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    Google Fiber fails to hit subscriber goal, will reportedly cut staff

    This is very similar to my story. I get 75/75 for 42 a month for 5 or 10 more I can get 150/150 but I cant find a real reason for that speed. And I stream 4k programing from Prime, download and upload huge files for work as well as down load xbox games.
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    Tesla and language: The politics of the word “Autopilot” and CEO promises

    What a load of BS. There is not enough data to say if its statistically significant one way or the other. For some reason I doubt they would have a press release saying the data is clear AP kills more people if Chris Brown had his wife in the car that day too. The expected number of...
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    Tesla and language: The politics of the word “Autopilot” and CEO promises

    Tesla is owned mostly by Musk and Institutional investors. What is amazing is the amount of incest that goes on between Tesla and SC. We already know about Musk. But then you have Tesla second largest share holder Fidelity which happens to be Solar Cities second largest. Bank of Montreal has...
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    Tesla and language: The politics of the word “Autopilot” and CEO promises

    I know this is the new line from the Musk fans but its not true or if it is they are in even bigger trouble. Q2 2015 Musk said the powerwall would be a 40 to 45 million dollar business for them in Q4 2015 and a 400 to 450 million business by Q4 2016. Well Q1 they moved less then 12 million...
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    Tesla and language: The politics of the word “Autopilot” and CEO promises

    This. He is killing what chance Tesla has as a company with his insane management style. The senior management team has a turnover rate of a badly run Wendy's. But this is not surprising when in an interview last year he bragged he would never hire from Detroit or the rest of the industry...
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    Tesla losses grow, but Musk says production goals will be met by year end

    Those margins are not comparable. Everyone else sells wholesale while Tesla sells retail so to make this comparable you need to include the cost of the selling which Tesla has under SGA. Everyone else has some portion of R&D included in the COG while Tesla does not. In fairness it would be...
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    Tesla losses grow, but Musk says production goals will be met by year end

    Tesla in the investor call blamed R&D this Q for not being non gaap cash flow positive. They are behind in their Capex spending for the year based on their earlier guidance. Half way though the year they have spent less then a quarter of what they said they where going to spend. They said...
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    Tesla losses grow, but Musk says production goals will be met by year end

    ebay v newmark prevents a company from just wasting share holder value and not waste billions building cars with no intention of eventual profit like the OP stated. Tesla and Musk themselves betray that prior belief that they never want to profit by stating guidance that they will profit one of...
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    Tesla losses grow, but Musk says production goals will be met by year end

    Amazon and Tesla are nothing at all alike. Amazon has always been cash flow positive and can pay for Capex via this cash flow. Tesla needs to raise capital to pay for capex. Amazon never had losses like this Q over Q. Heck Tesla is not even hitting their capex guidance so far this year and...
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    Tesla losses grow, but Musk says production goals will be met by year end

    He can say that all he wants but he has a legal obligation to make a profit for the shareholders. If he did not want that he should have kept the company private or set it up as a non profit. And while he might have said that then it cant be seen as anything but lip service when he talks about...
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    Tesla losses grow, but Musk says production goals will be met by year end

    If he did not want to make a profit he should not have taken TSLA public. He now has an obligation to one day make a profit for its owners. And lets not pretend that the shareholder of TSLA have been anything but insanely supportive of Musk. This loss which was double what the street expected...
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    Meet some of the startups trying to take the pain out of buying a new car

    So what? I don't know the lowest price most stores will sell something to me for and I am sure I pay way more on most medium to large purchases then I could have gotten it for. I ask for 15 percent off of TVs and Fridges and get it which means I probably could have gotten it for even less...
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    Meet some of the startups trying to take the pain out of buying a new car

    I am not understanding the problem? You don't need to haggle and negotiate when you buy a car. The price is printed right on the window. Pay it and the dealer and sales person will take turns taking you out for dinner. Don't want to be at the dealer for 4 hours then leave. They cant keep...
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    Meet some of the startups trying to take the pain out of buying a new car

    Its not necessarily a lie. TrueCar most likely does not go though the same sales channel as the sales staff does it will usually be under the fleet sales which have different margins and prices they can sell with. Also wholesale prices are dynamic in that a car dealer moves more units they get...
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    Meet some of the startups trying to take the pain out of buying a new car

    Where can you buy this car with 35k that is half off MSRP? Not even a AMG MB or Aston Martin drops that much that fast. You sure not buying a mainstream cross over or mid size sedan that cheap.
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    Tesla and Mobileye call it quits; will the car company build its own sensors?

    Its about a 100 people that die a year from going under the side of a trailer in the US. Even with side curtains many of those will still die from impact. I know this will sound cold but its not worth the cost of retrofitting the millions of trailers out there as well as any infrastructure...
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    Tesla and Mobileye call it quits; will the car company build its own sensors?

    You can really take 10k of those fatalities off because they are motorcyclist, bicyclist and pedestrians. Total number of miles driven is over 3 trillion miles and that number is from a decade ago. Despite the horror stories about how humans suck and the worst things to ever happen to driving...
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    Tesla and Mobileye call it quits; will the car company build its own sensors?

    Important note here there is no such warning from Tesla that Autopilot can only be used on limited access Expressways. This is the closest warning to that "“Autosteer is for use on highways that have a center divider and clear lane markings, or where there is a car directly ahead to follow.”...