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Post by mertd »

awb wrote: post #910
SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #618

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> Edit: and now he’s asking if he should step down https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046176439731240 ... If it doesn't go his way how many times will he put up a new poll?

What % of Twitter users are voting in these polls? If you’re serious about democratizing big decisions, maybe have a set day for polls, like Tuesday, so people who want to engage can plan ahead.

> maybe have a set day for polls, like Tuesday

Oh I just remembered the good old Wii surveys. Those were fun.

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Post by guerrilla »

hooande wrote: post #169

Twitter is not an institution. It is not a utility. People can just leave and go to another website. It will take time for a new website or websites to figure things out at scale, both technologically and socially. But people were patient with twitter in the fail whale days and I assume they'll be patient with another service in the future. This guy is running twitter like it's his personal website. Which, it is. But…

> People can just leave and go to another website

No, they can't while he's preventing them telling their friends and colleagues where they're going. Without your network, leaving is equivalent to using nothing since nobody you know will be there if you can't coordinate.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by bydlocoder »

SilverBirch wrote: post #134

There's kind of three options here: * Elon is personally policing twitter, and has banned PG in a fit of pique, despite literally being at a party in Doha the world cup * Twitter's staff are just being crazy over the top with bannings - this might actually be the most likely. It's kind of obvious that Twitter has some automated systems that suspend accounts when they get mass reported, and some people with a sense of…

I guess it's the case of malicious compliance. Nobody wants to argue with Elon and be fired on the spot and nobody gives a shit.

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Post by seanp2k2 »

wnevets wrote: post #876
sillysaurusx wrote: post #594

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Paul’s unbanned now.

Will everyone who argued that paulg broke the rules with his last tweet now admit they were wrong or will they now argue the unbanning isn't justified?

Logical gotchas don’t work with people who just ignore contradiction and hypocrisy.

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Post by ciabattabread »

TOMDM wrote: post #300
rsanheim wrote: post #252

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It isn't baffling at all. It was entirely predictable by looking at his past behavior. The thai cave diver incident and Elon's slander. The hyperloop failure. The continual empty promises of FSD for tesla. His attempts to manipulate the market thru his posts, which the SEC slapped his write for. Why would Elon take a first-principles approach, instead of the selfish, short-sighted approach of an insecure, lonely, ove…

Hyperloop wasn't a failure at all, it did exactly what it was meant to; kill off attempts to get more railway projects started in California.

California does a fine job killing railway projects all by itself. It doesn't need Elon Musk.

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Post by dmak »

qqtt wrote: post #815
dmak wrote: post #592

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Whoa, is this possible? is this even legal?

When you hear about layoffs these days, you will usually see terms like "2 months of salary" as part of the severance package. What this actually is, is paying the employee throughout the entire "notice" period of the WARN Act. The WARN Act says that any company doing layoffs must give 60 days notice to employees, so to comply companies layoff employees but keep them on payroll for 2 months to meet the obligations of…

That's really informative, thank you.

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Post by mmsimanga »

Tiktaalik wrote: post #880
rsanheim wrote: post #252

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It isn't baffling at all. It was entirely predictable by looking at his past behavior. The thai cave diver incident and Elon's slander. The hyperloop failure. The continual empty promises of FSD for tesla. His attempts to manipulate the market thru his posts, which the SEC slapped his write for. Why would Elon take a first-principles approach, instead of the selfish, short-sighted approach of an insecure, lonely, ove…

I don't understand how anyone could look at everything Elon has done around the Boring Company and still think he's some sort of genius.

IMHO you can be a genius in a few areas of expertise but you cannot be a genius at everything. There is no such thing as a person who is a genius at everything so every person we call a genius is actually a genius at a few things at most and not all things.
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