Why do people think Mr. Thiel supports a Muslim registry?
Has he ever indicated that?
Because he backed a candidate who sometimes says dumb things in order to get votes from certain groups doesn't mean he himself supports the full rhetoric.
Parties are coalitions. Not everyone who is a Democrat can be accused of supporting every dumb statement or bad position from Clinton or Pelosi.
There was more evidence from your comment that you did indeed claim such a thing, than there is evidence for Mr. Theil supporting a Muslem ban.
Which is the problem with the original post that unnecessarily politicized an inherently non political article, eliminating value of any surrounding discussion.
It was not witty, not sharp, and contributed nothing while taking a great deal away.
Yes. The minute that SV becomes a growth-obsessed low value creation social-responsibility ignoring echo bubble where opinions are valued on the net worth of the person holding them, we're all screwed.
It's too bad to see the thread steered away from the entreprenurial topics covered by the article and into a tired political flamewar.
Whatever political disagreements we might have with the author, that's no reason to cheat ourselves out of learning from his expertise as one of the most successful entrepreneurs and investors of our age.
I really don't see his perspective on a lot of these.
I don’t think we’re living in an incredibly fast technological age. - ..speaking on innovation in fields outside of computing.
I agree that the pace of tangible improvement in some fields (eg construction) has not been as fast as others, but a lot of things have been changing fast. Think of simple manufactured goods. Chairs, plates, etc. The labour efficiency or just end-user price and choice is far better today compared to a generation ago. For a lot of goods (eg clothes) most of the cost to the end user happens between factory door and checkout. We could be doing a lot better at that, but the actual process of turning sunshine, water & air into t-shirts and washing detergent is not stagnant. This happened during a period where China's annual addition of low cost employees to the global pool kept average wages and efficiency low. Labour efficiency would (will) be even higher as their wages rise.
Progress is complicated. But I can't see how he comes to his conclusions. Maybe I'm missing some context.
Due to globalization, which one (as Thiel does) could argue is not a sustainable source of intensive progress, but just basic labour arbitrage with an expiry date and zero sum implications long term.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 81.8 ms ] threadAlso with the canonisation of Mr Thiel around this place it's handy to put his statements in a proper context.
If you think as I do there isn't much to admire about him TBH.
Because he backed a candidate who sometimes says dumb things in order to get votes from certain groups doesn't mean he himself supports the full rhetoric.
Parties are coalitions. Not everyone who is a Democrat can be accused of supporting every dumb statement or bad position from Clinton or Pelosi.
Which is the problem with the original post that unnecessarily politicized an inherently non political article, eliminating value of any surrounding discussion.
It was not witty, not sharp, and contributed nothing while taking a great deal away.
That is a highly inaccurate description of "this place".
Please don't make up generalizations about HN to score rhetorical points. That's reliably a marker of a bad comment.
Sorry, not constructive at all...I just had to.
Whatever political disagreements we might have with the author, that's no reason to cheat ourselves out of learning from his expertise as one of the most successful entrepreneurs and investors of our age.
The human tendency toward partisanship is holding all of us back.
Please don't create accounts to break the HN guidelines with.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
Turning the Methane Deposits into a business would be nice.
I don’t think we’re living in an incredibly fast technological age. - ..speaking on innovation in fields outside of computing.
I agree that the pace of tangible improvement in some fields (eg construction) has not been as fast as others, but a lot of things have been changing fast. Think of simple manufactured goods. Chairs, plates, etc. The labour efficiency or just end-user price and choice is far better today compared to a generation ago. For a lot of goods (eg clothes) most of the cost to the end user happens between factory door and checkout. We could be doing a lot better at that, but the actual process of turning sunshine, water & air into t-shirts and washing detergent is not stagnant. This happened during a period where China's annual addition of low cost employees to the global pool kept average wages and efficiency low. Labour efficiency would (will) be even higher as their wages rise.
Progress is complicated. But I can't see how he comes to his conclusions. Maybe I'm missing some context.
Flagging privileges have been abused, too.