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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
> make life multi-planetary That's just BS he sells to gullible people to separate them from their money. Like all the cryonics companies popping in California and Arizona promising fools to bring them back from death. It's cul
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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
Shitposting is like Zuck wearing a t-shirt and flipflops during meetings with investors and banks. When it's just one person doing that it's great to make you stand out from the crowd....when it's everybody doing it, then you
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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
Bezos should stay quiet, remove himself from the measuring contest with Musk, do lots of philantropy to right the wrongs that he caused with Amazon. At the end of the day , unlike Musk he has the right nationality and oratory skills to capt
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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
Imagine if Trump or Biden bought twitter you have the same blindspots about Musk character as voters have about their candidates…and for the exact same reasons: he made promises to bring relevance to the things you care about such as Mars,
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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
> how emotionally charged, toxic and unpleasant it is Considering you framed me as toxic I wonder how you frame the guy you are defending, as he is the one who is bullying everybody, committing securities fraud left and right, engaging i
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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
I can see that. I can also see that when you try too hard people are repulsed, not attracted. It's the reason why managers kept rock bands under wraps, not doing direct interviews but leaking stories of their antics. There is something
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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
The bitcoin network generates fees too. Doesn't make that a form of revenue though. By the same token an insurance company doesn't treat the premium taken in as revenue, it becomes listed as Asset under management. Revenue is when
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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
Right...what is the revenue of Uniswap? Zero, because the point is not to make revenues but to bake in any form of perceived utility into the appreciation of a token. Again only use is speculation Also how many lives would be disrupted if U
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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
> Note: not picking on this guy, because when this video was recorded these apps and DeFi didn't exist. But I am critiquing anyone who still agrees with him in 2022. Finance is not a product. In every society in human history financ
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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
People want to be able to criticize Enron Musk without being doxxed or worse. He has done it in the past and didn't even own twitter back then, so it's only logical to think that there'll be a huge collection of info on critc
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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
> Most other CEOs speak corporate lingo. Have you heard Satya Nadella or Sundar Pichai speak? It's like their words make a visit to the PR office before leaving his mouth. Sure I did. I also use their products every day and so do bi
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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
The attention economy is a lie unless you are a celebrity or a politician. Not even all celebrities, Djokovic created a lot of drama with his vaccine hesitancy, sticked to his opinion and stated it out loud. Result: He couldn't partici
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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
Elon Musk's sole political opinion is to further the clout, the cult and the wallet of Elon Musk. > He exudes libertarian, progressive and conservative values depending on the context The context is whatever fits his self interest,
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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
Looking at the multiple threads about Musk/Twitter a clear pattern emerges: 1) People who look at the future with wide eyes and and a huge amount of optimism would gladly put their lives, finances and generally the whole society in the
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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
OP is right. All the stuff you mentioned brings zero benefits to the consumer. The consumer wants a steady improvement in their quality of life in the next 3 months or less, and then you go from there hopefully adding one more bit in the ne
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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
She recently beat the record for 2nd longest lifespan ever recorded. Needed 3 more years to claim #1. This gives more credence to the theory that #1 was a fabrication
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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
> He cares about the future He has been talking about the future for 20 years right now with little to show for. Tesla accounts for 1.3% of all cars sold in 2021. In the same timeframe Microsoft put the future™ on every Americans desk, A
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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
> You just called the most successful businessman in the world an 'utterly inept businessman'. Success is measured using market share not market cap or net worth of the CEO. Tesla accounted for 1.3% of all cars sold in the worl
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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
The article misses one important point. There will always be a level of distrust in society, the most effective way in which a human rational agent can minimize the distrust towards self will be (you guessed it) accusing others of being unt
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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
I measure companies success/failure like I measure humans' : How many lives are gonna be disrupted if a company/human disappeared overnight? And how much the quality of life of the population is gonna go down the sink? In eac
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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
^ Entrepreneurs and startuppers. That's the reason why if a big disruption happens you and your company should stay away from ground zero. Even if you do a hell of a job cleaning up and saving lives, armchair Quarterbacks will hate you
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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
Also known as the difference between accomplishing something and talking about it. Amazon has total domination in the enterprise cloud business and is the largest player in online retail. But you know in the world of contraries , winning is
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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
> You are confusing the past for what the future is going to be Musk sued to gain control of Tesla in 2002. He's been talking and rambling about the future™ for 20 years now. 20 years, all while pocketing billions of government mone
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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
> Microsoft used their monopoly (> 70% market share) in OS to go for a monopoly in many other things, includind web browser. A monopoly in a market where the price of the product is zero /s . It's incredible to me that peopl
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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
> "The issue central to the case was whether Microsoft was allowed to bundle its flagship Internet Explorer (IE) web browser software with its Windows operating system". Netscape wanted to make money selling the browser, time h
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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
Same as I felt when the government said Microsoft had a browser monopoly. They (Microsoft and Google) both got to this point fair and square by providing ease of use and quality of life to the consumer. Monopolies happening due to competenc
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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
Because it's easier to pump a stock and commit securities fraud using something considered universally cool such as a sports car as the hook/cover , as opposed to something ethereal and invisible such as a software program like T
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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
> important product Sure in Bel Air is really important to own a Tesla, just like (if not more) than the car brands mentioned in my handle... > substantial real revenues How much of that is credits? > growing at a remarkable rate
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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
> A product is published useful if it helps people in sunsaharan Africa? Read my handle, I have nothing against toys for rich people, what I am against is pretending they are anymore than toys for rich people. Google is ubiquitous in our
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by McLaren_Ferrari 4y ago
> So if you buy into this then the stock is justified. Tesla was not incorporated yesterday, they are a 20 years old company, still they are in the making promises phase. In the same timeframe Amazon completely disrupted the way we buy t

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