Twitter is the platform where world leaders, celebrities, billionaires and famous politicians can insult and threat each other.
That is valuable and is not going away.
Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said
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#752I don't at all object to code reviews/evaluation, but the thing I wonder about is this: I rarely open an empty file and write some big block of code. 98% of the time I'm fixing bugs in legacy code or shimming in some new feature. It would be trivial to produce the diffs I generated in the past 30 or 60 days, but the volume of code isn't really a great metric for my productivity. There may be some three line change th…
I love being able to fix a bug with a one line change.
The hardest bugs to find are often the ones that can be fixed with a one line change. If you figure out a bug quickly, then you are usually in trouble and have to refactor your codebase to resolve it or introduce an awful hack to fix it.
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You'd arguably have a case that Musk is not acting in the interest of Tesla and is using his Tesla position to enrich himself rather than the Tesla company. Exactly what the "CEO is supposed to serve shareholders" is all about.
The counter argument is that Tesla has created more shareholder value over the past few years than any other single company, and in fact more than a ton of whole market segments. I mean, investors know he's sort of a loon, this is hardly the weirdest thing he done[1], and they're still on board. And FWIW: if you really want to structure this in a shareholder-friendly way, Twitter can just pay Tesla a consulting fee.…
> Tesla has created more shareholder value over the past few years
Given the PE, seems to me the shareholders have created the shareholder value.
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#754Twitter is the platform where world leaders, celebrities, billionaires and famous politicians can insult and threat each other. That is valuable and is not going away.
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#755I can only imagine how bad this is for morale. Out of the blue code review conducted by an external company means total lack of trust.
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There is a lot of cross pollination between his companies, that’s is fine: - new materials from SpaceX make it into Tesla cars - productions techniques from Tesla goes into SpaceX rockets - Semiconductor teams from Starlink probably connected to Tesla It mean the best engineers get even more opportunities. win-win Less red tape, more work get done. I think we should all embrace that. Our goal should be to make things…
Now do Amazon and give your take on how it's great for society for them to branch out into every business sector imaginable.
I think this is an example of the differences in image that Bezos and Musk have made, Musk creating an impression (and perhaps even being) more of an idealist
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There is a lot of cross pollination between his companies, that’s is fine: - new materials from SpaceX make it into Tesla cars - productions techniques from Tesla goes into SpaceX rockets - Semiconductor teams from Starlink probably connected to Tesla It mean the best engineers get even more opportunities. win-win Less red tape, more work get done. I think we should all embrace that. Our goal should be to make things…
Now do Amazon and give your take on how it's great for society for them to branch out into every business sector imaginable.
It's great for customer like me, and there are hundreds of millions of us, so that's quite a lot of benefit to society. And the things that Amazon is criticized for, like treatment of its employees, are not unique to Amazon itself, but standard in the industries that they operate in. It's just that journalists don't report on it when other less successful companies do it. The case against Amazon, and other billionaires, is driven by envy much more than anything else.
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#758Consciously or not, this is meant to humiliate people at Twitter, make them live in fear of their new boss, and either flee, or stay and bow to their supreme leader.
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He did it with SpaceX too and had to reach a settlement: > The arrangement alarmed some longtime investors in SpaceX, including its largest outside backer, Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, some of the people said. The investors learned in recent months that despite the diversion of SpaceX resources and staffing to the fledgling Boring startup, it was Musk who was in line to receive almost all of any future profits, these…
This is a little aggressive. The boring company is unproven technology in a perpetually capex heavy delivery model. If I was a spacex shareholder I’d probably value it at $0 in 2018, and strongly prefer it to be not associated with spacex at all.
Yes but on t-1 your 1% of spacex also represented 1% of boring company - which you were paying to devlop. At t+1 you owned 1% of spacex and 0% of boring company.
If you want to sell your shares for 0$ that is up to you. On the flip side, I am happy to look through your personal holdings, and anything I think is worth $0, take for myself. You wouldnt mind now would you?
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#760Just a note for myself here, Interesting HN is showing 1210 comments in a single page. I think this is new.