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Does anybody have an idea of how much Tesla employs automation compared to other automobile manufacturers?

So far, HN has directed me towards some considerable profits (see Bitcoin, TSLA). Where should I go this time? Telefonica Stock? Alcatel stock?

They look awesome! The best part of it is that it seems like most of the pictures at different levels seem to be taken within a short time of each other, if not nearly simultaneous.

It should help to know that streetview is only available in North America, Brazil, Europe, South Africa, Japan, Thailand, and Australia.

So that is about 55 million dollars a year to completely secure the network and process all transactions. I am not entirely sure how it will scale, but I predict that it will scale logarithmically with the number of transactions, especially considering that mining equipment will become more efficient.

Meanwhile the United States will spend 797 million dollars [1] this year in simply printing and transporting physical currency, not including all the other obvious costs in maintaining a modern currency.

[1] http://www.federalreserve.gov/foia/2013newcurrency.htm

You don't owe capital gains taxes until you sell the assets.