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Re: Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs

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Post by flutas »

numair wrote: post #385
lupire wrote: post #342

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Not everyone , but yes a convicted securities fraudster (Henry Blodget) runs a news site that has now published two sexual harassment stories about two different companies, on two different dates (respectively), that both had unusually large shorts expiring.

The Elon / TSLA fanboys need to update their conspiracy theory. Blodget doesn’t even own BI, which everyone knows. I think Elon himself helped to spread this conspiracy, when he would be fully aware it’s complete BS. This demonstrates to me that he is willing to engage in the dangerous game of pushing fake news on his blind followers to get them to go after his enemies, even if it makes no sense. These are the exact…

> Blodget doesn’t even own BI

Nobody I saw claimed he owns BI. He's a cofounder and the current CEO though and therefore does run BI. Just had to call you out on that for spreading a falsehood by trying to twist someone else's words while trying to make a claim about "fake news".

But I also never said it was him either, someone else did. I have no clue who it is and don't even want to get into a guessing game of it. It could be Elon himself for all we know. I was just pointing out that someone knew and opened the short.

Re: Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs

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Post by systemvoltage »

Karawebnetwork wrote: post #209
ericbarrett wrote: post #16

A couple of days ago somebody posted this Reddit thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/v2lpdw/e... "Tesla expanded massively during Covid, as of now half of the dev team(including me) don’t have parking space or desk. It’s physically impossible for everyone to return to office. "Should I ignore the email, or should I drive to the office and sit under the stairs?" Commenters' general feeling was…

This reminds me of Musk's recent comments about "political attacks against him in the coming days". It has since been learned that he had been reached by Business Insider to comment about the sexual abuse case beforehand. He already knew that an article against him was coming so he framed the narrative before it even reached the public. I would not be surprised this was the same here. Tell everyone "Leave if you don'…

I feel like you could have said a lot of this with less words. But, exposing Elon seems to be the focus of your comment. Non-sequitur after non-sequitur.

Re: Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs

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Post by loceng »

PheonixPharts wrote: post #269
ericbarrett wrote: post #16

A couple of days ago somebody posted this Reddit thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/v2lpdw/e... "Tesla expanded massively during Covid, as of now half of the dev team(including me) don’t have parking space or desk. It’s physically impossible for everyone to return to office. "Should I ignore the email, or should I drive to the office and sit under the stairs?" Commenters' general feeling was…

I'm suspecting that we'll see forced return to office as a way to implement layoffs without as much bad PR. Stock will go up since costs will drop, but management will be able to say that is more an issue with return to office rather than a company failing. "We're doing great, it's just that some employees don't share our commitment and focus on doing things well, and making our mission a priority." There has been a…

Elon has in the past talked about a growth-pruning cycle, so this is likely part of that - planned to some degree.

I imagine, too, if there are "100x engineers" (or whatever their role is) there may be compromise otherwise that's not generally applied; I would however think that someone who's that production - unless it's somehow a mostly solo role - would necessarily need to be on-site to utilize whatever resources necessary.

Re: Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs

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Post by 1270018080 »

FiberBundle wrote: post #416
huijzer wrote: post #409

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I'm starting to wonder more and more whether Musk has forgotten to think about the individuals negatively affected by his actions. I wouldn't be surprised if he really cares about humanity and wants to save the world by going to Mars, but I'm not so sure though whether the end justifies the means.

I don't think he displays any altruistic behaviour if you observe any of his actions.

I don't think it's possible to be altruistic and be a billionaire. That part of your brain has to be dysfunctional in order to amass infinite money while exploiting everyone around you.

Re: Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs

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Post by systemvoltage »

FiberBundle wrote: post #416
huijzer wrote: post #409

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm starting to wonder more and more whether Musk has forgotten to think about the individuals negatively affected by his actions. I wouldn't be surprised if he really cares about humanity and wants to save the world by going to Mars, but I'm not so sure though whether the end justifies the means.

I don't think he displays any altruistic behaviour if you observe any of his actions.

All of his actions seem to be congruent with his vision IMO.

One has to separate feelings about Elon from objective reality. Seems like a difficult thing to do for most comments here.

Re: Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs

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Post by 1270018080 »

systemvoltage wrote: post #472
Tehchops wrote: post #328

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Despite the zealous beliefs of the visionary, thought-leader techbro space that Musk's every move was to drive civilization forward in some kind of libertarian, technocrat utopia, it seems very clear at this point every one of these moves was absolutely a self-serving narrative shield around incredibly typical corporate/rich-person bad behavior. Oh but who could have seen this coming except oh wait everyone. The scha…

The divide here about Elon is much deeper than I anticipated. It’s crazy how one sided HN is. Seems entirely subjective and political. If one were to read the comments here, the only conclusion would be that Elon is the force of evil and a reincarnation of satan.

Is there a grand conspiracy plotting against him to discredit him? Or are his own actions doing the damage?

Re: Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs

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Post by numair »

flutas wrote: post #481
numair wrote: post #385

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Elon / TSLA fanboys need to update their conspiracy theory. Blodget doesn’t even own BI, which everyone knows. I think Elon himself helped to spread this conspiracy, when he would be fully aware it’s complete BS. This demonstrates to me that he is willing to engage in the dangerous game of pushing fake news on his blind followers to get them to go after his enemies, even if it makes no sense. These are the exact…

> Blodget doesn’t even own BI Nobody I saw claimed he owns BI. He's a cofounder and the current CEO though and therefore does run BI. Just had to call you out on that for spreading a falsehood by trying to twist someone else's words while trying to make a claim about "fake news". But I also never said it was him either, someone else did. I have no clue who it is and don't even want to get into a guessing game of it.…

Blodget kept the title but Axel Springer ultimately determines what does or doesn’t happen. If you think Blodget is abusing his position to further a personal vendetta or short-selling agenda, you should contact Axel Springer and blow the whistle!

Re: Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs

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Post by stickfigure »

kentm wrote: post #476
stickfigure wrote: post #431

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Of all the things to complain about Musk, this seems like the weakest. Some dude started a twitter fight with Musk and got called a "pedo guy" in response. Sounds like a South African response to me. I'm guessing you've never spent time with Australians, they call everyone cunts. Who cares? Potty mouth is not a mortal sin.

Maybe you missed the part where Musk hired a private investigator to prove that the guy was a pedophile. The investigator lied about the evidence, and Musk did no due diligence but directed his PR team to leak those lies to the media, and then threw a hissy fit when the media didn't reprint those lies uncritically. The whole "pedo guy is just a generic insult" is a laughable lie that Musk tried to float in court. The…

The investigator lying about evidence is news to me, but hiring an investigator when someone sues you seems perfectly fair game? I mean, if you sued me over something frivolous and I had the resources for it, I'd tear your life apart too. Exchanging insults on twitter is one thing, filing lawsuits is something completely different.

Nobody comes across looking pretty here, sure. But it's a real struggle to care one way or another about it. Sounds like that's exactly what the jury thought.

Re: Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs

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Post by belter »

dharmaturtle wrote: post #332
belter wrote: post #274

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Slimy tactics? From the person that said one of his companies can fix Spinal and Brain injuries?: https://youtu.be/cgyFL5Hzy-s?t=1312 Surely...

Meh. The youtuber criticizes Musk's statement "This is something we could fix" by saying "He does not say 'This is something we _might_ be able to fix.'" Seconds later, the youtuber goes on to criticize Musk's disclaimer of "I'm not saying this is going to solve everything... it's something that _might_ be helpful." You just can't win with these "skeptics".

You missed the part where Elon Musk says it will take a few years before then can do a "brain memory upload".

So they will be content of spending the first decade "just" fixing spine and brain injuries: https://youtu.be/cgyFL5Hzy-s?t=1116

Then Elon Musk says he will solve Schizophrenia, Depression and Morbid Obesity: https://youtu.be/cgyFL5Hzy-s?t=1137

Yes,...really what is with the skeptics? Can't the recognize a genius when they see one?

Re: Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs

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Post by lolbert2 »

WoahNoun wrote: post #417
daenz wrote: post #399

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Again, in order to think it's slimy, you have to make assumptions about what is true. In the instance you just described, you still have to assume that the "hit piece" isn't because he was starting to lean more Republican. I don't think we know why the accusation re-surfaced, do we?

Most people don't change their political ideology based on sexual assault accusations. Even if they were false, why would that cause someone to join a party with a radically different view of society than their previous party?

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