bigtimeidiot

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by bigtimeidiot 9y ago
> Apple has $250 billion in cash, so this doesn't strike me as a huge concern. It's not their money, it's the shareholders. It might be tough to make a case to them to jump into this market.
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by bigtimeidiot 9y ago
> Sure, cars are different from consumer electronics, but not in any insurmountable way. Perhaps not "insurmountable"... ...but you realize that what Apple currently manufactures is equivalent to one single, near-insignificant
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by bigtimeidiot 9y ago
I hadn't even heard of Fawcett before I read Lost City of Z , which was a highly recommended book. Personally I thought the book was only 'okay', that the heroics felt...exaggerated? Now I guess I know why.
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by bigtimeidiot 9y ago
> I meant is it really a free market when Intuit needs to pay off the government through lobbying to stop them making tax filing simpler so they can keep their market. You make it sound as if the government is just dying to simplify t
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by bigtimeidiot 9y ago
> It's a mess in the US because Turbotax Which is odd, because I've used Turbotax (and others) in Canada and it's also been a breeze.
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by bigtimeidiot 9y ago
> We called the police and they told the lady if she didn't get out they'd jump in and remove her by force. I bet if they knocked her unconscious and dragged her from the pool, they'd be in trouble too. At least I hope s
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by bigtimeidiot 9y ago
> Why do you assume that? I assume the OP means he's probably doing well enough to not want his teeth kicked in for a payday. Like most of us here.
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by bigtimeidiot 9y ago
> If there's a world war and all of a sudden Japan doesn't have computers? Pretty much. If you're at war you need that materials to feed the war machine, which includes the metal to build the plane as well as the compute
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by bigtimeidiot 9y ago
> People haven't yet realised Thankfully we have enlightened people among us to guide the sheep, right? > that it's not EU versus US versus China but rather corporations versus the people Corporations have zero ability to
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by bigtimeidiot 9y ago
> He's not some empty suit beancounter I agree with you. But there's a pretty heavy burden of proof on any denigration of Tesla around here. That and I think some of the old guard of auto manufacturing would love to stick
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by bigtimeidiot 9y ago
> I think Snapchat is currently already overpriced I agree. My point is that unless those employees choose to sell their stock at below market prices (for whatever reason), then market prices won't budge. Stock prices don't f
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by bigtimeidiot 9y ago
> The ones who don't, who are homeschooled alone, turn out "weird". And those in the public school system are juuuuusssst fine...
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by bigtimeidiot 9y ago
> employees are able to sell their stocks, I expect to watch the stock tumble to never come back up You expect the employees to start dumping their stock at fire-sale prices? Otherwise, how do prices tumble in a market? The buyer and
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by bigtimeidiot 9y ago
> finite resources: digital ad dollars The combined market cap of these companies for which digital advertising is the main product is staggering...and sad.
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by bigtimeidiot 9y ago
How heavy would one of these suckers be with a battery? Can our infrastructure handle that? Transports do enough damage to the roads as is.
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by bigtimeidiot 9y ago
Not sure the CEO of the competition is a great source, especially on these boards. With all the smack Musk has talked about ICEs over the years, I don't expect compliments from GM.
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by bigtimeidiot 9y ago
Bingo. Musk understands how many things work, including Wall Street.
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by bigtimeidiot 9y ago
> investors will probably wish Elon could just stick to one thing and finish it Have you read these threads? There are people here who claim to have invested all their savings into TSLA, and yet seem fairly clueless about the industr
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by bigtimeidiot 9y ago
> Are you implying that what OP says is not true That Jeff Bezos is "allowing" counterfeit goods on Amazon to ruin the customer experience? Yes, that's untrue. I'm sure if he could snap his fingers and fix the probl
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by bigtimeidiot 9y ago
> It'd be great to have clinical trials and also qualified people (doctors, diabetic users etc.) to review it and compare with other devices If there is no potential for harm (like with medications), throw it out there and see what
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by bigtimeidiot 9y ago
> But the hit needs to be big enough for shareholders to care. Also time. Something like a fundamental travel industry shakeup could take decades. Here's hoping. As a Canadian, crossing that border is getting less and less appea
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by bigtimeidiot 9y ago
> Who clicks on ads? Not me, or most people here. Yet Google and Facebook are things.
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by bigtimeidiot 9y ago
> I think you need 30 karma for the flag link to appear. Interesting. I guess my poor attitude makes that 30 karma threshold a tough row!
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by bigtimeidiot 9y ago
> If it's mostly the latter, what would stop Panasonic from providing the same technology to other parties? There's a big benefit for Panasonic supplying a company with hot products, like Tesla. But outside of whatever contra
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by bigtimeidiot 9y ago
What are you doing on a message board if you think no one here has anything insightful to offer?
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by bigtimeidiot 9y ago
> that even I noticed It's even more mind-blowing that you think Musk is infallible, and that he's poring over the schematics of every in development.
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> reveal a little hypocrisy or favoritism in the audience. Precisely my point in bringing it up. Someone, who apparently worked at John Deere, offers an opposing view and some clown shouts him down like a bully. Why should anyone list
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> but then you are in the wrong discussion Maybe you are. > Farmers complain that they have to wait for an authorized JD mechanic to fix even the most simple stuff Actually, it says in the article that they can fix simple things.
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> Why all job interviews should include doing real work And real pay to go along with it?
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> Yes - you can change the windshield wipers, replace the fluid, change the tires. Are you unable to change these components on your John Deere vehicle? FTA: " "Maybe a gasket or something you can fix, but everything else is

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