I laid out my theory on Facebook and Libra on the orange site, for the ritual great downvoting. I think it's fundamentally about the weird situation of having an autocrat in charge of a $500B company. When Pharaoh develops a hobby, the Empire must follow. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20320516 …
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Surely Pharaoh wouldn't be making us build this enormous pyramid just to be remembered. There must be some diabolically clever secret plan!
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In defense of my argument, consider what Zuckerberg's peers are doing. One of them shot a car that he made into space. Another wants to beat him to Mars. Another has a secret bunker in New Zeland. Two more are working to hack death/prevent robot rebellion. These are big children.
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When we bring Shakespeare back to life, the Facebook person I want him writing a play about is not Zuckerberg, but Sheryl Sandberg. Grand Vizier to the boy-king!
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I stand by my analysis from two years ago. The problem is chuckleheads. https://idlewords.com/talks/notes_from_an_emergency.htm …pic.twitter.com/sWvTyVH66X
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I believe today's Libra hearings bolster my thesis that Zuckerberg just said "make it so" and the rest of the company has scrambled to build it. The fact that it's a shambles may reflect ambivalence in people lower down the food chain from the Great Leader
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More evidence that Libra is simply a planetary scale vanity project https://twitter.com/TonyRomm/status/1153450049483026433 …
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All of this is a huge lesson in what not to do for my upcoming roll-out of Pinboard FunBuxx
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Nonsense, shareholders get the votes they paid for.
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