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by browserman 4y ago
For those unaware, OP is referring to a crackpot theory most recently advanced by the journalist Graham Hancock. The idea of sophisticated pre-ice age civilizations is universally regarded by the archaeologists and experts to be roughly on
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by browserman 4y ago
Neither the sale of Zip2 nor the success of PayPal had anything to do with Musk. He was simply lucky to be in the Valley with a lot of his parent's money and connections at the right time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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by browserman 4y ago
Note that this CSPI is NOT the non-partisan Center for Science in the Public Interest, but rather the far-right think-tank "Center for Study of Partisanship and Ideology".
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Today’s CEOs are essentially carnival barkers (2021)(prospect.org)
75 points by browserman 4y ago|58 comments
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by browserman 4y ago
Ah, I understand now, I didn't realize I'd been going back and forth with an out-and-out fascist. Don't think there's much more point to this!
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by browserman 4y ago
You're right, it turns out what the parent meant to suggest was only that they should be tortured.
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by browserman 4y ago
And other societies developed social norms which sacralized and ritualized the usage of such drugs, or which totally normalized them. Again, the idea that there is a single social expression of what constitutes 'humanity' is a ver
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by browserman 4y ago
Yes - and whenever those people could, from the dawn of history, they were also getting drunk, high, and tripping balls.
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by browserman 4y ago
How on earth do any of those texts have any ability to inform our idea of 'what it is to be human' compared to the actual weight of evidence of what humans have been doing since the dawn of history? What a bizarre non-sequitur!
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by browserman 4y ago
I guess we should go back to throwing those guys in prison, for the decorum.
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by browserman 4y ago
The idea that there is one "thing you are supposed to do" that defines human experience is ironically a pretty modern reactionary mindset. They were smoking cannabis in ancient Scythia - it's "what you were supposed to d
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by browserman 4y ago
Yes, I think he likely regrets his previous public positioning and is adjusting. I think, as I said, this is part of a broader shift in the tech-ocracy towards more explicit anti-labor and anti-regulatory positioning, and I think the potent
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by browserman 4y ago
That he also donates to Democrats does not seem at all fatal to my speculation, as many avowedly right-wing (in the economic sense), anti-labor, anti-regulation businessmen donate freely to both parties. You seem to have some very confused
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by browserman 4y ago
I think 2018 is exactly the kind of thing he is trying to avoid; I think you are underestimating the impact vigorous enforcement of labor and securities laws would have on his business prospects. Elon and his companies of course also spend
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by browserman 4y ago
I don't think it's a straight quid pro quo or that he's on a secret Signal chat with Trump or anything. Just part of a broad alignment of the tech oligarchy with the Republican Party on anti-labor and anti-regulation lines.
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by browserman 4y ago
Tesla's AI engineers can't even solve their own problems, why do you think they could solve Twitter's?
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by browserman 4y ago
After considering it for a bit, my opinion is that it's mostly a political ploy; if he buys it, he'll bring back Trump et. all, expecting that once the GOP is back in power, they'll make any trouble he may be expecting with t
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by browserman 4y ago
I'm interested in this assumption that because you do not understand something, no one else must either. Is this a heuristic you apply to all fields of knowledge, or just business law?
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by browserman 4y ago
This is sort of exactly the thing I mean. Even if you don't agree with me that Elon is a serial liar, I don't think you can dispute a more generous characterization of him as having a long history of optimistically interpreting th
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by browserman 4y ago
I agree that he is great at talking.
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by browserman 4y ago
HN also has fairly strictly enforced guidelines. Do you think dang et. all 'don't believe in free speech'?
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by browserman 4y ago
I don't have 'anger' towards him, although I certainly have an opinion about whether he is trustworthy or genuinely civic-minded, as I do about many other incredibly powerful political-business operators who collectively set
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by browserman 4y ago
The most bizarre part of this whole saga has been the legions of online commentators who evidently take Elon at his word when he says he is trying operate in the public interest, or that his actual aims are what he says they are. It seems p
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by browserman 4y ago
No euphemism, I meant he was physically turning himself red with online rage
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by browserman 4y ago
He's red and mad about posts. Spending too much time on Twitter will drive even a disciplined mind insane.
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by browserman 5y ago
"The Kennedy Center receives an annual federal appropriation in recognition of the Center’s role as the presidential memorial to John F. Kennedy. These funds pay only for the operation and maintenance, and capital repair and restoratio
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by browserman 5y ago
The Kennedy Center is legally required to sustain itself through private funding and ticket sales. It also offers plenty of free performances.
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by browserman 5y ago
There have occasionally been (completely wishful) proposals in the U.S. to have a team's IP (the name, logos, record, etc, basically the whole team's 'identity') belong to a city or a public corporation representing the