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First time I heard of @elonmusk was at the 2005 small satellite conference. I was working at an ASU NASA lab. The industry people were very critical of him from what I recall. My group left before his talk at end of conf, I saw booth but was not staffed. 🤦♂️
"Musk has sharp elbows and prevented rivals from emerging."
It's the complete opposite you simple caveman.
Musk entered a mature industry with a stagnant private sector, dominated by state-owned ventures like Russia's launch sector.
All the experts said he was doomed to failure, but he succeeded. His success emboldened others and encouraged new competition.
Cyber cab seems like it is very similar to a mini pickup truck. The back clamshell I think is a massive trunk. Maybe wouldn’t take much for them to modify it?
She turned down $40.2m? What was she hoping to get?
What I learned from this video:
- Elon offered Ashley $15 million upfront, plus $100,000 a month for 21 years.
- She rejected the offer and went public.
- He withdrew the original offer and reduced her monthly payments to $40,000.
- By the end, those payments had dropped again… to $20,000 a month.
In other words, Elon offered her generational wealth. She wanted more, went public, and ended up with substantially less.
And somehow, the WSJ expects me to feel sorry for someone receiving $240,000 a year to raise her own child.
The most profitable thing for Texas is to sit back and let Elon do his thing.
SpaceX and Tesla have prospered in Texas, because we were not constantly operating under an oppressive and extractive state government.
And I need to be close to the factories, so that I can walk the floor in person. That’s why the first major SpaceX factory was in LA and first major Tesla factory was in SF Bay Area.
As California became increasingly difficult, due to extreme taxes and overregulation, we moved our major domestic expansions and HQ to Texas.
Also Aircraft should be fully instrumented so AI can “debug”.
AI should be reviewing all systems and flight plans before a flight esp for GA. (Does ForeFlight and the like run a flight briefing thru AI to flag issues and make suggestions yet?)
It is better to have people ask why you don’t have a Nobel prize, than why you do.
What if your investing could be guided by a Nobel laureate in economics? Exactly 30 years ago, the WSJ highlighted Paul Krugman's prediction that Taiwan's economic growth would fizzle. I asked ChatGPT to figure out how much an investor would have gained by shorting three public Taiwanese companies in 1996: TSMC, Foxconn, and ASUS. The profit from a Nobel-guided $3,000 short ($1,000 each) would today be at least NEGATIVE $681,185 after currency adjustment.
I need to keep a closer eye on my 4yo during iPad time. 🤦♂️
A Delaware company named PooPooDooPoo paid $29.5 million cash for a north Scottsdale mansion. See the week’s biggest sales. azcentral.com/story/money/re…
FSD is 10x safer right now, and with universal FSD adoption the ratio would probably be incredibly small.
Hypothesis: When you don’t let people see others question the narrative (by removing topics), it makes it easier for people to transform & rage out (eg Agent Smith) when someone does start to show signs of independent thought about an issue instead of immediate acceptance.
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So, the French socialists, and Parliament members just voted a tax, that they don’t understand, which would cost VideoLAN more than 1 million euro per year.
They are probably the most clueless politician on Earth? And they claim they want technological sovereignty…
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