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bobartig t1_jc42cxs wrote

There’s been a lot of misreporting regarding the recent HiQ v. LinkedIn case from the 9th Circuit. The best write up I've encountered is by an Internet and Web Scraping attorney, Kieran McCarthy

The key takeaway is that in the 9th Circuit (which has the most developed law in this area) web scraping a publicly available website doesn’t necessarily constitute a CFAA violation, but that doesn’t mean what you did was either legal, or that you won’t face legal liability.

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DayTradingEdge t1_jc421gc wrote

Tesla is an AI company, a battery company, a solar company and Elon is 100x more intelligent then Gates. The growth rate of Tesla far surpasses the one of Microsoft. Gates could only dream of being ahead of Musk in the next 10 years. Mark my words. Not to mention he has the boring company, building space ships, phones, Twitter might be half the value now, but it will be 10x higher 10 years down the road (this is my Conservative valuation) 🤫😉

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SuperSpread t1_jc3x0wo wrote

This. Elon could suck a million cocks a day and charge $500 a pop and still not have enough money after 10 years to buy Microsoft. I'm serious he'd be a a few hundred billion short after sucking billions of cocks - what makes anyone think he could even be a controlling shareholder. Microsoft is worth $1.89 trillion last I checked.

Put another way if all 330 million Americans including the children each tossed in $5K, that still wouldn't enough to buy Microsoft.

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wunwinglo t1_jc3tt49 wrote

Well, often employers want to be able to reach employees at all hours of the day or night, especially those employees with specialized skills critical to production or operation. It’s a trade off. If you want to be able to call me at 3AM or at my son’s birthday party to get your power plant or oil refinery back up and running, then I’ll do whatever I like with your phone. Don’t like it? Then phone is powered down at 4PM and you can talk to me in the morning after you’ve lost 10 hours of production at $100k an hour.

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legendofsteve t1_jc3io57 wrote

“But if I can’t use heroin what else can I use??”

Twitter is a drug. No less. People are addicted to it and are going to want to replace it. I agree they shouldn’t but there’s no logic in an addiction.

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Akul_Tesla t1_jc3auaq wrote

My understanding is that Elon is going with the move fast and break thing strategy that works really well for tech stuff obviously this price is too high to attract the majority of customers he'll lower it as capitalism supply and demand works itself out

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3vi1 t1_jc35u3j wrote

Microsoft is valued at more than 15x Tesla. Elon couldn't buy a third of MS even if every lender forgot that Twitter's valuation has dropped by half since Musk took over.

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