kire2345's comments

I would suggest that both meditation and CBT have a similar objective, which is to see reality more clearly for what it is. CBT goes far enough to transform distorted thoughts into more realistic ones. This goes far enough to help you live a happy life in the "normal" sense. Meditation can be used to go all the way to the realization of the Ego/body limited self as an illusory concept. This normally results in a rush of a very clear sense of reality. Which lets all worries, problems, hopes, insecurities etc. collapse into what they really are. A constant play and variation of matter/form/energy/consciousness/god whatever you want to call it. That are just other forms of our "true" self matter/form/energy/consciousness/god, experiencing this variation and play. This gives a lot of room for joy or bliss if you will. From my own experience it takes some practice to keep remembering this reality more and more often.

From the article I read on Electrek on this, they speculated that in the first phase this could be a general assembly only. Considering they built an additional line in a tent in Fremont once, 6 Months is not crazy.

https://electrek.co/2020/05/15/tesla-factory-austin-texas/

M guess it is it somewhat related to his girlfriend Grimes is expecting a Baby on Monday. He also tweeted that shes mad at him. Together with the whole covid situation is likely a bit too much stress.

I am pretty sure Musk runs on Mars time. One year on earth are 1,9 years on Mars ;)

I think what is going on is a combination of relatively good testing capacity from the beginning and mostly young people infected, which due to the testing were prevented from spreading it to older demographics. See https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/478220a4c454480e823...

Also there is the purely anecdotal hypothesis of a cultural difference between for example Italy, Spain and Germany. In the southern countries it seems like older people have quite an active social life compared to Germany.

The German virologist Christian Drosten mentioned in his daily coronavirus update that some specialized labs at least in Germany are able to do an antibody blood test.

There are also some commercial antibody tests, which have some error rate and as all antibody tests can identify the virus after 7-10 days after onset of symptoms.

https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/15-Coronavirus-Update-In...

So am I reading this correctly that for example the strain in Lombardy Italy/CDG1/2020 (GISAID EPI ISL 412973) from 20.02.2020, has its origin in the strain collected in Bavaria Germany/BavPat1/2020 (GISAID EPI ISL 406862) from 28.01.2020.

So the outbreak in Bavaria that was thought be contained somehow made its way to Italy? Or do these kind of interpretations not make any sense?

I guess that's why it is not so easy. Volkswagen is struggling https://www.autoblog.com/2019/12/27/vw-id3-ev-software-issue...

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It has long been illegal to wear face masks at protests in Germany, as well as wearing things like bike helmets or other protection against police force. They call it "protection weapon" or "passive weapon". German police usually films every attendee of a protest.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_law

I agree that the growth is likely to slow down somewhat in 2019. On a years view they produced about 253.000 cars in 2018 and will likely land at 360.000 in 2019. Nevertheless it is still 30% Growth YoY.

I would argue that slow down is mainly due to the nature of the production ramp, which goes exponential in the beginning but is now starting to flatten out. As it flattens though margins should continue to get better. If they get additional factories like the one in China it should reinvigorate the growth rate.

For me the bull story goes something like: they sunk a lot of money building out their very first mass producing production line, making a lot of mistakes on the way. Although they have some quality and service and margin issues people still keep buying their cars, which is the most important. Fixing the margin and other secondary issues is just a matter of time and continuous optimization.

So the most important of Musks hypotheses that people like buying electric cars if they are better in every important category is pretty much proven by now.

The second, that they are able to produce them at a profit is still to be proven, but economies of scale play a big role in that and they are first beginning to really leverage those.

Please have a look at Tesla's revenue growth. It is a pretty clear hockey stick graph. See in this article: https://cleantechnica.com/2019/03/24/teslas-incredible-growt...

The problems with customer service and production quality are to be expected if you scale at the speed that they currently do.

I guess we all have these things in side of us and given the wrong circumstances people let them out. I am definitely compassionate towards Musk, as I for myself have made the experience that stress can bring out very negative sides within you, if you don't stay aware and relaxed to not get carried away of such feelings. It cannot be an apology and hopefully Musk recognizes that it is not his true self acting but stress and anxiety projected on others.

This article apparantly shows that fatality rates of Tesla are worse than of other luxury car makers: https://medium.com/@MidwesternHedgi/teslas-driver-fatality-r...

I am pro Tesla but I don't get why they don't compare apples to apples. As if Tesla doesn't know this? And if they know then don't try to screw the comparision in your favor so that you seem better then you actually are.

Could Tesla move to another country and get listed there instead, so he could stay CEO?

Yeah, i guess you are right in a perfect market. My hypothesis was that increased buying power leads to more demand. In your case for apples it would allow apple producers to increase prices and raise margins, as long as competitors don't undercut them.

What is the original cause that drives prices in countries like Switzerland or Norway higher? Is this only due to currency trading and a country's credit rating?

Great way of looking at it. It even raises the question if it would be possible or desirable to match the legacy of Steve Jobs. Or if - from a business point of view - the best thing Tim could do was to manage Steve's legacy. Similar to the pope, to stay in your metaphor.

Isn't it a little bit sad to see that Tim Cook in this situation still looks backwards and talks about Steve Jobs in half of the email? Instead of being forward looking and laying out his vision of the future of apple and the products to come? He really is still simply maintaining Jobs' business, trying to repeat what Jobs said as often as possible so that he sounds like him.

What is the incentive for the shops to scan and upload all products with correct description picture etc. this is a huge work, and just the access to a bigger market doesn't seem to be enough. Locafox in Berlin is pretty much trying to build a similar aggregator of local shops https://www.locafox.de/ It doesn't seem to work too well which is why they diversified into selling digital cashier machines to local businesses instead.

I am wondering often with UBI: if everybody gets a certain amount of money. Wouldn't prices just adapt and everything gets more expensive, and there would be the same divide as before? Similar to Scandinavia where prices are very high. What mechanism could prevent this from happening?