>I think the takeaway is intentionally being almost unreasonably supportive of people building things Hate to break it to you, but "building things" doesn't make you special; solving hard problems does. Not sure why the…
>I don't think the program lost very much money overall. It's not about whether it lost money. What were the risk adjusted expected rates of return? Was the interest rate sufficient? Was this the best way to invest that…
>In a free market, rent will always be higher than cost of a property. ...In the long run, and on average. Economic "laws" aren't ironclad; people are free to make all kinds of poor decisions, and they do. This is the…
>Overall Musk has been pretty straightforward and explicit with what he's doing. He's selling things that he can't produce now, and possibly won't ever be able to produce. If you think this is simply about missing a few…
>Imagine the most useless, technically incompetent, lazy sack of flesh that you were unfortunate enough to share the title of "engineer" with(and office space too). In a union, they'd be very nearly impossible to fire,…
From that discussion: >If they can just execute on this, the world is theirs People in these parts seem to fail to understand that: a) the 300k - 400k of refundable reservations is a minuscule fraction of auto market…
>It's very simple: if he does engineering then he is an engineer, regardless of what degree he holds." So who doesn't do engineering? Are we all engineers? I put bandaids on my wounds, am I also a doctor?
>work any better that the, you know, the other, non-engineer like methods others use to raise capital? There's a trope amongst millennials than anything Musk touches is "better" than the methods anyone has ever done…
"“Elon Musk is an engineer, and so he treats raising capital as one element that he needs to solve,” said Andrea James, a former analyst" How is Musk an engineer? Musk has a degree in physics and economics according to…
>I think the takeaway is intentionally being almost unreasonably supportive of people building things Hate to break it to you, but "building things" doesn't make you special; solving hard problems does. Not sure why the…
>I don't think the program lost very much money overall. It's not about whether it lost money. What were the risk adjusted expected rates of return? Was the interest rate sufficient? Was this the best way to invest that…
>In a free market, rent will always be higher than cost of a property. ...In the long run, and on average. Economic "laws" aren't ironclad; people are free to make all kinds of poor decisions, and they do. This is the…
>Overall Musk has been pretty straightforward and explicit with what he's doing. He's selling things that he can't produce now, and possibly won't ever be able to produce. If you think this is simply about missing a few…
>Imagine the most useless, technically incompetent, lazy sack of flesh that you were unfortunate enough to share the title of "engineer" with(and office space too). In a union, they'd be very nearly impossible to fire,…
From that discussion: >If they can just execute on this, the world is theirs People in these parts seem to fail to understand that: a) the 300k - 400k of refundable reservations is a minuscule fraction of auto market…
>It's very simple: if he does engineering then he is an engineer, regardless of what degree he holds." So who doesn't do engineering? Are we all engineers? I put bandaids on my wounds, am I also a doctor?
>work any better that the, you know, the other, non-engineer like methods others use to raise capital? There's a trope amongst millennials than anything Musk touches is "better" than the methods anyone has ever done…
"“Elon Musk is an engineer, and so he treats raising capital as one element that he needs to solve,” said Andrea James, a former analyst" How is Musk an engineer? Musk has a degree in physics and economics according to…