Y’all don’t get the context of Balaji. He is an Indian Engineer, which means he is the product of a hyper competitive system focused on brilliant individualists who are super comfortable with theoretical constructs of utopian perfection. Outside of syllabus, his only reading material consisted of equal parts American…

You can be an arrogant privileged douchebag that’s out of touch with a huge swath of humanity if you want to. I’ll be a decent human being that acknowledges reality instead.

Oh my god, dipshits like you are the same people who think that other industries need to be government regulated. You haven’t the slightest clue what regulation is, what it does, or how it’s provided, government or not. You also have no clue what the word “reasonable” means.

There were and still are private limo/tlc companies. I still use my local car service. Uber’s innovation was its app, not the car service industry as a whole. They just managed to disguise their even crappier business model based on exploiting their workers as a hip, techy alternative to cabs. Meanwhile, it’s…

I think the point of the article as that those two things listed didn’t do anything to fix regulations or monetary policy. If anything they benefited the 1% and just added to the mess for the rest of us.

I mean yes, I agree with you in that uber is super easy, cheap, and comfortable to use. However, I have from day one refused to use their service on my own. I’ll ride with friends in a uber, sure, but alone I’m taking a genuine taxi or lyft. What uber has done to avoid paying out employment benefits and everything…

Back in 2014, Srinivasan made headlines because he was very vocal about his belief that Silicon Valley should secede from the rest of society.

Cool. We can still mock him for having a message that hurts the average person and benefits the rich.

Just like the Amish live nearby, peacefully, in the past - imagine a society of Inverse Amish that lives nearby, peacefully, in the future. A place where Google Glass wearers are normal, where self-driving cars and delivery drones aren’t restricted by law, and where we can experiment with new technologies *without*…

Great article Eve. The title drew me in and I assumed it’d be in that style. But no, you wrote a well thought out critique of not only this tweet, but it’s author’s other crazy ass ideas. Thanks for all of that! Fuck that tweet and double fuck it’s author!

Yep, I’ve noticed that and thank you so much:)

Yep, I’ve noticed that and thank you so much:)

Sure if one has enough money they can consider all kinds of “alternatives”, while most people work in their situations.

Your hero may have an Indian name, but he fucking Ghandi. And ain't no free markets being stymied by that which provides for schools, roads and first responders. Your mind is diseased, Ms. Rand.

Smart billionaires (like Warren Buffett) are against all this nonsense because nice stuff/protections for the poor gives the poor more money to give to the billionaires (which actually makes the billionaires richer). Srinivasan should think about how good Libya’s economy was when Gaddafi had all the cash (or consider…

imagine a society of Inverse Amish that lives nearby, peacefully, in the future. A place where Google Glass wearers are normal, where self-driving cars and delivery drones aren’t restricted by law, and where we can experiment with new technologies *without* causing undue disruption to others...

Robin Williams didn’t die.

It’s mighty dusty in here this afternoon...

And what does Peter Pan look like? Wasn’t he played by ...... oh .......

From what I understand (which is hard to do when following Piers Morgan’s train of thought) that he’s upset about how rude it was for King to call out the Russian because every athlete dopes. Except, he didn’t understand the part where Lilly King was throwing shade because she doesn’t dope, doesn’t need to dope and…

I think Mack Horton calling out SunYang and now Lilly King calling out Efimova is great.