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by navigatesol 7y ago
> What’s your point? That talking about how one of the most successful business men of all-time took advice from the most famous band of all-time is vapid.
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> It is important to find partner who fills in the gaps (and vice versa) such that entire puzzle unlocks. Yes, it is important. It is also generic Silicon Valley advice, of which there is no evidence that anyone can actually do it succe
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> but DJTs children, none are “outliers” as far as intelligence goes How on earth could you possibly know this?
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by navigatesol 7y ago
One of the great ironies of the state of media in America: almost everyone agrees that Fox News is extermely biased and sometimes dishonest. Yet CNN, ABC, CBS, NYT and MSNBC are bastions of truth. I mean, just a few weeks ago ABC posted a
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> I just took a look at a long list of lies by your current President. The idea that one side tells lies, and the other only truth is part of the problem here. > You can't argue that it's some interpretation, or just half o
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> What do you mean by "reality"? For example: is the rocket really "rapidly reusable"? Or is it theoretically "rapidly reusable"? In the same way that all Tesla's sold since 2017 have the hardware cap
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> They can but that's obviously a rather different question. How is this a "different question"? It's the question. If there are businesses that can be economically profitable paying $14/hour, but minimum w
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> It's the whole architecture: a two-stage, rapidly reusable rocket with as much cargo capacity as anything to ever fly. And just as important for interplanetary flight: The upper stage is refuelable and is integrated with the passe
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> Because those jobs don't disappear when that minimum wage is raised. Yeah, input costs have no effect on whether a business can operate at the margin... > This has been tested... If we suddenly care about what the economic re
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> Enforcing a living wage actually means fewer subsidies and a more efficient and level market. This is some real galaxy-brain level thinking. Enforcing a minimum wage is a more efficient market.
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> but I'm guessing that will never be diagnosed as a problem and get its own article because nobody cares when it comes to adults? First, a quick Google tells me there are plenty of articles written about too much screen time, ge
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> The structure of the market changes toward automation or away from it but the businesses are still being started as usual. Whether this is possible will depend on the cost of capital and state of technology.
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> Sure, but $1/hour is not a living wage No, it isn't. But neither is $0/hour because you don't have a job, and society doesn't get the product that the $1/hour job produces. Ideally, the system would pay t
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> I'm always bemused by the arguments against minimum wages, they almost always boil down to "My business can't survive unless my employees are living in poverty." which, in reality for a lot of businesses, is "I
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> it's a small factor difference in amount you're financing. This is a magnificently out of touch comment. You think the difference between an asphalt shingle roof vs a 100-year slate tile roof is a "small factor"?
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> I'm not sure I'd consider that rich. People who are installing $40,000+ roofs on 2000+ sqft homes are not rich by your standards? Or do you truly believe these panels will "print money"?
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> Incentiving rich people to buy expansive tech (and still at lost for the riches) help the technologies to ride the cost curve and bring it to the masses. Ah yes, trickle down never fails.
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> It is funny that this sounds like software guys talking about roofs, not probably the way that roofing guys would talk about it. They do this because it fools Silicon Valley into believing this is a tech-company. Having to cut tiles f
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> I quite like this product and think it'll be a big thing. Do you like it more than when they released it 3 years ago, but never installed any? Can someone point me to the V1 and V2 installations?
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by navigatesol 7y ago
You sounds fairly informed about the financials, and that's appreciated. Still: > What we've seen in 2019, I think, is a focus on aligning the company for profit before the next push. They are not profitable. They achieved p
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> I hope you’re kidding about the two safes thing. Either hire an attorney for this purpose or accept that your family will have little to no recourse for challenging claims Silicon Valley: who needs accountants or lawyers? Also Silico
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> AMD has been operating at a loss for most of its existence And this makes profit irrelevant how exactly?
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> can't you use accounting techniques to twist this? Yes. Elon literally said, "Profits from here on out!" the last time they made profits. Then, Tesla proceeeded to lose 700MM the next quarter.
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> Noisy information still contains information. I didn't use the term "cooking", but I agree, which is why I don't take the numbers at face value. Also, why does Elon get a pass with the China stuff? Here we are in
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> Noisy information still contains information. I mostly mean: why are people saying "He bumped up the Model Y launch a couple months" when both deadlines were sort of irrelevant. They are years behind on others.
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> cash flow, and cash on hand are hard to manipulate Cash flow and cash on hand can be easily manipulated by not paying bills. Net Income can be manipulated one-time items. This will all come out in the 10Q, but in the meantime, Elon re
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by navigatesol 7y ago
What's even the point of talking about timelines? Tesla's history of achieving them is horrible.
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by navigatesol 7y ago
With a lower margin mix of models.
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by navigatesol 7y ago
Another miracle quarter before a capital raise. If you don't think Tesla are paying fast and loose with their books, while at the same time playing games in China, I don't know what to tell you. Silicon Valley's an easy pla
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> He's lost more money than anyone in history. In Silicon Valley, "failing" is a virtue, so it's not surprising to read this about Son. The guy invested billions of dollars of OPM (some of it blood money from Saudi A

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