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Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

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Post by r_hoods_ghost »

pg wrote: post #350

I'm not leaving Twitter. It seems more likely than not that Elon will reverse the ban on links to other social media sites. I just don't want to hang out there in the meantime. Plus given the way things are going, it seemed like a good time to learn about alternatives. I still think Elon is a smart guy. His work on cars and rockets speaks for itself. Nor do I think he's the villain a lot of people try to make him out…

Not a villain? Well he's utterly screwed his employees and broken employment law in multiple countries by not giving proper notice or consulting on redundancies, but hey who gives a shit about workers rights? Not you obviously.

Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

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Post by reducesuffering »

dmitriid wrote: post #473
metadat wrote: post #361

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another well-known notable over-eager divergent opinion blocker is Garry Tan [0]. This is the first time I've seen the finger of accusation point to Paul Graham for excessively blocking. Is it possible the @fennecsound account participated in previous harassment and the target doesn't wish to endure more low-quality interactions? My expectation is: HN folks, being generally sensitive souls, would have spoken up vocal…

Paul Graham bans people left and right. He's not nearly notable enough for it to become a phenomenon. He banned me, and I think I've never had an interaction with him. I've seen people I follow mentioning these bans, but most just shrug.

Yep, there have been many on HN mentioning they were banned by him, like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34042395 in this thread

Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

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Post by rchaud »

throwaway0asd wrote: post #65
belligeront wrote: post #15

Amazing that just a month ago he tweeted[1]: "It's remarkable how many people who've never run any kind of company think they know how to run a tech company better than someone who's run Tesla and SpaceX.". It's been fascinating watching so many VC types ignore so many red flags just because some of Elon's early actions validated their priors (e.g. tech companies are bloated and need to layoff staff). [1] https://twi…

Still nothing compared to the billions so many VCs have lost on crypto this year ignoring those far more obvious red flags. No matter how bad Elon damages Twitter at the very least its actually still generating revenue. I cannot tell what crypto generated.

VCs made plenty of money, they receive pre-mined amounts of whatever token they're investing in, and then dump it on retail once the coin lists on the exchanges.

Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

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Post by hyperhopper »

the_cat_kittles wrote: post #367
wwweston wrote: post #243

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It's very hard to be smart all the time, and you don't have to be stupid to be wrong.

what you have to do is correctly assess yourself, which is impossibly rare among people who made a bunch money

Especially amoung the people that will get in front of a crowd and shout "I'm rich, bitch!"

Doubly so when intersected with the crowd that publicly eschews earthly possessions.

Turns out hypocrites aren't self aware

Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

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Post by ZacnyLos »

jansan wrote: post #403
TekMol wrote: post #11

This is his Mastodon account: https://mas.to/@paulg/with_replies His first toots remind me of his first tweets: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/22300310058 https://twitter.com/paulg/status/22307238459

Gave up after 20 seconds waiting for the website to load. Is that supposed to be some retro 90s experience?

Says the one using HNews which looks like it's from the 90's lol

Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

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Post by outside1234 »

belligeront wrote: post #15

Amazing that just a month ago he tweeted[1]: "It's remarkable how many people who've never run any kind of company think they know how to run a tech company better than someone who's run Tesla and SpaceX.". It's been fascinating watching so many VC types ignore so many red flags just because some of Elon's early actions validated their priors (e.g. tech companies are bloated and need to layoff staff). [1] https://twi…

On the positive side - you have to give it him for realizing his error and facing up to it

Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

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Post by jacquesm »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #457
ragebol wrote: post #425

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What i hoped he would he'd do was to find another Gwynne Shotwell and have them run the company while taking his advice and kindly ignore it when it makes sense. Alas, I don't see something like this panning out, that future is gone.

Tom Zhu, Tesla’s China president, is likely to be head of Tesla Automotive in the near future.

Where did you pick that tidbit up?

Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

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Post by pg »

baxtr wrote: post #419
pg wrote: post #350

I'm not leaving Twitter. It seems more likely than not that Elon will reverse the ban on links to other social media sites. I just don't want to hang out there in the meantime. Plus given the way things are going, it seemed like a good time to learn about alternatives. I still think Elon is a smart guy. His work on cars and rockets speaks for itself. Nor do I think he's the villain a lot of people try to make him out…

> seemed like a good time to learn about alternatives. Would be great to see you being more active on HN again!

Thanks, but as I learned when I was running HN, being a regular user of a forum (which the moderator necessarily is) and writing essays are fundamentally incompatible.

If you're known to be a regular user of a forum, then when someone says something about you and you don't reply, it reads as a tacit admission that they're correct. And when you write essays people say all kinds of things about you. The combination is a disaster. Forum users can sense that you're compelled to respond, and it encourages them to pick fights with you.

Back when I used to moderate HN, hitting publish on an essay was usually followed by several hours of saying various forms of "No, what I said was..." Life is much better now that I never look at the HN threads on them.

Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

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Post by pfoof »

pg wrote: post #350

I'm not leaving Twitter. It seems more likely than not that Elon will reverse the ban on links to other social media sites. I just don't want to hang out there in the meantime. Plus given the way things are going, it seemed like a good time to learn about alternatives. I still think Elon is a smart guy. His work on cars and rockets speaks for itself. Nor do I think he's the villain a lot of people try to make him out…

Good job OP. You managed to ressurect pg since 2 years ago

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Post by roland35 »

pg wrote: post #350

I'm not leaving Twitter. It seems more likely than not that Elon will reverse the ban on links to other social media sites. I just don't want to hang out there in the meantime. Plus given the way things are going, it seemed like a good time to learn about alternatives. I still think Elon is a smart guy. His work on cars and rockets speaks for itself. Nor do I think he's the villain a lot of people try to make him out…

I'm sorry but saying "he is a smart guy" is a bit ridiculous at this point. A "smart guy" certainly may not know everything about running a social network, but he _would_ listen to the advice from those around them.

Being smart also means understanding what you don't know and not surround yourself with sycophants.

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