Yeah agreed. This is like a post equivalent to reddit comments. I don't want a new post high on the feed every time some famous person leaves twitter.
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
This pretty squarely does NOT fall under "On-Topic". The only reason it's even being upvoted is because it has "PG" in the title. if it were like, Kanye West, we wouldn't even have it _submitted_, let alone upvoted here.
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line; Thomas Jefferson may have had other
notions but de Tocqueville was our
prophet. Or take American cuisine: it has
never added a sauce to the world's
palate, but our fast-food industry
overruns the planet.
PG left because of censorship. Now he’s back. He’s a smart considered guy so it’s interesting to ask why he went back. We all have to make similar decisions, and one way we do that is to look to leadership.
There are always ethical compromises engaging with the real world, and there are few hard and fast rules to follow.
If PG is reading, I’d love to hear the thinking behind going back.
I get what you are saying, but let’s cut it out with the ethical, free speech and other aspects of the Twitter dilemma. Leaving or staying is the same virtue signaling that most people were fighting against during the last few years.
PG likes to do that as much as any other person. I recall a random tweet telling something like “all smart people I know are moving their wealth from bitcoin to ethereum”. This is crying for attention, unfit for such an accomplished person and this great website.
