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Katherine Huggins is a New York-based journalist and freelance contributor to the Daily Dot&#8217;s tech and politics section.

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Elon Musk over his own tweet "No, we need more like double that number yesterday! The number of people who are super talented engineers ... motivated in the USA is far too low. Think of this like a pro sports team: if you want your TEAM... championship, you need to recruit top talent who.... enables the whole team to win."

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