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by pokerhobo 5y ago
Tesla has to deduct the “cost” of issuing new shares for stock compensation like for their CEO. It’s not a cost as in they spent cash, but is deducted because it lowers shareholder value. A better sense of their actual profit/loss is
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by pokerhobo 5y ago
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5c5KzpamiM by someone who worked for a number of auto OEMs including Tesla where he explains how Tesla does agile hardware
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by pokerhobo 5y ago
We need the IRS to simply file on behalf of the user and they just have to sign off.
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by pokerhobo 5y ago
The video directly addresses this…
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by pokerhobo 5y ago
LIDAR in a drizzly city like Seattle is of minimal value so the system has to fallback to vision only anyways
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by pokerhobo 5y ago
Isn’t Waymo only driving in small HD mapped areas? Previously the were only driving within a 50 mile area of Arizona where it’s clear weather all the time.
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by pokerhobo 6y ago
GM has about $100B in debt https://www.benzinga.com/news/20/09/17407586/a-look-into-gen... . Help me understand how I’m misinterpreting this.
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by pokerhobo 6y ago
Elon's motivation for making money: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1050812486226599936
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by pokerhobo 6y ago
Good for Elon. He put his own money into Tesla keeping it from going under and still holds 20% never selling any shares. He’s even complained in the past that Tesla stock was too high. His significant ownership of SpaceX also helps. Dis
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by pokerhobo 6y ago
Normally, a vaccine takes 10 to 15 years to develop and tested. That’s the tradeoff. Source: https://www.reference.com/science/how-long-to-develop-vaccin...
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by pokerhobo 6y ago
TSLA had a 10% operating margin, but Elon’s stock compensation brought that down.
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by pokerhobo 6y ago
TSLA is more like Google+Amazon early on than Yahoo. Also, comparing TSLA to Toyota’s 6% margin when TSLA already has a 20% profit margin excluding ZEV credit sales? Pure FUD!
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by pokerhobo 6y ago
Slack was free before Teams was free. They thought they had won the war before the first battle took place. Slack could have been Zoom, but instead it was just a pretty web client to IRC