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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. stucchio‏ @stucchio May 12
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      stucchio Retweeted Peter Wang

      I thought this when I first read it. However, hidden among the political straw men is something very real - the hatred journalists and regulators feel for one guy who gets stuff done. Unrealistic as it is, we live in the world Rand described. Lets talk about the FDA. 1/5https://twitter.com/pwang/status/1260180088668270592 …

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      Peter Wang @pwang
      Shrugging about Atlas Shrugged (speaking as a reformed former sophomore College Republican) https://twitter.com/ghshephard/status/1260005499325558784 …
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    2. stucchio‏ @stucchio May 12
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      Recall Reardon Metal. First the regulatory authorities wanted to ban it on vague unspecified grounds but without any individual taking responsibility for this. But also Reardon should give it to them. Totally unrealistic, right? 2/5

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    3. stucchio‏ @stucchio May 12
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      Totally unrealistic that we'd have a global pandemic, then the regulators would ban new tech no particular reason. And once they can't do that they do their best to make it unprofitable to improve things by producing a vaccine/PPE/etc. 3/5

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    4. stucchio‏ @stucchio May 12
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      Similarly, imagine there's one rich guy who wants to fix communicable diseases like malaria, tuberculosis and coronavirus. Like a Rand hero he creates the "$Lastname Foundation". What would happen in an Ayn Rand novel? I think it would be this: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/07/29/against-against-billionaire-philanthropy/ … 4/5

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    5. stucchio‏ @stucchio May 12
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      There's a lot to criticize in Rand. John Galt should not exist as a (super)human. And you don't have to agree with the uber libertarianism she takes as tautology. But she has captured something important and worth thinking about. 5/5

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    6. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 May 12
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      I think I probably could have predicted “The FDA and CDC will continue bans on improperly paperworked lifesaving medical devices during the early stages of an epidemic” but them doing it while saying they were not actually medical devices was a sharply negative update for me.

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 May 12
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      And the best possible good faith explanation for the observed behavior is, if said out loud, something which is so fundamentally against my model of how liberal democracies should function that I find myself praying for total incompetence instead.

      7:29 AM - 12 May 2020
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        2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 May 12
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          (Peanut gallery: “Oh of course we knew surgical masks were, on a risk-adjusted basis, clearly worth using. We then ran the math and determined we would inevitably run out. So we allocated as many as possible to the medical system. We intentionally misled you as part of that.”)

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        3. stucchio‏ @stucchio May 12
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          stucchio Retweeted stucchio

          Honestly, this bit is the one piece I find most forgivable. They have a clear action that they believe will set into motion a chain of events resulting in the best possible outcome. And they did it. My contemporaneous thoughts:https://twitter.com/stucchio/status/1233777701539864578 …

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          People are getting pissed about this tweet but it's right. A mask is vital if you plan to get close to lots of coughing people. Since I'm not a real doctor I get to stay home and a mask doesn't help much. Simple probability follows: 1/5 https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/1233725785283932160 …
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        1. Baud'Dib‏ @blahblahblah9tn May 12
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          Replying to @patio11 @stucchio

          Walter Lippman covered this pretty well back in 1922.

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