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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> Your comparison to Tesla doesn't get better just by repeating it a few times Your hand-waving also does precisely zero. > If your Tesla breaks down you wont have any problem to get a comparable replacement car What does this
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> your car would turn on without a Tesla engineer recertifying it I think you're going to be disappointed.
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> Don't try to bullshit us. Us ? Who is "us"? Why are you trying to shout down an opposing view? You want prefer the echo chamber? > Replacing a fuel pump is not going to turn a tractor into a rampaging death machi
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
Do you think I can pull the electric motor from my Model S to replace it? When John Deere does this, HN is up in arms. When Tesla does it, it's part of an "innovative business model".
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
I thought the same thing. In fact, many of the top 10 passwords look odd to me: dthomas? disneyI (capital " I ")? conrad76? I have a hard time believing these are legitimately the most common passwords. Compare that to a list
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> so why should i listen to this guys advice Andreesen is a bit of a blowhard at times, but he's incredibly sharp and has a great track record. Trust, but verify.
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> only people near and below the poverty line actually receive that money, the rest have it absorbed into their own taxes. This will never fly politically. You think lower-middle class people (the vast majority of the country) are goin
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> I think this works for lighter topics, but I question the point of having something in the background and just hoping to gain value from it through... luck? I hear you. I've been an Audible subscriber for over 10 years, and I lo
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> Fundamentally, why? I'd also like an answer. My theory is that these founders are "just like us!" as opposed to the grey-haired CEOs running stodgy companies. We plead for transparency and accountability of executives.
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> I feel it is good that founders are increasingly able to keep their companies under their control. Huh? An IPO is literally going to the public to sell a stake in the company. If you want to maintain control, don't go public.
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> On the other hand owning Google or Facebook shares was a good idea, no? Was it? Did you buy, make money, and sell? What about the guy you sold to? Is he the Greater Fool? How much money do you make from buying and holding a stock th
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> But Uber is selling over $5 billion a year [1]. There's something there. Anyone can do $5BB in revenue by selling dollar bills for fifty cents. Uber is a cool idea, but it's pretty hard to judge demand when you're subsi
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> Surely the only reason the board hasn't fired him (as "many people — including me — have called for") must be that they can't because he has conned them into accepting his own supermajority. Sort of like when there
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> making them very rich Uber is a private company that, from everything I've read, is bleeding money and currently getting a ton of bad press. How has it made anyone rich (yet)?
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> He's not selling because he lacks faith in the direction of the company Personally, I don't question his motives, but you seem assured of something impossible for you to actually know. It's at least questionable to have
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> The way they are described here, these hackathons appear to be little microcosms of everything currently wrong with MVP-obsessed Silicon Valley. They're a direct descendant of that ecosystem, which is designed --at least in part-
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> Tesla spends massive amounts of CAPEX How do they spend in relation to the other car makers? Do you think that auto manufacturing capex simply turns off one day? It's a capital intensive industry.
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> people who just want to get to work. People who "just want to get to work" aren't buying cars that start at $35,000, either.
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> I did a ton of analysis, and basically at the end of the day it came out to "will they hit their targets in Q3/Q4 2016 and Q1/Q2 2017?" The analysis upon which you went "all-in" on Tesla rests on a non-GA
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> Tesla does the latter, and the market is valuing them accordingly. Suddenly we believe in a rational market when it comes to Tesla? Everytime I ask basic valuation questions in these threads, I get touchy-feely answers about "pot
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> Simply get 10% of mobility and 10% of electricity storage and they'll have justified well above their current valuation. Please show your math. > Tesla will basically take the market from coal and petroleum. And you base this
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> Ford: "We have no idea how to invest this money. I guess let's just put it in the bank." Ford has been in business for almost 120 years, and has contributed untold billions to the economy. What a terrible company, am
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> If an engineer gave me your answer ("I never learned the principle because I never had to") I would know they aren't a fit for my team So we should learn all the things, ahead of time, just in case we get an interview q
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> If you came up with a definitive way to value stocks it would mean a) you are probably the richest man in the world b) You at the very least deserve a Nobel prize in economics. I'm not looking for a "definitive way", I&
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> I'm not expert but the value of a stock is not only tied to profit, it's also tied to how optimistic people are about a company and where it will go in the future. Those people are optimistic because they expect their share
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> If I'm holding a bunch of TSLA stock and want a payout in 2018, it doesn't matter to me what Tesla's profits are in 2018 This has nothing to do with a 2018 payout. Do you know what you are buying when you buy a share of
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> I think trying to compute how the math will get there is a mistake I think the exact opposite; buying stocks without knowing how much you are paying for profit is a mistake. > It's almost a misnomer to call them technology sto
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
> The people long on TSLA are not expecting a payout by 2018 This doesn't represent a single year payout, it represents a hypothetical annual payout of dividends. If the payout comes later than 2018, then you should pay less for
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
Regarding the price of TSLA, perhaps someone can help: If Tesla were to somehow sell 500,000 Model 3's in 2018, and make a net profit of 15% on each $35,000 car (very high, the auto industry majors make ~5%), and somehow had all the ca
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by bigtimeidiot 10y ago
Documentary on the history of the 808, complete with a great soundtrack and interview with the inventor: 808themovie.com/

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