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ToDougie | 5 months ago

Lest we forget:

"The entire infotainment system is a HTML 5 super computer," Milton said. "That's the standard language for computer programmers around the world, so using it let's us build our own chips. And HTML 5 is very secure. Every component is linked on the data network, all speaking the same language. It's not a bunch of separate systems that somehow still manage to communicate."

https://www.truckinginfo.com/330475/whats-behind-the-grille-... - April 24, 2019

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pinkmuffinere|5 months ago

Wow, this is like an instant cure for imposter syndrome. I might hang this on my wall.

boringg|5 months ago

That can't be real - wow. They were the company that rolled the vehicle downhill to make it look like progress right?

mandeepj|5 months ago

Check his Instagram! He's portraying himself as a saint, a massive victim, and vowing to sue everyone else, from Nikola for defrauding him :-)

bflesch|5 months ago

Someone should be selling motivational posters with these kind of funny quotes from our dear "tech leaders". There should be a gallery of funny quotes to choose from so I can put them on my wall and feel better about myself.

pinkmuffinere|5 months ago

Same!! I'd definitely consider buying some for myself, and perhaps also as gag-gifts for other tech friends lol. I happen to have access to amazon merch from forever ago, which doesn't have posters, but does allow throw pillows.... I might spend the weekend playing with one lol

nerdsniper|5 months ago

Wow. Quotes like these really illustrate to me that I may have some massive blind spots and lack a lot of skills that help make people lots of money. This fellow is worth $3 billion and just spouts gibberish.

What skills does he have that I completely lack?

somenameforme|5 months ago

I think the skill most people lack is just initiative and risk tolerance. Behind many, if not most, highly successful people, there's often a story of them just trying lots of stuff until something sticks. I have a pack of a few friends who have been doing this for years. I think most of their ideas are pretty awful, but who knows, maybe one day they'll be right?

Even this site is maybe a good example. You can apply to YCombinator with little more than a partner, plan, and pitch. The worst that happens is they say no, and if they say yes then you get a $500k funded shot at your idea with lots of advice on top and people trying to help you succeed. Yeah the chances of acceptance are low, but if you've ever read applications for pretty much anything, a ridiculous amount are just complete garbage, so your chances are better than the numbers suggest if you're halfway competent.

cogman10|5 months ago

Usually rich parents.

That said, looks like this guy is actually more of a "self made man" as he started several businesses out of college with moderate success. The first was an alarm company (Spoiler, those are generally MLMs and there's 100 of them). Looks like he was just successful enough at it.

It's not shocking to me that someone who starts an MLM ends up in trouble with the SEC.

tptacek|5 months ago

Poetry. The ability to be awed by the wonders all around him, and to transmit that awe to others. A true communion with the fantastical.

maxbond|5 months ago

Maybe what you have that Milton lacks is integrity.

kolbe|5 months ago

Nearly all people value good articulation over intelligence. This is why people who interview well get jobs over people who do good work. It's why Steve Jobs makes billions while Woz doesn't. And why Trevor Milton can bilk investors of claims about HTML5 supercomputers while nerds get brushed off talking about tensor-chip accelerated attention models.

The truly great founders, CEOs, and investors of our generation have generally been people who could see the difference between articulate and intelligent, and valued intelligence as the driving characteristic of people who built their products.

kibwen|5 months ago

> What skills does he have that I completely lack?

As George Carlin would say, it's a big club, and you ain't in it.

quickthrowman|5 months ago

> What skills does he have that I completely lack?

1. The ability to lie shamelessly.

2. Charisma.

3. Confidence.

The last two (or all three, really) can be combined into ‘salesmanship’, more or less.

itsoktocry|5 months ago

>What skills does he have that I completely lack?

You'd be amazed how "successful" one can be if willing to lie, cheat and/or steal.

candlemas|5 months ago

He doesn't have a conscience.

SilverbeardUnix|5 months ago

You have ethics and the ability to feel shame.

sneilan1|5 months ago

It's not skills that got him ahead. It's the connections to the "right" people that can be benefit him the most.

wrs|5 months ago

Google "dark triad".

vkou|5 months ago

> What skills does he have that I completely lack?

It does not take any special skills to do this. All it takes is having no integrity.

cheema33|5 months ago

> What skills does he have that I completely lack?

The ability to tell tall tales that are completely disconnected from reality. And be able to do so with utter confidence.

rasengan|5 months ago

Either corruption was always happening maximally, and we've finally begun to notice , or corruption has reached a new maximum.

Either way, it's maximum corruption.

And we, the people, continue to choose "public discourse" as a mechanism to bring awareness and, perhaps, attend to the issue; yet, the discourse available to the people is limited, both economically and even in social media, algorithmically.

I hate to sound like a decentralization fanatic, but decentralizing power away from centralized actors is the only way we will be able to right these wrongs and essentially bring fairness to society.

We, the people, deserve to reap rewards based on skill and the proper application thereof.

lostmsu|5 months ago

Is your tongue smooth?

paulpauper|5 months ago

need to get me one of these HTML 5 supercomputers

ManuelKiessling|5 months ago

That’s so wrong that even the opposite of it is wrong.

vjvjvjvjghv|5 months ago

And it receives data from a set of tubes which some experts call "internet"

dreamcompiler|5 months ago

This sounds a lot like Ted "The Internet is a series of tubes" Stevens. You can just hear the frustrated aide trying to explain a concept to him in the simplest possible terms and then he totally mangles it.