SethInMI

second base

I remember when this package was announced, and despite what the lawsuit says, I don't think many people thought it was likely that Tesla would hit the stock price targets that kicked off the giant windfall for Elon. In 2018 Tesla was trading at $21 a share and many (like brent) thought it was on the way to bankruptcy. Fast-forward to 2022 and the stock spent much of the year between 300 and 400 a share. As I read it, Elon is basically getting an additional 10% of the company, and I think most shareholders back in 2018 would be happy to trade a 15-20x increase in stock price for sacrificing 10% of the shares.

Congrats! Thanks for posting that. I love the FJC cert.

Morning ah, the 90s the gloriously alternative 90s

True, but Musk seems to have a Midas touch there. SpaceX was built on a dream of colonizing Mars. If that isn't a passion project I am not sure what would be, but I agree with what I think is the thrust of your argument that space exploration is more about "things" and less about "people" vs a social media company, and working with people passion can make things go sideways in a hurry. It may not matter how good a product twitter turns out to be if too many users / potential users are turned off by his behavior / poor decisions.

It's hard to bet against Musk though isn't it? Here is a man who lead revolutions in two industries that most people would have said were impossible to revolutionize, the space industry and the auto industry. Can he do it with a social media company? I think he might, but it could be too hard and take too long... if he can stay out of his own way he has the resources and willingness to try a lot of ideas and apparently he can motivate well enough to get them implemented.

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Q: how do you stop canadian bacon from curling in the frying pan? A: you take away their little brooms

My girlfriend and I almost didn't have the second date because on the first date I didn't open the car door for her… I just swam to the surface. -Emo Phillips

I see it can go up to 45,000 feet. Don't tell Mullins.

so...did the opening lines of "Dueling Banjos" pop into your mind at any point?

I don't find this that suspicious. People sometimes lurk on forums before joining, and if he wanted to post a question, he had to join, so join then post isn't so unusual. And although he seems to be visiting this thread regularly, he liked a few of the early responses, and last visit to forum was logged a few hours ago. I can see him not feeling like arguing any points. He got some advice, we probably will never know what he decided to do. I for one am glad he asked, and hope he takes a long hard look at the idea.

weird science

Yeah, that sounds low. My residential doesn't have a demand charge, but we had a "ready-to-serve" / infrastructure charge that is $0.06 per kWh, making my overnight cost a total of $0.13 per kWh, there are some small other fees added on top of that as well.

what is amazing is that is the Model S Plaid which is "only" around 130k. On the other end of the price spectrum, Jay Leno recently had the Rimac Nevara on his youtube channel, a $2M electric car with 1900+ HP and a 1/4 mile time around 8.5s (probably tire traction limited too, so someone will throw some drag radials on it and go even lower) All the other supercar manufacturers are realizing their fancy twin turbo V8s, V12s and V16s are obsolete.

Twitty

I know supplemental policy providers like AFLAC exclude skydiving / general aviation related incidents, but are there any employer sponsored health care plans that exclude based on the activity that caused the heath care problem? I know smoking is cause for higher premiums, but I don't know of anything else.

That may have been there older design, or for the Tesla Semi? But the latest design, used in the Model Y and assuming to be used in other designs going forward, has a structural battery pack. The car is basically two large castings front and back, tied together by the battery pack itself (the front seats mount to the top of the battery). It saves a lot of weight and makes manufacturing simpler, but replacing it is a apparently a bitch. https://electrek.co/2022/05/20/tesla-structural-battery-pack-removable/

I hope so. Tesla I am sure will try to fight that, and with their structural pack they may have an advantage, for all I know patents and trade secrets could be on their side. But even if they price drop by an order of magnitude, they will still be expensive to replace.

My Tesla battery has a 10 year 120k mile warranty, so I don't think I have to concern myself with replacement, but I have given the problem some thought in case I do keep it for a while. I think battery replacement will continue to be very expensive for a long time, and hopefully bundling an extended warranty into an Auto policy will be a common thing, as insurance is the best way to handle costly and rare events like battery failure.

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