[TheGuardian] PayPal co-founder says regulators envy industry’s success in US: ‘There are no successful tech companies in Europe’.
European regulators are clamping down on Silicon Valley companies because they are “jealous” of the success of the technology industry in the US, according to PayPal co-founder and investor Peter Thiel.
Speaking about the looming threat of regulation for these companies, Thiel said that the “threat is probably greater in Europe” and there are “good reasons and bad reasons”.
“The good reasons are these privacy concerns and the bad reasons are there are no successful tech companies in Europe and they are jealous of the US so they are punishing us,” he said at the Economic Club of New York on Thursday.
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Typical Europe. Can't do anything themselves, so they throw all the toys out of the crib and blame America. Why do we still call them allies? They're assholes.
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Personally, I'd love to see someone crush that bunch of pompous, spoiled brats in Silicon valley like a couple of bugs. Their silly-assed play time work spaces are ruining American business and the millennials that the internet are cranking out are just impossible, literally, to supervise train or lead.
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I personally don't feel much sympathy for silicon valley; they have an enourmous disdain for anyone who produces a physical product besides an electric car, up to and including the people who make the devices they use, but think they'll be able to grind everyone else to death and still make a bucket of money writing the software. And now they're going to be so shocked that China and the EU will be (or in the case of China, already has) erected barriers designed to make sure they control the software industry instead.
Guys? It wouldn't have hurt y'all that much to keep assembly lines for imacs and ipads here.
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I am completely over this concept that you have to entertain or whatever your staff...it used to be that you worked in a field because you liked the things that you did. Not ball rooms and bounce palaces and skateboard rooms to go and fire up your creativity.
That's why I like construction. People like to build things and the techy BS is only as good as what it can do to get that danged thing built
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After whorebama, go ahead. But never on Kim's turf
This is a one time thing or an all time thing.
Up to you Kim. You would look as a great leader one day when your people do not have to eat tree bark and their own new born to survive. It is my suggestion you take this opportunity.
Right now.
You have it right now and if you close it off, there will be a different end to this.
#2
Talk to him on Kim's turf and Kim pulls anything and you can be pretty sure the US will rally around Trump (or Pence) the way the US rallied around W after Sept 11 and North Korea will not survive. I'm sure lefties are whispering as much to Kim.
#3
No, NO, NO!!!
Going to North Korea will be seen in the region as 'giving Face' with Trump(USA) as the inferior party. Why bother when the North Koreans have already proven again and again that they are perfidious negotiators?
[Hot Air] Go figure that Heidi Heitkamp, who’s fighting for her political life in the very red state of North Dakota, isn’t keen on Her Majesty’s theory that Trump won all of America’s most racist, backwards-looking places.
Senator to CNN: Are we going to see some Hillary-related attacks ads from the GOP this fall? In a vacuum that would seem pathetic (and will be attacked as pathetic by Democrats, of course), as there’s no sense kicking a presidential loser. Sean Hannity’s nightly fixation on Hillary scandals has become a punchline for liberals on political Twitter, in the belief that she stopped mattering to everyone early on the morning of November 9, 2016. Various elements of her defeat suggested she might receive more than the usual amount of public sympathy for a losing candidate, too. She won the popular vote; she very nearly made history by becoming the first woman president; she endured the heartbreak of losing an election that the whole world expected her to win; and the guy who ended up beating her ain’t real popular these days. After the left’s anger at her for blowing a winnable race subsided, she might have enjoyed a boost in popularity. She could have been a somewhat effective figure for Democrats this year. In theory.
But in practice, Hillary is Hillary. Remember this poll from December?
[WAPO] We rarely portray Neanderthals, our close relatives, as telegenic. Museum exhibits give them wild tangles of hair, and Hollywood reduces them to grunting unsophisticates. Their skulls suggest broad faces, tiny chins and jutting brows. But to mock Neanderthals is to mock ourselves: Homo sapiens had lots of sex with Homo neanderthalensis. Neanderthal genes supply between 1 percent and 4 percent of the genome in people from homelands on several continents, from Britain to Japan to Colombia.
DNA from another human-like primate, the Denisovans, lurks in modern genomes, too. A molar and a chip of pinkie bone found in a Siberian cave provide what little information we have about this species. DNA extracted from the fragments previously revealed cross-species breeding. Yet a new study in the journal Cell shows the ancient hanky-panky did not stop in Siberia: Humans who traveled across South Asia mated with a separate group of Denisovans as well.
"This is a breakthrough paper," said David Reich, who studies ancient DNA at Harvard University and was not involved with the study. "It's a definite third interbreeding event," one that adds to the previously known Denisovan and Neanderthal mixtures.
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Since we're here and they're not, the half-breeds must necessarily have been in H. Sap bands. So either H. Sap went on spring break messing about with H. Nean girls and then returning to kidnap the result, or H. Nean girls were kidnapped into the H. Sap band, or H. Sap girls were impregnated by H. Nean men (and still remain in the H. Sap band). Which brings up the possibility that a H. Nean type, male or female, might have been in a H. Sap band. Needs must when the devil drives and Nean may have had to swallow his social standards.
Jean Auel, call your office.
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[Wash Times] White writers need not send their submissions to the Huffington Post.
In a series of tweets on Wednesday, Chloe Angyal, the popular site’s deputy opinion editor, said one of her goals this month was to ensure less than 50 percent of content was published by "white authors."
Ms. Angyal said she keeps close tabs on the races and genders of contributors to the opinion page and would like to publish more transgender and Hispanic authors.
I check our numbers at the end of every week, because it’s easy to lose track or imagine you’re doing better than you really are, and the numbers don’t lie.
#8
How does the Huffington Post get its income? Ads? 12-13% of the population is African-American. Having 50% of its writers being African-American is not a good business plan unless you are trying to cater to a niche.
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I suspect they feel having more black perspective will provide their white/lefty/privileged readers to feel as if they understand the plight of the African American community. What they'll actually get is a daily face full of anti-white bile that will turn even masochists away in time.
It couldn’t happen to a more deserving group. So much for the dream of an exciting website full of enlightening, invigorating prose. May the decline be expensive for all involved.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[TheGuardian] PayPal co-founder says regulators envy industry’s success in US: ‘There are no successful tech companies in Europe’.
[Wash Times] White writers need not send their submissions to the Huffington Post.
