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duz posted:Not memorable enough, need something that feels quicker, how about Quibi, is anyone using that word? Quibi and Quibbl were both already taken.
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Fundamentally Twitter is doomed because Musk's takeover has saddled it with so much debt that it can't possibly raise revenue enough to control it. There's just no way to make the math work.
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It's going to their personal email... because they're going to immediately get frozen out. With no opportunity or incentive to pass on any individual knowledge. The living will envy the dead.
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Morrow posted:The living will envy the dead. https://mobile.twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1588390821069737984 I was expecting more of a drain circling doom spiral, rather than a straight drop.
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I need to stop posting tweets, but there's no better way than Twitter posts of former employees to chronicle the downfall of Twitter. https://mobile.twitter.com/krave/status/1588414322467778561 I had not paid attention before, how closely tied is Tesla's financials to Twitter now? Can we see both collapse in a brave new world?
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Pleasant Friend posted:Musk has a history of intentionally shorting his stock in Telsa for financial gain. If Musk was trying to 'short' Twitter, would he be doing anything differently right now? Is there any way he can make money off of ruining the value of Twitter? There's no financial maneuver that digs him out of the financial hole he is in for twitter. He needs Twitter to come up with a billion a month in profit just to handle the debt payments.
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It's really a huge mistake for meta, now that I realize it. They're trying to build another social media outlet when they could go all in on VR training and end up as a huge defense contractor with a solid chunk of basically every other industry.
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Mister Facetious posted:This is more of a civil lawsuit/class action thing. It's less that, and more that he's inviting increased scrutiny. Everyone is always doing something shady or illegal at that level and it's just most of the time it isn't worth picking a legal fight over pinning them to the wall. In this case he is definitely doing something illegal in terms of data privacy at Twitter which is going to be investigated and other business issues may turn up, conveniently after he pissed off a lot of wealthy people.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/NotBrunoAgain/status/1593458337126965250 Which one of you was this?
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Nov 18, 2022 14:34
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Isn't everyone locked out of the office?
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Nov 18, 2022 18:26
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By the end of the month the company will be small enough that he can do personal performance reviews of every single employee.
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Harold Fjord posted:I don't think anyone becomes the richest man in the world without this addiction Jeff Bezos never got addicted to buying stuff off Amazon. Mexican telecomms dude never got addicted to long distance calls. Elon's behavior is bizarre even by insanely rich person standards.
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Nenonen posted:I can see Tesla making an untraceable single-use phone that then self-destructs. A burner phone, if you will. It's a feature, not a bug. (It's also bugged).
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Why does a deepfake of Zuckerberg have more life and emotion than the real thing Ultimately the deepfake is Zuck's voice and body mapped over a normal human. The subtle details of his body language (or complete lack thereof) are what sells him as a human autonomoton. It would take a very talented motion capture actor to properly match that.
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SaTaMaS posted:It's not always clear where the iterating is supposed to happen though. Just like with waterfall, a bunch of executives sit in a room at the beginning at the project and come up with the project objectives. Then these get turned into epics and then stories and are added to the backlog. When users have problems these get registered as bugs and are added to sprints along with stories for developers come up with a band-aid for. Without a way for user problems to cause basic assumptions to get reconsidered, there's no iteration. It's just waterfall with agile terminology. Unfortunately, yes, "hybrid agile" is the approach I've typically seen where there's a fundamental misunderstanding of things like minimum viable product. I recently left a job where I was constantly being asked when a new feature was going to be implemented, a new feature that wasn't needed while we were working on MVP.
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Tires are still technology, I'm waiting for a tech genius to try to reinvent them with smart tires that are ten times more expensive and are occasionally burst into flames. My favorite winter tire, front wheel drive story here in DC was a surprise snowfall last year that basically snowed in tons of cars on the beltway. I felt bad, but I still had the habit of swapping tires out when the season finally hit, so my little Prius was moseying past all these stuck SUVs on my way home.
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StumblyWumbly posted:So, IANAL, but if I stand in front of a court and say junk, I'm the one responsible for that, even if a robot is whispering in my ear telling me to say stuff. If my buddy Tony the not-lawyer says "just fart loudly and you're free to go", the judge shouldn't care, I'm the guy responsible for doing what I do in the court. If Tony is my lawyer and he says that, and he is representing me, then there's a chance he does take a lot of the blame. The important thing to understand is that lawyers are a medieval guild dressed up in suits. They get to decide who is a lawyer, and who is not, and regulate their profession. A lawyer giving you bad (i.e. harmful) advice? They'll crack down on that. A friend who is not a lawyer giving you bad advice? They don't care. A computer program promising to replace lawyers in court? Or, say, some tele-law system that feeds you instructions from a robot or a remote lawyer? They will fight against that tooth and nail even if it is a good idea.
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Neo Rasa posted:Totally legit He's just desperate to monetize as much as possible because he is so deep in the financial hole that his only option is to keep digging and hope he finds oil. Twitter has lost many of its big advertisers and been saddled with yearly debt payments that exceed its prepandemic profits. His own personal wealth, and Tesla stock, is also closely tied to it because of the ridiculous overdid. There's a lot of sound and fury but the story is basically over.
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Youtube quickly stops recommending Jorp videos if you constantly report them for hate speech every time you see them. No joke my youtube is all boardwalk empire stuff ever since.
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cat botherer posted:Kind of curious to see whether the tech layoffs are going to boomerang back if the bulk employment numbers remain decent. It really seems like just some kind of contagion, unrelated to actual business conditions. It's related to interest rates. A lot of tech companies took on debt and borrowed to expand rapidly and now that the era of easy money is over they're trying to cut down.
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The issue is training an AI to follow make and follow a strategy i.e. "I'm going to push for cultural victory" and then convincingly follow that strategy but also be prepared to abandon it if circumstances change. A big issue with chess bots, f.e., is they don't play human: they may have some scripted gambits they like, but fundamentally it's "optimal play but blunder XX% of the time". Part of how people can tell when someone is cheating in chess by relying on an engine is they don't seem to follow a cohesive plan, because a human will hold a strategy in their head that they work to advance while an engine will just take the most optimal move after running thousands of simulations.
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It's not illegal to cause a bank run, even if he can be linked to it. It's just a strong reason not to do business with him but there will always be frogs lining up to take him across the river.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I'm out of my depth here. Does this mean that, in retrospect, the bank was comfortably solvent and, absent the bank run, could have been ticking along comfortably for some time to come? Yes. The bank run was specifically the problem. There were underlying issues but they weren't fatal until depositors got spooked and started pulling their money out. The issue is the bank had long term assets it couldn't quickly sell to cover the withdrawals: most banks have this problem, SVB was just more extreme.
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The assumption is that a business has the resources to do due diligence, as does someone with more than 250k in the bank, to make sure their finances are sound. A lot of the immediate pressure seems to just be payroll companies losing any money in transit over the weekend which is such a niche issue that I can see it being missed by regulation until now.Arivia posted:Drizzt isn’t a self-insert Mary Sue. The actual story is even funnier: Salvatore was trying to pitch a trilogy about a barbarian (Wulfgar) in the icy north wastes of nowhere (Icewind Dale) and it went over like a lead balloon. So Salvatore started blurting out Drizzt, whose character traits are just a collection of poo poo from the most recent D&D rulebook (Unearthed Arcana), and the executives bit. “He’s got a friend - a drow! And his drow friend dual wields two swords!” Drizzle Dour'den was unironically cool and innovative when he first came out before everyone started copying him. Salvatore even rolled with it in a later novel where he had another Drow protagonist just pretend to be Drip'it so he could freely travel on the surface without getting lynched.
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That's where I really think the environment for VR is: training and professional/industrial work. Don't do it for dumb white collar meetings that could've been emails, work on the robotics aspect so you can have workers step into a warehouse across the country and control Forkliftus Prime to get someone's amazon package.
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Disney is willing to invest in an electronical Luke Skywalker that will never age, will never ask for more money, and will never cause publicity issues that force them to can a planned miniseries based around them.
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I was very disappointed because I expected some sort of AI-controlled spring shoes instead of just heelies.
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https://twitter.com/Tazerface16/status/1659337677706260480 "Innovators" continue to find flaws in Twitter 2.0, specifically that a blue checkmark means you have some really cheap data storage. And by data I mean porn.
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There's something just really unsettling about all the photos I see of that guy. Like I've seen forty-somethings in great shape who look really good, but he looks like a 20-something with a bad drug habit.
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It's not impossible, it just opens them up to ruinous lawsuits for all the copyrighted material they used.
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The issue is this kind of thing is part of the industry. People pay absurd amounts of money for the risk of death, bluntly, and there will probably be some sort of attempted crack down on this type of unregulated submersible diving but the thrill-seeking millionaires will just go elsewhere (unassisted skydiving?).
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The controller probably isn't the issue, it's the carbon fiber hull. Pending an investigation, of course, but that's probably the point of (final) failure.
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Zuck wanted metaverse to happen because he was dreaming of a world where he owned the digital infrastructure as things built up around him, the equivalent of buying Manhattan in 1700 and holding onto it until the 20th century. He just really never articulated a reason for people to go there.
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A collapse of commercial real estate in some of our biggest cities will radically remake them for the better by freeing that up for a more efficient use of space (housing). It will also make some rich people less rich.
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It's also an issue where (rich) people's incomes aren't just from rent, but from the value of the buildings themselves. The value of the building is used as collateral to secure loans for additional development or personal use (a fun trick that avoids taxes on income) so there's huge institutional incentives to keep things as inflated as possible.
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Remember, the value of a property is a function of the rent paid by tenants. And as a property developer you've probably used that real estate as collateral for other loans. If that property loses value, you're suddenly on the hook for the difference in collateral. So the owners would rather keep rent up, have it vacant, and use the time to try to claw their way out of the hole they've dug. It's a tangled web to unweave.
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Elias_Maluco posted:I never used self-checkout, we dont have that here (Brazil) yet There's usually a security guard, plus some poor worker supervising the self-checkout, for very obvious theft. But yeah, you can absolutely sneak stuff out because they don't really care. Most supermarkets build in some degree of theft into their operating costs because the alternative is strip searching every customer.
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There's people who always complain about being scammed because they don't do basic due diligence. He didn't look into whether an electric vehicle made sense for his lifestyle, which was an extreme of long distance travel in minimal infrastructure, he obviously didn't do proper diligence on the contractor he hired to install a charger, and he definitely didn't spend any time actually planning out this road trip. Once a sucker, always a sucker.
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Biden giveth, Dark Brandon taketh. Only a monthly tribute of malarkey can appease him.
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It's not a forgotten technique: the secret to looking like you're cool and not dying south of the Mason-Dixon Line is to wear an undershirt.
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