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Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by sio8ohPi »

nonethewiser wrote: post #182
sio8ohPi wrote: post #109

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That's wild. It's untaxed comp that minimizes the time employees need to spend thinking about food during the day. He's mandating employees come back to the office for long hours, but now they need to (at least) order and receive their own lunches and dinners? If he's trying to retain some sort of high-intensity hardcore ninja startup bullshit, I would think free food would be the last thing cut. Or is he planning fo…

> untaxed comp that minimizes the time employees need to spend thinking about food during the day The meals still exist. They're just not free. So they still dont need to spend time thinking about food. And the company is reimbursed for it. Obviously it's worse for the employee. But it's not some "own goal."

(Effectively) reducing comp while also telling employees to be hardcore and work longer hours seems counterproductive.

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by duxup »

ransom1538 wrote: post #179
SilverBirch wrote: post #13

This is pretty unsurprising, they're not really going to raise any serious money from this (what do we reckon? 1FTE Salary at most?) but they've got office space for 7.5k people and less than 3k less. Musk keeps saying "If you code come to the 10th floor" - which basically implies that their entire team of engineers fit onto 1 floor of the building and that there a load of empty floors now that don't need kitchens or…

Can they let the homeless stay in the unused floors? Surely they can find a spot in their heart to help out people down on their luck during Christmas.

Assuming they could just ignore local zoning:

The cost of security, social services, policing, and hygiene related issues (it’s an office not a home) would seem substantial.

Some locals not far from me tried doing that with an abandoned hotel. It was a mess of crime drugs and etc in the end.

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by lazide »

moltar wrote: post #186
SilverBirch wrote: post #13

This is pretty unsurprising, they're not really going to raise any serious money from this (what do we reckon? 1FTE Salary at most?) but they've got office space for 7.5k people and less than 3k less. Musk keeps saying "If you code come to the 10th floor" - which basically implies that their entire team of engineers fit onto 1 floor of the building and that there a load of empty floors now that don't need kitchens or…

You'd be surprised. Some of that restaurant equipment is in high demand, and is also pretty pricey. Anything pro grade can be tens of thousands of dollars each. Just some of those espresso machines are $10K [1] and $25K [2] each. Freezer is $24K. Of course, all these are "new" prices. [1] https://www.espressoparts.com/products/la-marzocco-linea-cla... [2] https://www.espressoparts.com/products/la-marzocco-strada-ee..…

For used auctions (for things with demand) figure about 75-25% new prices.

If there is a glut, sometimes you’d end up with just price per lb. (Often just a couple dollars per).

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by lazide »

duxup wrote: post #190
defrost wrote: post #21

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There's more than the whiff of a move to Texas in the wind.

I think Twitters priorities are balance sheet related. Moving would seem like a bizarre distraction.

Most of this mess just seems like a bizarre distraction.

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by wnevets »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #143
lapcat wrote: post #49

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Reddit has an army of unpaid moderators. Not to mention the Reddit users who upvote and downvote. Also, politicians and other important public figures don't use Reddit like they use Twitter.

>Reddit has an army of unpaid moderators. Smart, Reddit is comfortable with the fact it’s a glorified web forum, Twitter lied to itself that it’s something more.

It got them 44 Billion dollars, they must have been doing something right.

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by lazide »

ransom1538 wrote: post #179
SilverBirch wrote: post #13

This is pretty unsurprising, they're not really going to raise any serious money from this (what do we reckon? 1FTE Salary at most?) but they've got office space for 7.5k people and less than 3k less. Musk keeps saying "If you code come to the 10th floor" - which basically implies that their entire team of engineers fit onto 1 floor of the building and that there a load of empty floors now that don't need kitchens or…

Can they let the homeless stay in the unused floors? Surely they can find a spot in their heart to help out people down on their luck during Christmas.

Many homeless won’t stay in homeless shelters due to ‘draconian’ rules like no drugs, no dangerous animals, etc.

Any attempt to do something like you’re proposing in a nice space not explicitly setup for the purpose is going to go pretty badly quite quickly.

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by mindslight »

kzrdude wrote: post #147
gonzo41 wrote: post #19

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I work with scientists. Everyone who got a tesla feels a bit off about owning it now. Many jokes are had about being a musketeer, and the rise of twitler etc. It's all jokes, but then at the end of the day, everyone else drives home in some other car and they don't know what the CEO said about "tweet of the day" etc. Yet Musk is all in everyones face all the time. It doesn't seem to be a winning strategy at the momen…

Tesla cars have been described as an electric car software platform, so I'm not surprised they are nervous. The car is not just what it is today, but depends on remote services, regular updates and foremost it seems like the car can fundamentally change its features based on remote software updates. It's concerning, suddenly you do not trust that software vendor as much as you did before.

Maybe $80k capital assets turning into scrap-value bricks would finally be significant enough for the general population to wise up to the scam that is the Internet of Trash.

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by Jensson »

speedgoose wrote: post #188
capableweb wrote: post #170

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According to what data? Here is a map I came across recently (with references that checks out): https://i.redd.it/3tmf1l3g38n91.png From https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/xbh97v/obe...

I haven’t searched for all Europe but here are two sources about Norway and France: https://www.fhi.no/en/op/hin/health-disease/overweight-and-o... https://liguecontrelobesite.org/actualite/taille-poids-et-to...

You said Europe is catching up, that requires Europe to increase obesity faster than USA. But to me it looks like USA is still growing fatter faster than Europe, so according to these graphs Europe will never catch up to American obesity levels. And it will take about 20 years for current Europe to catch up to todays US obesity levels, that isn't very quick either, 20 years is half a career, and at that point USA will be even worse.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Ob...

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by staindk »

themitigating wrote: post #65
staindk wrote: post #37

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Yeah I think general consensus is that twitter was bloated and I'm guessing a lot of people were skimming by not doing much (or stuck doing things that amounted to not much). Elon's methodology isn't the best way forward though. Ugh idk.

"Yeah I think general consensus is that twitter was bloated and I'm guessing a lot of people were skimming by not doing much " Based on what?

Their number of devs combined with how the platform has looked/felt the same for 10 straight years?

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by [deleted] »

influx wrote: post #124
maxerickson wrote: post #110

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Twitter didn't sell out of desperation, the offer was way above what the company was worth. A court was on the cusp of forcing the deal through when it finally moved forward. So think of it as a $15,000 couch being liquidated.

Tell that to all my colleagues who don’t have a job anymore.

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