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Elon Musk on How to Build the Future

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1106 points sama | 1 comments | 15 Sep 16 18:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.279s | source
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kstenerud ◴[15 Sep 16 19:30 UTC] No.12509079[source]▶
It always saddens me when I see a slew of Debbie Downer comments from the HN crowd.

"Yes, he ushered in the electric car revolution, but the production carbon footprint is still huge!"

"Yes, he's building rockets, but he took a bunch of government money!"

"Yes, he's paving the way to Mars, but what has he done for world hunger?"

And it not just with Musk, but really with anyone who has been successful. I would have thought that the technologists were above such petty envy. We're here to improve humanity's lot, aren't we?

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grecy ◴[15 Sep 16 21:26 UTC] No.12509939[source]▶
> It always saddens me when I see a slew of Debbie Downer comments from the HN crowd.

My observation over the last few years has been a steady decline in the quality of comments on HN, and a steady increase in the number of Debbie Downer comments.

No matter what someone is doing - there will always, always be a comment about how whatever they are trying to achieve is stupid and they should instead be doing x, y, z.

It's a shame, really.

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1. AndrewKemendo ◴[15 Sep 16 22:37 UTC] No.12510443[source]▶
Nah, in fact I'd say it's the opposite. There are more middle if the road comments and meta complaining. The HN crowd is notoriously hard on everyone - especially so if there are technical questions involved -and it has been that way forever.