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> This is entirely incorrect. The comment was 4 hours old, based off a Seeking Alpha news bulletin (I should have known better) and was prefaced with "it's my understanding..." whi…

> So long as the valuation goes up enough to compensate for the dilution, the per share stock price will be the same or higher But per stock price is the "valuation". My comment re…

> Tencent's position was acquired on the open market and the rest via the March 17 offering. Editing because I think we were talking past each other. Yes, I didn't mean this specif…

> Do you understand that's not what happens when shares are acquired on the open market? Do you understand that Tencent bought shares in a secondary offering? Apparently you do, yo…

> This was not a capital raise. Read the filing. I don't need to read a filing to know that when you create shares out of nowhere, and sell them, diluting current shareholders, it'…

> But will the demand for electric vehicles justify a valuation on par with General Motors? That's the rub. Yep. Building cars for the mainstream is a low-margin, capital-intensive…

> The raise will dilute earnings for common shareholders, so definitely a downward force on stock price. The stock is detached from reality. It's my understanding that this was ano…

> Who says the capital raise is a 'wide open positive'? The guy at the top of this thread who said "Shorts can't buy a break". It's at least arguable that these sorts of capital ra…

> And there aren't enough supercharging/fast charging stations. For sure. I live in a place where there are line ups at GAS stations during the busy season. Imagine everyone trying…

The stock has been stagnant for a long time, and it's still off its high. Shorts have done fine. What's amazing are the longs seeing capital raises at mediocre terms as a wide open…

Way more often than not, yes. Is your default position to assume there's an agenda behind every invitation?

> The past few years have made me realize that your appearance only becomes more important as you age and progress in a white-collar career You don't think the same shallow people …

> No. On days where self driving cars don't work, price goes up, and the market puts more humans on the road. So all these humans are just hanging around waiting for it to snow so …

We must live vastly different lives. Otherwise, why would anyone want to spend their spare social time in job hunt mode? Sometimes I want to foster relationships I already have, no…

Especially in the early years of life, when the 11 month difference between a January baby and December baby in a class might be 1/5 to 1/10 of the child's life. That's a huge adva…

> All that even with taking two years off in the middle of my college years. How has any of this made you better off? You make it sound as if "taking two years off" in your late te…

> If you press, it usually comes down to, "Doing the best we can," which is nice for gymnastics, but less so for published research. If "doing the best we can" is too low of a stan…

> There is no way you can be selling the genuine product at that price and be making a profit. Am I missing where the ad says it's a genuine Apple product? I see that it says "comp…

> But like many of Adam Curtis's documentaries this can feel like it takes too long to get to the point. That's the style. Personally, I dig it, and enjoy (and recommend) everythin…

> It's a good question whether society is ready to accept this, though. Hah, "it" being ready as in the technology, not society. Poor writing on my part. But I guess either works.

> Autonomous vehicles will have challenges that human drivers do not Wait a minute: I don't think the argument is whether machines can drive better than humans. It's whether these …

> It doesn't even matter if it's shown to not work on humans Case in point: 95% of the supplement industry.

> Uber is essentially just a matcher and payment processor that takes a cut, they don't own vehicles or employ drivers That's the story their PR spins. Luckily they don't make the …

> If they want to simplify taxes -- as they claim, the best way to simplify is simply to eliminate. Because consumption taxes are the most efficient form of taxation. You want a pr…

> Uber drivers are not employees. They are independent contractors. This is under dispute, and I think you're going to find that governments around the world disagree with you.