No jokes, got it. Good job moderator, you are doing a great job cleaning up. Make sure you fire any coworkers who incited hate speech by voting for Trump.
I remember the last Thiel thread was a holy war filled with people who thought outspoken Trump supporters should lose their careers on grounds of bigotry and hate speech propagation (citing https://xkcd.com/1357/ among other things).
Revisiting that thread with the knowledge that Trump would win and that Trump supporters were not some vocal minority is sobering.
Tell me, are you afraid of criticizing President Obama on Twitter? Are you afraid jack-booted secret police might kick down your door in the middle of the night and throw you in prison for 5 years if you complain about the government on Facebook? Those are the types of problems people in UAE have to deal with.
> It's a sad world we live in that I speed read your post and wasn't sure if you meant the UAE or USA..........
I hate this type of rhetoric comparing the USA to a police state. The USA does not detain, "disappear," or torture political dissidents or opponents. The USA is not a police state. It's not even close to a police state.
> Initially, it will explore the feasibility of building a line linking the two cities.
So now it's one of those "feasibility" projects?
Hyperloop suffers from the same problem as Solar Freakin' Roadways and Artificial Gills, I'm afraid: too much saying, not enough doing. I am instantly suspicious of projects that have lots of hyped up marketing but little to no prototypical substance.
To me, Hyperloop One still seems like a sci-fi pipe dream (pun intended).