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outlace commented on Even Tesla's Insurance Arm Is Getting Wrecked   insideevs.com/news/759156... · Posted by u/ryan_j_naughton
mrweasel · 4 months ago
Can someone explain Tesla to me, assume I'm an idiot. If Tesla sales are down, the Cybertruck is an unmitigated failure and now they are losing money on insurance, then why on earth is the Tesla stock not going down?

Not only is the stock not going down, it's doing well, up almost 5% year-over-year.

outlace · 4 months ago
Well one could make the argument that Musk is a short or medium term problem and that in 4 years when Trump is gone everyone will forget about hating on Tesla and it will be a great car company again. Musk is in his 50s and won’t be CEO forever. So if your investment horizon is 10+ years and you don’t predict total company collapse then it might be a bargain time to buy.
outlace commented on Canada investigates whether Tesla helped itself to a subsidy-fueled sales boom   fortune.com/2025/03/26/el... · Posted by u/debo_
mikestew · 5 months ago
Tesla sold about 8,600 cars in three days at four separate stores in Canada, or roughly one every two minutes per showroom, in January.

I mean, it’s going to take more than two minutes just to convince the finance guy that if he mentions “paint protection” one more time, you’re walking out.

outlace · 5 months ago
That's not how it works for Tesla. Totally different buying experience. You order online, get a notification some days or weeks later that it's ready, go to the store sign a couple of documents and drive off with the car. Maybe 10 minutes total. (Source: bought a Tesla a few years ago). I just recently got a Kia EV9 and it was a 3-4 hour marathon of paperwork, talking, more paperwork. Really terrible buying experience. Nice car though.
outlace commented on TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S.   wsj.com/tech/trump-chip-m... · Posted by u/perihelions
raverbashing · 6 months ago
I second this

Didn't Trump terminate the Chips act?

outlace · 6 months ago
The president can’t just unilaterally cancel a piece of legislation already signed into law. But maybe he gets the new congress to repeal it.
outlace commented on Why so many children in America have ADHD   economist.com/united-stat... · Posted by u/uberdru
outlace · 6 months ago
“America’s ethos of “school achievement above all else” is part of the problem, says Stephen Hinshaw of the University of California at Berkeley”

This may be the ethos in elite circles but I don’t think it’s the case in general.

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outlace commented on BYD to offer Tesla-like self-driving tech in all models for free   asiafinancial.com/byd-to-... · Posted by u/senti_sentient
Despegar · 7 months ago
Tesla would be fucked without tariffs.
outlace · 7 months ago
All American car companies would be
outlace commented on DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]   github.com/deepseek-ai/Ja... · Posted by u/reissbaker
hexage1814 · 7 months ago
I played a little bit with the image generation, and I'm not sure if there was something wrong with the site or was it was some weird setting, but it was Stable Diffusion 1.5 tier generation. Not that good :\
outlace · 7 months ago
Yeah I tried it too on HuggingFace and was not impressed.

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outlace commented on Russia and China rigged Romanian Elections using 10M fake TikTok accounts   kyivinsider.com/russia-an... · Posted by u/latexr
outlace · 9 months ago
I would argue that the main benefit of democracy is not electing "the right people" by a free and fair election, but by having a mechanism to remove bad leaders without violence. So a propaganda machine influencing elections is not ideal, but if it results in bad leaders, then that will become obvious to people at some point and they will vote them out. Elections will always have some random factors. Not everyone is going to vote. There will be fads. So election isn't the important part, UN-election is.

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KarmaCake day1832August 31, 2015View Original