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by rodgerd 4y ago
> They wouldn't accept his advice or help on how to make twitter better after he became a 9.1% shareholder. They were happy for him to become a director. He balked as soon as it became clear that he'd have to pass the same back
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> It's a completely bewildering move; I'm not sure what Elon was thinking when he even decided to buy Twitter. Yet another one of his relationships burned down and this time his ex is with a trans lady. One of his kids went to
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> I hope that the wheels stay on sufficiently to get an idea of where EM wants to take Twitter and find out what kind of value it can bring. He was pretty clear. The bar kicked out the Nazis, and he wants them back in.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> I love how the goalposts keep shifting all the time Which ones? The ones where cars would self-deliver five years ago? That Mars colonisation would have begun this year? That Cybertruck would deliver three years ago? The goalposts are
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> This was a fascinating read. Is there any sort of explanation or analysis out there on why so many political leaders as of late believe they can alter the deal and then keep the same level of trust immediately afterwards? Ignoring norm
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Yeah, and the survival rate from cardiac arrest increases when cardiologists are away at a conference, too. Wonder if the two things could be related.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
They have the tools to do that. You might be horrified by how many shitty developers want all the good guardrails GHE provides switched off, and how many managers will support them because they're a "superstar who gets things done
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> Because the Starlink satellites in question don't exist yet, and it's Elon Musk making claims about existing handsets working -- he has a spotty record when it comes to making accurate announcements. What do you mean? Teslas
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> Surprising that the article doesn't mention that To paraphrase someone more famous, "an American is never a foreigner, he belongs everywhere that he goes."
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Yep. JRR Tolkien's mentor and prof, the great Joseph Wright, started working in the Yorkshire mines as a child, learned to read at 15, and managed to save enough (by teaching other factory workers for read for tuppence a week) that he
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> When the unregulated-bank owes billions to millions of people, I guess the people have a problem? That should definitely be the case. The moral risk of anyone else covering this would be catastrophic.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> And if you want to run your own server, good luck getting Gmail to accept your e-mails at all. I still can, but only because I hate myself enough to run my own email for more than 20 years, so there must be some magic field of trust so
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> What we techies miss is that there are more people who don't understand technology and are not willing to spend time learning about it as they have other more important things to do. I'll go stronger than that: if your theory
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> no-one is this retarded He decided to buy Twitter after his girlfriend left him and one of his children sued to never have anything to do with him again. He has blamed both of these things on "wokeness" rather than his histor
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by rodgerd 4y ago
This is a web site originally set up by some of Elon's cronies for people to "pick me!" into jobs. It's hardly surprising that there's no shortage of bootlickers.
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> Twitter has largely turned into message distribution system for 1% The Twitter user base is massively non-Western. Within the West it skews non-White. Your assertions are meaningless garbage and betray a complete lack of how Twitter wo
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Sometimes that works for the CLA holder, sometimes it doesn't. As the FSF discovered when they tried to force the issue for gcc.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
CLAs for foundations deserve considerable security, but that's nothing on CLAs for companies; I cannot ever see a good reason to sign on for one of those.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
To steal a comment by Matthew Garret, "No way to prevent this, says users of only programming language where this happens regularly".
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I do, in fact, remember the 80s. And the point of asset stripping in that era was that the targets were generally companies with good fundamentals in parts, which had either merged or grown in ways that resulted in those good components pro
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by rodgerd 4y ago
You should probably seek professional help about that projection problem you have.
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Yes, letting Boeing tell the FAA whether their planes are safe has worked so well.
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> Fediverse is literally built of, by, and for people who hate this kind of corporate bullshit. You might have said the same thing about HTML, once. Now it's whatever the owner of the browser monopoly says that it is.
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It's funny how people will argue "never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence" to excuse an institution or individual they like, but here people are bending over backwards to justify Musk's behaviour
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Just to service the debt that Musk loaded them with as part of the purchase, they're going to have to add a billion a year. They had 5 billion in revenue last year. So that would be three billion a year in subscriptions. Given that Twi
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> All I remember of this early period was just how much OS9 would crash This just takes me back to working for an Apple reseller and the stream of internal hype around Copland (what was supposed to be OS8) in the mid-90s. It was going to
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by rodgerd 4y ago
You aren't the only one, but this year has seen both streamers take an axe to a lot of their interesting pieces, particularly for kids: Amphibia, Ghost City, The Owl House, Hilda, Baby Sitter's Club, and Kid Cosmic all off the top
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Oh, absolutely.
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> I really don't think companies care what their ads appear alongside. It's always funny to see people on HN confidently assert absolute horseshit based on no experience. As someone who's worked in ad-supported publishing,
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by rodgerd 4y ago
"You get as much speech as you want to pay for" is probably the single least surprising take from the VC elite.

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