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>Everybody loses.

Huh? Trump singlehandedly bringing TikTok back for tens of millions of malleable voters. Sounds like a pretty huge victory for him!


We have an archiving institution for stuff like that. Relying on a private business to maintain a catalogue is nonsense.


Loom is not for teams who use Microsoft 365.

It's for teams that exclusively use Slack, Notion, Miro, Vercel, Mux etc


Fair point.


Well, for one, categorizing the people he'd have to work with at Atlassian as "NPC Coworkers"


> the usual "crypto will upend global financial systems/crypto will change the world" hype is conspicuously missing

That hype is nothing compared to the current hype, the idea that the US Government is going to buy a significant amount of Bitcoin to create a "strategic" reserve.

Every hype cycle gets bigger and bigger even as past ones never amount to anything


He's clearly implied he has some priorities vis-à-vis the government:

1. Relaxing Regulation for autonomous driving

2. Relaxing Regulation for rocket launches so he can get to Mars while he's still living.

3. Contracts for SpaceX wrt to space exploration and Starlink usage


>"Our nation was founded on the basic idea that the people we elect run the government"

The irony of these two guys starting off their piece about how they plan to reshape the government with this...


To everyone voting it was clear, that Elon would get this role. So he was part of the elected package. Probably, that was also a deciding factor for many voters.


> The irony of these two guys starting off their piece about how they plan to reshape the government with this

Did you read the next sentence or did you accidentally omit it from your excerpt? It says: "That isn’t how America functions today."

Then, "Thankfully, we have a historic opportunity to solve the problem."


I think Doordash realized people in middle America would pay to get Taco Bell and McDonald's delivered while Grubhub never really moved out of big cities.


States like New York and California can become Carbon Negative on their own if they wanted to.

The Federal government is not needed for liberals to take the lead on this, but the mediocre center left Democrats who run everything in Blue States refuse to lift a finger.


They've been great for US Stock holders, which basically comprises most of the Upper and Upper Middle Class.

In fact, so good, people think anything buy 10-20% yearly gains on assets is bad


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