I think they are delivering... just slowly at first.
You deliver on what you say, then you move on to the next shiny new thing. Tesla and Musk are promising half a dozen shiny new things every few months, and what's even more laughably funny is they are doing it in the most capital intensive thing imaginable.
Amazon is very profitable now.
Amazon is not profitable;-).
They have been operating on a profit for the last three years now.
I read that propaganda too. That doesn't work for a truck.
Because you think you can't rent a truck for the rare occasions you need one that goes more than 300 mph? Or because you think most pick up drivers drive more than 300 miles at a time on a regular basis?
It's not that eating soybeans makes you gay, you are fake news. However, soybeans contain active compounds called isoflavones- these are plant derived phytoestrogens, many of which mimic female hormones such as estrogen and estradiol. There are a number of studies that suggest that soy does indeed have an estrogenic effect on the body, which in turn decreases testosterone levels. Eat too much soy and it makes you less of a man.
I remember years ago, before I had Sirius XM, flipping through radio stations trying to find something to listen to, ended up on an AM station and having a laugh at this one far-right loony (I'm a centrist- I think the extremes of both sides are idiots) calling soy beans a liberal conspiracy to make people gay. As ridiculous as it sounds, the guy was dead-serious (don't remember the name). He thought the "gay-epidemic" was caused by soy beans.
I've since heard a few other times some people blaming soy beans on making people gay. Of course it is ridiculous and yes, it is as you said, because they believed soy beans caused you to not produce testosterone.
If it can go 300 miles on a charge it really isn't; not for the overwhelming majority of times. for the few times it is lacking you can rent an ICE with money to spare from fuel savings.
The Mormons were violent when they practiced polygamy. Today it is not practiced by Mormons except for some fringe groups. One thing that is certain, young men without women are a problem regardless of religion.
That's why we need more soy products. Since soy beans make you gay *I'm joking, but some people do believe that*, we should feed kids soy beans to all young boys in hope that many of them will become gay. More gay boys means fewer single males causing trouble because they don't have a woman.
The boys who survive being turned to homosexuality by soy beans can have all the women they want. It's a win-win for everyone. Except the women if they don't want to share men, but who cares what women want, they're second class citizens. *I'm joking about that, I don't believe that either*
I get the love for pick-ups, and I get that a few people need them.
I suppose they're great for hauling hay and pigshit...
And sporting goods (was a heck of a lot easier to load all my camping equipment, bikes, etc, when I had a truck) , and washing machines, and furniture you just bought so you don't pay extra on shipping, getting mulch in bulk for the flower beds, etc, transporting something messy you wouldn't want to dirty your car. They have Urban uses too; granted, you're not going to use the bed very often, but it is nice to have from time to time. Unless you're living on a farm, almost no household needs more than one. Handy to have one in the family though.
Most urban uses, you can get by with an alternative, but a pick up truck can be handy from time to time. They can also be more fun to drive, especially if you get a smaller one with manual transmission. The larger ones with automatic transmission you might as well be driving a soulless SUV or a minivan.
My point being, they have to announce plans 2 or 3 models in the future to keep the buzz about them alive to keep attracting investors.
We should all have no difficulty in finding historical examples where the rope runs out on that strategy. At some point you have to deliver what you say you would otherwise it all unravels.
I think they are delivering... just slowly at first. A positive example of how the hype train works is Amazon. They were losing money hand over fist and coming out with new services that were losing money (and pumping the hype) before their primary model was profitable. Amazon is very profitable now. Tesla is hoping to follow Amazon's model. Won't tell if they succeeded or not for a number of years yet.
This neck beard thing of being the first person to scream
Let me stop you there. This is Slashdot, apparently everything invented in the 70s is the only thing that matters around here. Anything past that is pure shit that eventually will be shown as the shit it truly is. Like literally, from politics to init to technology. If it wasn't invented in the 70s, it's shit and that's what Slashdot is best known for everywhere else on the Internet (which of course was invented in the 70s except for IPv6 which is shit).
Indeed. For a tech forum, this is a very luddite community in general.
This neck beard thing of being the first person to scream TULIP really is getting old. Bitcoin is still double what is was a month ago.
The tulip bubble is a great example of how a bubble might play out. It doesn't mean that ALL rapidly rising stocks will follow the same model. It's also a bad example because BTC has some valid uses (unlike a tulip that was purely ornamental).
So, yeah, I think the tulip bubble is a valid point to make, but it doesn't tell the whole story. It doesn't mean that BTC is going to follow the same path.
I'm not willing to invest in bitcoin (I think all the major money to be made was before banks got involved, investing now, you're more likely to lose); but, I think people screaming "Tulip" are being over simplistic.
When the value of the metal in a penny exceeds 1 cent, you'll probably find they start disappearing from circulation as people start to collect them and sell them for the metal.
Well, for one thing that would be a federal crime... Do so at your own risk.
For another thing, the cost to make a penny already far exceeds what one is worth. The cost to make a penny is 1.5 cents. So a 50cent roll of pennies costs 75cents to make. We're not seeing people taking coins out of circulation to sell them for metal.
Part of that is because, it costs money to break down a penny into it's constituent metals of course... and whereas a penny may cost 1.5 cents to make, that doesn't mean it contains 1.5 cent worth of metal.
All in all though, we should just get rid of the penny. It's useless and is too small a value to be worth anything. buying/selling to the nearest 5cent (as is done elsewhere in the world with currencies that have abandoned the smallest coin) would be a wise move. Inflation has killed the penny, time to stop making them.
If they can get pre-payments for the pickups, they can use them to fullfil orders for the model-3 or Y?/s
Tesla doesn't have the mountain of built up capital of a Ford, GM, or Toyota. They're still a relatively new company and are still relying on investors to fund their ambitious plans.
I hit reply too soon...
My point being, they have to announce plans 2 or 3 models in the future to keep the buzz about them alive to keep attracting investors.
If they can get pre-payments for the pickups, they can use them to fullfil orders for the model-3 or Y?/s
Tesla doesn't have the mountain of built up capital of a Ford, GM, or Toyota. They're still a relatively new company and are still relying on investors to fund their ambitious plans.
Let me guess... you're a liberal that lives in a big city and thinks because you have no use for a pick up truck, think that no one could possibly have a valid need for one.
To be fair 99.9% of what 95% of the population do, you don't need a truck for, and usually when a truck is useful, there is always an alternative (and I'm a former pick-up driver and will probably get a pick-up again). I used to have a little Ford Ranger (single bench, not extended cab), loved it, it was fun to drive, and at the time I thought it was incredibly useful, I loved how the air or the heating heated or cooled the tiny cab instantly...
I hated to give it up (wife convinced me to get more practical vehicle when the first kid was born). I get the love for pick-ups, and I get that a few people need them. The vast majority of people with a pick-up don't need a pick-up, and that's OK. They're fun to drive, and occasionally the bed is useful. No one needs a sports car, or a fast car, or an SUV- and plenty of people have them.
I don't need a pick up, but would love to have one again.
The energy storage system is what is sorely lacking.
And that has been improving dramatically over the last several years. Today's batteries are much better than batteries from a decade ago. A decade from now the batteries we have will be better than the ones we have today. They keep getting better.
Despite choosing a low-quality human comparison (the audio fidelity is fine, but the timing and pronunciation is terrible), it is still quite obvious which is which. The synth version is slightly too clipped and the timing does not sound natural.
Funny thing is, I thought both samples sounded more like a computer more than a human.
The difference is that if bitcoin crashes tomorrow it won't cause a worldwide recession.
Are you sure about that?
According to BBC this morning, the high estimate for ownership of bitcoin is 3 million people- so at most 0.04% of the world's population own bitcoin. That's not excluding all the many people who have owned bitcoin and lost the key.
It's all a gamble at this point. They're fools if they think a company will continue to grow just because they have blockchain in their name. They're not fools if they think other fools will think that and get in early to take the money from the fools.
If they're investing to feed off the other fools, they're gamblers, not necessarily fools.
Researchers at the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown University's law school made this claim. Not the Supreme Court, which has granted great leeway to what customs can do at the borders. It's a legal opinion paper that is just that, opinion, with no legal standing.
Honestly, I think facial scanning is less of a privacy violation than cupping my testicles because the airport scanner got a distortion on my shoulder when I passed through it the last time.
Your 50 year old may make twice as much as your 25 year old IT worker- but they'll make far less than half the mistakes and cause far fewer project delays.
I think that's your reason right there.
Indeed, but it's rather short-sighted. They're worth twice as much because they don't make costly mistakes. Besides, it's one thing to set a salary so low a 50 year old won't apply; it's completely something else to say no one over 40.
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I think they are delivering... just slowly at first.
You deliver on what you say, then you move on to the next shiny new thing. Tesla and Musk are promising half a dozen shiny new things every few months, and what's even more laughably funny is they are doing it in the most capital intensive thing imaginable.
Amazon is very profitable now.
Amazon is not profitable ;-).
They have been operating on a profit for the last three years now.
Pregnancy is cancer.
Nah... Fetuses are a parasites. They feed and grow off a host organism leaving the host organism weaker and less fit whilst carrying the parasite.
i don't know about you, but i find myself needing a 300 MPH truck pretty frequently. Very, very hard to find though.
Most of the ones that go the fastest just go round in circles on ovals... or ovals in circles.
I read that propaganda too. That doesn't work for a truck.
Because you think you can't rent a truck for the rare occasions you need one that goes more than 300 mph? Or because you think most pick up drivers drive more than 300 miles at a time on a regular basis?
It's not that eating soybeans makes you gay, you are fake news. However, soybeans contain active compounds called isoflavones- these are plant derived phytoestrogens, many of which mimic female hormones such as estrogen and estradiol. There are a number of studies that suggest that soy does indeed have an estrogenic effect on the body, which in turn decreases testosterone levels. Eat too much soy and it makes you less of a man.
I remember years ago, before I had Sirius XM, flipping through radio stations trying to find something to listen to, ended up on an AM station and having a laugh at this one far-right loony (I'm a centrist- I think the extremes of both sides are idiots) calling soy beans a liberal conspiracy to make people gay. As ridiculous as it sounds, the guy was dead-serious (don't remember the name). He thought the "gay-epidemic" was caused by soy beans.
I've since heard a few other times some people blaming soy beans on making people gay. Of course it is ridiculous and yes, it is as you said, because they believed soy beans caused you to not produce testosterone.
If it can go 300 miles on a charge it really isn't; not for the overwhelming majority of times. for the few times it is lacking you can rent an ICE with money to spare from fuel savings.
The Mormons were violent when they practiced polygamy. Today it is not practiced by Mormons except for some fringe groups. One thing that is certain, young men without women are a problem regardless of religion.
That's why we need more soy products. Since soy beans make you gay *I'm joking, but some people do believe that*, we should feed kids soy beans to all young boys in hope that many of them will become gay. More gay boys means fewer single males causing trouble because they don't have a woman.
The boys who survive being turned to homosexuality by soy beans can have all the women they want. It's a win-win for everyone. Except the women if they don't want to share men, but who cares what women want, they're second class citizens. *I'm joking about that, I don't believe that either*
I get the love for pick-ups, and I get that a few people need them.
I suppose they're great for hauling hay and pigshit...
And sporting goods (was a heck of a lot easier to load all my camping equipment, bikes, etc, when I had a truck) , and washing machines, and furniture you just bought so you don't pay extra on shipping, getting mulch in bulk for the flower beds, etc, transporting something messy you wouldn't want to dirty your car. They have Urban uses too; granted, you're not going to use the bed very often, but it is nice to have from time to time. Unless you're living on a farm, almost no household needs more than one. Handy to have one in the family though.
Most urban uses, you can get by with an alternative, but a pick up truck can be handy from time to time. They can also be more fun to drive, especially if you get a smaller one with manual transmission. The larger ones with automatic transmission you might as well be driving a soulless SUV or a minivan.
My point being, they have to announce plans 2 or 3 models in the future to keep the buzz about them alive to keep attracting investors.
We should all have no difficulty in finding historical examples where the rope runs out on that strategy. At some point you have to deliver what you say you would otherwise it all unravels.
I think they are delivering... just slowly at first. A positive example of how the hype train works is Amazon. They were losing money hand over fist and coming out with new services that were losing money (and pumping the hype) before their primary model was profitable. Amazon is very profitable now. Tesla is hoping to follow Amazon's model. Won't tell if they succeeded or not for a number of years yet.
This neck beard thing of being the first person to scream
Let me stop you there. This is Slashdot, apparently everything invented in the 70s is the only thing that matters around here. Anything past that is pure shit that eventually will be shown as the shit it truly is. Like literally, from politics to init to technology. If it wasn't invented in the 70s, it's shit and that's what Slashdot is best known for everywhere else on the Internet (which of course was invented in the 70s except for IPv6 which is shit).
Indeed. For a tech forum, this is a very luddite community in general.
This neck beard thing of being the first person to scream TULIP really is getting old. Bitcoin is still double what is was a month ago.
The tulip bubble is a great example of how a bubble might play out. It doesn't mean that ALL rapidly rising stocks will follow the same model. It's also a bad example because BTC has some valid uses (unlike a tulip that was purely ornamental).
So, yeah, I think the tulip bubble is a valid point to make, but it doesn't tell the whole story. It doesn't mean that BTC is going to follow the same path.
I'm not willing to invest in bitcoin (I think all the major money to be made was before banks got involved, investing now, you're more likely to lose); but, I think people screaming "Tulip" are being over simplistic.
When the value of the metal in a penny exceeds 1 cent, you'll probably find they start disappearing from circulation as people start to collect them and sell them for the metal.
Well, for one thing that would be a federal crime... Do so at your own risk.
For another thing, the cost to make a penny already far exceeds what one is worth. The cost to make a penny is 1.5 cents. So a 50cent roll of pennies costs 75cents to make. We're not seeing people taking coins out of circulation to sell them for metal.
Part of that is because, it costs money to break down a penny into it's constituent metals of course... and whereas a penny may cost 1.5 cents to make, that doesn't mean it contains 1.5 cent worth of metal.
All in all though, we should just get rid of the penny. It's useless and is too small a value to be worth anything. buying/selling to the nearest 5cent (as is done elsewhere in the world with currencies that have abandoned the smallest coin) would be a wise move. Inflation has killed the penny, time to stop making them.
If they can get pre-payments for the pickups, they can use them to fullfil orders for the model-3 or Y? /s
Tesla doesn't have the mountain of built up capital of a Ford, GM, or Toyota. They're still a relatively new company and are still relying on investors to fund their ambitious plans.
I hit reply too soon...
My point being, they have to announce plans 2 or 3 models in the future to keep the buzz about them alive to keep attracting investors.
If they can get pre-payments for the pickups, they can use them to fullfil orders for the model-3 or Y? /s
Tesla doesn't have the mountain of built up capital of a Ford, GM, or Toyota. They're still a relatively new company and are still relying on investors to fund their ambitious plans.
Let me guess... you're a liberal that lives in a big city and thinks because you have no use for a pick up truck, think that no one could possibly have a valid need for one.
To be fair 99.9% of what 95% of the population do, you don't need a truck for, and usually when a truck is useful, there is always an alternative (and I'm a former pick-up driver and will probably get a pick-up again). I used to have a little Ford Ranger (single bench, not extended cab), loved it, it was fun to drive, and at the time I thought it was incredibly useful, I loved how the air or the heating heated or cooled the tiny cab instantly...
I hated to give it up (wife convinced me to get more practical vehicle when the first kid was born). I get the love for pick-ups, and I get that a few people need them. The vast majority of people with a pick-up don't need a pick-up, and that's OK. They're fun to drive, and occasionally the bed is useful. No one needs a sports car, or a fast car, or an SUV- and plenty of people have them.
I don't need a pick up, but would love to have one again.
The energy storage system is what is sorely lacking.
And that has been improving dramatically over the last several years. Today's batteries are much better than batteries from a decade ago. A decade from now the batteries we have will be better than the ones we have today. They keep getting better.
Despite choosing a low-quality human comparison (the audio fidelity is fine, but the timing and pronunciation is terrible), it is still quite obvious which is which. The synth version is slightly too clipped and the timing does not sound natural.
Funny thing is, I thought both samples sounded more like a computer more than a human.
The difference is that if bitcoin crashes tomorrow it won't cause a worldwide recession.
Are you sure about that?
According to BBC this morning, the high estimate for ownership of bitcoin is 3 million people- so at most 0.04% of the world's population own bitcoin. That's not excluding all the many people who have owned bitcoin and lost the key.
Out of curiosity, have you considered that scenario with half the masses counting on their bitcoin portfolio to pay their rent?
We're nowhere near that yet. In the West I'd be surprised if more than 1% of people owned any bitcoin.
The difference is that if bitcoin crashes tomorrow it won't cause a worldwide recession.
Soon to be separated.
It's all a gamble at this point. They're fools if they think a company will continue to grow just because they have blockchain in their name. They're not fools if they think other fools will think that and get in early to take the money from the fools.
If they're investing to feed off the other fools, they're gamblers, not necessarily fools.
Researchers at the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown University's law school made this claim. Not the Supreme Court, which has granted great leeway to what customs can do at the borders. It's a legal opinion paper that is just that, opinion, with no legal standing.
Honestly, I think facial scanning is less of a privacy violation than cupping my testicles because the airport scanner got a distortion on my shoulder when I passed through it the last time.
Your 50 year old may make twice as much as your 25 year old IT worker- but they'll make far less than half the mistakes and cause far fewer project delays.
I think that's your reason right there.
Indeed, but it's rather short-sighted. They're worth twice as much because they don't make costly mistakes. Besides, it's one thing to set a salary so low a 50 year old won't apply; it's completely something else to say no one over 40.
"must be born in the US to apply"
This is better expressed as "will not sponsor visa applications or visa transfers".
Which is pretty common language nowadays.
I'm a citizen. I don't need a visa.
go home 1hb's are killing US workers that have big student loans to pay off.
I'm not on a 1hb you racist prick! I'm a citizen and went through schooling here.