>The more you pay, the shorter your runway.

The horror of asking a company to charge customers to finance their operations rather than running the VC treadmill.

I don't get how more founders don't realize it is in the VC's best interest to keep you on the treadmill, burning their money and giving away your equity.

Imagine how much the desire for Macs would collapse if they let people compile iOS / macOS apps on Linux.

The fact people tolerate or celebrate Apple's heavily restricted ecosystem is absurd. Apple is overly greedy and resting on their laurels.

>Imagine how much the desire for Macs would collapse if they let people compile iOS / macOS apps on Linux.

Probably not much after the latest M1 release.

Hm. Looked up the M1 because all I had seen was "low power consumption, lots of battery life" which I took as "Facebook machine".

Looks cool. Apple might be turning the corner from "lol, here's the same phone from 2 years ago but now with three cameras, give me $1,100"

>knowing first-hand of some screwed up lives plus collateral damage, some drugs might just be evil.

Criminalization and stigmatization cause more harm in the long-term than drugs do.

Are all drugs as innocous as cannabis or psilocybin? Gosh no.

Does criminalization and stigmization of drug use make the problem 10,000x worse? Very.

Imagine if the US followed Oregon's lead and decriminalized all personal use. Drug users can seek out help and get harm reduction (eg: needle exchanges, advice, etc) and get them participating in the medical system where we can help them out of addiction, no families will be destroyed because of a little weed (or heck, meth), we save a bunch of money on drug enforcement, we could close private prisons, etc.

I am not saying utopia, but maybe we should look at drug use as something besides a personal moral failing. No one wakes up and decides to be a drug addict... no one _wants_ to be an addict.

This idea that drug users are burn-outs who chose that life is absurd.

Being able to vote anonymously and without regard for being shamed by your neighbours is a feature, not a bug, and one of the last protections against democracy being hijacked by intimidation and mass groupthink.

I have plenty of beliefs I'm not ashamed of on a personal level, that I think are noble, wholesome, and just, that I sure as fuck don't want my employer knowing.

People are bigots. It's not just bad beliefs that are judged harshly.

Can you think of any situations in which non-secret ballots might cause undesirable effects?

The Soviet Union had a long tradition of non-secret ballots--and naturally virtually everyone voted for the Communist Party candidate [there weren't other candidates, but theoretically you could vote yes or no on the ones on the ballot].

> I am completely fine admitting voting for Biden, why he isn't my favorite and who I would prefer. I feel zero shame, you shouldn't either.

There are a lot of communities where you wouldn't be completely fine admitting you vote for Biden. Being allowed to vote for Biden anyway is a good thing, being forced to vote on what your peers voted in is bad.

Yeah, and good people have nothing to hide! Isn’t that right Alexa?

>I highly doubt a commercial company can argue for authority and sovereignty of a whole planet.

It doesn't seem like SpaceX is claiming Mars, just establishing that Mars isn't governed by an Earth country, which was already established by the Outer Space Treaty.