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I generally don't like blanket statements like these. TSLA has a bunch of retail investors and sort of a cult like following with Elon, but kid you not, they made a ton of money and that speaks for something.


What about those who bought at the top of the market for TSLA?


Not a ton, but although I think Musk is an asshole and his cars are crap, I still bought TSLA when it bottomed out last month.


I was in San Francisco for a while, and I feel so sad for the city. It is a beautiful city, but now a days, all I see is homeless, piss on the roads, drugs, needles. There are some good areas, but most of the downtown and touristy areas are like that. I pass by civic center bart station every day (5+ years now), and there are people standing there selling drugs (often youth 18+ or early 20s), and there are never police there, ZERO times I saw police catch someone. I think the whole city is pretty much corrupt, law enforcement and justice department included. It need a huge political reform with law enforcement and justice department that have great integrity, and I think thats the only way to save the city.


It is a beautiful city

I lived in SF in 20 years ago. I would describe it just as you have described it today. I'm not convinced anything has actually changed.


I’ve been visiting a bunch of cities in the past year and it’s not just SF that’s like this.

I don’t know if income inequality is necessarily the cause but I do know it has drastically gotten worse in the past 15 years and US income inequality is now going to be the worst it has ever been in 120 years.


I think MoPub was profitable as well, and Twitter made more money than just 3x their investment.


Does Netherlands has mail forwarding? USPS in the states does mail forwarding if you change your address, it is very convenient.


Up to a year, but it's quite pricey (75-ish euro's for the full year).


Yeah I had that but this was just a bit more than a year later I think


It does not get any revenue from Ads. That is the reason why iOS 14 is making it very hard for Apps to make any money outside of the going through the App store (30% cut). This is brilliant from Apple because, it hits 2 birds with 1 stone - Win for consumer from privacy standpoint, Win as a business since it forces a lot of apps to be converted to paid apps, which will flow more $$ to Apple.


Valuations like these are unsustainable, and so far fetched from reality. It is only a matter of time before TSLA gets a correction, which will drop the stock ~ 30 - 40% from its ATH.


Why is it listed as a Non-profit?


Because Y Combinator Research is a non-profit[1].

That said, it's apparently no longer associated with Y Combinator, and goes by OpenResearch now[2].

[1] https://www.guidestar.org/profile/81-0861414

[2] https://ycr.org/


Looks like YC Research is no longer affiliated with Y Combinator, and has been renamed to OpenResearch. I wouldn't be surprised if their legal entity name hasn't changed from the original.

https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-research/


I hope that at least one executive ends us spending some jail time, instead of settling the case (which I think is most likely). Price fixing generic drugs will leave out access to those that are most financially vulnerable, all while coporationss make big bucks.


I think at least one is likely to go to prison, like in the Christie's/sotheby's case, especially if someone flips and acts as an informant. Dont count on it being for very long though.


If officers had to go to jail when their corporations committed crimes then you'd never be able to get competent capitalists to run them. Society and the stockholders would suffer.


Awww, poor stockholders.

Maybe we'd see a shift toward companies actually being run in responsible and ethical ways, instead of the present, near total disconnect from reasonable actions and constraints.


SOX already sets up officers to be liable for financial statements, so I don't think this is relevant.


You're saying that there aren't any honest competent capitalists and that in order to be a "competent capitalist", one must be a crook.

You can't conceive of a world where good people can run companies honestly. The only way they'd accept money to run a company is if they're allowed to get away with committing crimes.

I don't even know how to respond this one.


You have to personally break a law to go to prison.


    “Through phone calls, text messages, emails, corporate
    conventions, and cozy dinner parties, generic
    pharmaceutical executives were in constant communication,
    colluding to fix prices and restrain competition”
These things were done by people. Everyone who participated in this _personally_ conspired to commit a crime. Of course this is probably not how it will be seen in the eyes of the legal system.


It will be seen that way - people have gone to jail for antitrust stuff. Especially if one person flips on the others. Is it guaranteed to happen? No, but it might, and it has before.


If a law was broken by a corporation, how could at least one person in that corporation not be guilty of breaking that law? Was it the corporation's AI that did it?


Because you have to prove beyond reasonable doubt that one person broke a specific law. That's not always evident.


Ethics laundering. Like money laundering.


Well, management responsibility is regulated under CFR 21 820 for medical devices. There are equivalent regulations for pharma.

Executives do go to (probation it turns out and apparently not jail all the time) because their company broke the law and they're responsible for the company.

https://www.uspharmacist.com/article/new-fda-strategy-crimin...


That’s one part, the other part is the government has to have a preponderance of evidence of wrongdoing.

Courts and lawyers don’t just take the word of the government as ironclad word of god and pronounce judgement.

Is it seedy, do people do things to hide evidence, do they go to the edge of the law? Yes of course, but the state still has to prove it’s case.


In the Syprine case, the company was convicted of price fixing by the US supreme court. The company changed its name and then just continued with the same business practices. No hands were really slapped.

Companies are made up of people - so if the company you control breaks the law, you have personally broken the law.


I haven't used material UI, but if you want to start off with a layout design on Ant, I would use one of the example layouts and work my way into it. You can find them here: https://ant.design/components/layout/


Ant looks really great - any have any experience using it and can give some pros and cons on it?


Having used both Ant and Material UI on mid-sized React projects I can say that MUI has much better documentation and flexibility, at a slight cost of having to grok their styling convention. Once you get that it's smooth sailing, with a fairly active community, a lot of intuitive components and generally hassle-free dev experience. Ant was a bit more of a struggle, personally, with less clarity in the docs and a less active (English-speaking at least) community.


I've been working on a large front-end project using Ant and almost used/customized every component it has to offer. One of the best frameworks out there. Everything works great out of the box, and the framework is very well though and designed.

It has components that the rest of the frameworks, including Material UI simply lacks, including a very comprehensive Table component, and a Form component with validation and everything.


I will preface this by saying that we have a bit more work to do to get it working since we are using ClojureScript and Reagent, but we started slowly using antd and replacing our current components. The components look nice (we have used table and select components so far) but the biggest issue has been getting the css to play nice with our existing css


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