You’re right but Elon’s idea of free speech is little more than “speech I like”, and is the opposite of what free speech is.

That being said, employees of a company don’t have free speech rights. And hypocrisy is not illegal.

Elon is well within his rights to fire people writing open letters, and everyone needs to realize that companies are not democracies.

Woah woah woah.

>That being said, employees of a company don’t have free speech rights. And hypocrisy is not illegal.

Care to rephrase that hombre?

Everyone has free speech rights. No exceptions. If you're pissy enough to fire someone over a disagreement like that, that's one thing, and highly unprofessional to boot as long as they are still doing their job.

I don't have to agree with you as an employee. And I have the right to voice my disagreement. They should thank him though. They get their Unemployment a shot at a less toxic workplace, and hopefully they've been networking enough to catalyze resistance vs. an evident cult of personality.

> Everyone has free speech rights. No exceptions.

Plenty of exceptions, to wit: not in the workplace, and certainly not using your employer's communications infrastructure, as was the case here.

How is that bad faith? Isn’t that, for example, exactly what Gitlab does?

It would be bad faith if they removed access to the open source code somehow.

It's advertised as open source, but the published source code isn't what people actually run (when using their official binaries).

I was wondering the same thing.

Also, I’m looking to start reusing VIM (company policies meant that VIM wasn’t available for me to use for a while, but thankfully we are rid of those ridiculous policies) and I’m wondering if I should switch over to Neovim this time round.

“We believe in free speech and no government interference”.

“How dare you leave an anonymous opinion on Glassdoor. Here are our lawyers and the government forcing you to be doxxed and the speech to be removed”.

“We value diversity of thought”.

“But not pronouns. Those are sacred.”

Well, even Coinbase was hiring until they were rescinding job offers.

A PR puff piece doesn’t tell anyone anything.

Also, the PR puff piece basically amounts to:

We have 500 roles open for the rest of the year and we will continue to keep those 500 roles open.

And also, we have a great transition plan if you want to quit the company, because your values don’t align with us.

See, they are pirates and not professionals, so it’s a “transition plan” and not a buyout package.

> See, they are pirates and not professionals, so it’s a “transition plan” and not a buyout package.

Right. 'professionals' like 'Netflix' being questionably part of FAANG doing the exact same thing as Coinbase, leaking memos, freezing hiring and laying off their employees as soon as their stock crashed. Even in the leaked memo, the now want to focus on the focus and not the politics which is reasonable to simply just make money.

I see none of that so far by Kraken. What you have just highlighted is that there is no guarantee attached to those 500 roles. This applies to any company and it's good to be skeptical. If you don't like these companies, you are free to start your own and run it the way you want to.

Them be right pansy pirates! In my day, when the crew's "values no longer aligned" we called it "mutiny" and hove 'em adrift in a lifeboat in the middle of the sea with nought but a couple of loaves of bread, a couple of bottles of water, a bottle of rum, and a few disingenuous wishes of "safe travels".

And gold doesn’t need ever increasing energy to be spent so it doesn’t vanish into thin air.

Also, drugs didn’t have a legal competitor.

Now that marijuana, for example, is largely being legalized through the U.S., illegal sales of marijuana have completely vaporized.

Very few will opt to use crypto if a government has deemed it illegal if there is a legal alternative.

I guess there is value in crypto if your government and civil society is completely collapsing, but those blockchains are being sustained entirely by first world gamblers hoping to make a buck on cryptos prices increasing.

Once they realize that crypto has been reduced to (as its backers are now insisting) a currency for failed states, they won’t gamble in crypto and they won’t fund the enormous amounts of energy needed to keep a blockchain running.

Maybe a non profit can run a blockchain that people in failed states can depend on. But then the question arises, why would that non profit use an expensive technology like the blockchain as opposed to simply using a Postgres DB. Something which all the biggest crypto exchanges already do to provide immediate transactions because the blockchain isn’t fast enough.

Which brings us to the point that the only reason anyone is using the blockchain is because it’s been successfully marketed to lay people as this magical inflation defying, freedom providing magic money tree that only goes up in value, when in reality it’s at best a pretty terrible database with some niche uses.

To be fair, crypto has some value for illicit transactions and money laundering.

It's not obvious to me whether this value is greater than the mining costs or not. I think the value is in fact smaller and therefore the valuation is just a bubble.

It’s special in that it has a special purpose. Just like bread has a special purpose.

And the purpose of a currency is to facilitate financial transactions.

Which crypto is horrible at, because it cannot maintain a decent value at any point.

Crypto is as good at being currency as iron is at being bread.

Man, the spinning is tremendous.

All this stuff is literally what all the crypto people were and still are saying.