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    1. #TestAndTrace Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 11 Mar 2019
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      One hard thing about Twitter is differentiating between ideas you're really confident in and ideas you're just throwing out there. For the former, I just cite lots of data and links. But as for the latter, making people realize I'm just being speculative is really hard.

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    2. #TestAndTrace Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 11 Mar 2019
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      #TestAndTrace Smith  🐇 Retweeted #TestAndTrace Smith  🐇

      Example of idea I'm really sure about: The late 60s and early 70s featured rapidly increasing social divisions despite very low levels of immigration.https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1105179102007386114 …

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      1/I'm so exasperated by the idea that low immigration produces social and cultural cohesion that I'm going to write a thread about how nuts this idea is. When was the foreign-born population at an all-time low? The 1960s and 1970s. How cohesive were they? pic.twitter.com/XfYIFyS9Tj
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    3. #TestAndTrace Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 11 Mar 2019
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      #TestAndTrace Smith  🐇 Retweeted #TestAndTrace Smith  🐇

      Example of idea I'm not sure about at all: Engineers in Silicon Valley are feeling ennui due to the lack of a big transformative new IT product.https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1104910381217046528 …

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      #TestAndTrace Smith  🐇Verified account @Noahpinion
      I noticed that an increasing number of my engineer friends don't seem very excited about working in the tech industry anymore. I asked one why this was true, expecting him to give a politics-related answer. Instead, he said "Tech isn't creating the Next Big Thing anymore."
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      Andres Freund (Pol)‏ @AndresFreundPol 11 Mar 2019
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      From my POV (techie, but paid to work on open source rather than company products), it's more that the glorification of ad based business models is wearing off. Lot easier to work for organizing-world's-information-don't-be-evil google, than the real private-data-is-valuable one.

      4:11 PM - 11 Mar 2019
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        2. Andres Freund (Pol)‏ @AndresFreundPol 11 Mar 2019
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          Coming down from the "everything's great, we're fixing the world" (which was naive from the get go, but it is/was hard to resist because it's sold as that *everywhere*) just means you're going to be disappointed by reality.

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        3. Wendy Jacobson‏ @whazittoya 11 Mar 2019
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          Ah. The growing up years. #disappointment

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