_louisr_

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by _louisr_ 8y ago
Tesla also would not have survived without government money. And Tesla is one of two American car companies that have never gone bankrupt & taken government bailouts. other car companies ... make and sell far more cars e
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by _louisr_ 8y ago
Who cares what these dead media companies have to say? Journalism in the 21st century has a glut of integrity, passion, and ethics. Elon Musk has an outsized amount of every one of those traits. I don't want to hear a snippet of a heat
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by _louisr_ 8y ago
Oh, my mistake then.
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by _louisr_ 8y ago
I'm glad that this article has hot takes from two random investors! One says Elon has a 25% chance of staying CEO, the other says that Tesla won't be able to raise capital with this bad news. Sweet, now I have my talking points to
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by _louisr_ 8y ago
>they should close signups That would never, ever happen at a VC funded tech startup no matter how bad the situation was. All investors care about is growth, and all the C-suite cares about are investors.
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by _louisr_ 8y ago
The fate of civilization depends on the individuals that share his trait - the trait to desire most strongly a bountiful and amazing future - knowing that they will be able to successfully build companies such as Tesla and SpaceX without ru
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by _louisr_ 8y ago
> Both shorts and longs got hurt by his tweet. The human race has been directed out of an apocalyptic technological cul-de-sac by his hand. I recognize crony behavior when I see it.
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by _louisr_ 8y ago
It's a terrifying reason to change the CoC because he does not want to appear racist. The mainstream media and Twitter hide the sane & reasonable people that oppose many diversity + inclusion measures, while showcasing the nastiest
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by _louisr_ 8y ago
That was the product of necessary ideological conformity for their proposed system to work. Everyone who is not on board with the communist system could bring it down, so they shot dissenters. In Capitalism you can believe whatever you want
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by _louisr_ 8y ago
Did the Communists not build tanks or burn coal? Is it Capitalism, or is it the human desire to take the path of least resistance; is it not human to consume ready-made energy that has been subsidized by the carbon capacity of the oceans an
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by _louisr_ 8y ago
It's not hilarious to thank Capitalism for lifting people out of tragedy - It's what has happened. Coal power plants in low income countries; iPhone factories creating an economic explosion in China; T-Shirt factories in Banglades
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by _louisr_ 8y ago
Right... More scientists and researchers making less than minimum wage is surely the answer
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by _louisr_ 8y ago
Enough of this ideological driven media company. This company's actions do not align with "restoring civil society".
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by _louisr_ 8y ago
Correct
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by _louisr_ 8y ago
If Elon avoided a mental breakdown in 2008, he certainly won't get one now.
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by _louisr_ 8y ago
Buy a 5$/month Protonmail account and forward your gmail to it, and slowly migrate all of your various email-authenticated services to point to your protonmail account. Plus Protonmail makes it very easy to run email from a domain that
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by _louisr_ 8y ago
> the industry will quite easily wipe the floor with tesla when market is ripe. It won't be easy. 1. the industry has a chain of dealers that will have to sell EVs alongside gas cars - how can they say that the gasoline cars are the
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by _louisr_ 8y ago
Did George Bush or Obama understand in great detail the consequences and intended usage of every law they make a decision about?
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by _louisr_ 8y ago
1. It took me 4 months, give or take 2. No
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by _louisr_ 8y ago
Actually you need to work to practice his suggestions. From any starting point and any country, it is possible to create a personal brand, gather equity, and choose good business partners.
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by _louisr_ 8y ago
They're very useful as reminders. I understand the tweets but it helps to view your personal career with them in mind, and having the list does help.
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by _louisr_ 8y ago
> It's pretty obvious to me that a deliberate and intentional effort has been made to ensure that only people who own a lot of property have any voice in the system; to flip that relationship around and make it a moral statement is
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by _louisr_ 8y ago
>If we want to be nervous, let's investigate inequality of net worth And we should find ourselves completely at ease at the end of our investigation, for in every species success is distributed inequitably. Inequality of net worth i
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by _louisr_ 8y ago
You have nothing to back up the statement that "reusable rockets are not a hard problem", and let me back up this claim of mine by pointing out that only partial reusability exists today. In addition I invite you to build reusable
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by _louisr_ 8y ago
Everything looks good here. The biased Wikipedia editor can no longer edit pages on post-1978 British politics. The whistleblower can no longer speculate on any editor's off-wiki behaviour. No more biased edits from the accused, and no
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by _louisr_ 8y ago
Reusable rockets weren't a hard problem Armchair engineer over here
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by _louisr_ 8y ago
Well hold on, I don't disagree that we are on a planet of dwindling resources. It's the method of environmental improvement that will have the greatest positive effect that is the root source of disagreement. That's the crux
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by _louisr_ 8y ago
Since when is doing something efficiently and non-wastefully not a good idea for its own sake? I agree we should make things efficient for their own sake. But that's not what people are arguing about. They are arguing that the
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by _louisr_ 8y ago
1. Well how is the format of plaintext the best method of getting information to the end user? What if you added a thin indexing layer on top of the plaintext? That would allow people to jump through huge documents with ease, but it's
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by _louisr_ 8y ago
SalesForce slowness does not equate to "all customers of web apps are getting a bad deal". Go look at reelgood.com. Imagine if Salesforce worked like that. It should be clear as day that this is a SalesForce problem, not a modern-

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