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Exactly. I think some HNers would be amazed if they read the terms associated with Tesla doing business in China.

Hey, it's the guy who called Tesla a "good corporate citizen" just a few months ago. Let's add: breaking stay-at-home orders, called the US government "fascist" while praising Chin…

> I think the rule with Elon Musk is all his estimates are extremely optimistic and you need to multiply them by two or three to get closer to reality. What about all the promises …

> A lot of folks on HN seems to be approaching this whole situation from the I have a ton of money, can work from home, have a car mental model. You think poor people are using Ube…

> Our lockdowns were so badly done they didn't even decrease the daily case count. Is it any wonder? Look at the comments here. Look at guys like Elon Musk breaking quarantine for …

> There won’t be any more farmers in the future but only farming corporations. Is this any different than, "pretty soon there won't be any local movie rental places (or retail plac…

> Why do people conclude that without making a valuation? Most retail investors are not making any valuations whatsoever. The investment criteria is "this company's future is brigh…

> Carmakers are also defined as a COVID19 critical industry, and every other carmaker manufacturing in the United States is either open, or capable of open today. This puts Tesla a…

The podcast was boring nonsense. Elon or China claiming things don't make them true.

May 18th, the exact date Alameda County was going to allow Tesla to open until Musk had another hissy fit.

Why is it surprising? Google it, it's been going on for years. Do you think the CCP just builds factories for or loans money to anyone?

What does one thing have to do with the other? The public health officials who, believe it or not know more about this than Elon Musk,said they want specific metrics met before ope…

You don't think a controversial, SV darling CEO suing to allow his non essential business to open amidst a pandemic is notable? What about his public attacks on the civil servants …

China bound.

> The "outrage mob" isn't real. You have got to be kidding me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_shaming

> It's a waste to society to have someone like Musk working in finance where he would largely be working on financial gain for a small number of individuals. Where on earth does th…

> bought / founded two other companies that are killing it by making things better than anyone before them. And now starlink. Don't forget that he's curing autism, blindness and pa…

> you're misquoting me. I meant to say they are going back to work. Oh, so when I asked if people were "going to go back to work like nothing happened", and you replied "Ackchyuall…

> and yet their published numbers continually show greater engagement. Do you think this might have anything to do with the fact that, as an advertising company, it's crucial that …

> Everyone going back to work is not an unrealistic scenario since there are countries in Asia that are already doing this. You're not following the economic story very closely if …

> The markets already know the figures are terrible and that’s priced in already. I'm amazed that there are still people out there that believe the stock market is composed of a to…

> Markets think into the future, not the present How far into the future, then? Over a long enough time span everything goes to zero. Are there no future consequences to record lev…

> I'm not sure why the WSJ isn't a "proper source". The paywall I hit on this article could be one reason.

> So you do the obvious thing: buy radio ads in city A and search ads in city B, then compare sales. The issue isn't whether search ads are better than radio ads. The issue (as ill…

> Take an audience of X people. Divide them in two. Show ads to your test group, don't show to control. Watch your business grow and gauge the lift between the two audiences. How a…