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Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by nonethewiser »

danso wrote: post #81

To build a world-renowned web design firm based in Iceland (population 370k, barely bigger than Cincinnati, Ohio) is pretty astounding. Looking at the beautiful "coming soon" homepage [0] he presumably built for his restaurant (which is named after his mom [1]), I can see why he was well-respected in the field [0] https://annajona.is/ [1] https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1633109753890058242

> Looking at the beautiful "coming soon" homepage [0] he presumably built for his restaurant (which is named after his mom [1]), I can see why he was well-respected in the field

Its literally just a pink background for me. Not sure if I'm missing something or if that's the joke. I'm not familiar with him and assume he's a great designer. I dont understand the reference here though.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by RivieraKid »

ajmurmann wrote: post #83
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…

Watching Elon makes me think about the things for which a large portion of the public made fun of Jack Dorsey. Regular meditation, month-long meditation retreats and emphasis on regular exercise or alternative measures are probably needed to keep operating at that level. I know I get in a much worse mental state without physical exercise and journaling or meditation.

The main reason why Elon is like this is that he's on the psychopathy spectrum. Meditation could perhaps improve his ability to keep the mask on, but it wouldn't change who he is.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by stubybubs »

hintymad wrote: post #80

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He started out by asking Musk if he was fired. An employee has a right to know this, whether they're laid off or fired for cause. HR could have told him that, and he did ask them first, for days. Musk could have directed HR to finish his paperwork, or his manager to tell him what's up.

Even if this guy was doing zero work, it doesn't matter. The employer at some point has to say your employment has ended as of today. This is generally required to be given it written form. Locking you out of systems != firing, it can be something done by accident or for a multitude of legitimate reasons.

If you just want to talk about facts, it's this: as an employer, Twitter was required to give notice, and they didn't. If his written notice was as of yesterday then I think Twitter owes him for that 9 days plus whatever else his contract says.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by fabian2k »

nonethewiser wrote: post #95
buggy6257 wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1633011448459964417 He also had a (now deleted) comment where he called the guy "just the worst": https://twitter.com/JamesClayton5/status/1633155915892527104

What part constitutes mocking his disability?

Calling the disability "an excuse" for someone with muscular dystrophy that sits in a wheel chair could arguably meet that description.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by Anechoic »

eric4smith wrote: post #61

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…

runs the biggest rocket company

That would be Boeing Defense, Space & Security (50,000 employees and $23.3 billion in revenue vs 12,000 employees and $2 billion revenue)

runs one of the biggest car companies.

Tesla, with it's $81 billion in revenue, doesn't even crack the the top ten.

just eliminated rare earth metals for new generation of motor

Just announced it would eliminate rare earth metals. This will be a great thing if/when it happens, but it hasn't happened yet.

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

Annual users appears to be up, but down in the US [0]. But if we use annual users as a proxy for "active and popular" then I'll give this to you.

So, 1 for 4.

[0] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/twitter-statistics/

Edit: taking chroma’s post at face value, you’re at 50%.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by JeremyNT »

starik36 wrote: post #86
darth_avocado wrote: post #30

Anyone surprised at this and changing their opinion about Elon now because of Halli, should know that this is how every single employee has been treated at Twitter since the acquisition. Doesn’t matter what your political beliefs are. Doesn’t matter if you’re resentful at employees at Twitter for apparent coasting at high salaries. Worker mistreatment at Twitter is some of the worst in the modern workplace.

You mean people being let go? There have been layoffs in ton of SV companies, complete with fake "I take full responsibility". I am not sure what to do, other than let go people, if the company is hemorrhaging money with not much to show for it.

There's a "right" way and a "wrong" way to go about reducing headcount.

I'm not exactly sure what the "right" way is, but I'm pretty sure that Elon's way ain't it.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by pavlov »

walrus01 wrote: post #47
jack_riminton wrote: post #42

Elon's descent into an asshole Howard Hughes continues at pace. Part of me thinks Elon's doing this just to be the most talked about person on twitter again, which is equally abhorrent

In historical retrospect, Howard Hughes had a pretty good excuse for going off the rails in the 25 years prior to his death. He had screwed up his lower back in plane crashes much earlier and was prescribed an increasingly assorted amount of high powered medications (and self-prescribed) that affected his mental state. The 1950s-early 1970s were not exactly a golden era of non-addictive totally harmless painkillers a…

Maybe the definitive Elon Musk biography of 2075 will tell us what drugs he was taking in 2018-23. Should be interesting reading.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by [deleted] »

nonethewiser wrote: post #87
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

> "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'm not an Elon fanboy and I'm not familiar with these events. But it seems like paying someone who isn't working isn't a great use of money. It seems reasonable to end an arrangement like that. Was that really what happened?

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