xkjkls

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by xkjkls 4y ago
It's advertising, literally the only thing that matters is public perception. If Elon dickishness makes public perception toxic that's all that matters.
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by xkjkls 5y ago
This is only really true for television advertising, since most of it is brand building, instead of "click here and buy now" online.
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by xkjkls 5y ago
Also reddit itself gives a huge number of ways for advertisers to access the reddit audience without paying for it.
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by xkjkls 5y ago
Thousands of other things also have carbon emissions: beef production for instance. Or deforestation -- while it doesn't have a positive CO2 benefit, it removes a CO2 sink. The fishing industry has massive CO2 costs that aren't fr
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by xkjkls 5y ago
lol the nba lottery tax but for carbon
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by xkjkls 5y ago
Taxing it is still pretty hard to do. It's often hard to know exact emissions or what to test. I agree its probably an easier solution, but the accounting of "who is actually producing the carbon" is incredibly complicated, a
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by xkjkls 5y ago
Third is the political problem. The international community has some tight limitations on who can refine Uranium. That's reasonable in a lot of ways as an effort to limit nuclear proliferation, but countries don't exactly like bei
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by xkjkls 5y ago
For every purchase over a certain price this should probably be legally mandated. The same thing happened to a number of parents who had kids spend $1000s on the app store before they became more aggressive with deciding with how things can
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by xkjkls 5y ago
vrrooom vrrooom, "that'll be $3000, sir"
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by xkjkls 5y ago
> I think it was pretty clear that he was thinking about Saudi / middle east / Norwegian / sovereign wealth type funding on equity side. Then debt for rest if needed. He was "thinking"? That's not funding se
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by xkjkls 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_K%C3%BCbelwagen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Schwimmwagen https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/bmws-dark-hist...
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by xkjkls 5y ago
This was an $100 billion deal at the time. It would have been the largest LBO of all time. If there hasn't been any institution revealed to have been financing it at this point then there wasn't one.
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by xkjkls 5y ago
> No one has been confused I don't think. I saw the considering the $420 buyout, I took it to mean just that. Clearly options traders didn't, since all options above $420 went to zero. > The short sellers around tesla have b
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by xkjkls 5y ago
> His twitter post was clear, he was "considering" taking TSLA private. $420 funding secure indicates he already had financing ready. Why has this mystery funder never materialized. > Anyone who bought in at this news would
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by xkjkls 5y ago
I mean, similarly to my certainty Donald Trump was lying that his taxes are under audit, and thats why he can't release them. Do I have exact knowledge of Elon's head state, no, but I can make inferences from all his actions since
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by xkjkls 5y ago
> They also went after him for a lot of other stuff. Like lying about a buyout offer for his company. Which he received a incredibly small punishment for.
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by xkjkls 5y ago
Not equate, realize that they are both part of a pattern. We also should not let Elon Musk's actions only be evaluated in their totality. We can argue about the net sum of his contributions, but it should be fundamentally irrelevant to
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by xkjkls 5y ago
Nikola has focused on some substantially different segments of the EV market than they have. Nikola has focused on the trucking market, rather than the consumer car market, which at least is different from many of its competitors
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by xkjkls 5y ago
If you want some market crash hedges they are perfect. Car companies are treated as government institutions. BMW and Volkswagen used to produce tanks. The German government will ask them too again if they start struggling to much. Companies
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by xkjkls 5y ago
I would agree that fraud is always going to happen; how much though is up for debate, and I would tend to argue that more fraud makes the world worse at funding revolutionary ideas. More revolutionary ideas happen and get funded in the US,
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by xkjkls 5y ago
> it's easier for more people to raise a lot of money for risky endeavors. Is it easier to raise money for risky endeavors or for "hot" endeavors. I'm not sure this no structure to how a lot of people are now allocati
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by xkjkls 5y ago
Why do you think Elon Musk is obviously different? He's definitely had many events where he has lied about aspects of his business. You could argue that it doesn't matter now that he has built something real, but that's down
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by xkjkls 5y ago
It's part of the fraud triangle studied in most business schools: "The fraud triangle is a framework commonly used in auditing to explain the reason behind an individual’s decision to commit fraud. The fraud triangle outlines thre
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by xkjkls 5y ago
I'm not sure you are following the Elon-Solar City case if you think Elon's only sin is being a dick on Twitter. Or the original $420 funding a share saga. Elon Musk's repeated fake-it-till-you-make-it behavior and the unwill
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by xkjkls 5y ago
Eh, your mileage may vary, but I've normally found too completely open ended questions impossible to ever really get a good signal from. I've done enough interviews to feel like questions with a pretty binary "you either get
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by xkjkls 5y ago
And if a company repeatedly and systematically flauts this behavior?
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by xkjkls 5y ago
Luxury car makers still should fraudulently sell incomplete products.
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by xkjkls 5y ago
They are. Electrek just likes overstating their own importance.
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by xkjkls 5y ago
It was written very lazily and quickly, by someone who knows that getting an article out first is going to be one of the most important things to driving clicks.
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by xkjkls 5y ago
It's easier to pay to keep a brand on top. If you're paying to revive the reputation of a brand, the uphill climb is much more painful.

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