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Elon Musk
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AZ Desert Driver
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So the fastest car ever built is traveling at what - 100,000+ miles per hour? That red sportster has achieved speeds that no other car - production car or special salt-flat speedster - can be compared. The fastest car on earth is not on earth. Mind bending achievement!!
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Chuq
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What makes that amazing is that it is written on every Roadster, a car made ten years ago when no one knew if either Tesla or SpaceX were going to succeed.. let alone that last weeks stunt was going to happen!
AZ Desert Driver
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Wow - simply Wow. He printed a circuit board 10 years ago with "made on earth by humans"? And then shot it into space? Is that Future Thinking - now defined!!
Not only that, but it's maintaining that speed coasting.
It may be the printing on the circuit board inspired him to shoot a Roadster into space. Sort of the other way around.
Ulmo
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Let me see if I understood that correctly: Elon paid back Tesla, and you're deducing he got the money from somewhere?
Ulmo
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Aha! I figured out my error: I only knew 10 of the 15 definitions of the word "redeem", none of which were the correct one for your use, which apparently is proper according to 3 of the definitions. Oddly, I knew all of the meanings of the word "redeem" in which a person pays you when you present them with paper, but I didn't know of any of the meanings of the word where you pay a person in order to get a paper back. I guess the main definition difference is which triggers which: the paper or the payment. In your case, it was the payment first definition. In both cases, the subject is the first step and the object is the second step.
Off Shore
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Some interesting Elonisms:
This should be enshrined in every executive office:
“To make decisions, you have to understand something. Unless you understand something at a detailed level, you can’t make decisions.”
He thinks Martian government should be direct Democracy. Not representative democracy. Laws should be short and comprehensible. 40% threshold to remove a law, 60% to add one.
This flys in the face of what else he thinks is important. Massive and restrictive regulation on AI research.
He got cut off, so hard to understand where he was going, but he said biggest mistake of his career was starting Tesla and SoaceX at same time more or less, thinking that Tesla wouldn’t occupy much time.
This should be enshrined in every executive office:
“To make decisions, you have to understand something. Unless you understand something at a detailed level, you can’t make decisions.”
He thinks Martian government should be direct Democracy. Not representative democracy. Laws should be short and comprehensible. 40% threshold to remove a law, 60% to add one.
This flys in the face of what else he thinks is important. Massive and restrictive regulation on AI research.
He got cut off, so hard to understand where he was going, but he said biggest mistake of his career was starting Tesla and SoaceX at same time more or less, thinking that Tesla wouldn’t occupy much time.
From memory: "People have told me that my time-lines historically have been overly optimistic.." "...so I am trying to re-calibrate..."
Then gave some optimistic projection on when FSD will (finally) work...
Then gave some optimistic projection on when FSD will (finally) work...
Yeah, end of next year, about 18 months away. He just can’t help himself can he? I’ll say it right now, we will NOT see FSD by the end of 2019. More like 2025. Musk thinks AI is easier than it is. There are fundamental issues yet to be solved that we don’t even have a road map for. But Elon’s the genius, I’m nobody, so whatev. I still think I’m right.
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