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>You can't possibly believe Musk's fantasies after a couple decades of hilarious (and occasionally dangerous) lies.

Eh, betting against Musk generally seems to be a losing proposition. Starlink alone would have given me faith in his abilities, what Tesla's done with Models 3 and Y and SpaceX with Falcon 9 gives me all the more reason to believe him. Yes, despite the absurd timelines, which I'm generally okay with. (Not OP)


Like 10 years of promises of Full Self Driving which does not drive itself.


I happen to agree with you but for different reasons.

I will never bet on Musk, but I’m also not dumb enough to bet against him, given TSLA’s stock growth. The board has set a wild target for him before, and he hit it.

It’s too easy to say “he’ll never achieve that!” from the comfort of an armchair internet comment.

Ok, if you really believe that, step up to the line and place your bets. Because if you don’t believe it enough to put money on it, you probably don’t believe it that much.


> I happen to agree with you but for different reasons.

You literally echoed his reasons, not sure why you said this.


(Eyeroll) I didn’t feel like I needed to state my disagreements because I felt like they weren’t relevant enough to spend time on. So I agreed with his point that I’m not betting against Musk, but left out the reasons.

But leave it to the pedantic internet commenters to take issue with even a minor inconsistency.

I promise to do better next time, thank you for your feedback. I know I’ll make you proud one day, dad.


People never learn. The haters always think this time will be different.


>...Tesla is not the winner in electric cars

With all due respect, what in the world are you on about?


Musk has done a lot of brand damage to Tesla.

Tesla's sales are down, revenue is down, profit is down, and Tesla continues to lose EV market share.


.. ever heard of BYD? BMW just released the first car on their new platform that is better then Teslas in pretty much every way .. Musk has ruined Tesla with bets on wrong cars i.e Cybertruck instead of pushing price and volume.


Not convinced working for government is the best use of your potential, though considering he owns 5% of all US Treasury Bills, I wouldn't say his impact is any less than being a government employee.


> best use

Well I don't think him sitting on billions of dollars at 94 is better from a societal perspective.


That money has already been committed to charitable use for the most part, or already donated. He is essentially managing billions of dollars on behalf of charitable causes. Seems like a pretty good use of his money management skills.

Besides all that he has advocated for that money to be taxed away from him for decades.

He pretty famously lives below his means in a normal suburban house and drives around in a car that most software engineers could afford (Cadillac sedan).

From a societal perspective, I’m not sure you could ask for much more from any one man.


The money isn't "out of circulation". That's not how money works.

Even as T-bills they're doing something.


“Sitting on”? He famously invests in companies that do things.


Not by Buffett, but you'll love Poor Charlie's Alamanack, by Charlie Munger, his lifelong business partner.

https://www.stripe.press/poor-charlies-almanack/cover


For Buffett I recommend Essays of Warren Buffett. Regarding Munger’s Almanack, I wrote a nice summary just before his death:

”A real estate investment of $24 by the Dutch to buy the island of Manhattan would today be roughly equivalent to $3 trillion. Across 378 years, that’s about a seven percent annual compound rate of return…”

https://www.lostbookofsales.com/notes/poor-charlies-almanack...


Buffet said of Munger:

> “In terms of managing money, there wasn’t anybody better in the world to talk to for many, many decades than Charlie.”

Buffet gets all the press, but he acknowledges Munger as a huge part, if you listen.


Munger really gave Buffet wings. They did it together.


It's a great book (I think), reading it now. It's the only book this far that I've brought with me to the gym (because I wanted to continue reading it, in between the exercises)


The moral panic is social media being the reason for the suicides going up, not the fact that suicides are going up in itself.


Sharing the Hugo theme is a great move Herman. I'll be starting a Bearblog now, all thanks to this comment.


Am I the only one who sees that the entire website is AI generated? Their categories make no sense, neither does their homepage. Weird.


The home page is in card style which make sense I wish more content website would do that. It's more easy to browse and the categories that is there is categories that is available in every other websites.


Yes, and Twitter isn't reacting specially in this regard. See Reddit hiking API prices by an absurd amount.


Fact Check: Reddit didn't hike API prices by an absurd amount.

That was was the story spread far and wide by the Apollo app developer that was believed by the gullible and angry Reddit masses.

But Reddit actually set a reasonable API price, as evidenced by the fact that a year and a half later there are still five 3rd party apps running on reasonable subscriptions:

Infinity For Reddit

Nara For Reddit

Narwhal 2

Now for Reddit

Relay For Reddit


This is cherry-picked to the point of revisionism, no? There used to be dozens and dozens of apps and countless useful bots and other tools that ran off of the API. <1% of those tools surviving the price hike actually further confirms that the price change wasn't reasonable.


I don't think that's fair - getting back the chronological timeline itself made the purchase a good one in my eyes, alongside the For You feed, which seems to work wonderfully (for me). Not to forget you can literally turn off ads if you want. I seem to be a real minority, but I do genuinely believe Musk has done a great job with Twitter (or X).


Cable Cowboy, I'm guessing. Great book!


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