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What a weird call. Especially the callout of the diamler CEO.

Elon says that the diamler CEO does not understand physics
"He doesn't know much about physics. I know him. I'd be happy to engage in a physics discussion with him. I actually studied physics in college."

Wiki says otherwise:

"... studied electrical engineering from 1971 to 1976 at the University of Karlsruhe; he graduated as an engineer. He completed his doctorate in engineering in 1982 at the University of Paderborn."

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Zetsche
Communism as the Unhappy Coming [pdf]
oops, the pawn nerd not the blog nerd.
If they did, you essentially go back to random choice because of all the broken chains created. "Find" is meant to imply literally "discovering the location of data that correlates to their prisoner number".

Real world context implied that prisoners would also take the tickets, but that is not specifically stated.
And Tokyo is in a huge water crisis and could very soon run out of fresh drinking water for all of their citizens. California, with substantially fewer people moving in, is already in a water shortage. Do you think they can support Toyko-style housing numbers?

I say this as someone who lives in the one of the states that West Coast politicians want to steal the water from. Instead of shipping our water across the country to feed the desert, you can... you know... just move here. So the water is fed back where it came from.
What did you have in place before this (wiki, Slack, Yammer or something like it) if anything?

Is this better than finding the right person to ask, or posting in slack or something?

In my org we have a wiki on topics and if that fails an "experts" list with people to contact for further help. There is also a yammer group for asking questions, but that is rarely used. I think this could be helpful, but whether or not it's worth the cost would be a question for someone else.
Or instead, how about I tell you about my time working for a real estate tax certiorari firm in NYC and how landlords with multiple properties will deliberately underutilize their buildings for tax advantages.

Occupancy maximums of 90% and one or multiple buildings deliberately at 0% occupancy (usually the primary residence of the landlords' extended family members for undeclared income) is the norm.
In the case of Walter White, I think it's a slightly different phenomenon: the wish-fulfillment fantasy of the tortured genius who is allowed to be a snarky misanthrope because he's so brilliant. There have been a whole bunch of (usually male) protagonists like this, especially recently: Walter White, Don Draper, Dr. House, Rick Sanchez... I'm sure you can fill in plenty more examples.
What would be the difference
No, he comes off as someone who has to be the smartest person in the room and when he gets asked questions he doesn't know the answer to, he deflects. This is immature.
Sadly, a lot of them bring the same bullshit policies and ideas with them. One person, originally from LA, commenting locally here in Bend was complaining about how a duplex would "ruin the neighborhood".
Why do you have an expectation that a Q&A about financials should be emotionally exciting?
You can go into a session like this with your mind made up and still legitimately ask these questions. This questioning should hopefully show the other party why they are wrong or show you why they are correct. Either is a great outcome and the questions are the same either way.
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Almost all lawsuits regarding the good faith clause involve some sort of corrupt practice that enriched the executives at the expense of the shareholders (in fact, Tesla is currently involved in a similar lawsuit regarding its purchase of Solar City). It would be near impossible to prove bad faith in choosing one business strategy vs. another if there wasn't some corrupt intent or incentive.
Do you agree with the actions of Coraline Ada Ehmke here:

https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941

Someone, on their personal twitter account, made a remark that Coraline Ada Ehmke found offensive. Coraline noticed that he was a contributor to the Opal project. So Coraline opened an issue on the project, called him an ugly name, and petitioned to have him removed from the project.

I will not quietly submit to bossy bullies like Coraline Ada Ehmke, and I will defend the victims of Coraline Ada Ehmke.

What say you, chickenfries?
> fiduciary duty to maximise shareholder value

This can be and has been widely interpreted. It does not have to mean maximizing profits to the exclusion of everything else.
I'd buy rental properties. Invest out of state if it's too expensive where you live.
Because there's a chapter where they cut off the whales penis, skin it, turn it inside out and wear it as a robe. Everyone thought that was hilarious, but they had to pretend they liked the book for other reasons.
(https://www.shmoop.com/moby-dick/chapter-95-summary.html)
I think this project deserves a lot more attention.

There aren't decent PDF tools for Linux and this is also based on web standards which is awesome.

The combination of older/robust technology like PDF but with modern web standards is really compelling.
Could you explain what you think his true intentions are? Because to me it does look both sexist and racist.
Yeah, whodathunkit? Being successful involves effort
You know speaking of Warren Buffett, he came to mind while I was reading the article, as someone who pretty much behaves the exact opposite of this. No ostentatious display by the 3rd-richest person in the world... hmm that's interesting. You'd think it would give pause to the many suckers out there, but apparently they all still think things in the world are exactly how they look. That's why it's not fair to target young people - they haven't learned yet.

Challenging myself to find a photo of Warren posing ostentatiously with a car, I found this which cracked me up:

http://2il.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/warren-buffett-dri...

He's picking up a BIG MAC for chrissakes. His car is very ordinary-looking and not showy. It's a Caddy though mind you... he's not an animal.
way to go Stripe!
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Most of the water in CA goes to agricultural uses if I'm not mistaken. Denser cities are far more efficient in environmental terms: no lawns, less fossil fuel usage and so on.

Sure, some jobs will go elsewhere, but there are big returns to being where everyone else is. This book does a good job explaining why:

https://amzn.to/2KymJj6
Goldman Sachs has more developers than Facebook. It's not like Wall Street isn't filled with software people.
Hey Afpx,

You're not alone. I recently went thru this myself and wrote up my experiences here: http://fuzzyblog.io/blog/jobhound/2018/04/24/ten-things-i-le...

I hope that helps.
"God forbid a CEO do anything except try to drive the share price as high as humanly possible."

If he wants to maximize the amount of money he gets the next time he goes to the trough, while minimizing the dilution, then yes, he needs to drive the price up.
If Tesla folds then my concern is that it would just be used as justification for shutting down EV programs as not viable.
Tokyo sprawls across a massive floodplain, and mostly comprises 1-2 story construction. It is not especially dense, and it has spectacular regional transit.

Tokyo is not a counterargument to the parent’s point that geographical constraints dominate housing costs in the bay area.
Elon called out the press for writing misleading articles to generate clicks. He went as far as calling it irresponsible and dangerous.

Elon Musk criticising others for making misleading statements to generate hype seems more than a little hypocritical, no?
> So why isn't Tesla using a non-leaky money pipe?

If such a thing existed that would bring in the amount of money to Tesla that it has needed, it would.
Not heavy restrictions.

There are a few historic districts (read: well-off NIMBYs) such as Park Slope where height is strictly capped.

In Manhattan the caps are generally designed to ensure that at least some light and air still reaches the street (before they were imposed, buildings were build to their full height to the edges of lots, and contributed to the city being very dark.

Much of Manhattan is actually somewhat low-rise (3-5 stories). In those areas, developers can buy "air rights" from neighboring low-rise buildings if they want to build taller on a nearby lot.
If Musk has a way to keep investors happy without spending time on these calls, he doesn't appear to have deployed it yet. If he doesn't think keeping investors happy is necessary or part of his job, well I guess we'll find out.
theres a really good defcon talk on this

I believe its this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hABj_mrP-no
That's interesting. In 2017 Trek manufactured more than 350 different models of bicyle[0].

I'm not sure how that reflects on Tesla. Tesla is not manufacturing bicycles. Nor are they manufacturing Model As in the 1930s automobile market.

[0] https://archive.trekbikes.com/us/en/2017
Not to be difficult, but what do you like about AirBnB? There are benefits to it, but you also seem to understand the problems specific to it. Why do you feel the benefits outweigh the problems created?
I agree. The biggest gift CA can give to the other 49 would be to stop driving their own residents out.

CA housing policy has hurt many places outside CA, Denver for example.
I was reading a fun essay by Thoreau about this the other day. I tend to agree that a lot of people pay too much attention to ephemera with minimal value.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/walden/essays/life.html
This could not be more true
Zoning laws can only control what developers choose to build so much.

If you look at the rezoned mixed use districts like the garment & flower district and the lower east side, they've been flooded with hotel development (in some cases clusters of hotels on the same block) because it's more profitable.
I'm sure this is a controversial topic, but I find the interplay between religion and economic success of societies interesting. Unfortunately, usually when it comes up it devolves from criticism of religious ideas to criticism of the groups that hold those ideas.
Borrow money isn't the right word. They're not creditors, they hold equity. They're the owners Musk is dismissing. The point of these calls is to make sure the executive officers are being held accountable to the owners of the company with thier money Elon is managing on their behalf. It was a PTA meeting and Elon Musk was being a petulant child who doesn't think he should have to do what his parents tell him.
There is nothing wrong with making a small art-house film instead of a superhero action movie.

There is a lot wrong with getting the budget of a superhero action movie and then making the sort of small art-house film that will never be able to pay off the investors.

If this were some quirky, self-funded Musk project, he could do as he pleased. But not only do they have shareholders, they have $1.8 billion in loans due in the next 18 months: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimcollins/2018/04/02/forget-th...
>> Shaking off short-termist investors may be sensible to follow long term strategies.

While I prefer to focus on long-term over short term, you still can't let the short term kill you. A lot of people think Tesla will be out of money within the year and that's a short-term problem that needs to be solved in the short term. If not there will be no long term.
Quick little issue in the docs for Getting Started>Installation>Quick Start:Altair+Colab:

Following the instructions leads to an error at the from vega_datasets line.

Needed to fix by first running
!pip install vega_datasets

I see there's a debate on building vega_datasets into Altair, but just wanted to offer a potential revision to the docs for that section.
Probably because comments usually make it obvious if someone is using an automated bot to grow their Instagram account, which he definitely is.
Kind of like rap, too. It's bizarre (and kind of awesome) how many rap and hip-hop lyrics are about being the best at rap and hip-hop.
Pivotal is clearly a style that works well for some people. But couldn’t you categorise the constant pairing as a form of ongoin meeting? It doesn’t seem like the place to go if you want to be left alone...
"There’s no such thing as an anti-war movie."
Hotels are taxed differently. They also tend to be somewhat denser than apartments, since they typically include only bedroom and bathroom, not kitchen or living room. And people are often willing to put up with a smaller hotel room than bedroom, since they only need space for a few days' worth of stuff there.
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It depends on the type of housing being built. A lot of new housing being built is unaffordable two bed apartments aimed at higher earners. Along with the YIMBY campaign a percentage of the housing needs to be affordable to lower income people in a city.

Also better public transportation would help so people can live further away and easily commute to city jobs.
I was just about to make a bot for this!
I feel like holding out single sign-on for a separate Enterprise tier priced at "Contact a sale rep for details!" is a mistake. Heck, I feel like any "contact a sales rep for details!" pricing tier is a mistake.
Sure, that’s inextricably a part of the deal. Don’t sign on the dotted line if you’re uneasy about it. As long as nobody is forcing you to do it, I don’t have a problem. The situation where I can try things (at my discretion) is strictly better than the one where i unconditionally die.
> That would improve the quality of life of your workers currently required to be near SF by allowing them to relocate to lower cost of living areas

I don't think you can assume that people would consider this to be an improvement in overall quality of life, especially when many (or most?) current employees joined the companies presumably knowing they would work in SF.

I personally enjoy seeing my coworkers in person and I know others on my team have requested more face time with coworkers in other offices.
What about a company which offers a worldwide service, but whose market is 99.99% outside europe?

I run a site targeted at north americans. However, each year I usually get 1-2 sales within Europe (mostly UK), and a very small number of visitors from EU countries.
Flamethrowers 'launch' a flame a long distance, typically by igniting some liquid and spraying it over a distance. A torch generally creates a much more localized flame. It's a much more controlled device.
The DSA LA statement linked in a sibling is good, but the simplest argument against YIMBY-ism is that re-zoning is demonstrably not a panacea. America has weird laws, many other countries do not. Popular cities are still ultra-expensive around the world, in spite of development.

If you want to actually solve housing problems, you need a much much broader approach than simply allowing private development which, in absence of other incentives, will be almost entirely luxury apartments.
Accidentally, in most cases. It's the parking requirements that do it. For every X number of units, you need to guarantee Y parking spaces. Building more parking lots is poor real estate utilization and underground parking is prohibitively expensive. This is why developers build hotels instead of housing when the neighborhood can't absorb more parking (which is nearly always).
We can totally crush people turning rental properties into unsanctioned hotels while allowing people to occasionally rent out a bedroom and work on other solutions to affordable housing.

Just fine renter and airbnb 100x what they are liable to earn in the former case and shockingly such a case will trivially go away.

Those caught with their pants down because they invested a bunch of money in illegal hotels can sell and roll that money into another illegal enterprise of their choosing that is less trivial to regulate out of existence.
Are these shareholders he’s talking to, or investment bank analysts trying to get the CEO to fill in their spreadsheets for them? I guess I’d be a bad CEO but I don’t get why an “investor” call should be about the company showing respect, bowing down and kissing Wall Street’s ring.
Flamethrowers launch a flammable liquid and can light that liquid. They have a longer range and the fuel they project generally sticks and continues burning after hitting a target. Propane torches just burn propane at their nozzle their range is much shorter and don't really pose a danger outside of a few feet. This [0] is a flamethrower and this is a propane torch [1].

The Tesla Flamethrower is literally just a roofing torch like in [1] with a plastic gun around it and the valve turned all the way open. [2]

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UprliuSNvX0

[2] https://qz.com/1191685/elon-musks-boring-company-flamethrowe...
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>I mean Scarface looks pretty terrible by the end of the movie, and people idolize him.

You got the wrong idea. I don't think anyone idolizes Tony. It's a great movie and Tony is a great character and Scarface tells an interesting story, not because the protagonist made himself rich. Same as Godfather, I like it and I like them not because they are rich, but it was because they made interesting choices. Let's talk about Scarlett in Gone with the wind -- was she rich? Was she poor?

Recently, I listened to Shit Town and it gave me an everlasting impression on me. The main character in the story was a very poor man. I liked him -- not because he is poor either, but because he is interesting.

Who cares about whether the character is rich or poor, the character's background is merely a medium to tell the story. Being very rich or poor or desperate is just a convenient choice to get the story flowing because the characters in such extreme circumstances tend to have interesting experiences and choices.
There are plenty of people holding Tesla bonds that are also listening to this conference call intently too.
I don't think you can just claim an improvement in quality of life. I'd guess that one component of choosing Stripe is because said workers want to live in/near SF.
Indeed. Had to port a 2k perl script with gigantic comment blocks written in German. Eventually I recreated the intended functionality with ~150 lines of JS after painfully google translating everything. JIRA references would probably be lost completely by the time I worked on it.
> Yes, but it will also increase occupants

It will increase mobility of occupants, but it probably won't increase occupants (which is equivalent to decreasing homelessness) much, though the decrease in short-term rental pricing could reduce transitional homelessness (but the increase in long-term residential prices could also increase the more durable kind of homelessness)
I find the opposite true - when people seek out meaning they're often miserable :)

I know i have one life to live, so i choose to experience and see what I can and that brings me much happiness - but in a way, it's not all from happiness. There is lots of suffering and sacrifice. I love hiking mountains but its no walk in the park and requires lots of willpower to keep climbing when everything is telling you to turn around. Making it to the top the first time is an accomplishment but further summits are more about the experience, beauty, and wonder of being alive and being able to explore this planet by foot.

Not looking for answers as if there is a purpose, but experiencing life with purpose - to see it and live it. To me, thats vastly different than purpose through meaning.
Honestly, your comment sounds like propaganda more than the article...
As long as you are comfortable knowing this problem won’t be fixed for you, but maybe your kids, that’s a fine stance to take.

It’s reasonable you spend your money as you choose. It’s irrational for a company to pay you more to be in SF when they can pay talent less that chooses to live elsewhere.
It's so hard to see them starting to falter. They were on the cusp of mainstream success.
If you have a million dollar condo in addition to your primary residence then you aren't middle class by any common sense definition of the word middle.
Tahoe has a surprising number of jurisdictions! I'm on the Nevada side, so I don't have personal experience with the SLT enforcement.

Here there seems to be a fair amount of teeth gnashing about airbnb -- there are clearly more people in the neighborhoods and rentals for locals are now hard to find. But the homeowners think it's raising property values and are kind of happy that if they ever leave Tahoe there is now a pretty straitforward way to hold on to their property. The end result is not much happening.

The SLT ordinance is addressing the what I think is the major fear for many -- that a nearby house will become an unbearable party house. I think pretty much all of the Tahoe jurisdictions have moved quickly to ensure that doesn't happen. In our neighborhood, I've been told the sheriff responds in minutes to a noise complaint, and that the visit results in fairly draconian fines to the property owner.
Well, there's 4chan. But seriously, I like reddit, especially the iOSProgramming, the swift and the financialindependence subs.