Short sellers have borrowed and sold 39 million shares of TSLA, 30% of float. Or 23% of total stock. They have pledged 12.5 billion dollars of other securities as collateral to hold this position, and they are paying 2 million dollars a day to sustain the position, as fees/interest for the borrowed shares. They have already suffered 2 billion dollars mark to market losses in the recent surge to 370+.
Elon has been taunting and teasing them, "Tsunami of hurt coming their way..." "In three weeks their position is going to explode..." "They are going to get a rude awakening...". It is coming to a head, tomorrow is a short settlement date and next week Q2 numbers are going to be released. Meanwhile AWD models are announced, and price has been dropped, and people are configuring AWD, performance options, white interior etc etc.
Goldman Sachs had been whispering it is going to miss the production numbers, now it is saying "even if it meets the production number it does not mean much".
The shorts are painting the picture of wild eyed liberal tree huggers enamoured by con man who is making cars in a tent, burning cash, losing money in every car sold, and trying to make it up in volume. But 85% of the float is owned by institutions, that is 60% of the total, that is 100 million shares valued at 30 billion dollars. It does not compute these seasoned mutual funds and investment managers would risk their return "to save the world".
Shorts are still have not started covering their position. So we will know end of next week, how it all ends.
Either shorts are right, stock crashes to 100$, SpaceX buys Tesla and takes it private.
Or they are wrong, and the stock hits 500$, and so many hedge funds go bankrupt we actually learn the names of the people behind the shorting.
Anyway it sounds more like sour grapes story spun up by the shorts.
Model 3, unlocks when you walk up to it. The phone is the key. I can also lock or unlock the frunk, the trunk and the doors, start the A/C, honk and flash lights from anywhere in the world.
The link sheds no light. But lots of ancient cultures knew right angled triangles. That does not mean they knew Pythagoras theorem as we know it today.
I know an ancient Tamil formula that seems to be Pythagoras theorem at the first glance. "Make eight parts of the running length, and discard one part, add to it, half of the altitude. What you get is the hypotenuse". Instantly one notes, there is no quadratic term. It is a linear formula, so it is not a general Pythagoras theorem. It boils down to "when two sides of a right angled triangle is 4 and 3, the hypotenuse is 5".
Nothing unusual. All they needed was an easy way to construct the right angle. That is all. The simplest way is the make a lasso with a rope ten units long, and mark off 3 feet and 4 feet, you can form a right angled triangle. If you make the rope hundreds of feet long, the angle will be accurate enough for the ancient construction techniques.
Egyptians had been using the 3-4-5 right angled triangles to demarcate land holdings after Nile floodings 1500 years before Pythagoras.
For aligning ancient temples, pyramids and other structures with East/West directions, the technique was ridiculously simple. Plant a pole, and mark the tip's shadow location at sunrise on equinox day and again the location at sunset. Line joining these two points is East-West. Use the 3-4-5 triangle from a 10 unit long loop of a rope and mark off North and South. Use plumb bob for vertical. You have a clean three axes Cartesian coordinate axes marked on the ground.
Dont get me wrong. I am amazed they can identify the equinox and solstice days, that they can predict eclipses, form calendars, They were as intelligent and smart as any modern human being. 5000 years is, but a blink of an eye, in evolutionary time scale. But let us also note that what we mean by Pythogoras theorem today is vastly different what they were using back then.
So many new "sudden increase" in medical conditions in populations have been traced to better instruments and more comprehensive screenings. Not new, not sudden.
Slowly that condition has metastasized and is now spreading from oncology to geology and seismology too, it looks like.
The money will come from the current shareholders of VW.
The perps are in their mansions, not in jail.
The perps are not going to pay the fine. There is no clawback provision to get back the bonuses and salaries and incentives they got for achieving the goals by cheating.
The shareholders should sue the board and ask them to pay the fine without using company funds.
Board might sue the old office holders and get the money from them.
But none of that will happen.
So next scandal will happen. There is no effective way to punish the Criminal Executive Officers.
Power inverters are big and could not be miniaturized. Devices running milliamps should be able to fit such specialized circuitry easily. USB is a mess. BEV chargers show what rates are possible
"Even the seemingly most basic function of USB Type-C -- powering devices -- has become a mess "
Just last week I plugged a model 3 Tesla into a supercharger. It soaked up electrons at the rate of 120 kW. 300 Amp at 480 v or something insane. And while Tessie is drinking 11 kW in the garage 48 Amp at 240 v, to store enough energy to run the whole house for three days, the cell phone struggles to store 2300 mAh in one hour, enough to run one dinky little phone for 18 hours.....
100% of the people in the famine stricken land of Somalia failed to answer the simple three question quiz regarding fillet mignon, lobster and foi gras.
Wages have not kept up with inflation, productivity gains are all going to the top 1%, there is no savings, there is no possibility of savings, there is no possibility of retirement. People are hoping and praying they will stay healthy and employed till the day they die.
And some idiot is blathering about 2% interest for five years, 1% interest on 2% inflation, and something comparing individual stock with mutual funds. Get a grip. Might as well quiz south indian brahmins the question of transubstantiation of the eucharist or the Vatican cardinals the difference between hiranya shraddham and a regular shraddham.
I had mentioned in the very early days, when nations and states start mining the cryptos will die. And I am a nobody on some corner of the world, barely in the 99th percentile smartness. Thousands of people knew from day 1, this is a very real threat.
The containers are still being loaded and unloaded using gantry cranes. The railroads should design very low floor flat bed cars. Containers should have a small batter and wheels to "self" drive and get off the road tractor trailer frames and get on to railroad cars and vice versa. The battery should have some small range, like 1 mile at 10 mph.
The long distance freight trains should pull into a yard close to a major highway intersection like I-75 on I-80. A whole bunch of containers get off on one side, another bunch gets on from the other side and the train pulls off in 15 minutes, next stop could be I-65 on I-80. These containers follow dedicated path to freight sorting centers while they are being unloaded sorted and reloaded.
The container traction batteries can be recharged by the train or the loading center.
But even such an efficient system would not be able to beat a fully electric truck as envisaged by Tesla. Already Tesla is reporting battery cell prices below 100 $/kWh. Pack price is expected to be 130 $/kWh. Trucks with a two battery system can be designed. One permanent battery to keep the truck mobile, and a range extender swappable battery pack that is typically rented on the highways. It is just the battery pack price that is the stumbling block. Running cost of electric vehicles is about 1/5 of diesel trucks. The steam to diesel transition was quite slow between 1930 and 1938. But between 1938 and 1948 the bottom just fell out of steam loco markets. And the running cost differential was just 2. (Diesels had 15% thermal efficiency back then. Steam was at 6%. But coal was cheaper per BTU. The net was a factor of 2). Compare this to Tesla Model 3 costing 3 cents a mile charged off the grid (12 cents/kWh, 4 miles/kWh), compared to 15 cents a mile for similar gasoline car (3 $/gallon, 20 MPG). It is a factor 5. The transition would be even faster, if the initial investment cost is brought down to affordable levels.
By making the range-extender battery rentable, the truck operator will just compare the cost per mile, battery price financing gets folded into energy price.
That is a fundamental axiom in Young Earth Creationism to explain away science predicting universe older than 6000 years. "You see, physical laws changed over time, and the time itself slowed. "
This is different from "Last Thursdayism Creationism" which supposes the universe was created as is 6000 years ago, with buried dinosaur skeletons and starlight already in transit for several billion light years to give the "appearance" of very old Earth.
You think Andrew Carnegie made is easy for anyone to make steel easier in and around Pittsburgh? He employed the Pinkertons to shoot people, guys. His henchman Frick was stabbed at work.
Rockefeller made it easy for anyone to sell kerosene to light lamps in USA? He colluded with railroaders like Vanderbilt and made it impossible for anyone to compete.
Edison's General Electric executives actually ended up in jail for violating Sherman antitrust anti monopoly laws.
Yes, there is probably a kill zone around today's tech giants. But it is a metaphorical. But back in the days, the kill zones were real.
The energy "content" is 10 times that of electro chemical batteries.
OK, go on.
Half life is 100 years.
So, half, that is 5 times the chemical batteries is available over 100 years. Right?
So, on average, 1/20 of the energy is available per year.
That works out to 1/7300 per day.
But the decay is exponential, so we need a correction from mean to peak. Let us be generous and round up e (=2.7182818) to 3. So you are looking at 1/2500 of chemical battery energy per day. Divide by another 86400 to get per second. That is the max power out put of this device. Looks like you would be better off harvesting the power from local WiFi signals.
You always declutch during shifting. After downshifting you let go of the gas pedal, this time without declutching. Thus the momentum of the car will move engine parts and dissipate the energy in that friction.
The spokesman further clarified, "Google will follow the guidelines from United Nations, and the code the follow will be UNethical Guide to military AI development."
"With ABS all braking distances are limited by the tire not the braking power."
No matter how aggressive you get with ABS or Regen braking you cant reduce the stopping distance anymore than these numbers. The shortest possible braking distance is decided by the tire not by brakes. That is the meaning of "limited by the tire, not by the brakes". Of course less aggressive braking can lead to longer braking distances. That seems to have happened in this instance.
Still not clear what exactly was changed in the firmware update.
No. Tesla will use regen braking to safely bring you down hill without heating up the brakes. CR turned off the regen braking to be "fair" to the ICE cars and to be consistent with other tests.
Let me give a computer analogy.
Similar to what Gartner used to do to compare Windows and Linux. It will disable all strong points of Linux and then declare Windows to be the winner.
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Elon has been taunting and teasing them, "Tsunami of hurt coming their way ..." "In three weeks their position is going to explode ..." "They are going to get a rude awakening ...". It is coming to a head, tomorrow is a short settlement date and next week Q2 numbers are going to be released. Meanwhile AWD models are announced, and price has been dropped, and people are configuring AWD, performance options, white interior etc etc.
Goldman Sachs had been whispering it is going to miss the production numbers, now it is saying "even if it meets the production number it does not mean much".
The shorts are painting the picture of wild eyed liberal tree huggers enamoured by con man who is making cars in a tent, burning cash, losing money in every car sold, and trying to make it up in volume. But 85% of the float is owned by institutions, that is 60% of the total, that is 100 million shares valued at 30 billion dollars. It does not compute these seasoned mutual funds and investment managers would risk their return "to save the world". Shorts are still have not started covering their position. So we will know end of next week, how it all ends.
Either shorts are right, stock crashes to 100$, SpaceX buys Tesla and takes it private.
Or they are wrong, and the stock hits 500$, and so many hedge funds go bankrupt we actually learn the names of the people behind the shorting.
Anyway it sounds more like sour grapes story spun up by the shorts.
The CEO's love life and work life are too closely integrated, I heard.
Model 3, unlocks when you walk up to it. The phone is the key. I can also lock or unlock the frunk, the trunk and the doors, start the A/C, honk and flash lights from anywhere in the world.
But the Egyptians and the stonehenge is 3000 BCE. Another millennium earlier.
my mistake
I know an ancient Tamil formula that seems to be Pythagoras theorem at the first glance. "Make eight parts of the running length, and discard one part, add to it, half of the altitude. What you get is the hypotenuse". Instantly one notes, there is no quadratic term. It is a linear formula, so it is not a general Pythagoras theorem. It boils down to "when two sides of a right angled triangle is 4 and 3, the hypotenuse is 5".
Nothing unusual. All they needed was an easy way to construct the right angle. That is all. The simplest way is the make a lasso with a rope ten units long, and mark off 3 feet and 4 feet, you can form a right angled triangle. If you make the rope hundreds of feet long, the angle will be accurate enough for the ancient construction techniques.
Egyptians had been using the 3-4-5 right angled triangles to demarcate land holdings after Nile floodings 1500 years before Pythagoras.
For aligning ancient temples, pyramids and other structures with East/West directions, the technique was ridiculously simple. Plant a pole, and mark the tip's shadow location at sunrise on equinox day and again the location at sunset. Line joining these two points is East-West. Use the 3-4-5 triangle from a 10 unit long loop of a rope and mark off North and South. Use plumb bob for vertical. You have a clean three axes Cartesian coordinate axes marked on the ground.
Dont get me wrong. I am amazed they can identify the equinox and solstice days, that they can predict eclipses, form calendars, They were as intelligent and smart as any modern human being. 5000 years is, but a blink of an eye, in evolutionary time scale. But let us also note that what we mean by Pythogoras theorem today is vastly different what they were using back then.
Slowly that condition has metastasized and is now spreading from oncology to geology and seismology too, it looks like.
The perps are in their mansions, not in jail.
The perps are not going to pay the fine. There is no clawback provision to get back the bonuses and salaries and incentives they got for achieving the goals by cheating.
The shareholders should sue the board and ask them to pay the fine without using company funds.
Board might sue the old office holders and get the money from them.
But none of that will happen. So next scandal will happen. There is no effective way to punish the Criminal Executive Officers.
So why should this be different?
Any new mousetrap is going to be inferior to the highly refined existing solutions, no point in building a better mouse trap.
Power inverters are big and could not be miniaturized. Devices running milliamps should be able to fit such specialized circuitry easily. USB is a mess. BEV chargers show what rates are possible
Just last week I plugged a model 3 Tesla into a supercharger. It soaked up electrons at the rate of 120 kW. 300 Amp at 480 v or something insane. And while Tessie is drinking 11 kW in the garage 48 Amp at 240 v, to store enough energy to run the whole house for three days, the cell phone struggles to store 2300 mAh in one hour, enough to run one dinky little phone for 18 hours.....
What a mess...
Wages have not kept up with inflation, productivity gains are all going to the top 1%, there is no savings, there is no possibility of savings, there is no possibility of retirement. People are hoping and praying they will stay healthy and employed till the day they die.
And some idiot is blathering about 2% interest for five years, 1% interest on 2% inflation, and something comparing individual stock with mutual funds. Get a grip. Might as well quiz south indian brahmins the question of transubstantiation of the eucharist or the Vatican cardinals the difference between hiranya shraddham and a regular shraddham.
"Fortunately this is discussion is about programming stuff which is completely mostly harmless activity."
Paging Elon, Paging Elon. Mr Musk, we found the guy who is coding up the AutoPilot.
I had mentioned in the very early days, when nations and states start mining the cryptos will die. And I am a nobody on some corner of the world, barely in the 99th percentile smartness. Thousands of people knew from day 1, this is a very real threat.
The long distance freight trains should pull into a yard close to a major highway intersection like I-75 on I-80. A whole bunch of containers get off on one side, another bunch gets on from the other side and the train pulls off in 15 minutes, next stop could be I-65 on I-80. These containers follow dedicated path to freight sorting centers while they are being unloaded sorted and reloaded. The container traction batteries can be recharged by the train or the loading center.
But even such an efficient system would not be able to beat a fully electric truck as envisaged by Tesla. Already Tesla is reporting battery cell prices below 100 $/kWh. Pack price is expected to be 130 $/kWh. Trucks with a two battery system can be designed. One permanent battery to keep the truck mobile, and a range extender swappable battery pack that is typically rented on the highways. It is just the battery pack price that is the stumbling block. Running cost of electric vehicles is about 1/5 of diesel trucks. The steam to diesel transition was quite slow between 1930 and 1938. But between 1938 and 1948 the bottom just fell out of steam loco markets. And the running cost differential was just 2. (Diesels had 15% thermal efficiency back then. Steam was at 6%. But coal was cheaper per BTU. The net was a factor of 2). Compare this to Tesla Model 3 costing 3 cents a mile charged off the grid (12 cents /kWh, 4 miles/kWh), compared to 15 cents a mile for similar gasoline car (3 $/gallon, 20 MPG). It is a factor 5. The transition would be even faster, if the initial investment cost is brought down to affordable levels.
By making the range-extender battery rentable, the truck operator will just compare the cost per mile, battery price financing gets folded into energy price.
In related news, "Battering Rams are a known attack vectors for doors". yeah. sure.
This is different from "Last Thursdayism Creationism" which supposes the universe was created as is 6000 years ago, with buried dinosaur skeletons and starlight already in transit for several billion light years to give the "appearance" of very old Earth.
In Soviet Earth, life slows down the world.
Rockefeller made it easy for anyone to sell kerosene to light lamps in USA? He colluded with railroaders like Vanderbilt and made it impossible for anyone to compete.
Edison's General Electric executives actually ended up in jail for violating Sherman antitrust anti monopoly laws.
Yes, there is probably a kill zone around today's tech giants. But it is a metaphorical. But back in the days, the kill zones were real.
Half life is 100 years.
So, half, that is 5 times the chemical batteries is available over 100 years. Right?
So, on average, 1/20 of the energy is available per year .
That works out to 1/7300 per day. But the decay is exponential, so we need a correction from mean to peak. Let us be generous and round up e (=2.7182818) to 3. So you are looking at 1/2500 of chemical battery energy per day. Divide by another 86400 to get per second. That is the max power out put of this device. Looks like you would be better off harvesting the power from local WiFi signals.
You always declutch during shifting. After downshifting you let go of the gas pedal, this time without declutching. Thus the momentum of the car will move engine parts and dissipate the energy in that friction.
The spokesman further clarified, "Google will follow the guidelines from United Nations, and the code the follow will be UNethical Guide to military AI development."
Still not clear what exactly was changed in the firmware update.
Let me give a computer analogy.
Similar to what Gartner used to do to compare Windows and Linux. It will disable all strong points of Linux and then declare Windows to be the winner.