Unclear what you're asking. Generally I've stayed 5-8 years at any one company (the most so far was 11). My time at a few startups were far shorter than that, for pretty guessable reasons.
It's in the latest print magazine of the ADAC from n=548 Tesla customers there was a alpha return rate of 13.80% and a beta return rate of 14.50%. Mercedes (n=728) has a alpha return of 5.8% and a beta of 6.7%. VW (n=912) has alpha 7.4% and beta from 6.8%. It's a lot.
Tesla only make BEV. The Mercedes and VW stats seem to include all their vehicules and it just make another meaningless stats. People know what they get when they purchase a ICE vehicles whereas BEV is new territory. This stat is comparing apple and oranges...
I'm really impressed by the amount of anti Tesla FUD in here...
I propose we let the sales figures talk and see what people are buying instead of claiming people dont want them...
In March, in Europe, Tesla had 2 models in the top 3 for new registrations (all types of cars included).
This may not be the case here and I couldn't quickly find data -- but Tesla has done "drops" in the past where they deliver many pre-ordered vehicles in a certain month and completely annihilate other EV sales that month.
That said, Tesla has undeniably strong sales. I have no idea how VW currently compares and if they are really going to make a dent.
Tesla currently has this high-end "halo" but as it's trickling down to more consumers, I think some of their high-price customers will migrate to Porsche, Lucid, Rivian, ID.Buzz (even the EQS) but they'll sell more cars to the broad masses. Then it will be interesting to see how regular customers feel about the $10k auto-pilot and supposed build-quality issues.
I don't own a Tesla but test-drove a few Model S and that acceleration is exhilarating, and vomit-inducing for back-seat passengers :)
> I propose we let the sales figures talk and see what people are buying instead of claiming people dont want them. In March, in Europe, Tesla had 2 models in the top 3 for new registrations
Volkswagen has been selling the most EVs in Europe since 2020 when they overtook Tesla:
US resident here. I’ve never seen a handle like [0]. Every car I’ve been in has handles like [1]. I don’t know if I’d be able to get out of [0] in the event of an emergency without being made aware of it prior.
Same. In fact, lofi seems to really disrupt my focus. There are times where a beat/kick is so loud it becomes disruptive. I also like background sounds and true ambient music.
So Grandma's Ham is a variant of Chesterton's Fence... When you do or don't do something for reasons of tradition, find the real reasons for doing / not doing it.
It's not often I actually unzip stuff on the command line these days, but saying "extract ze files" in a terrible French accent in my head when I do is a highlight.
Yup, I remember when you had to pass `z` if it was gzip, and I remember my surprise when I missed it once and it still worked (apparently about 5 years after it was no longer needed!)
The stock market does not reflect the reality - in fact, you might say the market is coming back to reality. There’s been small layouts but to call it a “meltdown” is a bit much.
I really think a lot of businesses have been propped up by the bull market the last 12-14 years. We are at a point where we are scraping the bottom of the barrel of ideas because all the fertile ideas for "how to use the internet" have been consumed. The internet is interesting in that it democratized creating businesses in probably a way never seen before, a kid with no life experience could teach themselves programming and invent a billion dollar company, how wild is that.
The problem is the timing. While workers are resisting return-to-office and startups offer equal comp for remote within the US, tech is taking a big enough downturn that if you started your job exactly a year ago you'll be making less this year than last in real dollars before taking into account inflation. A great time to be a startup that just closed Series A with remote positions though, which is why being bearish on California is not the same as being bearish on tech.
Look at the prices of paypal, square, netlix, roblox, affirm, coinbase, etc they are all down at least 70% from 6 months ago with some down 90%, if that is not a full meltdown I don't know what is :)
per the nasdaq's site my statement is verbatim what they also say:
> Refers to events like steep fall in stock markets, decline in asset values, corporate losses etc. that hurt the economy and lead to losses for investors.
Had you said the Nasdaq was entering a meltdown, I'd have thought it a bit hyperbolic but wouldn't have disagreed.
Your claim was that tech is in "full meltdown" and you were talking about falling state revenues for California would drop so dramatically that "the state will face a reckoning unlike any its ever seen".
In my opinion, large tech company stock declines won't have much impact on California revenues. Only their relocations would. There's no "full meltdown" or anything like it happening to "tech". On the contrary, I'd bet that each of the MANGA companies with the possible exception of Netflix grow their revenue in the coming year and that their employees will pay more in taxes to California in 2022 than they did in 2021.
Let's check back in a year and see how our predictions fared :)
In terms of DDG, I wonder if a non-invasive search engine is viable. I can’t think of a company (Apple?) would has the resources to do it.