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by BryantD 4y ago
I think it's being pursued aggressively in the US. WSJ reports that the Manhattan US Attorney's office is investigating[1]. The US and the Bahamas are discussing extradition[2]. The House Financial Services Committee is having at
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Is there clear evidence that shadowbanning existed on Twitter? Misunderstanding eventual consistency doesn’t count. I’m not going to be surprised if there is real evidence, I’ve just never seen any.
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Came here to make the same recommendation! Deadball is great.
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You're not weird. I am not like you, but as a manager it's been important for me to recognize that this isn't at all uncommon.
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by BryantD 4y ago
A couple of months ago Elon posted some notes on usage that indicated that the users with huge followings were in fact going away. This was later confirmed by a leaked internal research document[1]. So yes; we are close to that and quite po
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As Musk and Calacanis discussed between themselves: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-jason-calacanis-mes...
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Troy has a strong tendency to confuse “these two powerful people are expressing similar goals” with “these two powerful people are conspiring.” He’s doing the same thing here with Putin and Musk. Extraordinary claims require stronger eviden
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Do you know the NFL betting scam? It's awesome. Here's how it works. You choose 1024 people, and you send all of them a prediction about one upcoming sports game, free of charge. 50% get one prediction, 50% get the other. Next wee
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by BryantD 4y ago
You might want to examine your priors. What if the issues you see as symptomatic of wide-spread left wing violence don't look the same way when when considered in the cold light of maximizing advertising dollars?
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I don't think you can move your old posts, though, FWIW. But it's an analogy intended to help with the server selection process; I don't think it has to be perfect.
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Only if everyone can always optimize their travel choices by time, which obviously we can’t or all travel in Manhattan would be via helicopter.
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This is not at all obvious, but it's fairly easy to move your Mastodon account and leave a forwarding notice behind: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/
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by BryantD 4y ago
Should Mastodon fans just be phrasing this kind of choice as if it were email? "You can have an email account on any number of servers, and you can send email anywhere, no matter where your account is." "You can have a Mastod
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by BryantD 4y ago
The Birdwatch note also assumed he was using lifetime risk of dying in a car crash, which he wasn't (I double checked). I am not 100% sure that miles traveled is the most meaningful statistic, FWIW. Wouldn't it make more sense to
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by BryantD 4y ago
That's a great question, actually. Factors which I think play a role: 1. I'm not that heavily driven by ego in this kind of context. I know that approval is largely a function of how many people bother to vote on my notes. 2. Th
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The source code is also in that repo, so easy enough to dig into it. Harder to form a useful opinion, at least for me.
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Easiest kind! I knew the fact already, and Twitter made it really easy for me to validate it.
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It is vulnerable to numbers, I think, for the same reason people believe misinformation. If a check looks plausible, some number of people will say it's correct without double checking.
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I put around 15 minutes a day into Birdwatch for a couple of months before the purchase was finalized. This is purely anecdotal, so take it with a grain of salt. The requirement for agreement seemed to work well at preventing weird factchec
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by BryantD 4y ago
That is not new. The documentation is checked into GitHub[1]. It was checked in on March 2nd, 2022. This was a month before Musk bought his 9.2% share of Twitter. [1] https://github.com/twitter/birdwatch/blob/
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by BryantD 4y ago
I am a member of the Birdwatch program. The note wasn't removed. It's still visible as a potential note; it just dropped below the threshold necessary for general display. This is not common but it's not abnormal either; it h
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by BryantD 4y ago
Stripe gave: - Pay until at least February 21, 2023 - 2022 annual bonuses even if you're not around at bonus time - Pay for unused time off - Six months of healthcare - Accelerated stock-option vesting - Career
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by BryantD 4y ago
True, but given that he's looking for $3 million a day in savings from servers and cloud services[1], I'm not wildly optimistic about how busy the remaining SREs are going to be. No matter how many of them there are. There's
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by BryantD 4y ago
If I were Elon there is zero chance I’d be able to resist name-searching myself in the company Slack, just in public channels and channels I was added to. I can’t blame him for that. Tweeting it out, well. I could resist that urge just fine
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The linked tweet and article claim that PayPal can pull money out of your bank account. There's no way to interpret the ToS like that; it clearly says this possibility only applies to your PayPal account and any money in there.
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I wouldn't have done it that quickly. Parag Agrawal just made $42 million as a severance package. His 2021 pay package was around $30 million. You'd save around $10 million by shifting him over into an advisor role, telling him to
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by BryantD 4y ago
I’m very wary of this change but it’s also very hard to discuss it rationally when people exaggerate it. Quoting the new User Agreement: “If you are a seller and receive funds for transactions that violate the Acceptable Use Policy, then …
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I believe that you didn't mean to label me as a hypocrite, but if you think that my expression of virtue is designed to signal that I'm a good person rather than being a sincere expression of what I believe -- you're saying I
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You guess wrong! I'm a hiring manager, and I'm very good at it. In the last few years I've had multiple quarters in which I successfully hired at a rate of 1 engineer a month or higher. One of the first things I do when I get
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by BryantD 4y ago
False dichotomy. I spent a couple of paragraphs talking about this. Please read my post and try again if you really want to have a conversation.

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