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compcoffee
8y ago
> Until other manufacturers can match Tesla's price/range combination I guess you're right, because the competitors are just starting to roll out now...
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compcoffee
8y ago
> Just FYI, electrek is consider very bullish on Tesla. It's worse than that. The "analyst" is from Worm Capital. Every heard of them? Probably not. But their fund is 60% Tesla. Why is it that "shorts" are c
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compcoffee
8y ago
They've shown the numbers for 15 years,and it's nothing but losses.
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compcoffee
8y ago
The Tesla fans are oblivious to all of this sort of news. It's all "minor" and they can't seem to see how problematic it is in aggregate. There is a huge gap between what these people think is happening (Tesla is taking
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compcoffee
8y ago
> Agreed, by delaying crashes Uh, what crash was delayed? 2008 was the worst since the Great Depression. > Because of the bailouts however, it's now probably more lucrative than ever to work in finance This is simply incorrect
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8y ago
> We haven't escaped the depression; the bailouts and quantitative easing simply delayed it for a bit, and the more it is delayed, the worse it will be. It's this mentality which is going to cost you in the long run. People
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compcoffee
8y ago
> Do you believe that the CEO of any company that fails should be jailed or just banks? Watch Silicon Valley scramble to adjust their moral compass if Tesla fails in the same manner.
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compcoffee
8y ago
> Then while we (working class) were dealing with the fallout On the ground, parts of the financial services and the "working class" were responsible. This story that it was simply a bunch of innocent people trying to fulfil
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compcoffee
8y ago
> Money to him is just a tool. Does any adult human actually believe this? The guy has a personal carbon footprint bigger than 99.99999% of people on earth. He just negotiated the biggest pay package ever, tied to market cap. He'
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compcoffee
8y ago
> These people sure have a way of "explaining" things without really explaining anything at all. It's hard to explain things to laymen, especially in subjects like economics, where everyone thinks they've got a compl
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8y ago
> That'd be the CFO+COO (which Tesla doesn't have)+CEO. Yeah, you're right, the CAO has nothing to do with accounting. I also loved "talk to me when it's engineers!" Since 2017: Doug Field, head engineer, g
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compcoffee
8y ago
> Just printing money does not mean inflation is a result. For inflation to occur you also need money velocity. Money velocity is a post-hoc fudge factor to make the Fisher equation work. It's has little empirical value. Other th
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compcoffee
8y ago
> Just because one party shows disinformation I don't think you know what disinformation is. You really believe one party is deliberately misleading, while the other is not?
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compcoffee
8y ago
> also the execs that quit are simultaneously useless and easily replaced MBA types. The Chief Accounting Officer (second one in less than a year) is a "useless MBA type"? Meanwhile, company burns billions. Paging "Shit
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compcoffee
8y ago
> I feel manipulated. Is it that easy?
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compcoffee
8y ago
> What kind of error is that? They've aware of this, they are not correcting. All media who published the report and were made aware of the "mistake" kept it, even though the 50K is already proven wrong. Who cares? What
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compcoffee
8y ago
> They are now at capacity and they are expected (by Tesla top management) to announce profitablity for this quarter. Honest question: when did you start following this company? Elon has claimed profitability for years . Where is it
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compcoffee
8y ago
> The small amount of shares that are exchanged every day are bought/sold by speculators and they are backed by institutions that get paid for this intraday activity. The largest shareholders were dumping shares last disclosure. D
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8y ago
> However, M3 production numbers are actually looking good now, and they are hitting their targets for the first time. Really? Where can I read the official quarterly numbers? Of what quality are these cars? Do they all need to be re
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compcoffee
8y ago
> how do they not know about the atrocities they are involved in? Why do you think this is so obvious? Why are Facebook employees oblivious to the atrocities they contribute to? Taking domestic propaganda into account, do you think, as
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8y ago
> As someone who has been producing value in a data science/machine learning role for multiple years, it's disheartening to see comments that I may be blacklisted from positions due to "only" having a bachelor's
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8y ago
> Companies doing ML/AI will usually have a small team of Research Scientists who mostly hold PhDs How many companies are doing genuine AI research, as opposed to applying the research and tooling to their unique business problems?
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8y ago
> I have seen job postings for Data scientists that are simply rebranded data analysts to postings looking for advanced math and programming ability. Being as how "Data Science" is such a nebulous term, what is wrong with such
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compcoffee
8y ago
> but hiring managers know they need people with a formal education It's the exact opposite: as better tools are developed, there is less "formal education" required. In the same way that Web Devs are in high demand, an
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compcoffee
8y ago
> The big thing about Tesla is they have their supercharger network What is so unique about Supercharger technology that can't be replicated by 1) the other auto manufacturers or 2) the oil companies who will need to replace their
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compcoffee
8y ago
> not being able to get a new headlight for his Model S, at a price well over $2000, for over a year. Most of the main stream media seems completely oblivious to the struggles with parts and service Tesla is having. Twitter and the for
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compcoffee
8y ago
> Since the Model 3 is so well built (after some startup hickups) > and so the Model 3 is profitable for Tesla It's hard to imagine someone stating these things seriously. So well built? Go to the Tesla Forums; buyers are bei
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compcoffee
8y ago
> Not to mentioned as a car company, it has lots of 'legacy' or baggage that they have to deal with. Yeah, all "legacy" is bad. What could they possibly have learned in 100 years of building cars? Nothing that Tesla
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compcoffee
8y ago
> Founders get together to mastermind, hike and support each other about once a month. Maybe the world "mastermind" is throwing me off, but how do you prevent something like this from devolving into "yet another networkin
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compcoffee
8y ago
> Basically, I’d like to move beyond the headlines and the spin. Create a Twitter account and get on FinTwit (finance Twitter). Find the people doing real research (you have a couple in your list, Dalio, Grantham, I follow some of th
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