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With regards to Elon's intelligence, pretty much the only intelligence test you need for Elon is to just look at the whole "loop" concept, and his grand ideas for it. It pretty cleanly demonstrates that his intelligence is average at best. IMO his success is mostly just kind of preferential attachment: he was extremely lucky with some moves early in his career, and so he has "grown" a fairly large portfolio. But there isn't really a mystery here, since one of the largest ways that we allocate resources is just by the people with money deciding what gets funded. So he takes his considerable wealth and influence, invests in some companies, and whatever good things come out are attributed to him. The more nuanced view here is it's the people that make up the company, the engineers, office staff, factory workers, janitors, etc. that have really contributed the most to those successes. He's one of the wealthiest people on earth not because of his talent and intellect, but because the accrual of wealth and success is largely a stochastic affair; we're looking at the lucky guy who has enough money so he can buy more money and more success.
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Imagined posted:Stochastic is a $10 word for "random" and there's nothing "random" about how wealth is assigned and accrued in this country. If anything I'd describe wealth as gravitational: once you mass enough of it it warps space to draw more to itself. Yeah that's pretty much what I was going for. I mean it's random in the sense that PayPal could have failed (or Tesla) and Elon would just be another boring millionaire rather than a billionaire. And the success or failure of either of those companies doesn't really depend on Elon.
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Seth Pecksniff posted:Yes actually quote:Ironically, the brothers were also in the news about another investment that didn't quite pan out the same way - they invested millions with Bernie Madoff. lmao
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goatface posted:It's ok though, the radiation exposure during the trip will probably terminate it and sterilise you. I knew about the radiation exposure during the trip to mars, but I didn't realize that on the surface of Mars there's still a significant amount of radiation since the atmosphere is thin. According to this conference proceeding the radiation exposure is like 50 times or more the typical Earth background levels and you'd need something like 25 feet of rock above you to get down to Earth-like levels. So yeah glass habitats on Mars are going to be like grow a few plants but don't build a city there. Hope they bring a lot of oncologists.
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Sep 1, 2022 16:12
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Durzel posted:At this point nothing the court in Delaware would have realistically imposed on him could be as bad as what has happened. Even if Musk had done absolutely nothing at all since buying it he would've still vastly overpaid - probably by 3x - for the company. The court couldn’t impose any kind of fine or punitive penalty. The contract was written such that if it did not go through the only amount of damages Twitter could collect was 1 billion. So the court had 2 options for ruling: Musk pays 1 billion, or specific performance is ordered, where Musk would be compelled to purchase Twitter. Third option being settlement out of court. Of course everyone realized that specific performance was pretty likely, so he just went ahead with it to save some face. I don’t think he can sell more stock as such since twitter stock doesn’t exist any more (it’s bought out), but he could try to make an IPO I think. But I know gently caress all about finance.
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Nov 7, 2022 15:53
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Durzel posted:Fair point. I meant selling TSLA stock, but then I guess he'd be in trouble with their shareholders for doing that? (derivative lawsuit on behalf of Tesla, or breach of fidicuary duty, etc) Oh drat you did write "sell Tesla stock" and I just glossed right over that whoops.
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Nov 7, 2022 16:33
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E the Shaggy posted:“Government spending is bad…EXCEPT WHEN ITS FOR ME!” I went to the site (https://www.federalregister.gov/doc...e-motor-vehicle), but what are they actually asking for comments on? It sounds like they're asking for comments on whether they should ask for comments on the tax rules.
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waffle iron posted:In the first couple paragraphs it says they're looking for comments on Rev. Proc. 2022-42. It doesn't spell it out, but that document is found at https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/rp-22-42.pdf . It's the IRS policy that will implement the new EV tax credit sections of law. I was confused because at the bottom, they say this: quote:Request for Comments: Which just sounds like they're asking for approval to collect comments or something? Like it doesn't sound like they'd care if a bunch of musk fans complain about his death trap cars not being included in whatever tax credit.
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Data Graham posted:Am I thinking of the wrong thing or did Elon Musk not do some product reveal on stage a few years ago of a purported amazing new robot that looked just like a human in a bodysuit and could dance and jump around just like a human in a bodysuit and had a bodysuit just like a human in a bodysuit ? Did you see the reveal last year? https://i.imgur.com/HPZYGSD.mp4
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IBroughttheFunk posted:Also, funny how assholes like this focus on the narrative of people being a slave to medicines (and good health simply being a manner of people not taking good care of themselves), and never on the idea that, "Hey, maybe America is just a loving stressful place to live in for most people." It's not all just America being a hellhole that gets more antidepressant prescriptions. Korea, for example, is another capitalist hellhole where the people work way too much but they're on the low end of that graphic. They also have a significantly higher suicide rate.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Isn’t most gender affirming care for children just therapy telling them there’s nothing wrong with how they feel? IDK how common prescription of puberty blockers is. I think most kids don’t get full-on hormone replacement therapy, just delay it until they decide to get hormone replacement. That’s all beside the point anyway, the regret level for puberty blockers/hormone therapy is extremely small. 98% of kids on puberty blockers end up going through with hormone replacement therapy. And the regret rate in adult care is less than 1% which is like really low. The number of patients who desist treatment is higher, but the vast majority stop because of lack of support, family pressure, or discrimination and not because they don’t want treatment. [url= https://transequality.org/blog/get-the-facts-the-truth-about-transition-related-care-for-transgender-youth]This post[/url] is where I got those figures.
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The real nazis are the enemies we made along the way
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Entropic posted:The funniest / dumbest / saddest thing about the death sub, is that apparently it doesn't actually have a real window, just a video feed from an external camera. Nah it's got a small window (like a few feet or something) at the front, at least that's what it looks like from the pictures of the death trap.
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Jun 20, 2023 04:30
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Radio Paranoia posted:Morbid curiosity made me look up that twitter account and boy, was it exactly what I expected. Expect Elon to care deeply about the plight of white South African farmers soon. I’m pretty sure he’s already been very concerned with white south africans. He went crazy when the kill the boer song got in the news again.
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Oct 16, 2023 15:38
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...! posted:Yeah, he posted a link to "history of slavery" on Wikipedia so that people can see that slavery has always been a thing therefore American slavery wasn't as bad as woke liberals make it out to be Wait I thought he posted it to demonstrate that actually Columbus coming to the Caribbean and enslaving the local population (and then genociding them) to gather gold wasn't that bad actually.
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Oct 22, 2023 22:05
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Steadiman posted:I'm sure Thad and "his people" contributed a lot to inventing those platforms and building those cities Yeah his ancestors "contributed" slave labor to build those cities
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lmao starship isn't going to make life interplanetary. we will never live on mars you dipshits
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Nov 19, 2023 18:17
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shyduck posted:Neuralink posted an update showing the first patient controlling a mouse pointer with their mind to play a chess game. It does seem impressive but I honestly don't know if it's a milestone that's already been achieved in this field https://www.nature.com/articles/nature04970 quote:Article so about 20 years now?
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dr_rat posted:To be fair moving a mouse cursors is closer to 10 years. Thanks I didn’t actually read the paper
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:Is this an actual recall that requires people to stop using them, or do they just need another software update or trip to the dealer? It's an actual recall needing physical work done. The cosmetic accelerator pedal trim can come off and get wedged in the wheel well, causing the pedal to be stuck at 100% throttle. This video shows the problem. https://twitter.com/elaifresh/status/1779600432085819708
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