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by mikkergp 4y ago
> Elon Musk's ultimatum for Twitter workers did not go to plan. I have real trouble believing this, especially with more layoffs announced today. Any way to confirm this is something more than media trying to stir excitement?
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by mikkergp 4y ago
"For non-ideological or virtue-signaling reasons" "Replies to our posts with hardcore anti-semitism and adult spam remained up for days even with flagged" TBF this is a great post, and there are numerous concrete dollars
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> It might be an attempt to mimic Tik-Tok's success by switching Twitter over to essentially an entertainment channel? The real confusing part is Musk’s insistence on a public square but yeah this seems much more realistic. But sti
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Yeah, it makes me wonder, if his trans child had committed suicide, would he be against bullying trans folk? I'm firmly in support of his decision to ban Alex Jones, but this is why things should be rules based instead of the emotiona
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I’ve been wondering about canaries to watch out for, my initial thought was moderate mainstream journalists (Kara Swisher, Matthew Yglesias) who had talked about how much they value the platform, despite all the problems it had. I’m not sur
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I think what gets lost in the extreme vs extreme debate in DEI is that the mainstream view on the goals of DEI are equality of opportunity.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
A single organization does not a movement make. DEI was here long before BLM and will be here long after. Activists movements have always had infighting, surviving that is part of what makes them so resilient.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
What evidence is there to this other than a high profile court case and Musk taking over Twitter, do you think all the activists have just suddenly given up? You don’t think they’ll fight back harder with more rigorous tactics after this?
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I guess are we talking the pilot or mechanic? And is the mechanic working on a plane that is expected to function completely differently year to year? I mean if I’m running sql then yes I expect someone with experience in sql to be able to
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Documentation has limits. It’s not like you come out of med school ready to be a doctor. There’s certain types of knowledge most easily modeled by the search engine in your head. Heck the information may even be written down! But in a m
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Elon Musk had to sell $4 billion dollars in Tesla stock in order to keep Twitter afloat. I’m not disagreeing with the core premise of the article really, nor am I really challenging Musk’s genius! but Musk can say fuck you to everybody be
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by mikkergp 4y ago
You think Trump’s strategy is going to shy away from the insurrection? I figured he would double down.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
5 billion right? Not 50 billion? So 50 million users, I would also be surprised if a small percentage of that number signed up, but technically nothing I said was untrue :-)
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by mikkergp 4y ago
It is definitely a bold vision that, like his other ventures everyone will say can’t be done.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
“Fox News delivered an average total audience of 2.116 million viewers in prime time, down just 1 percent from the same period one year ago, according to ratings data compiled by Nielsen. MSNBC was second with 1.295 million viewers (down 2
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by mikkergp 4y ago
He’s working on a business version of Twitter Blue right? Would that sell itself, or would he replace advertising sales people with subscription sales people. Presumably the business version isn’t $8/month.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I’m firmly in the camp of not wanting to hear anything more from Trump in my lifetime, but I do wonder if there is any ideological side to this from Musk. It’s not clear at all that Trump coming back to Twitter is good for him, or for Repub
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Kara Swisher had a pretty good tweet thread about this. Essentially: Musk is doing a pretty good job single handedly attracting attention to Twitter, but where does he go from here, executing disloyal devs on livestream? https:/&#x2
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by mikkergp 4y ago
This is true, but how does it address my post? Maybe it will grow to dominate social media!! It sure looks like that’s where it’s headed, but if your going to make a prediction about failure you should take a stand instead of being noncom
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by mikkergp 4y ago
His goals with Twitter feel like hubris not confidence but I guess that is the “bullshitter”? The thing from left field is still “succeed at what”. Right now it almost seems like he wants to attract people like mr beast to the platform and
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Journalists saying that twitter will never die because MySpace is still around are non committal, yea I can pati a domain on a $20 a year ec2 instance but that’s not “alive”. If Twitter ends up with less than 10 million mdau’s it’s dead.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Today he fired the ad exec he convinced to stay and sent an Email to all staff to expecting random code reviews at any time when he walks up to their desk. So that’s good.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Often people will say “AWS is so much bigger than us, they have to accommodate us / what could we know that they don’t” is that AWS is still building for the median customer (+/-). It doesn’t make financial sense to optimize for
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Musk has to decide if he wants to share a stage with Trump, who is sure to attack him as soon as he is let back on.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Maybe they could? I’d love to see it, I love the engineering friendly culture, But we do seem to be a in a lull.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Ben Horowitz write this thing about wartime vs peace time ceos and I think it was particularly salient: https://hbr.org/2011/04/peacetime-ceos-vs-wartime-ceos For a long time tech was eating the world and the more
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Im starting to think he’s enjoying this.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Look Musk is going to solve Twitter and Insulin pricing at the same time!
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> sentiment analysis We’ll that’s certain to be going off lately.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Half of Elon Musks views probably are based in a desire to be correct/a visionary, etc but it seems the other half need to be taken with a grain of salt because of course, he’s going to prefer the things that support his empire. Borin

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