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by compcoffee 8y ago
> The unemployment rate is very low but wages aren't rising. ...yet. Wages are a driver of inflation, which will rear its head as we reach late cycle. Then we blow up and start over. This is the way of the world.
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by compcoffee 8y ago
> I mean, it made it sound like data scientist is just the same as a business analyst? I think this demonstrates how hard "titles" are, because a "business analyst", in the sense that I learned, is not at all like a
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by compcoffee 8y ago
> So if, in Excel, you can fit a regression from "scratch", (i.e. not using any built-in regression functions) and use the built-in functions for convenience, that's fine. I suppose it depends on what you mean by "ca
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by compcoffee 8y ago
> But at least they don't seem to skimp on quality control. Then why are so many deliveries being canceled/postponed for quality issues? Their quality control, from what I read, is horrible.
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by compcoffee 8y ago
> So what? They talk about it like it is a bad thing. How do you expect them to be "world leaders" in manufacturing technology when they have to rework so many cars? Remember, the narrative is that no one can do it as well as
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by compcoffee 8y ago
> they're going to be psychological and we're in kind of new territory. It may be new territory for you, but I can assure you that grown adults have been smoking pot for a long time, and understand the psychological effects an
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by compcoffee 8y ago
> People like Musk wouldn't last a week here. Don't worry, this is just Tesla PR working overtime trying to mop up the latest folly. HackerNews is lapping it up, of course. Not everyone feels sorry for Elon Musk. He can qui
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by compcoffee 8y ago
> It's about potential damages from ALL possible lawsuits from pissed off short-sellers. What happens if you bought calls for a price higher than $420? They are worthless. You don't have to be a short-seller to have been bur
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by compcoffee 8y ago
> Saudi Arabia has the whole Vision 2030 plan in motion. The general thrust is they want to diversify the country away from being a petrostate. So the short-sellers are Big Oil shills, but selling out to the Saudis is okay (if you igno
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by compcoffee 8y ago
> Big industry hates Elon Elon is Big Industry. Have you ever stopped to wonder that maybe people "don't like him" because he's a jerk and his company loses vast amounts of money? Don't need a tinfoil hat.
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by compcoffee 8y ago
> I think this hits at the crux of the issue around the performance/behaviour of Musk and other leaders of hugely ambitious companies You believe that? From the guy who would angrily call reporters if they didn't call him a T
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by compcoffee 8y ago
> Significantly derisked with product and economics proven, solid comp, crazy upside. What, exactly, is "proven" about this model? It's food delivery. Smells like late stage bull market to me.
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by compcoffee 8y ago
> It seems like you're comparing gross margin on beverages, with net margin for a restaurant overall. Not apples to apples. Oh brother. The high gross margins on beverages positively contribute to the net margins. The point is th
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by compcoffee 8y ago
> The movie theater biz is one of the most inept around, stuck in the 1950's in terms of its business model. Meanwhile, they are still (for the most part) in business, decades later, while "cool" business models like Movi
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by compcoffee 8y ago
> really don't find much data supporting the assertion that glyphosate causes cancer. I'm far from an expert, but this being in the news has piqued my interest as well, and I haven't seen much that confirms it either: ht
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by compcoffee 8y ago
Are we supposed to look negatively upon this study because they say "more research is needed"? Sounds like good science to me.
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by compcoffee 8y ago
> Glad to see it's not as bad as smoking (a low bar) but will still kill you. I think inhaling anything into your lungs will probably affect them negatively. But it wouldn't surprise me if vaping was healthier than LA (or B
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by compcoffee 8y ago
> Why are we blaming the employees when these kind of things come from high pressure management. Hypocrisy, pure and simple. Go read how HackerNews reacted to the Wells Fargo scandal.
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by compcoffee 8y ago
> I cant tell if Elon sent his reddit marketing team to bombard HN too. Oh, they're here, no doubt about it. It's going to be 10 times funnier than the iamverysmart crowd here who told us we didn't like Theranos because i
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by compcoffee 8y ago
> Idk, all this hearsay and the saboteur rebranded whistleblower coming out against TSLA/SolarCity with no real substantial proof Why is he a saboteur re-branded a whistleblower, and not a whistleblower re-branded a saboteur? Beca
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by compcoffee 8y ago
> Its a pretty common problem in sales. Lots of sales people are constantly moving jobs and pushing their numbers up. HackerNews: Wells Fargo presses sales people to fake sales: Send those executives to the guillotine! (this was lit
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by compcoffee 8y ago
I'm absolutely loving the fact that Musk's short whining has made its way to hacker News. Hilarious. Yes, its all a short seller conspiracy, not some terribly run company.
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by compcoffee 8y ago
Are the longs gearing up for a push to increase the stock price? Nah,that could never happen....
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by compcoffee 8y ago
Who stands to "gain" more, people long or short? Why do you think only one side is corrupt?
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by compcoffee 8y ago
Yeah,every article is a short seller, right? My god some of you people are you going to look foolish.
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by compcoffee 8y ago
So which of those stories weren't true? You are implying bias, where I see a troubled company. Can you name another instance where the WSJ wrote negatively about a company and it turned out to be false? As a subscriber, why the sudden
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by compcoffee 8y ago
> Y'all need pedestrian tunnels. Yeah, and? Most people also find pickup trucks excessive. And yet, they are the most profitable vehicles on the planet. So much so that Tesla wants to make one. There's a whole world outsid
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by compcoffee 8y ago
> Second but Tesla seems to have the best battery by far. So you base this on, what, Elon's tweets? Big tradeoff in batteries...expense, reliability, durability. Where are they?
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by compcoffee 8y ago
> You can get a low-mileage used Leaf under $10k today. Doesn't meet my requirements, unfortunately. I need 2nd gen.
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by compcoffee 8y ago
> I just saw a Nissan article on here a few days ago. It was about how they cheated their emissions tests. Exactly. Some stupid story that wasn't true. I rest my case.

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