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Re: Musk’s Money Mystery Intrigues SEC

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Post by discodave »

mandeepj wrote: post #43
davesque wrote: post #28

The problem, at this point, is that I think the average person must find all this very tiresome. Let's set aside all the theories about whether or not Musk is actually a stable genius for doing everything he's done lately (including calling one of his critics "pedo guy"). With everything that's going on in the world today, I just don't have the energy to keep up with all this grandstanding. The result? I'm sick of he…

Maybe, Musk is also sick of all of this. This is why he is trying to take his company private

He's clearly not sick of using his Twitter account!

Re: Musk’s Money Mystery Intrigues SEC

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Post by abduhl »

mandeepj wrote: post #43
davesque wrote: post #28

The problem, at this point, is that I think the average person must find all this very tiresome. Let's set aside all the theories about whether or not Musk is actually a stable genius for doing everything he's done lately (including calling one of his critics "pedo guy"). With everything that's going on in the world today, I just don't have the energy to keep up with all this grandstanding. The result? I'm sick of he…

Maybe, Musk is also sick of all of this. This is why he is trying to take his company private

From yesterday's article by Matt Levine:

Now I do not mean to be rude, but is it possible that a CEO who is constantly tweeting attacks on journalists and jokes about bankruptcy, who is also busy running two other companies, who built a mini-submarine and jetted off to Thailand to try to rescue those boys in a cave and then tweeted slanders about someone who actually helped rescue them, and who runs around distributing flamethrowers, might be … distractible? A distraction? Both? Plenty of CEOs go around mouthing very serious platitudes about how public markets and quarterly earnings are a distraction from the important business of running their companies, and you kind of have to take them at their word that were it not for the demands of earnings releases they would be laser-focused on operations, but … Musk … like, we can see him tweeting! Twitter is public! The distraction is coming from inside the house! Does he think that “going private” means “getting off Twitter”? You can just get off Twitter! It doesn’t even require any financing!

Re: Musk’s Money Mystery Intrigues SEC

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Post by deathanatos »

Tomte wrote: post #64
Robotbeat wrote: post #12

This is an opinion piece and not very informative.

On the contrary, there's lots of information. It's the first real attempt at analyzing the legality of it all that I've seen.

And Mr. Levine's writing is highly entertaining, in addition to giving a clear explanation that the layman can understand of the story. And the entertainment value is because the situation is actually ridiculous to begin with.

Re: Musk’s Money Mystery Intrigues SEC

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Post by davesque »

atombender wrote: post #33
davesque wrote: post #28

The problem, at this point, is that I think the average person must find all this very tiresome. Let's set aside all the theories about whether or not Musk is actually a stable genius for doing everything he's done lately (including calling one of his critics "pedo guy"). With everything that's going on in the world today, I just don't have the energy to keep up with all this grandstanding. The result? I'm sick of he…

I don't think that's "the problem". There's plenty of demand for the cars. Elon Musk fatigue may be a real thing, but that's more related to the news cycle (and the Twitter cycle), in my opinion, than Musk himself.

I expect to see that demand shrink. If I find his behavior lately to be weird, I think that other people will as well. I'm also perfectly happy to vote with my dollars.

Re: Musk’s Money Mystery Intrigues SEC

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Post by dang »

Tomte wrote: post #63
dang wrote: post #44

MuskMania has reached information heat death: it can generate nothing new on its own. See the thread below for a good example. Since this article doesn't supply enough new information to get us out of that state, we're treating it as a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17709543 . When significant new information arises (note: not the same thing as the next provocation), then there will be something to disc…

Matt Levine writes entertainingly, but in both today's and yesterday's newsletter is more information than in all the "Tesla going private" article in the last days.

I appreciate Matt Levine's columns too, but the amount of information needed is relative to HN's capacity to discuss a topic substantively. In this case that capacity is unusually low, so the amount of substantiveness the article needs to provide is unusually high. The proof that this one didn't get there is in the pudding of the discussion that resulted.

Re: Musk’s Money Mystery Intrigues SEC

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Post by davesque »

mandeepj wrote: post #43
davesque wrote: post #28

The problem, at this point, is that I think the average person must find all this very tiresome. Let's set aside all the theories about whether or not Musk is actually a stable genius for doing everything he's done lately (including calling one of his critics "pedo guy"). With everything that's going on in the world today, I just don't have the energy to keep up with all this grandstanding. The result? I'm sick of he…

Maybe, Musk is also sick of all of this. This is why he is trying to take his company private

I bet he thinks he is sick of it. But that doesn't excuse his behavior. Call me old fashioned, but someone with so much power and privilege should not be acting the way that Musk has been lately. These are just the basics we're talking about here. One wouldn't tolerate that kind of behavior from one's child, so why is it okay when our captains of industry do it? Part of being an adult, let alone one of the most successful people in the world, is accepting the fact that life is not always fair. Musk needs to grow up and get off of Twitter. Simple as that.

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Post by pvg »

dang wrote: post #44

MuskMania has reached information heat death: it can generate nothing new on its own. See the thread below for a good example. Since this article doesn't supply enough new information to get us out of that state, we're treating it as a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17709543 . When significant new information arises (note: not the same thing as the next provocation), then there will be something to disc…

MuskMania has reached information heat death

The term is actually 'muskellunge', originally coined by Dumas père.

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