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JeremyNT • today at 1:57 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> Wild that they devoted so much effort to an economically completely infeasible model. I wonder if the combustion version will even break 3 figures sales.

It's staggering to consider how many resources we've diverted from people who could use them into building this novelty.

If ever there was a sign of a society of decadence in decline, it's that the most powerful person on earth is free to create toys like this exclusively for others in the ruling class.


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adamsb6 • today at 2:09 PM

When has frontier engineering ever gone directly to low cost mass production?

"Crazy new thing also crazy expensive" is the norm, not a regression.