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It's advertising, literally the only thing that matters is public perception. If Elon dickishness makes public perception toxic that's all that matters.

This is only really true for television advertising, since most of it is brand building, instead of "click here and buy now" online.

Also reddit itself gives a huge number of ways for advertisers to access the reddit audience without paying for it.

Thousands of other things also have carbon emissions: beef production for instance. Or deforestation -- while it doesn't have a positive CO2 benefit, it removes a CO2 sink. The fis…

lol the nba lottery tax but for carbon

Taxing it is still pretty hard to do. It's often hard to know exact emissions or what to test. I agree its probably an easier solution, but the accounting of "who is actually produ…

Third is the political problem. The international community has some tight limitations on who can refine Uranium. That's reasonable in a lot of ways as an effort to limit nuclear p…

For every purchase over a certain price this should probably be legally mandated. The same thing happened to a number of parents who had kids spend $1000s on the app store before t…

vrrooom vrrooom, "that'll be $3000, sir"

> I think it was pretty clear that he was thinking about Saudi / middle east / Norwegian / sovereign wealth type funding on equity side. Then debt for rest if needed. He was "think…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_K%C3%BCbelwagen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Schwimmwagen https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/bmws-dark-hist...

This was an $100 billion deal at the time. It would have been the largest LBO of all time. If there hasn't been any institution revealed to have been financing it at this point the…

> No one has been confused I don't think. I saw the considering the $420 buyout, I took it to mean just that. Clearly options traders didn't, since all options above $420 went to z…

> His twitter post was clear, he was "considering" taking TSLA private. $420 funding secure indicates he already had financing ready. Why has this mystery funder never materialized…

I mean, similarly to my certainty Donald Trump was lying that his taxes are under audit, and thats why he can't release them. Do I have exact knowledge of Elon's head state, no, bu…

> They also went after him for a lot of other stuff. Like lying about a buyout offer for his company. Which he received a incredibly small punishment for.

Not equate, realize that they are both part of a pattern. We also should not let Elon Musk's actions only be evaluated in their totality. We can argue about the net sum of his cont…

Nikola has focused on some substantially different segments of the EV market than they have. Nikola has focused on the trucking market, rather than the consumer car market, which a…

If you want some market crash hedges they are perfect. Car companies are treated as government institutions. BMW and Volkswagen used to produce tanks. The German government will as…

I would agree that fraud is always going to happen; how much though is up for debate, and I would tend to argue that more fraud makes the world worse at funding revolutionary ideas…

> it's easier for more people to raise a lot of money for risky endeavors. Is it easier to raise money for risky endeavors or for "hot" endeavors. I'm not sure this no structure to…

Why do you think Elon Musk is obviously different? He's definitely had many events where he has lied about aspects of his business. You could argue that it doesn't matter now that …

It's part of the fraud triangle studied in most business schools: "The fraud triangle is a framework commonly used in auditing to explain the reason behind an individual’s decision…

I'm not sure you are following the Elon-Solar City case if you think Elon's only sin is being a dick on Twitter. Or the original $420 funding a share saga. Elon Musk's repeated fak…

Eh, your mileage may vary, but I've normally found too completely open ended questions impossible to ever really get a good signal from. I've done enough interviews to feel like qu…