It is a subtle thing. He is making some valid arguments. I mean who could argue that leverage/debt/credit is being abused? That is not exactly a new problem. It has been simmering for quite some time. And who in a…
Agreed. What if someone with Theil's resources "brute forced" some area of therapeutic development, like Gates did with vaccines? I say brute forced because the natural tendency of investment has never tended toward…
What if you are a policy maker, or someone poised to influence policy makers, that could affect the prospects for Silicon Valley and "Web 2.0"? I cannot take him and his arguments about "science" seriously because 1. he…
"go work on it himself" Amen. Some of his philanthropic efforts may prove beneficial to science. He could just be a quiet philanthropist. But these sort of PR pieces, even putting aside how annoying they are in terms…
Great idea for a post and great idea for a project. I have thought about something similar. Encouraging people to read code, by making it easier to do, is a worthy objective.
But the statement is not applicable to PayPal nor many of Thiel's "Web 2.0" investments. Yet it is used in the column as if it were. NB Section III. Do you understand?
"Leverage is not a solution for scientific progress." But neither is PayPal an example of scientific progress. It's squarely in the same category as credit. A way of separating people from their money. Science is about…
The coders who join these companies are not in it to do the right things (cf. the popular things), to make sound decisions (even if they are based on "old" thinking, like the notion of privacy, and appear to be boring).…
This a question I think about often. Like everyday. Here's a few tenative conclusions: 1. The best coders are not necessarily interested in the same things as people who start "Web 2.0" companies. 2. Many of these…
It is a subtle thing. He is making some valid arguments. I mean who could argue that leverage/debt/credit is being abused? That is not exactly a new problem. It has been simmering for quite some time. And who in a…
Agreed. What if someone with Theil's resources "brute forced" some area of therapeutic development, like Gates did with vaccines? I say brute forced because the natural tendency of investment has never tended toward…
What if you are a policy maker, or someone poised to influence policy makers, that could affect the prospects for Silicon Valley and "Web 2.0"? I cannot take him and his arguments about "science" seriously because 1. he…
"go work on it himself" Amen. Some of his philanthropic efforts may prove beneficial to science. He could just be a quiet philanthropist. But these sort of PR pieces, even putting aside how annoying they are in terms…
Great idea for a post and great idea for a project. I have thought about something similar. Encouraging people to read code, by making it easier to do, is a worthy objective.
But the statement is not applicable to PayPal nor many of Thiel's "Web 2.0" investments. Yet it is used in the column as if it were. NB Section III. Do you understand?
"Leverage is not a solution for scientific progress." But neither is PayPal an example of scientific progress. It's squarely in the same category as credit. A way of separating people from their money. Science is about…
The coders who join these companies are not in it to do the right things (cf. the popular things), to make sound decisions (even if they are based on "old" thinking, like the notion of privacy, and appear to be boring).…
This a question I think about often. Like everyday. Here's a few tenative conclusions: 1. The best coders are not necessarily interested in the same things as people who start "Web 2.0" companies. 2. Many of these…