weeblewobble

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by weeblewobble 4y ago
Pilots understandably don’t like it (invasion of privacy, exposes them to liability, etc) and they have labor power
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by weeblewobble 4y ago
People who’ve never seen one still understand that an Olympic-sized swimming pool is “quite big”. Which is the general impression people are trying to get across when they use that phrase. People in the Olympics are the best athletes in the
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by weeblewobble 4y ago
Which happens more often? : French general strike or imminent tether collapse?
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by weeblewobble 4y ago
Not fewer ads, lower ad revenue. Existing blue check accounts get to keep them for free indefinitely. Only new ones have to pay
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by weeblewobble 4y ago
Wait you don’t get the login pop up anymore? I still get it constantly, makes twitter pretty much unusable when not logged in
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by weeblewobble 4y ago
"recall" is an overloaded term. the connotation is that theres a serious defect requiring the cars to be sent back to the factory, but often times its just like a firmware update. we should really have two different words for this
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by weeblewobble 4y ago
He had time to read and signal boost a 100% fake news article about Paul Pelosi, so I'm skeptical of arguments based on how busy he is
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by weeblewobble 4y ago
> So someone correct me if I'm wrong but didn't many Twitter employees start talking about how horrible Elon was and how they didn't want to work for him I think it's worth introspecting on where you got this impressi
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by weeblewobble 4y ago
They had to delete the tweet which awarded a specific named transwoman "man of the year award". The tweet was cruel identity-based harassment and not worthy of defense, but it for some reason seems to have radicalized a certain se
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by weeblewobble 4y ago
Which ideologists are those?
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by weeblewobble 4y ago
thank you. it's the definition of a middlebrow dismissal
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by weeblewobble 4y ago
short $META?
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by weeblewobble 4y ago
In Seattle we have PCC, which is at least successful enough to have a bunch of different locations since my childhood. https://www.pccmarkets.com/about/
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by weeblewobble 4y ago
It's embarrassing and awkward, and you can just go get another job instead of going through all that
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by weeblewobble 4y ago
Doesn't really make sense to me. Since when has he ever cared about criticism? He had a binding merger agreement. He didn't have to do any 4-d chess to buy twitter. What establishment? What makes you think they were gearing up for
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by weeblewobble 4y ago
But he says he wants to take the company private because if they fix their bot estimates it will tank the stock price. Which implies he "knew" the bot estimates were wrong (to the extent they were, which seems dubious based on ava
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by weeblewobble 4y ago
I think there's two answers to this question. For Musk, the answer is pretty clearly that he thinks Twitter is poorly run as a business and has no respect or confidence in their management. He thinks he can change the company to make m
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by weeblewobble 4y ago
It seems like a lot of people (Rogan, the Thiel guys, Calcanis) are coming to him talking about free speech, and he kind of nods along, but I didn't really see anything that demonstrated his own passion for the topic. He seems primar
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by weeblewobble 4y ago
Quibi
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by weeblewobble 4y ago
Maybe a cliche around here but the book that popped into my mind when reading your list is Godel, Escher, Bach. Maybe not part 4 but the first three. This book has a very specific thesis but the way it’s introduced is artful and perhaps eve
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by weeblewobble 4y ago
To me that part is pretty weak compared to the security disclosures. The "lie" is about whether or not Twitter executives are incentivized to delete bots (later on he says that Twitter is incentivized to keep bots out of mDAU beca
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by weeblewobble 4y ago
Probably not, because it's an opinion.
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by weeblewobble 4y ago
Easy to blame lazy overpaid ICs, but really this is an organizational problem. When I was at a big tech company I was on not one but two different teams that were created to build a poorly-thought-out product with no plan and no serious exe
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by weeblewobble 4y ago
> The in practice problem is that my ROI has been outpaced by the housing market's lunacy, and more recently, there's the problem of inflation. What do you mean? Inflation is good for fixed-rate mortgage holders
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by weeblewobble 4y ago
It's just a word
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by weeblewobble 4y ago
I found a little more info about it but unfortunately no copy: "‘SO, BANG GOES THE PERSONAL TOUCH’, Bath & West Evening Chronicle, 22 April 1978, p. 10. This is TP’s ‘Star Wars‘ piece that he tended to mention when talking of his y
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by weeblewobble 4y ago
Not trying to be glib but this literally already happened. The Southern states seceded (with a very similar mindset to those who want to secede today) and the federal government physically dominated them with guns. Obviously a lot has chang
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by weeblewobble 4y ago
My impression is that Musk's defense is pretty weak. This is mostly based on Matt Levine's columns so I could be wrong, but it doesn't seem like much to me. He's a known BS artist with a strong incentive to get out of th
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by weeblewobble 4y ago
Tangential, but I found Ev's recent Tweet about the Twitter/Elon mess totally perplexing: "I'm sure there are legal/fiduciary reasons you have to say that [you are going to sue Elon to force the acquisition], Bret.
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by weeblewobble 4y ago
They don't really have to recant it, just delete it. It's a pretty mean tweet anyway, not sure why its worth defending

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