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Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by amai »

afavour wrote: post #7

I have no particular beef with Dorsey but I think this would make sense. He's been CEO of both Square and Twitter for years now and no matter what time you wake up in the morning or however many specials diets you undertake you're not going to be able to give the focus a solo CEO is. I think the bigger issue is who gets to replace him: will it be someone with smart ideas or someone to serve as a puppet of activist in…

„no matter what time you wake up in the morning or however many specials diets you undertake you're not going to be able to give the focus a solo CEO is“

Elon Musk would disagree.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by spurgu »

kortilla wrote: post #940
stevofolife wrote: post #935

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It also encourages you to be more concise, clear and mindful of what you want to say. The problem you outlined stems from the posters and not the platform.

That’s only useful if you have really simple thoughts with no nuance to express.

Yeah. I mean sure, you can have really deep thoughts, elegantly condensed into a couple of short sentences, but when you're eventually required to clarify something for one reason or another things are gonna get messy.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by checkyoursudo »

GabeIsko wrote: post #896
snarkypixel wrote: post #659

There's zero explanation in the email for why he resigned. He's re-iterating the point that the company is fine moving forward with the rest of the board, the new CEO and the existing team, but no actual reason as to why he left.

Honestly, does he really owe the public a reason? I am no Jack Dorsey fan, but it would be unusual for any CEO of even a moderately successful company to expose any internal business with the public.

He probably realistically owed the public (or shareholders) an explanation of how he could justify being CEO of two companies more than he owes an explanation of why he left one of them.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by AussieWog93 »

mariavillosa wrote: post #842
Dumblydorr wrote: post #663

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Has mediating access to information been the defining tool of control for civilizations? Maybe in tyrannical, despotic societies that is true, but those don't allow Twitter today via firewalls, so that's mostly a moot point in this thread. I'd say the sword and the coin have both been far more controlling than limited information spread. What of free society? Is the government of the USA, UK, or other "enlightened" s…

>Is the government of the USA, UK, or other "enlightened" societies throughout history That sentence piques my interest, do people see the USA and UK that way? I think of Switzerland and Canada that way, for example, but my knowledge is all based on stereotypes. Maybe it depends where you're from, as the stereotypes must differ among regions.

The USA and UK, while not perfect, are absolutely more enlightened than, say, South Sudan or Saudi Arabia.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by bluedays »

kwertyoowiyop wrote: post #921
gusgus01 wrote: post #882

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It's a reference to a popular saying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule The logic of which is, if something is an exception or so exceptional that it's called out as an exception, that implies the existence of a rule.

I just think it’s sometimes used when it shouldn’t be.

Well i think in your case you’re the exception proving the rule

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by da39a3ee »

nw05678 wrote: post #873
CameronNemo wrote: post #827

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USA is literally founded on this principle: Congress shall make no law /.../ abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press IIRC the founders explicitly did not include that in their constitution. Hence it being called "First Amendment " rights.

Your founders were a bunch of tossers. The American fascination with elevating them to god like status is laughable.

Yes, one possible explanation is that in a country where so many people take christian scripture seriously you can kind of see that they might not see the intellectual absurdity of treating the constitution as if it were some sort of sacred text. The problem, as ever, is that it's hard to have conversations about modern western humans being rational if we are obliged to be polite about their childish religious superstitions.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by jasonladuke0311 »

soundnote wrote: post #903
jasonladuke0311 wrote: post #814

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Yup. There was this "follow the whole person!" bullshit on infosec Twitter a while back, and it was just such nonsense. I follow them because I'm interested in their thoughts on computer security, no other reason. I couldn't care less about a security nerd's political opinions; it's just as irrelevant to me as a politician's thoughts on computer security.

The politician could be trying to legislate standardizing on Windows XP, banning firewalls and connecting said computers to the Internet.

And the security nerd could be running for local office. Typical HN navel-gazing that is orthogonal to the point.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by MisterSandman »

PStamatiou wrote: post #948
nvr219 wrote: post #919

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Because at a certain point money becomes an addiction.

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1247616214769086465

Not sure what your point is. Even gambling addicts like to donate or give away money to the hostesses and waitresses at the bar.

The addiction is earning money. Accumulating wealth. Donating it, if anything, adds to that addiction, since it lets you play god for a bit.

  Not saying Jack is all of those things, and donating money is objectively a good thing, but the greedy race for money can't be solved by promoting charity.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by handrous »

lovecg wrote: post #930
handrous wrote: post #245

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Right, but somehow the "situational awareness" argument doesn't fly when it's a developer working at two places. Then it's all "oh no, you might steal our secrets with your brain", even though that's the same thing , just framed differently. [EDIT] Oh, and: > You have to collect this data for yourself because it's not like there's a service you can subscribe to that shows you all the problems that various public comp…

Contractors can and do work at multiple places. Full time employees cannot, sort of by definition. It’s an interesting discussion why most developers end up being full time employees.

Are CEOs contractors?

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by mariavillosa »

AussieWog93 wrote: post #964
mariavillosa wrote: post #842

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>Is the government of the USA, UK, or other "enlightened" societies throughout history That sentence piques my interest, do people see the USA and UK that way? I think of Switzerland and Canada that way, for example, but my knowledge is all based on stereotypes. Maybe it depends where you're from, as the stereotypes must differ among regions.

The USA and UK, while not perfect, are absolutely more enlightened than, say, South Sudan or Saudi Arabia.

But almost all countries are more liberal than those two. My question isn't if the US and UK are the least enlightened countries in the world, but rather, if people see them as particularly enlightened among countries. Ie compared to any other random liberal country like Mexico or Czech Republic.

I understand OP's point, just curious whether the examples used reflect a common perception. To me when thinking of stereotypically enlightened societies, I think of Iceland or Canada or something. The US I think of more as a business+war society, and UK seems somewhere in the middle, but much lower than the rest of Europe.

This is based on nothing objective, just wondering what other people's perceptions of these places are

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