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It's important to note that a nation's official currency has intrinsic value simply because the nation's economic output is, by law, required to be expressed in terms of it, and each and every transaction involving the state,
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What ‘regulatory credits’ are – and why they’re so important to Tesla
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> It is quite worrying that the powers-that-be at YouTube are taking this radically anti-speech approach. Where you see "radical anti-sperch approach" I see a vestigial amount of false positives within a constant stream of crac
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> It's cryptos. That means nothing. > 50% isn't uncommon So crashes are common on speculative bubbles. Does that mean these crashes are less of a crash?
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> TSLA is a growth stock, and growth stocks have done extraordinarily well throughout CO-VID. To have a put on TSLA is to have a bet against growth. This remark sounds very ignorant and miopic. Even with the "growth stock" inte
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> It was at 30k earlier this year. It needs to go below 10k for me to consider it crashing. Bitcoin's price was over $60k a couple of months ago. After it crashed, it tanked to around $30k. So to you a market valuation tanking 50% i
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> he's made similar predictions including: a couple weeks after the movie's release ( https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/12/big-short-genius-say ...), in 2017 His predictions sound spot on. Here&
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I'm not aware of any failure in Bury analyses, or even any significant misprediction. The last two things I recall from Bury were his call last year that Tesla's stock price was ridiculously inflated, which he was proven right by
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> Just like JavaScript is frequently everyone's top choice for the browser No, not really, and frankly this feels like a disingenuous comparison done in bad faith. I'm sure you know that, unlike C, javascript is pretty much the
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> UNIX and C being available as free beer since their inception (actually 6th edition) kind of outnumbers all the other possible reasons. That would only explain why C featured as one of the choices on the table. But from that point on,
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> I don't think the world has a need for faster c code. But is in dire need for less broken software. This is trying to do the opposite. And that's ok. There are tools for that at the reach of those who place a premium on those
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> Entire generations are members of oppressed groups now? Yes? I mean, the US civil rights movement originated how many generations ago? Do you actually believe these issues and all those factors vanished in thin air once the leaders of
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> Making practical tradeoffs to get what's important is engineering reality. Not being aware that objects placed outdoors and exposed directly to sunlight easily reach temperatures above 80C is either a collosal design error or shee
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> The entire purpose of the beta is to find stuff like this. No, it really isn't. The point of a test is to verify that the system works as designed, and in case it doesn't then there's planned room to iterate out unexpect
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> Drop the union and things get even better. Don't let the poor performers drag the average or top down. As someone who lives in Europe and benefits from unions in multiple ways on a daily basis, I really do not understand how this
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> There is this odd schizophrenia where the 50s were viewed as this golden age of middle class workers while at the same time a period of vicious sexism/racism/etc, which causes people to complain at how much worse they have th
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> Does it look wasteful to say that you’re adding a vertical bar when you have the following line of code? It is, if the alternative is to just refactor your code to extract a method so that it reads like: addVerticalScrollBar();
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Besides the blatant whataboutism, is there anything in OP's message that you don't agree with?
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> The world bank responding to such a request shows how big of a thing Bitcoin has become. No, not really. The World Bank answers the questions their members ask them. In this case El Salvador's president asked the World Bank to hel
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> Not really though. Are you actually trying to deny that Tesla's stock price did not dropped around 25% since the start of 2021? Because all you need to do to refute that is look at the stock price. > It's up for the month.
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> In 2024 when TSLA is at $1500 (...) Since the start of 2021,Tesla tanked from $880 to around $660.
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> If the EV market continues to grow by 173% YoY and Tesla continues to lead sales (...) Tesla's market share is dropping, and it just tanked to its lowest level in two years. https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-ma
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> Tesla is up 200% over the past year Tesla peaked at around 880$ on January 2021. Since then it gradually tanked to around 660$. Clearly their valuation is indeed dropping at a considerable rate.
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I would add that having to pay hiring bonuses for people to not stick around after only a few days is also a red flag regarding extremely degrading working conditions.
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> One other thing which helps, significantly, is how much the parents value education. This is not a necessary condition, nor a sufficient one. There are plenty of examples where highly educated individuals didn't managed to become
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The article mentions regarding Intel's chip that they "recorded a peak of 207W during extended workloads, well over the 125W rating." They also mentioned that "Intel increased the PL2 rating (boost) to 251W, a 27W increa
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> Yeah, and it went all the way up to 60k+ in about the same time. No, not really. In fact, today it's still lingering around 32k. Regardless, it seems you inadvertedly tried to make the case that indeed Bitcoin is highly volatile a
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> (...) what if the argument is that it makes sense to invest 1% in every investment that has outperformed every other investment class over the past 12 years of its existence? Pray tell, how do you explain thaf fantastic performance of
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> There are lots of things people like to do that use a lot of energy that I think are stupid. (...) I don't understand what argument you tried to make. Other than a far fetched attempt at whattaboutism... Is bitcoin's astronom
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> (...) their scarcity retains purchasing power orders of magnitude better than paper money. Bitcoin market price tanked from 54k to 29k a few weeks ago, and currently is still around 30k. That's not exactly what I would call retain
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