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[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

He hired a bunch of 19-25 year old. Not experts

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Hey! Thats offensive to 19-25 year olds, there are many who just finished college/university and are more than aware.

They’re just role playing like in movies, with no idea of the consequences.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

How on earth is it offensive to say they're "not experts"? They're not prodigies with PhDs. These specific young men are just technical enough and ideologically aligned.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Except they’re not, as you will know their tweet would be false after your first year of any technical (IT oriented) education.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

First year? That shit is like A+ cert level knowledge or below, and A+ is damn near worthless. They would know that in the first few hours of a study guide

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I was being generous when you consider the people in school who somehow pass, even when they don’t know a thing 🥲

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Technical enough to be hired, is all I meant. 🙄

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Apologies, if I came over as hostile. I did not get your meaning through text.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Even then, no. These were all obviously nepotism hires who would not have otherwise qualified.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Meh, some of them won some hackathons and scholarships, it's pretty clear they're otherwise at least somewhat bright but they don't have any relevant domain knowledge.

In other words, the type of person most likely to be prone to hubris and catastrophic failures.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Your original comment was ambiguous as to if being an "expert" and "being 19-25" are mutually exclusive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

lol a 19-21 yo isnt going to have a degree lol,

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

If they went into uni straight out of high school, they could. A lot of Bachelor holders would be around that age, since they start at 18.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There is nothing wrong with being 19-25. There's something wrong with being wholly incompetent.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's not really anything wrong with being incompetent, so long as you have the humility to admit it and learn from people who know better, and try not to cause harm. That's not Musk's minions though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

I think it's important to differentiate incompetence from ignorance. Ignorance is not knowing. Incompetence is not being able to fulfill the requirements for your assigned task. If you cannot fulfill the requirements for your given task, then you should not be given said task.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bunch of 1337 hax0rs script kiddies who don't understand anything but they suck elon's balls or something idk.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

These are the type of people that have deleted the French language from their GNU/Linux system.