Richard Feynman, in his book Surely you are joking, Mr Feynman mentioned how he cracked the safe of a famous scientist.
He was working in the Manhatten project making the first atom bomb. Place was teeming with top physicists absent minded professors and was run by the Army that had safes allocated to all top scientists. After a long and interesting story about how he got into safe cracking, he mentioned: He was challenged to crack the safe of Niel Bohr or Oppenheimer. He did it in less than two minutes. Asked how, he replied, "Physicists always use 3141, 1414, 1783, or 2245 as the code". They are PI, sqrt(2), sqrt(3), sqrt(5)
Elon was able to persuade the board of a publicly traded company (Tesla) to bail out a pet project (Solar city). SpaceX is flush with cash, and credit and is a private company. Tesla is just six months behind target in production.
For each stream delivered add markers. Find the marker and you can leak source.
This was done way back in 1980, in films. My superstar Rajnikant movies were showing up in bootleg VHS tapes. The distributor used a stapler to punch a couple of holes on specific frames on each set of reels. Then on the bootleg VHS tape, he paused that particular segment and advanced frame by frame to find two bright white circles on one frame. Looked up which theater got that set and and found the source of the leak.
There was a big scandal some time ago when a family did not register a death of the old man to continue collecting the pension checks. And some investigation found it was not all that isolated. So of the people who are still alive according to pension records, how many are really alive?
I would say auction is a good idea. Pay so much to hire a H1B. But once hired the person is portable, who can leave you for another employer. Pay the fees for the position, but can't treat the hires as indentured labor.
I confirm it. I recently nursed two FI had done1/OPT to H1B. And I have just hired an MS and a PhD under F1/OPT. Going to do H1B. Compared to all the previous ones this time the scrutiny is pretty tight.
If they had been this strict all these years H1B program will not be bad. We hire only US Masters/PhDs. We follow both the letter and the spirit of the law. The additional scrutiny is welcome.
IT was the Indian IT companies who used Indian diploma mills that made a mockery of the law and gamed the system, to death hopefully.
Tesla is fast approaching 200K cars delivered in USA, let us round it up and call it 125 K on the road since 2018 Jan
There are 100 million ICE cars on the road in USA. And NTSB reports there are 500 vehicular fires that kill 100 people every day.
Since 1 on 800 vehicles on the road are Tesla, we should expect around 0.625 Tesla fire every day or about 18 fires a month or 60 Tesla fires in the first quarter of 2018.
Since every Tesla fire gets national news coverage, I would assume at most two fires happened in that period.
I would conclude Tesla prevented 58 vehicular fires in the first quarter of 2018.
Reminds me of the time I had to convince a Economics professor. It was a three level course, HS307 or something, Intro to Economics. The solution to the test problem was the equation of a straight line. I gave it in y = m * x + c form. His answer key had this in A x + B y + C = 0 form. Would not accept any of my explanations. I said, " 0.5, 1/2 and 50% are all the same thing" and he had fits, he claimed they are all different. He grudgingly offered partial credit. I had to walk him to a math prof's office and have him convince this dude.
Have you seen the google sheets created by crowd sourced data?
There is one where people who booked Tesla Model 3 are entering data to predict info Tesla is not revealing, VIN, production rates, etc etc. 5000 people collaborative editing. Pictures, charts, rolling 21 day averages, historic charts predicting wait times for each color + wheel combination, and what not..
There is one used by Indian/Chinese H1B applicants tracking the reports of who got what when. I have not seen it, but it supposed to be over 10000 people collaboratively editing a shared spreadsheet.
If you want to accept a tool and use to its maximum potential there is a lot you can do without Excel.
But if you want to cling to your Excel skills and macros, as though they were wonderful gems, masterpieces of art that can never be recreated, and demand some free tool to mimic it 100% to *your* satisfaction, tough luck, buddy. You enjoy your Excel and you pay through your nose for it.
What it lost was money, right? And who lost it? The shareholders.
All bonuses and pay all these executives wee gorging themselves in, was not clawed back. They did not go to jail. They paid the fines and compensation using shareholder's money.
Option trades are like stock trades. Anonymous, so no one should know who is shorting. Number of people is never known. Volume of trade is public information.
Raw data is published like this: https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/...
And there are sites that will consolidate and present it for irregular users and for news stories.
I am not a trader so I only look at the news stories covering shorting of Tesla. I was only trying to see if my 1000$ deposit is gone or if there is some hope someday some car might materialize.
They will fund the US semi conductor industry with 40 billion dollars and fund 7 billion dollars in the 701st Cyber Warrior Division, The Red Weasels, to steal the secrets from those companies.
Tesla is the most shorted stock in the history of options trading by the money at stake. Just before the conference call last Monday, the short interest was 33% of the float, stocks being traded. 12 billion dollars. There was huge hype prior to that. But Tesla beat the lowered expectations. (That is it lost "merely" 750 million dollars in one quarter, not the 1.5 to 2 billion they were expecting). So the stock fell by 10% in after hours, and is hovering with just 5% loss over last week. 700 million of the shorts were "in the money" and 11 billion is still in the hole. They are carrying a paper loss of 11 billion dollars, and they need to keep reserves to avoid a margin call. It is costing them 1 million dollars a day to maintain the short position.
The talk in the street is, Space X will rescue Tesla. Musk has used Tesla to rescue Solar City. If he can use publicly traded company for a bailout, it would be easier, (not easy, but easier ) to persuade SpaceX backers to get him over the cash crunch in Tesla. That is why he is shunning equity markets. He was asked a very leading question, "Even if you dont need equity but it is advantageous sometimes, so would you... blah blah blah" and Musk snapped back, "I dont want to:. His performance was derided, called flaky, and very negative press was generated by the way he snubbed the professional analysts and let one you tube fan of Musk dominate the earnings conference.
The shorts are taking pre emptive action here to put some crimps on SpaceX to stymie, thwart or at least put a crimp to this option. It is even possible Musk's erratic conf call is deliberate, to make the shorts take even stronger positions. The short interest actually increased after the earnings call, but still there is a 11 billion dollar margin calls hanging over the heads of the shorts. Just when the options come due, Musk can do a "BTW this happened" tweet and catch them once again like he did last year. The shorts lost 2.5 billion dollars on a falling stock!.
So take all this with a liberal dose of salt. Disclaimer: I don't own Tesla stock nor do I short it, in fact I dont trade on individual stock or options. Not a owner now, but I am getting a Model 3 soon.
Some 12 billion dollars of short interest is outstanding. It is the entire 33% of the float, and almost 100% of the stocks in the "stock lending" portfolios. Stock fell some 8 % and stabilized to around 5% loss. Only 0.7 billion was "in the money" after the drop. There is still 11 billion interest outstanding and there are not enough shares to go around, not available for sale.
A classic short squeeze is developing, it is possible the shorts might lose their shirts, once again in TSLA, this time TSLA that is losing money and with bond rating in tatters. It takes a particularly monumental stupidity to lose in shorting a struggling company.
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Caterpillar, Komatsu, John Deere are all going to be piling on against him, shorting Tesla,
He was working in the Manhatten project making the first atom bomb. Place was teeming with top physicists absent minded professors and was run by the Army that had safes allocated to all top scientists. After a long and interesting story about how he got into safe cracking, he mentioned: He was challenged to crack the safe of Niel Bohr or Oppenheimer. He did it in less than two minutes. Asked how, he replied, "Physicists always use 3141, 1414, 1783, or 2245 as the code". They are PI, sqrt(2), sqrt(3), sqrt(5)
Gentlemen, place your bets.
Eye tracking may or may not be reliable enough. But if eye tracking is not reliable, then nagware is definitely needed.
I feel this whole auto pilot, full self driving a big distraction from the core reason why I support Tesla.:
1. Make an electric that is affordable for at least 50% of the Americans.
2. Make a no negotiation, everyone pays the same price model for the cars, price transparency (secondary minor goal)
I wish Tesla would just let someone else develop this tech and license it.
Born 1991. Died 2018
RIP.
So the only serious solution seems to be individual streams served via the internet.
For each stream delivered add markers. Find the marker and you can leak source.
This was done way back in 1980, in films. My superstar Rajnikant movies were showing up in bootleg VHS tapes. The distributor used a stapler to punch a couple of holes on specific frames on each set of reels. Then on the bootleg VHS tape, he paused that particular segment and advanced frame by frame to find two bright white circles on one frame. Looked up which theater got that set and and found the source of the leak.
There was a big scandal some time ago when a family did not register a death of the old man to continue collecting the pension checks. And some investigation found it was not all that isolated. So of the people who are still alive according to pension records, how many are really alive?
I would say auction is a good idea. Pay so much to hire a H1B. But once hired the person is portable, who can leave you for another employer. Pay the fees for the position, but can't treat the hires as indentured labor.
If they had been this strict all these years H1B program will not be bad. We hire only US Masters/PhDs. We follow both the letter and the spirit of the law. The additional scrutiny is welcome.
IT was the Indian IT companies who used Indian diploma mills that made a mockery of the law and gamed the system, to death hopefully.
These batteries can be dispersed all around the grid. It can improve the power factor of inductive load dominated sub-grids and transformers.
There are 100 million ICE cars on the road in USA. And NTSB reports there are 500 vehicular fires that kill 100 people every day.
Since 1 on 800 vehicles on the road are Tesla, we should expect around 0.625 Tesla fire every day or about 18 fires a month or 60 Tesla fires in the first quarter of 2018.
Since every Tesla fire gets national news coverage, I would assume at most two fires happened in that period.
I would conclude Tesla prevented 58 vehicular fires in the first quarter of 2018.
92.3% of the statistics are made up on the spot.
Reminds me of the time I had to convince a Economics professor. It was a three level course, HS307 or something, Intro to Economics. The solution to the test problem was the equation of a straight line. I gave it in y = m * x + c form. His answer key had this in A x + B y + C = 0 form. Would not accept any of my explanations. I said, " 0.5, 1/2 and 50% are all the same thing" and he had fits, he claimed they are all different. He grudgingly offered partial credit. I had to walk him to a math prof's office and have him convince this dude.
Sending people to prison for incompetence is silly. .
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
The number of top executives who went to jail : 0
There is one where people who booked Tesla Model 3 are entering data to predict info Tesla is not revealing, VIN, production rates, etc etc. 5000 people collaborative editing. Pictures, charts, rolling 21 day averages, historic charts predicting wait times for each color + wheel combination, and what not..
There is one used by Indian/Chinese H1B applicants tracking the reports of who got what when. I have not seen it, but it supposed to be over 10000 people collaboratively editing a shared spreadsheet.
If you want to accept a tool and use to its maximum potential there is a lot you can do without Excel.
But if you want to cling to your Excel skills and macros, as though they were wonderful gems, masterpieces of art that can never be recreated, and demand some free tool to mimic it 100% to *your* satisfaction, tough luck, buddy. You enjoy your Excel and you pay through your nose for it.
What it lost was money, right? And who lost it? The shareholders.
All bonuses and pay all these executives wee gorging themselves in, was not clawed back. They did not go to jail. They paid the fines and compensation using shareholder's money.
Why would they change?
Why would you expect them to change?
You better ask siri
Siri, when will google start pulling a quora?
I am your google assistant, you are a dimwit asking for siri in an android phone.
Option trades are like stock trades. Anonymous, so no one should know who is shorting. Number of people is never known. Volume of trade is public information.
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Raw data is published like this: https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/... And there are sites that will consolidate and present it for irregular users and for news stories. I am not a trader so I only look at the news stories covering shorting of Tesla. I was only trying to see if my 1000$ deposit is gone or if there is some hope someday some car might materialize.
They will fund the US semi conductor industry with 40 billion dollars and fund 7 billion dollars in the 701st Cyber Warrior Division, The Red Weasels, to steal the secrets from those companies.
The talk in the street is, Space X will rescue Tesla. Musk has used Tesla to rescue Solar City. If he can use publicly traded company for a bailout, it would be easier, (not easy, but easier ) to persuade SpaceX backers to get him over the cash crunch in Tesla. That is why he is shunning equity markets. He was asked a very leading question, "Even if you dont need equity but it is advantageous sometimes, so would you ... blah blah blah" and Musk snapped back, "I dont want to:. His performance was derided, called flaky, and very negative press was generated by the way he snubbed the professional analysts and let one you tube fan of Musk dominate the earnings conference.
The shorts are taking pre emptive action here to put some crimps on SpaceX to stymie, thwart or at least put a crimp to this option. It is even possible Musk's erratic conf call is deliberate, to make the shorts take even stronger positions. The short interest actually increased after the earnings call, but still there is a 11 billion dollar margin calls hanging over the heads of the shorts. Just when the options come due, Musk can do a "BTW this happened" tweet and catch them once again like he did last year. The shorts lost 2.5 billion dollars on a falling stock!.
So take all this with a liberal dose of salt. Disclaimer: I don't own Tesla stock nor do I short it, in fact I dont trade on individual stock or options. Not a owner now, but I am getting a Model 3 soon.
A classic short squeeze is developing, it is possible the shorts might lose their shirts, once again in TSLA, this time TSLA that is losing money and with bond rating in tatters. It takes a particularly monumental stupidity to lose in shorting a struggling company.