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Don’t forget that any trade deal with India will require us to give them more visas. I’d rather not pay them in visas and trade deficits. Let Modi see what terms he can get from Xi instead.
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America does not need more visas for people from India. Perhaps no form of legal immigration has so displaced American workers as those from India. Enough already. We’re full. Let’s finally put our own people first.
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How many John Ternus did we lose because of H-1b visa program..?
- Meet John Ternus
- CEO of Apple
- competitive swimmer
- No MBA
- Studied mechanical engineering
- had a minor in Psychology,
- Joined Apple as a engineer
- Kept climbing, one product line at a time, for over a decade
- Became VP of Hardware Engineering
- Promoted to Senior VP
- Led Apple's entire transition from Intel chips to its own custom Apple Silicon
- took over Apple Watch and helped ship Vision Pro
- Spent 25 years
- became CEO
- Unlike many tech CEOs, he's been remarkably low-profile for most of his career.
Engineer to CEO ..what a Journey 🔥
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hey just quickly dipping into this historic days-long second revolutionary war to say “traitor” and “treason” are different words, and paul’s conflation of the two was obviously done on purpose — first to frame you as violent and unreasonable, and then to pivot away from questions like “what specifically are you suggesting” and (to a lesser if more amusing degree) “why is a billionaire expat tweeting about american labor from his british countryside castle” to a more comfortable (if purposely nebulous) question of semantics
This person being a gatekeeper to the American venture ecosystem is interesting.
Y Combinator is a top of funnel filter. In sales and marketing, people often treat volume as the primary objective because they assume the funnel is deterministic: if X deals, then Y exits.
In sales you avoid pure volume plays because junk leads waste your team's time, and churn-and-burn sellers leave money on the table.
I wonder if YC has bought into some deterministic model so much they’ve fallen into a similar trap.
If you're burning through people, you constantly need new fuel.
Makes you wonder if they need immigration just to keep feeding the machine.
So what exactly makes someone a traitor, according your definition of the word? Is every American who lives abroad and is a political moderate a traitor? Because in that case you're talking about millions of people. Are they all traitors?
Is Jessica a traitor, too, for example? She moved when I did and shares roughly the same political opinions. Or have I done something special that makes only me a traitor? And if so, exactly what have I done?
You're going to need to be evasive when answering that one, unless you want to go full-on unhinged and call millions of people traitors, so please be precise.
Palmer is the living proof the American system should ignore foreigners and develop locals.
If you run a Monte Carlo on his life 99 out of 100 he was going down a path to journalism.
How many Americans have we failed to cultivate?
Are we still getting the feature block a whole country?
Or will it kill the app because too many PR bot farms located there
Incredible. This reminds me of “mission accomplished”
6 years later, all the money plowed into homeless made nothing better.
Lack of prosecution and less police make every corner if the city victims to nuisance crime and worse.
We did it!! Austin City Council just reduced APD's budget by over $100 million *and* reinvested resources into our community's safety and well-being. Tens of thousands of you have called, emailed, and testified. You made the impossible into a reality. #blacklivesmatter
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India is using its diaspora as a weapon
The country is aware of this, the immigrants are aware of this
They are not acting as individuals, it's tribal warfare at one billion person scale
The single most important piece of information to help understand the Indian situation is that 4 percent of India’s economy is Indian workers in other countries sending money back to India.
Indias top export is people. They treat people like China treat steel, they dump it in your market and completely disrupt natural market dynamics.
If we don’t understand this as a nation-state exploit of the US labor market it will never be fixed.
In trade agreements normal countries want to sell you corn or copper. India negotiates how many people they can dump on your economy.
Impressive stuff
> be Leopold Aschbrenner
> german kid, Columbia valedictorian at 19
> get hired by OpenAI's superalignment team at 21
> write a memo about security being a joke
> get fired in april 2024 for "leaking"
> lol ok
> two months later drop a 165 page essay called situational awareness
> predict AGI by 2027
> essay goes nuclear in sf
> patrick collison, nat friedman, daniel gross slide into the dms
> start a hedge fund in september
> name it after your own essay because why not
> everyone else is buying nvidia, microsoft, openai
> you buy power plants, fiber optics, bitcoin miners, ssd makers
> $254m → $5.5b in 12 months
> you are 24
> mfw the company that fired me made me a billionaire
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I’ve just finished reading Gad Saad’s book Suicidal Empathy.
It ranks, along with Chris Rufo’s America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything and Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay’s Cynical Theories, as the best take-down of the lunacy at the heart of the wokeist philosophy.
For Saad, empathy—in itself a perfectly decent trait—has become so grossly exaggerated that it threatens truth, reality, and justice.
Cases in point abound: so they won’t feel bad about themselves, we’ll allow biological men to compete in women’s sports and crush the dreams of thousands of young women; so as not to undermine the self-esteem of minorities, we will permit unqualified candidates to have positions in universities and the corporate world; so that everyone might feel included, we will characterize the meritocracy as “white privilege,” etc.
As I was making my way through Saad’s book, I kept remarking the sharp distinction between empathy and love.
To empathize is to enter profoundly into the experience of another and to endeavor not to hurt that person’s feelings. But to love is, as Thomas Aquinas taught, “to will the good of the other.”
As I said, in itself and all things being equal, empathy is a good thing. But it is not the same as love, which, depending on circumstances, can very much involve hurting someone’s feelings.
When a professor gives a student a “C” as an honest reflection of his work, he might well be insulting him, but he’s also telling him the truth and perhaps even urging him to try harder.
When, in the Confessional, a priest tells a murderer to turn himself in to the police, he’s undoubtedly making that person’s life more uncomfortable, but he’s also willing the man’s good.
Any decent parent knows that showing real love for her children means engendering all kinds of bad feelings in them.
In light of this distinction, we can understand why Jesus didn’t say, “have empathy for one another,” but rather “love one another.” And why St. John the Evangelist didn’t say, “God is empathy,” but rather “God is love.”
It occurred to me as I was reading Saad’s book that one reason Wokeism has seized the consciousness of so many in the West is that Christianity has faded as a cultural force and Christians themselves have forgotten what stands at the heart of their faith.
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If given enough time, the rules will always be gamed in order to subvert the game itself and defeat the purpose of the contest in the first place.
This is inevitable because the rewards are too great. The point is never to have a good time or even to entertain the audience. The point is to win. So the rules will be maliciously “followed”, even as the animating spirit behind them dies.
This tweet isn’t about basketball.
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You have fundamental ideas that are wrong. A major part of your perspective relies on the premise that coaches and organizations are good at player evaluation. They aren't.
To mitigate uncertainty and win now, they choose a 25-year-old’s current state over an 18-year-old’s future state, effectively deleting the development runway.
The trap is that people only see true positives and false positives. They never see the false negatives, the kids who get cut and vanish. Yet elite development is entirely about working in the tails, meaning minimizing false negatives is what matters most.
When a system ignores this, it discards the next Harry Kane.
Imagine if Michigan could have filled its backup QB slots with older NFL dropouts, leaving Tom Brady completely off the roster. Nobody bats an eye. They still have Griese and Henson, completely oblivious to the fact that they missed a 7-time Super Bowl champion.
Believing you can cleanly select talent rather than creating the environment for talent to emerge is poor thinking. It is a broken logic loop reinforced by the exclusion itself: "All the people we excluded never got anywhere." The reality of failure is fulfilled by the exclusion.
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Shocking to learn an ethnically homogenous petrostate with a $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund and restrictive immigration policies is able to provide its citizens with a generous social safety net
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“This is the best US team of all-time”
In 2002 the US beat Portugal in the group stage, eliminated rival Mexico in the Round of 16 and had Germany on the ropes in the quarterfinal. If not for Kahn and the screwjob missed handball, they’re in the semis.
The USMNT talent funnel is a disaster.
At 12, the US has 250,000 players: ten times Belgium, and more than England, France, Germany, Spain, or Italy. By 22, it flips.
What happens in that decade?
For those who don’t know, we effectively lock in national pools at 15. The pipeline freezes. The same kids we pick at 15 are mostly the same kids we have in the program at 22.
In all sports, scouting, especially at a young age, has a massive bust rate. So how do we have such a static national pool?
If England missed Harry Kane, imagine what we miss.
@USMNT @dhelfrich21