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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • I wonder if some of these execs see the potential long term decline and self-isolation of the US and consider having to move out of the US altogether in order to be able to maximize international profits as those are probably expected to grow. With that said, the equation is different for say Nvidia and Meta. While Nvidia could move to a China-friendly destination, even to China itself, and become a blessed corporation able to sell around the world, the same won’t be possible for Meta. Meta’s product depends on the local population. They can’t operate out of Singapore and sell a good around the world and into the US. And both the European and Chinese markets have much stronger regulation on Meta’s operation than the US. So if they move out of the US, there’s no upside as EU and China won’t let Meta go wild with people’s data. I guess that points to a distinction between firms for which the large userbase is the product and firms which make a traditional product, be it software, service, or hardware.











  • She goes out to talk about topics she’s not well versed in without doing enough research and says outright wrong stuff. In general, scientists who specialize in a field are often no better than a layman in the fields they have no background in. She’s not the only one who does this. Some scientists merely share uninformed opinions. Others do it for money. They build a persona that is imbued with trust by their existing expertise then they use this trust to keep pumping out other material for profit. That’s Sabine. Also Jordan Peterson. No they’re not the same but the scheme is. Laymen don’t know any better and absorb the material, correct or incorrect, since they don’t have the background to recognize when it’s bullshit.