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Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by eric4smith »

Yeah it’s sucks how he was let go. But he will get paid.

But for the first time I’m using Twitter more than HN , which has jumped the shark.

Elon’s accomplishments? - helped start openai

- runs the biggest rocket company that makes a new raptor engine every day.

- runs one of the biggest car companies.

- just eliminated rare earth metals for new generation of motors.

- runs Twitter which is undeniably more active and popular than ever.

No matter what you think about the dude, doing all that stuff is going to make you a dick.

But then again, it’s the dicks that make the world we live in.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by bfeynman »

darth_avocado wrote: post #32
pembrook wrote: post #29

It's insane how bad Elon stepped in it with this guy. While I'm sure there were many people at Twitter doing mostly nothing, he happens to publicly pick on a guy who single-handedly built one of the most well-respected branding agencies in the tech industry, and who also has debilitating muscular dystrophy. The optics could not be worse. I mean this guy is literally in a wheel chair. If you were a well-funded tech co…

> I'm sure there were many people at Twitter doing mostly nothing So just because he is well known, you suddenly believe a Twitter employee. But others who Elon claims to not be working, they’re probably not working?

I assume if you came into work and your manager says stop everything you're doing and then in the afternoon calls you into a meeting and says you're fired with cause because you aren't doing anything you would probably thank them for helping the business!

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by clockworkhavoc »

arthurofbabylon wrote: post #49

Halli is a master of voice, as evinced by this site. This is deep, strong branding.

The site design is a blatant ripoff of ligne claire [1], famously pioneered by French comic artist Hergé, creator of The Adventures of Tintin series.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligne_claire

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by therouwboat »

dbreunig wrote: post #40
pembrook wrote: post #29

It's insane how bad Elon stepped in it with this guy. While I'm sure there were many people at Twitter doing mostly nothing, he happens to publicly pick on a guy who single-handedly built one of the most well-respected branding agencies in the tech industry, and who also has debilitating muscular dystrophy. The optics could not be worse. I mean this guy is literally in a wheel chair. If you were a well-funded tech co…

Elon did what he's done for the past decade. Can't help but play to a crowd and let the lawyers figure it out later. This is a cocktail of calling a rescue diver a pedophile, mocking all skills that aren't coders, and unnecessary cruelty when laying off workers. If Haraldur intended to bait him, it was a near-flawless execution. I'm sure there are countless labor, disability, and health info privacy lawyers lining up…

Elon not only called rescue diver a pedo, but also tried to give buzzfeed off the record info that diver had childbride in thailand.

I'm bit afraid what he is going to do now.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by timmytokyo »

1-more wrote: post #57
zht wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yea unfortunately what I've seen on twitter are people saying "well if he's not working why is elon paying him" for these groups of people Elon is tied to their identity and he can do no wrong

I cannot understand the Stan culture for Elon. I get it for the military guys who tell you to lift and make your bed. I get it for Joe Rogan. I get it for the MMA masculinity influencers. I get it for Trump and DeSantis. I do not get it for Elon.

He's the richest man in the world. For a lot of people, that's enough to earn their admiration. There's this warped perception that if you have a lot of money, there must be something exceptionally positive about your character.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by Avshalom »

jonahx wrote: post #56
PragmaticPulp wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> but it is possible for a accomplished individual to join a company and then lose motivation and not do much Nobody deserves to be fired without communication , without HR being able to confirm if they work at the company, and then proceed to be publicly mocked on Twitter for their physical disability. Speculating about the person's work at Twitter is beside the point. Thousands of Twitter employees have been let go…

> and then proceed to be publicly mocked on Twitter for their physical disability Today is my first time hearing about this scandal. Do you have a link to the mocking in question?

> Today is my first time hearing about this scandal.

Yeah, it happened today.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by throwntoday »

jack_riminton wrote: post #48
dbreunig wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Elon did what he's done for the past decade. Can't help but play to a crowd and let the lawyers figure it out later. This is a cocktail of calling a rescue diver a pedophile, mocking all skills that aren't coders, and unnecessary cruelty when laying off workers. If Haraldur intended to bait him, it was a near-flawless execution. I'm sure there are countless labor, disability, and health info privacy lawyers lining up…

I suspect this too, Haraldur seems like a smart dude who's been stewing about Elon's mismanagement and assholerly for a while

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Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by romanhn »

jonahx wrote: post #56
PragmaticPulp wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> but it is possible for a accomplished individual to join a company and then lose motivation and not do much Nobody deserves to be fired without communication , without HR being able to confirm if they work at the company, and then proceed to be publicly mocked on Twitter for their physical disability. Speculating about the person's work at Twitter is beside the point. Thousands of Twitter employees have been let go…

> and then proceed to be publicly mocked on Twitter for their physical disability Today is my first time hearing about this scandal. Do you have a link to the mocking in question?

Here's some background: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64871183.amp

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by johneth »

ryanSrich wrote: post #59
dbreunig wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Elon did what he's done for the past decade. Can't help but play to a crowd and let the lawyers figure it out later. This is a cocktail of calling a rescue diver a pedophile, mocking all skills that aren't coders, and unnecessary cruelty when laying off workers. If Haraldur intended to bait him, it was a near-flawless execution. I'm sure there are countless labor, disability, and health info privacy lawyers lining up…

> If Haraldur intended to bait him, it was a near-flawless execution. I'm sure there are countless labor, disability, and health info privacy lawyers lining up in Halli's DMs. Considering there were entire articles by news outlets like the BBC just queued up and ready to go. My sense is this was premeditated. Elon is such an easy target.

> Elon is such an easy target.

A richly deserving target, too.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by yitianjian »

timmytokyo wrote: post #65
1-more wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I cannot understand the Stan culture for Elon. I get it for the military guys who tell you to lift and make your bed. I get it for Joe Rogan. I get it for the MMA masculinity influencers. I get it for Trump and DeSantis. I do not get it for Elon.

He's the richest man in the world. For a lot of people, that's enough to earn their admiration. There's this warped perception that if you have a lot of money, there must be something exceptionally positive about your character.

Also the techbro dream - the marketing has worked for his image, and he's the ideal of a smart, successful, techie, engineer - although realistically he's only one of those
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