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by sidibe 4y ago
I think Tesla will be fine as a company with a different CEO, and some shareholders may wish for that, but the current valuation is entirely because of Elon. If he goes the value of the company will plummet back to the realm of a car compan
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by sidibe 4y ago
I think the complaint is that in restaurants often they're replacing the veggie option instead of the meat option.
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by sidibe 4y ago
3 years ago some team was probing reopening search in China and when more employees found out about it they leaked and protested the project, shutting it down. Hardly seems like a point against Google. > China represents a huge potential
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by sidibe 4y ago
I'm sure something of the sort would have happened without him. But he's not the type to do anything in response to this or confront CCP with the regular praise he heaps on them. He even said Taiwan should be part of China like HK
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by sidibe 4y ago
Tesla's self-driving claims were a joke and blasted by people in the field long before Elon showed his politics
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by sidibe 4y ago
I trust the Tesla engineers who thoroughly review the code for a few hours more than this guy who worked at Twitter for years. After spending time reading Elons first responders on Twitter, I have learned that in the hierarchy of human comp
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by sidibe 4y ago
There's not that many of them anymore tbh. Some thread titles attract them in strong numbers like this one, in most threads these days they are a heavily downvoted minority
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by sidibe 4y ago
Elon likes to talk about "First principles", which means AFAICT means don't look at anything anyone else has done in the field and go with your gut then post hoc rationalize why that was the superior choice. It works great if
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by sidibe 4y ago
It will be an amazingly well engineered phone based on the woefully inferior Android, which is being held back by wokeness. It will soon be the most secure and private phone ever created, pending one more year and regulatory approval (the F
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by sidibe 4y ago
It's borderline a meme stock at this point. Tesla is valued as if it will forever be able to sell every car they make, on earnings calls Elon blows off any questions about demand. In the last few months though used car prices for Tesla
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by sidibe 4y ago
I believe making a phone would be extremely easy for Elon Musk since he landed a rocket on a boat.
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by sidibe 4y ago
As someone who doesn't really follow all this closely, it comes off as yet another case of crypto people scamming eachother. Most people don't really care what happens in the crypto world.
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by sidibe 4y ago
Wow incredible work by the team that decides who can access the FSD they paid for, very impressive. Now let's see if the engineering team can match that with a product that works.
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by sidibe 4y ago
They are both of the "This is all so much simpler than all the other dumb people are making it" variety of person, about to learn yet another lesson
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by sidibe 4y ago
I've been on projects where I'm genuinely more pessimistic and negative than everyone else. I still think if it's not a project that I want to change or own or feel strongly against, it's my duty to not show that negativ
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by sidibe 4y ago
First fire all the devs, then rewrite the software to reduce server costs.
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by sidibe 4y ago
That doesn't say anything about advertising, just tweeting.
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by sidibe 4y ago
Is there anything in Tesla's history that would lead you to believe they'd be sitting on some technology and not making announcements every few months about their amazing progress on it and imminent production of it? Tesla is much
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by sidibe 4y ago
Particularly the idea that we should conserve our way to carbon neutrality instead of figuring out how and spending the money/effort to do a lot of carbon capture drives me crazy. We're not suddenly going to stop pulling ancient c
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by sidibe 4y ago
There you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brine#Wastewater
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by sidibe 4y ago
Twitter revenue was over 5* billion last year. With subscription they can make $5* billion... if ~50* million people subscribe all year. I realize cutting costs is a huge part of his plan but it would be very surprising if 1/100th of t
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by sidibe 4y ago
I haven't heard anything about that, but it seems wild to me if he really thought $8/month subscriptions could replace advertising. That seems like something even someone with 0 attention span could think through and see it won&#x
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by sidibe 4y ago
For some people terms like "Brutally honest", "telling it like it is", "no BS" don't seem to have much to do with truth at all. It's more about not being kind or tiptoeing around anyone's feeling
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by sidibe 4y ago
They do seem to have an advantage in self driving technology not manufacturing. Which is fine because they're not trying to be a mass manufacturer. Manufacturing cars is a different problem they aren't interested in, but I think s
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by sidibe 4y ago
Waymo is working in the same "cool" field as many of the Tesla SWEs and pays much better than equivalent positions at Tesla, with less stress from impossible constraints and deadlines. He can get away with it because either he doe
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by sidibe 4y ago
When has Elon not shared a plan? He tends to announce everything before they've even started working on.
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by sidibe 4y ago
They weren't making money with those 1000 employees, either. Revenue 10X'd since then (along with cost). WhatsApp/YouTube were in the same boat when purchased. Good at getting active users but monetizing takes a lot of employ
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by sidibe 4y ago
WhatsApp is your strongest argument. WeChat has always been part of Tencent. It was piggybacking on the infra of what was already one of the biggest tech companies in the world. That's like comparing the number of Gmail employees to Tw
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by sidibe 4y ago
I'd be very surprised if disk/machine rot is what it would take for such a large organization to start experiencing major problems. Strange user patterns from all this and recent features/refactors that are suddenly not monit
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by sidibe 4y ago
He has a unique first name and likes to interact with regular people online. Internet people have used Elon for a long time even when they liked him. It happens to a lot of famous people with rare first names (e.g. Lebron Kobe Shaq)

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