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I like to recommend Ivan Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" as it gives a contemporary critical view of the nihilistic and utopian ideologies that shaped Russian intellectual discourse of the 1860s.

Iglesia El Rosario, located in San Salvador, is a beautiful Brutalist structure.

Japanese railway workers in 60's and 70's were issued the Citizen Homer Second Setting. It's big feature was hacking seconds (https://www.fratellowatches.com/citizen-homer-second-setting...). I'm fortunate to own one of these.

I would also recommend Red Dead Restoration (https://www.youtube.com/@RedDeadRestoration). The creator occasionally dips into ASMR territory but the restorations sometimes double as chemistry lessons.

There is no need to eject when creating custom modules and the API for writing modules is fairly decent. Not entirely painless but miles better than a vanilla RN approach. We make extensive use of development builds and it's the feature I value the most - no need for Firebase or TestFlight for testing a branch.

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That Dealbook interview seemed more of a "We don't know what we're talking about so we can't ask you the hard questions" thing.

I think this is very good analysis with respect to Twitter. I suppose I'm really interested in how firms do their free speech vs. profitability cost-benefit analysis with respect to markets and environments where speech is restricted. For example (and I'll admit this is a glib argument) I am curious how Musk would reconcile his free speech absolutism with Tesla being active in China. Open to hearing thoughts on that.

But an even more practical test - will a16z be buying ads on Parler?

From the same discussion: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...

I'm curious why these discussions sidestep the fact that a company has a fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder value. It is understandable, from a shareholder perspective, to not want your investment's brand next to potentially unsavory content. It seems that there is a real and unresolved tension between a culture of free speech (which I wholeheartedly endorse) and modern-day capitalism.

Right, it's less draconian than outright prohibition and while the illicit trade will surely exist, for most people the default bias will (probably) be there.

Probably an unpopular proposal, but higher taxes on alcohol?

I wouldn't describe it as a particularly "progressive", "neo-puritanical", or "fringe" belief. Tyler Cowen advocates for abstaining from alcohol. While Matt Yglesias doesn't go as far as abstention, he does support higher taxes as a means to curb consumption, both as a way to balance budgets and curb some of the nastier public-health side effects. There's a public policy conversation to be had here.