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Michael Gibson - The Thiel Fellowship, Rationalism, and Stagnation

From the New World

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The Drop-Off at Hackathons in 2018?

I think somewhere probably 2016 thereabouts and then into by and then when COVID hit I think that probably Was the straw that broke the camels back. It does seem to be skewing more towards the let's say freshmen and sophomore years as well now. There isn't a whole lot You can build in 36 hours anymore. Just the lack of charismatic things to come out of hackathons where charismatic is defined as really fun impressive exciting strange.

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