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Cake day: October 5th, 2023
  • It’s easy to gamble if money isn’t yours.

    To my knowledge Musk is gambling with his own money, not hedge fund capital or something.

    If your day to day survival depends on every dollar, then you don’t have the freedom to dick around with investments.

    But, yes, this is correct. If you’re extremely wealthy then you can keep gambling. If you fail you still have a million other chances. So you’re kind of guaranteed to succeed eventually.

    Whereas the common person has one chance. If they fail that’s it.

  • In fairness he was able to recognise which companies to buy

    I think this is just survivorship bias. There are millions of wealthy individuals investing in companies every single day. Occasionally these gambles pay off and make people extremely wealthy.

    Most of the time the people who succeed just spend their incredibe wealth and live a quiet happy life.

    But there are others who crave attention. These individuals bully their way into prestigious positions and pretend that they’re leading the company.

    Elon is that kind of person. He started wealthy, bet his money on companies that succeeded. Then took the CEO role so he would get credit for the companys’ successes.

    If ever people dare stop paying attention to him he’ll do something drastic to recapture the spotlight on.

    He’s the kind of person who will stand on stage and do a nazi salute just because he wants you to look at him.

  • It is very much true

    From the link you provided:

    This may come as a surprise to some: it is only after two years of continued service that employees have the right to request written reasons for their dismissal.

    Employers don’t need to provide a reason for your dismissal.

    There are some exceptions but they’re very specific and unlikely to relevant. If an employer wants rid of you they can do so at their whim.

    Even if you think you have a case, good luck finding a solicitor who will take on your case. They simply won’t be interested because it’s not easy to win without the rights you get after 2 years employment.

  • Weaponised incompetence.

    They don’t want to try something new so they’re going to make it as hard as possible for themselves so they have an excuse to give up.

    Then they’re going to post about it hoping everybody stays with them.

  • tl;dr

    When an enthusiastic novice asks what language to learn you should pretentiously tell them it doesn’t matter because the majority in use today are similar and trace their roots to the same source.

    For pretentious reasons we’ll define that source as an *ur-*language because that’s a defined prefix that nobody uses in reality so it’s a great way to assert I’m more cleverer than you.

    Now, here’s a long rambling lesson on other ur-languages that nobody uses because they’re overly complex but because I’m so much cleverer I clearly know them all.

    To conclude I’ve ignored your original question but don’t worry, here’s a link to the programming course I sell.

    Once you’ve completed your first you shouldn’t bother putting it into practice but instead every year try a language completely unrelated to the first so it’s extra difficult. Just ignore the fact it’s guaranteed to be a dead language nobody uses in reality. it’s more important to be different than have practical skills.