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“Past performance is no guarantee of future returns!”

Share capital value is used in more than a few places. Like taking out a loan on your TSLA shares

And what would you say for the behemoth that is $AAPL?

We have had better iPhones for 10+ years … and maybe the iPad, Watch and Airpods… this from the richest gizmo company.. No Apple Car… Pervasive Health product is a long way from the current watch

Now tell me again about $TSLA valuation ?!

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10 lat temudiscuss

Read their statement in the article

> "Tesla enters into contractual agreements with its general contractors, which allow them to select the resources they need for the job while also requiring them to hire and _pay_ their workers appropriately."

Do you think they did a good job in enforcing their own stated requirement?

Any client who permits people to work in their premises providing them with badges and security passes does minimal background checks. Now tell me what minimal background check would not have found their Visa Status and hence Visa fraud on the basis of B1 Visa person doing hands on job?

Do you still think Tesla was ignorant or closed their eyes purposefully?

writetoalok

10 lat temudiscuss

So, why is your website - http://kisannetwork.in/ devoid of any link to access this market place that you speak of ..?

  - No App Download link
  - No Telephone numbers toll free or otherwise
  - No product listing, (items, prices etc.) on the website
  - Just one email address to buy from farmers on your platform

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12 lat temudiscuss

Is there a website output for the word of the day etc. for the repository code?

Couldn't find anything quickly on your site http://sartak.org

writetoalok

14 lat temudiscuss

Reminds me of the Harry Potter books. Somewhere in those stories, Dumbledore comments: "We are what we choose".

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14 lat temudiscuss

> We think we've figured out how to hack into the computer our universe is running on

Not sure someone with that kind of access will need seed funding with YCombinator or anywhere else. Unless their hack is unproven and unreliable, and up for immediate rejection.

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14 lat temudiscuss

> Just because something makes you money doesn't mean it's inherently good or useful, and it doesn't mean it should be protected by law.

Are we talking about patentable innovations, or something else? A lot of patentable innovations do not make anything, a lot things which are not patentable make boat load of bucks. Your comment seem to have clouded this distinction.

It seems to me that you are questioning the basis of government granted monopoly. But this grant is not on the basis of money generation, but on innovation and benefits to the society by disclosure.

Imagine if someone discovered and invented a principle and device for unlimited cheap source of energy. If he kept it to himself, it may definitely help him to unknown riches. And possibly the secret could die with him. But if he shared his secret sauce, then all of us in the society will benefit a lot. Patents are a means to that end. What do you think?

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14 lat temudiscuss

so why not have a link to a separate version (with automatic redirects) to the same content for tax paying Brits?

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14 lat temudiscuss

> the risk of death only frightens him from a view point of responsibilities

Which view point does death frighten you for?

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14 lat temudiscuss

> they want

That want is driven by ego.

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14 lat temudiscuss

I am not afraid of revealing my values. And what do I have to be careful about?

Cockroaches hide in dark places.

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14 lat temudiscuss

So what are some of the interviews of him that you have enjoyed? I've seen the one at [Pandodaily](http://pandodaily.com/2012/07/12/pandomonthly-presents-a-fir...).

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14 lat temudiscuss

I submit that it is Elon's individual ego that drives him to strive for and achieve these goals. Its just that his goals seem broader to you than Arnie's. And to a large extent they are. But the goals are driven by his ego, and not some mumbo jumbo altruistic feeling.

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14 lat temudiscuss

Humans have won the gene lottery compared to other primates, what makes the next step hard to digest?

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14 lat temudiscuss

> by which I am guessing you mean the unemployed

no, by moochers I mean people who live off unearned income. In this context, from forced government dole outs.

> the bureaucracy of organising the benefits system costs multiple times the amount actually paid out in benefits.

you got any citations for this?

> so there are actually more people not receiving benefits they are legally entitled to

the whole of your argument and point of view, is based on legally instituted perverse "benefits". We have instituted morally corrupt systems of welfare and people nowadays take it as a matter of fact.

> Now cheer up and learn to mooch a little

Thanks, but no thanks. You obviously feel a lot better if you spread your moral corruption to every one else. I work for my own bread.

writetoalok

14 lat temudiscuss

Thank you, and is that the only comment you have on the topic? Say, what is your philosophical stand on this?

writetoalok

14 lat temudiscuss

Thanks but no thanks, and I could do as I please. Not that it is any of your business.

But lets see what we got on your list: - whole banking crisis, last I checked my savings bank account was secure. And although my livelihood may be intricately connected to Big Banks, I don't think all the banks in the world are going bust. Nor is the age old concepts of banking. A lot of things which is complex and serious here, but definitely nothing here which disgusts me

- massive depression and unemployment, This is an era of massive changes, but there will always be human activity. No matter what cooked up and muddled GDP numbers say. Again no disgust.

- corrupt politicians, the moochers are a result of their policies, and they enable the corrupt politicians. So this is along the same lines as the disgusting stench of moochers.

- ecological collapse, huge civil unrest across previously stable democracies and, loads of wars and, all sorts of crazy shit going down more serious issues, and a lot of call for action. But disgust? Whom are we kidding.

Looks like you have a problem reading the import of the message. Maybe you sympathize with the blood sucking moochers, or maybe you are one of them. Whatever it is, the only thing more disgusting than the dole out leechers are people who knowingly give them unearned, undeserved virtual credibility.

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14 lat temudiscuss

> social security from the genuinely disabled

And what might that percentage be? Seeing a number of moochers feigning disability for unearned dole outs, is surely the most common disgust of our times.

And if one is disabled, they should not expect to be given free handouts from money forced out at gunpoint. They need care and consideration and all volunteer help they can get.

Its time to realize that Government should be the institution for one thing and one only. Protection of individual freedom. And nothing else.

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