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by arrrg 4y ago
I think so, yeah, sure. Why don’t you think so? "Our own academic perspective limits us e.g. in our survey design and language, making it harder for us to connect with our respondents" is something I heard and learned over and ove
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At least in Germany I know that the perspective on this is that you never want someone to even think about taking cost into consideration when they decide to make an emergency call.
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Why do you think there is nothing wrong with a company doing that? Ethically? Legally?
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Two years out of a decade are 20%. You are still misrepresenting facts.
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Twitter was profitable in 2018 and 2019. Obviously COVID was a huge blow in 2020 and the second quarter was awful. Not surprising, given Twitter’s reliance on ads. 2021 looks like a subdued version of 2018 and 2019 and would have been profi
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It is my understanding that Twitter has been extremely friendly towards remote work. Switching that up from one day to the next is just inhuman cruelty without empathy. I’m not even taking any kind of legal perspective, just a purely ethica
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How would Musk know (within a week) whether the team is shit and expensive?
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That seems to me to assume the people are robots. Or Vulcans, or whatever. It just seems weird to me. And again: you are taking the financial perspective about making money. That‘s just plain weird to me. I’m talking about psychological imp
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Being prepared for getting fired (in the sense of having a financial cushion) is one thing. What I’m seeing here, however is a discrepancy between saying that working hard and burning brightly for your employer is meaningful and fulfilling
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How do you fire the right people? Where is the information about who to fire and who to keep coming from?
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I agree with your pessimistic outlook in the sense that I expect very little. However, we are making (too slow) progress, so not meeting is not an alternative.
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How do you identify the right 50% in the short time Musk had? He basically has to rely and trust people inside Twitter to make those decisions for him (can he, though?) or he has to fire people in an arbitrary way. I don’t really understand
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Your hypercynical attitude is dangerous and wholly disconnected from reality. It’s true that the 1.5°C goal is seeming to get more and more unrealistic. That’s endlessly frustrating, as is the slow progress overall. However, it’s also compl
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If you want a PR nightmare for yourself, then that’s how you create one. There is probably more than a century of tradition and expectations around how journalists can work with press releases. Whether companies could sue them for releasing
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I mean, sure, controlling the message is how you can call it, but that doesn’t mean the legal threats (or threats of any kind) are doing the actual controlling. When I say “it‘s about making things as convenient as possible for journalists”
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Nothing to do with copyright at all. Reporters can do with the text however they please. There are no practical legal issues involved. It‘s about making things as convenient as possible for journalists, not legal enforcement of anything.
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Press releases are always written in a way that makes it as easy as possible for journalists to just, well, basically copy the text and just use it without modifications. That’s a press release writing best practice. Your goal is to match t
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That doesn’t really make sense. If someone born in 1955 who started working in 1980 and then started saving money and investing into a diversified stock portfolio the current downturn sucks but isn’t the end of the world. Plenty of time in
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Germans had the experience of that speech at least being partially responsible for more that ten million people being murdered by the German state. Of course speech wasn’t the only factor (far from it) but virulent antisemitism didn’t just
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Twitter is a very hard problem because it’s not a technological or engineering challenge. It’s politics, politics, politics. From all angles and perspectives, in the possibly most annoying way. You have to make so many politics and policy d
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Work is boring bullshit. That’s exactly the correct mindset as an employee. She showed the parts of her day that actually matter. No reason to assume she doesn’t work, it‘s just boring.
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So you are not arguing that relying on Amazon is acting against their principles? That’s the only argument I’m making.
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Is boycotting Amazon a principle they even have? Using ring cameras for their offices would be not adhering to their principles. The eff doesn’t strike me as the “you did something bad so now I boycott you“ kind of organization.
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The regulation is the negative consequence. This is how self regulation can work. And in this case it nearly worked, Apple pretty much being the lone holdout.
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Nordstream 2 is not needed to supply Germany with enough natural gas. It‘s not even open, was never open. Russia decided to cut deliveries (long before February, even) until eventually cutting them completely. Germany‘s stated policy is to
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That’s an ultra dumb approach and assumes there are no costs associated with sabotage (risk of being uncovered, unintended side effects). Currently (and during the last decades) politics in Germany have been very stable and predictable.
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Changes in course are possible but won’t be sudden. Plenty of time to react in those cases.
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Doesn’t make sense at all. Why blow it up when the German governing parties and the largest opposition party don’t want to move ahead with Nord Stream 2 anyway?
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Nord Stream 2 is (politically) dead in Germany, reviving it is a total fringe position in German politics. And: Putin doesn’t currently deliver any gas through it or Nord Stream 1 anyway. Gas storage in Germany is still filling up, gas pric
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Week starts on Monday.

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