PretzelPirate

My point was that the work to make them popular was done back then. The model s is what made Tesla cool to the public and made people want electric cars. Since then there have been some improvements to the car like better FSD, but no huge technical leaps.

The things you're talking about aren't things Elon is likely spending his days on. He has teams of people marketing Tesla and working on improving starship. Do you think Elon is actually handing design himself vs sitting in a bunch of meetings and giving feedback?

If he isn't doing the hands-on work, so you think he's in 18hrs of meetings each day?

> So this idea that Musk just got lucky in the 7 companies he founded and he's just a bozo who happened to trip upon some new rocket designs is just insane

I don't know who's saying that. Of course he's smart, but the amount of hours he works each day is almost certainly exaggerated to maintain this "Tony Stark-like genius narrative" he needs to keep the money coming in.

Elon knows how to hire, how to raise money, and how to profit from govt subsidies. That doesn't mean he's this lone genius who works himself to death, and that's a very unlikely story.

Those aren't recent. Electric cars were popular 15 years ago. There are now multiple groups with reusable rockets. Elon doesn't need to work 12 hours/day on things his employees have already built.

Feel free to name the recent innovations. Has Tesla released a new car with an incredible range? Have US homes adopted solar using Tesla batteries and ow we don't know what to do with our excess energy?

What else has he delivered?

> working 12~18 hours doing one moonshot after another.

Does anyone actually beleive Musk works 12 - 18 hour days?

He hires the right people and his companies solve hard problems, but they make a few electric cars, design and build some rockets, and launch some satelites. Most of that shouldn't require much of Musk's time since he has experts working on it.

Other than designing new rockets, there doesn't seem to be many new innovations coming out of Musk-owned companies.

To me, it feels like we all think he must be doing a ton of work even though his companies don't seem to be generating much output.

Company legal departments should absolutely review requests and make sure they're legal before handing over data.

If they suspect the request isn't legal, they can refuse it, and then it can be escalated to a judge.

Are you suggesting that every request should go through a judge before it gets sent to a company? That would be great, but even then, different judges interpret laws differently, so a company will still do a legal review before deciding whether or not to comply.

It's my personal view that Elon has already shown how little he cares for protecting data of individuals based on how he ran DOGE.

If his teams will handle the data of US citizens with such disregard, he'll almost certainly treat his customers (many of whom are those same US citizens) the same.

Learn math

> El (an israelite deity that eventually merges with some others into the monotheistic god)

It's my understanding that both Baal and El were Canaanite deities and that the Israelite cults brought their storm god Yahweh with them to Canaan and eventually he absorbed features of the Canaanite gods.

> absurdal energy waste of standard Blockchain.

Proof of work is pretty much put of fashion. I'm not sure I'd consider it to be "standard" anymore.

Was this probe timed to align with Microsoft's earnings call?

I'm almost 40 and never wanted kids. As a kid, everyone would say things in the context of "when you have kids of your own..." and I always knew that I didn't want them.

If I lived in a world without reliable birth control, I may have ended up with kids I didn't want, but I'm lucky that I have other options.

Kids shouldn't be raised by people who don't want them, and not everyone is born with the biological drive to reproduce.

Your view that [most] people are born wanting kids may be biased from societal pressure and a historical lack of options.

> This actually begs the question

I beleive that raises the question. I don't think it begs the question at all.

That is charge back. Even with a credit card, your bank is the mediator between you and the merchant.

> because it doesn't allow chargebacks

You can have chargebacks in crypto if the payment is scripted to allow chargebacks. It would be up to the merchant and the buyer on whether or not to allow that, and who would mediate the dispute.