johnhartigun

Ok, that's a fair point, although it was not implied that Tesla will not improve efficiency, it was just a quick illustrative calculation.

They've been cost-cutting very aggressively so I assume there are few low-hanging or middle-hanging fruits left.

The big picture is that their business is currently not profitable without government money, which doesn't scale linearly with revenue. Sure, I guess they will slowly improve their margins in the future. But my point is that it's unlikely that their car manufacturing business will become a massive cash cow as the market seems to think.

Batteries becoming cheaper won't directly translate to margins because of competition.

I'd be happy to discuss substance but your comment brings up no actual points, only ad hominem.

Usually it's rooting for the market to come to its senses. And sometimes it's good when a company fails.

BTW, this could be said about long investors, they're hoping for their competitors to fail.

Well any reasonable GameStop valuation is at least an order of magnitude below current market price.

See, this is what I mean by clueless. Price and valuation are completely different concepts. An asset that will never generate any cash has a valuation of zero, but its market price could be anything.

Tesla can't use lidars because: 1. It would make the cars much more expensive. 2. They would have to refund all people who've bough FSD or provide them a free upgrade.

Maybe in general, but I don't think you're right in the case of self-driving systems. Waymo says that perception is the easy part and most of the work is elsewhere. So in the absolute worst case scenario, they would have to develop the perception part from scratch. At Tesla, this took 2 years.

BTW, all companies that can, use lidars. Even MobileEye says that their L4 system will use lidars and they've been working on a camera based system for 2 decades. Tesla doesn't use lidars because they can't.

(Using a different account because I got a "you're posting too fast" error.)

It's probably even less readable to be honest. And it would mean there are now 2 ways of doing something which makes the language irregular (unless everyone switches to this syntax).

I would just read it as: "Take str, convert it to an int and take the absolute value." It also corresponds to the order of steps as it actually happens.

Another example where the readability difference is clearer:

`images.first.resize(100, 100).crop(25, 25, 75, 75)`

versus

`crop(resize(first(images), 100, 100), 25, 25, 75, 75)`

The former one isn't just more readable, it's also easier to write.

Do you think they will read that?

Congratulating on his FB or Twitter would be more effective :)

They may be also thinking "It's overpriced but it will be overpriced even more in the future. If I get off the train early I will earn money."

Investors don't invest because of curiosity. They want to earn money.

Does the debian package work in Ubuntu?