Why is he on trial? He was just eating at a McDonald’s by himself.

“well that’s a risk we’re willing to take” - Israel, probably

Ok, that’s fine, but I am still going to praise him. This took courage to do.

Even if he’s wrong about other things, he did the right thing here. How are we ever going to incentivize people to do the right thing if they are going to get shit for it either way?

There’s a time and place to criticize him, but right now at this moment I’m more than happy to simply praise him.

This took courage and we should celebrate this. I can already see people pointing fingers at him; that is worth doing eventually, but this is not the time for that.

Let’s recognize good behavior and make sure we encourage more people to do the same.

This is a great point and matches my experience as well.

It’s pretty crazy to me that zuck let an actual academic like Yann LeCun go for a kid like Alex Wang. Seems like some very short term thinking.

Seems the attacker had family members recently killed by Israel https://x.com/ryangrim/status/2032204336244171027

Unfortunate we have to face local blowback for a war no one but Israel wanted in a region that has nothing to do with us.

I’ve lived in both and while the similarities are there, it’s a bit different. Singapore still has a majority non expat population while Dubai has only about a 10% local population. Singapore also invests heavily in local education with one of the highest densities of PhDs in the world.

Except a lot less fun. That one at least had cool lights, cool buildings, and flying cars. We got rotting infrastructure and Teslas.

Dubai was always an economy built on a bubble. As much as I hate how they treat foreign laborers and as much as I hate their current leaders, I have some respect for how far they were able to get with this model.

But ultimately, they are a country with little land, little water, terrible weather, and surviving on a vast expat population that has no path to citizenship and will always just see it as a destination to milk for as much money as possible.

I don’t see how such a model could ever be seen as sustainable in the long run.