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mehrdada commented on Tesla is in the business of selling emission credits, not just cars   twitter.com/stealthygeek/... · Posted by u/notRobot
7e · 3 years ago
Selling credits makes a hypocritical joke of Tesla’s mission statement. They should hold them instead. These are pollution indulgences. They undo all of the environmental benefits of owning a Tesla. Every Tesla sold enables another gas guzzling SUV to come into existence. So just buy the ICE SUV, it gets better range and refuels faster.
mehrdada · 3 years ago
> Every Tesla sold enables another gas guzzling SUV to come into existence

This is a very reductive and static worldview. First, on the surface of it "enable" is factually false: ICE SUVs existed before Tesla so Tesla is in no way enabling those. To steelman your argument, at best you could say it makes ICE SUV slightly more economically feasible to its customer, but the entire ZEV credit regime could have been nullified by now had Tesla and other mass-market EVs did not persistently exist. Ignoring even that, it marginally increases the economic feasibility of the SUV while transitioning one vehicle (the Tesla sold itself).

tgma commented on Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/staplung
anonymousab · 3 years ago
If you burn everything to the ground and then basically hire a whole new team to work on a whole new app and platform, then your productivity has nowhere to go but up.
tgma · 3 years ago
Mmm... to be clear the baseline is not after you burn it to the ground, but before the acquisition.
mehrdada commented on Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/staplung
jakelazaroff · 3 years ago
Why would this happen? From the outside, it seems like Elon is absolutely decimating employee morale. See for example this thread from an engineer who has no beef with Elon and wants to see Twitter succeed, but still took the severance: https://twitter.com/peterclowes/status/1593458225533313025
mehrdada · 3 years ago
At this point, the company was hemorrhaging cash. He had no choice but to stop the bleeding. It is a messy process and time works against you; mistakes will be made.

Once he gets to stabilize the cash flow, Twitter can provide a comp model to attract talent. About that, let's just say Geohot would not have worked for Parag, as an example. https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/159295542717976576...

mehrdada commented on Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/staplung
Moctogo · 3 years ago
Wild prediction: Twitter will continue to work as it did even after that ~80% workforce haircut. Make of that what you will.
mehrdada · 3 years ago
100% agree. Once the dust settles my prediction is productivity will also soar.
mehrdada commented on Tesla finds a loophole in states where dealerships are forbidden: Tribal lands   kbb.com/car-news/tesla-fi... · Posted by u/alex_young
Moissanite · 3 years ago
Prior to 2020 this was true; I think I got around 13% off my last new car. However since the pandemic shortages and with manufacturing delays, there is much less flexibility as the dealerships know the cars are going to sell either way. When I went to test drive a car recently I saw a couple getting a flat denial on any discount even after attempting to haggle.
mehrdada · 3 years ago
COVID era supply was impacted and demand was high. US car dealers routinely sold cars way above MSRP too.
mehrdada commented on Tesla finds a loophole in states where dealerships are forbidden: Tribal lands   kbb.com/car-news/tesla-fi... · Posted by u/alex_young
jakewins · 3 years ago
I’ve bought vehicles at both US and EU dealerships; the EU sales process was; they showed me the vehicle I had seen on their website, we drove the car, then we haggled a bit and signed contracts. US sales process was much more akin to how I imagine time share sales scams work - when you think you’re done, the gauntlet of high pressure multiple-rooms-with-increasingly-“senior”-managers has just started.

It took nearly two hours of people telling me I was an idiot for not taking the extended leather steering wheel warranty etc before getting out of there.

Both of these experiences were at official Hyundai dealerships.

mehrdada · 3 years ago
I have only experienced the US version firsthand, but hearing from EU friends, it seems the EU prices are more-or-less set in stone and the haggling potential in the US can get you a better deal if you are savvy and patient (and then say no at every “value-add”).

Of course that comes at the cost of customer experience.

mehrdada commented on Michael Burry’s warning for the index fund bubble   newtraderu.com/2022/11/06... · Posted by u/hericium
peteradio · 3 years ago
> Many people who looked beyond those two metrics back then

And what exactly were they looking at? The revolutionary tech? How well as that met expectations?

> You can say, of course, that these people just got lucky.

Yes, that is what I'm saying. Few people made lots of money off meme stocks.

mehrdada · 3 years ago
If your focus is on P/E, you got to at least look at its first derivative too.
mehrdada commented on Tell HN: A hacker's life is in danger, your awareness may be life saving    · Posted by u/michaeltimo
D13Fd · 3 years ago
> Look no further than Ilhan Omar: Islam, anti-imperialism (BDS), LGBT-activism (mostly T-activism these days), and radical feminism have joined forces. . . . I’m surprised you see this as a controversial claim.

Looks like you’ve been taking in a lot of ideological media. Do you have a reality-based citation?

mehrdada · 3 years ago
Which stance of hers that I listed do you dispute? Ad hominem much?

I attached a link to an interview describing concrete circumstances. Did you watch it before making your assertion, for example?

If you suggest that is not representative or whatever please make your claim specific. Otherwise it must be you that cannot see reality when faced with it; I cannot take your comment seriously.

mehrdada commented on Tell HN: A hacker's life is in danger, your awareness may be life saving    · Posted by u/michaeltimo
consumer451 · 3 years ago
> Funny that in the western world, we are seeing the extreme left/woke anti-Americans and the Islamists join forces again too

Going to need a citation there good sir.

mehrdada · 3 years ago
Look no further than Ilhan Omar: Islam, anti-imperialism (BDS), LGBT-activism (mostly T-activism these days), and radical feminism have joined forces.

Or the extreme lack of coverage of Iran protests in the major US newspapers despite their unprecedented scale and spread across the world (dare it looks anti-Hijab and exposes Islam as a threat) as another example.

I'm surprised you see this as a controversial claim. Here's how an Iranian women's right activist discusses how she's alienated by the Feminist crowd because she is against forced Hijab in Iran, making Islam look bad: https://www.hbo.com/real-time-with-bill-maher/season-20/29-s...

This behavior is par for the course of the contemporary western left narrative. A western country behaving like France restricting Hijab to some degree gets many times more exposure than Taliban and Islamic Republic mandatory Hijab.

tgma commented on Tell HN: A hacker's life is in danger, your awareness may be life saving    · Posted by u/michaeltimo
pessimizer · 3 years ago
> The only citizens extreme enough to correct this happened to also be religious extremists

That's not what happens; it's that in these neo-colonialist situations, all secular dissidents can be imprisoned and murdered (with US help), but religious dissidents can't safely be. So when the revolution succeeds, the religious take over. Same thing happened with Morsi in Egypt.

tgma · 3 years ago
It's not exactly that simple: Islamists (and religion in general) is also perceived to be an antidote to Marxism. At the height of the Cold War and bordering Soviet Union, the west resorted to creating and supporting religious groups "Mujahedin" in Afghanistan (Taliban v0.1) and Khomeini in Iran.

The Late Shah of Iran is on record constantly warning about "Red regression" (referring to Communists) and "Black regression" (referring to Islamic fundamentalists) as threats of the nation and the 1979 revolution succeeded by them joining forces (and the commies got the axe afterwards). Funny that in the western world, we are seeing the extreme left/woke anti-Americans and the Islamists join forces again too, despite being cut of very different clothes: the general American left narrative is silent on issues of Islam (particularly bad when it comes to women and LGBT) as it contradicts their own narrative of fighting "Islamophobia". I doubt this ends well.

u/mehrdada

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