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by navigatesol 7y ago
> It is great news for Berlin (and Brandenburg) as it will bring (big) money and attract talent. Like the Gigafactory 2 in Buffalo did for New York state?: But according to SolarCity’s financial statements, state officials “quietly iss
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by navigatesol 7y ago
Last week, the government of New york wrote down the value of Gigafactory 2 in Buffalo, which has been mired in scandal: https://www.syracuse.com/state/2019/08/elon-musk-is-full-of-... Yesterday USA Today pub
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> Last quarter, they made as many M3s they have the capacity to make, and sold all of them. We were told, repeatedly, that Tesla would be producing 10,000 Model 3s per week in 2019, with a single factory. Suddenly, now, they don't
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Worker injuries, 911 calls, housing crisis: Recruiting Tesla exacts a price(usatoday.com)
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> The OP doesn't even mention any standard at all. My standard is "don't take money from and ask for the forgiveness of murderers", while at the same time whining about Project Maven, or those providing services to I
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> why the losing party does not have to pay legal fees? Google harms me in some way. I sue them. They throw an army of lawyers at the case. It takes years. Google wins, case dismissed. I should be on the hook for their legal fees?
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> I struggle to see the relation to the Trump administration here SV CEOs and "personalities" refuse to sit on panels or visit the White House because they hate Trump and his administration. But they'll take money from S
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> Khosrowshahi’s call for forgiveness of the Saudis The Saudis planned and carried out the brutal murder of minor dissident on foreign soil. Forgiveness? This is embarrassing. Where are the SV overlords, calling this out?
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> the EU as a whole has at least as diverse climates as the US It's laughable to talk about "the EU" as if it's in any way homogeneous. It's an economic union, not a country. We are talking about France and Ge
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by navigatesol 7y ago
Silicon Valley is in bed with the Saudis, no surprise here. Meanwhile, the shrieks coming from California about Trump are deafening.
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> A lot of the issues may come down to whether management prioritize financial engineering / making huge bonuses / pleasing wall street vs making good vehicles. The same with Boeing.. It's a funny thing to me that no one
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> In Europe things are more regulated Meanwhile, they are rioting over gas taxes and speed limit changes.
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> I find it amusing that from a climate change point of view, both their comments are basically negative: It's almost like countries like Germany (350k sq km area) and the US (10 million sq km) have different climates and needs. T
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> I was comparing supermarket breads in Europe and the US Every major supermarket I've ever been to in the US and Canada has a million styles of bread, including many freshly baked right there at the store. > but ultimately we&#
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> I'm originally from Canada, and I'm sad to say that, although some things are better than the USA (like the roads and the trash), it's not by much, and it's still terrible compared to the rest of the first world. I
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by navigatesol 7y ago
I recall everyone saying Tesla "FSD" was awesome and industry leading, I see them saying that today, and I expect they'll be telling their grandchildren the same while being driven around in a Waymo. In all seriousness, I lik
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by navigatesol 7y ago
My favourite is when someone points out had bad these companies are, inevitably someone else links "the Dropbox thread" as justification. This is tremendously ironic, because Dropbox hasn't made a dime yet either.
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by navigatesol 7y ago
Traffic cones today,1 million self driving robo taxis in 6 months, right?
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by navigatesol 7y ago
Ah yes,the story of Tesla: everything yesterday was crap,but everything tomorrow will be awesome.
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by navigatesol 7y ago
Home ownership rates for the under 35s are down, but not substantially. They are also increasing. Putting $4T "into the stock market" as if it's vaporized is simply nonsense.
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by navigatesol 7y ago
Anything to prevent us from feeling sorry for white men, am I right?
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by navigatesol 7y ago
The powers that be love us fighting among our races because it prevents the poor from revolting against the rich.
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by navigatesol 7y ago
You are crushing this thread with sensibility. Thanks.
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by navigatesol 7y ago
This is Monday morning quarter backing. Everyone knows We is/was worthless. But Uber,AirBnB,Slack, Tesla, Beyond Meat..all's well.
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by navigatesol 7y ago
So poorer countries are going to skip a vital step in their development process and start producing "green tech" and "fast trains", easy as that? Doubt it.
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by navigatesol 7y ago
In what sense are the IPCC conservative? They've overestimated temperature changes since their first analysis in 1990. Maybe calling institutions "conservative" because they are the lowest of the over estimators is part of th
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> The town I'm in only has a population of 120k so I don't expect to be able to find niche items This caught my eye: is 120,000 people considered a small market? I grew up in a town of 5,000, work in a small city of 50,000 (wh
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by navigatesol 7y ago
So cheap oil and expensive are both bad, but "just right" oil is fine? I'd love for some of these people to go to these countries and tell these people to do without electricity and fuel for their transportation and generator
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> but Musk’s companies are likely to be the biggest human decentralizing force in history. Are you completely unaware that Musk and his family are being sued for self-dealing and fraud? Are you not paying attention to what's happe
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> The antenna cost has been confirmed to be targeting a price of 300$ per unit. Like the Model 3 was "targeting" $35,000 before incentives.

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