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18 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The number of new billion-dollar startups is collapsing in China at the same time it’s exploding in the US
I wonder if this is a factor fortune.com/2021/06/08/chi…
(Editor’s note: the x-axis is flipped for some reason, so read the chart from right to left.)
“Beijing officials called Wang in after the food delivery mogul posted a millennium-old poem regarded by many as implicit criticism of the government, according to people with knowledge of the matter. They warned him to refrain from courting the spotlight”
finance.yahoo.com/news/china-ord…

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18 Jun
Warning lights are starting to flash red for Intel in the chip market ImageImageImage
Our industrial champions are not looking great as of late... Image
FWIW the stock market seems to believe the new Intel CEO will be able to right the ship Image
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17 Jun
The free and open internet is under attack by authoritarians all around the world.

How can liberal democracies defend the internet while creating a set of rules that mitigates harm?

New piece with @calebwatney @Maxjb & @andrewjb_ exploring this question:
innovationfrontier.org/defending-the-…
The Chinese Communist Party has blocked Western internet companies from accessing their domestic market for years.

Now, others are following in their footsteps.

Nigeria banned Twitter for deleting a tweet from the president.

India raided Twitter's office in New Delhi. Image
We can't return to the libertarian days of the early internet (nor would we want to).

But leaders need to defend and promote the values of the free and open internet, while taking targeted measures to address privacy concerns, hate speech, and foreign interference in elections. Image
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1 Jun
Mandating “all-in” pricing would be a pro-consumer policy win.

Even well-meaning companies are forced to play games with adding on fees at the end of checkout because if they don’t they’ll lose market share to companies that do.

This is exactly what happened to StubHub.
wsj.com/articles/stubh…
Here’s what happened when StubHub tried to do “all-in” pricing on its own: ImageImage
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10 May
This debate is over, right?
Replies:

"Confirmed cases is an irrelevant statistic"

"It would be good to see actual death totals"

"Hospitalizations & deaths would be a better measure than limited testing"

"I don’t give a shit about covid cases. Not relevant statistic for the profound loss of civil rights"
The cumulative deaths chart really puts things in perspective.
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29 Apr
Content moderation at scale is a really hard problem
theinformation.com/articles/spoti…
My previous work on content moderation, free speech, and digital platforms 👇
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24 Apr
Not The Onion:

“EU proposing to regulate the use of Bayesian estimation”
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/04/22/eu-…
Can’t believe I missed the obvious “EU proposing to regulate use of obscure maths theorem” joke

h/t @mr_james_c
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