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Re:Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to... by epistasis on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:01PM (#33658870)
These sorts of massive cuts, coupled with massively decreasing workplace quality, and with removing any chance of financial reward (no more liquidity in shares of the company!!), are going to cause the most talented people to go to greener pastures.

The people who stay will be those with the least options.

Musk has made employment at Twitter hugely risky, with no possibility of reward. Really boneheaded business, completely incompetent cutting off the workforce, honestly. Hard to imagine a worse way of pruning the workforce.

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Re:Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to... by Yoofie on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:25PM (#33659349)
> are going to cause the most talented people to go to greener pastures.

People keep repeating this trope as if Twitter is some paragon of technical excellence and innovation. It is no such thing. It is a popular website with a textbox for user input.

You don't need "talent", you simply need to people who get the job done.

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Re:Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to... by epistasis on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:31PM (#33659472)
Saying something like this just demonstrates that you have extremely limited technical knowledge, and are willing to say anything to defend Musk.

And defenses like this go a looooong ways towards destructing the myth that Musk had technical acumen, because the only people defending him are those that can't do the work.

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Re:Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to... by memish on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:34PM (#33659520)
The projection on here is getting cartoonish.

John Carmack, "Elon is definitely an engineer. He is deeply involved with technical decisions at spacex and Tesla. He doesn’t write code or do CAD today, but he is perfectly capable of doing so."

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Re:Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to... by epistasis on Friday November 18, 2022 @02:01PM (#33660177)
Agreed that the projection is cartoonish, but looking at the actual actions at Twitter speak for themselves.

And discounting the scale of Twitter is also quite cartoonish projection.

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