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  • Anything Turing-complete is a powerful tool, but the reason people are reacting negatively is because of how much of the wrong tool it is.

    • Does an excel-based solution offer adequate runtime performance? No
    • Does an excel-based solution offer adequate write concurrency? No
    • Does an excel-based solution offer appropriate data durability guarantees? No

    Basically the only saving grace of Excel-based solutions is that they are built in tools that finance workers comprehend, and that is quite simply not enough. To base systems at this scale on Excel is criminally negligent.



  • Implying the vast majority of their voter base can even afford Tesla’s.

    The ones that do would have to forgo owning a huge lifted truck which I guess would also be a benefit.

    It’s still not going to even come close to bail Elon out of the situation he’s in on account of so many big export markets now refusing to buy his shit, so he’s fucked regardless. No-win for him, all-win for us