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Elon Musk on How to Build the Future

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1106 points sama | 2 comments | 15 Sep 16 18:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.486s | source
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aantix ◴[15 Sep 16 19:30 UTC] No.12509082[source]▶
Why do they discuss the speed of the line? Isn't the finalized output a much more useful metric? (e.g. one car per hour)?

If there's a ton of work done at the various checkpoints, the pace is slow but maybe the length of the line isn't very far?

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1. proee ◴[16 Sep 16 01:22 UTC] No.12511275[source]▶
The speed of the line is important because it is directly tied to the output in the form of the "pipeline". The question then become how long is the pipeline? 1day, 2days, 20 weeks? In which case you wait x-amount of time for the first car and then the rest is gravy.
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2. aantix ◴[16 Sep 16 15:31 UTC] No.12514675[source]▶
I mentioned the length of the line in my original comment...