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autaut

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    Comment #48411500

    100% see this times article about how musk only hit 19% of his targets on time: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/02/technology/el...

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    Comment #48335224

    Human cloning, bio weapons are two fast examples

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    Comment #48335167

    I’ve seen this before. The result is a revolving door of temporary work. Because soon companies will be “you already put 6 months in, we don’t have enough signal work 6 more months…

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    Comment #48334978

    Musk cutting the headcount and everything working fine is a myth he perpetrated. In reality things started to go badly almost immediately, big advertisers left. He then wrapped x i…

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    Comment #48061037

    I worked in a company that did that. They couldn't rehire the senior after the junior burned with a bug 700k in 20 min by touching a part of the codebase no one had context for any…

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    Comment #48032586

    In the 70 and 80s ppl kept their lifestyle by having their spouse starting to work. In the 90s and 2000s it was with credit cards. In the 2010s it was apps offering artificially de…

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    Comment #47904930

    I think tech ceo got a little bit too excited and their mask fell off and started saying “oh yeah, you don’t like it? Too bad nothing you can do about it”. You’ll see them quickly …

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    Comment #47904901

    I don’t think the public hates ai. I think AI needs a lot of money so it loudly only pursued the light-bendingly rich by leveraging the only two emotions they have: 1) greed: you w…

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    Comment #47904799

    It is not my claim it is common knowledge. The problem is users here trying to pretend that a standard legal practice is Zuckerberg taking personal responsibility. No he is just fo…

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    Comment #47904299

    They don’t give severance to be nice, severance is hush money. To get the severance employees have to agree to forgo any legal claim they could have with the company. They have cal…

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    Comment #47898938

    No they couldn’t because the severance is paid out of the money the budget set aside for wages for the year. So out of the 12 months, they give 4 months to the laid off worker and …

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    Comment #47895227

    I believe that it's a bit more complicated than that especially if we look at the contributions of IMEC. But irregardless I can hand you the point that you are making and then say …

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    Comment #47893246

    I think it’s to their credit that they don’t have one and instead got cern. A bunch of shitty crud apps made by mediocre rent seekers that got rich on tax avoidance, gov money + re…

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    Comment #47890759

    A few companies get almost all investments. They start a lot of projects fast and close the ones that don’t work If companies stuck to fewer projects, money would be invested in ot…

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    Comment #47887411

    You are forgetting 20 years and billions of dollars developing, in collaboration with research institutes like IMEC and funding from chipmakers like Intel, Samsung, and TSMC. But i…

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    Comment #47887381

    >provide severance packages for those in the United States that include “16 weeks of base pay plus two weeks for every year of employment” That is a standard package and no way a F…

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    Comment #47887355

    He is not putting the shares down himself. He is just subject to price fluctuations like everyone else — so how is he taking personal responsibility for it?

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    Comment #47885229

    It would be better because it would create a more diverse work space where multiple employers complete for employees, instead of one company playing musical chairs with people

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    Comment #47885219

    You have brain poisoning from reading too much slop online. >But I doubt the low-growth, low-innovation world of Europe will make the next iPhone, AI, or chip. >chip Do you realize…

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    Comment #47885133

    Is he going to pay the severances out of pocket? Is he going to personally help those employees get back on their feet? Is he going to make sure their families are ok? Is he steppi…

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    Comment #47881480

    First of all if a company is profitable and has a number of employees and has no idea how to use them that’s a failure of leadership. The board should look for an executive team th…

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    Comment #47881166

    He really didn’t tho. X was constantly breaking and falling apart in his hands, so he repackaged it in xAI where he got a bunch of money to hire a bunch of engineers to develop fea…