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If billionaires cared about people they wouldn't be billionaires, hth
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boofhead posted:He could have hired a team of round the clock therapists Men will literally burn billion dollar social networks to the ground instead of going to therapy.
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Nov 15, 2022 09:53
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I've been through lots of drug/alcohol therapy and I can safely say that Elon Musk would be an immediate pariah and would never make it in that situation.
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Nov 15, 2022 09:54
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Oh it could never work, therapy requires that you put trust in another individual that they can help find wisdom you don't, while acknowledging your own flaws, it's everything Musk is incapable of doing.
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Nov 15, 2022 09:57
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The problem with philanthropy is that every billionaire already does it. Bezos was in the news recently for giving away 100 million (0.08%) of his wealth. Musk wants to go down in history as a thought leader and Great Man which means doing poo poo that hasn’t been done.
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Nov 15, 2022 09:57
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https://twitter.com/tesseralis/status/1592293632413138945
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Nov 15, 2022 10:06
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jeffreyw posted:Does Musk even have any hobbies? Beyond desperately trying to be a Twitter Superstar, to the point he bought the entire platform to give himself a leg up, he doesn’t seem to have anything to do in his life. I suppose racism would count as a hobby for a white South African
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Nov 15, 2022 10:18
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massive spider posted:The problem with philanthropy is that every billionaire already does it. Bezos was in the news recently for giving away 100 million (0.08%) of his wealth. Musk wants to go down in history as a thought leader and Great Man which means doing poo poo that hasn’t been done. I was having a conversation with my parents about this tonight, mostly around how anyone who actually has even an inkling of empathy could never become a billionaire in the first place. My mom said MacKenzie Scott (Bezo's ex-wife) cared about people because she donates billions to charities. I had to point out that while she's given away billions, her donations will never cause her to NOT be a billionaire. She could give away $10,000 a day and she'd only lose a billion dollars after about 270 years. Who the gently caress needs at least a billion dollars to live their lives?
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Nov 15, 2022 10:19
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Nov 15, 2022 10:23
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Tried to download my twitter data three days ago, it said it would take a few hours to process, three days later I got a notification it was done but when trying to get it: Guess 'ol musky turned that microservice off
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Nov 15, 2022 10:26
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BlackIronHeart posted:I was having a conversation with my parents about this tonight, mostly around how anyone who actually has even an inkling of empathy could never become a billionaire in the first place. My mom said MacKenzie Scott (Bezo's ex-wife) cared about people because she donates billions to charities. I had to point out that while she's given away billions, her donations will never cause her to NOT be a billionaire. She could give away $10,000 a day and she'd only lose a billion dollars after about 270 years. Who the gently caress needs at least a billion dollars to live their lives? That seems like a bad example of someone to poo poo on. Sure she could do a lot more but it far exceeds most donors as a % of net worth, regardless of what she keeps.
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Nov 15, 2022 10:26
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BlackIronHeart posted:Who the gently caress needs at least a billion dollars to live their lives? I believe I could have that amount of money and not get corrupted
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Nov 15, 2022 10:31
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BlackIronHeart posted:I was having a conversation with my parents about this tonight, mostly around how anyone who actually has even an inkling of empathy could never become a billionaire in the first place. My mom said MacKenzie Scott (Bezo's ex-wife) cared about people because she donates billions to charities. I had to point out that while she's given away billions, her donations will never cause her to NOT be a billionaire. She could give away $10,000 a day and she'd only lose a billion dollars after about 270 years. Who the gently caress needs at least a billion dollars to live their lives? Doesn't she actually try to donate it all away and literally can't do it fast enough?
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Nov 15, 2022 10:34
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I hope someone replied with https://lmgtfy.app/?q=how+do+I+quit+vim
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Nov 15, 2022 10:36
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Midnight Voyager posted:Doesn't she actually try to donate it all away and literally can't do it fast enough? We have an example right in this thread. boofhead posted:The rich have already learned long ago that you don't actually need to do philanthropy to get kudos for being a philanthropist, it's a lot cheaper and more effective if you just fake it, as they all do.
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Nov 15, 2022 10:37
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he's aged 16 years in the last 4 years he's clearly compromised just imagine if you had to constantly acquire companies and shitpost to manically save face like that or the saudis release the files
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Nov 15, 2022 10:38
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Elon just deleted that “He’s Fired” tweet, presumably because that engineer’s response ratio’d him.
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Nov 15, 2022 10:39
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So is Jeffrey planning on snapping up some of these tech free agents? Maybe see if one of them wants a go at the front page.
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Nov 15, 2022 10:46
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btw astral told me this site has to do 600 sql merges per second so if it's slow that's why
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SuddenCactus posted:I believe I could have that amount of money and not get corrupted I mean, me too, but thats assuming my billion dollar cocaine orgy and comprehensive health screening is understood to be done from a place of pure desire to help.
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BlackIronHeart posted:I was having a conversation with my parents about this tonight, mostly around how anyone who actually has even an inkling of empathy could never become a billionaire in the first place. My mom said MacKenzie Scott (Bezo's ex-wife) cared about people because she donates billions to charities. I had to point out that while she's given away billions, her donations will never cause her to NOT be a billionaire. She could give away $10,000 a day and she'd only lose a billion dollars after about 270 years. Who the gently caress needs at least a billion dollars to live their lives? Usually the money is tied up productively in the economy through bonds, stocks/company ownership, loans, etc. Question is why does a woman get to own/control huge chunks of the economy just for having married some dude? Even as a freemarketeer you gotta admit that it would be better for society and the economy if that ownership was spread out over more people. It's not like she is some heroic captain of industry allocating the capital in the most productive manner. She's an author and her wealth is managed by hired financial advisors.
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Nov 15, 2022 10:52
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GABA ghoul posted:Usually the money is tied up productively in the economy through bonds, stocks/company ownership, loans, etc. Question is why does a woman get to own/control huge chunks of the economy just for having married some dude? Even as a freemarketeer you gotta admit that it would be better for society and the economy if that ownership was spread out over more people. It's not like she is some heroic captain of industry allocating the capital in the most productive manner. She's an author and her wealth is managed by hired financial advisors. OTOH, the captains of industry these days are some bigass fuckwits
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Nov 15, 2022 10:57
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GABA ghoul posted:Usually the money is tied up productively in the economy through bonds, stocks/company ownership, loans, etc. Question is why does a woman get to own/control huge chunks of the economy just for having married some dude? Even as a freemarketeer you gotta admit that it would be better for society and the economy if that ownership was spread out over more people. It's not like she is some heroic captain of industry allocating the capital in the most productive manner. She's an author and her wealth is managed by hired financial advisors. being married to a billionaire involves more emotional labor than the amount of any type of labor being done by the billionaire also you gotta touch their peeny sometimes, yuck
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Nov 15, 2022 11:04
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I'm pretty sure almost anyone would fall into the same trap if they ended up with billions of dollars as much as they would want to believe they'd be different. This is why we need a support system in place to make sure people are never afflicted with having lots of money and prevent this scourge from taking hold. I volunteer to collect and appropriate all the cash.
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Nov 15, 2022 11:06
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Give it a few weeks and we'll be able to afford to buy Twitter ourselves
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Nov 15, 2022 11:21
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I genuinely thought Musk taking over Twitter would basically mean business as usual in the short term, with some staff quitting because they didn't want to work for him, but overall a relatively minimal level of drama. Even the retrograde "everyone back in the office for 40+ hours a week" edict was forseeable given that's what he did previously with Tesla, so not really dramatic. This was more than I ever dared hope for. Even him publicly dragging on his employees, getting shown up for his ignorance by them and then saying "you're fired!" like it's The Apprentice is extremely funny, since I know those engineers dgaf and have plenty of options, if they weren't already halfway out the door. Come to think of it.. maybe Musk basically is Trump lite back on Twitter at this point.
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Nov 15, 2022 11:33
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I dont have a twitter and I am not signing up. But I would love for one their engineers to explain what the cost to build a twitter 2.0 from scratch would be. Like Elon coulda spent 2 billion on servers and coders and make his own twitter his own way.
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Nov 15, 2022 11:44
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Ups_rail posted:I dont have a twitter and I am not signing up. If you used mastodon's open source code as your base, less than you'd think (but also more than you'd think). Although that would be locking you into open-source. But the issue with doing that is nobody would use it.
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Nov 15, 2022 11:47
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this is ridiculous how much cocaine can one man imbibe without dying
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Mx. posted:this is ridiculous let's just say that's the real reason he sold 4 billion tesla stock the other day
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Nov 15, 2022 11:54
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Ups_rail posted:I dont have a twitter and I am not signing up. The technical and implementation side of it isn't particularly noteworthy (no offence to sysadmins), the architecture is no different than any other entity needing to serve X requests concurrently, with the capacity to scale on demand. It would take more than what we've seen already to destroy Twitter, but it certainly is possible. Anyone who doubts that need only look at MySpace.
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Durzel posted:The technical and implementation side of it isn't particularly noteworthy (no offence to sysadmins), the architecture is no different than any other entity needing to serve X requests concurrently, with the capacity to scale on demand. Eh, the noteworthy engineering challenge with twitter is its capacity and loadbearing at scale, and they've done a pretty impressive job stabilising that at radically high traffic nowadays, as compared to the old fail whale era.
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Nov 15, 2022 11:56
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Durzel posted:It would take more than what we've seen already to destroy Twitter, but it certainly is possible. Anyone who doubts that need only look at MySpace. So twitter has alot of debt. Elon used stock to barrow to buy twitter. Yeah I get that that the userbase is what he was buying. But again he coulda had his own twitter with black jack and people saying the N word and what ever else with no debt. Oh good point about mastodon
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Nov 15, 2022 12:12
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MikeJF posted:Eh, the noteworthy engineering challenge with twitter is its capacity and loadbearing at scale, and they've done a pretty impressive job stabilising that at radically high traffic nowadays, as compared to the old fail whale era. The real value is in the captured userbase (while it lasts).
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Nov 15, 2022 12:12
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MikeJF posted:Tried to download my twitter data three days ago, it said it would take a few hours to process, three days later I got a notification it was done but when trying to get it: I believe this would be in violation of GDPR and CCPA. If you request that data then you need to get it.
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Nov 15, 2022 12:14
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Durzel posted:Anyone who doubts that need only look at MySpace. Myspace is a just an empty shell of what it once was, with most of the content lost to the void. I guess it was also quite a simple setup compared to what Twitter is now, so not sure it's fair to compare the two. Twitter can't remain operational as it stands at the moment, and it'll degrade to the point of inoperability. He's sacked anyone who could turn things around for him, and so it's just a waiting game now. Twitter will survive in some form, but so does altavista and ask jeeves I guess...
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Nov 15, 2022 12:18
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Twitter will become X, the app that does everything from feeding you right wing conspiracy theories, unlocking your car (signal required, subject to car flammability) and even letting you buy into the newest crypto scam
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Nov 15, 2022 12:23
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Wonder what Tom MySpace thinks about this
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I'm pretty sure the outcome is going to be the worst case scenario: it gets sold off after the last collapse, and Zuck buys the corpse and has his way with it.
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