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by memish 5y ago
It's funny how many people think that means it'll go back up. Twitter's stock has been sideways or down most of the time. It was $69 back in 2014.
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by memish 5y ago
I worry the US internet is trending in that direction. It already sounds too familiar.
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by memish 5y ago
I hadn't thought about it that way. We're seeing some resistance in Shanghai, but not enough to stop it. Even when killing pets and separating children from parents. Lack of grocery deliveries. It's scary.
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by memish 5y ago
You even disagree with him on physics, math, engineering and manufacturing?
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by memish 5y ago
There has been a strange inversion. Some people who used to be anti-authority are now pro-authority and vice versa. https://i.imgur.com/2BUaFjn.jpg
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by memish 5y ago
Yes, but that's where it started becoming noticeable. Too much language was being changed in a non-evolutionary way. That's why Bill Maher named his show Politically Incorrect and George Carlin roasted the euphemism treadmill. The
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by memish 5y ago
Why are they still pursuing Zero Covid? I know the article includes some speculation on this, but what's the best explanation?
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by memish 5y ago
As a shareholder and end user of the product, I agree.
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by memish 5y ago
What lies? Let's iterate through them. If you're referring to the funding secured thing, that was true. Watch his TED talk from yesterday where he explains that he was forced to concede by the SF SEC.
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by memish 5y ago
He wouldn't do that, but it would be useful for them to understand that's what they are doing right now.
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by memish 5y ago
It's telling when their concern is that he is going to decrease censorship and increase transparency.
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by memish 5y ago
Tesla and SpaceX are as complex as it gets, orders of magnitude beyond Twitter. Paul Graham on building a new Twitter: "A decent team could reverse engineer a version 1 in a month."
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by memish 5y ago
At TED yesterday he said it's as much a reference to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, one of his favorite books. 42. The answer to everything.
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by memish 5y ago
From TED yesterday. "Funding was indeed secured. I should say I do not have respect for the SEC in that situation. I don’t mean to blame everyone at the SEC, but certainly the San Francisco office. The SEC knew that funding was secured
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Elon Musk Talks Twitter, Tesla and the Future at TED2022(youtube.com)
7 points by memish 5y ago|0 comments
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by memish 5y ago
Chris Anderson of TED asked Elon a lot of the questions and concerns being discussed here. Check it out if you want to understand his perspective and goals with twitter. “Having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclus
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by memish 5y ago
"Trump's fan base are not tech bellwethers, to put it mildly. Elon's are." https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1507791725410070528
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by memish 5y ago
Even just him announcing a new platform would scare twitter investors. If successful it'd drive twitter even further down. Paul Graham thinks he would be able to compete: "It is obvious. It's also obvious that Elon could draw
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by memish 5y ago
What happens if they reject his offer? He sells and the price falls. Then he announces a new platform and the price falls again.
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by memish 5y ago
Think they are calling on Bezos? He bought WaPo and that worked out in their mind.
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by memish 5y ago
You're likely right. And much like Cassandra, you're getting downvoted for the warning.
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by memish 5y ago
Would Elon reinstate Jack to set up a Steve Jobs style comeback story?
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by memish 5y ago
This is a good point. Everyone that thought it was great twitter was centralized and saying "it's a private company, they can censor what they want" and "go make your own platform" will have to contend with their on
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by memish 5y ago
His tweeting patterns reflect free speech ideals. I'm surprised you don't see that. He's also one of the ACLU's biggest donors.
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by memish 5y ago
The obscenely wealthy control it now. He would be a much better steward of free speech than they are, that much is obvious. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
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by memish 5y ago
Not long before Elon bought a 9% stake, one of the largest satire accounts on twitter was suspended for a joke. They are literally censoring humor and that may have been the final straw. Also worth noting that he was one of the ACLU's
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by memish 5y ago
Elon will be able to remove 90% and turn twitter HQ into a homeless shelter. SF and the world will be better off.
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by memish 5y ago
To put an even finer point on it, you'll never ever see Xi or Putin say "I'm a free speech absolutist" or "let's have less censorship". That so many people are taking the position of authoritarians, but pr
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Einstein, Newton weren't peer reviewed. Has the method of science regressed?(twitter.com)
2 points by memish 5y ago|3 comments
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Paper straws were based on a fake study(twitter.com)
19 points by memish 5y ago|19 comments

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