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Re:Tesla Plunges After a Conference Call on Thursday May 03, 2018 @05:31PM (#16990169)
And yet none of them are landing autonomous reusable rocket modules

Of all the 100% electric cars on road, he has two in the top 5

Who else has been pushing battery storage and solar systems that aren’t ugly af and simply made of old parts glued together in parallel?

All these other experts with experience can’t seem to hang with Johnny come lately.

Humans don’t have a history of being petty over others not being the same as them, or worse, outperforming them. We’d never cherry pick facts, and ignore the whole story. Why that would make us no better than animals

Re:Tesla Plunges After a Conference Call on Thursday May 03, 2018 @04:43PM (#16989767)
He’s building things other places won’t touch because of the economics

Everyone wants to sit and cross t’s and dot i’s because they are trained those matter more than net new

If those are the only conversations you have, only doing things you’re sure will be comfortable the economy and society stagnate

Economics are not the law of the land or reality. They’re a control mechanism for our output as a thinking, feeling, creative species

Let’s just make more banal phone apps I guess. The ones where the economics are well known to keep us safe

See stories about kids not playing outside or being allowed a quasi dangerous chemistry set

No one wants to be wrong so we take the safe route, which protects the status quo we all bitch about