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NextGenerationEU: €800bn investment plan for Europe(europa.eu)
8 points by ckastner 4y ago|4 comments
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by ckastner 4y ago
> Musk has been saying that on Twitter, but in Twitter's court filing they exhaustively outline that a) it isn't true and b) it isn't even a valid request from Musk under the contract. I've read the entire complaint
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by ckastner 4y ago
You said "It's not about avoiding looking like a hypocrite, the major theory is [...]", which is not the same as "The major theory is that it's not about avoiding looking like a hypocrite, [...]".
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by ckastner 4y ago
Sure "hypocrite" can be understood in the two ways you describe (burdened conscience vs. consequences of appearance), but the term was used in the context of stock dropping -- the latter.
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by ckastner 4y ago
Your argument is inconsistent. Why would the value go down at all, if not because he would look like a hypocrite otherwise. Regardless, even if this were consistent, GP's argument still stands: that's an enormous asking of risk to
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by ckastner 4y ago
> Let me answer that: they do not want to be owned by someone who doesn't want to. That person wanted to own Twitter, though, and very much so. To that effect, that person made and absolutely ludicrous offer (e.g., merger withou
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by ckastner 4y ago
It's somewhat hilarious to think that even if Twitter were to settle modestly for $5bn, that would be more than double of all profit that Twitter has ever generated as a company.
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by ckastner 4y ago
> Only if you require that every option must be assessed. You can always choose a random subset, or the first X entries, as use those as the solution space. Choosing a random subset is a solution, but it clearly is not an always bet
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by ckastner 4y ago
> More knowledge and options are always better. That's not even true in theory. Given a simple problem A, when adding more options, at some point, choosing among the options requires more effort than solving the simple problem, if
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by ckastner 4y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with all of what you said, but this stands out: > And then each tweet needs to be punchy enough in 240 characters to keep people reading which produces a particularly annoying writing style. I also find this writ
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by ckastner 4y ago
Note that this article is from April 23rd, just before the recent escalation.
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by ckastner 4y ago
> People buy crypto in hopes of getting rich. That is the key. People will believe anything if it helps them believe they'll get rich quick, whether it's that crypto is revolutionary, or that tulip prices can only go up.
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by ckastner 4y ago
Declining share of GDP is irrelevant. The EU is a market of half a billion people, and as long as that number doesn't decline, the Brussels effect will continue.
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by ckastner 4y ago
The first part was annoyance at becoming a company in general. What annoyed the author, like figuring out how to structure ownership, would be annoying anywhere . And all the problems the author ran into sound very much like somebody just
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by ckastner 4y ago
This issue wasn't about starting a startup in Germany as a GmbH, though. The issue was "flipping" that GmbH into a Delaware C-Corp, by request of YCombinator.
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by ckastner 4y ago
Sounds similar to the KlimaDAO scam. That one already collapsed, though.
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by ckastner 4y ago
This filled me with nostalgia. I remember how excited I was -- maybe even in awe -- when, in 2008, IBM's Roadrunner broke the PetaFLOPS barrier and was the first computer to do so. That's not even that long ago.
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Nvidia Q1/2023(nvidianews.nvidia.com)
1 points by ckastner 4y ago|0 comments
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by ckastner 4y ago
I have to disagree with that. I'd wager that even if with a hypothetical perfect GDPR, you'd still have the major advertisers fighting it tooth and nail. Because when "you're the not the customer, you're the product
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by ckastner 4y ago
This is an excellent quote that reflects a notable share of opinions that I see in the comments here on HN whenever the GDPR is discussed: > Hardly any other area of law is politicized to that extent – at least I have never heard that b
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by ckastner 4y ago
> What do you do? Log into your wordpress that you likely don't have to make a long-form thought out blog post? If you have a meaningful story to tell: yes, absolutely. If I can login to Twitter, what's so hard about logging
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by ckastner 4y ago
Whenever I see a tweet thread, I am always reminded of the origin of Twitter's 140 character limit -- to fit in an SMS message -- and then it feels to me that tweet threads are basically someone just piping a long-form story through SM
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by ckastner 4y ago
You left out the best part: (formerly $50) . There's even an FAQ entry that sounds like borderline satire: "How were you able to bring the price down from $50 to $20?"
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Musk Says Twitter Must Prove Bot Claims for $44B Deal to Proceed(bloomberg.com)
33 points by ckastner 4y ago|69 comments
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by ckastner 4y ago
I admittedly haven't checked the full agreement, but if that is the case, then the angle over the less than 5% spammers/bots makes even more sense, if that number was indeed part of the agreement.
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by ckastner 4y ago
> Perhaps because the board and shareholders will be far more inclined to reject an offer from Musk after he feigned buying it one time and backed out? He didn't feign anything. On the contrary, he's proved that he was dead s
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by ckastner 4y ago
I strongly feel that the spammers thing is smoke and mirrors. The deal at $54.20 was maybe OK for him a month ago (it was great for Twitter because nobody else was interested at that price). Since then, Twitter reported disappointing number
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by ckastner 4y ago
That is indeed an excellent example!
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by ckastner 4y ago
I too believe that he'd be crazy not to renegotiate. As far as I recall, they agreed on a break fee of ~$1bn if Musk walks away. But if he can lower the price to $40 a share (which is still far higher than market would probably be, at
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by ckastner 4y ago
You're assuming that the deal will definitely close. The deal can still fall apart for a number of reasons. The risk of this happening is far from remote. This is evident from the current stock price of about $46, which is significantl

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