TSLY
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Murdoch had a box and Musk is skinflint. It does appear Musk changed his T shirt to make a proper impression on old Rupe. Rumor is he wants to sell Twitter to Fox.
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Elon & Twitter
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ElectricIAC
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Daniel in SD
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I don’t think that was the tweet they claimed was in violation of ToS. Source?Interesting point you raise.
“But go home, and go home in peace.”
Worst violation of Twitter TOS I’ve ever seen, I’m sure Yoel was shaking in his boots.
Norbert
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Yeah, I don't think it was because the emphasis of that sentence was on the first part.
Daniel in SD
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Looks like they fixed the bug.
When is the algorithm going to be open sourced?
When is the algorithm going to be open sourced?
Norbert
TSLA will win
I suspect the literal source code won't tell you much. Twitter will be the result of which bugs in the server support environment get fixed, and which won't get fixed.
ElectricIAC
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So… clearly Elon is not on Ukraine’s side.
ElectricIAC
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That’s a ridiculous statement.
But the continued ingratitude from our honorary 51st state will and should be noted when the time comes to reevaluate priorities.
italian bread
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"avoiding rent. A goddamned embarrassment"
Such as not paying rent on offices, or air flight bills, or severance pay, or locking up the API without letting anyone know.
ElectricIAC
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Siri, what is a private company?
I seem to remember that line being thrown around by folks before EM bought the blue albatross.
I guess that only applies when one likes what they’re doing though right?
Norbert
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Twitter now blaming Greta for train accidents.
ElectricIAC
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Norbert
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Not that I know. A meme suggesting her silence about these events would show that she is selective in her attempts to protect the environment, implying that therefore her position lacks integrity. As if she could do something about train accidents that she isn't. Just random nonsense on Twitter.
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Sweet Jesus. I always wondered who the hell was stupid enough to fall for Russian propaganda. Sadly, now I know.
Daniel in SD
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I don’t remember anyone saying that Twitter 1.0 shouldn’t have to at its bills….Siri, what is a private company?
I seem to remember that line being thrown around by folks before EM bought the blue albatross.
I guess that only applies when one likes what they’re doing though right?
Maybe he should explain what he thinks is propaganda or BS? I feel like he just wants to be a troll.
He could just say that he doesn’t want Starlink to be used to make weapons. That would at least be a defensible position. Though I wonder if the military version, Starshield, will be used to make weapons.
The military version... Ahh there's the grift. Provide them with the same box, maybe a nicer case and charge 10x the price. I can't really blame Elon. It's pretty standard practice to soak the taxpayers with such scams.
Is starshield a future version? I thought I already read he was loosing $5k/mo per box in Ukraine. But he charges $50-100 to the public here. Or are these different?
stopcrazypp
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$4500 per month is the retail cost that Starlink tried to charge the DOD for every single terminal back when they tried to threaten to cut off access. Those terminals were signed up for the $500 per month tier service. The actual costs are going to be lower than that $4500, but we don't hear much about it. After the backlash, they gave up trying to charge that price.
You can do a rough estimate of the costs by Elon saying by October they had spent $80M on Ukraine's service, and by then they had 20k terminals, so in that 7 months they spent about $80M / 7 / 20k = $571 per terminal. He also noted by end of the year they would spend over $100M, that works out to about $10M a month, which also works out to about $500 a terminal. No matter how you do the math the actual costs work out to about $500 per month per terminal, which makes sense given that was the tier Ukraine was signed up for. It's easy to see why the DOD balked.
While it should be noted a private enterprise isn't necessarily obligated to do charity or sell at cost like a nonprofit, Elon was able to piggy back on a lot of good will, with a large part (if not the majority) of the terminals being funded by others.
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ElectricIAC
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