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Who stopped doing so? It's basically one of the terms used most often when referring to Russian aggression since the war started?

Not unlikely.

"Things are the way they are."

Seriously.

I am shocked! The CIA and the FBI? The bastions of liberty and justice?

Especially if it's run by Sam Altman.

I remember how maglev was supposed to be the future when I was growing up but most European projects went way over budget and were eventually scrapped so I'm really happy to see that the Chinese finished this thing and that it actually works and delivers in terms of speed.

This feels so much more futuristic than boring tunnels.

I don't know about this take. I'm not sure how serious you are about it, but imagine a web without Javascript. Perhaps we'd all be using proprietary abominations such as Java or Flash today, not knowing what would've been possible with a more open, albeit somewhat clunky, programming language that's supported by every browser.

Almost never did, to be honest, but I'm sure I missed out on a lot of interesting stuff because of it.

You're right, it's definitely fishy and his claim doesn't seem to hold up. According to Wellfound (previously Angellist) Brave was seed funded by Founders Fund with 4,5mil USD, which brings them close to owning 10% of Brave, though possibly with some dilution, because Chinese company Qihoo 360 provided 2,5mil USD in seed funding in 2015 already. I don't think it's likely that any "[...] first floor engineers at Brave" have a bigger equity, if I'm not completely misunderstanding how these equity valuations work.

It's definitely suspicious. Since I'm inbetween moving browsers from Chrome to Brave right now, I'll have to dig deeper into this and maybe switch to Firefox again. Though Mozilla has their own issues.

Sigh. Thanks for your reply!

Definitely, Thiel is a capitalist psycho, no question about that.

We seem to have different definitions of "logical". That's ok.