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Elon Musk admits he does make mistakes. Elon's business philosophy is that it's better to make decisions quickly, and if the decisions turn out...
I should clarify. County and city governments in Texas do rely on property tax, but the state government relies on sales tax (and oil tax). Abbott...
Another reason Texas is in a rush to reopen: money. California relies on income and capital gains taxes for revenue. It lucked out big time with...
Abbott may be counting on most Texans, especially in the major cities where viruses can spread fastest, to keep wearing masks voluntarily. That...
Texas is known to be very slow in reporting COVID deaths. What's being reported now is a backlog of people who died weeks or months ago. Abbott...
You've got it reversed. This is the reason a containment strategy (like China, New Zealand, or South Korea) doesn't work in the US. It's why we...
I'm currently in Florida, and in major metros (Orlando) it's not much different from California in the "red" tier. Not as strict as the...
Indeed. Stamping presses are really expensive, unless it's 2009 and you can get them almost for free from a recently shuttered car factory. But a...
Tesla's arrangement of stamping on-site is actually unusual, inherited from NUMMI, at least according to the tour guide at the Fremont plant. Most...
Elon, at least in the early days, had a pretty high bug threshold. Here's the ugly truth: You can fix bugs faster if you're shipping lots of units...
The decision on when to ship a product is a business decision, not a technical decision. It's impossible to fix all the bugs and ship in a...
Remember Tesla also went IPO way early in its growth. Elon Musk has said if decent private funding had been available in 2009-2011 Tesla would not...
Right, and then shipped everything late for the next 20 years. III, IIgs, LISA, Macintosh, all shipped late. PowerPC Macs were famously delayed.
Rawlinson's explanation is BS. The real reason the Lucid Air is delayed is because every hardware startup's first product is delayed. In my...
It's an engineering project at a startup. Of course it's delayed. I've worked in Silicon Valley since 2001 and I've never heard of a tech startup...
So I've put in a good-until-date limit order with my broker for some CCIV/Lucid shares at what I think is a fair price, well below the current...
CCIV shareholders got screwed. But Lucid insiders and employees and older investors got a great deal. It's a sign that CCIV was desperate for a...
Au contraire. Any Super Bowl won by Tom Brady is, by definition, a normal Super Bowl.
Here's my experience in business: When you are trying to sell products to customers, you promote the products you have available now. When you are...
Mr. Uujjj worked at a machine learning chip startup which was working on a very large computer for training neural nets. (This company has since...
interesting interview with Elon Musk [MEDIA]
Mrs. Uujjj thinks this family of coronaviruses is here to stay, and we'll be getting annual booster shots for whichever new variants are popping...
This South African variant seems to be quite a concern. It is different enough from the original Wuhan strain to be considered almost a new virus,...
Stepped up basis should definitely be eliminated. However, it would be double taxation to simply reset the cost basis to zero when an asset holder...
Yeah the Uujjj family could use a vacation too! Get the vaccine before your trip. Domestic vacations for the April timeframe. Mrs. Uujjj predicts...
Not sure if you're an engineer or not, but that's just the reality of big engineering projects. Most big engineering/tech projects run late. And,...
Mrs. Uujjj(an emergency doc) has been the more pessimistic of the Uujjj's throughout the pandemic. Mrs. Uujjj correctly predicted, back in January...
I'm guessing that a team of engineers has thoroughly tested how the yoke steering works in practice and given the green light only after proving...
Love most of it. But what's the deal with the flight yoke for a steering wheel?
The US vaccination program is actually going pretty well right now. We can't compare ourselves to tiny countries like the UAE and Israel. For that...
California's vaccination campaign started off quite slow but the pace has picked up considerably: Bloomberg - Are you a robot? Mr. Uujjj's...
The reason Biden had a bunch of Chevy Bolts behind him was because GM has a PR department that could lend out Chevy Bolts. Tesla doesn't have a PR...
California's case and hospitalization rates have been dropping, and Newsom has moved California back to a lower tier of restrictions. Mrs. Uujjj...
Another issue that bothered Mrs. Uujjj. In the old version, the blue color of the car on screen matched the blue color of the car itself pretty...
Sounds like the vaccines will work against the South Africa variant, but they won't be 95% effective like they are against the main variants.
Federal elected officials' financial disclosures are out. Some notable Tesla investors are among the ranks. Nancy Pelosi's family disclosed a...
Terrible. Hate it. The animation (looks cool but not useful) is giant. Speedo, map, music, HVAC controls (the useful things) are tiny.
Agreed. Charging infrastructure seems like a crappy standalone business. Even after the EV transition is complete, charging infra will be...
With the latest SW update, Tesla has made the animation on the left side of the screen bigger, while making the map, speed, and energy flow...
Yep. Rivian is based in Michigan but most of their engineering is in California. Software is based in San Jose, while the...
It's not unusual to see preproduction EVs running around NorCal, and not just Teslas.
What's Rivian doing with all this funding? At this point in its growth, Tesla had raised around $1B, half of which was a government loan.
Mrs. Uujjj reports that the COVID situation in California is still bad, but better than two weeks ago.
How does the size compare to a Model S?
Not sure that makes sense. Look at it quantitatively. In the US we have about 10000 criminal homicides per year. We have 3000+ COVID death PER DAY...
COVID enforcement in California is quite spotty. I think that's just California being California; the cops here don't enforce traffic or drug laws...
California officials were saying on Tuesday that things were getting better. They pointed out that they're now averaging 2500 new COVID...
The CdA (drag coefficient times area) for the Lucid Air is much better than the Model S, because both the Cd and the A are smaller. Lucid's...
Oh absolutely. This is a problem with the whole VC industry. When a new, innovative company comes out trying to establish a new market, VCs give...
You're not a real tech investor until you've taken an 80% drop - and then made it back up! I was an NVDA shareholder from 2008 until recently, and...