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Prescott Watson

8 years

. @cindygallop : "the best things always result from someone saying - I don't know how to do this, guess I'm doing it anyway" 💪🏼🚀 #Vizions2017

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2 years

@abc7chriscristi @ABC7 geo-fenced speed caps on all cars now

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3 years

1/ When discussing transit, walking, or biking, many shrug and say "well, the world just isn't set up for that". But why? here's how the unnatural, self-reinforcing car-centric transport system is an enormous American socialist project: The #CarSpiracy !

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Canvassing for keeping JFK drive car free and to protect Golden Gate Park! Vote YES on J and NO on I W @Scott_Wiener & @SafeParksForAll

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@atalovesyou it's really surprising to see you switch to this message. As disappointing as it is to hear it, I understand. We need to fix our immigration policy.

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@KatyaSedgwick @sfstandard @OracleParkSF @SFPD no, it was a human driver, but you're forgiven for being confused because the media typically reports on deaths like this as "a car killed a child" or "a child was killed in a traffic accident" ... the media NEVER says "a driver killed ___"

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5 years

Another year, another multi-billion dollar Intel acquisition of an Israeli startup (Habana Labs was just bought for $2B apparently). I've always been surprised at how few people in Silicon Valley understand just how important Israel is to Intel. Thread 1/

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7 years

@DUANEALLEN @nikkihaley You clearly have not gotten accustomed to it

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5 years

@claufresearch @scot_work I don’t think you understand how Twitter works.

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6 years

Uber is offering near price parity with transit. Weighted for convenience, Uber Express Pool wins hands down.

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3 years

3/ First: Cars are made to get us between places, since places are where life happens. In the simplest sense, the red areas of this image are places and everywhere else is... well, not a place. Parking, roads, and "in-between" stuff are all "non-places".

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5 years

This is incredible... How many industries have 80% of customer spend going to basically fraud?

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5 years

Crazy (really not) that Uber cut $120M of its $150M programmatic display budget and it had no impact on performance due to the fraudulent attribution that was occurring.

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5/ As seen in almost every socialist system, there are grand distortions and unintended consequences. America decided that we must NEVER struggle to park. To guarantee this convenience, we have vastly overbuilt parking, creating spread-out wastelands sitting empty 99% of the time

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5 years

@nicknow @calebmontiveros @jasoncrawford Or you do and you end up with WeWork

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2 years

@Noahpinion I find the copy on this one even more ... interesting

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3 years

2/ Car-world isn't a natural state of affairs - we *built* it. And many of us Americans have never lived outside of car-world, so it can be hard to imagine what it'd be like to NOT be here. We've all been car-pilled. Let's open our eyes...

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Prescott Watson

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1 year

Thank you @garrytan for pushing forward the voter revolt against the hard left in SF

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1 year

San Francisco is the cradle of innovation for world-changing tech like self-driving cars. Yet city officials have lied about them with fabricated statistics. Why are electeds going out of their way to stamp out tech that saves lives? We have to expose the lies and fight back.

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3 years

17/ Who likes this crap? Who wants to walk around here, or bike on these stroads? We have DESIGNED them to be car-first, car-only.

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38/ Everyone talks about better managing our system. We don't need better MANAGEMENT. We need LEADERSHIP to take us to a place that we can't see clearly yet, but will be good in hindsight. Unfortunately the signs pointing the way are harder to see from inside our oversized cars.

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2 years

@saeidh1991 @RickCrawf @IDoTheThinking I'm so sorry to have liked this comment, because the situation I find so horrifying and wrong. But it is an absolute banger of a housing policy joke

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3 years

@Cobylefko I’ve seen many of these - issue is that in the back…

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16/ Our oversized society with oversized parking and oversized, over-speedy stroads, requires oversized signs - anything human sized would just get lost (or run over). This sign is bigger than your house and adds 2 minutes to walking times to cross

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3 years

25/ "Hit my kid and I'll sue the shit out of you!" - well, chances are the driver is insulated from responsibility based on American legal precedent in a way that is so shocking that Freakonomics calls vehicular manslaughter the "perfect crime"

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3 years

7/ Legal parking minimums mean that, even if you don't have a car, you *will* have to walk across enormous lots, and you *will* be made to pay for them for your neighbors & colleagues

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3 years

19/ No worry - F150 drivers just dump their personal property onto the sides of public streets which, again, are paid for by everyone's tax dollars regardless of whether they own a car. Could I dump anything else onto the sides of OUR public roads? NO - ONLY cars.

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11/ Actually, like everything in #CarSpiracy , reality's upside down: We drive fast BECAUSE lanes are wide, curves gentle - we DESIGNED roads to make us deadlier drivers. Transport depts have CHOSEN to make roads that are dangerous to anyone not in a car

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3 years

4/ Our government has created ENFORCEMENT mechanisms to proactively guarantee outsized space for cars at the expense of ANYTHING else. This is the socialism that has led to our distorted, dystopian reality. Let's start with 🅿️ parking 🅿️...

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10/ the next non-place: 🛣 roads 🛣 Sprawl means we have to drive fast between our places of interest. That means that wider lanes, gentle turns, & lots of buffer space to avoid us killing one another. Result? Our roads are ridiculously large, too.

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The left image is Renaissance Florence; on the right is an Atlanta interchange, shown at the same scale. This was my first image to go viral, thanks to a repost by Lloyd Alter at Treehugger. For weeks, I had to keep proving that the scale was the same; I still have proof. 1/

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13/ A major contributor to traffic danger are STROADS. Streets are low-speed mixed-use w/ access to residential & commercial. Streets can be places! Roads are high-speed car-only ways to get BETWEEN places. STROADS are a dangerous & ineffective frankenstein.

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Prescott Watson

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3 years

28/ On the flipside, if you don't own a car, you are excluded from American society. I couldn't get a covid test in Florida without being INSIDE A CAR (?!?!)

Don't own a car? Go die of covid - my florida experience

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3 years

8/ What's wrong with paying for your neighbor's parking? Well, in Seattle, the cost of guaranteeing all this parking space costs over $115k per household. more:

Part 5: Upward mobility - MDF

Transportation affects the real world, creating a range of risks and trade-offs, so regulation has always been an important factor. But the rise of the trip economy has been particularly disruptive...

www.mobilitydisruptionframework.com

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3 years

22/ As long as YOU pay for the space MY car takes up, I'll keep buying bigger cars. Contrast this with Japan, drivers need to prove they have off-street parking, so there's a direct connection between car size and the cost a Japanese bears to own it.

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32/ Behaviors that would be too embarrassing to exhibit as a person out in society - like blaring an airhorn in a cafe to disrupt everyone's meal - are waived off or even cheered when the noise is generated via your car's modified exhaust.

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12/ When covid DROPPED traffic during 2020, traffic fatalities SPIKED. So, absent the jams our cars create, our roads are designed to invite high speed, deadly driving - who wants to walk or bike on these??

NHTSA: Less Traffic But More Traffic Fatalities During Coronavirus Lockdown

As COVID-19 began to take its toll in America, health officials and government leaders advised that we all stay home. Some states made that a mandatory requirement. It makes sense that overall...

jalopnik.com

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18/ It gets more toxic: Enter the automotive obesity epidemic. Each year our cars get larger and larger, to the point that the most popular car in America won't fit into many older garages …

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3 years

24/ Just keep your kids playing near the house, right? Actually, drivers will fly by American residential zones at 40mph thanks to supersized neighborhood roads built to accommodate two rows of street parking. How is this truck driver gonna see that kid?

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9/ and this doesn't even touch how car infrastructure was built into American cities in the first place only by demolishing huge swaths of residential and commercial properties, in (of course) mostly minority neighborhoods...

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Prescott Watson

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3 years

@hunterwalk @CaseyNewton @pt I’m on Twitter for threads like this

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15/ If you've walked a STROAD, you know the terrible experience. We Americans commonly mix 50+mph traffic w/ regular driveway turn-ins that cross bike lanes and sidewalks. If you're from Amsterdam or Copenhagen, watch this video.

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26/ It's also hard to sue a driver when it's so difficult to actually catch them. We have the technology to automatically enforce speed limits in cities, but we CHOOSE not to use them - even around school zones 😨 wtf is wrong with us

Resolution to Remove Buffalo School Zone Speed Cameras Introduced

Councilmember Rasheed Wyatt is introducing the resolution.

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Prescott Watson

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5 years

LONG STORY SHORT - the joke is now a bit dated with Intel no longer advertising "intel inside" that much, but I've always found this image appropriate... CONGRATULATIONS TO THE HABANA TEAM & THEIR EARLY SUPPORTERS!

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@latimes @LAZoo Remove the parking instead

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23/ Car obesity has a direct influence on American pedestrian mortality - which, by the way, is now surpassing deaths from gun violence. Again, MY car, YOUR cost.

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@IDoTheThinking @sam_d_1995 a far left academic type argued to me that grammar was principally used to enforce social exclusion & racial hierarchies. Obviously over-indexing on it does just that. But *principally*? The funny thing is that he’s probably writing paragraphs just like this one today

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36/ Fixing the jenga tower by adding transit, cycling, walking etc immediately hits resistance. When so few of us have experienced any other reality, we feel that any reversal of car supremacy is an attack on our very freedom.

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20/ And of course the police will take any vandalism or theft of that F150 parked on those public roads very seriously unlike, say, a bike. Cycling isn't a serious way of getting around - eh, it's not worth protecting their property rights.

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Prescott Watson

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8 years

@HadasAltwarg @JeffreyGoldberg @jonathanweisman @aesensten neoNazis "out" Jews online using (((name))); Jews appropriating it to say "FU"

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8 years

#Vizions2017 held in coolest venue I've ever seen for a tech conference - Berlin's former power plant, Kraftwerk 👍🏻👏🏻🏭

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@ShabazzStuart @ooneepod @RidersAlliance @workersjusticep @BKBoroHall @RegionalPlan @StreetsPAC @bikenewyork @TransAlt Love this! In London I’ve been seeing new bike parking garage cafes popping up. We need more of all of these kinds of things!

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30/ But many feel that observing driving behaviors - even for telematics-based insurance - is an invasion of their "right" to privacy. We feel that it is an affront to be held accountable for driving our death machines too fast on our socialized public road infrastructure.

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3 years

@reillybrennan From @MichaelEWebber ’s book, Power Trip

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Deep fakes taken to the next level. Awesome demo today in New York. Stealthy company but you’ll hear about them soon enough…

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35/ In sum, the #CarSpiracy : Low density sprawl makes it hard to use anything but a car to get around. The preferred road design is therefore optimized for cars at the expense of all other users. It becomes inhospitable to bike or walk. Repeat.

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21/ I'm not shaming buyers for their choices. We all just make personal decisions within the distorted world of American automotive socialism. When I buy my F150 Lightning, I'll park it on the street 🤷🏻‍♂️. Rule #1 of 🇺🇸 automotive socialism - if you're given something, take it.

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Prescott Watson

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2 years

@D4GordonMar Aren’t you one of the supervisors removing slow streets as early as last year? pedestrian deaths like this are a direct result of your privileging high speed car traffic in neighborhoods. Enough w “hopes and prayers”

Is Gordon Mar Spiking Sunset's Slow Streets? - Streetsblog San Francisco

Supervisor Gordon Mar asks for the removal of slow streets near schools. Other Sunset slow streets are already disappearing. SFMTA denies it's happening.

sf.streetsblog.org

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3 years

33/ Noise pollution - yet another example of the MY car YOUR cost paradigm. Who wants to cycle when you're passed by 100db 📢 jacked-up mustangs? Only a few cities are even floating the idea of automatically enforcing noise restraints

Paris will try using sound sensors to fine vehicles causing noise pollution

A proposed plan to curb noise pollution would use microphone technology to track and fine motorists for excessive noise.

qz.com

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3 years

6/ But our perceived need for universal, available-everywhere parking has been enshrined as a human right in America. And who guarantees our rights? Uncle Sam.

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Prescott Watson

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7 years

Israel, w/ a population about that of New York City, is listed as a category alongside China, India, Latin America and Africa in @FastCompany 's "Most Innovative" list. When people say Israel is an emerging global technology powerhouse, THIS is what they mean.

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14/ Many stroads have sidewalks, but they're a DEATH TRAP. Stroad design literally encourages high-speed pedestrian run-ins as cars are making rights & lefts with fast traffic around them

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29/ Relegating speed and sobriety enforcement to dispersed police checks is a free pass to the 95% of drivers who won't drive by them on any particular trip.

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@HarryStebbings @zebulgar This is the post-humble, humblebrag. The postmodern humblebrag if you will 😆

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37/ Acting in our short term interests we refuse to change a system we've already bought into so deeply, despite it encouraging us to be overweight and isolated.

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27/ Why? It comes back to the fundamental tenants of American car culture - buy a car and you should pretty much be able to do anything you want, people around you be damned.

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"No VP sales gets fired for picking Salesforce as their CRM, but you can certainly get fired for moving off of it." http://t.co/jivfs5FuMr

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@brendagodf @nbashaw I know! It's out of control

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31/ Speaking of getting away with anti-social behavior, it comes down to even basic decency.

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3 years

Defend our (slow) streets! #slowstreet @SlowStreetsSF

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Prescott Watson

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5 years

Revel’s now in the SF Bay Area, starting with Oakland!

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Very excited to launch Oakland’s first shared ⚡️🛵 service with @_gorevel

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34/ Like most conspiracies, the #CarSpiracy isn't actually orchestrated by GM or Saudi or the Jews. Instead, it's like a jenga tower - unstable and inefficient in construction, but with interwoven layers that means each attempted correction can cause chaos.

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Meanwhile, in Israel ⁦ @michalnaka ⁩

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"Beresheet, a small Israeli spacecraft with the giant ambition of landing on the lunar surface, has completed maneuvers to go into orbit around the moon." #IsraeltotheMoon Almost there!

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1/ When discussing transit, walking, or biking, many shrug and say "well, the world just isn't set up for that". But why? here's how the unnatural, self-reinforcing car-centric transport system is an enormous American socialist project: The #CarSpiracy !

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Great peek at how Israeli water technologies are bringing us into an age of abundance by @rowanjacobsen

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Let's go way back… since the 1970s, Intel has been developing products in Israel. Remember Intel's 8088, which became the basis for the IBM PC - the first computer with Microsoft DOS. This help cement the partnership that Intel would ride for decades - WinTel. 3/

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Found a way to ensure my seat mates don’t talk to me 💅🏻🤗 #NotFromWuhan ✈️ SFO-TLV

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and all of that is just internal R&D - not external innovation. Just as Intel's disobedient Israeli crack squad fought orthodoxy to make a totally different product in 2006, Intel is relying on brave Israeli founders to take on totally new frontiers for compute. 10/

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Prescott Watson

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With @jeffpulver at פאפאגאיו discussing #startup nation with young entrepreneurs from Argentina and Uruguay! http://t.co/4654okbL

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@96hoya @KCGrock of course not. if it were, this would be national news. but it's just another human driver, and so we move on like it's nothing

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3 years

@IDoTheThinking Lots of students (maybe a few but loud) in my class protested the creation of additional buildings on campus, as they wanted to preserve the small plot of land that UCSC is on. Weird and perverse eco-NIBYISM

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5 years

Can the VC world come together and shut down docsend? It must be stopped.

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@ConanOBrien Enjoy your time in Israel! Great country.

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6 years

At @MicromobilityCo conf in the old Richmond Ford plant, where Jeeps for WWII were pumped out. @James_Gross : “They assembled these prefab warships in seven days. Next time you we complain about how hard it is to build a bike lane, just remember what we can do when we organize.”

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Prescott Watson

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P&G going 70% #programmatic . Every trading desk claims they're now a self serve #DSP . Fake it till u make it #adtech http://t.co/RbHV9ZbGJa

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ZoomCar & Mobileye met at OurCrowd summit last yr, partnered, slashed ZoomCar accidents by 80% EIGHTY percent #OCSummit17 #OCportfolio

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#Netneutrality and municipality broadband: two big wins for competition and innovation handed down by the #FCC http://t.co/AR3zW21lbu

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Liftoff! SpaceIL making history! #IsraelToTheMoon 🌕🚀🇮🇱

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9 years

Talk about a great product launch! #ZCast trending on @ProductHunt . Way to go @HilzFuld & @FarhanaRahman

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2 years

@maxdubler @Allegedly_Ari Major difference is that most people speak way more loudly on the phone or using headphones for video call then they do when they speak face-to-face with somebody

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2 years

Los Angeles people - let’s meet at Curbivore tomorrow in DTLA. Excited to discuss the future of our cities with this group of technology folks - and we are all lucky to have California Transportation Commissioner @Hilary_FASTLink join as well

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@samdman95 see also: this Danish bus ad

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No wonder Intel is actively pouring money into its Israel R&D efforts. And, by the way, the dependency goes both ways - in recent years, Intel has been among (if not the?) largest private sector employer in the entire country. 9/

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@iarora_ I would’ve been surprised at how many different communities I joined and left. I didn’t understand how adulthood is about intentionally identifying the people you want to be around - that some of us have the privilege of exercising autonomy in choosing our “home”.

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@S_MeyersonKnox @jvplive Can’t say that I love latkes to begin with, but honestly it looks like you took a crap in your pan. #BDSfail

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All that flipped when an internal revolution saw one side win and push the old way of thinking out. A small Israeli team ignored corporate strategy to engineer an alternative to the Pentium (Intel's pride & joy which won it 80% market share by that time). 6/

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@Jason The funny thing is, I know some corporate VCs whose main objection would be that the vending machine could potentially injure somebody’s arm if it was in motion while it was being used. That would be their primary objection to doing this deal.

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@jsoltero @CaseyNewton LOVED acompli! And now Outlook Mobile. Thanks for building it!

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@antoniogm Pretty sure it was American Jews who made Aliyah who helped push a lot of the craft beer scene in Israel as well

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We forget, but Intel was widely perceived to be in serious jeopardy and was the *single biggest loser* of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 2006. Just read this excerpt from a Seattle Times article from 2007. 5/

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Prescott Watson

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8 years

Catch me on stage at #Vizions2017 Thursday in Berlin w/ @knuteng and @winiarski talking tech & what makes the 🇮🇱 ecosystem unique

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That's not to say that Intel's always been successful. Honestly - and I tread lightly here - Intel is practically an graveyard of Israeli startups. Big bets in the future of mapping, augmented reality, and immersive media experiences have gone nowhere. 12/

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