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by spikels 8mo ago
A "bailout" is when a company rescued from bankruptcy. Common equity holders take large losses or are wiped out. This did not happen here. We also know the Twitter buyout debt was sold at near par before the merger with xAI which
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by spikels 8mo ago
It has been widely reported for weeks that SpaceX is planning to go public in a few months. The reason is they have big plans to run a vast network of AI servers in orbit and will need to raise a massive amount of funding. xAI merger fits w
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by spikels 8mo ago
The $44B Twitter/X buyout was not a failure. For example Fidelity has its $19M investment in the buyout - now xAI common shares - marked at $62M (up over 3X) as of 12/31/25. It was certainly valued even higher on 1/31&#x
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by spikels 10mo ago
Translation: Musk gets the full 2018 compensation plans (worth ~$139 billion); plaintiff get $1 and plaintiff's lawyers get $54.3 million plus interest.
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I Drove over 100 Miles with Tesla's Latest FSD and Never Touched the Wheel(cnet.com)
3 points by spikels 10mo ago|1 comments
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by spikels 1y ago
Being the marginal energy supplier is
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by spikels 1y ago
Not as familiar with EU statistics but for shorter trips (under 300km) public transit is well under 10% of trips while cars are over 50%. For all intra-EU travel in passenger-miles cars are around 75% while busses/trains of all types i
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by spikels 1y ago
Actually it's mass public transit that can't scale. Despite $1.3T in cumulative subsides US public transit usage is tiny: ~1.5% of trips and ~1% of passenger-miles. Getting 100 people in a bus is not "easy" because very
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First Autonomous Delivery of a Tesla(twitter.com)
8 points by spikels 1y ago|5 comments
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by spikels 1y ago
WayMore expensive
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by spikels 1y ago
There's no second brake pedal on the passenger side.
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Tesla Launches Robotaxi Service in Austin(twitter.com)
6 points by spikels 1y ago|2 comments
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by spikels 1y ago
“Any company that comes to do business in the country is going to get a piece of the pie — a pie that right now belongs to those of us here,” Pretty much explains the satelite internet situation in Bolivia
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by spikels 1y ago
Author is European https://mediadirectory.economist.com/people/stanley-pignal/
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by spikels 2y ago
https://archive.is/evLAL
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by spikels 2y ago
From article: X also reported to the investors 2024 adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of about $1.25 billion and annual revenue of $2.7 billion. Investors said that was a better picture than they had ex
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Banks Sell $5.5B of X Loans After Interest Surges [2024:$1.2B EBITDA, $2.7B Rev](wsj.com)
8 points by spikels 2y ago|4 comments
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by spikels 2y ago
It's called lawfare.
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by spikels 2y ago
SpaceX Responds: CNBC’s story on Starship’s launch operations in South Texas is factually inaccurate. ... We only use potable (drinking) water in the system’s operation. ... We send samples of the soil, air, and water around the pad to an
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by spikels 2y ago
SpaceX Responds: CNBC’s story on Starship’s launch operations in South Texas is factually inaccurate. ... We only use potable (drinking) water in the system’s operation. ... We send samples of the soil, air, and water around the pad to an
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by spikels 2y ago
First, reread the article. This is add-on for existing Starlink customers at $30/mo for 50GB with additional data costing $1/GB. > In addition to the upfront hardware cost, service for a Starlink Mini is effectively $150 per mo
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by spikels 2y ago
https://www.starlink.com/specifications?spec=5 Power Consumption - Average: 25-40W Not clear if this includes snow melting activated or not...
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Possible details of Tesla's upcoming 'Cybercab' robotaxi EV revealed(carscoops.com)
1 points by spikels 2y ago|1 comments
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by spikels 3y ago
Biden Admin just "announced we're investing another $82M to connect 16,000 additional homes and businesses to high-speed internet across North Carolina." That's $5,125 per connection! Some phone company makes another bun
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Despite ongoing strike, Tesla takes the crown in sales in Sweden, Norway(electrek.co)
2 points by spikels 3y ago|0 comments
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by spikels 3y ago
Only around 13 Tesla workers are actully on strike. The other 100+ are still going to work and still being paid by Tesla.
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by spikels 3y ago
Faulty assumptions and logic. The “payload” is an experiment that is at most two tanks, a valve and monitoring equipment. However it is pretty clear they will use the existing LOX main and header tanks and valves already present in every St
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by spikels 3y ago
These are service workers. And very few want to join a union.
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by spikels 3y ago
The Tesla workers in Sweden don't want to unionize. The majority of the ~120 employees in Sweden are ignoring the strike called by IF Metall and continuing to work. Only a handful are supporting the strike.
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by spikels 3y ago
Rumor is Starship will do the belly flop but not the last minute vertical flip. Not sure why. This graphic capture my understanding of what people outside SpaceX are expecting for this test. We may learn more in the coming days. https:&#x2

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