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"Celebrities and billionaires have long complained that it’s just way too easy for random people on the internet to monitor how much fuel exhaust they waste as they flit through the skies via their private jets." I suspect it's the second part -- and the very powerful, rich people who fly their private jets to global climate conferences -- who had more to do with this legislation than the blond cover-girl with which…
"Celebrities and billionaires have long complained that it’s just way too easy for random people on the internet to monitor how much fuel exhaust they waste as they flit through the skies via their private jets." I suspect it's the second part -- and the very powerful, rich people who fly their private jets to global climate conferences -- who had more to do with this legislation than the blond cover-girl with which…
Wealthy people have enough sway to get the laws written they want. It's nothing new. Our politicians are legally bought and paid servants.
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You really think Musk himself designed the rockets, robots and brain chips? For clarification email is a metaphor for anything that could be done remotely, like designing rockets, robots and brain chips. The Swift fans on the other hand pay to see her live, that's the USP of a concert.
> You really think Musk himself designed the rockets, robots and brain chips? You really think any of that would have been possible without him? What EV company is as successful as Tesla? How many rockets does the second most successful company launch every year?
Where did I wrote that?
My point is not everything needed him being on site making some travels unnecessary.
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Andrej Karpathy has directly worked with him. Listen to what he says: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33703617
People belittle his technical ability because it hurts our ego to admit someone could exceed us at all the things we specifically value in our corner of the world: successful products, massive innovation, big brain smarts, money... Nietzsche: "The vanity of others offends most, when it offends our own vanity." No one here is threatened when Dave Grohl pumps out his 30th hit album, or when Steph and Lebron wipe the co…
Smarter?
Have you seen his Twitter timeline? He falls for nearly every fake news and conspiracy theory.
We aren't threatened by Dave Grohl because he doesn't use his social media outreach to promote right wing conspiracy BS.
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I don't like Musk very much since he went nuts post breakup with his GF. But he does have meaningful input, technical design is not the only thing - other companies like Boeing, Blue Origin or Ariane have great engineers too, seems like technical design is not the most important part.
And you're telling me that's impossible without being on site? Ever heard of web meetings or even telephone?
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People belittle his technical ability because it hurts our ego to admit someone could exceed us at all the things we specifically value in our corner of the world: successful products, massive innovation, big brain smarts, money... Nietzsche: "The vanity of others offends most, when it offends our own vanity." No one here is threatened when Dave Grohl pumps out his 30th hit album, or when Steph and Lebron wipe the co…
>but also smarter Smarter? Have you seen his Twitter timeline? He falls for nearly every fake news and conspiracy theory. We aren't threatened by Dave Grohl because he doesn't use his social media outreach to promote right wing conspiracy BS.
You shouldn't mistake his Twitter feed for straight and full approval... He often trolls or merely thinks there might be some basis of truth in something, and sometimes he blurts out in anger. Again, in his case you just see it publicly.
Not defending him, it's weird and terrible and took a sharp decline after his breakup. But it's not so unusual.
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Yes, I do. People working with him in SpaceX have said so. And in the other cases, his leadership, financial, business, product and marketing input is still a necessary part of the project that directly influences the technical decisions.
He has a degree in physics and one in economics, both from Penn.
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I laughed out loud when I read that. Would expect nothing more from Gizmodo.
Its frustrating because it buries better points under mud. The effective way to reduce jet emissions is not to publicly rag on the people who have the money to use the service. I would go so far as to say that the author does not actually care about the subject at all, only perhaps being able to deride others to prop themselves up as not as bad as them. The subject as presented like this leaves little room for talk a…
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People belittle his technical ability because it hurts our ego to admit someone could exceed us at all the things we specifically value in our corner of the world: successful products, massive innovation, big brain smarts, money... Nietzsche: "The vanity of others offends most, when it offends our own vanity." No one here is threatened when Dave Grohl pumps out his 30th hit album, or when Steph and Lebron wipe the co…
>but also smarter Smarter? Have you seen his Twitter timeline? He falls for nearly every fake news and conspiracy theory. We aren't threatened by Dave Grohl because he doesn't use his social media outreach to promote right wing conspiracy BS.