MrMan

it all makes sense in the aggregate, when capital is scarce. when capital is superabundant things tend to invert, and you get a lot of criminals just milking money from the system

How can we muster the political will to try to get more immigrants to come here? It’s really important

I think it’s an excellent sorting mechanism

they have already massively benefitted from Musk touting and shilling on twitter. but will Tesla's future unfold symmetrically with its recent past...

Cramer's hedge fund did very well, and his picks for his sales clients at Goldman were very good and his reputation based on making a lot of money for sales clients gave him the ability to raise his fund.

Running a huge fund is very stressful and Cramer I don't think was cut out for it. It's a lot easier to perform on TV and he has made a lot of money that way. In the 90's I respected him but I think he has fallen a long way from there.

they have been trained to hate the press

I think they were gradually decimated due to shrinking margins but that was partly due to decimalization, Reg NMS and other market structural reforms / changes. Then HFTs stared to flourish which drove the older market makers out of the picture.

the next liquidity event if Automatic doesnt buy it will be an IPO, I would guess

I didn't grow up as a unix user by random chance I worked at windows companies, so I neglected vi and vim. recently I took the vim tutorial and have been Ising neovim and it has changed my life.

astrovim is really good as well

I am no MBA but how do mass market auto makers defend margins like these in the presence of robust competition? Porsche is a brand built basically on top of VW infrastructure and they painfully win their high margins from expensive add-ons to cars which are (mostly) shared platforms with VW and Audi. Can Tesla carve out a similar niche? If you look at value, Teslas are not at the top of the list in terms of quality or the percentage by which their batteries empirically under/over-perform their range ratings. Consumers are slowly coming to learn how to compare EVs and no matter how well things go for Tesla I am a bit skeptical that their profit margins will survive fully intact.

only leftists don't enjoy hateful, spiteful, fearful and angry memes blaming our problems on others

as we go forward, cars will become more like phones. it will be interesting to see if the auto industry goes in a similar direction in terms of consolidation of market share.

this is one of the only good takes I have seen on Musk and the issue of how he is steering his brand. I think he is really foolish and truly dangerous but he is no dumber than any other successful business guy when it comes to making big decisions. I am not that interested in how many D chess he is playing or if he is like Richard Branson and jut does things by feel. Branson is the brash marketer of past decades who I feel Musk most resembles - the brand is a direct extension of the person and the name goes on various different business. Dyson is another in a slightly similar vein and our former president is an exemplar of the style as well.

You are dead wrong about a lot of things here. Musk may not seem like a salesman to you, but he is actually one of the best salesmen and marketers we have seen, and created the major brands which have enriched him basically entirely using media coverage of him and his companies, and massive social media reach using his personal twitter account.

In my opinion the one thing he is truly good at is sales and marketing. Selling the dream, and a very good design team, is what made Tesla what it is.

I have no comment on whether technical solutions requiring the coordination of hundreds and thousands of people can be credited to one non-technical person, nor the political stuff.

It’s probably dead accurate, let’s find out

Austin!

smarter people are deceived by different things but they are no less subject to propaganda. one of the propaganda points that works against all people is "you are in the club of smart people, let me let you in on some things most people either dont know, or dont want to know!"

you should get Musk to organize a brigade of his followers against dang and HN.

Neovim really taking off you love to see it. I am really enjoying it for programming.

then he may have to sell more shares

it wasnt at the behest of any state what are you talking about

Yes - that is literally why “woke” is a pejorative term.

In a world of papers with code, open Ai is not open

The op is saying, correctly, that open Ai is bad because they think brown black and Asian people are as good as him. Anything that makes him feel lesser is woke and bad.

Why Arizona why not NY state

its a donation not an investment, correct?

this person has no idea what they are talking about and is stuck in the kind of denialist rhetoric that seems cute 10 or 15 years ago but is now competely embarrassingly wrong

its their free speech

free speech I think