The 2009 stimulus put $8 billion into high-speed rail, which hasn’t resulted in any high-speed rail after 13 years.
It costs infinity dollars per mile to build high-speed rail in the US.
Congrats to the team at @MarathonFusion for identifying a plausible, scalable process for transmuting mercury into gold.
This is something that drove Isaac Newton insane.
People.
Bitcoin does not solve banking or bank runs.
Bitcoin can handle 7 transactions per second.
If 300 million Americans wanted to do one Bitcoin transaction each it would take 496 days.
Agree with Balaji. Elon is singular.
He also shares his engineering secrets. I think nothing would please him more than if a thousand other hardware founders rigorously followed his five-step process.
Hardware is hard.
That’s why Elon is by far the greatest founder of all time.
Remember — countless startups die just while trying to put stationary beige boxes on desktops. Very smart people get crushed by supply chain disruptions, or China tariffs, or lockdowns, or shipping
To Balaji’s point, FAA indeed moves very slowly.
But there is an important difference between Chinese “flying cars” and American designs.
The Chinese designs are all basically scaled up quadcopters. They don’t have wings. This means that all of the lift is provided by the
