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by memish 4y ago
The opposite. You're witnessing a ship that was sinking that's about to become buoyant.
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by memish 4y ago
> Elon regularly punches down, not up. How regularly? Examples aside from "pedo guy"? Which I think all, including himself, would agree was a punch down.
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by memish 4y ago
Projection and Tall Poppy Syndrome. Also there's extra incentive to tear down anyone with multiple successes, as they're a constant reminder that success isn't all due to luck.
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by memish 4y ago
Also, how many did Twitter gain or lose? It's possible for both Mastodon and Twitter to have increased during the same time period.
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by memish 4y ago
To add to that, how many did Twitter gain in that same period? There are people whose follower counts increased dramatically, which would suggest there was a large influx there too.
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by memish 4y ago
The elite have always used myriad silly ways to distance themselves from the unwashed masses throughout history.
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by memish 4y ago
He wasn't haggling. He was mocking the blue check status symbol in King's face and audience. $8 makes it cheaper than a Netflix subscription for something that previously exclusive and had no dollar value attached to it. It was li
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by memish 4y ago
The idea that someone who is addicted to Twitter and worth $500M would leave because they lose their special Blue Check over $20 is hilarious. He's just butt hurt because the VIP room and symbol is being opened to the proles. Now any s
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by memish 4y ago
"It elicits shrieks because it’s more about leveling the playing field than making money."
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by memish 4y ago
A lot of people aren't groking what this means, even on tech and startup savvy HN. Naval and Balaji said it well: Charging for the blue check moves it from a status symbol to a utilitarian one. It elicits shrieks because it’s more abou
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by memish 4y ago
You don't have to. It'll still be free for anons.
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by memish 4y ago
If you're not paying for it, you're the product.
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by memish 4y ago
That's what people said about Tesla.
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by memish 4y ago
Imagine thinking he made the decision based on that.
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by memish 4y ago
I can see how you think that if you're not familiar with how blue checks are awarded and what they mean to the nobility class of Twitter.
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by memish 4y ago
The best engineers in the world working at SpaceX and Tesla disagree. Here's Andrej Karpathy's (ex-Tesla, even better) take from a couple days ago on Lex's podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbxladysbTE
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by memish 4y ago
Especially when you look at how much journalists have gotten wrong the past few days. Ligma and Johnson ("They are visibly shaken"), mass layoffs before Nov 1st (nope), unbanned accounts would be back on by Monday (nope), Elon res
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by memish 4y ago
It will be both. Pay to verify, get paid for creating content. "This will also give Twitter a revenue stream to reward content creators" https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587505731611262976
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by memish 4y ago
For King and many other blue checks it's a status symbol. A way for the Lord to distinguish himself from the peasants. King (aptly named) would be happier if it was a Veblen good that cost $100,000/mo, which he could afford, but t
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by memish 4y ago
The status quo is that you need to be a Lord to get the blue check. This makes it available to anyone who is able to get a Netflix subscription. It goes from a status symbol to a commodity. The Lords will hate it because it makes it avail
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by memish 4y ago
Why does any price make no sense? "If you're not paying for the product, you're the product." Though to truly resolve this, they need 0 ads, not 50% fewer.
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Andrej Karpathy on Elon Musk(youtube.com)
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by memish 4y ago
Context is important. He was responding to a dubious claim with a dubious claim.
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by memish 4y ago
> Even laying off 25% of the workers would be hard to justify at this point. It wouldn't because we're in a downturn and Twitter was already planning layoffs.
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by memish 4y ago
How do you know?
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by memish 4y ago
I may not agree with your assessment of my intelligence, but I defend your right to say it.
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by memish 4y ago
Why is that strange? It's a principled position unrelated to not liking him or not wanting to work with him.
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by memish 4y ago
More open and friendly than most. https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
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by memish 4y ago
Correct.
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by memish 4y ago
You can't be serious. Ideas are not attached to skin color. That's a regressive, racist belief.

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