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New comment by bobsil1 in "Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter"

bobsil1 — Fri, 12 May 2023 22:01:54 +0000

He bought a physics diploma with a large donation years after dropping out.

New comment by bobsil1 in "Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter"

bobsil1 — Fri, 12 May 2023 19:00:42 +0000

He can regurg briefings, look again at what he says in anything you’re an expert in. E.g. software: he’s a total fraud.

New comment by bobsil1 in "Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter"

bobsil1 — Fri, 12 May 2023 18:58:10 +0000

Elon’s hourly clown show? What are you watching?

New comment by bobsil1 in "Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter"

bobsil1 — Fri, 12 May 2023 18:55:45 +0000

Oh yes, also CTO Twitter, chief neuroscientist Neuralink, chief researcher OpenAI, a regular Renaissance man. Never studied STEM.

New comment by bobsil1 in "Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter"

bobsil1 — Fri, 12 May 2023 18:50:31 +0000

>he knows what he is talking about when it comes to rockets

At a surface level. If you ever drill down on his shallow tech understanding, he sputters, kicks you out or flees.

New comment by bobsil1 in "Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter"

bobsil1 — Fri, 12 May 2023 18:48:09 +0000

> Musk’s strengths have always been in building things

*Hyping things, pumping stock, raising $.

How to block the doge icons on Twitter

bobsil1 — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 04:37:11 +0000

To block the banner doge, formatted as an AdGuard for Safari user rule:

twitter.com##h1[role="heading"]

To block the splash screen “loading…” doge:

twitter.com##div[aria-label="Loading…"]

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35449365

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New comment by bobsil1 in "The day Windows died"

bobsil1 — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 08:46:47 +0000

Agree Win7 was the last usable. Ubuntu is great / fast but the UX feels like bad Mac clone, 5 years later.

New comment by bobsil1 in "Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm"

bobsil1 — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 01:34:20 +0000

Or, he’s as incompetent as he looks.

New comment by bobsil1 in "Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump"

bobsil1 — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 13:42:56 +0000

Returning escaped slaves was in the constitution itself (fugitive slave clause).

Founders’ intent is pretty irrelevant to today’s problems. They ran forced labor plantations, hadn’t mastered electricity or germ theory of disease, and the biggest city was ~30K people.

1 person = 1 vote, get rid of all the rural planter rigs.

New comment by bobsil1 in "Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump"

bobsil1 — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 10:48:10 +0000

T•••• should've been arrested in the hours after the Capitol attack, like Brazil did with its coup attempt.

New comment by bobsil1 in "Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump"

bobsil1 — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 10:47:11 +0000

"some sort of technically-illegal" is a funny way to describe a combined lawfare coup / violent coup attempt.

New comment by bobsil1 in "Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump"

bobsil1 — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 10:45:59 +0000

States are artificial, national elections should be ranked choice, or at worst simple majority vote.

Electoral college was a sop to slavers and should be deleted. It doesn't empower small states, it empowers large states which happen to be swing states.

New comment by bobsil1 in "Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump"

bobsil1 — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 10:44:08 +0000

One person should = one vote, absurd that Wyoming gets 70× the Senate influence with the population of Modesto.

New comment by bobsil1 in "Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump"

bobsil1 — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 10:42:54 +0000

"nearly half" — T•••• controls ~a quarter of the GOP, which is ~a third of US voters, so < 10% of US electorate.

New comment by bobsil1 in "Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump"

bobsil1 — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 10:40:44 +0000

Criminal impunity for political elites backstops their entire racket: laundering hard bribes into soft, insider trading and so on. They've blocked T•••• prosecution for things like the coup because federal law enforcement report to them, and they're wedded to the immunity. Only the most egregious get prosecuted, e.g. the Congressman insider-trading on the phone in the background of a public T•••• event.

New comment by bobsil1 in "Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump"

bobsil1 — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 10:37:37 +0000

Yes. Dems were never going to, for example, indict Trump on selling US policy to the Saudis, that’s a key political-racket revenue source.

New comment by bobsil1 in "Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump"

bobsil1 — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 10:35:07 +0000

The opposite — the US constitution is more like a slaver bill of rights, rife with plantation oligarch backdoors. The checks and balances are akin to NBA owners negotiating how not to ruin each other. Those rights originally were only extended to white men formally, and only rich white men in effect.

New comment by bobsil1 in "OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google"

bobsil1 — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 21:38:33 +0000

Also lagging in ML, good point

New comment by bobsil1 in "OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google"

bobsil1 — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 20:51:30 +0000

Has no CS background, studied material sci → consulting → Google PM

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundar_Pichai