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You don't need to be thunderfoot to understand that pretending you will start to colonize mars in the next years lies somewhere between daydreaming and scamming.

Although I like when thunderfoot compare the archives of what musk said with what actually happened

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The punchline is that everyone here thought being called "thunderf00t" was a compliment, even though I meant it as an example of someone who is consistently proven wrong at every turn for casting shade on Musk's tech ambitions. It seems HN's original techno-optimist hacker ethos is dead in the grave.

Or is the REAL punchline the fact that Musk has optimised his entire empire to tap into the hacker ethos/ideals as the world's biggest pump n dump scheme? He seems to just do things that have the biggest wow factor because growth stocks need to keep growing otherwise there is no point in owning them.

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