His excuse of needing the $ so that he is un-fireable so that his âarmy of robotsâ doesnât âfall into the wrong handsâ is by turns disingenuous, creepy and frightening.
I donât fully know the dynamic that allows something like this to happen, particularly given his actions of the past year or so. I know that his board is full of toadies that he controls, but his shareholders must somehow be mostly self-selected syncophants, too.
that is a very percipient post. Shame that Musk is not capable of introspection. And paying taxâŠâŠâŠâŠ
I voted NO with my one remaining share in Tesla. I dumped all the rest the day Muskrat took over Twitter.
Karma.
I know he had to be manipulating and scheming to get this result, but a heaping dose of sheer dumb luck had to be involved. Never underestimate dumb luck. I feel that way about Trump too. Enough things have fallen into place and lined up for him I can see why he thinks heâs favored by some god.
Muskrat has been lucky with some of his companies, and heâs not hesitant to take credit for the work of others.
He claims to be a âfounderâ of Tesla, even going as far as to file a lawsuit, but heâs notâthe company was founded by two Bay Area engineers and Musk was just one of the initial investors, but not a founder. Tesla has made some real innovations in EV technology, especially when they had very little competition. One example: their development of the synchronous reluctance motor into something viable for a passenger vehicle was pure genius. The Cyber Truck, on the other hand, was a pure cluster fuck.
One can say similar things about SpaceX. Sure, rockets have been around for seventy years, so what SpaceX did wasnât novel, except for one thing: reusability. Theyâre the real innovators here, with some Falcon 9 stages being reused 20-30 times. The Starship, on the other hand is a classic example of engineering by trial and error. The first 9 or 10 attempts literally crashed and burned. I strongly disagree with this method of engineering, but Muskrat seems to think itâs the way to go. Contrast that to NASAâs more careful and methodical engineering of the Saturn V sixty years agoâthe very first launch was a textbook perfect flight and all of the other flights accomplished all of their objectives with no crashing and burning.
His takeover and perversion of Twitter is in the cluster fuck territory. I personally know several people who were the victims of how he ran the company after the takeoverâthey lost their jobs and got little or no compensation. Itâs devolved into a Nazi echo chamber.
Yes, this is why many clowns are considered smart by people who donât know the subjects involved. People think people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, or Elon Musk are/were innovators. These people were lucky/shrewd, but they didnât create anything exceptional besides insane levels of hype and exploitation. Gates didnât make Dos/Windows, Jobs didnât make the iPod or the Apple computer. Neither of them could write even the simplest of applications. I donât think I need to say anything about Musk.
Well, Bill Gates did develop Altair Basic together with Paul Allen. And although he didnât finish a degree, he studied at Harvard, taking mathematics and graduate computer programming courses. Also,
Gates devised an algorithm for pancake sorting as a solution to one of a series of unsolved problems[29] presented in a combinatorics class by professor Harry Lewis. His solution held the record as the fastest version for over 30 years, and its successor is faster by only 2%.[30] His solution was formalized and published in collaboration with Harvard computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou.[31]
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So while I loathe Windows and other Microsoft products, I think it is unfair to allude to Bill Gates not being smart.
Correct â he was a very competent coder, in assembly language, no less. The last product he worked on was the BASIC interpreter for the well-received Tandy Model 100 portable computer. From there, say what you want about M$FT, but the company was too big for the CEO to be writing code.
Thatâs right in the heart of touristland.
Iâve been to other parts of the Blvd but have avoided that area. Is one flattened and terrorized by tourists and sidewalk vendors there at this time of year?
Definitely an African and not European swallow, then.
The presidentialest president ever?
(But to be fair, examine in detail videos of any president or state leader, and you will probably find similar unflattering still images)
OMG is this ad copy real? Somehow I donât think all those double entendres would have gotten past the censors back in ⊠whenever this was. The Harland Sanders character was created in 1935 and the first KFC opened in the early 50s â this does look like maybe the 50s or at best the early 60s.
Itâs fake, but nicely done!
