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by tcoppi 10y ago
It's straight from BLS data, throw it into something and graph it yourself if you want http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t09.htm
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Being both hydrophobic and hydrophilic, I assume most standard activated carbon filters cannot remove them? I guess that just leaves reverse osmosis.
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Yeah, this sounds like a great recipe for a stable economic system and orderly transition to steadier demographics over the next 20-50 years. Edit: An informative graph for the bleak jobs picture for young people this shift is creating in t
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The thing is we don't have less people right now. The population is still growing rapidly, just getting older overall. That is going to lead to a massive grab for limited resources(not just physical like food and basic goods, but time
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Demographic shifts like this and the ensuing competition for limited resources are the kind of things that fuel major wars. It may be the transition that is needed long-term, but we should be very mindful of the way it is actually achieved.
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You are correct that the Powerwall isn't doing that well currently. The Powerwall is the home product, and its usefulness is directly tied to solar panels. The tie-in with SolarCity there should help with demand. There is the other sid
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SolarCity's immediate cash flow looks a lot better when you take away sale and customer acquisition costs, in fact it brings them very close to profitability. It is widely expected that the merger will close that side and bring it clos
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I replied to snark with snark. Tesla is not just a car company. They are going to be the largest li-ion battery manufacturer, distributed energy provider(with the solarcity acquisition), energy storage provider, supply grid stabilization se
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Oh man, I completely forgot about smart inverter applications. Just thinking about the possibilities gets me excited.
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Obviously there are a lot of other companies trying to do the same thing. And none of those companies will be able to compete with Tesla's pricing on the battery side as soon as the Gigafactory is fully online. They will be producing a
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On top of all that, there's the whole autonomous car thing that is going to completely shake up a lot of industries and hopefully produce massive profits as well. I don't think Tesla is poised to take as large of the pie here as s
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Not just an in-home grid, but the potential with the power packs and utility-scale solar for the grid as a whole is quite large as well, if they can get traction. Tesla is going to be the only one for quite a while with the battery manufact
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I'm a Tesla investor, and I started increasing my position when the SolarCity deal was first talked about. The potential there with SolarCity's new panels and Tesla's advantage in battery pack manufacture is pretty big, and t
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You're right, Tesla should just pack it in right now. They have no competitive advantage or product that anyone wants, and Nissan has far better prospects than Tesla ever had.
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If Tesla is successful in their vision, the entire transportation(and potentially energy) industry will be completely different and hence incomparable with existing car company valuations, since they will have created a completely new slice
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Mostly by the tech community itself, not the financial or venture capital world.
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I don't have a problem with people trying to understand the quarter-by-quarter performance of a company. That data is legally required to be published by the SEC for a reason. In Tesla's case, so much of their value is discounted
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by tcoppi 10y ago
Right, investors won't bat an eye at Instagram, Whatsapp, Airbnb, or Pintrest valuations, but can't possibly see how Tesla is worth $30b. I suppose that is slightly unfair since I happen to think Tesla is fairly well valued, maybe
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A lot of it is that many investors and media covering the market only care about the fundamentals of the company and quarterly earnings, and can't understand how a company that constantly dilutes its stock and mostly misses expectation
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I'm amazed that this is the first halfway-reasonable post to come out of this discussion. The real story here is the demographic breakdown the western world is experiencing, and that Japan has been knee-deep in since the 90s. This has
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by tcoppi 10y ago
Not sure why you are downvoted, this is pretty much spot on. The artificially low renminbi has been driving Chinese exports since the 90s and will probably continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Meanwhile the Chinese people got rapid
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When you trade derivatives like this, your main risk is counterparty risk. Deribit, with things like this and the documentation used to describe their futures and options offerings, does not inspire trust in them as a counterparty.
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Usually buyouts like this are priced well above the current trading range of the acquisition, presumably in order quell shareholder opposition. In this case I think it is probably a more than fair price for SolarCity, even though it is lowe
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Since both Solar City and Tesla are burning cash right now, I highly suspect Solar City is going to face a massive layoff of their sales staff and massive cut to marketing, which is where a majority of their costs are right now. With that g
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The offer values solarcity at $25.37, so that's effectively a new ceiling on the price, unless new info surfaces. Edit: Since this is an all-stock deal, the valuation and hence price is going to float based on TSLA's price, at a r
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Any reason/research why you decided on 3 day fasts?
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I won't speculate as to their motives, just the evidence I see that Tesla is deploying their own battery know-how to the project, so some sharing of some sort must be going on. Edit: Found some info straight from the source[1]. Panason
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> Yes, the square footage of my apartment went way down. Pretty much everyone out here lives in less space, generally it's less a "standard of living" thing than a "that's the norm" thing I see you've g
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If you can take a job somewhere with more than double your after-tax salary(what you would have to do to go from $50k after tax to $100k after tax) and only double your living expenses, of course you will come out ahead. I don't think
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Taxes are also percentage based, and progressive at that. Your effective tax rate at $120k is quite a bit higher than at $60k, so you won't be saving double in that scenario because more of it will be going to taxes. Also, the percenta

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