prolly_a_moron

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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
> This is entirely incorrect. The comment was 4 hours old, based off a Seeking Alpha news bulletin (I should have known better) and was prefaced with "it's my understanding..." which left it open for you, or anyone else,
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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
> So long as the valuation goes up enough to compensate for the dilution, the per share stock price will be the same or higher But per stock price is the "valuation". My comment re: being detached stems from the fact that on
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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
> Tencent's position was acquired on the open market and the rest via the March 17 offering. Editing because I think we were talking past each other. Yes, I didn't mean this specific event. I tend to meld all these TSLA thre
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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
> Do you understand that's not what happens when shares are acquired on the open market? Do you understand that Tencent bought shares in a secondary offering? Apparently you do, you said it. Not sure what you're arguing. Do
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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
> This was not a capital raise. Read the filing. I don't need to read a filing to know that when you create shares out of nowhere, and sell them, diluting current shareholders, it's a capital raise. What else would you call i
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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
> But will the demand for electric vehicles justify a valuation on par with General Motors? That's the rub. Yep. Building cars for the mainstream is a low-margin, capital-intensive business. That doesn't go away because Musk
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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
> The raise will dilute earnings for common shareholders, so definitely a downward force on stock price. The stock is detached from reality. It's my understanding that this was another offering, so, essentially, Tesla sold 5% to Te
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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
> Who says the capital raise is a 'wide open positive'? The guy at the top of this thread who said "Shorts can't buy a break". It's at least arguable that these sorts of capital raises are exactly what the
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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
> And there aren't enough supercharging/fast charging stations. For sure. I live in a place where there are line ups at GAS stations during the busy season. Imagine everyone trying to charge while on a trip? That "half
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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
The stock has been stagnant for a long time, and it's still off its high. Shorts have done fine. What's amazing are the longs seeing capital raises at mediocre terms as a wide open positive.
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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
Way more often than not, yes. Is your default position to assume there's an agenda behind every invitation?
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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
> The past few years have made me realize that your appearance only becomes more important as you age and progress in a white-collar career You don't think the same shallow people judging your looks will judge your plastic surgery?
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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
> No. On days where self driving cars don't work, price goes up, and the market puts more humans on the road. So all these humans are just hanging around waiting for it to snow so that they have the pleasure of driving other people
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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
We must live vastly different lives. Otherwise, why would anyone want to spend their spare social time in job hunt mode? Sometimes I want to foster relationships I already have, not eternally be working on new ones.
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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
Especially in the early years of life, when the 11 month difference between a January baby and December baby in a class might be 1/5 to 1/10 of the child's life. That's a huge advantage, physically, intellectually and s
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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
> All that even with taking two years off in the middle of my college years. How has any of this made you better off? You make it sound as if "taking two years off" in your late teens/early twenties is a major issue. Per
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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
> If you press, it usually comes down to, "Doing the best we can," which is nice for gymnastics, but less so for published research. If "doing the best we can" is too low of a standard for research, then it's a
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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
> There is no way you can be selling the genuine product at that price and be making a profit. Am I missing where the ad says it's a genuine Apple product? I see that it says "compatible", but that's clearly a fake
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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
> But like many of Adam Curtis's documentaries this can feel like it takes too long to get to the point. That's the style. Personally, I dig it, and enjoy (and recommend) everything he's done. I love his use of music an
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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
> It's a good question whether society is ready to accept this, though. Hah, "it" being ready as in the technology, not society. Poor writing on my part. But I guess either works.
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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
> Autonomous vehicles will have challenges that human drivers do not Wait a minute: I don't think the argument is whether machines can drive better than humans. It's whether these companies that are desperate to make money
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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
> It doesn't even matter if it's shown to not work on humans Case in point: 95% of the supplement industry.
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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
> Uber is essentially just a matcher and payment processor that takes a cut, they don't own vehicles or employ drivers That's the story their PR spins. Luckily they don't make the laws. You think this idea of, "He&#
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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
> If they want to simplify taxes -- as they claim, the best way to simplify is simply to eliminate. Because consumption taxes are the most efficient form of taxation. You want a private chauffeur? Pay up. > Lower fares mean more re
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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
> Uber drivers are not employees. They are independent contractors. This is under dispute, and I think you're going to find that governments around the world disagree with you.
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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
> I never say it is untouchable No, but you did say "Who in the right mind would propose cutting EPA budget". I would think about it, as I hope my elected officials would. > but 31% is a lot. Perhaps they need to convin
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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
> Who in the right mind would propose cutting EPA budget? Once set, the EPA budget is untouchable? That seems like a terrible way to run government. I'm not for or against the budget cut, but I don't think anything should be
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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
> I work about 15 hours a month opening up positions and closing them with my brokerage account. If you're going to brag online about your investment performance, post your anonymized brokerage statements. Otherwise, you're
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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
> Inflation adjustment doesn't take into account costs that are prevalent in an era but totally absent in another: like internet access, cellphone bills, and such. Nor how much one not puts into their retirement account / savin
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by prolly_a_moron 10y ago
> If you don't believe the numbers then use both side by side, open 250MB file in all of them and look at the screen. Maybe I don't have any 250MB files to open? If VSCode doesn't fit your use case, don't use it. Th

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