Halli is a master of voice, as evinced by this site. This is deep, strong branding.
He seems like someone I would like to work for, too. I wonder if any of his former employees are left at Twitter. I bet they wish they could follow him out.
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#232Beautiful website. I also think this is the same guy who had to ask Musk if he was fired because HR couldn't confirm it. Maybe it was a mistake to let him ago, he seems to be pretty talented actually.
He clearly is a fan of curious george
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#233It'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?
He doesn't have to work. Twitter acquired his company and the payout was structured as salary for tax reasons. Musk firing him suddenly turned that opex into capex, for no other reason than Musk has no idea what is going on in a company he runs.
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#235Earlier quoted context omitted.
> But it seems like paying someone who isn't working isn't a great use of money. He and Twitter agreed to structure the buyout of his firm as income for tax reasons so even if he didn't do a single ounce of work for twitter his entire tenure it would have been money well spent for no other reason than the time value of money. Common sense and reading between the lines a bit it seems like his contract stipulates that…
> agreed to structure the buyout of his firm as income for tax reasons I expect most people will infer the wrong thing here. To be clear, those "tax reasons" were that he wanted to maximize the amount of tax he would pay. > an agreement between him and Twitter, most of the purchase price was paid as salary to maximize the tax he would pay for the sale in Iceland, he chose to pay for tax out of respect to Iceland for…
Thanks! the way I wrote it does give off the wrong impression.
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#236It'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…
Unfortunately it doesn't matter, the market has decided that a company led by a person like this is worth many multiples of a similar company led by a regular person who would never consider doing something like this.
...in no small part because the brazen arrogance, sociopathic cruelty and shit-eating snark people like Elon possess signal them as alpha males in modern society, and people honestly think those qualities are necessary in innovators and leaders (although I suspect a lot of that is people projecting a power fantasy from their own misanthropic behavior.) That so many beta fanboys in this thread are white knighting for him is as ghastly as it is to be expected.
... and because this is Hacker News, yes I'm aware the "alpha/beta" male thing is based on a discredited model of wolf pack hierarchy but the meme was assimilated into popular culture anyway so it's true for people now even if it was never true for canines.
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#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guess Musk was asking why he claims he can't type due to his disability but yet manages to tweet all day. That's probably a lot different than claiming someone is faking a disability.
It doesn’t help Musk’s case that he appears unaware of typing-by-dictation software, which is efficient for prose but not necessarily for coding
Speaking of audio to text, how does one insert a full stop to separate sentences? I tried once to use Siri to voice-to-type - got stuck on this and never used it again.
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#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
It doesn’t help Musk’s case that he appears unaware of typing-by-dictation software, which is efficient for prose but not necessarily for coding
Speaking of audio to text, how does one insert a full stop to separate sentences? I tried once to use Siri to voice-to-type - got stuck on this and never used it again.
Some TTS tools figure it out from flow in the same way that automated captions do, and most (all?) let you dictate punctuation as well.
(Some capital T capital T capital S tools figure it out from flow in the same way that automated captions do comma and most open paren all question mark close paren let you dictate punctuation as well period)
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#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
Elon isn't mocking him - the employee made this public and Elon is defending his choice to fire him. It's interesting how Halli doesn't actually defend that he did any work, because it's clear he didn't. Instead he's tweeting "Let me know if you are going to pay what you owe me?" at Elon, which is only furthering Elon's stance that this dude is looking for a payday and went to publicly smear Elon to bully him into pa…
Yes he's looking for a payday, i.e. the day you get paid for the work you did. He's not looking for extra special bonus dollars, but the dollars he's contractually obligated to get paid for the work he performed while employed. Im honestly struggling to see the issue here. >> Elon isn't mocking him. He literally posted a meme joking about how he cant feel his legs >> It's interesting how Halli doesn't actually defend…
> paid for the work he performed while employed
He expects to be paid for the company that Twitter purchased, actually. That he's taking the proceeds as income and not capital gains is an (inverted) tax strategy.
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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1632915881499176960 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1633159188787658757 https://www.reddit.com/gallery/11kzn5v
Thank you. I agree that this hasn't been handled the best way. Nonetheless, the links you presented - I don't see how that's mocking if the person didn't actually do any work. The laughing emoji was in response to Haraldur describing what he did at the company. I just simply wouldn't engage, period.
To be Frank, where I’m from, laughing at someone after they tell you what they do is mocking. Where I’m from, it’s liable to get you robbed, stabbed, or shot depending on the level of disrespect that they feel.