Elons Little Plan
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Edolf Skum
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guess who sux at chess.
finance.yahoo.com
Elon Musk Thinks Chess Is 'Too Simple' — 'Understandable When All We Had To Play With Were Squirrels And Rocks, But Now We Have Computers'
Tesla Inc. and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is known for his innovation and tendency to question conventions. Last year, he publicly stated his disinterest in the classic board game chess. Musk, who played chess during his childhood, has distanced himself from the strategic game, citing six reasons he...
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This is what happens when you insist on an unmanufacturable design.
The article points out that tight micron-level tolerances on Legos and beverage cans are the result of decades of incremental advances. (Legos I had as a kid had concavities in the side flats.)
Also, those items are small. It gets hard to keep such tolerances on objects at 100x scale.
Imagine that you could make a meters-long piece of 304 stainless steel to a zero tolerance. Because of thermal expansion, it’ll be 10 microns out of spec after temp changed by 0.1°C.
This is what you get when someone who thinks he is much smarter than he actually is, and who knows the square root of jack shit about engineering, micromanages product development.
Neener.
arstechnica.com
The article points out that tight micron-level tolerances on Legos and beverage cans are the result of decades of incremental advances. (Legos I had as a kid had concavities in the side flats.)
Also, those items are small. It gets hard to keep such tolerances on objects at 100x scale.
Imagine that you could make a meters-long piece of 304 stainless steel to a zero tolerance. Because of thermal expansion, it’ll be 10 microns out of spec after temp changed by 0.1°C.
This is what you get when someone who thinks he is much smarter than he actually is, and who knows the square root of jack shit about engineering, micromanages product development.
Neener.
Musk unhappy with Cybertruck’s poor quality, calls for Lego-like precision
After driving a production prototype, Musk told his workers to do better.
DIY-HP-LED
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I looked at the gigacasting of the truck and cars, what happens after an accident, they don't look repairable.This is what happens when you insist on an unmanufacturable design.
The article points out that tight micron-level tolerances on Legos and beverage cans are the result of decades of incremental advances. (Legos I had as a kid had concavities in the side flats.)
Also, those items are small. It gets hard to keep such tolerances on objects at 100x scale.
Imagine that you could make a meters-long piece of 304 stainless steel to a zero tolerance. Because of thermal expansion, it’ll be 10 microns out of spec after temp changed by 0.1°C.
This is what you get when someone who thinks he is much smarter than he actually is, and who knows the square root of jack shit about engineering, micromanages product development.
Neener.
Musk unhappy with Cybertruck’s poor quality, calls for Lego-like precision
After driving a production prototype, Musk told his workers to do better.
DIY-HP-LED
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He just started running across players who were beating him as his social circle expanded and a "stable genius" can't lose a game of logic! They have shown that chess in schools greatly expands mathematical ability and teach it in Quebec, it is an exercise like meditation, only it works different mental muscles and when you exercise a muscle...guess who sux at chess.
Elon Musk Thinks Chess Is 'Too Simple' — 'Understandable When All We Had To Play With Were Squirrels And Rocks, But Now We Have Computers'
Tesla Inc. and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is known for his innovation and tendency to question conventions. Last year, he publicly stated his disinterest in the classic board game chess. Musk, who played chess during his childhood, has distanced himself from the strategic game, citing six reasons he...
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And the terminology! There is nothing especially cyber about the Cybertruck. And “gigacasting”, bish pls. It isn’t even megacasting unless you’re gonna injection-mold or hot-press an aircraft carrier in one go.
I really dislike his hucksterish violence upon the language.
DIY-HP-LED
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Difficulty with language and the impact of words is common among sociopaths. They did a study where they flashed words in front of subjects in an MRI and words with an emotional impact like rape and murder produced no reaction in the psychos, but a cascade of neural activity in the prefrontal areas of the normal folks.
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from ars technica Rocket Report.
The US government is suing SpaceX. The Justice Department announced Thursday it is suing SpaceX for allegedly discriminating against asylum seekers and refugees in hiring, Reuters reports. DOJ alleged in a statement that, from at least September 2018 to May 2022, "SpaceX routinely discouraged asylees and refugees from applying and refused to hire or consider them, because of their citizenship status, in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act." The lawsuit alleges that SpaceX wrongly claimed federal regulations known as "export control laws" limited the company's hiring to only US citizens and lawful permanent residents, or "green card holders." Asylees and refugees stand on equal footing with US citizens and lawful permanent residents under export control laws and are permitted to access export-permitted information and materials, according to the Justice Department.
Elon Musk's social media posts are again under the microscope ... The lawsuit cited a June 2020 post on X, formerly called Twitter, by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to his then 36 million followers that said: "US law requires at least a green card to be hired at SpaceX, as rockets are advanced weapons technology." DOJ also alleges that SpaceX recruiters also "actively discouraged" asylees and refugees from seeking jobs at the company. These positions are not just engineers and managers who require advanced degrees but range from welders and crane operators to cooks and baristas, DOJ said. In the suit, the Justice Department says it is seeking "fair consideration and back pay for asylees and refugees who were deterred or denied employment at SpaceX," along with "civil penalties in an amount to be determined by the court and policy changes" at the company.
The US government is suing SpaceX. The Justice Department announced Thursday it is suing SpaceX for allegedly discriminating against asylum seekers and refugees in hiring, Reuters reports. DOJ alleged in a statement that, from at least September 2018 to May 2022, "SpaceX routinely discouraged asylees and refugees from applying and refused to hire or consider them, because of their citizenship status, in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act." The lawsuit alleges that SpaceX wrongly claimed federal regulations known as "export control laws" limited the company's hiring to only US citizens and lawful permanent residents, or "green card holders." Asylees and refugees stand on equal footing with US citizens and lawful permanent residents under export control laws and are permitted to access export-permitted information and materials, according to the Justice Department.
Elon Musk's social media posts are again under the microscope ... The lawsuit cited a June 2020 post on X, formerly called Twitter, by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to his then 36 million followers that said: "US law requires at least a green card to be hired at SpaceX, as rockets are advanced weapons technology." DOJ also alleges that SpaceX recruiters also "actively discouraged" asylees and refugees from seeking jobs at the company. These positions are not just engineers and managers who require advanced degrees but range from welders and crane operators to cooks and baristas, DOJ said. In the suit, the Justice Department says it is seeking "fair consideration and back pay for asylees and refugees who were deterred or denied employment at SpaceX," along with "civil penalties in an amount to be determined by the court and policy changes" at the company.
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By and large I think most of Alion Skum’s ideas are wack.
But this one is really kinda cool.
I think there’s money to be made in chargerías with attached upscale burgerants, child discharge areas like MickeyDeez used to have, and quiet lounges featuring cushy chaises-longues for a quick nap. If I had a few mil, I’d develop the concept as a franchise.
But this one is really kinda cool.
I think there’s money to be made in chargerías with attached upscale burgerants, child discharge areas like MickeyDeez used to have, and quiet lounges featuring cushy chaises-longues for a quick nap. If I had a few mil, I’d develop the concept as a franchise.
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I’m sorry but there’s no need to spend millions to develop the concept of “rest stops”.I think there’s money to be made in chargerías with attached upscale burgerants, child discharge areas like MickeyDeez used to have, and quiet lounges featuring cushy chaises-longues for a quick nap. If I had a few mil, I’d develop the concept as a franchise.
Elon is just trying to make an already established, decades old, idea sound like it’s his latest technological epiphany.
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I think that the longer time needed to charge a BEV car on a longer trip is a new thing, and providing food and some way to stretch or chill might have a market.
The rest stops/areas I’ve seen have been “graffiti and pee smell” downscale.
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If he can discount these models this steeply, it makes one wonder how badly Treasla is ripping the consumer off.
autos.yahoo.com
Tesla discounts Model S by $30,000 and Model X by $41,000 to gain EV tax credits
Tesla this year has dropped the starting price of the Model X to $79,990 — a $41,000 reduction from the start of the year — to get federal tax credits.
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