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by mikkergp 4y ago
While I won’t pretend to be completely ambivalent to the rights argument about freedom of speech, do people really find value in a platform that is all crypto scams and poop emoji’s? Sounds expensive to store.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Watched the first five minutes, is this a satire on anti-vax documentaries? It features Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster and the JFK assassination.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
This doesn’t seem bad in an - Twitter is platforming people I disagree with kind of way, it more feels bad in the - this boat has a weight capacity kind of way. What’s the 4d chess move here?
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Based on the growing popularity of the sport rarity of the event and evolving technical table stakes, shouldn’t all world cups be the most expensive ever(to that point)? Dog bites man.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> Nothing meaningful has been built since 2010 Original post said nothing, not nothing meaningful. I can’t disagree with “nothing meaningful” because it’s subjective. Also, innovation isn’t just about the thing that work: Thomas Edison
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Some people empathize with the working class over CEO’s and billionaires. Some people think in the end, billionaires will be ok, and ultimately are not being exploited. > If we’re going to go down that road we might as well count how ma
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Apple Watch was released in 2015 On March 28, 2016, the first consumer version of Oculus Rift, Oculus Rift "CV1", was released. Rivians just started shipping. Electric scooters “Hoverboards” Those rent a bike kiosks seem pretty re
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Some people thinks it worth trying to make the world a better place.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Is there a practical reason why Elon Musk cares if this comes out or is he just picking a fight with the media to pick a fight.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Is it going to be harder to be a VC going forward? There’s the idea “everyone is a genius in a bull market” if this stays low seems like we’re out of a long tech bull market, for my money though it will be back in a few years. I just wish
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by mikkergp 4y ago
This is an interesting decision. I imagine his ultimate goal is auto-mod but it seems like maybe you’d want to have that in place before you did this? If he’s drumming up customers for his $8 twitter blue subscription can there be that man
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by mikkergp 4y ago
While they certainly have a lot more staff than feared (2700 when they said that 90% left) and I think they can probably keep it up mostly ok (there are already bugs) I'm curious where that leaves feature delivery. We've already
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> People forget that Elon was one of the original dot com millionaires with his success in PayPal. Who are these people you speak of. On here? Did you do a poll or how did you figure this out. I thought this was common knowledge.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Why the clickbaity title that seems explicitly designed to raise animosity when the conclusions are as a pro-vaccine person might expect? To like cause fights when an anti-vaxxer posts it without reading or something?
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I’m very curious about how governance is handled at Twitter right now, anything he would want to build would have to run on what - a hundred, or maybe even a thousand node cluster, if he wanted to build it in parallel, is Musk going to fund
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I guess it keeps people who are firmly attached to the gender binary and heteronormativity from having to have their perspectives challenged?
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I was wondering, he did a poll on twitter though that suggested the most mentioned problems with search may be fixed just by adding some specific filters/subpages, which does beg the question though, what is broken about Twitter's
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Having a hall pass in high school really helped me understand my place in the world, I'm glad to have that back.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> The article isn't saying the highest bid is 60cents/$. It's saying this was the lowest bid. Very weasel way to put it, intentionally trying to mislead. They seemingly got you. Order of magnitude wise this doesn't ch
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by mikkergp 4y ago
https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/geeks-for-monarchy/
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> This is actually a measure of do the banks believe Musk will deliver and there are huge names saying yes. What do you make of the fact that banks can't unload Twitter debt for 60 cents on the dollar? https://www.marketp
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I suspect that if Twitter can maintain itself and become the new Parler/Truth Social/etc. It will ultimately reveal that it itself magnifies underlying political power but doesn't create it(for the parties, for Musk it may b
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." This seems like one of those universal quotes that ends up not meaning anything, I guess unless you're an
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by mikkergp 4y ago
To expand on this idea a bit, I don’t even drink soda. I don’t really use most of the company perks, and I would probably succeed in a moderate version of Musk’s culture. And yet. I think those cultural artifacts are a sign that at the end
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I find it interesting people use Twitter for DMs. Will fully encrypted DMs make it hard to create spam filters/tools to prevent harassment?
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by mikkergp 4y ago
At most it’s a spot check. Or maybe he has a bash script that looks for certain words. I imagine he hopes that the fear of having an email read by Musk will lead to “extremely hardcore” output. I wonder what this will do to code quality.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Im really very curious as to how they’re going to thread the needle here. This is ultimately the question right? Will Elon Musk find a way to magically thread the moderation needle in a way that inspires generations to come, or does it ju
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Is there a difference between Phil Schiller leaving because Apple is probably the brand that cares most in the world about "brand safety" and Phil Schiller leaving because he may potentially block Twitter the app? There may be a b
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by mikkergp 4y ago
So, what's up with Ye's purchase of Parler? Is this all part of a strategy to take out the alt-right social networks? I can't imagine this is good for parler/gab/gittr. Truth Social can probably hang on until Tru
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I think it’s about the approach. “Questioning someone’s competence” has an air of trying to be underhanded. Be direct, set clear expectations. And if you have to let them go do it promptly and professionally. No one likes getting fired, b

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