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Peter Gerstbach
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Design Thinker by day, Nostrich by night πŸ€™ From pedestrian to pilot: #LearningToFly πŸ‘¨β€βœˆοΈβœˆοΈ German translations for Damus. Relay operator at.nostrworks.com

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Fail: It only recommends bitcoiners! 🀣

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Of course I haven't worked with him either, but it is not difficult to prove he has excellent engineering skills. Just watch some videos with him, he is such a terrible speaker that it is 100% sure that his texts are not scripted, but he can explain many things (electric cars, rockets, AI, you-name-it) in very detail, more detail than any other CEO of a multi-billion company is able to. You can also watch videos with other engineers or tech-journalists (who have worked with him or interviewed him) talking about him, like Tim Dodd and numerous others. So, no, it is not only "hearing and saying".

Presumably yes. But my point was that you can be both a good engineer and a whatever-swearword-you-want-to-fill-in.

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.

He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.

Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.

His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.

And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.

His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.

But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.

Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.

Your are probably right about the narrativ thing, but actually he is both a founder and an engineer, and a quite good one. Yes he was not at Tesla from day 1, but still it is only fair to consider him a co-founder of Tesla, it was a little garage company by then with a crap product.

Still I'd listen very carefully what he says because you need to read between the lines...

Exactly, that's why I still like Nostr very much, you can choose whom to follow and clients just show your linear timeline.

Sorry, my explanation was bad. From observation I think this is what damus is doing: Damus shows names instead of npubs, if they are loaded. As soon as Damus shows a note, it tries to fetch the metadata of the author (kind-0 events), including name, avatar and so on. So once you have seen a note of somebody the name is shown instead of npub. Recently Damus introduced caching, so this metadata remains restarts. Maybe metadata are preserved longer, if you follow someone. But I do see names of profiles which I don't follow.

I am confused, I don't think Damus works that way, at least not my current version (TestFlight). Damus tries to load every avatar as soon as you see a note from this npub. Those avatars are cached (quite new feature), regardless of follow-status.

Any positive consequences of climate change are more than offset by the negative ones. So your statement is wrong.

Numerous scientific studies show that most of the effects of climate change will have comparatively little or no benefit – while, on the other hand, there is a threat of great damage and considerable costs. Of course, carbon dioxide is important for plant growth, so a higher CO2 content of the atmosphere has a certain fertilizing effect. But agriculture is heavily dependent on other factors, such as a steady supply of water – but it is precisely this that will be significantly disrupted in some regions by climate change, by increased flooding and droughts.