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“The mini city creators obviously had some questions needing answers. For example: “How many people will occupy this city?” Or: “What does Sam want his mini city to look like?” But Sam wasn’t interested in their questions, and by the time they arrived neither was Ryan. Ryan had moved back to the United States to help his new girlfriend run for Congress. The architects found themselves handed off to Nishad Singh’s girlfriend, Claire Watanabe—who had assumed Ryan’s role as spender of money and manager of support staff in the Bahamas. “We said just give us a list of the employees, give us anything,” said Ian. “Claire said, ‘I know it’s weird, but we don’t have any of that—even the number of employees.”
― Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
― Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
“They worked in some regular company but on the side they had this interest. They wanted to talk about how they are afraid of government. A lot of times their spouse or their family didn’t want to hear about it anymore.”
― Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
― Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
“That’s it for crypto explanations for the moment, as that’s about all that Sam Bankman-Fried knew about crypto, or for that matter needed to know, to trade billions of dollars’ worth of it. Plus, so many writers have taken a crack at explaining to a lay audience what a bitcoin is that it’s hard to see the point of doing it all over again. See, for example, Matt Levine’s excellent forty-thousand-word article in Bloomberg Businessweek, “The Crypto Story.” What is curious is how elusive Bitcoin is, as a thing to understand. Bitcoin often gets explained but somehow never stays explained. You nod along and think you are getting it but then wake up the next morning needing to hear the explanation all over again.”
― Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
― Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
“all the recent wars”
― For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto
― For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto
“The popular definition of Fascism as right-wing is misleading even though Mussolini in 1922 described it as ‘of the right’.[257] The intellectual driving force behind it was left-wing. Most Fascists had either been Socialists or syndicalists. However right-wing the manifestations of Fascism became, its guiding star was always left. Its opposition to Socialism might be described as right-wing, its republican tendencies left-wing. Its opposition to the principle of parliamentary democracy might be described as right-wing, its opposition to the undemocratic reality of the Italian parliament left-wing. Its defence of private property was right-wing but its support for the big state to bridle Capitalism — its Corporate State — left-wing. Like”
― Mussolini
― Mussolini
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