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Unlucky7 posted:So has Elon actually invented anything? I am willing give him the benefit of the doubt about him being a decent engineer. literally the only thing he created was zip2 which was "yellow pages on the internet" He tried to create "bank on internet" but his version sucked poo poo so he merged with PayPal and got fired After that he just failed up from being a CEO
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Randalor posted:Wait, what's bad about bluesky? I mean other than it being another social media platform. Oh God, is it full of Nazis already? It's kinda a ghost town unless you want people horny posting or speed running twitters greatest hits
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Reading all those Isaacson quotes from 10 pages back about "Demon Mode" and whatever other mode reminded me of my friend's three-year-old who was cycling through YouTube videos about trains so fast that he wasn't actually watching them. Like a gambler pulling the lever on a slot machine for the little rush that comes with it. So we took away the kiddo's screentime (like locking his phone in a safe) and HE LOST HIS poo poo. Full-on screaming tantrum for 20 minutes, little kid arms flailing, the works, until he exhausted himself and he was given a bath and put to bed. Somehow this exact same behavior can be spun into greatness in Isaacson's retelling. Thank goodness Da Vinci is 500 years dead so maybe the Isaacson book about him is still tolerable because I have it on my Kindle but now...I dunno man. Also, unlike friend's kid, Musk hates trains. What the hell was that bit in Isaacson's interview about advancing train tech? Musk straight-up admitted that Hyperloop was a ploy to torpedo California high-speed rail. Guess that's not in the book?
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holtemon posted:Just found out that my 79 year old neighbor is very anti-Elon and that made me chuckle today lol I have an 80 year old South African neighbour who loves electric cars and he loving hates Elon too. A few years ago when I moved in I cracked a joke about his "countryman" he scowled and said, "do you know anything about the area Elon is from? It is full of incredible racists and I will bet money that if he hasn't shown it yet, it will come out soon enough." Szechwan fucked around with this message at 06:29 on Sep 19, 2023 |
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Sep 19, 2023 03:18
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Congrats on living next to Elon's dad
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Unlucky7 posted:So has Elon actually invented anything? I am willing give him the benefit of the doubt about him being a decent engineer. Apparently Elon has 1 patent with his name on it. It's a proprietary socket for his fast charging plug. So like.. a plastic shape. None of the technology. Just a way to stop it from being accessible.
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:Sure, he %100 had a huge early boost, but his dad didn’t direct his investments or all the other stuff I listed. So many people gently caress up being born into money. He’s literally Trump 2.0. They’re both savants when it comes to marketing themselves. Biggest difference is musk made some really timely/lucky/good investments that he then hyped to the masses and trump mostly failed at business but talked his way right into the White House by translating his tv persona into a highly successful republican primary run. Fortunately they’re both idiots so they trip over themselves once the spotlight is 100% on them.
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Captain Hygiene posted:Congrats on living next to Elon's dad "The Most Dangerous Game"
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:Sure, he %100 had a huge early boost, but his dad didn’t direct his investments or all the other stuff I listed. So many people gently caress up being born into money. there are 10s of thousands of deranged failsons with dad's money every generation, maybe more, a few of them are going to get lucky and succeed by chance. it doesn't mean the ones that do are brilliant. look up the term survivorship bias
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MunchE posted:literally the only thing he created was zip2 which was "yellow pages on the internet" *I* made a "yellow pages on the Internet" site for my hometown ISP in 1996. (I also made a website for a local romance novel publisher who wanted to get into "selling books on the internet like that Amazon company".) What I'm saying is not that I should be a billionaire, I'm saying that if I could come up with that poo poo so could literally anyone who was in the right place at the right time. Probably ten thousand other people did the same drat thing and just weren't lucky All you need is emerald mine money
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The one thing I envy Elon for is that he was able to just say bullshit like "your car will be completely self-driving and also have a money printer in it, feature complete by next Tuesday", and have everyone just uncritically eat it up for years without calling him on it. It'd be easy to make a fortune if people just blindly accepted whatever word vomit falls out of your mouth for whatever reason.
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Capitalism is massively multiplayer plinko. Markets never guaranteed they would give the best economic solution, just a economic solution as long as more and more plinko chips are crammed in. Do not think too hard about the guys hitting the center every time as they are a unique combination of how many chips they start with and how often they got lucky.
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War Wizard posted:Apparently Elon has 1 patent with his name on it. It's a proprietary socket for his fast charging plug. Isn't that socket also kinda worthless because of EV socket standardization?
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zedprime posted:Capitalism is massively multiplayer plinko. Markets never guaranteed they would give the best economic solution, just a economic solution as long as more and more plinko chips are crammed in. Do not think too hard about the guys hitting the center every time as they are a unique combination of how many chips they start with and how often they got lucky. kazil posted:World's best poker player
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maybealabia posted:Furries, mostly Bottom Liner posted:It's kinda a ghost town unless you want people horny posting or speed running twitters greatest hits Sucks about Dorsey, but I'm fine with horney Furry ghost towns for the time being. Beats whatever tinpot nazi wannabes Elmo is amplifying. I found a feed for crafting, so I'm content for now.
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poisonpill posted:I’m extremely concerned about the declining blue rates. We need to increase the number of new users. Declining user rates was one of the main causes of the fall of Twitter Snagged this, thank you
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Bad Purchase posted:there are 10s of thousands of deranged failsons with dad's money every generation, maybe more, a few of them are going to get lucky and succeed by chance. it doesn't mean the ones that do are brilliant. Whoa, this isn't a defense of him! I follow this thread, we all know what he really is. I think the takeaway is that an average person with a heavy headstart can end up very rich.
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:an average person with a heavy headstart that's not average
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Sep 19, 2023 04:23
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The Martingale system only works so long as you have enough money and eventually get lucky at least once. And I guess it's basically capitalism in a nutshell considering how many people have gone from a small failed start-up to a different, massive failed start-up thanks to enough investors deciding this person who has never succeeded in anything deserves large piles of cash because surely they'll strike gold eventually
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This is worse than Martingale. I assure you Musk left with less money than when he started, even if he won one time. And every player at the table hated him intensely.
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thathonkey posted:that's not average
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An I going to get banned from X if I name myself Google Vercingetorix
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i get it. the poker anecdote about him perfectly encapsulates that point
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:An I going to get banned from X if I name myself Google Vercingetorix nobody in the entire twitter building would comprehend the joke, or even realize it was a reference
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:An I going to get banned from X if I name myself Google Vercingetorix My roman empire pilled brain is really enjoying this post.
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the poker story and the gen x trump makes sense. Gah what an insufferable human
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Nelson Mandingo posted:My roman empire pilled brain is really enjoying this post. 
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Sep 19, 2023 05:04
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Yeah, Vercingetorix yoinked J. Caesar around for a while, but then was paraded in the Forum in shackles and choked to death. What's the zinger here?
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The video's probably too long unless you're into poker, but here's an example of one and only time going in every hand was the right move: https://youtu.be/eRMcycv7mC8?feature=shared The short answer is that it was basically a special type of tournament series where you earned a number of points based on how you finished in other games. The way the scores from previous games are distributed means one person needs to go hard to qualify for actual prize and the other players kind of have to hope that other players lose before they do, so they're all put into a super unusual position Skip to around 3 minutes in Sentient Data fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Sep 19, 2023 |
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I feel like everyone is kinda ignoring the bit where he used to go around throwing out his ex-wife's ADD meds
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Things that are straight up sad aren't fun to talk about
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Pretty sure a few people mentioned it before because it's straight psycho poo poo.
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Sentient Data posted:The video's probably too long unless you're into poker, but here's an example of one and only time going in every hand was the right move: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDt90EyZnWA&t=1296s Timestamp at 21:36 if the link doesn't work.
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Sep 19, 2023 05:47
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Ah, there it is, I knew I saw a much better presentation of it before
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kazil posted:this poo poo from the 11th is still up Every time I see that image I think of this: 
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kazil posted:World's best poker player Bruh, did he seriously try to fix an engine with loving glue?
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JustCallMeDC posted:Bruh, did he seriously try to fix an engine with loving glue? Yeah the guys an idiot. He is Mcgyvers little brother whos inventions fall apart when he picks them up
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JustCallMeDC posted:Bruh, did he seriously try to fix an engine with loving glue? Not loving glue, just regular glue
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