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My advice for succeeding on Twitter:
Never reply to other people’s tweets or otherwise engage with anyone
Instead, minimize the time you spend on Twitter and go do inherently interesting, important work that no one else can do
there is also a video of @travisk where he explains how it started because they couldn’t find a cab at @leweb indeed. But I think @gc says they had the idea before and only decided to start it in Paris. I am not sure.
I thought the second one was in Paris waiting for a cab ride at Le Web. Or at least that was the @uber origin story for the longest time. twitter.com/gc/status/1610…
I can’t be less excited about the idea to read or watch designs and films made by AIs. The more AI content made the more I believe in human creations. twitter.com/PeterDiamandis…
I wonder if we drilled really really deep sensors into earths crust if it would give us a min or two heads up. Would be helpful in evacuation. Does anyone know the math on this??
Quake Prediction Says "Signal Just Hit," Warns Of Potential Big Earthquake From San Francisco To LA https://zerohedge.com/markets/quake-prediction-says-signal-just-hit-warns-potential-big-earthquake-san-francisco-la…
I would I like half my taxes to be allocated by the government and half chosen by me, allocated to the best performing departments improving infrastructure and well-being. Things don’t be need to be all or nothing… half and half is great default strategy
It’s 2023. That means the largest, most profitable corporations will have to start paying a 15% minimum tax.
The days of the wealthiest companies not paying taxes are over.
Maybe obvious but in case useful to anyone: until yesterday my TL was all Elon, pseudo startup advice & fortune cookie tweets from accounts I might be interested in but definitely wasn’t. Finally clicked the stars & switched TL views to accounts I actually follow. Problem solved.
Today we’re launching LiveKit Cloud, the result of a year of talking with devs building live video and audio products with our open-source WebRTC stack. Here’s what we learned:
I recently came across data on who we spend our time with over the course of our lives.
The insights are simultaneously inspiring and depressing.
Here are 6 graphs everyone needs to see: