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My immediate question was: Wait, how was this even supposed to work? Once the NFTs have been minted, how are the doctors getting paid for consultations?www.metadocsnft.com posted:The MetaDocs ecosystem runs on the “Heart Token,” a utility token awarded daily to all MetaDocs NFT holders. Additionally, after 100% mint, MetaDocs will airdrop NFT holders Heart Tokens, which can be redeemed for experiences as well as access to our doctors. So the plan was to regularly distribute monopoly money to NFT holders and pay the doctors with that. Geez, I wonder why it didn't take off.
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Aramis posted:My immediate question was: Wait, how was this even supposed to work? You just put more thought into this than most people, that's how it "works"
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Volmarias posted:You just put more thought into this than most people, that's how it "works" I know... I just can't help it. The entire crypto ecosystem is predicated on the idea that an objective is inherently valuable. How that objective is reached, and how effective the means to do so have no bearing on the value of a project. However, no matter how shaky the foundation is, the building still needs to at least look like its standing. It may not matter to crypto-enthusiasts how slow or energy-wasteful a PoW blockchain is, but it still needs to provide distributed consensus. Watching True Believers go through the doomed motions of putting the square peg down the round hole is fun/fascinating to me much in the same way as a bad movie made by an incompetent, but well meaning, director. As far as this project goes, a competent scammer at least has the good sense to come up with something minimally viable, and certainly not something that is predicated on getting a bunch of doctors to publicly be on board. That's why this is, to me, a Manos, the hands of fate to your average rug-pull's Asylum movie. Aramis fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Apr 25, 2022 |
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Adolf Glitter posted:Metaverse you say? More like Metabunchofpedos. quote:It got to the point that I was really starting to worry how bad it was making our documentary look. I was conscious we needed balance, so I found myself desperately trying to find good things to latch on to. But the bad stuff kept coming so thick and fast. I didn’t prompt any of it, I was just existing in that space.
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It's all elaborate ways to rephrase 'wallet inspector'.
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Splicer posted:"I swear to god I tried to both-sides this" They should have hired Owlofcreamcheese, he would defend any tech crap.
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ianmacdo posted:They should have hired Owlofcreamcheese, he would defend any tech crap.
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There Bias Two posted:I'm guessing it's just displaying a PDF doc that they can't easily edit. AS some one who works in printing, sign making and graphics I can confirm that editing pdfs can be an incredible pain the rear end to edit, depending on who built it what they used. PDF's were originally designed and intended to be the FINAL production file AFTER all the edits had taken place because the were so much smaller than working files and anyone could read and view them. Now, they're practically the working files themselves and people in charge of ads and marketing don't understand why they're so hard to edit and work with. They're smaller and more portable precisely because they get stripped of their editing capabilities. I'd bet anything, the menu designer typeset the whole thing in Photoshop and it's a raster image with no fonts embedded. That, or they don't want to pay someone that knows what they're doing to edit it since most companies think if it looks good on a phone or a laptop then it's good to go.
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Even if that sign was the most well thought out and easy to edit thing in the world, using some tape and a marker when something sells out is better than messing around with computer in the middle of your lunch rush. Tape's also probably better at communicating "this is not a permanent menu change " to your regulars
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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1518677066325053441 While it's: 1. What needs to be done for moral reasons 2. Not happening 3. Not even really possible since there is no such thing as a monolithic algorithm at play. The idea of actually open-sourcing the algorithm is hilariously naïve, would immediately tank the platform, would lead to a SEO open season, and expose how modern social platforms are completely unsustainable financially without the dark patterns that are making them a blight on society. I'm all for it, obviously. Aramis fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Apr 25, 2022 |
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I really, really, really hope Musk unleashes his inner city council Libertarian and does to twitter what they've historically done to any other built up and fully operational thing they're foolishly given control over. By this time next month I wanna see a bunch of bears (animal kind) with accounts roaming about the place
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Aramis posted:no such thing as a monolithic algorithm at play. Remember that Twitter AI Microsoft created that went full Nazi/qanon in less than six hours due to crowd sourcing? I expect it will be something like that 
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Mister Facetious posted:Remember that Twitter AI Microsoft created that went full Nazi/qanon in less than six hours due to crowd sourcing? I expect it will be something like that Tai.ai was actually a UX design failure more than anything else. Without any incentive structure around human engagement with the system, the only people who interacted with it for more than 10 seconds are those who provided their own.
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Foxfire_ posted:Even if that sign was the most well thought out and easy to edit thing in the world, using some tape and a marker when something sells out is better than messing around with computer in the middle of your lunch rush. Tape's also probably better at communicating "this is not a permanent menu change " to your regulars
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So, uhhh...one more reason I'm not signed up for a Twitter account then?
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Splicer posted:"I swear to god I tried to both-sides this" The documentary is on TV here in the UK tonight, I'll have to remember to check it out. I'm sad and angry enough already though, so it'll have to be another day.
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Twitter was officially dead as a thing with any real growth potential the moment Jack left, and being bought out by a narcissist who can preside over its decline after overpaying for it was their best play. This is not because Jack is some gifted genius, it's because Jack is one of several canaries in the coal mine that Twitter's done as a company that will show significant growth. For example, see also: https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-misses-ad-revenue-user-growth-estimates-revenue-forecast-light-2022-02-10/ This is happening to several social media/tech companies almost simultaneously as they achieve maximum user saturation. Netflix is going to bring in ads, Facebook has become a VR company, social media is no longer the avenue to project growth to shareholders.
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Twitter suffers from the fact it's an unbearable hellscape and as people recognize that simple fact, it's going to shrivel and blow away.
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I am very excited to see Lowtax-style management put in place at Twitter, it's gonna be hilarious Sucks for the workers, though. https://twitter.com/talmonsmith/status/1518679067675009032 https://twitter.com/talmonsmith/status/1518679070506106882
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I enjoy the idea that up to this point, Twitter employees considered their company to be competently run by people who weren't completely out of their loving minds. Do I think Elon Musk will be a poo poo owner? Yes, absolutely! Do I think that Twitter was already one of the worst things for humanity since someone wrapped shredded tobacco in paper and tried lighting it on fire? You better believe it.
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TACD posted:If they are stupid enough to do it I’m hoping it’ll bring VPN usage into the mainstream Is it not in the UK? I saw a commercial for Nordvpn on tv last week, in the US.
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Main Paineframe posted:I am very excited to see Lowtax-style management put in place at Twitter, it's gonna be hilarious Cool. And why can't Chevron or Exxon etc just buy a social media platform and purge the information on their crimes.
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PT6A posted:I enjoy the idea that up to this point, Twitter employees considered their company to be competently run by people who weren't completely out of their loving minds. Would certainly explain their inconsistent, and barely existent moderation
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i've always wondered about the employee psychology behind that mindset - there's a divide between tech employees that buy into the "we're on a mission to change the world" tech cult and the hyper-cynical folks that are just there for the paycheck it happens even in super-staid places like Google and Microsoft
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shrike82 posted:i've always wondered about the employee psychology behind that mindset - there's a divide between tech employees that buy into the "we're on a mission to change the world" tech cult and the hyper-cynical folks that are just there for the paycheck Some people are wired with a stronger conformity instinct, and cheerfully subsume their will in the company culture.
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Main Paineframe posted:I am very excited to see Lowtax-style management put in place at Twitter, it's gonna be hilarious I cannot wait to keep hearing this comparison. Seriously, it's gonna be a laugh and probably ominous.
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shrike82 posted:i've always wondered about the employee psychology behind that mindset - there's a divide between tech employees that buy into the "we're on a mission to change the world" tech cult and the hyper-cynical folks that are just there for the paycheck people want to believe their work is fulfilling?
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Cool. And why can't Chevron or Exxon etc just buy a social media platform and purge the information on their crimes.
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shrike82 posted:i've always wondered about the employee psychology behind that mindset - there's a divide between tech employees that buy into the "we're on a mission to change the world" tech cult and the hyper-cynical folks that are just there for the paycheck The "hyper cynical folks" are the ones who used to have the power and responsibility until the middle managers came in. They didn't leave for greener pastures either through some kind of golden handcuffs or attained the enlightenment of "work to live". I'm popping a big ol bowl of popcorn. This show is going to be off the rails!
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Twitter has like one or two nice things about it, and one is that it doesn't run off sex workers and sexual imagery to chase advertising money like nearly every other medium and most of the mainstream web. In that regard, a takeover by Microsoft or Meta would have been terrible. Musk is not THAT concerned with turning a profit because if he was he wouldn't run his businesses the way he has and fallen upwards, and even if Twitter sustains massive losses it's fine because they can cancel out the taxes he may owe turning his stock options into cash which he has previously covered by selling more shares. That's about what I can see he gets out of it, aside from blatantly illegal but likely unenforceable things like seeing what investors are privately saying to each other in PMs so that he could better play the market. I assume if he's going to edict that someone he doesn't like should be publicly banned as a pedo or something to smear someone else unreasonable, most of the people who work at the company are going to walk. The thing about the tech industry is there's a lot of other ships you can get on, so if you don't like the one you're on you just go somewhere else. Depending on how much management Musk keeps he may not be able to easily fill some departures. Even non-unionized skilled workers have power if they decide to just up and leave at once.
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Precious few big tech employees actually quit over poo poo the size of Cambridge Analytica or the YouTube white supremacy pipeline. The vast majority don't really care beyond the fact that they have to take a little flak from their online dating matches. Some go on a personal defend the company crusade and amplify all the good things their platform might do one day in a perfect world and a few will hang on for stocks to vest or redundancy is offered and then just switch to another tech toilet and start again.
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So is Elon going to make all the black staff at Twitter work in a different, lovely part of the building like he does at the gigafactory?
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What are your blokes thoughts on Elon Musk taking ownership of Twitter
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Wizard Master posted:What are your blokes thoughts on Elon Musk taking ownership of Twitter whoa I didn't know this was happening (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/former-twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-responds-to-musk-takeover-elon-is-the-singular-solution-i-trust "Twitter is the closest thing we have to a global consciousness". That has got to be one of the fart-huffingest statements in this thread.
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I'm pretty sure there's a larger volume of porn on Twitter than Tumblr ever had, but Tumblr got axed because at a certain point it had become primarily for porn. So if we want to destroy Twitter, we all have to do is flood it with as much porn as possible to overpower all the bad political takes. It's up to us, folks. Also, as loathe as I am to admit it, banning porn was the best thing that ever happened to Tumblr. Now it's the only good social media site because it's all about people posting pictures of neat stuff. It's the realized ideal of social media as imagined in 2003 before VC funding came in and destroyed everything good about the web. Every time I go on it's just cool old pulp book covers and cool found-photos from the 60s and advertisements for monster masks from the back of a comic book and gifs of weird 80s commercials. Then I can do a search for Our Flag Means Death and find a bunch of wholesome PG-13 gay pirate romance fanart comics. Being an also-ran has-been is a good look for Tumblr.
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The tumblr porn ban was always arbitrary and if anything probably just a response to how much LGBT+ content it had. Apple would never threaten Twitter in the slightest at this point because it's simply too big, and more people would stop using iPhones than stop using Twitter.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Apple would never threaten Twitter in the slightest at this point because it's simply too big, and more people would stop using iPhones than stop using Twitter. But I have a lot of faith in Musk's ability to garbage the platform in the next 5-7 years. If I'm Apple, I'm creating an iPhone-only Twitter clone right now.
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