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by vehementi 4y ago
This garbage was appropriately torn apart in the twitter thread already Sad to see someone so non understanding add the "ah yes the people who are 10x as strong as others, just only held back" shtick and then to see it echoed as &
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by vehementi 4y ago
I don't think I have ever clicked anything on one of those headers on a website in my life. In fact the anti pattern is so obnoxious I literally couldn't tell you what's even on them.
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by vehementi 4y ago
Yep, working for a BigCo and the culture was just as a matter of course to turn cameras on and see each other. I am really curious where the opposite is coming from
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by vehementi 4y ago
> Young (< 50) healthy adults shouldn’t even really be getting annual checkups (in my professional opinion and per several guidelines) How does letting people have undiagnosed cancer in their 30s and 40s fit in with this?
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by vehementi 4y ago
I'd describe this as a "live map" not a "recent map" Certainly not worthy of being called "misleading" but I would say it's misnamed
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by vehementi 4y ago
> Yet there is still outcry about how we need MOAR MOAR MOAR! Was the budget increased enough in the first place to what the experts recommended? "I generously give my employees a raise every, single, year, of 0.5%, and yet all I he
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by vehementi 4y ago
Like other people in this thread I've had the idea of retiring early and having a second career as a teacher. What if I did that, and then just refused to take any of that shit? Are teachers rare enough that I wouldn't get fired?
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by vehementi 4y ago
Yeah, but the claim was that nobody was like this, while there are obviously a bunch of people explicitly doing this
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by vehementi 4y ago
Granted such people exist but twitter i.e. the board acting in shareholders interest, in fact wants the deal to go through, not to get the $1B thing.
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by vehementi 4y ago
> That will be almost impossible to prove I mean, the trivial case is Musk's discovery reveals some smoking gun email about knowing that their methodology showed 50% mDAU were bots but the CEO overruling everyone and putting 5% on t
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by vehementi 4y ago
That logic is nonsense, 3rd party observers have no way to know what twitter counts as a daily active user. They *could not possibly* make any such estimate.
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by vehementi 4y ago
Such confidence without reading it
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by vehementi 4y ago
You're not caught up with things. Twitter is suing to force the deal to go through at the original price, not to get the $1B.
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by vehementi 4y ago
I despaired until I saw that it actually confirms something is right and locked in. Nice!
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by vehementi 4y ago
> I can't agree with your assessment at all. Deaths are rising, yet what changes are happening? More than one factor affecting a phenomenon can exist. They can be making changes to make things safer, while other things can be workin
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by vehementi 4y ago
Yeah but we will get the word out that none of that is trustworthy, then. There will be countermeasures and reactions to this just like previous things. It will certainly be effective to some degree - propaganda is effective for sure - but
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by vehementi 4y ago
Right but today we have that problem already. We know that a bad actor journalist can write a fake story. We therefore require sources. If deepfakes come along we will know videos can be fake and so we will be skeptical, as we are today, an
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by vehementi 4y ago
> Five hundred data points collected from 13 vessels sounds impressive, but David Johns, head of the Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey, describes it as "a literal drop in the ocean." Johns would know—the Continuous Plankton R
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by vehementi 4y ago
Well, it depends on what is in the firehose. What twitter really knows that you can't just see, is how (with what client) users are logging in and whether their ad tracker URLs are being triggered (i.e. the user really did result in an
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by vehementi 4y ago
I guess you didn't read the article because Levine explains that scenario in this and previous articles lol?
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by vehementi 4y ago
Yes, it is crucially different. mDAU is defined in the SEC filings which you can easily check. Basically it boils down to, there's say a billion twitter accounts. A shitload are inactive, or obviously bots, or joke accounts, or actual
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by vehementi 4y ago
Yes, this is how it has been the entire time since Musk's offer. You'll see that the stock price was pegged at $54, and then when he started talking shit, the price went to some weighted average of the true FMV and Musk's off
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by vehementi 4y ago
> what is far more likely is that he has uncovered some deep Twitter bullshit What is your calculation/reasoning that that is far more likely? How did you come to that?
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by vehementi 4y ago
That's exactly it, a bot using headless client or something would "view" the ad (trigger download of the ad, etc.) but not be a real person (no eyeballs on the ad). Hence, that instance of the ad display was fake/fraud&#
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by vehementi 4y ago
Twitter doesn't ever claim its bot numbers are 5%. Only Musk says Twitter says that. Twitter says its mDAU (critically important distinction and definition, check SEC filing for what it means) is under 5% bots which is a different numb
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by vehementi 4y ago
> but bots _should_ be a subset of "false or spam" accounts Do you mean "they should report all bots as part of their false or spam accounts number", or that you believe logically bots are in fact a subset of the numb
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by vehementi 4y ago
This is hilarious, Musk has no leg to stand on legally so he's trying to get Texas to sue for this info for him!
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by vehementi 4y ago
Throwing darts at the SEC filings after signing a deal "hmm, I wonder if their revenue numbers were falsely filed to the SEC. Please show me all financial data now..."
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by vehementi 4y ago
Indeed that would have been a good thing to look up in the due diligence related parts he omitted from wanting in the contract
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by vehementi 4y ago
There is no $1B exit clause - there's just a $1B cap to damages twitter can sue for if the deal falls through. A court would have to decide to award $1B. Twitter can further sue for "specific performance" and a court could, w

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