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by bjl 8y ago
Not if you want the $35K version, which was supposed to be available in mass quantities last year.
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by bjl 8y ago
Of course not. You're giving an unsecured, interest-free loan, why would you expect that to be safe?
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by bjl 8y ago
>The argument seems to be that it is simply impossible to produce the vehicles for Tesla. This is a complete straw man. The argument is that its impossible for TSLA to produce cars in the volume necessary, at the margins necessary, in t
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by bjl 8y ago
Large, stable investors don't buy gold, so why would they buy BTC? Especially now that the blockchain hype is derided rather than celebrated on Wall Street.
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by bjl 8y ago
It doesn't matter whether his $8 was in the form of BTC or not, all he did was make an $8 loan . Sure, the loan contract might have stated he could've accepted BTC instead of cash at withdrawel, but that's completely irrelev
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by bjl 8y ago
That's not how bankruptcy works. He effectively made an unsecured, interest-free loan to Mt Gox for $8. The only thing he's entitled to in the event of default is that $8, what the company used his loan for is irrelevant.
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by bjl 8y ago
Do people still really believe that cases like this are the result of ignorance? It's been years since GDPR was made into law, seems to me the only explanations are severe negligence or malevolence.
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by bjl 8y ago
> Would you also consider Waymo, Cruise, et al, negligent? Absolutely. We know from centuries of evidence that humans are profoundly bad at monitoring 'mostly autonomous' systems. Waymo/Uber know this as well, they just e
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by bjl 8y ago
Well, as of yesterday at least, the PD said on Twitter that no reports had been made.
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by bjl 8y ago
Or, and here's an idea, we can enact sane regulations like licensing requirements to prevent the negative externalities from happening in the first place.
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by bjl 8y ago
A lot of the shorts are probably long the broader market (which vastly overperformed compared to TSLA over the last few years), which makes these kind of fluctuations much easier to stomach.
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by bjl 8y ago
So if you lose your private keys you're out all your shares? Or maybe you get hacked and lose your retirement savings? The reason IPOs cost money is because the solutions to problems like the above cost money, and crypto-tokens don&#x2
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by bjl 8y ago
Where do people get this from? Their filings clearly state they spend millions a quarter on marketing.
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by bjl 8y ago
I don't understand why people keep repeating this story. Bain Capital had to provide huge amounts of collateral (upwards of a billion dollars), all of which was lost in the bankruptcy. Do people really believe that PE firms will write
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by bjl 8y ago
My point is, for anything like a crypto-security, you have to integrate with meatspace, which requires the introduction of legal agreements (because there's nothing about 0s and 1s in ledger that can compel company representatives to
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by bjl 8y ago
Explain how crypto-tokens are going to enable the vast amount of rights shareholders get in a company. Can crypto holders vote on the direction of the company, compel changes in the board, etc? If not, there's no reason for them to exi
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by bjl 8y ago
[1] Under 'Selling, General, and Administrative Expenses', you can easily see that Tesla spends around 2.5B a year on expenses relating to 'personnel and facilities costs related to our stores, marketing, sales, executive, fi
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by bjl 8y ago
You can find Tesla's' advertising spend easily in their quarterly findings. As for using it to have people monitor/post on social media, you'll regularly see job postings from them that explicitly list this as part of th
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by bjl 8y ago
Beware it from both sides. Tesla spends millions a quarter on advertising, including hiring people to monitor and post on social media.
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by bjl 8y ago
Actually 'my business model depends on it' isn't a legitimate interest. That clause only applies when the service itself relies on it (a real-time maps service requiring location data, for example).
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by bjl 8y ago
That's all well and good until someone steals my private keys and and now I'm out a house.
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by bjl 8y ago
That's only according to Coinbase. Those companies never said it was their fault, and I know I'd trust Visa not to lie over CB.
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by bjl 8y ago
Felt very reminiscent to Skilling's infamous earnings call. I'd have to imagine any TSLA investors are very concerned after that performance.
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Tesla stock drops as Elon Musk gives bizarre earnings call(cnbc.com)
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by bjl 8y ago
Sure, and why in the world would you trust him? He's literally never met his guidances.
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by bjl 8y ago
> As far as safety and health, I have seen no objective evidence that Tesla is worse than the industry standard range, although certainly they can improve. You mean, apart from the investigative reporting at Reason that uncovered systema
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by bjl 8y ago
What are you taking about? Tesla spends millions a quarter on advertising and PR.
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by bjl 8y ago
Why is it insane? Its like winning the power ball and then blowing it all on scratchers. You owe taxes on the win but can't necessarily deduct the losses. Which, tbh, seems perfectly fine to me.
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by bjl 8y ago
> I like the fact I can go to any gas station and not have to worry about which nozzle fits my car, why cant all these guys just agree on something, I thought Tesla had open-sourced its patents for this so anyone could make the superchar
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by bjl 8y ago
Misleading title. Tesla was forcibly kicked off the investigation by the NTST.

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