You get what you pay for. You're free to start a subscription twitter that hosts all the hate content you want. Platforms that sustain themselves on advertising are going to do what is popular with the public. Turns out most people, despite what some may think, are not hateful violent lunatics. There are plenty of services that host that content if you want it. Google is at your fingertips. Just don't expect people to like you or demand it be mainstream.
Who's implying these people are seeking truth? They are seeking a short cut to do what they want. Police just want a closed case, and if they think you did it, you did it. Coercion just makes the amount of time they have to spend on it much less.
Community servers are also great. You get to meet people and develop relationships with them as you play. Matchmaking just dumps you with a bunch of randos, half of which are going to be angry teens.
He's got a point though. Why are 18-year-olds taking on so much debt? Why aren't the career counselors in high school warning them against it? I knew a guy who borrowed 100k to go to a small college to study music. He graduated and is now a school gardener that teaches kids about gardening and nature. Every month he had to figure out how to pay his loan along with his family's expenses. He's 1 of thousands.
Maybe a lot of you are willing to take a chance with some risk and some effort. Maybe you get nothing.
I know some really wealthy people who are only wealthy because they took a little risk. I know some people who could be wealthy too if they took the same leap, but didn’t and they aren’t. Perhaps they felt like you do…. It all comes down to choices. These people sticking at Twitter are making their choice. Others left, that was their choice. I’m not going to criticize either choice.
Risk in return for what reward? There's no reason to believe there's any more upside to working at Twitter vs any other big tech company where you don't have a egonomaniac CEO making you do stupid hazing rituals. It's not like a startup where your equity can be worth hundreds of millions of dollars if there's a big IPO. Twitter is well past the 1000x growth stage.
Considering that a lot of the other big tech companies are also laying off and have hiring freezes and the market is saturated with 20000 recently unemployed other big tech SWEs also looking for work…I’d say the reward you get is not having to deal with that rat race.
Let’s face it as hazing rituals go, this is pretty mild.
What exactly is your proposed mechanism for success, by working an ordinary IT job? How is it any different than any other workplace, now that it is owned by Musk?
The best you can hope for is a decent bonus, but that is not life altering in any way and I don’t think it is worth the stress of working under an unstable idiot drama queen some insane hours that may or may not get paid, over at.. the million other IT jobs. Sure, taking risks may be beneficial, but you ain’t jumping down a hill just because it is risky, you have to hope for something.
I live quite a comfortable life despite three decades of “working an ordinary IT jobs”. I guess I don’t see the obvious downside here. These folks are choosing to stick around—maybe it’s an ordinary IT job and maybe working for Musk could be challenging, but maybe they turn around the company and Musk rewards the loyalty, and maybe he doesn’t’. At that point they can re-evaluate.
I don’t buy into the notion that Musk is the worst boss in the world. A former colleague and I were laughing recently at how mild Musk is compared to an old boss we had.
This is just gambling but with your time instead of your money. I think you're more likely to become rich by starting your own side gig than by working for Elon until 1am on a Friday.
I disagree. That requires a having money stashed enough to do it or being tough enough to be poor…then having good idea, talent, and luck. I have been in tech long enough to know that is a exceedingly rare combination.
The bulk of the wealthy in tech got there by working for some lucky person, with a modicum of talent, and a good idea that happened to offer them a piece of the company before some VC swooped in funded them.
He’s only the most successful entrepreneur alive. But sure visa holders need their beauty sleep. Seriously you can’t stay up to 1am to have the company of the worlds richest person? What an opportunity to learn. This thread is totally nuts
I suspect you've never been around Musk or people of Musk's class. What could you possibly learn that would materially improve anything in your life other than "you get to keep your job (for now)"? Or is it just curiosity you want to satisfy?
His habits. You can’t regularly work 80 hour weeks without packing a few tricks. You can’t build multiple billion dollar companies without knowing something others don’t. Often I find when talking to successful people, they’ll make a revealing offhand comment that’s pure gold and can in fact change your life - if you’re paying attention.
An example might be Einstein and Steve Jobs having a full wardrobe of duplicates of the same outfit. Ok, but why? Because they realize the mind is only capable of resolving a finite number of dilemmas per day and choosing what to wear depletes that resource. An eccentric habit, but revealing indeed. After being sold on the theory, they went all in. I wonder to what degree they executed on insights like that where the rest of us just brushed them off
You mean shitposting on twitter? Thanks, I’m quite good at that as is. And yeah, I could probably buy a company and hire some competent people to manage them for me from a litany of money if I happen to be born into that wealth.
And this “same outfit” bullshit is just propaganda for making you believe that you are also a temporarily embarrassed billionaire and you actually are part of this wealthy group, when in fact you are further away from them then from some poor gal in Thailand working for a dollar a week. People are not machine, you can probably only productively work 3 hours a day.
Who burns down $44 billions in record time by fking up twitter faster than a lettuce rots? Oh, and it will not only burn down that, but he has his tesla shares as collateral.
C isn't used for defining ABIs. ABI's have content in them like which registers must be saved by a called function and which ones carry arguments. None of that is C. However, out of necessity, ABI definitions refer to some C concepts and must include details like how structures are to be laid out by C compilers.
