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s/Predictions/Ketamine-and-adderall-fueled ramblings

by vrosas 10mo ago

spwa4 10mo ago
I think they mean grift or even fraud, since they were definitely meant to attract investment. Now excuse me while I go check on where my 2016 full-self-driving Tesla car. It was supposed to pick me up 9 years ago, something must have happened.
- hshdhdhj4444 10mo ago
  I still don’t understand how they haven’t been sued for the hundreds of millions they took as a deposit for a new Roadster…8 years ago!
  - woleium 10mo ago
    Well the government was in the process of doing so, but somehow he seems to have doge’d it.
  - andsoitis 10mo ago
    > I still don’t understand how they haven’t been sued for the hundreds of millions they took as a deposit for a new Roadster…8 years ago! Because you can cancel your reservation and get your deposited refunded. See terms at Tesla.com
    - LtdJorge 10mo ago
      Same site as the OP has an article stating Tesla makes it difficult, and if you put 50k in 8 years ago and obtain 50k now, I think you lost a lot of money. I have no opinion on the process itself though, I don’t know enough about Tesla as I’m only interested in the engineering, just wanted to point out the inflation losses.
      - locknitpicker 10mo ago
        > if you put 50k in 8 years ago and obtain 50k now, I think you lost a lot of money. This is a textbook sunk cost fallacy.
        idiotsecant 10mo ago
        I am curious - are you familiar with inflation?
        locknitpicker 10mo ago
        Are you familiar with the sunk cost fallacy?
        richrichardsson 10mo ago
        I'm not sure you're familiar with it either, or I've missed how on earth it applies in this situation.
        LtdJorge 9mo ago
        Are you? Because I don't think it has anything to do with what we were discussing.
        NoLinkToMe 10mo ago
        No it isn't. It's textbook time value of money, which is a real thing. And if you don't think so, please give me $50k, I'll give you back $50.001 in 8 years, a dollar more! You'll come out ahead, right?
effdee 10mo ago
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s/Predictions/Ketamine-and-adderall-fueled ramblings

by vrosas 10mo ago

s/Predictions/Ketamine-and-adderall-fueled ramblings

spwa4 10mo ago

I think they mean grift or even fraud, since they were definitely meant to attract investment. Now excuse me while I go check on where my 2016 full-self-driving Tesla car. It was supposed to pick me up 9 years ago, something must have happened.

hshdhdhj4444 10mo ago
I still don’t understand how they haven’t been sued for the hundreds of millions they took as a deposit for a new Roadster…8 years ago!
- woleium 10mo ago
  Well the government was in the process of doing so, but somehow he seems to have doge’d it.
- andsoitis 10mo ago
  > I still don’t understand how they haven’t been sued for the hundreds of millions they took as a deposit for a new Roadster…8 years ago! Because you can cancel your reservation and get your deposited refunded. See terms at Tesla.com
  - LtdJorge 10mo ago
    Same site as the OP has an article stating Tesla makes it difficult, and if you put 50k in 8 years ago and obtain 50k now, I think you lost a lot of money. I have no opinion on the process itself though, I don’t know enough about Tesla as I’m only interested in the engineering, just wanted to point out the inflation losses.
    - locknitpicker 10mo ago
      > if you put 50k in 8 years ago and obtain 50k now, I think you lost a lot of money. This is a textbook sunk cost fallacy.
      - idiotsecant 10mo ago
        I am curious - are you familiar with inflation?
        locknitpicker 10mo ago
        Are you familiar with the sunk cost fallacy?
        richrichardsson 10mo ago
        I'm not sure you're familiar with it either, or I've missed how on earth it applies in this situation.
        LtdJorge 9mo ago
        Are you? Because I don't think it has anything to do with what we were discussing.
      - NoLinkToMe 10mo ago
        No it isn't. It's textbook time value of money, which is a real thing. And if you don't think so, please give me $50k, I'll give you back $50.001 in 8 years, a dollar more! You'll come out ahead, right?

effdee 10mo ago

There's a slash missing at the end.