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by rlt 4y ago
I would care more about NASA “bailing him out” if there were even a single other reusable orbital class rocket. “Just raised money” is patently false. He’s known for being extremely hands on with both Tesla and SpaceX. I maintain you’re eit
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by rlt 4y ago
Instead of a hardware wallet you could buy or build an airgapped PC with no wireless hardware. Of course it’s possible to exfiltrate data even without dedicated wireless hardware (TEMPEST etc) so I guess build a faraday cage if you’re reall
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by rlt 4y ago
I made my point. Pointing to additional examples of grandiosity (some might call ambition) doesn't invalidate it. Neither do attacks on his character or lame arguments like "Tesla wasn't started by Musk" ignoring that he
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by rlt 4y ago
Ok troll.
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by rlt 4y ago
The renewed interest and pace of innovation in space exploration is pretty exciting. We have a non-zero chance of making humans a multiplanetary species in our lifetimes. Even if we don’t fully achieve that we’ll likely see a bunch of benef
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by rlt 4y ago
You don’t think SpaceX and Tesla have delivered quite a lot? FSD is really the only big project I can think of this far behind, and maybe Cybertruck. I don’t think it’s fair to ignore all his other accomplishments.
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by rlt 4y ago
I can forgive a lot of grandiosity as long as he keeps delivering more than his competitors. Steve Jobs was also known for his “reality distortion field”, so maybe it comes with the territory. That said, FSD progress seems asymptotic and th
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by rlt 4y ago
> Because people still need to be able to transact with something, which is not a function well-served by cryptocurrencies, most of which have the bulk of trade in them carried on off-chain or via stablecoins that track a fiat currency.
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by rlt 4y ago
Perhaps a dumb question: why does every little country need its own currency? Are they all just addicted to printing money? Ignoring the volatility and environmental concerns, why shouldn’t all these small to medium-sized countries standard
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by rlt 4y ago
Back to Reddit, all of you.
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by rlt 4y ago
> Meh the government doesn't need more money to conduct frivolous and corrupt spending with. I agree with that, but they could just, you know, lower taxes on the lower and middle class to balance it out.
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by rlt 4y ago
You aren’t familiar with ~director level roles in large tech companies?
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by rlt 4y ago
> One parent told me they take it one step further and they won't use passenger door to put their children in the car. Instead, they reach through the car from the driver's door. This way they don't have to walk around the
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by rlt 4y ago
> What do we do now? Stop using personal information for authentication and end the concept of “identity theft”, for starters (not sure how it works in China specifically). Include online safety and anti-scam curriculum in lower educatio
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by rlt 4y ago
Huh? Economics dictate Starlink likely would go bankrupt without pursuing other markets, and I don’t recall them ever saying it would only ever be for “working people”.
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by rlt 4y ago
> the person is depressed I often wonder if modern society is truly happier than past societies, but then wonder if I’m only thinking that because I’m depressed, and most people probably don’t wonder such things? Life is certainly more c
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by rlt 4y ago
> At least I’m happy for him he could finally cash out on sequoia money and become a SV millionaire like everyone else ! Tell me you don’t know how venture capital works without telling me you don’t know.
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by rlt 4y ago
“Free speech” is a principle, not a law. I explicitly said “the spirit of free speech”. I was not talking about the law.
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by rlt 4y ago
Oh man that “whoops” brings me back.
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by rlt 4y ago
My theory is tech downturns are more fun because it flushes out the people who were only there for the money, leaving those truly passionate about technology. But it’s also possible I’m just older and more jaded.
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by rlt 4y ago
> Freedom of speech does not mean being free of consequences I understand the point, but I hate this saying. After all, what more is the government throwing you in jail for speech than a “consequence”? The spirit of “free speech” does no
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by rlt 4y ago
Maybe the nuevo crypto gang, but OG Bitcoiners have seen enough bubbles they view them as inevitable and don’t particularly care about the reason for them.
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by rlt 4y ago
Getting a little pedantic, but presumably some of those will be heading to or from Mars at any given time. Anyway, it’s a long ways out and has nothing to do with the immediate Starship launch plans.
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by rlt 4y ago
It’s fascinating how quickly people will suddenly decide apolitical things you are associated with are “not cool/impressive” when you start expressing political opinions they disagree with.
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by rlt 4y ago
It seems unlikely the Ukrainian military would take a break from the war just to help Elon’s PR stunt. https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1535637982824235008 There are a number of other tweets from Ukrainian mili
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by rlt 4y ago
FWIW Cameron is well known around here (YC S09) and very unlikely to be a scammer...
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by rlt 4y ago
He has accomplished more than many people thought possible, so I’ll continue to believe he will deliver some, but certainly not all, of the things you mentioned. Being ambitious and risky doesn’t make it a “grift”. And “government subsidy”
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by rlt 4y ago
On the other hand, he has, in fact, built the world’s largest EV manufacturer (~70% EV market share, globally, 2021) and world’s largest space launch provider (~66% mass to orbit, globally, 2021)
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by rlt 4y ago
Blatant misinformation. Musk joined Tesla when there were I believe 3 or 4 other people. He founded SpaceX himself. He help fund both with essentially all the money he made from PayPal. And he’s known for being incredibly hands on, sometime
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by rlt 4y ago
Typical anti-Musk talking points. > Musk bought into both of those Very early on. And grew, at least Tesla, many orders of magnitude from early prototype to mass production. > SpaceX has been very good at eliciting government handou

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