The administration is owned by many different bosses: Elon, Putin, Saudis, ... (dunno if there's eight).
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(from 2019)
> The terminology Rickard used for this process was "to score" the sheet. Musk talked about how deep a score the Cybertruck needed for bends via Twitter. He said, “Even bending it requires a deep score on inside of bend, which is how the prototype was made.”
After the design is drawn out, the corners and edges are cut out with either a laser cutter or a water jet, while the sheet lays flat. Next, the stainless steel sheet is folded, like origami, and welded into shape.
“You basically take one or two sheets and fold them up into a truck, which is a huge cost-saving,” said Rickard. According to him, the whole process makes stamping machines unnecessary and lends itself well to robot laser assembly.
https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/elon-musk-exp...
> people in front of screens moving colorful shapes and forms
along those lines...
> (not talking visual programming here)
...even though you wrote that, I'd like you to check this out:
> making existing text-based languages, like Python or JavaScript, script-agnostic
What might that look like? There's non-obvious challenges to merely translating the keywords into a foreign language (gender, declension, etc.)
If you're deeply interested in this topic, I'm happy to connect! (hn username at goog's mail service dot c o m).
I'll never forget how his Twitter mass-layoffs initiated that same practice to spread throughout the tech industry (yes, it was coming, but he did "cast the first stone").
For better or worse, what Elon Husk does today, the rest of the stock market does tomorrow.
These days, he targets entire classes of US Citizens (e.g. Federal employees) due to his deep-seated insecurities.
An excerpt from Carmen Hermosillo (humdog):
"It is fashionable to suggest that cyberspace is some island of the blessed where people are free to indulge and express their individuality," she wrote. "This is not true. I have seen many people spill out their emotions – their guts – online and I did so myself until I began to see that I had commodified myself."
If someone can confirm this, then I'll make sure to tell everyone to avoid it.
These grifters started with one narrative, and have done a full 180.
The Internet --> Web 2.0 --> algorithmic feeds progression has destroyed our collective ability to focus and to retain any memories (and the media being goldfish-like doesn't help either).
It's exhausting repudiating the "good faith arguments" online.
The simple explanation is correct: he's mean, petty, insecure, and greedy, and is using this opportunity to "get even" and "get even richer".
Edit: On further reflection, it actually sounds rather banal when stated that way -- they just bought the election, so that they could increase their already-staggering fortunes.
Your puny brain can't grasp the 4D chess here... it's just like how those Federal agencies are so bloated, that completely bypassing them will fix everything (hint: follow the money -- who's going to get rich when they replace the "bloated" middleman with their own infrastructure? In the case of crypto, it rhymes with boin-case).
This is a gem! Thank you for sharing it.
It also ties in with Venkatesh's "Gervais Principle", where, as we ascend the corporate hierarchy, we see "losers" --> "clueless" --> "sociopaths".
The highest echelons of corporate structure are indeed occupied by the kinds of people who are comfortable swearing allegiance to the corporation itself, not to its customers, its employees, its founding values, or some "greater good for society". Thus do we arrive at a world where these corps are headed by people who truly believe in "maximizing shareholder value".
> On Earth, amino acids in living organisms predominantly have a ‘left-handed’ chemical structure. Bennu, however, contains nearly equal amounts of these structures and their ‘right-handed’, mirror-image forms, calling into question scientists’ hypothesis that asteroids similar to this one might have seeded life on Earth.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-w...
Derek Thompson likens it to a religion: "Workism". It should be viewed with disdain and suspicion, but is instead valorized and celebrated.
This is the moment a petulant man-child decided to destroy America: