nickik

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by nickik 3y ago
> But so what? Debt is one way you finance your company. If you don't understand what the issue with lots of debt is I don't know how to help you. > Tesla continuously dilutes its shareholders instead. Is that better? As a
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by nickik 3y ago
Initially there was a bunch of low hanging fruits, as we were going into the 2010 it was increasingly hard to improve batteries and required lots of investment. You also needed investment for supply chain built up, increasing lithium mining
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by nickik 3y ago
Tesla success with mass manufacture the Model 3 highly profitably in 2017/2018 was a huge shock to the infustry. Nobody thought it was possible and it lead to a huge increase in investments. And even then the base from where these inve
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by nickik 3y ago
You need to view things in perspective. I cant give a full finacial analysis in on comment but a few things to note Tesla has exeptionally low debt, ist almost hilarously low compaired to other car makers. Tesla cash isnt even remotly an im
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by nickik 3y ago
Im against trucks on roads here for the most part. But to act like Cybertruck is particluarly bad just isnt really make sense. Not having a huge nose will mean visibility is much better. The nose is also lower then an F-150 so the chance yo
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by nickik 3y ago
Share one wrong thing on twitter and you are literally a nazi. Amazing.
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But many of the inputs to these battery go threw China as well.
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by nickik 3y ago
Tesla issues with the Cybertruck has nothing to do with it beeing an EV. Tesla manufactures more EVs then any other company from China, outside of maybe BYD. And EV companies in China are not magical, and most arent incredibly good at EV ma
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ZFS new object store backend give you that interface I think.
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He addresses the reason for this in the video. I makes some sense but there might be better way to achieve these goals.
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by nickik 3y ago
Usually things like hospitals already have static fuel burning backups. You would just use those for charging as well. Then you only need 1 fuel source, and that can be gas for example. Sure this means you need more static power generation
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by nickik 3y ago
No. But they are on-par for the most part. Often with better more 'featureful' software. But have fun getting them repaired as they have even less infrastructure then Tesla.
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by nickik 3y ago
You went very quickly from 1 headline to 'inevitably'.
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Multiple videos of that sort of thing happening came out. Tesla driving threw high water. Musk commented something that for a short period they could float but in general they said this wasn't a supported features and don't do it.
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by nickik 3y ago
Why don't we just no longer have opensource. We can also shut down the wikipedia. Lets also shut down google. Otherwise China might use these things. Why not just nuke Bay Area, NY and LA. Then we can make sure China can't profit
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by nickik 3y ago
Unless you want to make application specific processors that's just a reality. We are gone include things like crypto even if the computer never uses any crypto. The thing is, for some things you can get 100x improvement. Even if not u
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by nickik 3y ago
Sure it helps to have a large costumer, its still quite different. Its not 'we've got your back' as it is 'we need to do these things and you are the best costumer we could find'. SpaceX contracts were very conteste
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by nickik 3y ago
That's certaintly not the view of the current legal system.
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by nickik 3y ago
Much of the lands values comes from public infrastructure and services provided. A piece of land somewhere in the desert is gone be worth very little. A house in a city has lots of resources deployed there and land value tax pays for those
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While I love this in general. It should also be mentioned that there are systematic falures in how land valuation works in the US currently. While in general taxing land value makes much more sense, with a proper system of land value valuat
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by nickik 3y ago
The real issue is cost of development. The whole Falcon program, including new engines, Falcon Heavy, reusability, human rating, multible launch sites all in all cost considerably less then 4 billion $. The Ariane 6 alone cost 5 billion and
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by nickik 3y ago
ESA they for sure expected otherwise. There are countless interviews with ESA and Ariane people where the smug superiority just drips of them. "Yes SpaceX is cheap but totally unreliable and low launch cadence, once Ariane 6 is out we
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by nickik 3y ago
Those 40% can only be substained with the additional budget and does not include the actual cost of construction. So really that 40% even outside of development cost isnt substainable. > Prior to SpaceX disrupting the market by surprisin
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by nickik 4y ago
Varangian guard was not really a elite guard unit. Varangian guard were stationed all around the empire and were more like a normal part of the military. In the sources they show up just as often fighting in battles where the emperor was t
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by nickik 4y ago
Having a 64 bit system at that time could have also really helped with implementing super fast virtual machines. You have so much space to store information in pointers. Azul later realized some of these things on Java. Building a virtual m
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by nickik 4y ago
One thing that I found pretty interesting is handling of exceptions, you could basically delay dealing with them and then at the end of a block check if anything had happened. I not a architect and don't know enough about the topic, bu
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by nickik 5y ago
He didnt brag, he answered a question about what their goal was. This is simple editorializing. He didn't say 'We are awesome its so cheap'. He was asked to project and explain what they were working towards and did so.
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by nickik 5y ago
Technologically it very well might have been possible far, far earlier. The computer in Shuttle are very complex, more complex then what is needed for a simple Falcon 9 70s style. NASA shackeled itself to Shuttle, a expensive failure of a p
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by nickik 5y ago
It doesn't matter what the reserve is when the central bank has the power to prevent the movement of reserves in other ways. This is part of the complexity in modern central banking that people don't seem to understand. Many of th
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by nickik 5y ago
For a long time, one had every possible advantage and has been given massive subsidies and regulatory requirement. Its of course different from country to country but the basic story is the same in most of the western world. Germany has spe

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