Social WTF Elon ????????????????

ElKarlo said:
Yeah it's an ineffective subway
Cars using those tunnels would beess efficient than a subway or even a regular car tunnel. Seems slow and dumb. Saw the video and 50 mph and a low volume of cars plus a 40 sec elevator ride means nothing to LA traffic
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Thank You. That's all I was saying!!
 
Lefties hate this guy but love LeBron James.... I don't get it. If it isn't the absurd wealth and penchant for making an ass out of themselves publicly... What oh what is it about Elon that they hate but don't hate LeBron for... I can't quite figure it out...
 
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Yorkist said:
Lefties hate this guy but love LeBron James.... I don't get it. If it isn't the absurd wealth and penchant for making an ass out of themselves publicly... What oh what is it about Elon that they hate but don't hate LeBron for... I can't quite figure it out...
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Oh look another fool who uses terminology like "leftist" to them spew some completely incorrect garbage. Both Lebron and Musk suck and are just shills for companies (Lebron is the greatest basketball player of all time still and Musk a solid business hypeman). Lebron is a lifetime Nike signing and is a conduit for them. They've fleeced the country for so much good sentiment around the fake public school in Akron adorned with Nike shoes and Lebron murals (all paid for by taxpayers aside from some afterschool shit and a bunch of free nike gear). The big difference is Lebron grew up poor as fuck in Akron and Musk is the child of upper class aparteiders so I'll cut Lebron a little more slack on wanting to chase financial security for him/extended family. And yet you're in a Musk thread obsessing about Lebron. I wonder what trait has you stuck on that?
Are you here to contribute anything for or against Musk or just remind people of some tangential neurotic ranting you enjoy repeating?


While we're at it, since maaaaybe it will help your delusions: what could differentiate Lebron would be his commentary in NFL owners and potential to labor organize, which makes him fundamentally different from Musk.
 
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Why the hell is the left against Elon, now?

Whatever you feel about his tactics, and however you feel about how overblown his reputation, the man is making AC batteries in mass production vehicles a reality when for ALL THEIR WEALTH Ford, GM, Dodge, and all of the rest of the world's car manufacturers sat around twiddling their thumbs while necking with oil executives at lavish Christmas parties.
 
Madmick said:
Why the hell is the left against Elon, now?

Whatever you feel about his tactics, and however you feel about how overblown his reputation, the man is making AC batteries in mass production vehicles a reality when for ALL THEIR WEALTH Ford, GM, Dodge, and all of the rest of the world's car manufacturers sat around twiddling their thumbs while necking with oil executives at lavish Christmas parties.
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Are you implying Musk isn't currently courting wealthy people/industries to work in cahoots on his ideas for symbiotic gain?
lol I actually came back to this thread to post how this Boring Company tunnel stunt had a MEDIEVAL CASTLE AND FIGHTING STAGE BUILT AT IT. Uncanny timing on the party quip.

(tweet by a dude who writes pro-Musk propaganda for a blog on a near-daily basis)

bUt YoU CaN heAt yoUr sEaT wiTH AN APp (while doubling down on battery life loss in cold weather with increased in-cabin usage) https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/23/tesla-app-heated-seats-remote/
 
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i love it how musk invents things that already exist and makes them worse in the process.
 
cooks1 said:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/19/tech/boring-company-tunnel-elon-musk/index.html



Jesus. I have a great idea. Howz about we make the tunnel a little bigger, then we can put bigger vehicles in that carry lots of people. We could call it a subway.
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Meh -- fuck that noise. I want to sit in my car, in a long line, to get on a sled in a tunnel and then when I get get to the other end I want to sit in another long line of traffic waiting to get out of the tunnel. That's called progress.
 
Hoof Hearted said:
It's a shame the 'real' Tesla never had the financial backing from taxpayers. Imagine what else he could have accomplished (and he wouldn't have died in poverty).
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The radio-controlled boat in 1898 was pretty sick.

The times were a little too early for what he was trying to innovate, though. The financiers mostly wanted to utilize his ideas to build weapons.

According to Margaret Cheney's Tesla: A Man Out of Time, when asked about the boat's potential as an explosive-delivery system, Tesla retorted, "You do not see there a wireless torpedo; you see there the first of a race of robots, mechanical men which will do the laborious work of the human race."

The guy was way out there for late 19th and early 20th century. I mean, people were still riding horse-wagons at the time.

I don't think Musk necessarily needs to be an innovator, on par with past geniuses. Sometimes, a guy like this only needs to serve as an inspiration to somebody who actually has the ability to create what Musk can only envision. Him being a prominent figure already puts a spotlight on innovation and creativity even if he is not actually accomplishing all that much, in those regards.

It is still preferable that the spotlight is on him, for atleast a while, than some useless hack celebrity.
 
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Madmick said:
Why the hell is the left against Elon, now?
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Because ...

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the man is making AC batteries in mass
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Wait wut?
 
therealdope said:
Because ...

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Wait wut?
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I was under the impression his used this current to recharge his lithium packs, and while not new technology, this is what increased the potential storage density of the batteries.
 
Madmick said:
I was under the impression his used this current to recharge his lithium packs, and while not new technology, this is whDC at increased the potential storage density of the batteries.
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Batteries are DC devices --- they separate charge creating the potential to do work. To output AC you need an inverter. Going the other way, if you use AC to charge you need a rectifier to create DC voltage across the battery to separate charge --- you are doing work to separate charge.

Tesla is unique that use AC motors rather than DC brushless (which is the conventional modern approach). Maybe that's where you mixed things up.
 
therealdope said:
Batteries are DC devices --- they separate charge creating the potential to do work. To output AC you need an inverter. Going the other way, if you use AC to charge you need a rectifier to create DC voltage across the battery to separate charge --- you are doing work to separate charge.

Tesla is unique that use AC motors rather than DC brushless (which is the conventional modern approach). Maybe that's where you mixed things up.
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Ah, shit, indeed, my bad.
 
therealdope said:
Sorry -- I don't understand the reference.
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I'm pointing out that the "first mover" in pre-2001 for various products doesn't mean a whole lot other than rewarding who was the first to cash in on web tech.
PayPal has loooong been hated by tons of people and had to buy out Venmo and others as they continued to pop up with better UI and processing. It still moved the world forward, but it isn't a credential for future industrial production.
 
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brackis1 said:
I'm pointing out that the "first mover" in pre-2001 for various products doesn't mean a whole lot other than rewarding who was the first to cash in on web tech.
PayPal has loooong been hated by tons of people and had to buy out Venmo and others as they continued to pop up with better UI and processing. It still moved the world forward, but it isn't a credential for future industrial production.
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TBF - Netscape served a purpose and was eventually acquired for $4B by aol IIRC. So they did just fine.

edit: make that $10B
 
therealdope said:
TBF - Netscape served a purpose and was eventually acquired for $4B by aol IIRC. So they did just fine.

edit: make that $10B
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Exactly. It was a solid company for its time and the people who made it should be rewarded for building it and pushing web browsing forward, despite being a dime-a-dozen in hindsight when it came to developing a product. Can you name a single person who worked on Netscape Navigator? Would you let them take charge of our airline industry?
 
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