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Michael Galpin
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alum. Sportsball fan. Guitar hero wannabe. It used to be so fun, now everything just feels dumb.
Silicon ValleyJoined March 2007
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Zaid Jilani
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Q from Republicans: Why can’t we compete in cities? Even after dysfunction and corruption why aren’t we winning elections? Why don’t the voters there trust us? A:
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Matt Walsh
@MattWalshBlog
The people of Chicago are self-destructive morons who want their communities to collapse. They want to live amidst crime and filth. There's not much we can do about that except to let them suffer the way they apparently want to suffer. twitter.com/JennaEllisEsq/…
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I was lucky enough to meet Bob while at a tech conference years ago. He was such a gracious person, even offered me some tips when I interviewed at Google. What a horrible tragedy and a very sad day.
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San Francisco Chronicle
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The creator of Cash App and former chief technology officer at Square was killed in a stabbing Tuesday in San Francisco, according to people who knew him and police. trib.al/xxhKfPN
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Garry Tan 陈嘉兴
@garrytan
If you interacted with Bob Lee on Monday or Tuesday in SF, or if you have video or were in the area of Rincon Hill Tuesday morning, please send it to the SFPD. Do not publish it, send it directly to SFPD, details below.
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Brooke Jenkins 謝安宜
@BrookeJenkinsSF
I want to extend my sincerest condolences to Mr. Lee’s family members & loved ones for his loss. We do not tolerate these horrific acts of violence in San Francisco. At this time no arrests have been made. Anyone w/ information is asked to call @SFPD Tip Line at 1-415-575-4444. twitter.com/sfchronicle/st…
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Garry Tan 陈嘉兴
@garrytan
Bob Lee's death is a tragedy and huge loss for the tech community and for San Francisco. We must remember his life and works. We know so little about the circumstances and it's too early to speculate what happened yet. That area is filled with cameras so we will find out soon.
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Michael Galpin
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"sucked it dry" = farming btw
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California Sun
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California’s Central Valley was once a watery landscape of lakes and marshes. Then we sucked it dry. californiasun.co/californias-ce
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Michael Galpin
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Of course everybody tries to make Angel Reese/Caitlin Clark about race or gender, because that's how we treat everything so we don't have to think. Not this time though! This was basketball, and basketball is the one sport where you get to have fun.
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Fund the police and Joe said it with authority
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦
@Noahpinion
Biden's crime bill would increase the number of police officers in America by 100,000 -- the same number that the 1994 crime bill increased it by. Not sure how people think Biden is some sort of leftoid. whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/
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Reed Galen
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Excellent news! We shouldn’t name military bases after traitorous losers.
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NYT Politics
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Fort Pickett, an Army base in Virginia named after Confederate Gen. George Pickett, was renamed Fort Barfoot on Friday in honor of Col. Van Barfoot, a Native American World War II hero. It was the first of nine bases set to be renamed this year. nyti.ms/40zSCxX
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Michael Galpin
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I probably read 50 books in elementary school just to get free personal pan pizzas. What a time to be alive.
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Super 70s Sports
@Super70sSports
Remember when Pizza Hut pan pizzas were basically a goddamn culinary delicacy? They’d bring them out in a real fucking skillet that was piping at about 700 degrees Fahrenheit right as your third song kicked in on the jukebox after you’d played a game of Galaga. We were kings.
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Michael Galpin
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Actually we weren't afraid to drive, so we would drive over to our friends' houses and belch, etc.
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Alice
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And didn't you guys also spend two hours a day on rotary phones with your friends making belch noises and ranting and being bored? Because that sounds a lot like online social life only much lamer
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GrowSF
@GrowSF
Let's elect a Supervisor that cares about your safety dumpdean.org
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Dean Preston
@DeanPreston
Today, the Board of Supervisors voted 9-2 to give the SF police department yet another budget increase, this time another $25 million. I voted against the supplemental budget request. We need oversight of SFPD, not another blank check. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/san
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦
@Noahpinion
Buy American is so incredibly dumb. If you want to show you're not buying stuff from China, just do friend-shoring instead. noahpinion.substack.com/p/friend-shori
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Alec Stapp
@AlecStapp
“Buy American” rules are kneecapping broadband deployment. According to providers: - “a lot of the parts it takes to build out broadband aren't made in the U.S.” - “it would be impossible to onshore manufacture the necessary components to meet the program's four-year timeline”
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King of Pop >> AK-47 should be taught in schools. Except Florida probably.
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Slava Malamud 🇺🇦
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Here is a newsflash, moron. We did the same exact thing in the Soviet Union. We were taught to assemble AK-47s. We had grenade throwing in gym class. We had to do military march contests. And USSR is dead because the West had Michael Jackson and blue jeans. twitter.com/CollinRugg/sta…
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Eric Vishria
@ericvishria
As we work through our 2nd 48+ hour power outage of ‘23, I’m reminded of an under discussed reason the gas stove ban is so dumb: having our lighting, heating AND cooking dependent on an already unreliable electric grid. Increasing single points of failure is not a good idea.
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Michael Galpin
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However you feel about DEI and free speech, we can all agree that a graph with one axis starting at 0 and the other starting at 3.5 is a horror. Kind of amusing though how it implies that if a college with conservative students actually existed, it would have a negative number of… Show more
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Eric Kaufmann
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Universities with more woke students have more administrators to enforce woke ideology. Fascinating analysis by @data_depot twitter.com/data_depot/sta…
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Kristie De Peña
@kdpindc
We invest in educating thousands of international students every year. Then we shut them out of our workforce. Canda's wised up where we haven't.
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Niskanen Center
@NiskanenCenter
NEW DATA: Between 2017 and 2021, Canada poached ~45,000 skilled workers who went to college in the U.S. We're educating some of the world's best talent only to lose them. And we have our broken immigration system to thank for that. niskanencenter.org/previously-unr
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Michael Galpin
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I was 6 and my reaction was the same as Luke's. I spent the next 3 years hoping it was a lie!
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Mr. Chau
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Was watching a big Star Wars non-movie media compilation, always funny knowing that Empire Strikes Back was super controversial at the time. Some fans thought Vader was lying to Luke lol
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Sar Haribhakti
@sarthakgh
Standardized tests are the least inequitable filtering mechanism for lower income, smart kids Great news for rich kids who can write flowery essays about going on volunteering trips to Asia and getting high status internships using family connections
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New York Post
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Columbia becomes first Ivy League school to permanently drop SAT/ACT testing requirement trib.al/5eiCzSc
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Michael Galpin
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Co-worker replies to one of my code review comments with "ML-suggested edit applied". Did I just get compared to a chatbot?