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I cant recomend this enough*
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/musk-to-burns/idipbnhifibemlbkiljhdnibgodoieli
* im very easily amused
I saw his diatribe against home working and thought that it seems a brilliant way to advertise to Tesla's competitors that they might be able to poach their top staff and the knowledge they take with them.
Just because Musk spends his 60-hour working week on Twitter doesn't mean that everyone else needs to.
^^ completely agree about the stupid robot thing being used as a distraction.
FWIW Tesla have had their wrists slapped and significant fines for how they've advertised and marketed their "full self drive".
I saw his diatribe against home working and thought that it seems a brilliant way to advertise to Tesla’s competitors that they might be able to poach their top staff and the knowledge they take with them.
Probably no coincidence that he tweeted about layoffs a couple of days later. Getting rid of your best talent first probably isn't wise though...
He’s obviously invested in upsetting ‘Democrats’ across the pond. I found this, how do they say, ‘spicy take’ (?) on the Tubes:
What does all the (largely manufactured yet now became Frankenstein’s Monster) ‘culture war’ stuff have to do with selling beans or beer or vacuum cleaners or electric cars?
What’s Musk’s long game now he’s trading divisive politics? It’s not like he’s vapour where is hasn’t been criticised for years and years is he just look at a way to silence/discredit critics by labelling them all as ‘nasty butthurt liberals’ or somesuch?
Is climate change denial just around the corner for Musk? I always wondered how you could claim to be helping to tackle climate change while simultaneously funding engineers to find a way to ‘better’ existing airliner travel with rocket travel at x1000 (fossil fuel) emissions.
It feels somewhat like we are all being trolled by an ‘edgy’ teenaged billionaire internet troll?
*oops
It’s not like he’s vapour where hasn’t been criticised for years and years is he just look at a way to silence/discredit critics
It’s not like his vapourware hasn’t been examined/criticised for years and years. Is he just looking at at a political way to silence/discredit critics? Or is this a career change to media/celeb/grifter?
Nvidia are putting a lot (a real lot) of money and effort into solving this. If you’re expecting anyone to solve this in the near term, they’d be the smart bet.
My money is on Qualcomm
What’s Musk’s long game now he’s trading divisive politics?
Isnt he is just a thin skinned manchild who cant handle criticism and hence lashes out whenever anyone dares to challenge his pronouncements?
This is an interesting point from the author of Black Swan.
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1534173252226105346
Isnt he is just a thin skinned manchild who cant handle criticism and hence lashes out whenever anyone dares to challenge his pronouncements?
Possibly a large element of that - but I think he’s media savvy enough to turn it to his advantage. At least in the short term/ or while there’s still some gravy in this ‘culture war/antiwoke’ train.
It’s all a bit weird tbh, it does just make me think he’s a big troll looking forward to using his vast influence putting Trump back in power 😉
but I think he’s media savvy enough to turn it to his advantage.
And yet not savvy enough not to tweet/conduct interviews when drunk or stoned.
not savvy enough not to tweet/conduct interviews when drunk or stoned.
On the contrary surely? While (at least to cynical & skeptical old farts such as your’s truly) Musk’s (for instance) Joe Rogan appearances might come over as horribly calculated/self-conscious, the ‘jokes and tokes’ of the middle-aged mega/rich keen to project an ‘I’m not like the other billionaires - trust me’ image…
… to the YouTube/meme-media/me-me-me-me generation/demographic surely Musk’s ‘kool with the kidz’ projection is radical, and real, and just the sort of fresh waters they’re thirsty for?* Not like that stuffy, heavily-censored and fake old mainstream/old-guard politics rubbish? Add to a degree (even though it’s all fake/hustling to my mind) that last point is still a point.
I believe it’s known as “good optics“
What do you throw a drowning lawyer?
https://twitter.com/Tweetermeyer/status/1535396101976510464
It reminds me somewhat of Sick Bicycle Co's approach to product testing.
When you lay it out in simple terms like this, yep, it sure does look like a scam.
https://twitter.com/Tweetermeyer/status/1536865673913040896
Thols2 - give your anti-Tesla diatribe a rest. You come across like a vaccine-denier picking and choosing the bits and pieces you can find in the media to support your case.
It literally says on the page with accident statistics "we count any crash in which Autopilot was deactivated within 5 seconds before impact".
You can overcome stupidity to an extent with technology, but eventually you will come across a sufficiently determined idiot.
So, if I understand this correctly, a frontal crash will usually mean the system failed whereas other crashes are more likely to be the fault of another vehicle. What this means is that the Tesla system is woeful at avoiding obstacles.
https://twitter.com/MoodyHikmet/status/1537259126577037312
It literally says on the page with accident statistics “we count any crash in which Autopilot was deactivated within 5 seconds before impact”.
Ermm, yes?
You seem to be implying the person disabled it and then crashed for shits and giggles?
As opposed to it disengaged itself because its confused or the driver disengaging it by desperately slamming on the brakes/steering to try and dodge the scenario the self driving has put itself in.
I worked in the industry and I wouldn't trust any of these "semi autonomous" systems at all.
The company I worked for saw it as an advantage that the driver was ultimately responsible, as they could save millions on testing their systems properly. And don't expect the regulators to do the job either. I think for pedestrian detection, they just test it once and give it a pass or fail. For a system dealing with complex situations, human behaviours and weather conditions it's an incredibly poor way of making sure these things are robust.
The all-or-nothing approach is the only one that makes sense. Thats the approach taken by Waymo, Wayve, FiveAI amongst others. Google realised pretty early on humans are incredibly poor at watching and checking a semi autonomous car.
Google realised pretty early on humans are incredibly poor at watching and checking a semi autonomous car.
They are not that good/attentive when actually driving so take that responsibility away but expect them to still stay focused just in case is recipe for disaster.
I think the lesson here is
Don't announce multi billion dollar takeovers when you are high as shit!
So he's pulled out
Twitter are suing him and Twitter shareholders are likely too as well
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1545537997214564354?t=gORrOWNfVnf_uIPfg5WfrQ&s=19
He’s a bit rubbish at pulling out.
Not read the whole thread, so probably been mentioned multiple times, but it baffled me why the world's richest bloke would invest most of his fortune in a social media platform that could collapse/wither away into nothing - they all die eventually
would invest most of his fortune
I got the impression that he was largely getting the money from elsewhere rather than it all being his
I got the impression that he was largely getting the money from elsewhere rather than it all being his
Richest man in the world borrows money. Wow haha. Not disputing your input, but bloody hell, aint it ridiculous?
I thought he was rinsing Tesla for it though, hence the share crash?
Just sort the world debt you massive **** - that said, not sure who the world owes money to.....
H is about to spend the rest of his life in court fighting Twitter. Unless he moves to Mars.
He needs investigating by the SCC now. pump and dump king
Richest man in the world borrows money.
TBF If I was buying something like Twitter I wouldn't use my own money either.
He thought he was king Midas but has seen his Tesla stock drop & his crypto stock drop so now he's trying to back out after seeing (I presume) a lot of commercially sensitive details about Twitter.
This is/was a merger, not a takeover/purchase due to the share exchange. Tesla is overvalued, perhaps getting Twitter while those shares were overvalued was seen at the time as financially sound. Now that Tesla’s shares have dropped in value and the Twitter price is locked in, it seems like less of a good deal. Hence why he’s trying to back away from it. @$44bn and given Tesla’s recent stock fall, Twitter would need a substantially greater percentage of Tesla to complete the merger. That’s perhaps more percentage than Musk really wants to give.
It’ll be interesting to see if he can wriggle out of it.
This had the feel of the greatest showman in the world being the greatest showman in the world, but now there will be the nasty side of court battles, i believe there's a huge back out clause that Twitter put in the contract, so guessing Musk will be trying to use some of that sensitive information he was provided to try and reduce any potential payments.
i believe there’s a huge back out clause that Twitter put in the contract
There is a billion due if it is cancelled for semi sensible reasons but the really problematic bit for him is in theory they can force him to go ahead with the purchase if he doesnt have those semi-sensible reasons.
Is "I was drunk and stoned and it was late at night and I clicked on 'Buy Now' by mistake" a semi-sensible reason for cancelling?
If he gets one (a free pass for being stoned) for purchasing Twitter, we should all get one for eBay.
He’s on the hook for about 25 billion $
Watch doge coin get pumped next week. There is already a lawyer from the US who is holding Twitter shares talking about class action litigation.
This sounds about as plausible as anything.
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1545776262165176320
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1545776264144896000
If he gets one (a free pass for being stoned) for purchasing Twitter, we should all get one for eBay.
Conversely I'm quite looking forward to demanding $7,000,000,000 in compensation from the next eBay buyer to pull out of a purchase claiming that they "bid by mistake".
. As far as I know there is only one lawsuit against Tesla for the self driving allegedly injuring someone.
The dead have difficulty in attending court and giving evidence.
Car is sold twice since, and now has a new owner (my customer). It says 90, badged 90, has 90-type range
I'd be looking at/for whoever rebadged it
I’d be looking at/for whoever rebadged it
So first owner gets a free upgrade from a warranty mix up and keeps quiet about it. They or a subsequent owner rebadge the car and effectively scam the subsequent buyer who gets the mix up reversed when the company find out they're getting something that wasn't paid for. If I sell you fake tickets to a concert but you then get evicted by security when the people who paid for your seats turn up, do you blame the band for not letting you in?
The point is that telling customers that a software update is going to fix a problem but using it to remove functionality instead is pretty deceptive. They should have explained what was happening and given the owner a chance to sort it out. If the misconfigured battery reading was Tesla's fault, they should have just sucked it up for goodwill.
The point is that rebadging then selling on a car when you've benefited from a mistake is pretty deceptive. If the current owner had been aware that 'this is actually a 60 but has 90 range thanks to a Tesla cockup' then they may have acted differently.