MrMan

seems risky to do anything that decreases twitter's reach. it may seem counter intuitive but there is a reason the blue check mark was free of charge in the first place. I am not sure advertisers want a smaller twitter user base, since the one that exists is quite heterogeneous and geographically distributed.

why care about twitter? go somewhere else or build something else. dont worry about twitter its not worth it

marketing

another reason I think taking twitter private immediately was a wide choice

he bragged that he didn't care about making a profit in one of those public Q&A rountables this year. a lot of weird statements about a company that he seems to hate despite using it to pump his fortune

not a good signal to send to all those lazy liberal programmers at twitter, but why would you worry about brain drain or morale at the company you just bought, but also seem to actively hate and have tried all summer to smear and denigrate. 4-d chess, I am sure

oh no, not k-means clustering

haha funny.

none of this is fun

I just read about this, its crazy. "diverse" viewpoints indeed

definitely a statement that is false

and also not suddenly dodge things that are not there

why is it time to admit that? it may not make anyone as rich as they hoped but I cant imagine we won't solve the problem

the future is outsmarting states like China and Russia and avoiding, not profiting from, social collapse. I think he is just choosing something easy enough to accomplish but which might have a reasonably large addressable market.

really hard problems requiring actual innovation? so-called tech guys can only sell ads and personal data, sorry.

I agree that FB could capture a fitness market a small fraction of Peloton's for this use. No one ever got fired for mimicking Peloton's business model.

complete nonsense. tech may bounce back but "covering losses" is not why tech is down

the initial announcement of Musks twitter offer and attendant gloating / revulsion got many thousands of comments and it is actually quite interesting that the terminal side of this giant event has come through HN like a whisper.

And HN, like CNBC, exists mainly as part of a giant financial hype machine which is interesting in the same way that gravity or death is interesting. The whole tech world revolves around the price of things - your attention, clicks, term sheets, RSUs, etc. Cramer is not below HN, you are not above Cramer just because you don't perform on camera. We are all part of this machine.

I have had arguments with a lot of buy side and MBA types who try to convince me that buybacks are good for the country and patriotic but I would prefer a dividend by god. buybacks to me are un-American especially those funded by debt.

who needs to bathe a lot unless they are very dirty? airtight reasoning

I predicted it before the vote was taken but I am literally nobody

we need to try to get more immigrants to move here

this is such a blatantly untrue statement, made in good, faith steelmanning it, curiously

thanks

yeah she is an actual Fascist.

it was 8-9ft in that area I think

not at all, but javascript programmers cant or dont want to make such distinctions

there is no such thing as a tech company except maybe biotech or other R&d based businesses.

I dont respond to fake meat, I reduced my meat consumption by 95 percent. I just eat vegetables.

beg to get back into the EU before UK is just Wales and England with no GDP.

just dont understand why these kinds of frauds or predatory market manipulations, whatever you want to call them are not super illegal, they are pure theft