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> This is one of those occasions where a Hacker News appears to think I would say this is the only occasion that I read people telling others they shouldn't wr
by Torai 9y ago
> This is one of those occasions where a Hacker News appears to think
I would say this is the only occasion that I read people telling others they shouldn't write their critical thinking about an issue because of the person who is behind.
- Jedd 9y agoI regret the tone - I should not have adopted n-gate's vernacular here, though parent's comment is the epitome of what they, and I, find most frustrating about these kinds of seemingly ill-considered, negative HN comments. Parent questioned viability of hyperloop, claimed that transport problems in the USA are due to poor planning and/or politics, and then made up some numbers around population, infrastructure costs and construction times. My point was that Elon Musk thinks this is worth his time to construct. It's possible he, and the people advising him, have not properly thought this through. In TFA there's mention of some concerns by several other startups looking to build Hyperloop systems, who've raised some US$200m. It's possible that they, also, have failed to understand that all the transport problems in the USA could be solved by fixing 'the politics' and that Hyperloop is 'not viable'. But which is more likely?