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by l9k 2669 days ago
Related, in France as well: Hyperloop TT is developing, in Toulouse, the futuristic hyperloop idea: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/26/hyperloop-firm-unveils-first...
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__m 2669 days ago
Not exactly something to be proud of. Also "The idea was envisioned by Tesla CEO Elon Musk in a white paper in 2013". No, it was hyped by Musk, the idea dates back to 1904
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rsynnott 2669 days ago
Yeah, it's kind of ridiculous how much credit Musk gets for this idea. I remember one being a plot point of an old (70s-ish?) Larry Niven novel.
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icebraining 2669 days ago
It's an interesting phenomena that seems to happen all the time.

Generic idea exists for a while, then someone proposes a more specific implementation and gets known for that, then people start rethinking those details and arrive at the generic idea again, but still think of it as coming from that person.

Another example is how plain-old Merkle trees are now being called "blockchain": Satoshi combined them with other ideas (like POW) to arrive at Bitcoin, then other people started separating those off and got back at just Merkle trees, but still think of them as originating from Bitcoin.

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