But as with US industrial production in WW2, ultimately it is what happens in above-the-API safety, what the Zoom-classes do, that will turn the tide in both below-the-API wars: against Covid, and against whatever the demon being fought in the strife is. https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1246567982932742144?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1246567982932742144 …
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Even in the worst conflicts there are inevitably better and worse places to be. If you happen to be in one of the better places you could of course rush to the frontlines. Possibly you can be of use there. There’s people doing that. Kudos. I’m not one of them.
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But possibly you might be the one to discover a decisive tide-turning factor because you have the safety and security above the api required to bring the right kind of imagination and boldness required to turn the tide.
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For eg, the war against U-boats sinking shipping in the Atlantic was basically won by scientists in labs developing codebreaking tech and radar. Lots of examples like that in history. They didn’t risk being killed by torpedoes. Yet their contribution proved decisive.
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a bit of a risk curve isn't it? like we are invariably taking more risk than the people who pay us, it's just a different kind of risk
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