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The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center (www.techdirt.com)
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Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

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[–] 59 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

OMG OK that's it. Tesla cars are now out of the question for me and if I ever get the chance to ride on a SpaceX ship (not very likely) I think I'd decline. Totally different companies ofc but the same master "mind" behind.

This guy represents everything that you do not want to see in a CEO.

NO THANK YOU

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    It really seems like SpaceX worked for real. They now have the best safety record for any booster and most of the world’s space traffic. What’s their reusability record now, is it 16 flights on one rocket? You can’t argue with that result.

    I don’t know what he did to get to the point of “fail fast” during development but they put their money where their mouth is. Multiple catastrophic test failures that would have been career ending anywhere else, seemingly weren’t, and they appeared to have a very fast (for rocketry) and very successful program

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    From what I understand, SpaceX made real effort to split the company into two operations. One uses the reliable Falcon 9 system launching from Cape Canaveral (and other established launch facilities) to put satellites and astronauts into space. The other operation is Elon Musk's playground in Boca Chica where he tries to build the biggest spaceship ever!

    Don't get me wrong, there are some good engineers working at the Boca Chica operation, I've heard the Raptor engine is really good and there's probably some other things they've made there that will be useful for rocketry in general. And who knows, the really smart people may get the biggest rocket ever to actually work someday despite Musk's stupidity.

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