Silicon Valley Disrupts Its Own Ass

[Mo]

https://venturebeat.com/2019/06/25/boos ... y-to-cars/

It’s been done

[dead_elvis]

I was hoping the plan was going to be re-fueling *while driving*, a la in-flight airplane fuel tankers. My other dream is to be able to order McDonalds from the freeway, and have the delivery car drive up alongside, everyone rolls down their windows, and they hand it over at speed, won't need to exit.

[Warren]

I was hoping the plan was going to be re-fueling *while driving*, a la in-flight airplane fuel tankers. My other dream is to be able to order McDonalds from the freeway, and have the delivery car drive up alongside, everyone rolls down their windows, and they hand it over at speed, won't need to exit.

I don't know. At a certain point, technology gets good enough you never leave the house.

[Eric the .5b]

I was hoping the plan was going to be re-fueling *while driving*, a la in-flight airplane fuel tankers. My other dream is to be able to order McDonalds from the freeway, and have the delivery car drive up alongside, everyone rolls down their windows, and they hand it over at speed, won't need to exit.

But will they have the Chik-Fil-A sauce hookup?

[Tuco]

I was hoping the plan was going to be re-fueling *while driving*, a la in-flight airplane fuel tankers. My other dream is to be able to order McDonalds from the freeway, and have the delivery car drive up alongside, everyone rolls down their windows, and they hand it over at speed, won't need to exit.

What do you do when the girls need to pee?

[lunchstealer]

I was hoping the plan was going to be re-fueling *while driving*, a la in-flight airplane fuel tankers. My other dream is to be able to order McDonalds from the freeway, and have the delivery car drive up alongside, everyone rolls down their windows, and they hand it over at speed, won't need to exit.

What do you do when the girls need to pee?

Hole in the floorboards?

[dead_elvis]

I was hoping the plan was going to be re-fueling *while driving*, a la in-flight airplane fuel tankers. My other dream is to be able to order McDonalds from the freeway, and have the delivery car drive up alongside, everyone rolls down their windows, and they hand it over at speed, won't need to exit.

What do you do when the girls need to pee?

Hole in the floorboards?

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[Ellie]

Adult diapers are also a proven option for long road trips.

[Kolohe]

Stellar reference, Ellie.

[Tuco]

Remind me not to go on a road trip with you all.

[Mo]

Peter Thiel makes zero sense. Also, I love how he gets on his high horse about interesting technology (and how social media isn't it) and furrows his brow about state surveillance while he's made the bulk of his money from Facebook and Palantir.

[Jadagul]

Peter Thiel makes zero sense. Also, I love how he gets on his high horse about interesting technology (and how social media isn't it) and furrows his brow about state surveillance while he's made the bulk of his money from Facebook and Palantir.

I'm a little weirded out by the way Tyler Cowen is enthusiastically boosting that speech on Twitter when every part of it seems pretty bad.

[nicole]

Peter Thiel makes zero sense. Also, I love how he gets on his high horse about interesting technology (and how social media isn't it) and furrows his brow about state surveillance while he's made the bulk of his money from Facebook and Palantir.

Pretty sure he's not even complaining about state surveillance, just state allegiance.

[nicole]

Peter Thiel makes zero sense. Also, I love how he gets on his high horse about interesting technology (and how social media isn't it) and furrows his brow about state surveillance while he's made the bulk of his money from Facebook and Palantir.

I'm a little weirded out by the way Tyler Cowen is enthusiastically boosting that speech on Twitter when every part of it seems pretty bad.

Extend that to half of the right-ish side of my feed

[dhex]

Probably because the self hating politics thing makes them giddy.

[Mo]

I like how all these libertarians have gotten on board with, "Actually, free trade is really bad," once Trump won.

[Painboy]

I like how all these libertarians have gotten on board with, "Actually, free trade is really bad," once Trump won.

Like who?

[Painboy]

Peter Thiel makes zero sense. Also, I love how he gets on his high horse about interesting technology (and how social media isn't it) and furrows his brow about state surveillance while he's made the bulk of his money from Facebook and Palantir.

There's so much bad in that I honestly wouldn't know where to begin.

[lunchstealer]

I like how all these libertarians have gotten on board with, "Actually, free trade is really bad," once Trump won.

Like who?

Does the H&R commentariate count as libertarian?

[Eric the .5b]

I'd read it, but Medium can't even keep a damn web page up. (I really dislike Medium.)

What's the latest batshit thing to be presented as What All Libertarians Really Think in Team Blue venues?

[Painboy]

I like how all these libertarians have gotten on board with, "Actually, free trade is really bad," once Trump won.

Like who?

Does the H&R commentariate count as libertarian?

Well they're something alright. But I was more curious about specific authors and intellectuals. Has there been a philosophical change I hadn't noticed.

[lunchstealer]

Obvs the OG quote was WRT Peter Theil*, money quote:

China has been stealing our intellectual property and conducting cyber-warfare, and China is an unusually dirty country dirtying up the planet. Trump’s 25% tariffs on China should be reframed as a carbon tax.

I haven't seen anything out of the Reasonoids or Cato types.

*Who had that sort of 'people assume SV types are libertarian unless they come out as leftists' thing going, but was never formally a libertarian big- or small-L.

[Mo]

I like how all these libertarians have gotten on board with, "Actually, free trade is really bad," once Trump won.

Like who?

Like Peter Thiel.

[Mo]

Obvs the OG quote was WRT Peter Theil*, money quote:

China has been stealing our intellectual property and conducting cyber-warfare, and China is an unusually dirty country dirtying up the planet. Trump’s 25% tariffs on China should be reframed as a carbon tax.

I haven't seen anything out of the Reasonoids or Cato types.

*Who had that sort of 'people assume SV types are libertarian unless they come out as leftists' thing going, but was never formally a libertarian big- or small-L.

Reason has been calling him a libertarian since they started talking about him, including when he was pimping Trump. I guess because he hates college and was into seasteading.

https://reason.com/2016/07/21/peter-thi ... -futurist/

https://reason.com/2011/01/23/we-are-in ... gly-liber/

[Painboy]

Obvs the OG quote was WRT Peter Theil*, money quote:

China has been stealing our intellectual property and conducting cyber-warfare, and China is an unusually dirty country dirtying up the planet. Trump’s 25% tariffs on China should be reframed as a carbon tax.

I haven't seen anything out of the Reasonoids or Cato types.

*Who had that sort of 'people assume SV types are libertarian unless they come out as leftists' thing going, but was never formally a libertarian big- or small-L.

Reason has been calling him a libertarian since they started talking about him, including when he was pimping Trump. I guess because he hates college and was into seasteading.

https://reason.com/2016/07/21/peter-thi ... -futurist/

https://reason.com/2011/01/23/we-are-in ... gly-liber/

Fair enough. Although Reason does tend to call anyone who is mildly anti-government a libertarian. How else are you going to have a "libertarian moment?"