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> Musk has admitted Can we cool it with the loaded language? What's wrong with "Musk said"? Even at the time, in Musk's introduction he mentioned the massivel
by schiffern 4y ago
> Musk has admitted
Can we cool it with the loaded language? What's wrong with "Musk said"?
Even at the time, in Musk's introduction he mentioned the massively delayed and over-budget (and slowest in the world and the most expensive per mile!) California HSR. There was never any attempt to hide his opposition, so it's no secret to 'admit.'
Musk was also open and honest about the fact that that he didn't know if Hyperloop would work, but that we should at least try to invent new and better technology over this worst-in-the-world status quo. I'm surprised to find disagreement on Hacker News of all places.
- runarberg 4y agoI think most here on HN agree that ideas are cheap. I mean I have an old school project from 7th grade where I came up with the iPhone in the mid 90s, that’s how cheap ideas are. Hyperloop was never more then an idea (and not even a novel idea), and Elon Musk never took it further. So giving him any credit for it as an attempted invention is still giving him too much. Now that we know the reason for this idea, I think we can safely call it sinister.