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Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by sicp-enjoyer on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @04:30PM (#33538155)
How do you start a Tesla with small bets?
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Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by boxed on Thursday November 10, 2022 @03:14PM (#33552565)
With the roadster.

He also started SpaceX with Falcon 1, not Falcon 9, and certainly not Starship.

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Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by sicp-enjoyer on Friday November 11, 2022 @11:54AM (#33563231)
That's a good point. The principle of proving a simple possible version makes sense. Just pointing out that those "small" steps Tesla took are already a lot bigger than most software projects.
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Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by boxed on Friday November 11, 2022 @04:45PM (#33567291)
Mostly because those projects are badly mismanaged from before they even write the first line of code :P
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