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Post by steve_adams_86 »

danaris wrote: post #522
Kronopath wrote: post #506

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I have no idea why people take Ambien when low-dose (<0.5mg) melatonin exists over-the-counter in abundance in the US.

People in my family have tried taking melatonin for sleep. It gave them hallucinations. Not everybody reacts the same way to different chemicals, even the ones our bodies produce naturally.

Yeah. I had an awful time with it. I can’t describe my dream because it doesn’t belong here at all, and while it wasn’t a nightmare so to speak, it was extremely unsettling.

It has a sort of vividness and trueness to real life that, given the subject of the dream, was totally unwelcome in my mind and eerily blended the dream world and real life. I’d never experienced anything like it.

Somehow the dream also felt long. Not long for a dream, but like an actual day passed. It was a seriously unsettling experience.

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

cactusplant7374 wrote: post #113
drexlspivey wrote: post #16

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My money is on David Sacks if we would take the job (probably not)

Somewhat ironically, Chamath, Calacanis, and Sacks can spot a bad deal.

Why ironically? (Genuinely curious)

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Post by sigy »

ortusdux wrote: post #484
jasode wrote: post #226

It's instructive to contrast what other billionaires did with media properties they owned: - Jeff Bezos personally bought Washington Post but he left it alone and let the editors run it. What Jeff did do was invest some money into the IT department to modernize the workflow tools (metrics dashboards, etc) for journalists. He stayed out of the decisions of what stories get run on the front page. - Rupert Murdoch owns…

I think, in his own way Elon, is trying to apply his engineering first principles . AFAIK, his #1 rule is "The best part is no part", which I think explains a fair number of his (non-ego driven) choices.

I'm sincerely confused as to whether this post is satire or not.

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

acdha wrote: post #519
x0x0 wrote: post #417

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I don't think Twitter were fine: they were consistently losing money (to your point, not a ton, but still, losing money even in a great economy), with large layoffs to come, esp once you factor in a 20% or so fall in ad income. With more income cuts, and hence layoffs, on the way as privacy laws worldwide make Twitter worse as an ad platform. So I would argue that Twitter desperately needs to either get much better a…

Twitter was profitable in a couple of recent years and would have been last year to the tune of several hundred million except for a one-find lawsuit payment. That’s not ideal, but all they needed to do to improve things was reduce their stock based compensation levels to be in line with their class of company rather than [old] Google/Facebook-level. That changed dramatically when Musk added over a billion dollars in…

You might even say the front fell off the boat

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Post by gsatic »

jasode wrote: post #226

It's instructive to contrast what other billionaires did with media properties they owned: - Jeff Bezos personally bought Washington Post but he left it alone and let the editors run it. What Jeff did do was invest some money into the IT department to modernize the workflow tools (metrics dashboards, etc) for journalists. He stayed out of the decisions of what stories get run on the front page. - Rupert Murdoch owns…

Wapo and wsj are becoming more and more irrelevant. Remember the Afghan collapse that happened over one week? Just read their coverage for months prior to that one week.

These are outdated legacy systems that don't have the impact they once did. So there is not much point to comparing how they operate with Twitter.

One thing interesting that's happening with Elon's polls is ppl will notice who runs polls about their own decisions. And that's a good thing.

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Post by fshbbdssbbgdd »

LarryMullins wrote: post #516
c22 wrote: post #327

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My pet theory is that the cybertuck is just an excuse to start prototyping a future martian ground transport, in which case atmospheric drag may be less of a concern.

My pet theory is that Elon Musk's talk about colonizing Mars is a recruiting ploy, allowing him to hire top tier rocket scientists relatively cheap because they believe in the mission.

What do you figure is the real motivation for SpaceX if not Mars? I think it’s a much worse business than Tesla if you don’t care about the SpaceX mission. Seems to be barely viable financially, while Tesla has healthy margins. Musk has used his Tesla wealth to support SpaceX, which makes him seem more like a believer to me.

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Post by blowski »

woodruffw wrote: post #298
twblalock wrote: post #284

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> Hopefully, Elon notices that we don't have endless HN and reddit front page articles about Rupert Murdoch's jet. Are you kidding? He loves the attention, and we are only talking about Twitter because Elon bought it rather than some boring guy. I still don't see the impending death of Twitter. Where is the evidence that it is going down the tubes? PG will be back, because everything bad about Twitter is even worse o…

You aren't wrong in some senses, but I think you're wrong in the most important sense: Twitter's servers run on electricity, and electricity is paid for with ads and MAUs, not outrage on HN (and other tech forums).

Musk reminds me of Citizen Kane. He could lose $5 billion per year for 20 years and still be significantly wealthier than most people on the planet.

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Post by woodruffw »

blowski wrote: post #577
woodruffw wrote: post #298

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You aren't wrong in some senses, but I think you're wrong in the most important sense: Twitter's servers run on electricity, and electricity is paid for with ads and MAUs, not outrage on HN (and other tech forums).

Musk reminds me of Citizen Kane. He could lose $5 billion per year for 20 years and still be significantly wealthier than most people on the planet.

The comparison is apt[1]!

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

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Post by genocidicbunny »

danaris wrote: post #522
Kronopath wrote: post #506

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I have no idea why people take Ambien when low-dose (<0.5mg) melatonin exists over-the-counter in abundance in the US.

People in my family have tried taking melatonin for sleep. It gave them hallucinations. Not everybody reacts the same way to different chemicals, even the ones our bodies produce naturally.

One of the reasons that might have happened is that a lot of OTC melatonin is actually way too high of a dose. You need like a .5mg dose, but most of it that I have seen in stores is in the 3-5mg range, which is quite a bit more than what you need.
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