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by d23 4y ago
Buffett and Munger seem like genuinely good guys from the various talks and writings I’ve seen of theirs.
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by d23 4y ago
I think they got it from Elon shortly after he took over, turned everything into chaos, and advertisers started bailing. That being said, he also appears to be a pathological liar, so he could just be making it up on top of that. But yes,
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by d23 4y ago
Yes. It lost its luster. I think it came from being disillusioned by the realities of working for my "dream" job and what once seemed like a challenge technically no longer seeming difficult.
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by d23 4y ago
Yes, you're right -- it's likely he's always been a childish ass. My impression of him before this was neutral to positive, probably because he hasn't been drawing as much attention to himself. Your defense I guess is
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by d23 4y ago
The president of the United States and leader of the right wing party attempted a months-long coordinated multi-level effort to overthrow the election, and he’s still the de facto leader of that party. It is utter nonsense to suggest that
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by d23 4y ago
I’d choose “idiocy,” but yes.
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by d23 4y ago
> What do you expect my response to be? "I hate that all these gas cars are going away and I wish I had lost all my money" Let me whip up some copy for you: “I was a fan of his, but his childish behavior as of late has been dis
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by d23 4y ago
Most of the most consequential changes to the reddit feeds a few years ago I was involved in or directly came up with. The most visible was probably the one that started putting discussion-heavy posts on the front page (things like legalad
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by d23 4y ago
He’s also done nothing to communicate a vision beyond “work for an abusive psychopath.”
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by d23 4y ago
This is a fast moving situation and is directly related to the industry. I’d like to see as many of them as is distinct and relevant.
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by d23 4y ago
The vision is working in a cult of personality centered around placating the whims of a narcissistic, psychopathic toddler. Apparently this is attractive to some people.
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by d23 4y ago
Fuck no.
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by d23 4y ago
I love this take — as though the public is responsible for his narcissism and abrasiveness. He is purposefully attracting attention to himself like a mantoddler. Your continued defense of him speaks volumes about your values as an individu
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by d23 4y ago
There are an overflow of reasons to dislike him that have nothing to do with his politics.
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by d23 4y ago
Twitter 2.0 will need to be “extremely hardcore.” Truly a visionary.
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by d23 4y ago
He’s now made it clear to everyone that he’s an awful person. The stain will not be washed away. Radioactive is a good metaphor.
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by d23 4y ago
Sure, to the extent you could trust any other piece of writing. Tweets come with the same caveats as any other source of information and require critical thinking to process.
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by d23 4y ago
It checks out as a great gotcha to me.
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by d23 4y ago
That's not a superlative, plenty of people had that opinion before three years ago, and sure, why not, it's a web forum.
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by d23 4y ago
> For Twitter, the vision Musk is selling is that "it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence&q
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by d23 4y ago
I read "The Simple Path to Wealth." But honestly, the TL;DR is pick a low-cost broker (like Vanguard) and put your money into something broad, such as VTI for the United States stock market. You could also mix in a world index a
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by d23 4y ago
That was basically my conclusion after looking into it for a while. There are countless ways of designing an options trading strategy to bet on exactly what outcome you feel is going to happen. But at the end of the day, I couldn't g
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by d23 4y ago
You've got it all wrong! These people are noble for being bloodsuckers that scam customers and rot the company from the inside!
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by d23 4y ago
I love that your cynical, worker-self-serving take is downvoted while the top comment is an equally cynical management-self-serving take.
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by d23 4y ago
I smell a lot of captains of industry with stockholm syndrome in those takes. They fetishize self-serving sociopathy -- which is frequently just compensation for deep incompetence.
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by d23 4y ago
It's their fucking job to solve the problem, and it's professional malpractice to hear the news, acknowledge it's true, and then sweep it under the rug.
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by d23 4y ago
This is not in dispute. A reminder that 34 people were charged as a part of Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in our election, five of which were high level parts of Trump's campaign staff (Papadopoulos, Manafort,
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by d23 4y ago
He’s responsible for his behavior and the image he puts out in public. The fact that he acts cruel, psychotic, and childish in public and somewhat normal to other billionaires in private says a lot about him, and it’s not good.
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by d23 4y ago
I can’t speak for the rest of HN, but his childish narcissistic megalomania certainly rubs me the wrong way.
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by d23 4y ago
Cool idea, but my first and only attempt returned "something went wrong".

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