Re:Musk’s First Email to Twitter Staff Ends Remote Work
by lupire on Friday November 11, 2022 @03:21PM
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I believe is Musk is as technically skilled and capable as the average or above average engineer, and certainly as the above average billionaire. I believe he can read up on things and carry on intelligent conversations.
I believe he can impress people who aren't used to strangers even trying to understand technical issues.
I don't believe he is solving any substantial technical problems at SpaceX or "designing rockets" himself.
Re:Musk’s First Email to Twitter Staff Ends Remote Work
by theonething on Friday November 11, 2022 @04:25PM
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> people who aren't used to strangers even trying to understand technical issues.
Do you think this describes Zubrin, Watson, Sarsfield or the other experts in the reddit post I referenced?
> I don't believe he is solving any substantial technical problems at SpaceX or "designing rockets" himself.
Thanks for sharing your belief. What would be interesting and add more to the discussion is if you shared the basis for your belief. Perhaps you'll teach me something I didn't know and I can recalibrate my knowledge about Musk's expertise or lack thereof.
That's not true. I invite you to read my messages again and not that I've made 5 comments, all of them timestamped before yours, and only in 2 of them have I referenced quotes.
> add essentially nothing beside quote without context
A commenter claimed that Musk did not understand rocketry. I supplied quotes from industry experts declaring the opposite. What more context is needed?
I'm not a fanboy and have anything invested in proving how great he is. Personally, I think he can be a big jerk at times and at others brilliant. The issue I'm trying to address that I see over and over again are the false claims that Musk has no idea what he is doing technically and steals credit from the engineers he hires.
When I see a ubiquitous false claim that is easy disproven in 3 minutes with a Google search and copy and paste, then why not? I believe HN is a place where truth and reason are valued and misinformation corrected, so I think my comments and references have been valuable in that respect and apparently so do the 30+ people that have upvoted my first comment with the quotes even though they are "without context."