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Grindr Loses Almost Half Its Staff on 2-Day RTO Requirement

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Post by pydry »

jakarta wrote: post #62

Looks like the stock is up 11% on this news. Does this and the the staff cuts at X demonstrate you can take out significant numbers of engineer without drastically impairing the user experience? I doubt most tech execs would have the wherewithal to make this kind of decision but it's clearly the case that many big tech cos staffed up too hard during the pandemic with average salary per employee rising too much

It suggests that unions are a mechanism for transferring wealth from stocks to salaries.

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Post by vuln »

ImPostingOnHN wrote: post #263
gnicholas wrote: post #242

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> You've proved that the ADL is calling for an advertising boycott, which is a 1st amendment protected right. The First Amendment is somewhat beside the point, since Elon is alleging that they are defaming him/Twitter. Defamatory speech is not protected by the First Amendment. So it's totally fine to call for a boycott — but totally actionable to call for a boycott using defamatory statements. It will be difficult fo…

elmu could wake up tomorrow and allege space aliens were trying to break into his brain, and the same group of sycophants would take his word for it as is now for everyone else, he is an entitled, inherited-wealth internet troll with a history of lying you don't see him filing his lawsuit against the ADL like he said he would, do you? how about him stepping down as CEO of twitter like he said he would? he's just an a…

How much wealth did he inherit from the emerald mine?

It takes more than a couple days to create the suit. We’ll see what happens. If you have any _facts_ that he’ll never sue I’m all ear. Probably just your assumptions.

He isn’t CEO. He hired a CEO, Linda Yaccarino. Again either you don’t follow what’s going on or you’re intentionally dense and arguing points that you don’t know about.

Just admit it you hate the guy and will recite anything and everything to reaffirm your unsubstantiated claims.

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Post by vuln »

boeingUH60 wrote: post #227
vuln wrote: post #212

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Do you have insider knowledge of the _other factors_ you _think_ is more likely the cause of revenue loss? Isn’t almost all of twitters revenue pre paid blue check, advertising? Where else are they generating income? Wasn’t twitter losing money before? Has twitter ever been profitable? I’ve linked to proof of boycotts and the ADLs position in convincing advertisers to drop twitter due to the ADLs “research.” You prov…

The ADL is not powerful enough to cause a 50% drop in Twitter revenue…most businesses don’t care about what they say. The reason for the drop is Musk’s erratic behavior. Advertisers paused or halted their spending entirely because Musk is known for making on-the-fly decisions, and businesses don’t want to get caught up in his latest antics.

Cool show your proof. Thanks. Anything else is just your opinion presented as fact.

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Post by vuln »

ImPostingOnHN wrote: post #264
vuln wrote: post #217

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Do you have any sources or insider knowledge that you can present that would put Elon himself on the hook for loss in advertising? I’ve replied to multiple comments citing ADL CCDH and others actively seeking to sway advertisers away from twitter using “research.” Instead of presenting a counter argument with facts or data to back it up you resort to calling Elon a liar. It obviously shows your bias. You can believe…

elmu is a liar, thus him and his word simply can't be trusted do you have any reliable sources or insider knowledge that you can present that would prove true these unreliable, unconvincing claims of an infamous liar?

> unreliable, unconvincing claims of an infamous liar

Again that’s you opinion.

How long has it been since you stopped beating your partner?

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Post by btbuildem »

sarchertech wrote: post #25
stronglikedan wrote: post #12

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Being that the job market is currently favoring employers over employees, I'd say they'll likely have no trouble finding new staff that has no problem with working in the office. They still have enough staff to get the new folks trained up. This would have hurt them a few years ago, but not now.

Losing half your staff is going to hurt you no matter what the labor market looks like. It’s likely that they’ll be losing a disproportionate number of high performers, and it’s going to take more than a year to work that many people through the hiring pipeline, and ramp them up fully.

And good luck hiring anyone respectable after that show of disloyalty.

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Post by ImPostingOnHN »

vuln wrote: post #274
ImPostingOnHN wrote: post #264

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elmu is a liar, thus him and his word simply can't be trusted do you have any reliable sources or insider knowledge that you can present that would prove true these unreliable, unconvincing claims of an infamous liar?

> unreliable, unconvincing claims of an infamous liar Again that’s you opinion. How long has it been since you stopped beating your partner?

it is actually a fact as determined by a court of law

but your opinion that he is not is cute

I imagine such silly, reality-denying opinions accompany the same derangement that drives a very small, very loud minority of people to shriek hate and "hate!" at everyone who points out that elmu is a notorious liar

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Post by munificent »

micromacrofoot wrote: post #181
munificent wrote: post #85

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A matchmaking service.

alright but stay with me here... what do they use to matchmake?

Think about it like this:

Imagine a dastardly villain called up the CEO of Grindr and said, "I have a missible pointed at your datacenter. It's going to destroy either your server that has all of your source code, or the server that has all of your user data. Which one do you want to live?"

The CEO would nuke the code without a moment's hesitation. Almost all of the value of the company is in the service it provides and the data is has to enable that. The software is just a means to an end. They'd rewrite the app and move on with their lives.

Now compare that to, say, Ableton. While Ableton has user information for registration and stuff and would certainly be heartbroken to lose it, they would survive the loss. But their software is the company.

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Post by maerF0x0 »

asveikau wrote: post #250
dwaltrip wrote: post #238

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>> Unless a company is doing a computationally expensive thing [...] then the opex should be an inconsequential amount > I don't think that has much bearing on my question of ranking server costs with other costs Take another look at the comment thread. It seems to me there is some sort of miscommunication or misunderstanding.

Oh. I missed the word inconsequential. I don't think it's inconsequential at all once you have a substantial user base, especially since increasingly people tend to use resource hog frameworks and overpay for AWS and other cloud services.

in this case i use inconsequential to mean it's relatively small. It doesnt matter if you save $1M on $1B expenses. Even though, yeah, holy crap that's a million dollars!

And generally it's a waste of limited resources to chase saving $1M in server costs when you can cut 1K head count and save $100M.

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Post by callalex »

vuln wrote: post #273
boeingUH60 wrote: post #227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The ADL is not powerful enough to cause a 50% drop in Twitter revenue…most businesses don’t care about what they say. The reason for the drop is Musk’s erratic behavior. Advertisers paused or halted their spending entirely because Musk is known for making on-the-fly decisions, and businesses don’t want to get caught up in his latest antics.

Cool show your proof. Thanks. Anything else is just your opinion presented as fact.

What kind of proof would be sufficient to you for the claim “Elon Musk makes erratic and unpredictable decisions with his businesses”? Would a list of previous erratic decisions sway your mind?

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Post by johnnyanmac »

mrguyorama wrote: post #167
Animats wrote: post #142

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> The Grindr data is essentially a blackmail gold mine. More than that. It's leaked before.[1] Grindr data was used to catch a senior US Catholic official: "... an analysis of app data signals correlated to Burrill’s mobile device shows the priest also visited gay bars and private residences while using a location-based hookup app in numerous cities from 2018 to 2020, even while traveling on assignment for the U.S. b…

Amazing how quickly they solve the "problem" when it involves completely legal consensual adult activity, compared to when it's a YOUNG boy

GPS for "meeting young boys" just points to church, unfortunately. One's much easier to track with tech.
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