punch em, hunt them, kill them. Just like ISIS and Al-Quaeda. Same forever alone squad of men who can't get any.
Not everyone at Apple is a coder.
Not every job is the same.
Note how designers and architects work in teams, in open work spaces.
I have seen communication in a PM group go to shits because of a move from an open layout to a walled cubicle garden. PMs were avoidig their cubes, sitting in the cafeteria as they enjoyed the "coffee shop hum".
does it not strike anyone here a bit odd that only white men are rushing to defend the manifesto guy?
isn't any employee that needs to write a 10 page manifesto about anything on the wtf side?
and now a practicing psychiatrist from the midwest who really likes to pontificate on the web about anything rushes in to gloriously defend the rights of the eternally oppressed - men. who can't just shut the fuck up and compete. no, it has to be endless verbal diarrhea.
Exactly the same as explaining to a paying, non-technical customer why you haven't found the bug at the core of his issue yet and thereby given a fixdate is not possible right now.
It's clearly broken, so why the hell is it not simple to know whats wrong and how to fix it?
And this is for software you've written and you have the full source code for.
below the marketing language this is exactly those 2 points. guess it is easier if you work in enterprise, this business speak is a different language. pretty verbose, low information density.
Nothing is scarier than birth-defects. Radiation causes very visible birth defects.
Hence people are very, very scared of radiation. And rightly so.
A windpark will not cause disfigured babies. Hence wind is better.
And: Nuclear is the most expensive energy source, by FAR. safety, waste, clean-up - super, super expensive. dismantle a wind park and it is gone, poof. dismantle a reactor and now you have a new problem.
Also very hard to weaponize wind or solar. Blow up a wind park and well, the wind park is gone. Steal a rotor and now you have a rotor.
he works for a16z, you'll see it reflected in their investments - or not.
overall this is content marketing for a16z, right along their great podcasts, etc. attracting start-ups and good candidates to work for them.
being a visible, renowned think tank is not a bad place to be, if you have the money and patience to execute along that line. it is amazingly hard work to churn out quality content throughout the year.
At the heart of it is piss-poor basic education. Math, reading comprehension, decision making, critical thinking.
Budweiser is the king of beers, it says so on the label.
The World Series is the world championship in baseball.
etc etc etc.
However - this is great for the overall economy. The US is breeding the perfect customer, that can be sold anything at any time.
You can see it in startups too, you can sell product based on a powerpoint, a "vision". 9 out of 10 with nothing behind it. It would never, ever, fly in Germany for example. People there assume a scam before anything else.
So, shit for individuals, great for the overall economy. Pick your poison.
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