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by tenpies 6y ago
Also interestingly: AEB did not trigger. It's not the first case I've seen where Tesla's Autopilot seems to override AEB[1]. Definitely confirmed behaviour to-date and seen as early as Q1 of this year. Any car from 2009 or
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by tenpies 6y ago
If only we had a regulatory agency that monitored this sort of stuff and then punished companies that used exploitative language to dangerously market their products as something they are not.
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by tenpies 6y ago
> Also Tesla seems to be extremely focused on r&d. How so? Tesla spends a tiny bit of revenue on R&D and a solid chunk of that is on "research" grants that get converted to manufacturing grants (e.g. the NY plant). See
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by tenpies 6y ago
I am always disappointed that drying racks aren't more common in NA. Even in an apartment, you can set it up overnight and wake up to dry clothing in the morning. Better for the environment and your clothing.
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by tenpies 6y ago
It's the Tesla approach, form > function.
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by tenpies 6y ago
I am honestly amazed that people do not seem to realize that all the "tech" companies that are advertising vendors are in deep trouble right now. The numbers are not good and some seriously hard decisions are going to be coming
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by tenpies 6y ago
> Investment properties are like stocks, except that retail investors are much more likely to be leveraged and much less likely to be diversified. If by retail investor you mean the person holding stocks, I disagree. Most countries allow
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by tenpies 6y ago
> But the Fed QE from '08 didn't make it back if I understand it correctl...I think we managed to unwound about a quarter or a third (?) of the outstanding debt before this crisis hit and the Fed had to issue new QE all over ag
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by tenpies 6y ago
You think Musk cares about his employees? For starters he's talking about the factory. 99% of people working there aren't even Tesla employees, they're hired out contractors. He can fire them all with almost no financial c
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by tenpies 6y ago
Tesla has a very rich history of destroying the lives of whistleblowers and injured workers The Musk apologists in particular are very keen to never talk about this, since based on documents produced under oath, Musk himself is extremely ve
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by tenpies 6y ago
Except it hasn't. The photos are showing no PPE and the parking lots are showing 100% of workers staff. For someone who claimed going to 1/3rd of capacity and PPE for everyone, there seems to be a big gap between reality and &quo
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by tenpies 6y ago
You think Tesla is a great company?
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by tenpies 6y ago
It's not civil disobedience. It's "Tesla has such a liquidity problem that if we wait another week it'll go bankrupt and my net worth will be negative". Also note that he's opening at 100% (not 30% staff) and
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by tenpies 6y ago
Even less. Tesla is known to be an absolute slave driver and has a lingering issue that some day the media will care about enough to report. Every once in a while we get a blip[1], but then Elon destroys the life of the whistleblower (e.g
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by tenpies 6y ago
> He's paradoxically so brilliant yet so misinformed. He's not very brilliant though. He may be good at his niche (although I'm not sure what that is judging by the quality of Tesla vehicles), but if you are a subject mat
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by tenpies 6y ago
And keep in mind that the State added a "Psychopath CEO wants to endanger workers to pump the stock price" clause after Musk's refusal to comply back in March when he tried to claim this same argument: > Nothing in this Or
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by tenpies 6y ago
That's no excuse. This is just another event where Tesla's uninsured Board is demonstrating they did not comply with the SEC's requirement to have a Twitter nanny on Musk. This also should have been released in an 8-K. At th
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by tenpies 6y ago
> China is freer economically Freer economically as long as the Party wants you to be free. Otherwise they'll bankrupt you overnight. I am incredibly curious to see how the Tesla Shanghai project plays out, given some of the extrem
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by tenpies 6y ago
Yes, just imagine Tesla if there were zero government grants, the regulatory credits vanished, and they removed all incentives. Tesla would have gone bankrupt like 10 years ago. I mean just last quarter Tesla barely made a "profit&quo
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by tenpies 6y ago
It's important to note that while there are only two parties, the parties clearly have sub-factions. Trump for example is not what the GOP Republicans would be. He was his own thing and Trumpism fits within the Republicans, but has pu
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by tenpies 6y ago
That Lotus and all associated products should be purged from the planet.
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by tenpies 6y ago
And let's be thankful that it abandoned it now, instead of in 15 years when it would have created a horrible slum.
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by tenpies 6y ago
I also find it really interesting that no one seems interested in pricing in a second wave of any size. It doesn't even have to be global, just a regional second wave in a tourist hot spot could crush tourism globally.
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by tenpies 6y ago
I like how they gently reduced the Touch Bar. A few more iterations and they'll hopefully realize what an awful idea it was and we'll go back to a normal and functional keyboard.
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by tenpies 6y ago
The other part of that equation is that if I'm a fund manager, I have a fiduciary duty to my clients. Tesla has had a ton of red flags this week: * General counsel quit * Board no longer has insurance, Musk is "insuring" wit
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by tenpies 6y ago
I get that as chief executive, the president is ultimately responsible for everything, but is this literally where we're dumping the blame? The President failed to make sure the task force member who recommended the vendor had done his
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by tenpies 6y ago
Tesla's way of counting cash is . . . quite imaginative to say the least. If you used conventional metrics their cash is more like $2 BB, and a bunch of that is stuck in China (as in their agreement for Tesla Shanghai stipulates that c
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by tenpies 6y ago
There is a parallel between many of these "tech" companies and the oil producers: both are producing a surplus when there is really not much demand for what they are producing. Google/Facebook can have all the MAU and views i
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by tenpies 7y ago
I mean half the benefit of unemployment benefits is the employment you generate via bureaucracy. It's something I find a lot of UBI proponents miss. Sure you "save money" by cutting bureaucracy, but that bureaucracy is emplo
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by tenpies 7y ago
Yes, even aside from all the ill will AirBnB has generated (both cumulatively and specific to this event), you have to ask: when was the last time you went to an AirBnB and it felt clean? Most hosts seems to do the absolute bare minimum

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