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by zwily 4y ago
Musk does not own Twitter yet, and won’t for months.
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by zwily 4y ago
It wasn't open source at the beginning. (I know, I was there.) We open-sourced it early on, but it started as closed-source software.
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by zwily 4y ago
The Canvas LMS: https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms
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by zwily 4y ago
I also closed it after trying to scroll to the first message in a couple posts and not finding it after a whole bunch of Ajax loads. I kept looking for a "jump to the top" button.
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by zwily 4y ago
Elon would not have the right to purchase the discounted shares. Only shareholders other than the one with > 15% can buy the shares for half off (till they hit the open market, of course).
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by zwily 4y ago
They never officially rejected it.
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by zwily 4y ago
There are stipulations that come with buying shares. In fact when you buy shares, they’re never even actually in your name. They’re like 3 steps removed from you via various holding companies that are basically a bunch of various crap. One
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by zwily 4y ago
Yes, but typically when you're losing money like that you show user growth on the other side to justify it. Twitter doesn't have that.
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by zwily 4y ago
That is how smarthome retrofits usually happen, but not new builds.
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by zwily 4y ago
Twitter is not a growth company by any metric: Users, revenue, or stock price. If they could easily generate lots of revenue right now with their current management, they absolutely would already be doing it.
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by zwily 5y ago
I have the same experience. It feels like the download experience was only really made for the “I’m watching a series and want to keep watching it on the plane” use case, and not the “I downloaded 10 episodes of Micky Mouse for my 3yo on ou
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by zwily 5y ago
No, right now it is an unsolicited offer. That doesn’t mean hostile, in financial terms.
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by zwily 5y ago
No it's not.
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by zwily 5y ago
It's not hostile, yet.....
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by zwily 5y ago
So far he's played it all perfectly. No matter how it ends up, fascinating drama to watch.
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by zwily 5y ago
Ultimately that's the case. But the board may decide to reject the offer without doing a shareholder vote. (That's probably what they will do). That's when the shareholders sue.
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by zwily 5y ago
That's correct - his offer is not hostile. If they reject it, he could attempt a hostile takeover by buying up enough stock to install his own board.
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by zwily 5y ago
Lawsuits by the shareholders suing the board for not accepting the offer. Happens all the time.
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by zwily 5y ago
Twitter has underperformed the market overall.
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by zwily 5y ago
The hypothesis doesn’t say that all reporters always get things wrong. The point is that we can read reporting on something we’re very familiar about and notice how flawed it is, but when we read other reporting from the same source we just
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by zwily 5y ago
My Audi does this too. And despite the salesman’s insistence that it’s actually better this way, it still bugs me.
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by zwily 5y ago
As a side note, if you’re interested in Kessler Sundrome and haven’t read Seveneves yet, you need to get on that. :)
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by zwily 5y ago
Only tangentially related: It is super delighting how quickly the M1 laptops wake up. I’d gotten so used to several seconds of waiting for my previous MacBooks to be usable again after opening the lid, but it’s always immediate on the M1. R
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by zwily 5y ago
See: The Social Network. I now refer to it as “Getting Eduardo’d”
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by zwily 5y ago
If you go through that Twitter thread, it seems like her videos pretty consistently get demonetized, even if the channel as a whole is not.
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by zwily 5y ago
We’ve gotten USPS mail on Sundays for awhile now. Why? I don’t know.
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by zwily 5y ago
The Keychain integrations and UI have improved a lot over the past couple years. That said, I still use 1p for family sharing.
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by zwily 5y ago
When we got a nice induction stove we spend years showing off to friends how it could boil a pot of water in about 15 seconds. But the thing we like most about it is how easy it is to clean. :)
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by zwily 5y ago
I had it happen for lots of .page, .dev, etc. Really cool utility though. :)
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by zwily 5y ago
Plaid is not some tiny startup... They're almost 10 years old and Visa tried to buy them for $5B a couple years ago. That doesn't mean you should trust them (I don't), but just because you haven't heard of them doesn&#x2

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