Venkatesh Rao

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Conversational account. Writing @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. Hail threadthulhu 🐙

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Tweet Feb 17, 2022

1/ There are no other constitutional rights in substance without freedom to transact Being meaning to write this for 6 months, but the Canadian response to the trucker protests is illustrating this so vividly, that today is the day.

by 6529

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Book Nov 1, 2001

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

by James C. Collins

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Book Mar 1, 1999

Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

by Michael A. Hiltzik

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Tweet Jan 1, 2022

Happy new year! Today, a mini-tweetstorm of some of the things I've said and written over the past decade, and what I think about those subjects today.

by Vitalik Buterin

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Tweet Nov 13, 2022

$TWTR capital structure thread 🧵 Elon had commitments for $13 billion in credit facilities to help finance the Twitter buyout They are shown here. $12.5 billion was likely funded at close with undrawn $500mil revolver 1/ twitter.com/EnergyCredit1

by O&G OG

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Tweet Oct 26, 2022

THREAD 🧵 I see CBDCs are trending again, so I thought I would offer some insight and context to the whole story. How did this idea even come about? What are they good for? Are you getting the full picture? (I will probably keep adding to this thread

by Izabella Kaminska

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Tweet Jun 27, 2022

Perceptions of neural nets over the decades... A thread. [1/30]

by Michael Wooldridge

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Article Mar 17, 2022

Ideas of India: Where Did Development Economics Go Wrong?

by Shruti Rajagopalan and Lant Pritchett

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Movie 2017

The Death of Stalin (2017)

by Armando Iannucci

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Book Sep 27, 2016

Time Travel: A History

by James Gleick

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Movie 1999

by Dean Parisot

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Article

Worse Is Better

by Richard P. Gabriel

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