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Alex Rampell

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Silicon Valley entrepreneur (cofounder@ TrialPay, Yub, Affirm, Point, TXN), investor (General Partner @a16z), husband, father and sarcast (one who is sarcastic)
Palo Alto, CA arampell.org Joined October 2010
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Alex Rampell Verified account @arampell
100%, also see Mike Bloomberg. Money (at best) gets you reach. It’s the whole basis of advertising.
It cannot make people buy a bad product.

If you take out money from politics, you get fame in politics, since they have free reach.

Citizens United was correctly decided.
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 Verified account @Noahpinion 5d
Every time socialists lose an election it's because "billionaires bought it".

Meanwhile Elon is out there spending hundreds of millions of dollars and getting zero results.

Money doesn't buy elections.
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“Show me the man, I’ll find you the crime”
-Lavrentiy Beria
Jeff Stein Verified account @jstein_sun 5d
NEWS: Ds review 181-page dossier from ex-Warren/Sanders staffers ID’ing hundreds of executives & corporations to target

Envisions “resignations of major CEOs, hauling people in, material restitution”

Tech giants, crypto, sports gambling, gas & more

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Very proud of my son @cappucher for working for months (with his AI collaborator) to, for the first time ever, prove the asymptotic for E.P. Stein numbers (in the put-or-take-a-square game)
And thanks to @skominers for advice and counsel along the way!

arxiv.org/abs/2611.05898
arxiv.org An Asymptotic for E. P. Stein Numbers Epstein's put-or-take-a-square game is an impartial combinatorial game in which a player may, in each turn, add or subtract the largest square not exceeding the current integer. We study E. P....