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Vitriol is right. Starting your piece with: Thus we get Hyperloop, a loopy intercity rail transit idea proposed by Tesla Motors’ Elon Musk, an entrepreneur wh

by crusso 13y ago

Vitriol is right. Starting your piece with: Thus we get Hyperloop, a loopy intercity rail transit idea proposed by Tesla Motors’ Elon Musk, an entrepreneur who hopes to make a living some day building cars. ... was just an immature and catty way to begin a (what he hoped would be) substantive attack on the Hyperloop. The article finds some questionable issues in the initial proposal, but its unfortunate that Levy writes as though Musk is a jackass for even putting the idea out there.

lmg643 13y ago
catty is a big understatement for this article - there is some pretty radical thinking in there, particularly the part about entrepreneurs not deserving the spoils of their companies, because someone else would have done it if they hadn't. (key quote: "People get extremely rich for doing something first, even if in their absence their competitors would’ve done the same six months later.") not sure what that has to do with elon musk, other than to try and put together a "nuclear" attack on his character, going after the moral foundation of his wealth in addition to the hyperloop idea. it's like the article is a communist critique wrapped in a technical evaluation. away from the radical and bitter aspects of this critique, i appreciate the technical comments in here. i think it is vital to have a proper, public technical evaluation of the hyperloop, and he undermines his argument with the personal and philosophical. i would love to see a response to this critique from the hyperloop side. i would agree that musk, having lobbed this hand grenade into public discourse, should follow-through on his idea to some extent - build a test bed and prove it can be done on a small scale. in my limited experience, if something is a really good idea, you try and pursue it for yourself, rather than hoping someone else will steal it from you.
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by crusso 13y ago

lmg643 13y ago

catty is a big understatement for this article - there is some pretty radical thinking in there, particularly the part about entrepreneurs not deserving the spoils of their companies, because someone else would have done it if they hadn't. (key quote: "People get extremely rich for doing something first, even if in their absence their competitors would’ve done the same six months later.") not sure what that has to do with elon musk, other than to try and put together a "nuclear" attack on his character, going after the moral foundation of his wealth in addition to the hyperloop idea. it's like the article is a communist critique wrapped in a technical evaluation. away from the radical and bitter aspects of this critique, i appreciate the technical comments in here. i think it is vital to have a proper, public technical evaluation of the hyperloop, and he undermines his argument with the personal and philosophical. i would love to see a response to this critique from the hyperloop side. i would agree that musk, having lobbed this hand grenade into public discourse, should follow-through on his idea to some extent - build a test bed and prove it can be done on a small scale. in my limited experience, if something is a really good idea, you try and pursue it for yourself, rather than hoping someone else will steal it from you.

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