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by xkjkls 7y ago
When people say tech company they mean tech margins. There is no indication that Tesla will ever be able to achieve that.
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by xkjkls 7y ago
Yeah, that's pretty much in line with what every report has said, and that's even keeping in mind American car factories have higher injury rates than their foreign competitors in general.
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by xkjkls 7y ago
Tesla's injury rates were 30% higher than the average car company, and close to double in the case of serious injuries: https://www.revealnews.org/article/tesla-says-its-factory-is... And that's not including
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by xkjkls 7y ago
Yes, it can sometimes even pay out if you are furloughed with pay.
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Yeah, but 80% of it is point of sale, and I'm not sure they even make a profit on all their other efforts yet.
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by xkjkls 7y ago
Almost all if you read their 10K: https://s21.q4cdn.com/114365585/files/doc_financials/2019/q4...
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by xkjkls 7y ago
Probably the best time, since Square stock is gonna struggle a lot after these next two quarters
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by xkjkls 7y ago
As long as they don't save the equity holders or bondholders in the process, I'm fine with that. The company is a financial disaster, but is currently contracted for some essential work.
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by xkjkls 7y ago
Yeah, Amazon has stopped issuing purchase orders for a huge number of non-essentials, which probably contributes to really high delivery estimates. If anything is out of stock at their warehouse, they have no idea when they might have room
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by xkjkls 7y ago
Delivery estimates are very much an underpromise, overdeliver thing, so that makes sense.
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by xkjkls 7y ago
It's actually very similar to the UI you get if you go through the business section of Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/b2b/info/amazon-business?layout=landi...
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by xkjkls 7y ago
I'm not sure these concerns are unique to any other business with a warehouse, however.
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by xkjkls 7y ago
There are many reasons for long testing on medical supplies. While there might be some laxing of them for a "hail mary pass" in the situation we are currently in, we shouldn't claim that equipment shouldn't have validati
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by xkjkls 7y ago
The 30% survival rate means that 30% of patients are saved by ventilators. People who aren't dying without a ventilator aren't put on a ventilator, which is an extremely invasive medical procedure.
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And you need a rigorous process to insure they can be actually manufactured to specifications at scale. Which is why medical devices require so many layers of approval.
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by xkjkls 7y ago
This is an entirely self-serving PR move. Anyone at Tesla knows that getting government approval on any sort of ventilator they construct will require at least 6 months, probably 12, of rigorous testing. This isn't doing anything to tr
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by xkjkls 7y ago
Also not produced at any sort of scale yet, which would limit its ability to be deployed quickly. These others are already in production and most of them cheap and common.
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by xkjkls 7y ago
Amazon has only been unprofitable one year since 2001, and cash flow positive every single year. They are the exact opposite of Tesla because they didn't require returning to the capital markets every two quarters. > In today's
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by xkjkls 7y ago
Things will not be normal for a long time. This is going to be a severe global recession and thats going to depress auto sales a lot. Also, oil is $24 a barrel, which makes electric cars at even more a disadvantage.
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by xkjkls 7y ago
How am I picking winners and losers? We should try to keep any business open that doesn't unnecessarily increase the spread of the virus.
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by xkjkls 7y ago
I doubt it will come to that. I'd be shocked if Tesla even wants to make cars. Who is buying $50,000 cars now?
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by xkjkls 7y ago
So when are his pronouncements, especially when self-serving fraud or reckless? $420 funding secured definitely seems to be. As does the Solar Roof rollout precisely in the middle of a merger that he had multiple entanglements. His auto-pil
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by xkjkls 7y ago
> That's some very essential services there. People need food and retail workers need employment.
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by xkjkls 7y ago
Stage 1. That's the easiest stage to get approval for, and many of these trials might not go into Stage 2 or Stage 3. Drug trials take a long time to figure out all of the possible side effects.
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by xkjkls 7y ago
The Alameda county order only allows for construction of replacement parts, which can be obviously argued is necessary. People need cars to get to work; people like doctors and nurses and grocery store clerks on the front lines of this pand
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by xkjkls 7y ago
They apparently can't build new cars: https://twitter.com/ACSOSheriffs/status/1240062681635123201 Minimum operations for auto manufacturers only include replacement parts.
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by xkjkls 7y ago
https://twitter.com/ACSOSheriffs/status/1240062681635123201 Apparently under county order they cannot make any new vehicles, only replacement parts.
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by xkjkls 7y ago
Well how many hours are they even working? Who the hell is buying $50,000 cars right now?
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by xkjkls 7y ago
The iPhone is also 10 years old. It changed the world and has been the most profitable product in human history. What is Bitcoin's excuse?
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by xkjkls 7y ago
It's still not a profitable company with alot of debt to payoff and a valuation to justify. I don't know if we can consider 17 years without any profitable sustainability a success.

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