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How do you make that kind of determination when you're missing the wider context which led to the code being written? Same goes for the code printouts and screenshots he was requesting people send.

Did Elon write any code during his time at PayPal?



> How do you make that kind of determination when you're missing the wider context which led to the code being written?

Dartboard.

Musk believes that, having fired 80% or so of the staff already, it's still overstaffed. He wants to reduce it to a group of people he can fit in a room and shout at directly. It's the literal implementation of "firings will continue until morale improves".


My understanding is that Paypal was largely implemented @ Confinity before the merger with (Musk-founded) X.com


Exactly.

To recap for folks unfamiliar with the history:

Peter Thiel co-founded the electronic payments company that developed PayPal.

Musk co-founded an online bank which had massive security holes.

The two companies merged and Musk was fired before the name was changed to PayPal.

See part 1 of Common Sense Skeptic's video on YouTube: Debunking Elon Musk




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