DeepEnigma
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These safe space privileged clowns are equating Twitter to an actual physical war of death & attrition.
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Elon Musk and the Twitter acquisition saga
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These safe space privileged clowns are equating Twitter to an actual physical war of death & attrition.
InverseAgonist
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I agree. He seems to have some unfinished business in his mind from the PayPal days and he now has enough infrastructure to really make a difference on how information and content is distributed.
Let me give you a for-instance, a tremendous amount of Twitter "content" is really YouTube clips that are monetized by Google. Nothing prevents him from launching a video-player rival that captures this revenue stream himself.
And then there's the medium-term synergies (and I *hate* using that word, I feel like a tech company circa 2000!) when SpaceX will have hopefully been granted their FCC petition and launched ~30,000 satellite Starlink Gen2 constellation as proposed which will yeild around 500Tbps over land. We currently use 600Tbps in the internet infrastructure as configured. He can either continue partnering with T-Mobile or directly launch his own phone service, etc.
The man has ambition and drive and has built all the foundational pieces for something really unique. I, for one, hope he pulls it off.
Cyberpunkd
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Because communism is a totalitarian regime. Once in a while you will have some liberal arts student pointing to some 20 people colony in Scotland in 1700s being 'communist', but then you know they have nothing about the subject they speak on.
For everything else, there's this:
Mass killings under communist regimes - Wikipedia
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Bigger information wars power play - Bezos buying the Washington Post, or Musk buying Twootter?
InverseAgonist
Banned
So, I don't think this is a realistic assessment of talent and how smart people actually work in the world.
Clever programmers and mathematicians and physicists are employed in many fields and can adapt and work in any of them. Of course the Tesla guys (or Neuralink guys) could offer support and oversight.
When I was in quantitative finance, half the guys weren't of a finance background, they were from mathematics or physics. My boss was a PhD in Chemistry. Myself and my best friend, who's still in finance, hold advanced degrees in Neuroscience, yet we worked on things as wide as machine-learning, graph theory, hell even forex and human-smuggling. I went to school with a BioE with works for SpaceX as an engineer and from what I've heard from him and anecdotally, Musk is an amazing guy because he hires regardless of formal background, based on ability and pliability of intellect.
That said, your latter reply doesn't give me much hope you'll approach this with an open mind, unfortunately.
Mistake
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One makes the news, the other can aggregate it. Probably musk.
I’m actually surprised elon hasn’t tried to make a phone yet. I imagine his designs and accessibility options would be very attractive and come off as a new kind of apple. OS and support would most likely be the biggest hurdle
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ipukespiders
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"If you guys leave twitter, no one will be left to follow me and satisfy my ego!"
InverseAgonist
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Great point. What are the options?
Building your own OS is tedious and and reminded of Musk's comment to George Hotz where he allegedly offered him a job at Tesla saying, effectively, why spend your time tracking down the edge cases in self-driving which will be infeasible when you can work with us? It made sense to me.
So, Android fork? Is Fuschia far enough along?!
DeepEnigma
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Tesla may debut in phone industry with Tesla Pi Phone - The Tech Outlook
After being successful in the car industry, looks like Tesla may step up its game by stepping into the field of mobile manufacturing according to rumors. Tesla will launch its 1st phone in December 2022 according to Priceinall. This article is to discuss the rumored specifications of the Tesla...
www.thetechoutlook.com
TaylorSwiftFan
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The rich protects the rich. There is no reason for CEOs to be paid that much.
TaylorSwiftFan
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Lol, mf’s looking to get more followers
"If you guys leave twitter, no one will be left to follow me and satisfy my ego!"
akimbo009
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I am in software development. And yeah, there's very little that's going to suddenly pop out of Tesla's teams mouth that the Twitter engineers don't already know or already know better. Further, their tech platform isn't their problem.
And the other bit... Well, it's all for show, and it's stupid as fuck that Musk would disrupt his very busy team at Tesla to do a showboat exercise with the engineers at Twitter. It's pretty much exactly in line with everything he does.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
The Tesla software team, if the reporting is true, is probably only there to get the code looked over by a team that Elon trusts. I doubt they'd add anything new or revolutionary to the underlying Twitter code.
DeepEnigma
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Maybe Elon doesn't trust some of the engineers, especially after leaks of senior engineers spilling the commie beans.
Yep.
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akimbo009
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Probably the system design, not the code itself. And even then, not sure what they'll add to it (Twitter actually has a good architecture, and (used to) lead with some good open source and references architectures). Anyway... Twitter doesn't have a tech stack problem.
Plus with the recent software resultant recalls they probably should stay focused..
Tesla Recalls Over a Million Vehicles to Fix Faulty Window Software - Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports details the Tesla Model 3, S, X, and Y recall to ensure their power windows meet safety standards. The fix will prevent windows from closing on hands and fingers.
Tesla recalls 130,000 vehicles due to CPU overheating, but the fix is again a software update
Tesla issued a new recall affecting almost 130,000 2021 and 2022 vehicles over a problem regarding the CPU of the...
electrek.co
akimbo009
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What? Leaks happen everywhere.. and the only commie I've seen is Musk publicly sucking Putin's dick. There's not some weird software dev cabal out there... And yeah, some probably think Elon is a creeper cause well... He is, and it's not like he's spoken nicely of them so not sure why you think they should be nice and loyal back.
DeepEnigma
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Mistake
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Neat. I heard rumors for the longest time, but didn’t know it got confirmed. Custom chip, but no word on the OS eh? Update: this phone is still not confirmedTesla may debut in phone industry with Tesla Pi Phone - The Tech Outlook
After being successful in the car industry, looks like Tesla may step up its game by stepping into the field of mobile manufacturing according to rumors. Tesla will launch its 1st phone in December 2022 according to Priceinall. This article is to discuss the rumored specifications of the Tesla...
Google has exclusive contracts with manufacturers for android, so it’s not so easy to break into the market. They also tie their apps together. So while it is open source, it’s very limited and with google in a big way. You can learn some things about it via the MicroG project or see what Louis Rossmann is up to working with FUTO.
Anyway, would be nice to have more competition, because this duopoly has got to go
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Smiggs
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The irony of saying this while throwing around the term "commie" thinking it somehow makes sense. Just because you hate something doesn't automatically make it communist, Jesus H.
You're lost in the sauce, and the marketing worked well on you.
Dr. Samuel Hayden
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Congrats to Elon for finally getting it done. The meltdowns have been pretty amusing.
Hope he can clean up all the bullshit. It's going to be a huge task.
Hope he can clean up all the bullshit. It's going to be a huge task.
akimbo009
Gold Member
Literally have no idea what this post means.
You're lost in the sauce, and the marketing worked well on you.
Clear
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I always find it weird that communism is deemed acceptable while fascism is not. As political theories they share more commonalities than differences and the bodycount from attempts at establishing large-state communism are way greater.
Communism, particularly Marxism, strikes me as being presented as morally "good" because its utopian final stage gets all the focus, not the revolutionary and socially purging actions that are an absolute necessity to reach that utopia, whereas with Fascism the reverse is true. Which is ironic really as both their "great visions" for global society are equally absolutely intolerant of any of dissent!
InverseAgonist
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I would suggest it's for exactly the reasons outlined by Rentahamster and DeepEnigma, he wants a trusted view into the codebase and algorithms that exist in terms of automated moderation, ranking and social graph analysis of users/bots. All of these map well to what is done by the Tesla guys.
As for the rest, I would suggest you put some perspective on what Tesla has done. They not only built, in-house a clean-sheet car design (unlike the majors who use OEM basically everything and just assemble) and have trained a network that can drive in real-world environments on a 14nm ASIC. That's pretty damn amazing and pointing out two click-baity articles on growing pains in what is a monumental task that's actually working successfully, right now, everyday, in the real world is more than a little silly IMO.
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DeepEnigma
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It's the senior engineers that work for Twitter that called their fellow engineers and executives "commies and far far far far far left." Their own words.
That's the rub. You may not like hearing it, but their actions speak to their words.
Communism is Imperialism 101 sugar coated and marketed to generational youths that have been used to being raised by their parents, hand outs from their parents, sent to school by their parents and thus they find that continued "parental handout" scenario a very appealing way of life. The state turns into mummy and papa, and they don't realize the goal is to spread it like Imperialism, seize the means of production (resources, labor, etc.) like Imperialism, and ration your bread and cheese like Imperialism.
Comrade peasantry.
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Toons
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And apparently so did you lol
DeepEnigma
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They literally allowed a dossier conspiracy for years.
Toons
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They literally allowed a dossier conspiracy for years.
"Its ok because they did it first!!"
Cyberpunkd
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Communism is in no way considered acceptable unless you are a liberal arts left wing idiot who never got further with communism than Che Guevara t-shirt.
NightmareFarm
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Ngl its going to be very interesting seeing how the twitter community evolves in the next couple years.
Toons
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It becomes split into various echo chambers and then all normal people will stop using it or be forced to pick a side.
Same thing thats happening in real life.
Thats if musk doesn't run it into the ground first of course
This is great for me. The crazies can stay on Twitter and stay off everywhere else, hopefully
DeepEnigma
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That's not what I said nor implied. It shows the bullshit double standard even you took issue with
FunkMiller
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DeepEnigma
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I get what he's saying, and I can appreciate that snark, but should we tell him that Tom's was bought by Colgate-Palmolive?
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nightmare-slain
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not really.
i suppose the thread could be kept around to talk about what happens next. the aquisition has already and will definitely have more effects so we can talk about them here.
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3liteDragon
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Dr.Morris79
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I dont think you're really understanding whats been happening. Twitter can change minds, changed minds run your world, whether you're awake to it or not. The world still turns, even without you being a part of it.
nightmare-slain
Member
inject this right into my fucking veins.
hope he guts the place right out.
oh no i can't pay for my fucking tesla!!
chromhound
Member
Elon Musk is on a cleaning spree
FunkMiller
Gold Member
As social experiments go, it’s a doozy.
Musk will either make it better, or it’ll crash and burn like the next MySpace. Either is fine with me.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
If the guy is making Twitter money as a tech engineer (surely making over $100,000) and can’t afford to pay monthly bills for a Tesla the guy has money issues and blew his budget. The guy is one of those “I make good money, assume it’ll last forever, and I’ll straddle the fence pay cheque to pay cheque buying Teslas and Starbucks frappacinnos like money is no object”.
Lesson learned. Don’t buy a car you can’t afford.
nightmare-slain
Member
well said. i am the same. either it gets better or doesn't. either way i am happy.
as i said earlier today...i'm here for the drama. it'll be fun to watch.
and it's not like Musk just came in and bought Twitter out this week.
the warning signs were there. surely he must've thought about what would happen when Musk took over? is my job at risk? what will i do if i get fired?
good luck paying for your tesla.
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DeepEnigma
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He does live in San Fran, cost of living is laughably bad there.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Can’t wait. Musk better keep his foot on the gas pedal egging fragile people on Twitter. It’ll be hilarious.
His post yesterday walking in holding a sink with a big smile on his face is killer laughs for most people and like the apocalypse for others. Lol
Cyberpunkd
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That is one thing, especially with how easy it is to fire in the US. But another thing - 100k$ in SF is nothing, if this guy is data engineer and makes 100k he sure does a shitty job.
FunkMiller
Gold Member
I’m all for anyone who shows how fucking idiotic it is to take Twitter seriously in any way, shape or form. If he buries it under a mountain of poor decisions and weed infused dumbfuckery, then it’ll be the perfect ending.
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