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And to the extent that Elon believes Twitter was useful in attaining his current position, it doesn't really matter if it's profitable on the balance sheets or not - it's a loss leader.
Any barriers, legal or otherwise, that existed between twitter and the state should be assumed gone once the new administration transitions in, especially considering it's an administration that has promised to abuse state power to target it's opposition.
Poke, poke!
* Try to replace any judginess you feel, with curiosity
(Easier said than done - but a little humility is a great first step towards getting to that curious state of mind)
Curiosity places understanding something ahead of justifying something. It makes self-interrogation easier and less threatening to the ego. It makes engaging with those who hold differing beliefs more about understanding/exploring, and less like doing battle.
That's my theory anyways, but it could be my bias talking.
And I fail at taking my own advice, often. ;P
He basically bought it by accident. Maybe he thought he could really do something to improve and then sell for a profit.
But really… it’s like the alcoholic who buys the distillery.
Some basic economics 101 reading can set you straight here.
It's a legitimate function of government to craft regulation when there are negative externalities distorting markets.
Sometimes government regulation makes markets more free. Crazy, I know, but please let it sink in.
If it helps: you can think of producers that rely on negative externalities as freeloading evil socialists who redistribute other people's wealth (without consent) to themselves.
Is there a list of specific people here, who have aggrieved you so? Who are you even talking about?
Perl was everywhere (on Linux/Unix). Then Python came along an offered enough net benefit over Perl that it really started to displace it, and became the defacto scripting language that you would reach for when creating programs on Linux/Unix.
Ruby has some niceties over python, but doesn't provide enough of a net benefit over it for that same kind of displacement to happen.
Cancel-culture panic is a largely anecdote and feelings-driven. There's no real data to show that firings or social consequences for speech are more numerous or more severe or more unjust (or even more "left-wing") today than they have been at any point in the past.
And in many of these anecdotes that seem to drive the discourse, nothing of note actually happens to the person who was "cancelled" - they are the subject of an investigation or social media dust-up for a news cycle. Then life carries on.
Not that there aren't legitimate free speech issues that we still wrestle with and don't get right or real injustices out there, but it's mostly a bugaboo.
Is there something special about crows where these things aren't so much a factor?
It's rocket fuel for demagogues, who swoop in and exploit it and turbocharge it even more (see Trump). They say the old system isn't working, they promise to disrupt it. The old rules aren't working anymore, give me all the power, I alone can fix it.
While this topic doesn't dominate the news cycle, I've seen plenty of reporting on it.
If the actual business costs are less than the price of a team of developers... welp, it was fun while it lasted.
If you haven't gotten through the 1st act, I'd recommend giving it another try. (After each major act, there's usually a narrated story board scene, where you see how some of the choices you made effect the outcome, for good or bad.)
I'd also recommend ignoring the side quests initially and just progress along the main quest-line. It will move you into the meatier part of the story pretty quickly that way.
(Once the story hooked me, then I wanted to spend more time in the world doing the side quests.)
And when the chilling effect is strong enough, it atomizes and isolates individuals, makes them feel powerless, and creates a false sense of consensus around a particular issue.
Domination and coercion over genuine persuasion -- that's the point.
I'm really looking forward to the future of e-ink displays.
Software updates are infrequent and they certainly aren't pushing out standalone security errata that I've seen.
The documentation makes it sound like it only exposes ssh through it's ethernet over USB interface.
It's not a datastore to power a crud app, or anything requiring frequent queries, but it's a great place to stash gobs of logs that you may need to query at some point. Or it's great for serverless batch workloads and is often cheaper in both time and money than firing up spark clusters or something similar to do the work.
Quite frankly, it's awesome. But sure, they do use it as a tool for lock-in, and for some cases it would be prohibitively expensive.
It's by far the simplest option I've found.
If your project is a library, just use setup.py and express your deps abstractly (min, max or version range). Don't pin to specific versions at all, if you can help it.
All it takes to side-load is ssh.
They are simply cynically using the fears/persecution complexes of conservatives (many of whom have huge audiences on the social networks they claim are oppressing them) as a ploy to seed their network with a large pool of users.
If the people migrating really cared about tech censorship, they'd launch a Mastadon node.
It's a great way to ensure I'll never return as a customer.
On the other hand, the "pause subscription" feature that many services are implementing pretty much guarantees that I'll resubscribe (even if just for a little while) in the future - because inevitably, they'll have something exclusive that I want to watch.
It was about health care capacity. It was also about testing capacity. It was also about producing/procuring PPE and logistical planning for all the things to come. It was also to learn more about this thing, since there are so many unknowns.
It would have incentivized manufacturing to leave China, along with a large share of all the western dollars currently feeding the regime.
Trump's strategy doesn't really seem to decouple us from China so much as it seems to invert the relationship.