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posted by Snow on Monday November 28 2016, @09:23AM   Printer-friendly
from the brain-drain dept.

In SoylentNews' continuing coverage of the aftershocks of the US Presidential election, it appears that tech will factor large in a Trump administration:

Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel is putting together a brain trust of Silicon Valley insiders to share ideas with the transition team for President-elect Donald Trump. But he's having trouble finding takers.

For the full story, consult the Washington Post article.

Some further tidbits:

Thiel, a libertarian who was shunned by his tech industry peers for being a Trump supporter, is pitching his personal network of entrepreneurs on the opportunity to influence an incoming administration that is somewhat of a blank slate when it comes to technology policy. Because Trump had so few ties to the world of tech, Thiel will have an unusually powerful influence on the new administration, the people familiar with his thinking said.

This much we already knew. Real estate development is ancient tech. Heck, Emperor Nero of Rome did it when he let Rome burn so he could build new condos! But there is resistance in the Valley of Silicon.

But in the liberal bastion of Silicon Valley — where Trump is despised and even admitting you're a Republican can hurt your candidacy for a job – that coveted opportunity has been fraught with challenges. And some people have turned him down altogether. Thiel declined to comment.

We may have reached the corporate defined limits of fair use, so I encourage one and all to read the complete WaPo article. I have not heard anything about an offer being made to The Mighty Buzzard yet, but it is in the range of possibility!


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by aristarchus on Tuesday November 29 2016, @06:20AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday November 29 2016, @06:20AM (#434369) Journal

    I know it's simplistic, but do we have to be so divisive over every goddamn thing in this world?

    We are talking about the Presidency of the United States of America, which, however much we wish it were not so, it a major world power.

    Can't the guys across the street from me, just be people?

    Do the guys across the street from you have billions of dollars to influence policy and support Trump? If so, I suggest either a pre-emptive first strike, or moving.

    Can't my friend from college who transitioned a couple years ago, again just be a person? It's certainly how I think of and interact with them. Isn't that what every one deserves? I'm happy to be enlightened on this if I'm off the mark.

    The entire "gay" thing is a rubber herring, something only used by heteros in their sick sexual activities. No, in fact, why do you think that jmorris and others bring this up? No one is hating on Thiel because he is gay. Some of my best Venture Capitalists are gay! See? No, what is hateful is that a very rich gay guy is supporting a president elect whose vice-president elect would throw him into hell for being gay, and since that is beyond human ability, perhaps throw him into a "homosexual cure" programs, except Peter has too much money. This is the hypocrisy that bothers the left, who tend to be bothered by hypocrisy even though it never seems to bother Republicans.
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    So, with the whole "gay" issue out of the way, what do you see coming from the fact that Thiel is picking the tech advisers for Trump? Good tech? Bad tech? Tech where there is a shitload of money to be made, whether you are gay or a former truck driver in Arkansas? That is the issue, where politics negatively affects tech, and this is where everyone with some expertise in tech ought to speak up, and rebel!

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  • (Score: 1) by mechanicjay on Tuesday November 29 2016, @10:52PM

    by mechanicjay (7) <reversethis-{gro ... a} {yajcinahcem}> on Tuesday November 29 2016, @10:52PM (#434720) Homepage Journal

    My reaction was only to the "Gay Culture" article in kurenai.tsubasa's reply.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 01 2016, @07:32AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 01 2016, @07:32AM (#435324)

    This is the hypocrisy that bothers the left, who tend to be bothered by hypocrisy

    Oh my god, I—I think you broke my humor. Please help, I can't lol anymore!

    • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday December 01 2016, @08:00AM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday December 01 2016, @08:00AM (#435335) Journal

      Oh my god, I—I think you broke my humor. Please help, I can't lol anymore!

      OK, I can help! Apply direct pressure to your loss of humor! Once you have done that, just think: Reagan grew the Federal Deficit more than any administration before him. Republicans, party of small government. George W. Bush even more, trillions on "discretionary wars", yes, Republicans, the party of fiscal responsibility. I did not break your humor, the hypocrisy of the Republican Party did that , and they are about to do it even more with a Trump Presidency. Just watch. I suggest, that for the treatment of your broke humor, you seek solace in the wings of the Blighty Musstard, or Libertarianism as we know it. It is the only non-broken refuge for Conservatives these days. It is of course totally unrealistic, juvenile and Ayn Randy, but that is better than being a liar, a hypocrite, and a fool that believes liars and hypocrites. So, good luck with all that.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 01 2016, @09:40AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 01 2016, @09:40AM (#435358)

        I'm not a republican or conservative. I think you missed the part where I was laughing at the left being bothered by hypocrisy.

        • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday December 01 2016, @09:55AM

          by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday December 01 2016, @09:55AM (#435361) Journal

          But I was laughing at you for laughing at that! Of course leftists are bothered by hypocrisy, just as they are bothered by oppression, discrimination, fraud, injustice, and Republicans! So if you laugh at leftists for this, you are not really not a Republican or Conservative. Could you be, possibly, a Nihilist? Just asking. . .

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 01 2016, @11:07AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 01 2016, @11:07AM (#435383)

            I'd say they're a little too bothered by oppression, discrimination and injustice; so much that some of them have to invent it when they can't find it anywhere. For example:

            • all the attacks on Muslims and racist graffiti that keep turning out to be 'hoaxes'
            • feminists with their "manspreading" and "mansplaining", "patriarchy" (while ignoring real patriarchies like in any place where Islam is a majority) and "teach men not to rape"
            • false rape accusations on college campuses which are okay because they "start a conversation"—because "rape culture" is so rampant they apparently need non-rape to prove it
            • the progressive stack
            • teaching kids original sin (being near the top of the progressive stack makes them racist)
            • teaching kids the only way to not be racis is to constantly think about race and compare themselves with each other on the stack to decide if they should listen or not
            • telling women, blacks et cetera that they're perpetual victims who can't do anything for themselves and they need the help of straight white men, who are totally oppressing them and should flog themselves for it
            • "colored person" bad; "person of color" good
            • erroneous statistics (wage gap, one-in-five (or four or three; depending on what day it is))
            • the Sarkeesian principle
            • marrying women/mothers to the state
            • pushing Addyi through the FDA even though it barely does anything positive (but combined with alcohol is effectively an overpriced prescription roofie).

             

            Not a nihilist. I don't know what I'd be 'cause I'm too lazy to research labels. I like ideas from both 'sides', but they also have a lot of religious zealots.

            Wait! This is the internet. Aren't we supposed to be flinging poo at each other? Here, have a few glyphs on me: 💩💩💩