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> The private sector has historically been the one that had sane and logical business practices minimizing risk, while government had the funding necessary to take on large, risky projects for the good of their constituents

I'm not a "free market trumps all" person by any means, but is this really true? Xerox PARC, GE, IBM, Ford all come to mind. Sure, still the government was involved in quite a few of these, but I wouldn't say these companies were minimizing risk by any means.
I think a lot of Musk's critics would consider Tesla the poster child of "fake it till you make it".
According to Investopedia, Musk is worth $20B. As a first-order estimate, at last year's spend rate, he could fund Tesla for 10 years. But, those leaches are why he's worth $20B and the results of this call probably lopped a goodly chunk out of that $20B.

Tesla may not be fine. One ought not to go out of one's way to bite the hand that feeds one.
* If you're a YIMBY what's the toughest NIMBY article or argument you've come across?

"We have 100 years of law, cultural, and financial precedent for our NIMBY actions and decisions, supported at all levels of government and the financial sector." When you're packing that kind of heat, your don't need a strong argument.
From my discussions with coworkers on the NIMBY side the real reason they were so interested in preventing new construction in their towns was to keep the children of poor people out of the schools their own kids were going to more than to raise the values of their houses. And some fears that the sort of people who would move into cheaper housing would cause higher crime rates.
Any place to get the audio, given the entire transcript is available?
Not at all true in the US. See: Supreme Court Hobby Lobby case.
It's the second time in a short while that he shows he does not want to run the company like it is a public company. But he does want access to that capital. Those two don't mesh.
That's a commonly held myth.

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/09/09/how-t...

https://medium.com/bull-market/there-is-no-effective-fiducia...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiduciary#Fiduciary_duties_und...
Exactly. I wonder too if they are accounting for increased tax revenue due to more travelers visiting the city thanks to AirBnb. Honestly I've been able to travel a lot more because of AirBnb, and how affordable it is compared to a hotel.

At this point, prices are starting to stabilize with hotels in some of the bigger cities like NYC and SF, but still. I prefer the idea of freeing up under-utilized space for dynamic purposes as opposed to a fixed number of hotel location.
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So interesting. "wirehead" addiction is an interesting plot point in "The Ringworld Engineers", but I didn't realize it was so well understood & implementable.
Investing is what we make of it. The reality is for everyone but the top 1%, investing is long term. It's tied into 401ks, it tied into RSU, its tied into Options unless you're the top 1% in which case the only benefit of short-term markets is the ability to manipulate them for your own benefit. Many CEO's know this and Tesla isn't the only company that faces this problem. Amazon has to think long-term, many tech companies have to think long term. Trying to get an entire industry/society to move forward or make systematic changes is a LONG TERM proposition.

sure, we can day trade or buy stocks and sell whenever we want, but we're not the ones causing market swings, we're positions in computational modeling where the market makers aren't even offering our positions to the market but using your sell to do another buy and make money off us reacting/acting on the market.

The end result is still that Tesla seeks a profit - but its business goal is to change the market. If you don't like that, don't buy the stock.
This is of the November 2017 earnings call. That's not the one being discussed here.
IIRC, part of the argument against is that you're allowing biotech/pharma companies to test on vulnerable populations. Here's a story on NPR about the pros and cons: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/03/5177969...
One of the things I was really was going to happen with Tesla would have been a revival of the boutique auto industry - whereby, one could buy all the subcomponents of the Tesla - a full drive-train-chassis setup with all controls and then build custom bodies on top of them

Like trucks and vans etc.

Pipe-dream sure, but I was really hoping that this would happen.

How hard would it be to extend the length of the chassis only to allow for a long van/bus/truck be built on top of it (and by how hard, I mean "how hard" - not "it couldn't be that hard, could it" type of question)
OpenBSD has practically pioneered privsep and privdrop designs, including techniques like file descriptor passing. pledge() already works for privileged/unprivileged users/processes and most of the base system is pledged.
That isn't true.

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...
If someone copies the startup after launch and you "lose" to them, does that mean they're better equipped in some way than you? If so, does the competitive edge actually matter?

I view it more as a myth stemming from survivor bias.
It still has higher trading volume than Bitcoin Cash apparently, which is freaking hilarious.
‘Good faith and care’ is typically understood by US courts to have a strong emphasis on ROI. But you’re right, it is a little bit of gray area, and can be made purposefully more complicated when, e.g., the prospectus puts other duties first. Google’s “we’re not a typical company and we don’t intend to become one” is a famous example. For benefit corporations are the extreme example of this.
>"It's literally his job to talk to investors. He explicitly invited those questions, too."

I totally agree, still in my experience they are quite boring. I'm not even advocating for any kind of change or anything, they are probably supposed to be boring.

>"Obviously it would be boring to you as a layman with no money on the line."

Why would you I assume I was listening to an earnings call without money on the line? But actually, now that you mention it, recordings of those calls could be a good insomnia cure.
> Elon has always seemed to have the attitude of "not everyone should invest in this stock".

This is financial suicide for the company. TSLA needs more money this year or next year. Losing $1 Billion per quarter means he is relying on his shareholders each time he raises another round of equity.

The $1.7+ Billion to build the Gigafactory was from the Stock Market (https://electrek.co/2016/05/25/tesla-tsla-stock-offering-pro...). Tesla will need future rounds like this to continue to function.

Pissing off shareholders and reducing the value of your stock is financial suicide.
This is awesome to see and I really hope more companies and institutions follow suit! Building housing should be the number one issue for every politician in the Bay Area and California.
Were there larger birds back then? Larger birds might use larger tools?
They nailed all their milestones. This is tremendously important work with regards to a future outpost anywhere and possible outposts on Earth. (Imagine how much fuel you wouldn't have to ferry down to Antartica each year to prepare for winter operations, for example).

Now to ruggedize the heck out of it and make it easily transportable.
iirc this is known as minimongo however it is only used in the Meteorjs world for some reason. anyone else know of similar non Meteor solutions?
It's so meta. I still remember the "Hey I quit my job and got rich as a blogger who tells you how to quit your job and get rich as a blogger" craze of 2010.
What Musk is interested in is not relevant. Could you explain this statement? It's good to have these kinds of questions but let's not forget the bigger picture. Musk is making a contribution to the world. The Wolf on Wall Street not so much.
Yes, I agree. I do think allowing Gali to ask just one or two questions before throwing it back to the other analysts would have been a better tactic.

Allowing him to ask almost 10, especially after the abrupt shutdown of the other questions, came off as a slap in the faces of the other analysts.
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Median rent was down ~4% in 2017 [1], some areas like UWS, Hell's Kitchen, LIC are down ~10%. Those are also incidentally the places with the most new construction. The whole Hunter's Point area in LIC has been completely transformed in just a few years from industrial to residental. 3K in Hunter's Point will now get you a new construction with all the bells and whistles and a few free months.

https://ny.curbed.com/2018/1/24/16925172/nyc-rent-2017-decre...
Yes, that is what I'm trying to say. They have been battling it out in court for two years and lost so far. Still free bandwidth for facebook though.
It is not. It's what psychopath people use as an excuse.
The earnings, though better than expected, still show a company in a precarious position that is going to have to raise more capital if it doesn't reach cash flow positive by Q3 or Q4 of this year.

And if it does raise more capital, how do you justify the $50 billion market cap if your earnings are crippled with so much debt financing?
No doubt he can raise the needed capital this year, but at what terms and at what dilution. The stock price probably reflects the expected dilution coming up.
In my opinion housing comes first. Breed's bike policy seemed reasonable but maybe I missed something?

The most critical transit issues are at the scale of the Bay area, and the SF mayor doesn't have the authority or budgets to solve them alone. That will require strong action at the state level, or the emergence of a new layer of government with the mandate and budgets to bypass the petty squabbles of cities and impose a sane bay area transit infrastructure development roadmap. One can dream...
Not that it's going to happen.

But Apple is sitting on ~$270b of cash (1).

And is run by a guy in Tim Cook that is a world class operator and fulfillment guy.

And who has been criticized for lacking vision :)

We can dream right?

(1) https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/01/apple-q2-2018-earnings-heres...
Maybe he knows something you don’t.
In the entertainment sense, sure. But Musk is running a $50 billion company, not performing stand up.
Funny thing: if that added number isn't relatively prime to 100 - and 60% of random numbers would share a factor - then they've just made a lot of smaller cycles.

And it's easy to break if you can swap two. Say the warden adds one. If you swap 50 and 100, you have two cycles of 50.
Fair enough. I am looking forward to them sharing a detailed analysis. As ComodoHacker mentioned, I too would like to see the CVE details or placeholder.
Tesla is a public company.

Wall Street acts as a leaky pipe funneling money between investors and Tesla.
The 8000th Busy Beaver number eludes ZF set theory (2016)
Don't expect them to be much faster than a regular Xeon CPU however.

The main selling aspect is to avoid your private keys from being leaked to the world. For that there is all sort of tamper proofing on usually what is a PCIe card. They can also be sold as appliances.

Also, they tend to be a bit crappy. I had a really bad experience with Safenet Luna SE at my last job. The thing was buggy as hell, performance tended to be random between devices and on the security side, it was a CentOS 6.0 (with no updates) and a custom kernel driver + some userland tools which strangely enough, creates devices under /dev that were world writable...

The Luna SA seemed better, but their rackmount appliances where nothing to be proud of: cheap 1U chassis, with regular desktop parts (micro ATX motherboard, a cheap celeron, non ECC RAM). The one we opened with quite old however (Luna SA 4 IIRC).

The Thales ones seemed better at least in term of finish. The base appliance seemed to be of overall far better quality (sturdier case). But I didn't play with it, so no opinions on overall performance and ease of use.
NIMBYs deploy a range of shifting rhetorical arguments (concern trolling, strawman etc) but in my observation the principle motivation is fear of change and the negative externalities of increasing population ... traffic, parking, what if the new people are different from me, etc.

Money is part of it but less than many assume because (1) home equity is paper wealth and many owners can't afford to move due to Prop13. and (2) the way to actually maximize land value is to upzone, so NIMBYism not exactly optimal in terms of economic self-interest.
Unfortunately, this law is only marginally enforceable, and it's not in AirBnB's interest to do much more than pay lip service to enforcement.
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What is more mind boggling to me than this is the fact that Professor Hawking could accurately and properly collaborate on such complex topics with other researchers at this level given the limits to his communication.

I had the privilege of attending a live speech Professor Hawking give back in 2002 or so, and the most impactful thing about it was that it wasn't pre-recorded. He would "speak" a sentence and then there would be between 10-45 seconds of silence and then another sentence. This continued for about an hour and a half and nobody lost interest.

I have to assume that the typing, formatting etc... of this paper was handled by someone else, however even just communicating greek characters, algorithms and diagrams must have been a feat.
Unfortunately, this law is only marginally enforceable without AirBnB's wholehearted collaboration, and it's not in AirBnB's interest to do much more than pay lip service to enforcement.
10.11.11.10?
Unless you're operating a major mining pool or mining hardware company, or at least breach the security of those organizations.
Buy a used iPhone? I am on a 6 and it works just fine. Goes for around 150$ to 200$ non negotiated.
My previous company was awful about scheduling meetings. They had a strong propensity to throw big timewasters right in the middle of the most focused part of my day, like sprint planning and all-hands meetings.

Probably part of the reason I'm gone now, but it is incredibly annoying to be in a groove and forcibly interrupted in the middle of it for an managerial ego-stroking session. (Also, you're paying me a decent chunk of change to sit there bored out of my skull).
When I used to read twitter I'd see a lot of this where authors would get torn apart (often by other authors) for writing something that was allegedly racist or appropriating some other culture. At least in the real world you can tell that people like that are in the minority, but online, because the barrier to participate is so low, it can feel like everyone is against you.
Fight Club had a lot of messages. I could name a couple more:

* A generation of men raised with absent father figures is leading to listless depression.

* Every person has an idealized version of themselves in their head where they are powerful and purposeful.

* Modern middle class culture has no real danger in it, and we have lost our connection to the world of physical violence and dominance.

* Living for the acquisition of more IKEA furniture is a poor life decision.

And so on and so forth. Like most decently thoughtful and provocative film and writing it throws a lot of things at you and makes you think and reconsider your values a little. It has a lot of messages, some contradictory, some confusing or banal, and some intriguing.
They also provide a Twitter account by the way: https://twitter.com/GHChangelog
If you don't like it then don't run a public company.
But each actor is merely doing the actions to their maximum satisfaction within the ruleset. "scuzzy" is not factored into the equation at all.
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The difference is intent. A con is a confidence play with the intent to deceive. Elon’s MO is a confidence play with intent to succeed — the confidence motivates success of the organization (at great labor cost) that would otherwise be unobtainable.
A torch is essentially ignited butane (like a fancy lighter or Bunsen burner). A flamethrower is ignighted gasoline (or napalm). A flamethrower's flames stick and have a much further range.

A flamethrower is essentially a gasoline/napalm hose / stream with a lighter at the end of it.
You're super hopeful if you think people don't idolize Patrick Bateman, but they do. People don't see the story, they see a young, good-looking Christian Bale with a powerful suit on walking the streets of NYC with headphones on. People want that image, and the message is lost or separated entirely.
Wall Street sounds pretty terrible. So why isn't Tesla using a non-leaky money pipe?
The major fear that comes up with these is: what if the missile blows up while still in earth? How are these risks managed?
Meh. I say, fuck the “analysts”. The dude is on fire. He can afford it. This is as close to the second coming of Steve Jobs as we’re going to get for quite some time. This is rock n roll. I’m just enjoying the show over here: my TSLA position is relatively small.
"It is the most popular Retail investor stock..."

Source?
I'm not sure it's "fine" if you're posting record losses, still more than 50% under capacity to make a profit later in the year, and dealing with recent manufacturing problems so serious that you literally had to close the production lines down.

As I write this, TSLA is down about 6% on the day, and it's not as if sharp drops or a general downward trend are unusual over the past year. They're in real trouble, and this doesn't seem like a good time for Musk to let his ego out of its box.
You are talking about their implementation. It's done in an old-school way(by extending HTML), and it would be very hard to build any sort of complex UI on this implementation.

However, the idea behind this project is pretty interesting. If you haven't already, do check out their presentation in the section "How LayerJS works".
Indeed, we should be increasing housing supply further.

But even at a record breaking construction pace, we're building <20K units annually (that's 50 400-unit buildings) while population is increasing by >100K annually. And that doesn't even include the people who would move here if it were less unaffordable.
"With that in mind though, we can brute force similar keys"

You mean actually brute force key generations until you get what you want? In that case, how's anything previous in the article worth anything?

The drunken bishop article actually performs some smart brute force searches. Maybe the author is doing something similar?
> not getting bogged down by a x% difference on capital outlay here or there.

People would not be after him so much if he hadn't missed almost every prediction he's made. The company is quickly approaching a cliff that the Musk cheerleaders cannot simply cheer him across. Timelines really start to matter when your runway is running out.
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OK, I'm running the same version on x64 Win10 as well. No problems here. It could be you have some sort of ad-blocking extension installed that's degrading performance on that page.
Serious question: why do you pick stocks?
The strange thing is, Tesla finally seems to be getting decent production rates on their Model 3 line.[1] They got 2500 cars out the door in a week at peak, which is respectable. Until recently, output was so low that it was clear the line wasn't working right. They then shut down to retune their production line, which makes sense. They should soon be cranking about 2500-3000 cars a week without much fuss. Once first shift is running smoothly, they can add a second shift.

Tesla may be over the hump on getting the business working. But profitability is still a ways off. Tesla may need more capital to get there.

What Tesla doesn't need now are distractions. The truck, the new roadster, the next model, self-driving. They need to focus on shipping product before the money runs out.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker/
I was reading all of the thoughtful critiques of Elon's behavior when something occurred to me: there is an awful lot of brain power here that is spending an awful lot of time analyzing the decisions and words of one man.

It's actually odd when you think about it: we do a lot of observing and commenting these days (myself included) and I wonder how much more productive we would be individually and as a society if more of our energy was invested in creation and building.
Now do it for San Diego.

The last 2 years, the prices have gone absolutely bonkers and landlords have ridiculous demands based on inflated airbnb prices they can charge to out of towners.

I really like Airbnb, but these effects are real and they suck.
You just have to take it a bit farther and block everything by default except the HTML using something like uMatrix. It's often a pain in the ass when I do want to see more than the text (and of course some sites require javascript to even get the text) but most of the time I just want to read the text and combined with Reader mode it's even formatted well, often better than the original site, for my tastes anyway.
> ... it's that people who seek immediate wealth, and who fantasize about their "million dollar idea", are absolutely not the kinds of people who become successful and wealthy.

There is an old saying: Making a million dollars and spending a million dollars are the exact opposite thing.
There's a matrix-style screensaver for OSX that uses something similar (global events via API) to populate the 'matrix characters' with actual code. Useless, but conceptually rather fitting.

https://github.com/winterbe/github-matrix-screensaver
> He spent 20 minutes answering softball questions from a youtuber instead.

Not just softballs... questions that have nothing to do with Tesla today or the near future... rather... questions about Elon's whimsical dreams of the far future and how Tesla might possibly play into that.

Questions about fully autonomous electric vehicle taxi fleets, etc... but he skipped all the questions about how he's going to get Tesla there or how to survive long enough to see that future.
It's 2018, on an article dealing with happiness/fulfillment and no one dropped a Peterson video yet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdu6iN0CM3s
Worst case scenario is you put the reactor next to the toilet, in the rotating part of the spacecraft, to solve the problem with convection...

These two things are enormously simplified when there is gravity.
Uber and Lyft are changing where rich people buy homes
> We've spent too much time as a culture celebrating fairly useless achievements and being unwilling to dare to do the things that will truly take us forward.

Are you kidding? Society had progressed more in the last 10 years than it has in the previous 20, with all indications the next 10 will see even more progress. We are making real progress, even excluding the great work Musk is doing in Solar/EV/Space/Boring/Hyperloop.

* We are very near peak carbon output, with the majority of the developed world very concerned.

* The United States voted for an African American president (slightly more than 10 years ago) and a female presidential candidate won the popular vote, a milestone for equality.

* Almost 50% of the world's population is connected to the internet, and can communicate directly and instantly.

* The internet moved from on our desks/laps to in our pockets and on our wrists.

* We've made major advancements in medical science, from cardiology to genetics.

* Huge social changes, from winding down the drug war to marriage equality

* Super computers have roughly the same processing speed as the human brain

* VR/AR is entering mainstream.
If you shuffle a deck of cards, do you ever get a 2/5 of heart/diamonds?
That's not "bogged down" to a professional investor. Which is who these conference calls are for.