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by bob33212 6y ago
It reminds me of the "Kill your TV" stickers in the 90s. Obviously plenty of people wasted huge amounts of time watching garbage. On the other hand you could watch NOVA and Ken Burns. The more things change the more they stay the
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by bob33212 6y ago
Yes, you're right. It is about risk. There are hundreds of things that could go wrong on Tesla's path to converting the world to Autonomous EV transportation. No one knows which if any of those things will go wrong over the next 5
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by bob33212 6y ago
I'm far more comfortable investing in TSLA than IBM. IBM has had a great run and made major contributions to computing over the past 50 years. But now it is a sham company that tricks executives into buying buzzword bingo services. Whe
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by bob33212 6y ago
With a market cap of 50T the stock would return 2% dividend eventually. And banks can currently get loans from the US government and other funds for around 0.03%. So if you were a banker and you got a loan for 50T from the US government as
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by bob33212 6y ago
I realized the same situation exists with Mail Boxes. At homedepot/amazon you can get a $20 mailbox or a $40 mailbox which are both shitty. Or you can get a 300-900 mailbox which is very high quality. I finally found a decent one on w
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by bob33212 6y ago
I value my comments on HN at $5/view. I lose an estimated 50k/year to people not paying for the value they get from reading my comments.
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by bob33212 6y ago
Tesla is a Manufacturing company for energy and transportation. It just happens that doing those things well requires you to have 10x better software teams than other companies including older car or even tech companies.
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by bob33212 6y ago
I don't think they just pull 125k out of the air. I think that at 90k you are not going to get many great candidates. And at 250k you risk spending a LOT more money and still not being able to successfully recruit people that are much
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by bob33212 6y ago
I want to pay $20/month for something like highscalability.com It hits 80% of the stories I cared about during the week and I get them in 30-40 minutes on a Friday. I don't think this type of service exists because it would have
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by bob33212 6y ago
To be fair even google and early investors in google including myself ( 2005 post IPO ) didn't understand how lucrative and important being a dominant search play would be.
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The more deadly a virus is the less likely you will have super spreaders. If the virus was 5x deadly you would probably also see 5x worse symptoms in most people. So instead of taking a bunch of DayQuil and going to the business meeting tha
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by bob33212 6y ago
Looks like hosting your site via your Git repo. Make a change in Git and they will push it to their servers ( probably AWS linux cluster)
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by bob33212 6y ago
It will remove 90% of their power. The 10% will still be a force for evil, but then it becomes easier to attack them
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by bob33212 6y ago
A lot of people feel like cash is a depreciating asset. Real Estate and High growth companies are the best hedge against that. There are certainly plenty of complaints you can make against Musk or TSLA, but you cannot stay that TSLA hasn&#
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by bob33212 6y ago
Sounds like they are pivoting into a hedge fund.
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In 2005 we didn't have the cloud, which lets you start a startup for next to nothing. We didn't have Lean Startup type books, podcasts and social media post from insiders which let us self educate on how business and startups wor
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by bob33212 6y ago
It would be interesting to see YC to move to funding with less regard to business plan. I know they already do this but what if you totally threw out the market research and gut feeling about the usefulness of the product and gave people 50
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by bob33212 6y ago
Content filtering is impossible to get right. For Example, Holocaust denial is shitty and something that anyone should be allowed to ban just because they don't want to be associated with it. The problem is that you have to draw the li
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by bob33212 6y ago
Just getting accepted to Harvard is the accomplishment. When have you ever heard someone say something along the lines of "Well this guy only got a 3.2 GPA at Harvard, I'm more impressed by the guy with a 3.9 from Michigan"
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by bob33212 6y ago
I assume most investors are smarter than that and are hoping AirBnB will build a monopoly similar to how google did with search and Wikipedia did with online encyclopedias. A 5% monopoly tax on most rentals/hotels does give you a huge
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by bob33212 6y ago
Everytime I have been invited to a 1 on 1 with someone high up the org ladder, I have been given talking points from the people in between
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by bob33212 6y ago
Huge Success. This is a prototype. It was going to be thrown away next week regardless. Obviously long term the landing is very important. Just not today.
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by bob33212 6y ago
It is the flight back that they need data for, not landing.
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by bob33212 6y ago
I assume the beef vendor doesn't have much cash on hand. So he can take the prepayment and give it directly to the cow farmer who also doesn't have a lot of cash and is happy to prioritize the preorder.
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by bob33212 6y ago
We are also left to wonder why people think Trump gives a single fuck about this country or the republican party.
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That is not what YouTube said. They will not take down a video where you say that some people died between the time that they mailed in their vote and the time that the votes were counted, so those votes shouldn't and didn't count
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by bob33212 6y ago
these are minor problems and more importantly they don't have any proof that they would have changed the outcome. For example, 9500 people were dead. What was the breakdown of Trump/Biden in those votes? I don't understand ho
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by bob33212 6y ago
Certainly there are videos made by Democrats which include wild inaccuracies. You have to draw the line somewhere. Imagine someone buying all the toilet paper in a town and then running targeted adds on-line to start panic buying. So they c
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by bob33212 6y ago
After a "collapse" you are still left with mindshare and a market. If you increase prices by 30% you'll still be the largest player. Maybe later investors are not making returns but you are not going bankrupt.
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by bob33212 6y ago
Great Article. A lot of people don't understand how important cash flow is. Even Elon pointed out that having factories close to customer is very important for a fast growing company like TSLA because if you grow too fast you'll b

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