As I suspect you intuit I am not truing to be smug. And you are correct that there are giant minds trying to solved “the big problems”.
What I am attempting to say is I have one short, brutish life in me. So I will do my best to Not be part of the problem, buy when it comes down to work or a pleasurable life I will not choose work. Even if it is Important with a capital I.
I would have been the last guy you would have wanted working on the Manhattan project >:)
A great excuse if you’re a sociopath who is unable to care about other people too.
I just read the epic story about how he dicked over the wife of his five* children during their marriage too (and subsequent divorce).
FSM, is it ever a sweet ride. Lottery fantasy purchase, fo sure. More OT, hopefully Musk isn’t the dickhole this unsourced snippet of an alleged email makes him out to be because if I do ever bother buying a lottery ticket, and if that ticket turns out to be worth significantly more than -$1, then I’d very much like to purchase a vehicle from his company.
You seem to think that it’s important that I know that. It isn’t.
Well, if you wanted me to know you did not read my argument, I wanted you to feel better about it.
Good intentions -> punished. 
: tl;dr
You’re shaping the future for your progeny and those like yourself, lessers are not a concern.
I always figured he’d populate his future with clones of himself in space.
Maybe he’s a jerk.
But when I’m forced to once again consider a vehicle purchase I’ll have to decide between certain things and powering our car off our solar is damned appealing.
Anyone who doesn’t want me to buy a Model S or whatever the sedan is had better quickly build a comparable model with equal or better infra support. I’d only use the chargers on trips to cities. I may have to drive 50k round trip to get so much as a toothbrush here in the sticks, but I rarely have to do it more than once a day, usually keep it to twice a week, less in winter sometimes. The Model S will be fine for that.
The car I am consulting with did 200+ km on a recent test. It should be WAY more affordable than Tesla.
Define “equal or better infra support”?
He’d get caught in a nightmarish feedback loop wherein each clone must berate the next for wasting so much time in a vat instead of building the future and they’d all get nothing done.
You think he’s dumb enough to not have this exception error-handled? One would expect him to learn something from Star Trek computers.
I’ve looked at teh economy minded alternatives, with most sporting only half the range of the tesla the only one I’ll be trying out is the nissan leaf cause it seats enough. I’d get one of the lower range offerings for sure if I lived in a city, except that I wouldn’t own a car in the city.
I’m sure a large maker can equal or surpass teslas support/infra, but they need to do it. Does anyone else offer charging stations on major highways? It’s not too big a deal for me actually, since I’m more likely to drive 60-70k to a train station than I am to drive 4oo+k to the big city.
I thought this too. The boss never handles this kind of personnel nonsense–not even at the mall jobs I worked in high school.
A lot of the more monomaniacal “leaders” enjoy this top-down approach. Plenty of recorded evidence of Jobs excoriating his underlings for various offenses. Again. No clue if this is real, but it’s not implausible.
How do the charging stations work? There should be some sort of compatibility, as 120 or 240 volts are the most common voltages, the rest is the sockets used and maybe some way to signal the limit of available current. Should not be too difficult to make a charging unit that is cross-compatible.
This spring, I saw a Tesla charging station at (I think it was) the Holiday Inn Express in Santa Rosa, New Mexico. No one was using it, but there were like 6 stalls. Just off I-40.
I am baffled by the number of idiots here and on the referenced articles who are willing to blindly believe uncorroborated and unfounded hearsay and admonish people for it. Idiots idiots idiots. Ugh.
If this makes him an asshole, then your comment makes you an idiot for blindly believing hearsay and admonishing people for it.
Do you want to know a nice “just because”?
Just because someone says something doesn’t make it true.
