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by _djo_ 4y ago
There's a big difference between financial audits, especially at a massive organisation's scale, and process/compliance audits. The claims in that article from Senate aides are a bit misleading, as it's not that unexpect
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Again, Twitter’s disclaimer around mDAUs is a broad one and nothing stated so far by either Musk or Mudge provides any reliable evidence of that being materially false or misleading. Ad buyers can’t claim to have been defrauded because the
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by _djo_ 4y ago
No, this is the budget for the European Union's funds and institutions only. It's separate from the national budgets of its member states although it's funded out of them with each country contributing proportionately. Milita
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by _djo_ 4y ago
There is no such 'genocide' against white South Africans, who still enjoy the lowest unemployment rate[0] and highest income levels[1] compared to other racial and ethnic groups. While life for white South Africans is more difficu
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by _djo_ 4y ago
That's not entirely accurate. A number of the Dominions were both de jure and de facto independent sovereign states by the mid-1930s as a result of the 1931 Statute of Westminster and enabling local laws. Some of the Commonwealth r
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by _djo_ 4y ago
The bar required by the courts to justify backing out from or substantially altering a binding offer is quite rightly a high one, and the possibility of lawsuits alone will probably not be sufficient. There's no indication that ad buye
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Well, no, because there's still no evidence that Twitter has lied in any of its filings, and because Musk intentionally waived due diligence which is the traditional way for a purchasing company to verify the actual state of the compan
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Yeah. Anyone familiar with the phrasing, and especially how it’s used in parts of South Africa, knows that’s not a dog whistle but a foghorn. I’m surprised I got downvoted for it.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Nobody uses terminology like that these days unless they're trying to make an extremely racist claim.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Exactly this, as another person who grew up in South Africa the constant minimisation of apartheid's long-term effects is a frustrating problem. One of apartheid's most awful and lingering consequences is spatial apartheid, the cr
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by _djo_ 4y ago
I meant appeal, not appear.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
That is, again, not what was argued. Your comment claimed all travel is ‘pointless’ and without any reasonable justification. It was filled with invective for anyone who might have chosen to travel at some point. It was an argument lacking
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by _djo_ 4y ago
The DA has been shedding its black leadership for years now though, leaving the top echelons of the party much more white than black. Most of its black leadership have left for the same reason: That the mostly-white old guard, exemplified b
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by _djo_ 4y ago
You have spectacularly missed the point, and that’s not a good faith response.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
That’s not jet fuel.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Not all travel is frivolous, and demonising ordinary people as if they’re doing it for no reason is unhelpful. There are those who move to new countries and have an entirely reasonable desire to still see their families from time to time. F
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by _djo_ 4y ago
You have not done enough work to understand this issue before picking a side, and it shows. For one, this is not about what percentage of Twitter users are bots. Nor have you accurately or fairly described Twitter’s methodology for verifyin
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by _djo_ 4y ago
While I agree that the emerald mine stuff is overblown, I don’t buy the idea that Musk was self made and independent. He didn’t always have free capital, but he seems to have a solid network through his extended family from early on that he
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by _djo_ 4y ago
That’s not what Musk is claiming though, when you cut through the noise. He has zero actual evidence showing that Twitter made false misrepresentations. His entire argument really centred around the argument of “Twitter has lots of bots” wh
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by _djo_ 4y ago
They’re going to court, because Twitter holds all the cards here and have the strongest legal case, so it’s in their best interests to have this adjudicated by a Delaware court. Musk is trying to pretend the mDAU = number of active bots. It
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by _djo_ 4y ago
He’s not on the hook for $1 billion. That was just a break up fee if he couldn’t secure financing. He’s on the hook for the entire deal value.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Twitter seems pretty confident about revealing their process to calculate that figure: They’ve described it multiple times and been explicit in their SEC filings. As they should have been, as it’s a sound enough process given constraints an
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Yes it is, because Twitter has no close analogues. There’s nothing to base an industry-wide standard on. All company figures involve some level of trust that they’re based on correct processes as signed off by audit firms. For areas of mate
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by _djo_ 4y ago
No it won’t, because those are baseless allegations thrown out in order to add more noise and confusion. You might get some red state DA eager for some publicity to make a song and dance about it for a bit, but that’s it. If Musk’s team cou
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by _djo_ 4y ago
> Sending out company newsletters seems like a nice way to let everyone know what the company is up to. Not sure how you go from that to reminding lowly engineers of their "insignificance". Speaking as someone working in a smal
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Nothing is ever just a matter of mass production. Scaling brings its own, massive problems, some of which Tesla experienced with the relatively simple Model 3.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Occasionally yes, however scientists generally err on the side of being conservative in their calculations for things like this so corrections will generally be in one direction.
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Those regulations are designed with the knowledge that 100% compliance is impossible, so a safety buffer is designed in that ensures people are kept as safe as possible even within an imperfect regulatory compliance regime. Those limits are
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by _djo_ 4y ago
At the time the South African Rand was kept somewhat pegged to the US Dollar, and has an average value of R2/$.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
While that sort of assistance is undoubtedly useful, it doesn't rise to the level of military action that justifies retaliatory strikes. It's also something that has established precedent in the proxy conflicts I mentioned before,

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