Yes, through admissions. Getting a degree in math, maybe... depends on how much stress this adds to my life. If I were retired I'd just take a full load, but raising a family and running my business I can only take it one class at a time.
Hard to really say Elon was ever liberal, though. Rather, he was always opportunistic. And the hilarious saga of his gaming skills really calls into question all of his general decision making.
Which, fair, you can point to his giant bankroll. Hard to square that with his public persona over the years. Easy to say he has declined recently. But, I'm starting to question how long it was always there.
In retrospect, I think the warning signs were present at least as far back as the incident with harming the name of the person who told him that submarines aren't helpful during cave rescues.
Even before the submarine stunt, he called an entire field of nanotechnology BS. As a PhD researcher that was the moment I knew he cannot be trusted as authority on any matter related to science and engineering- not because he's an idiot, but because of his bias. Which is a very odd and difficult realization given his business involving renewable energy and space travel.
Similarly, I can't imagine he has enough free time to do much of anything with how often he is tweeting nowadays.
Still, none of that stopped him from claiming this quite strongly. Which, it would be fine if this was offhand statements. Because, yeah, who cares? But it seems he has pushed this idea for many years, whenever he could. Not exactly the sign of a healthy person. :(
In this vein, one of the more insipid traps of these fallacies is that they do not lead to a conclusion, on their own.
Ad hominem continues to be a good example. If you know that someone is a liar, you don't know that everything they say is false. You just know that they lie and are likely saying something to affect listeners. Could be based on some truth. Could not.
It bothers me that this doesn't actually sound that far from what a lot of folks seem to genuinely think? People are desperate for a panacea. But only if it works on the elites, it seems. Heaven forbid we come up with something that merely helps people lose weight.
Worse, a lot of people mistake euphoria moments for being right.
This has to be related to the curse of "can it scale?" that our industry is in love with. I think it is safe to say that MS Access and related programs were probably already covering a large majority of use cases back when they existed. On modern machines, they could probably cover larger companies better than folks want to admit.
Will they work for the largest companies out there? Of course not. This despite the fact that they probably did help get those companies off the ground.
This is one of those things where knowledge makes it bad. As a personal example, having coyotes in my literal backyard on a daily basis is not something I would want. That it happens pretty much every day without me realizing it, though, shows it really shouldn't be a concern of mine. Other than making sure I have protection for any backyard chickens...
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