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You really can’t argue when twitter works fine right now and everything is just talk till it happens.
It works fine until a cert expires somewhere or a hard drive fills up and there’s no crew to catch it before it kicks off a cascading failure.
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On principal, I hope it crashes and burns and ruins him. And I know this will cause a lot of people to suffer some. I am so sorry for that. But these piss ant billionaires need to start facing real consequences when they behave so abhorrently. I hope all of his ventures fail similarly. Fuck him and his petulant behavior forever.
Wow. The guy who started sending more rockets to space than NASA and almost single-handedly made electric cars cool is suddenly the most evil man alive. Yikes.
Single-handedly except for, ya know, all the people that actually designed and built the cars at Tesla
Well, we'll have to see how this plays out. "We'll send humans to Mars!" is something that I can feel good about working 80 hours a week on. "We'll help trolls spew hate!" ... maybe, not so much.
>We'll send humans to Mars Even if(when) we do - what's there? We are progressively failing a perfectly habitable world that even has a magnetic core. Moving to another planet will not solve anything for the humans.
> Edmund Hillary: "Because it's there"
Humanity is innately adventurous. We don't need a more complex reason to explore the unknown.
It's going to send a message that companies are more overstaffed than we thought. This may explain an underlying fear driving even some engineers to put their reputation on the line with confident declarations that Twitter is going to fail. Some were saying it wouldn't survive the night. It's now morning. Others saying it won't last the weekend or coming week. We'll soon find out. I would expect some bumps along the way. Twitter Blue was a bump.
Perhaps Twitter is just the first to go lean before the recession. Elon merely the first dancer who is willing to look dumb. Now who's going to be the first follower to transform the lone nut into a leader?
Watch this 2 minute to see how this works, you may have seen this before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ
Now here's a counterbalance to the fear with an optimistic take: This is a correction. A small number of tech companies have been hoarding talent. The talent gets a 3 month severance and made available to the larger ecosystem.
This will be an interesting experiment in large scale code rot. How long do you think twitter.com will work with the code base frozen?
Not long, but perhaps not for the reasons you think. With the code base frozen, no new incompatibilities can be introduced. That's how software (including operating system) releases worked for many years, and they did work. VM/container images are still basically this way, and they tend to keep running quite well too. One problem with both of these models is that existing security vulnerabilities don't get fixed, but…
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> Why would anyone stay? “Hey, do you want to work triple the amount of hours for me for the same pay?” Probably even less pay. No more stocks (and if: limited ways of selling ... unless Musk manages to execute a massive pivot and then go public again)
It’s very strange. I suppose he must be at least mildly autistic, because he certainly doesn’t seem to understand regular people.
How does one follow a come-back-to-office police while being simultaniously being locked out from said office? Is this an employer lockout, the employer version of an employee strike? So many questions! Maybe one of those blue checkmarked Elon's on Twitter can answer! But seriously, how can someone burn down something he just bought for 44 billion so fast and consequently?
He's only playing with 22% of his next worth, it's not like this is a "serious problem" for him if the thing drops to 0 value.
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If I'm giving Elon the benefit of the doubt, A. he's intelligent B. He has 20+ years of corporate experience running companies, I would assume that there was some method to this madness. If I had to guess, he came in with the assumption that forces in the company would be hostile to him based on their beliefs. In order to weed those forces out, he engineered some of this madness to shake those people out. Unfortunate…
I'm amazed at how naive some of the people are here. Why not just accept what you're seeing with your own two eyes? Why look for an alternate explanation?