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by _djo_ 4y ago
I mean, that’s not far off what’s already happened and the response in recent decades been some tough talk but nothing further. Nor was there any movement in the direction of Ukraine joining NATO, so that’s no analogue.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
> Why would Russia want to even get out of those contracts? If Europe is willing to pay, they will gladly supply gas, as they have done for many many decades. Even at the peak of the cold war, they were reliably supplying gas to Western
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by _djo_ 4y ago
So now it’s a broad conspiracy involving them all? This is growing in the telling.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
You’re quoting what’s effectively an opinion piece, not serious reporting.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
> Also, if you look at the two recent times the US accused Syria of chemical attacks, both turned out to be misinformation, as determined by the international body that investigates these things. Yet the first time it "happened&quot
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Exactly. Gwynne Shotwell is the too seldom acknowledged hero of SpaceX, who has played exactly that role of keeping the lights on, moderating Musk’s worse impulses, and managing him into less destructive directions. It’s been evident for ye
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by _djo_ 4y ago
By then you're onto the next thing and it's their problem, right? Thus is the circle of (engineering) life. Just kidding. Please write maintainable code.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Yes. There are a number of highly skilled and talented people in Infosys and the other WITCH companies, but they're generally staffed only on the most prestigious projects and tend to move on fairly quickly. As another commenter said,
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Yeah, it's almost certainly bullshit. But because those long hours are probably not explicitly stated anywhere as their working hours, Musk can get away with claiming that it's outside their 'regular' 40 hours. Even thou
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Elon Musk says he will find a new leader for Twitter(reuters.com)
3 points by _djo_ 4y ago|5 comments
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by _djo_ 4y ago
"There's an initial burst of activity needed post-acquisition to reorganize the company," Musk said in his testimony. "But then I expect to reduce my time at Twitter." Musk also admitted that some Tesla engineers we
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Militaries that rely on volunteers rather than conscription absolutely don't get away with being completely authoritarian and treating regular soldiers terribly. They have to form a social contract of sorts, where people put up with so
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Thanks for the insight, I think you’re right about those motivations.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Yup. Thing is though, nothing about their financial situation justifies this level of recklessness. Yes, there’s an urgent need to cut costs and find new sources of revenue, thanks to Musk’s own decisions to perform a leveraged buyout and t
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Point is a tech CEO in 2022 should not be using scare quotes around microservices. Nor is Twitter’s infrastructure a black box, as there’ve been plenty of talks, blog posts, and other material that explains substantial portions of the funda
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Because: - Musk still has an axe to grind to justify his claim that Twitter was catastrophically mismanaged. - He has a history of making very false statements about Twitter, including most recently that it’s the world’s biggest driver of a
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by _djo_ 4y ago
80% bloat though? Given that Twitter had a team whose job it was to analyse the usage of running services to identify savings opportunities? I don’t believe it.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
dang, can we please change the title? This one takes Musk’s claim at face value, and is not a reliable enough statement of fact to be the headline.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
That he puts microservices scare quotes says it all, really. He clearly doesn’t understand modern large scale software architectures and is falling back on his archaic, outdated, and limited experience. This isn’t the guy you want making th
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SpaceX just bought a big ad campaign on Twitter(cnbc.com)
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by _djo_ 4y ago
You can't seriously still be going down this line of argument. There are at least a million Americans, and many more globally, who are dead when they otherwise would not have been. Denying this is insanity.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Sure. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/from-our-experts/u-s-officially-...
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Nope. There’s nothing new in the way COVID deaths are reported, and in fact making the distinction you’re demanding is what would be the break from standard practice. Death certificates have for decades had contributory causes listed with t
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by _djo_ 4y ago
That statement immediately exposes you as a crank. Millions of excess deaths happened, deaths that would not have happened without COVID infections. I had otherwise perfectly healthy friends and family either die or be stuck with long term
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Twitter was doing pretty okay though, looking at revenue and profit trajectories. A fairly sharp layoff of around 20-25% might've been needed to trim back down from the pandemic hiring spree and the lack of the anticipated growth, but
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by _djo_ 4y ago
I think you're getting hung up on the technical difference between Twitter continuing to exist in any recognisable form and continuing to exist as a shell of a company with neither revenue nor staff. I see them as functionally the same
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Twitter was almost certain to see layoffs had Musk not bought it, but they’d have been slower, more considered, less harmful, and probably smaller because the company didn’t have a ludicrous leveraged buyout $1bn annual debt bill. The way t
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by _djo_ 4y ago
At this point there's little reliable 'actual data' proving that, with us having to take Musk's word for it and his past penchant for winging it and exaggeration making that a risky proposition. Being a private company t
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Difficult to evaluate this independently. Before the acquisition, Twitter stated that it had to remove 500 000 inauthentic accounts a day. If the mass layoffs have reduced the company's ability to do that then the increase in spam acco
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Meaning that his intention is to substantially reduce the reach of tweets for anyone not subscribing to Blue for $8 a month. Yes, you can still tweet freely, but it’ll effectively be a shadow ban. He even repeated it in the Spaces chat host

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