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functionmouseyesterday at 2:21 PM3 repliesview on HN

you think Musk is charismatic?

https://www.natesilver.net/p/elon-musk-polls-popularity-nate...

majority view him unfavorably.


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yousif_123123yesterday at 9:34 PM

Well I meant he has a big Twitter following and whatever he gets into many are willing to fund and so on. Like there's no way Tesla would be taken seriously for all its future ambitions and valued accordingly without Musk at the helm.

I just cancelled my cursor, which was the best for my workflow. Will need to find something else.

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SketchySeaBeastyesterday at 2:31 PM

I think we've all seen by now that the majority doesn't much matter if you have a rabidly zealous minority.

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ben_wyesterday at 2:40 PM

> majority view him unfavorably.

Indeed, but for general stock market purposes it's one dollar one vote, not one person one vote.

Possibly even worse. Short-sellers got burned on Tesla (and perhaps now also SpaceX), which may mean the marginal buyer and seller consists only of people who already buy into the hyper and by trading are sharing price info with each other rather than with a single person who doubts the man.

I sold my Tesla stocks a while back; the people who kept them don't care what people like me think.