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Re: Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode

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Post by fundad »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #518
ROTMetro wrote: post #281

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Now imagine being on Elon's Mars colony and having your breathing rate limited out of the blue one day. Today switched my vision of that from wonder and hope to seeing it as volunteering to become one of the belters in The Expanse. I'm kinda sad to have moved from the 'let me in' to 'hard pass' on that dream. It was one of that last big future dreams 1990s me had for the 20X0's.

I'm kinda sad to have moved from the 'let me in' to 'hard pass' on that dream. It was one of that last big future dreams 1990s me had for the 20X0's. Yep. Elon clearly lost his motivation for Mars at some point, either because he was confronted with unshakeable evidence that his goals were impossible to achieve, or because he just got bored and distracted. My guess is that the latter explanation is closer to the mark…

Or it could be that the Mars narrative was more useful than it is now.

Re: Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode

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Post by fundad »

rideontime wrote: post #50

I’ve got the requisite three twitter accounts (one for being nice, one for trolling, and one for porno) and each of them got rate limited after less than two minutes of scrolling. Wasn’t he just yesterday crowing about their “user-seconds”?

I think it was a pro-DeSantis move because Trump had a rally Saturday

Re: Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode

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Post by fundad »

x86x87 wrote: post #577
victorbjorklund wrote: post #424

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Yea. Perhaps elon is good at other things than sound business decisions.

He seems to be pretty good at taking credit for other's people work.

He’s good at butchering a quote from “The Princess Bride”

Re: Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode

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Post by ALittleLight »

Timon3 wrote: post #710
ALittleLight wrote: post #555

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Both of Musk's parents are still alive. Neither of them were involved in the electric car or rocket companies. It's fine to be a Musk critic - but you should restrict yourself to saying things that are actually true rather than making stuff up.

Maybe inheritance isn't the right word. I understood them as saying "he was born into money" - is there another way to say he "inherited" purely in the sense of money being passed onto him?

That's also not true. Musk's parents may have been millionaires (hard to tell, this is disputed and their wealth likely changed over time) - but it's not like that's the source of Musk's money. Musk founded a company in college with his brother, his father invested 25k in the company (about 10% of total investment - so, no reason to think this investment was necessary/dispositive). Musk later sold the company for about 300 million - he reinvested that money in his future companies.

Musk's wealth doesn't come from "being born into money" - it comes from being an entrepreneur. Recently there is hate at Musk for political/ideological reasons. Now people just lie and make stuff up without regard for the truth - I find it sickening.

Musk was advantaged by having parents who raised him, provided for his education, and invested in his early company. He had more advantages from birth than most people in the world, but if you compare him to the average Stanford grad student (where he dropped out) I'm not certain he's in the top decile in terms of advantage. On the other hand, in terms of outcome, Musk is clearly an extreme outlier - pretending like Musk-outcomes are determined by his parents or family money is pure cope.

Re: Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode

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Post by efreak »

gaius_baltar wrote: post #602
mjg59 wrote: post #479

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https://elon.horse has the details (I swear this is legitimate)

That's a surprisingly nice use for this crazy TLD.

I really liked walmart.horse too. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/19/jeph-jacq...

Re: Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode

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Post by JauntTrooper »

badrequest wrote: post #705
JauntTrooper wrote: post #651

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Market value and fair value aren't necessarily the same thing. The 38% is just the one day premium. The offer was at a discount to the stock price less than six months earlier. It was possible that the stock price had overreacted to a tech sell off, and if the market had rebounded by the summer the bid could have looked genius. Market pricing in M&A is somewhat opaque and different than trading prices because it's ba…

Does doing mental gymnastics like this strengthen your brain?

No, but it's my day job.

Re: Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode

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Post by dspillett »

qwerasdf5 wrote: post #684
minimaxir wrote: post #495

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On Hacker News it's generally discouraged to post generic dismissals without counterarguments.

Correct. Only baseless conjecture is encouraged.

The evidence may be circumstantial, but the conjecture is far from baseless.
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