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The major auto manufacturers are poised to overtake Tesla anyway. They were first to market, but that's all they've had going for them, and I think as much of the beating Tesla is taking can be attributed to companies like Volkswagen finally catching up.
That said, certainly Elon trash trolling all his potential Tesla customers via Twitter didn't help. American conservatives aren't going to buy Teslas. Bad PR all around.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I think we did the electric car thing ass backwards. We should have built the infrastructure first to support mass e-car production and use. Instead, we put the cart in front of the horse.
Now is the time to fix that. Can't sell millions of eCars with no way to charge them.
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Typical chicken and egg problem. No one would have paid to build the infrastructure for a handful of e-cars. Now that there are some e-cars they will start upgrading the infrastructure. That will allow more e-cars and so on.
BTW the same thing happened with petrol cars: they didn't start by building the gas stations and highways waiting for the cars to show up 
Mircea
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I don't know if it's really that backward, given we have to generate demand for something in order to bring it permanently to market.
Battery tech was awful.
Electric cars were demanded, creating a demand for better battery tech.
Market forces produced better battery tech, making for better cars
Now people want more of them, cheaper, and more conveniently.
Market forces will again, pressure the relevant industries to produce.
That includes infrastructure.
Capitalism, being unplanned, (and despite what the Chicago school crooks like to tell people - I'm an Adam Smith traditionalist) creates conditions such that demand (or rather, human desire) drives change.
As such it tends to grow things rather than engineer them. It's more organic than say communism. But part of that is the things tend to grow from the "inside out"
We human beings all start as a**holes, for example, though some of us never develop past that. 
If you want a system where we don't put the cart before the horse, you might be looking for a more planned economy, but that creates its own share of problems.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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His cave rescue actions push me far away from the genius conclusion. But they do make me think he is a twit, so this current situation is fitting.
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The name Norwegian blue just got a new meaning 
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Filing for bankruptcy effectively means offloading a portion of the debt to the banks. It's simply a financial manoeuvre.
Think about this: what is Elon's primary marketing instrument?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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If Twitter wasn't underwater with its debt obligations bankruptcy wouldn't be in the cards.
You're right that it's a financial maneuver, but I'd argue that it's a specific kind of maneuver taken on by companies that are either
1. Underwater in terms of debt or cash flow
2. Trying to hide assets or dodge legal accountability
3. Trying to hide a restructure behind it (related to 2)
There may be other reasons, but those are the big ones I've seen.
I just don't think there's a rabbit in Elon's hat, Chris. Nothing he's done regarding Twitter up to this point has put that company in a better position.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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He said the same thing about SpaceX late last year.
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Remember Stephen Elop.
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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He was counting on 250M users each paying $20 per month. No plan B.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I may have done a lot of stupid things, but I never burned $44 billion on a toy I didn't know how to work to the point where I broke it.
I know people say he's a genius. I'm just not seeing it. I'm seeing a mid rate engineer who was born to a lot of money, and currently in way over his head.
But I'm just some nobody over here.
Either way, it's fun watching it play out.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Skinflint can be unhappy (9)
Please note: I am unavailable from around 10:30 GMT to about 18:00 GMT as Herself is having lunch with her niece and I am playing chauffeur and payment system.
So if this is unsolved by 10:30 GMT then I won't be posting a solution / yes / no until I get back home. (It's not polite to browse the web while they talk about people I never met and family events I never went to while eating, apparently.  )
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Miserable
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I didn't think it would last long, but I liked it!
You are up Monday 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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As you often say "Say what you see" Nice clue
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Don't eat then, Simples
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Quote: It's not polite ..., apparently.
Well! Now you know.
The "apparently" had me in stitches. My cartoon bubble saw your wife informing you of that in a rather matter-of-fact tone just lightly mentioned in passing.
BTW, I liked your clue too!
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My dad used to put me in tires and roll me down hills.
Those were Goodyears...
I'll roll out of here now.
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Was your sister Michel in there with you?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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There are hills in the Netherlands? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Low quality import, did not last even a century. 1 star - would not buy!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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