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by danhak 7y ago
> The physical act of turning a wheel isn't the hard part of driving. Paying attention is. As an avid user of Tesla Autopilot I'll disagree with this. On a long road trip, monitoring my surroundings and making sure everything
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by danhak 7y ago
Thanks for clarifying that's a fair point.
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> politicians should never ever insert themselves into engineering! Never. Ever. So Manhattan Project and Apollo program were mistakes, in your opinion?
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by danhak 7y ago
Global deliveries were up 50% in Q2 vs Q1.
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by danhak 7y ago
so...pretty stable since Q1 which is when Model 3 deliveries began there.
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by danhak 7y ago
Can you provide a source for falling Germany sales?
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by danhak 7y ago
> The experience of sitting in a $70k+ Tesla is below that of a Honda Civic. As someone who has owned two Honda Civics and now owns a Model 3 you are laughably off the mark here. > Tesla is pretty much done the day BMW and MB and Audi
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by danhak 7y ago
Seriously...85 units. A cancellation of a $5.5 million contract would not warrant articles on Reuters and Bloomberg were it any other company.
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by danhak 7y ago
Looks like the cash situation is finally under control. They generated over $600 million in FCF in Q2. Compare this to only $200 million by Ford over the same period, also announced today: https://s22.q4cdn.com/857684434&#x
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by danhak 7y ago
Bias !== false or distorted news. Selective reporting or withholding of information is a form of bias.
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by danhak 7y ago
> The conclusion: climate has already increased the risk of armed conflict, but the effect is small relative to the effects of other factors such as unexpected economic events and scarcity of natural resources such as food. The risk pose
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by danhak 7y ago
I can imagine at least two hugely positive outcomes from the rise of robots and automation: 1) Human labor will no longer dominate COGS--global shipping and logistics will. There will therefore be a massive onshoring of manufacturing back
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by danhak 7y ago
This article is about autobiographical memory / recall, not autobiography as a genre of literature.
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Scale is everything.
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Presumably those assets would belong to the company’s creditors.
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by danhak 7y ago
How recent is your experience? I’ve owned a Model 3 for over a year and the pace at which autopilot has been improving is staggering.
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by danhak 7y ago
Steinbeck believed as much: "I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist." often misquoted as "Socialism never took root in America becaus
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by danhak 7y ago
They have a fleet of hundreds of thousands of cars driving real-world miles all over the developed world.
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by danhak 8y ago
> I don't understand why would you decide to purchase tesla over other electric cars if it was not for autopilot. Supercharger network? Safety? Performance? Cargo Space?
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by danhak 8y ago
This isn’t a recent thing. I’m no expert in this field but my understanding is that most of the old masters had a “studio” full of assistants and apprentices who were largely responsible for the work attributed to the artist.
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by danhak 8y ago
Most likely because Grindr is primarily used for casual / anonymous same-sex encounters. Its users may be more susceptible to blackmail / extortion. There are many users of the app who are not open about their lifestyle (“DL”)
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by danhak 8y ago
So...about 1.5 weeks of production at current levels? https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker ...and significantly less than that when subtracting display models, test drive and loaner fleet. The 8,500 fi
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by danhak 8y ago
It really puts this tweet from POTUS last month in a crazy new context: "So sorry to hear the news about Jeff Bozo being taken down by a competitor whose reporting, I understand, is far more accurate than the reporting in his lobbyist
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by danhak 8y ago
He seems pretty well-known within the company. First joined Tesla 9 years ago, Wharton undergrad, Harvard MBA. He’s obviously qualified, what’s with all the ageist comments? 34 years old is a “kid” now? On HN of all places? Who cares if he’
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by danhak 8y ago
Not only has it not been an issue...Tesla's share of plug-in sales has been increasing dramatically year over year. Cadillac ELR, BMW i3, Chevy Volt, Chevy Bolt were all billed and hyped as "Tesla Killers" upon launch. htt
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Tesla Is Now America's Number One Premium Automotive Company(forbes.com)
34 points by danhak 8y ago|19 comments
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by danhak 8y ago
What sort of transition, exactly? Their core business is intact and they're strongly positioned in AI and autonomous driving. It seems like you're blaming management for the fact that the stock market mispriced the long-term valu
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by danhak 8y ago
Electricity is pretty ubiquitous, not sure why this is a concern?
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Tesla’s Gigafactory 1 cells have a 20% cost advantage over LG, new report says(electrek.co)
2 points by danhak 8y ago|0 comments
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by danhak 8y ago
Companies can be valued based on expectations of future cashflows. Bitcoin can be valued based on... ???

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