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He allows for the likely possibility that government(s) will want to be a part of a civilization-altering grand enterprise, but he's not assuming it in his plan
by jwfxpr 9y ago
He allows for the likely possibility that government(s) will want to be a part of a civilization-altering grand enterprise, but he's not assuming it in his planning (at least, not in the paper here presented). He explicitly addresses costing and funding from private sources.
Not wanting public funds to be spent this way is a perfectly reasonable position — and it is against your government that that assertion must be made, not the private citizen holding the blueprints.
- babyrainbow 9y agoHow can you trust the person after the farce called Hyperloop? Have he invested in it financially? Isn't it pretty clear that these "grand enterprises" are a cheap pr trick to stay relevant and attract more investor money to his other real businesses? I wouldn't have doubted if he had really followed through the Hyperloop thing. But after that, I wonder how anyone can fall for these things!
- sametmax 9y agoThe guys tackles among the hardest problems ever and you only see the failures ? The only way to not fuck up massively is to never do anything that matters.
- babyrainbow 9y agoHis failure? Has he invested in or attempted to build a prototype for Hyperloop funding it himself? if that is so, I wouldn't be doubting him now, even if he had failed..But I don't think that to be the case....
- sametmax 9y agoYou have a very narrow notion of failure. You need to fail more in your life. Add a bit of diversity in your screw ups.
- babyrainbow 9y ago>You have a very narrow notion of failure. I am not sure. You said Hyperloop was one of his failures. I mean, how can it be a failure, * if he hasn't never attempted to do it * !! ??
- sametmax 9y agoYou must realize the challenge of something start way, way sooner than when you start building it. To make a project of this magnitude: - your PR must be on point; - you must gather the proper support; - you must find en entry point to your problem; - you must decide of a plan for the money in and out. - you must do ALL that in parallel. - and then you'll have several other projects working in parallel, and some will be better than others. And you will have to choose. But you must do the same money/power/pr gathering routing for every single one, even the ones you drops.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoAnd also there are many, many Americans who support this direction so if some public funds will be used to help, given that money is fungible, GP can imagine their taxes go to something else.