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Old 01-20-2020, 12:41 AM   #391 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by RedDevil View Post
There is little to be learned from doing the same thing over again while trying to optimize the processes involved. The processes might get better, but there's little to gain.

There's a lot to be learned from going radically different.
Even if the Cybertruck would not be the success Tesla hopes it to be, what they've learned will put them ahead of anyone else, or further ahead than today for that matter.
That's the best description of the liberal / conservative dichotomy. Doing things the proven way is safe and conservative. Innovation is risky and likely to fail because most ideas are worse than the established ones, but continuous improvement is necessary and the potential for reward is great. It's the liberal mindset. The thing is, once something new has been proven better over time, it becomes the domain of the conservative.

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