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by memish 4y ago
Private companies still have stock and it tends to be a big part of their compensation.
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by memish 4y ago
I agree.
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by memish 4y ago
There's still a question of how "negative/hate" is defined and whether this will be transparent. I'm skeptical, but the general principle of discouraging and not profiting from negativity is, uh, positive.
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by memish 4y ago
The projection on here is getting cartoonish. John Carmack, "Elon is definitely an engineer. He is deeply involved with technical decisions at spacex and Tesla. He doesn’t write code or do CAD today, but he is perfectly capable of doin
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by memish 4y ago
It's says something when the greatest living hacker, George Hotz, now wants to work at Twitter. But so many of the readers of "hacker news" can't even imagine why.
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by memish 4y ago
Of course, but it's not binary. It's not a choice of people who hate you or love you unquestionably. There's a middle ground between those. I don't buy into the notion that the chief engineer of SpaceX, which puts rocket
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by memish 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
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by memish 4y ago
They don't have stock? Also maybe don't say your employer is a "petulant man child" in Slack or otherwise undermine them and you'll be fine. The idea that an employer should keep people that actively dislike like hi
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by memish 4y ago
Go for it. It's rare to see such a high alpha opportunity. It's like getting in an early stage startup but in this case they already have network effects.
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by memish 4y ago
Why is that not good? Twitter can communicate to people directly without the media middleman.
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by memish 4y ago
Yes, and actually Tesla is similar in that their staff donates 94% to Democrats. That's not an issue because it's not affecting the output of electric cars in a negative way. Perhaps it's even positive since they are more mot
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by memish 4y ago
I give builders the benefit of the doubt, especially if they've done it before. Especially if they've put rockets in space. That he deleted that stupid tweet was admission it was stupid. Where did he say he never posted it though?
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by memish 4y ago
What happens when Twitter survives despite reducing headcount by 80-90%? It's going to send a message that companies are more overstaffed than we thought. This may explain an underlying fear driving even some engineers to put their rep
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by memish 4y ago
They didn't report the full story, they are lying by omission. Share the actual messages posted on Slack. I'll wait.
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by memish 4y ago
The same Twitter but with higher DAU is running with xx% less overhead. That's an objective improvement measured by numbers. That Twitter blue was a mess for a day doesn't matter in the long run. Losing advertisers is a problem in
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by memish 4y ago
Highest DAU for xx% less overhead is literally winning. That's why people have lost their minds. They want him to fail so badly and they're getting the feeling that he won't, so cognitive dissonance is through the roof.
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by memish 4y ago
FTX had like 20 employees, how many could Twitter possibly need? /s
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by memish 4y ago
George Hotz has criticized Elon, yet Elon wants him on board. There is a difference between critiquing your employer or insulting your employer. Try insulting your employer on Slack or Twitter and see how it goes.
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by memish 4y ago
A couple weeks ago 50% were laid off and nothing happened. Now I read on Twitter that Twitter died and it's at a record high DAU. Make it make sense! It may be bumpy in the short term, but then all of the supremely confident naysayers
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by memish 4y ago
You're ignoring 20 years of Tesla and SpaceX? And the only thing that we've seen with Twitter is that it's at an all time high DAU at a fraction of the cost. So far so good. All of the doomsayers are just making predictions t
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by memish 4y ago
If you think the CEO of Tesla and Founder, CEO, Chief Engineer of SpaceX is a failure, I'm dying to know: What have you accomplished?
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by memish 4y ago
George Hotz is interviewing there tomorrow. https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/159339146698169139... For a certain kind of engineer, this version of Twitter is far more attractive than the previous one.
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by memish 4y ago
He was tight with the regulators and literally advising congress, yet they had no idea what he was doing and gave his operation a veneer of authenticity, so he's correct on that point.
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by memish 4y ago
Coinbase did all the right things with compliance and ethics, but went through hell because of their no politics at work stance. The media did hit pieces on their CEO because of it. He and Coinbase were villainized on social media. FTX and
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by memish 4y ago
What's interesting is how little scrutiny was applied to FTX and they're the one who lost people's money. Tether has been under intense scrutiny for years and is still working just fine. No one has lost their money in Tether
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by memish 4y ago
Maybe as an average, but high performers can sustain more than 40h/week and that's who he is targeting.
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by memish 4y ago
I wish.
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by memish 4y ago
Seriously.
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by memish 4y ago
> What are your thoughts on him being pretty much the only one not being able to see that the feature he pushed would create massive problems with account impersonation? He moved too fast and everyone makes mistakes. The important thing
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by memish 4y ago
Mario is just the messenger here and host of that chat, not the speaker.

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