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sorry booboo did i hurt your feelings too? what is your framework/criteria of who gets to take credit for what? because everybody here makes their conclusion first, and then contort their rationale to fit. in the same thread, people who insist he makes zero contribution to the products/company, will simultaneously mock the cybertruck to deride the man. so which is it — he is or isnt responsible? their arguments have no integrity. the top executive is responsible for vision, objectives, hiring, financing, etc, pushing the company in a direction of their choosing by tipping the scale on any major decisions. they do this to different degrees, but all of it is instrumental. jobs didnt write the firmware for the ipod. bezos didnt pack shipping boxes or wire their server racks, so the fact that they arent chartered engineers doesnt mean they werent instrumental in their tech companies. anyone suggesting that musk, not just as a hired employee, but as the largest individual owner of his company (larger than bezos’ ownership of amazon), gets credit for success by just “asking people to do stuff” reveals (a) they know nothing about business, and should save their arguments for reddit during their starbucks shiftbreak or (b) theyre being willfully obtuse, which is a lie not to other people, but to themselves. if your personal suggestion is that all he does is come up with drugged up ideas….how much credit accrues also then risking capital to fund it, and convincing people to go along with it, and pushing them to execute it (its wild right?) the world is not short of certified engineers, people with crazy ideas, people with business connections, and billionaires. wheres all their versions of teslas and spacex?

Page 445 has a glib response of 'billionaire defended' following a back and forth on the history of a company, arguing merits of contribution in business building, but nothing about ethical merit of being a billionaire itself. Do your reading. My position is when I disagree with nivek, celery man, and other people, i believe some/most of the time they are arguing in earnest. Whereas you exist merely as a dingleberry on the very anus of this website, never to be taken seriously, but only to be mocked.

Many people now dislike him/them and are disinclined to buy his/their products. Many people also now like him and more inclined to buy his/their products. Net-net, it's much better for business to have him stayed silent and let products compete on their merits. That's not controversial, and also not been the argument. The argument was a very reductive marginalization of his impact to a company he stewarded through 99.5% of its life as person #4, in favor of guys #1-2. It's like giving Dana Bible credit for Sark's team. And then the very juvenile and populist rhetoric of why 'billionaire bad', when we've merely been discussing the prior topic. People should admit when they cant argue the facts in the conversation, that their issue is with the conversation about facts itself. (Which is kinda weird because why would you click into this topic...)

used to work with a brazilian colleague that looks like elsa pataky, and an irish one that looks like natalie dormer. very 🥴

That only works if you assume the breakfast order is less frequent than any other lunch or dinner dish, where the restaurant is structured to only cranking out burgers and breasts. Surely they have some duds on the menu that equally mess up the flow. And then some dishes themselves have eggs in it, so it's not the eggs themselves that's the problem. I think they simply don't expect people to order breakfast.

socks that slip and bunch up. i got these muji "right angle socks" that are supposed to be the antidote to that, they're constructed with big heel cup woven at 90* to fit perfectly in theory, except theyre the slippiest socks ive worn. trash.

"Don't defend the water cycle bro. Wet streets causes rain." Hurr durr.

You realize the fundamental error in your understanding of causal relationship right? Companies grow to be large and generate wealth for its owners *because* customers have an affinity for its products and investors have an affinity for its business.

NFL career 2:1 TD ratio, threw 4000 yards last year, beat the defending conf champs in playoffs, made the probowl, and has near 110 rating this season. Like with the Murray midget, I hate them, but I recognize that they can play ball…

What part is cherry picked? The fact that Musk was the 4th person in Tesla, joining the now-250 months old company 6 months after it was founded, and as the majority owner and actual chair, had authority over the company? When you say the company was “established” -- when Eberhard was kicked out -- it had produced 0 cars, the Model S hadnt been designed, 3 years before IPO, and would go on to accumulate $6 billion dollars of net losses over the next 13 years…. …and you want crown the first 2 guys for “having the plan” 13 years and 1,000,000 vehicles sold later? That is an amazingly bad understanding of business and history. It’s just that easy? You just build a cheaper one after the other - and it will be no surprise to have a profitable business? When the entire public market signaled (through its equity) for 9 straights years that it didnt believe the company would get anywhere, and the company was on the verge of bankruptcy, you just knew success was no surprise? The revisionism is amazing.

People are only dishonest with themselves when they let their emotion trump their objectivity. Like, you can hate Baker but still admit that hes a better QB than Colt.

Can you explain a little more about what “it” was that got rolling, which idea was claimed, and what relations those 2 founders have to the Tesla company that’s now put over 5 million cars on the road. Musk being ‘just an investor’ was actually the majority owner — ie capitalizing most of the company (and as chair led subsequent funding). That occurred some 6 months into its incorporation. The original founder got booted before Tesla ever sold a single car - the first of which was on a Lotus chassis, totaling 2500 unit in its lifetime. Over a decade later, Tesla achieved profitability for the first time ever, on the backs of mass production of the Model 3. How much of that credit do you want to appoint to the initial employees?

that would be a caffe corretto

Astounding discovery. You’ve just cracked the secret of how to break into and compete/lead multiple industries: get a marketer to tell people to “make X”. Like, “build me the best selling car in the world, chop chop”. Someone should tell Bezos.

My 1601 (i think thats the ref). A blue shantung/mosaic when i was looking for a blue linen

he probably likes the attention and influence of HC, whereas the other gig is just a job, which is not what a man with money really needs

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brainless zombie movies >> marvel/comic cgi slop

Maybe not entirely fair. Hunter has to shoulder that. He's 2-way player, he sought out Prime who was multi-role player (who else would want to go to Jackson State...). Supposedly, he has a very boring off-field life, and commits lots of time to conditioning and recovery. I think he knows what he wants, and his playtime is not merely being pushed by Deion.

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i want one of these as a scootaround vehicle but theyre stupidly-priced and you cant 'own' them - the batterys are leased

Thought Fury Road was simply a tighter, more energetic movie. Furiosa meandered longer than it should've been to try to explain the the sequel, when my expectation for the franchise was kinetic action and spectacular visuals, not storyweaving. Tom and Charlize are more magnetic than Anja and this dude. Thor wasn't bad but the slightly comic tone strikes a contrast to the rest of the hardcore characters. Overall entertaining movie but nothing new. Just feels like a 2nd serving of steak after chowing down a porterhouse.

do you have issue with the speakers causing the turntable to skip on loud passages? -- they're so close to each other and on the same surface what did you end up getting. problem with wireless headphones in wired mode is that it typically sounds worse. the drivers are tuned for the digital amplification from the wireless source and when piped an analog signal its not the best. sony v6/7506 are classic 'monitor' with good bass response. sennheiser open backs are the popular detailed headphones but they have lots of models and depending on which it requires proper amplification. nice chairs

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