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by d23 4y ago
It's a shame you had to include the latter part of this comment. The point was he didn't deserve the benefit of the doubt on this because of the preponderance of the evidence from his past behavior. That was proven correct.
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by d23 4y ago
No, that’s fair enough. I’ve tried to take on a similar attitude. Thankfully the community has made me feel a bit better about what it tends to upvote lately. For a while there I was questioning my place here.
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by d23 4y ago
Eh, I was mostly neutral to mildly positive for lack of information. I knew he ran a couple of cool-sounding tech companies, but that was about it. I assumed he was at least somewhat competent and stable.
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by d23 4y ago
If this causes you to see through him, you aren't the target audience. He wants unquestioned fealty, regardless of logical inconsistencies.
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by d23 4y ago
I'm genuinely curious: are you not aware of his previous explicit promise to not ban the elonjet account?
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by d23 4y ago
At some point I think he'll move to just not even bothering explaining anything since he knows his fans will defend him. His justification could be literal gibberish, and his defenders would be resorting to the Kabbalah to try to tran
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by d23 4y ago
It's the Trumpian playbook. Just insult everyone who makes you feel small. Try to make yourself bigger by making others smaller.
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by d23 4y ago
Have you seen how petty, narcissistic, and irrational this guy is? Normally I'd say that would be insane, but at this point I wouldn't put it past him.
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by d23 4y ago
A shame this is downvoted, since it's quite reasonable.
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by d23 4y ago
> The ElonJet account was violating rules for leaking internal company communications First I've heard of this. The ElonJet person was a Twitter employee then? What communications did they leak?
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by d23 4y ago
> What they actually want is to ensure that their propaganda cannot be silenced, while simultaneously still silencing voices they don't like. They've been so used to being above the law and above the rules it drives them crazy
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by d23 4y ago
As I recall, he was taken to court and was on the path to being forced to adhere to his word in the form of a signed contract. I wouldn't call that being suckered.
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by d23 4y ago
> Tesla isn't even trying to qualify for autonomy in California any more. They've given up. They used to whine about being "over-regulated". What they hated was having to report all disconnects and accidents to DMV, w
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by d23 4y ago
We should require a test of one's ability to drive based on some basic standards before issuing a license. We should come up with a series of rules for what happens if someone does not adhere to these standards, as well as a mechanism
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by d23 4y ago
This quote is a perfect summation of how every bad faith actor in human history is enabled.
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by d23 4y ago
I’ve seen this before. The best I’ve been able to come up with is that if it gets enough downvotes it’s considered controversial and gets ranked lower, even if the overall score is high.
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by d23 4y ago
Anyone can see he’s pathologically disingenuous and dishonest, so if you’re a fan of his at this point one more betrayal of supposed core values is unlikely to change anything. The true core value they admire is narcissism, cruelty, and un
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by d23 4y ago
So if it turns out Elon lied, you’ll change your opinion of him?
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by d23 4y ago
It seems there’s sometimes an arms race in the comments section here to see who can produce the edgiest, most contrarian point the fastest. I’m waiting for the one that says extended, lifelong torture is actually healthy for the animals.
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by d23 4y ago
Watch the movie Dominion if you’re interested in having your eyes opened as to just how cruel and gruesome factory farming is. Whatever you think is going on, it’s almost certainly orders of magnitude worse than you can imagine. The sheer
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by d23 4y ago
To be blunt then: your comment does not add to the discussion in a substantive way.
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by d23 4y ago
Do you have a background in this field?
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by d23 4y ago
I'm baffled by the comments on this topic in particular. Do people just spout off in the comments now despite no background in the field? I don't really recall a time in the past where this was so prevalent on HN. I used to be
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by d23 4y ago
> You should be able to buy cocaine, heroin, fentanyl at the local grocery store. No question asked. Maybe even subsidize it for poor people who can't afford market prices. One of the most unhinged things I've read on this site
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by d23 4y ago
Of course. I also assume it doesn’t make Chapelle look very good, so his team probably has an equal incentive to have it removed. Edit: ah yes, downvoted. I guess it's controversial now as to whether people booing at someone's s
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by d23 4y ago
> I suspect Elon would simply reduce the "reach" of those posts instead which would allow him to deny employing censorship I agree we need evidence, since this could just be copyright takedown, but I've also seen no eviden
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by d23 4y ago
I hope so. We came to a razors edge of western democracy failing, in large part because of this behavior.
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by d23 4y ago
Yeah something like that. I probably misworded it and my memory is fuzzy after such a long time.
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by d23 4y ago
Nearly ten years ago I was asked FizzBuzz over the phone. As in: program it by talking. I'm 90% sure I got it correct, but I believe the interviewer didn't understand the logic of negation on a zero modulus result and I didn&#x2
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by d23 4y ago
It's a good forcing function to make me consider whether I should even bother or just leave the site when I see that popup.

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