FRANCE IS FOR CRIME, AGAINST FREEDOM François asks a good question. My answer is: France doesn't care about crime, they care about control. 1) First, Macron hasn't wiped out crime among 70M Frenchmen with all the power of the French State. So it's completely unreasonable to

Turns out e2e encryption protects the platform and its founders/employees even more than its users

The UK has become really welcoming

Grok imagen is good x.com/i/grok/share/v…

With a little courage and vision, there would be a surprising opportunity for Italy to win real business, given what is happening in Germany (whole economic model based on cheap energy from Russia and exports to China collapsed), France (egomaniac authoritarians in power), UK

90% confidence interval is so wide that non-farm payroll releases are rolls of the dice

What's not to like about it?

Incredibly similar to the Inflation Reduction Act.

Stunning chart, substantially fewer IPOs in 2022-2024 than even 2001-2003

Gonna need lots of solar panels

Remarkable how quickly Xi’s crackdown on tech founders has killed off China’s startup sector. apple.news/AdEXMjXfERI-LY…

I have reflected on, in the context of AI, what the subjective experience of encountering much stronger intelligence must be like. We all have some insight if we remember our early childhood! The experience is confusion and frustration. Our internal models predict the world

Must read re VC in China

e/acc and growth enthusiasts rejoice, for the biggest threat has been removed

Now that Margrethe Vestager and Thierry Breton are out, it would be amazing to make a U-turn and get business-friendly commissioners. Ursula von der Leyen Moving from arbitrary fines to a framework of EU subsidies/tax breaks (moving away from fragile Ireland/NL tax avoidance loopholes) would go

Patrick Collison Steven Rattner Really telling chart. Fiscal policy surely played a role. Here are the changes in general government gross debt per capita for 2019-22: USA: 32% Canada: 20% Italy: 12% France: 5% Japan: 10%* UK: -2% Germany: 6% *Japan data is 2019-21. Source: OECD (USD PPP)

Israel created a fake pager company, years ago, anticipating that terrorist groups might switch from cell phones to pagers in the future. They made real pagers, and just waited for the right client to come around. Incredible foresight.

I wonder what Italy could do to be more competitive... Gilberto Pichetto nuclear can't come fast enough

Thiel 2009

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