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ceejayoz11/04/20252 repliesview on HN

I'm very much in the Musk hater category, but it really takes some doing to dismiss SpaceX as vaporware.


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stickfigure11/04/2025

This is the problem with the dialogue around Musk. He's not 99% vaporware, he's 80-90% vaporware. That's problem enough.

In some cases, like Tesla, the vaporware is propping up the company (pivoting to robots!) even though sales are crashing because of the self-inflicted immolation of his personal brand. This is not going to end well.

sporkxrocket11/04/2025

Going to the moon is very much vaporware. Maybe the penultimate example of it.

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