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Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by clockworkhavoc »

sofaygo wrote: post #122
clockworkhavoc wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

What does your comment even mean? If I were to create an original piece of art of an famous style, would that be considered a “blatant rip-off”? For a sanity check, here’s the website of the artist that created this original illustration: https://janneiivonen.net/about

You mean to say this fraud didn't even design his own site? Regardless, it's clearly ripping off of a well-known art style. Disingenuous to claim "deep, strong branding" when it's simply a cheap imitation. What a joke.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by fabian2k »

93po wrote: post #186
Pxtl wrote: post #170

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The employee made the question "am I fired or not, I tried to ask through the proper channels and got nothing" public, which is imho reasonable especially after 9 days. Musk, being the head of numerous companies, should know better than to respond with anything other than "I'll follow up with HR". When alt-right weirdos ask him crap, his response is just "looking into it". That's all he needed to do here.

If you want to garner goodwill with your former employer after years of not doing work and still getting paid a massive salary, then taking it public after a measly 9 days is pretty ridiculous. This guy knows he was in the wrong and is milking his notability to get paid anyway.

You have no actual evidence for your allegation that he did no work for years.

And not telling someone for 9 days that they are fired is simply not acceptable. I don't know the legal requirements in the relevant jurisdiction here, but firing people without telling them is usually either invalid entirely or at least a really, really shitty move. That HR is unable to confirm the employment state for 9 days is just absurd, that's no way to run a company.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by runarberg »

wood_spirit wrote: post #9
francislavoie wrote: post #7

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Yep. Here's the saga: https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632843191773716481 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632947160416149504 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1633082707835080705

It’s sad but he’ll probably forever now be remembered as “that guy who got publicly fired on Twitter by Musk” rather than Iceland’s person of the year 2022 and all the great philanthropy he’s done :(

He was already a celebrity in Iceland. So much so that he acted in the end of year comedy show (which is the nr. 1 television event in Iceland) despite not being an actor (which is rare; kind of like appearing in the Superbowl for Americans, or Eurovision for Europeans [although now I wouldn’t be surprised to see him there also next May]). In one recent event he had the president come and vandalize a poster for his ramp project with a spray can, striking out 1000 ramps and spraying 1500 rapms over it.

Internationally he might be most known for this, but in Iceland he is known for far more. I have no doubt people will laugh with him in the next end of year comedy show about this incident, and then continue supporting him in his disability activism.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by 93po »

I wish Elon related stories would get banned on HN. The comment sections are always complete wastelands and I hate feeling compelled to constantly correct space-man-bad takes that have no basis in reality. I'm done.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by drcongo »

jyscao wrote: post #179
RivieraKid wrote: post #102

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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.

>he's on the psychopathy spectrum Can't say if he's on the psychopathy spectrum or not, but he has admitted to be on the autistic spectrum, and I think that alone must be enough of a hinderance to running a social medial company.

He's not on the autism spectrum, that's just another one of his lies.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by trentnix »

arthurofbabylon wrote: post #49

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

100%

I saw that site and my first thought was "wow I suck at web design". My second thought was “wow this guy's work is inspiring”.

I'm generally unaware of the drama between he and Elon, and frankly I don't really care. I'm glad our world has them both.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by walrus01 »

seper8 wrote: post #100
walrus01 wrote: post #47

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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…

Are you leaving out that hughes had (neuro)syphilis on purpose?

Is that known for sure?

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by yamtaddle »

pavlov wrote: post #109
walrus01 wrote: post #47

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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.

Uppers and T, I'm guessing (like so many others).

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

93po wrote: post #194

I wish Elon related stories would get banned on HN. The comment sections are always complete wastelands and I hate feeling compelled to constantly correct space-man-bad takes that have no basis in reality. I'm done.

It's odd that you posted this. I read your posts on this thread, and you're basically just angry that people don't agree with you. Welcome to the Internet.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by walrus01 »

93po wrote: post #177
mschuster91 wrote: post #153

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People are sick and tired about constant news about Musk's latest crap antics, just like with Trump - basically, at least here in Europe, you can't go to bed and wake up without yet another newsflash of either a large Twitter outage or Elon Musk shitposting again. I get why people are exhausted, but the desensitization is dangerous on its own - when there are no consequences, people escalate their behavior... and Mus…

> Musk already has intervened to make Starlink less usable for Ukraine. and here you are perpetuating the fake shit about Elon that gets everyone engaged. Elon doesn't want Starlink to be directly used on weapons to kill people. Would you also fault the World Nuclear Association for being willing to provide uranium to power Ukraine, but refusing to provide the same material for nuclear bombs? He has a right to determ…

> Elon doesn't want Starlink to be directly used on weapons to kill people

The starlink "star shield" program with the US DoD says otherwise. Every satellite company wants a piece of the DOD's many billions a year spent on geostationary and other services, launches.

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