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Elon Musk launches into expletive-laden rant calling quarantine measures fascist

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Poor impulse control. Over and over again. Wish he'd focus on business and spend less time trumpeting on twitter.

This particular article was about a tirade on his earnings call today. =/

Maybe we should tattoo "poor impulse control" on his forehead?

Elon "Post Malone" Musk

Note that this is separate from his tweet that was discussed earlier (and arguably more noteworthy given that it happened during Tesla’s earnings call today)

How the fuck with anyone more than 3 brain cells continue to worship this guy as some hero?

that was not expletive-laden it was not a rant he sounded pretty calm, but annoyed to me.

OK, he has to be doing this on purpose to troll us all. You just can't make this stuff up. He even managed to outdo Trump's "jokes" about disinfectant, that's simply awesome.

When people talked about Trump's actions being part of a grand 4D chess scheme, it's hard to believe, but EM may be a different story...we'll have to see

Or perhaps instead of being some sort of elaborate troll chess game he just has a valid point. This is not going to be a popular opinion here on HN, but I think it’s absurd people who are championing for opening and business to get back to work are shamed and dismissed as ignorant. It wreaks of soap box moral superiority. As Elon said “Silicon valley has become sanctimonious valley.”

There are lots of positives, including perhaps the biggest news from Gilead today. That in tandem with the fact that I believe a vast majority of the population already has the anti-body (were sick or no symptoms). Test ability is ramping up significantly, and lastly I happen to live in an area that was not a major “hotspot” yet the local city officials are at odds with the state officials about opening.

The thing that worries me is the way exponential growth rates work.

In the places that everyone has been paying attention to, New York, Italy, Spain, etc., the growth rate indeed seems to be coming under control. And for the sake of argument, let's say that they/we succeed in reopening businesses while continuing to limit the spread.

But, what about the places that had fewer cases early on, and are now growing at a much higher percentage rate? If you rank countries by the number of new cases, you are starting to see some with relatively few cases but many new ones, and if it is as exponential as it appears, it's going to be a matter of days before the previous leaders are replaced. This is happening country by country, and similarly within the US by state.

The US still had the most new cases of any country yesterday, but who was #2 and #3? Not the countries that you've been hearing about, but Brazil and Russia. Turkey, India, and Mexico also seem to be trending to soon have more new cases than the European countries people have been paying attention to.

And within the US? NY and NJ are still the top two states, but number 3 is now California, number 6 is Texas, and number 8 is Georgia - all states with relatively few cases so far, but the number of new cases is surging relative to the previously hard hit states.

It's like the stock market - people attach too much importance to the numbers describing the current situation and not enough to differences in growth rate.

I agree with you, my friends and I were discussing this a few days ago on how the valley has become synonymous with being the area where everyone knows what's best for the entire country, probably the entire world.

It's gotten so bad that some of us are refusing to start startups in the valley, and moving to other areas where free speech is more accepted, and any idea is tolerated, unlike the bay area, myself included.

All of my friends who are usually strident "all cops are bad" types are seemingly gung-ho for what's probably (and hopefully) the closest we'll get to a police state. It seems like people are dying for the opportunity to label others as murders - look at all the runner shaming, etc.

> but EM may be a different story...

My bet is no; he's just as asshole. But like you said, we'll have to see.

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