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Musk simply does a lot of the basics right and knows how to talk bullshit, had the assets to start at all, is apathetic to social perception (his narcissistic sociopathic tendency) which makes it easier to go against the flow both in a good and bad way, and has the mental ability to work long hours.

His successes just delivered what the market demanded but established powers did not want to pursue for one reason or another. He knows to outsource actual work to experts and offers them attention which is easier due to his interest in tech/science. Of course, he sees them as tools and he doesn't need to care about labor laws but that's a part of the longer list of his flaws and mistakes.

After Tesla/SpaceX took off, it has been as you described.

Intelligence is neither a binary nor a one-dimentional concept. Within certain contexts Musk is certainly a smart entrepreneur but I would not call him that without a lot of such qualifiers.

This needs proper data because a lot of people argue the opposite. The other is then just called gaelic or gaa.

Also, soccer was invented by the English, let the virus spread, then switched back to football.

>When MS bought github many people moved to gitlab and started to advertise their gitlab IDs. I too put my gitlab in there. But ultimately, gitlab didn't catch on on a permanent basis: most devs still are on github, thanks to network effects. People removed their gitlab mentions.

That's some way of equivocating very different situations. Gitlab is a product/platform for developers, not the general public, and Mastodon has received the public's positive attention for much longer than people talked about the buyout.

You don't see HN users belittling Signal because it failed to come even close to replacing Whatsapp's 2B users. In fact the opposite is the case as fanboying the former goes so far that Matrix as the even better alternative is repeatedly argued against.

What you're talking about is exactly the ridiculousness of the situation. People around the world are forced to rely on foreign platforms to communicate and can't leave unless their community follows. This design is the issue, not a particular business.

It may be important to highlight that both this new policy just as Musk's own straight-forward comments have already proven that bird site not only suppressed engagement with but also defamed its competition solely because they are the competition.

Especially companies - like the German and Japanese ones running the top 3 instances - or associations have the right to complaint even though Mastodon is not their own brand.

Nothing genius about it. Musk simply deconstructs the product and checks every element for its costs, replaceability, or marketability, then, if a profitable path was found, he just walks it.

That is only true for a message with high initial momentum (impact, importance,...). If you act as a decelerator/gatekeeper - in contrast to Russia's agents acting as accelerators -, then you can control a lot of things.

You should be able to choose with your wallet or whatever you're paying with - your self in this case - but for communication classic server-client structure does not offer that option because you have to rely on the choices of the rest of your contacts. That alone is enough to support alternative solutions.

Yet, it's really funny how so many on HN, the vanguard of startups among news aggregators, rather continue to fanboy Musk than engage in brainstorming opportunities the Fediverse and ActivityPub offer.

>You can be ethically against stealing, but still see the positive elements in the life of a thief.

Translated: You can use ethics to judge an action or just look at its risk/reward ratio? Yeah, that's what Musk does but that's also why plenty of people consider him a (near) sociopath.

At least in my view, this isn't a matter of demureness but the intent. Music videos have been doing the same for several decades. Sometimes there is artistic depth or purpose to it but more often than not, it's just "sex sells" - possibly at the cost of the artist's dignity.

What happens after a ridiculous suspension is really irrelevant because the main concern is about the actions taken that don't receive public attention and scrutiny.

Not deserving any credit and not giving him more than is actually due are two different things.

Musk is not talentless. His abilities allowed him to make the best of his opportunities of the time and his own circumstances. But this is a story of a fortunate business person, not some inspiring role model in any professional field or just as a person. On the whole he isn't even unique, just very public and the richest one.

>It’s important not to make any issue an “I align with X so you’re against me” conflict.

Ethics aren't some opinion you may or should just keep to yourself while lack of reason in public discourse does not need to be tolerated either.

Of course, that applies to the rest of us as well. There is definitely a subconscious wish within the hivemind of the public to see a bad guy fail, so a lot of people are willing stretch the truth a little bit.

You should reread your own posts. I'm only responding to what you write yourself.

If you do not understand the purpose 2FA, there are plenty of online resources available.

As I explicitly wrote, you can store secrets in separate places, and if you don't, you still protect yourself against password recovery attacks or interception and add redundancy.

SMS isn't an issue because you can just take out the SIM card and insert it elsewhere. What you're talking about wasn't the subject I was addressing.

Neither the culture of some particular working group nor the well-known inherent challenges of GPL licensing itself - many of which others licensing models certainly share - are legitimate arguments against the method itself.

This kind of line of reasoning is like supporting fossil fuels because they work, are well-understood, employ a lot of people, and the run the global economy while the future of green energy is still uncertain, a lot of tech not even invented, and no infrastructure established.

I totally agree with your main point but it is very wrong to equivocate the three letter agencies to the threat authoritarian governments gaining knowledge and thus power over a nation pose.

But inventing totally new languages even for billion dollar projects is totally fine?

You want a well-justified, inclusive, and consistent yet adaptable style when collaborating with people. It would be selfish to gatekeep a policy without regard for those principles.

>There was a time when I was younger when I really liked the GPL (v2), but as I got older I realized that even though I am a strong supporter of Open Source (...), and I strive to use only Open Source components, I've always been perfectly fine with some applications that are proprietary.

Whenever I hear someone start to reason with "as I got older", I interpret it as: I've gone back to the fridge more than a dozen times by now so I've lowered my standards far enough to not care anymore.

How many well-formed passwords can and will you remember? How often are you willing to change them afterwards? How secure is your 2FA app? How secure is your device against keylogging? How sure are you no one will watch what you've typed in or when you reveal it to fix a typing error? And so on. It isn't as if there are no issues with the classic way.

That's why you maintain the knowledge-possession separation at the access to your password manager (file) with a combination of a password and either a key file or hardware key.

If you store your secrets in encrypted files rather than specialized server solutions, it's also easier to separate and store them in different locations.

>This is why I will not use 2FA except on services where it is absolutely required

Software 2FA just computes a number based on a secret string. You treat the latter the same way you take care of your passwords. That's why it's best to handle them with your password manager. 2FA over SMS is even less of an issue (except maybe with a broken eSIM chip). Physical methods are a problem, so you have to spend money for a backup.

The twitter thread linked to in the comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33955793 has all the concrete info of what happened, especially the last link in said thread, so you could just edit the submission.

Read the overview on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art

I found Gnome to offer the best mix of stable tiling and normal UX while supporting both wayland and x11 with good enough customization options through its extensions, so it's an easier to set-up solution for notebooks to which often connect a mouse.

The original title is too long and I assume op thought the findings can be extended to all science anyway.

On the other hand, removing the later part as the previous submission did makes the title sound overly presumptuous, imo.

>but don't care about if Google knows it is me

This is not what privacy primarily is about, though. Taking Cypher's choice is also not some profound path.

While privacy is indeed a measure protecting one against becoming a victim or a target of malicious intent. First and foremost, however, privacy determines who is in control and has power over you through (access to) knowledge related to you. It's a human right that shapes all aspects of any society, not just some best practice like locking one's door.

The problem is people don't think or care much about far away ills, that's why it is too easy for us to dismiss and normalize the degradation of our rights.

The usage of particular social platforms may differ significantly in each country. Don't treat the rest of the world the same as the US.

>The original validity of the authority isn't guaranteed just because it's signed;

Nor should that be the intention. You don't want to break anonymity, you want to maintain non-repudiation, not authenticate the origin.

Is there any statistical significance to that. Have the emotional baggage and social complexity younger people are dealing with and the share of middle aged people who did or could not transition been accounted for?

Parent might be falsely inferring an over-representation of GD from the statistical discrepancy between younger and older age groups of those who identify as LGTBQ+.

The need to educate a person not to waste food or about one's privileged life has absolutely no dependence on your example, nor is the latter inherently about racism, unless that is your actual motivation, or a real life counterexample. You just pointed to a convolution of stereotypes about a continent, which is quite the irony when you wish to teach about privilege.

And your lame counter-accusation is basically a common rebuke of your average actual racist.