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Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by jimsimmons »

nr2x wrote: post #449
mgfist wrote: post #427

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> Kodak saw a train coming, did a study that told them that they had to do something, but then sat on the tracks. Replace "Kodak" with "Google" and that's the exact impression I get from friends who work there

I just resigned from Google. There’s no future with current leadership. I was a at high level (6), with an incredibly broad scope of responsibility, making an absurd amount of money. But life is too short to spend my days propping up a dying monopoly when there’s bigger game to chase. It’s also institutionally arrogant, they really think they are the best, Jeff Dean and Urs are Gods, and no other company can do what…

Curious what "absurd levels of money" means, even if you could just vaguely gesture at it

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by GeneralMaximus »

greyman wrote: post #401
rodgerd wrote: post #319

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> And Musk seems to be pissing away his non-technical barrier-to-entry just about as hard as he can. He's completely pissed it away. The skills at finessing the demands of different regulatory regimes were some of the first he got rid of, no doubt deriding it as "wokism". Now he's got fines racking up for publishing Nazi shit in Germany, privacy breaches in the EU, and is globally censoring anything that Hindu extrem…

But if we look at the "mainstream" usage, like English-language thought leaders, they are still there, still posting regularly. Like for example in the AI field, all relevant people are on twitter.

What’s “mainstream”? Why is English “mainstream” while other languages are not?

Twitter’s second largest market is Japan, with Saudi Arabia ranking fourth, Brazil, Turkey, India, Indonesia, and Mexico all in the top 10[1]. While a lot of people prefer to Tweet in English, I can confirm that Twitter has a healthy amount of content in other languages if you want to go find it.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/countries-most-people-twitter-socia...

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by 1attice »

Nathanba wrote: post #515
lenkite wrote: post #326

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People here are praying very hard for Twitter to fail. Nearly any social media post nowadays has 50-100 comments predicting Twitter's failure and ranting about Musk. He is living rent-free in many heads now. Its utterly ludicrous how so many intelligent and rational people are becoming un-hinged whenever Twitter/Musk is mentioned.

It reminds me of the Trump thing, it seems people really lose all rationality when they are faced with a man who publically doesn't care and does whatever he wants and is successful at it. I wonder if we will one day have a psychological name for this. It must be related to something in the human brain that touches on social repression and decades of instilled moral codes like "Don't say this, nobody will like you" a…

Trump fomented an attempted insurrection and you are shaking your head about the rationality of the people who are concerned?

It's concerning that you're not.

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by yangikan »

nicenewtemp84 wrote: post #465
nr2x wrote: post #414

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He’s just a rich kid pulling the legs off an ant. I actually find it perverse.

He's not a kid using his parents money. He's using his own and his personal name/reputation to secure money. He's not hurting an ant. He fired people and let them go find other jobs which seems pretty fair instead of for example reducing their pay drastically and forcing them to quit, or paying them minimum wage and profit sharing. Which still would have been pretty fair IMO. Not every ceo or company owners needs to…

It can be done without being an asshole (for example without insulting a handicapped person) https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/elon-musk-gets-involved-...

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by propogandist »

andrei_says_ wrote: post #568
greyman wrote: post #397

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But is twitter really dying? The fields I watch (AI, software engineering, writers), all thought leaders are still there, still posting regularly.

Twitter now has daily outages where parts of it just don’t function and no one knows when we’ll experience a more serious one. It serves the daily/hourly whims and mood swings of a single person who has proven to be petty, vindictive (to his employees), and devoid of integrity. That lack of stability in my opinion accumulates. Sooner or later it will balance out the momentum.

this was the same narrative pushed when most of the tweeps was axed, but the site has been running fine and has only grown in popularity.

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by nr2x »

jimsimmons wrote: post #591
nr2x wrote: post #449

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just resigned from Google. There’s no future with current leadership. I was a at high level (6), with an incredibly broad scope of responsibility, making an absurd amount of money. But life is too short to spend my days propping up a dying monopoly when there’s bigger game to chase. It’s also institutionally arrogant, they really think they are the best, Jeff Dean and Urs are Gods, and no other company can do what…

Curious what "absurd levels of money" means, even if you could just vaguely gesture at it

levels.fyi

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by propogandist »

K5EiS wrote: post #316
raytube wrote: post #306

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I use ddg everyday and I hate it. I resort to Google shortly after. Not personalised so I guess I am missing out on decent returns.

I tried ddg, but i found myself adding !g a lot, so i just switched back.

try Brave’s search service

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by Karrot_Kream »

wpietri wrote: post #544
Karrot_Kream wrote: post #461

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Everyone I talked to who worked at or joined Twitter early on talks about how they felt like they were part of a global conversation but it was always really puzzling to me. I read Twitter occasionally in the early days but most of my friends were on IRC or GChat, with a lot being offline, and my networks migrated but never got onto Twitter. Twitter never really felt that relevant to me and over time it felt like it…

I mean, every platform develops its culture and attracts the people who enjoy that culture. If it's not for you, nothing wrong with that. But I think "insular" is a funny word to use here, in that it being one giant space meant that self-segregation was a much harder choice to make than on, say, HN or a given subreddit. The thing that always kept me using it was the great variety of voices there. Some of my favorite…

Twitter is indeed a place with a lot of interests and topics but after the initial period it built up a pretty unique culture. As you say, it's just an aspect of platforms. But there was something unique about how Twitter folks really felt like their network was the "global conversation" that I never felt elsewhere, even though it felt just as self-selecting as the other networks.

Early Reddit definitely attracted a pretty interesting, insular bunch but there was never any feeling that Redditors were creating a similar global network. I was on IRC channels that had Americans, Europeans, Indians, Singaporeans, and Hong Kongers but we all knew we were weird. There was always something unique about Twitter users that made them think of their space as a global village, and I think the large presence of journalists and MSM friendliness was a big part of that.

Twitter also managed to create a product that its sticky users loved in a way that I'm not sure any other network managed. Redditors loved Reddit but not nearly as much as Twitter users liked Twitter. Whatever it was I hope product folks study it closely.

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by TechBro8615 »

taeric wrote: post #538
Nathanba wrote: post #513

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When Chrome launched, it only launched with ~2-3% market share in the first week compared to Firefox. Everyone thought that Chrome wasn't that good and Firefox would be fine. However I knew on day one that Firefox was in serious trouble and I switched browsers immediately. But what I didn't know is that Firefox would do nothing to compete for 10 years.

Chrome launched with an absurd amount of money to burn, though. And... I don't recall this "everyone" that you are citing. Chrome launched when Google had a ton of good will.

> Chrome launched with an absurd amount of money to burn

OpenAI has $100bn+ from Microsoft, and millions of paying subscribers.

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