Excellent, really excellent. 
I very much hope that the same spirit will progressively prevail in Europe too.
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The contracts, what about the contracts he’s picking up?
Remember he had an inside man at NASA with Space X.
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Wow… that’s racism in plain sight, pure and simple. 
My commiserations, mate, you had obviously a good reason to travel there, but it blows my mind why non-US residents should want to further travel to that country if there isn’t a commanding necessity to do so.
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The more I listen to that Vance guy, the more I think that Trump will be remembered as the Trojan Horse allowing full-blown fascists to get to power.
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It has cost him a lot more than $300m + $100m. He’s down like $150 billion since the election. Think he’ll be the last one laughing in the long run though, unless someone puts one through his head.
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There is/was an aura around the US especially in the developing world, where once you’ve settled there you’ve got it made. That reputation is rapidly fading for educated people at least.
Also tourism wise, despite those in power being scum, there’s a lot to see and it’s a beautiful country.
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Exactly! He’s playing the long game.
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Just looking at that Elon interview. Doesn’t come across all that clever to me.
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He never does. The trick is believing that it just has to be secretly genius because he’s really rich.
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I mean not to get all wonky and boring about this stuff, but you cannot say you have improved efficiency without defining to what end. They dont. SImply spending less money isnt necessarily an increase in efficiency. Vaught knows better. Lots of the people hailing this “efficiency” dont.
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I never bought it as the discussions i had with his no. 1 fan boy on here proved. I did / do not like his approach to progress at all.
A colleague of mine has read / listened to his autobiography and that has a real whiff of being that guy that thought a toilet roll could visit the Titanic.
However, in Musk’s case, I think he’s been clever enough to surround himself with people that are actually smart enough to deliver on the challenges he raises. I would love to ask them at what cost (such as engineering safety) however.
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A big issue is it easy to be taken as smart when talking about things people have interest in but little knowledge of. The moment he stepped outside of those niche areas into areas where a lot of people have first hand experience of he exposes himself.
He talks about using the lessons learned in software development to bring to the real world where move fast and break things is seen as the goal. That is the take of someone whose entire understanding of software development is having watched the Social Network. Move fast and break things is not a software ethos, but Facebook’s corporate ethos from their growth period. It wasnt talking about breaking Facebook’s things, but the hegemony of the legacy companies in the space Facebook was trying to compete in. Using that to model your work on retooling something you own is an astonishingly stupid misreading of the situation, even before you get into discussions on whether Facebook’s approach was actually a positive for anyone other than Zuk and his shareholders. I mean even software companies dont do that with their own software and users. Making changes to existing products with an established user base (like a federal government program) is something even the most agile of software companies will do in a very measured and careful way to limit the disruption to their existing users.
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Extremely measured! I’m a career software engineer and I’d never work for someone like Elon and he would fail the interview at my current firm (and many others)
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