[zerosizedweasle]

'Jack Clark has put it more vividly: “People don’t take guillotines seriously. But historically, when a tiny group gains a huge amount of power and makes life-altering decisions for a vast number of people, the minority gets actually, for real, killed.”'

And Nate is a statistics guy, so statistically speaking, the guillotines are coming for Silicon Valley.

[colinb]

Your quote needs a “sometimes”. For every murderous, blood-soaked dictator who experienced pitchfork-o-clock there are several others who died peacefully in their beds at a rote old age. Louis the n-teenth lost his head. How about Louis 1-(n-1)?