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by loceng 5y ago
Well, along with if they don't sell to him it feels like he will become create a Twitter competitor with up a budget of up to $42 billion to spend - which based on his past successes he will efficiently spend.
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by loceng 5y ago
That's your burden of "proof" that Elon has indicated he'd fire most employees?
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by loceng 5y ago
Does this include removing the layer below this layer of the filtering/censoring of what content can reach the masses to begin with? Is it a double standard and/or hypocritical and/or virtue signalling otherwise? "These
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by loceng 5y ago
It's not an obvious good idea to buy Twitter though - and is especially risky if you're not wanting to just continue to run the business as is without potentially de-stabilizing it and destroying it in the process.
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by loceng 5y ago
You're not focusing on foundational principles - you're looking at current status quo surface level/shallow consequences of decisions. E.g. Low moderation making difficulty attracting revenue is because that's based on a
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by loceng 5y ago
He arguably didn't know what he was doing with Tesla or SpaceX, nor The Boring Company et al, though he seems quite good at solving for problems he deems worthy enough of his attention - or that draw his attention strongly enough. Elon
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by loceng 5y ago
Indeed, it's just shifting a regulatory/systems capture situation to the wild west.
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by loceng 5y ago
Coinbase regularly "goes down" or at least large amounts of users unable to login whenever there seems to be a "bank run" - which conveniently will help reduce the downward pressure on the price plummeting, so whatever b
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by loceng 5y ago
At the same time you're incentivizing capital punishment and perhaps incentivizing persecution of people of a specific donor match, so then magically sooner than later enough donors become available to fill the needs of a wait list unt
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by loceng 5y ago
Bags full of people's pets that were gathered due to COVID concerns (it looks like still alive, though uncertain if the plan is to kill them): "Pets filled up in bags for their duly execution in Shanghai, China as a part of the go
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by loceng 5y ago
Do you know if it is only third-party analytics being called that requires the prompt, or is setting any cookie for the website's use only requiring permission too?
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by loceng 5y ago
And 30% making decisions for all of Canada is being argued as a good thing and fair, that my framing is unfair? Thank Goodness we have the Senate that requires passing these measures, these harmless ones like this one because it basically d
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by loceng 5y ago
Only 20% of Canadians voted for Trudeau, and the majority of Canadians are being misled by our mass media channels - CBC which got $1.2 billion of government funding last year, and they are now being rewarded with an additional $100 million
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by loceng 5y ago
Top threads in Reddit are often contrived too: comments and recommendations mimicking real flow, just like fraudulent scientific studies fill the framework to look legit and where the layperson, and even scientists who aren't great wit
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by loceng 5y ago
Exactly: it's the policy, it's captured by for-profit industrial complexes - and if you want to get into deeper conspiracy hypothesis, it's also foreign influence laundering $100s of billions into our real estate market, not
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by loceng 5y ago
Indeed, brand advertising is a thing - specifically to reenforce and make that brand "brighter" or have more strength in the person's psyche, so it stays familiar. The concept of advertising at its foundation is often taught
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by loceng 5y ago
This is nothing but pandering for votes before an election for those who don't understand this won't have any significant impact on affordability of houses for Canadians. There's a reason why we still also pay the highest tel
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by loceng 5y ago
There's all the political decisions to make as to what do you do with existing Likes, Retweets, etc, what oversight will there be, if any, on monitoring if an edit was just say for a typo or it's a completely different text after
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by loceng 5y ago
So I'm curious then what you think about short sellers who can bet against Elon Musk, and therefore they're financially incentivized to generate negative press (whether factual or not), and that Elon is very vocal against that pra
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by loceng 5y ago
My bad, I was thinking of your "and [Elon buying 10% of Twitter is] awful for society" comment - unless I misunderstood what you that was awful for society.
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by loceng 5y ago
The profitable way to get yourself an edit button for tweets; Elon's ~$3 billion stake now worth ~$4 billion. Making $1 billion by simply spending $3 billion is pretty sweet.
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by loceng 5y ago
Luckily your stating something with no actual argument points to support your statement doesn't hold any weight whatsoever to whether it has any truth to it or not.
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by loceng 5y ago
Arguably Twitter isn't worth its market cap.
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by loceng 5y ago
Twitter doesn't even follow their own rules though. I don't know whether it's purposeful or just that their moderators aren't competent, lacking critical thinking, and lacking oversight; I have seen tweets that were caus
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by loceng 5y ago
The trend I have seen with clothing brands is most often once they become popular, become a recognized "brand name" - often because of their high quality, good design, and relative affordability. Then the economies of scale "
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by loceng 5y ago
Add very unhealthy inflammatory diets/low quality food (processed etc), pharmaceuticals, and multi-generational dis-ease progression to that list; your parents' health, society's health as a whole and how they interact with y
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by loceng 5y ago
So far. Both sides - "good" and "evil" - have the technology of this past century and on to utilize. Arguably the interconnectivity and instantaneous communication between any and every human on Earth has its advantages,
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by loceng 5y ago
Re: "COVID is more a trust crisis than a health one IMO" More foundationally we're in an intellectual-ideological crisis. Conspiracy theories are different than conspiracy hypotheses - the quality of the proof or argument poi
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by loceng 5y ago
Don't appear to use them because they're hidden. It's fairly common with drug smuggling I believe as well. And from what I remember there were tunnels from Palestine to Israel. It's why Elon has said roughly that if you
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by loceng 5y ago
Right, so here's how the government can easily crack down on Bitcoin - through non-digital communication channels: you get officers to pretend to be normal people, you give them Bitcoin for something you buy from them (legal item or il

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