The real reason America is losing the race for global dominance

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

How do you know you’re a Cold War baby? You’re watching the trailer for Netflix’s _House of Dynamite_ and next thing you know you’re ugly crying at your desk like a baby in some kind to total surprise PTSD flashback trigger thing. Good lord that’s going to be a powerful movie.

One thing that’s always struck me from reading history: many horrible dictatorships were created in broad daylight as their elected officials handed over their own power, willingly. Rome to its emperors, Germany to Hitler, so many weak/self serving officials abdicating power. Stunning to live in now

If you are a startup intending to sell software to enterprises you should allocate at least $150k/yr in hard costs and about 1 developer-quarter of FTE yearly for security related software, lawyers and auditors you otherwise would not have a need for. Minimum. Just swallow it and get it over with.

Everyone saying they’re going to self-host infrastructure after the Cloudflare/GCP outage today clearly have never hosted infrastructure before (nor passed a SOC2 audit before) and have no idea the odds of doing it better themselves are vanishingly small.

Laws of capitalist labor:

1) the worst version of a thing a customer will accept for free is the floor on delivery for that thing

2) the cheapest process that can deliver more than epsilon above that floor will eventually be the only way it’s delivered

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Unless Trump's destruction of US science is stopped, this period will be remembered as the exact time American science was crippled and the global lead shifted to China, just the way the Nazis crippled German science in the 1930s and America became pre-eminent.

We need radical ideas, executed responsibly. Not milquetoast ideas executed responsibly, nor radical ideas executed irresponsibly. But the balance of the two. Which fits nowhere on our political spectrum. Which is the problem.

The strategy of neo-fascists and neo-Nazis is to divide and conquer.

At this time it is more important that we assume that others working towards positive social goals are well-intentioned and acting in good faith, even if we disagree with their strategic decisions.

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These are hella cool. Induction stoves without the need to require for 240v. They’ve got a built in 5kwh battery that charges on normal 120v. Probably saves a fortune on retrofit costs.

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Pretty disappointed about anyone dragging the Zillow climate risk scores. I don’t even have a horse in this race, but I have worked with lots of this data and all of it has caveats so pulling one and saying that means the data is garbage is not intellectually honest.

“True liberals are short-term pessimists, because they understand the dark side of human nature, but long-run optimists about human potential, which is why they believe in freedom.”

Love it.

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I built a cool thing this weekend and I didn’t even blow myself up!