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Given the sensitivity on 5G, I'm not really sure Apple or Broadcom ever really had a choice.

Various regulators probably wouldn't let Apple use 5G components produced outside of a [TBD democratic ally of the US]

Do you have a sense of what the % increase in total energy is? As in what is the denominator for the +300 terawatt hour figure?

Human migration (under various situations / stresses like famines) has been studied in economics, sociology, etc..

There are also studies about generational poverty, medical literature on helping people recover from traumatic conditions, etc..

Not to read any bad intent in your comment, but there also have been studies about social darwinism that have a long track record of problems. I think people do still do studies about genetic inheritance etc., but it's probably impossible to draw society-level conclusions without data.

Are there any licenses that are generally permissive, but prohibit certain programmatic, law enforcement, government, etc. usecases?

It'd be interesting legal territory if someone has tried this already.

If the ads systems still actually work, Twitter could theoretically be pretty profitable without much headcount.

IMO there's no way those profits last more than a quarter until everything breaks. But yeah, maybe it is technically profitable tomorrow.

The Oversight Board has overturned Meta’s original decision to remove a Facebook post comparing the Russian army in Ukraine to Nazis and quoting a poem that calls for the killing of fascists

My understanding is that Alameda was a market maker, which should have less exposure to down / upswings.

What kind of bets was Alameda making? Why would it need so much leverage?

I understand why loaning money to Alameda could be rationalized a risky, but not sketchy move (if Alameda posted collateral, paid reasonable terms like anyone else would, etc.).

I wonder how many CIA employees work at any of the top 20 US companies. Ex-CIA employees probably also work at every tech / industrial / health / oil company in decent numbers?

This seems like a potential red herring.

I think we have to tolerate a certain amount of irrationality from shareholders.

If you bought a $100k home which then dipped to $80k during Covid, would you accept an unsolicited bid of $90k?

It's reasonable for some people to take the bid, since you could arguably buy another comparable house for $80k and pocket the $10k difference, but I think a lot of other people would reasonably choose not to.

(I'm not totally sure if this logic scales to board rooms / billions of dollars, but curious to hear thoughts.)

Independent != Unbiased!

Facebook, of course, can hire biased independent fact checkers. At least Facebook is not 100% determining truth of everything on their own.

Theoretically, the main point here is that Facebook has an independent fact checker program, and some of those fact checkers rated Russian media posts (which would lead to a big scary overlay and a reduction in views)

I'd guess they would have used some other excuse to block Facebook sooner than later anyways though.

I don't think I've gotten an actual misinformation / hate speech / etc. recommendation from Youtube, Facebook, or Tiktok.

On Facebook, I see potentially divisive posts from friends with very different political views. The difference with TikTok is that those friends don't post content.

I think if you explicitly seek out problematic content you can end in a rabbit hole on any large algorithmic app.

do you have a reference to the US helicopter / DEA claims btw?