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Whenever I go on vacation overseas Twitter shows me ads in a language I cannot understand. This is one of many clearly-identifiable problems that are not rocket

by MarkMc 4y ago

Whenever I go on vacation overseas Twitter shows me ads in a language I cannot understand. This is one of many clearly-identifiable problems that are not rocket science to fix. And Elon Musk has a reputation for fixing problems. When Twitter shares are publicly traded again in a few years, Musk's purchase price of $44 billion will look like a bargain. My prediction: In 5 years Twitter's market cap will exceed $150 billion.

smt88 4y ago
> Elon has a reputation for fixing problems. Based on Tesla, he not only isn't good at fixing problems, he actively pushes forward broken products and processes to save his stock price.
- trap_goes_hot 4y ago
  Can you be more specific? There are plenty of satisfied customers.
  - dragontamer 4y ago
    Full Self Driving still regularly crashes into balloon children over-and-over again reliably, despite a huge amount of R&D since 2014 (8 years ago). https://twitter.com/patrickmoorhead/status/1478766165723779077 https://twitter.com/patrickmoorhead/status/14787661657237790... Hitting the (fake) kid is SOOOOOO reliable, that Luminar used Tesla as their "crashes into dummy" car in CES 2022. IE: They're so confident that Tesla will hit that balloon child, they are using it for live in-person demos of their technology.
    - trap_goes_hot 4y ago
      We just have a disagreement. I don't think that bugs in beta software means "he actively pushes forward broken products". It may still be wrong to inflict beta software on humans, but that is a separate ethical consideration.
      - dragontamer 4y ago
        That "beta software" costs $12,000 and has been around for 8 years and was promised to be "coast to coast full self driving" in 2015.
GaylordTuring 4y ago
Yeah, I experience the same thing on YouTube. It's entertaining, so I'm not really complaining, but it's of course wasted money for an advertiser to try to sell me a subscription to a local streaming service or buy shampoo that I've never heard of. It shouldn't be that hard to realize I'm only visiting a place and that they should keep serving me whatever ads I would see at home (or maybe tourist related stuff).
dorkwood 4y ago
> Whenever I go on vacation overseas Twitter shows me ads in a language I cannot understand. This is one of many clearly-identifiable problems that are not rocket science to fix. I like this feature. For a brief moment, I can't be marketed to.

by MarkMc 4y ago

smt88 4y ago

> Elon has a reputation for fixing problems. Based on Tesla, he not only isn't good at fixing problems, he actively pushes forward broken products and processes to save his stock price.

trap_goes_hot 4y ago
Can you be more specific? There are plenty of satisfied customers.
- dragontamer 4y ago
  Full Self Driving still regularly crashes into balloon children over-and-over again reliably, despite a huge amount of R&D since 2014 (8 years ago). https://twitter.com/patrickmoorhead/status/1478766165723779077 https://twitter.com/patrickmoorhead/status/14787661657237790... Hitting the (fake) kid is SOOOOOO reliable, that Luminar used Tesla as their "crashes into dummy" car in CES 2022. IE: They're so confident that Tesla will hit that balloon child, they are using it for live in-person demos of their technology.
  - trap_goes_hot 4y ago
    We just have a disagreement. I don't think that bugs in beta software means "he actively pushes forward broken products". It may still be wrong to inflict beta software on humans, but that is a separate ethical consideration.
    - dragontamer 4y ago
      That "beta software" costs $12,000 and has been around for 8 years and was promised to be "coast to coast full self driving" in 2015.

GaylordTuring 4y ago

Yeah, I experience the same thing on YouTube. It's entertaining, so I'm not really complaining, but it's of course wasted money for an advertiser to try to sell me a subscription to a local streaming service or buy shampoo that I've never heard of. It shouldn't be that hard to realize I'm only visiting a place and that they should keep serving me whatever ads I would see at home (or maybe tourist related stuff).

dorkwood 4y ago

> Whenever I go on vacation overseas Twitter shows me ads in a language I cannot understand. This is one of many clearly-identifiable problems that are not rocket science to fix. I like this feature. For a brief moment, I can't be marketed to.