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China got there by banning Google. I don't think Europe is willing or able to do that unless Trump antagonism continues for years. Practically noone who has a choice (people in Singapore and Taiwan) between them uses Baidu

Sorry but my eyes rolled to the back of my head with this one. This is between two teams with tons of smart contributors, but the difference is one is more flexible and able to take risks vs the other that has many times more researchers and the world's best and most mature infrastructure/tooling. Its not a CEO vs CEO battle

Poor Elon University, I bet people who don't know it think it's related to Elon Musk

They "lost from a position of strength" in that they had they had the most public-cloud like data centers and started thinking about selling that later than they should have. Bard/Gemini started later than chatgpt , but there's not really a moat for this LLM stuff, and Google started moving a lot earlier relative to GCP vs Amazon.

They've got the cash, the people, and the infrastructure to do things faster than the others going forward, which is a much bigger deal IMO than having millions more users right now. Most people still aren't using LLMs that often, switching is easy, and Google has the most obvious entry points with billion+ users with google.com, YouTube, gmail, chrome, android, etc.

Good thing that if they sign up Elon has totally cleaned Twitter up from all the bots!

The demographic shift to a bunch of lovely young ladies on X is because of how much the next generation values maximal truth seeking

The tariffs are already showing dents in Trumps personality cult. More Republicans are standing up to him over this in the Senate, house will follow as it becomes harder to deny he's not a great businessman or negotiator.

Retaliating is the correct move from other countries, groveling to this kind of leader will just lead to getting bullied more in the future. And unlike with Russia you can almost count on him losing power if you push back.

Tesla is run like a private company anyways. He did this in a slightly saner world already with SolarCity.

The shareholders are passive index investors through institutions that for some reason dgaf about governance (maybe because they've lent him massive amounts of money?) and worshipful fans who rallied to give him back the biggest pay package after the court struck it as he was burning the brand and working less than part time

Well we can come up the number of Waymo-involved motorcycle fatalities from such a breakdown easily from the total fatalities which is 0

Yup the continuing poor performance of his FSD is what makes him wrong

I dont really care about the levels but I think Tesla has been building level 2 product, that will always supposedly be level 4 next year but they have never shown any intention of doing level 3.

What is clear is Tesla is not currently capable of self driving and he has lied year after year after year about it.

I think carmakers should have to be liable for their cars capabilities in the areas they allow them to be used.

This is one of the reasons I think food should all have the same packaging color and consistency. If everything was a grey paste that came in an unlabeled brown plastic-lined cardboard box your girlfriend wouldn't be able to manipulate you like that.

I don't think it's him just users flagging. But the leaders of YC are huge fanboys and live for his replies and retweets. It's pathetic and embarrassing

Most of those companies are still growing despite their size, which is boring to investors. To be a true unicorn you need shrinking sales and margins, a toxic brand, paying your hated CEO more than lifetime revenue of the company, and 2% share of the market you're in (with a valuation of more than all the competition combined).

I feel like we're in year 10+ of this topic coming up to front page of HN with dozens of comments a couple of times a week. I've personally not noticed the degradation but I guess I'm a light google user, mainly just use it get to sites I already know about, I feel like the problem for all these people that are passionate about it is the vast majority of people not on HN are like me.

Endless coverage and hyping of sometimes nebulous sometimes real scandals in their media and now it's all justified "Everyone does it." (I still don't understand the concrete accusations of "Benghazi!")

This is how the Russians and Hungarians got their governments to where they are as well

For everyone who owns a Tesla

We'd be having a completely different discussion but Tesla would be a much less valuable company worth less than Toyota and others and Elon wouldn't be anywhere near the richest person in the world

Great point sir I guess we should fire all of our greedy immoral public workers and rehabilitate Hitler

It's a medium sized car company with shrinking sales still valued like the rest combined. Without a prophet at the helm that makes them the obvious (to adherents) #1 autonomy company and clear personal robot monopoly, there can easily still be 90% drawdown from here

This has been slowly coming so now they are offering the entire data center stack to be operated by European companies in European owned datacenters

I believe the misunderstanding may be that there are black air traffic controllers so Elon assumes they are incompetent DEI hires rather than a true qualified person like Hegseth or Daniel Penny

I just assumed everyone who still works in a professional position at Tesla agrees with him

In WW2 is a key factor here. 80 years ago

Driving a new Tesla now especially a Cybertruck is signalling a lot about yourself. To many people it shows at best you don't care at all about politics, and the worst is much worse. I'm sure that won't deter some but it clearly has influenced other consumers especially for a company who's consumer base has been environmentalists

Something getting attention without Elon is simply unacceptable. The news was obsessed with the cave story there was no way he wasn't going to jump into that story.

It's as fool proof as you can get though.

If your data is well encrypted they practically don't have any access to any of the information except how much of it there is

His joy about all this (the emoji replies and memes) is really amazing. These people have 0 empathy. What's spectacular is he's not even smart enough to pretend to have empathy and somehow managed to outrun any consequences so far (our system is going to need some retooling when all this flames out so white collar justice is a lot faster). What's even more amazing and sad is people the people still worship him despite that.

Great! You're in a place where Elon might read your tweets! You should keep trying to get more interactions by guessing what he'll like, then the revenue sharing should flow. Many people are making a living from this. It's even a great way to grow your brand if you don't need the money, has worked great for YC people like pg and Gary Tan.

The only strategy that works apparently is to let them screw up the country so badly people believe it.

While the team might not know much about FAA yet, they have high trust and a good working relationship with the guy who knows more about everything than everyone so maybe that's why this will work out great

Elon knows you can do a lot of stuff while being a CEO. if you're super competent it can be done in a few minutes per week if that, same with being a father of a child.