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What has been proven? Please cite it here. Thanks.

Did Enron have all 29,000 employees in on their coverup? Whether or not Tesla is involved in accounting fraud I have no opinion on. Wasn't he a process technician and wasn't his primary thing about physical defects in products? He told Ars Technica that he was whistleblowing about "safety flaws and internal waste"? And then apparently he tried to hack into the computer system and export data outside of the company..? I don't know what happened exactly, but he wasn't exactly in the CFO's office. The kind of coverup he's talking about is stuff that technicians would be seeing on the floor of the factories, right, not accounting shenanigans. So yes, it makes sense to talk about other employees also seeing the same things but covering it up.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.09.20171132v1 Also:

I'm sure Tripp had a bad experience, and the truth is probably in between what both sides say it is (I mean, Tesla has 48,000 employees... they're all in on the coverup?), but he sounds like a 4chan/Qanon truther who's trying to make himself into a "martyr" to gather support and sympathy, not like a sane person trying to whistleblow.

Looks like there's also a pretty big tuck-in at Strata: https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/allscripts-sells-its-epsi-financial-planning-business-strata h/t @Sagar B.

Was taking the kids to daycare ;D 49.15% EBITDA margin on this thing. Not bad. Presentation from the call this morning: https://www.ropertech.com/sites/default/files/Vertafore%20Presentation%20FINAL.pdf Posted some of my notes in this thread:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/12/accuracy-of-us-coronavirus-data-thrown-into-question-as-decline-in-testing-skews-drop-in-new-cases.html This many months into it and still can't get testing together... Maybe a certain someone had his wish of "slow the testing down, please".

It's the almost-G7 countries. I didn't make the list. I think it shows a pretty stark difference in success in containing the epidemic, don't you? I think I saw that the US had more daily deaths right now than Germany had daily cases (Germany is smaller, but still has 80 million people). You may not be able to vacation in France, but if I had a choice between vacationing in France or in Florida right now, I know where I'd go.

Always drama.. Jacob seems like a good guy, hopefully he doesn't get dragged into another one of Elon's smear campaigns I have no idea what's going on, but I do wonder how often disinterested investors offer to pay stranger's legal fees for a battle against large corporations. I feel like there's a complex story there that we don't know.

Maybe you should strike France off your list of "good" countries (Spain too, for that matter). Daily new cases in France have tripled over the past month, and over 2k per day were reported on each of the Aug 7, 8 and 9th. France has about 20% as many people as the US, so that would be roughly equivalent to the US reporting 10-12k new cases per day (better than the US, but still not good). I just cancelled a flight for tomorrow that I scheduled for a vacation in France that I had planned. If France has one more doubling of new cases over the coming weeks, they'll be right back where they were in late-March and early-April. I cannot accept the risk that border control measures and population movement controls would be re-imposed during my vacation. It's fascinating how quickly they shifted from having everything reasonably under control in early-July to having the beginnings of a mess on their hands in mid-August. SJ I don't have a "good countries" list, and didn't say anything specific about France, I'm just reporting death figures. The rest, you read into it.

We can come up with scenarios where it may make sense, but in the current real-world situation, the choice isn't between a phase 1 untested vaccine and no vaccine. It's to wait a little longer, and in the meantime, do the things that we know work to crush the number of infections and maintain it low, like most countries have done. That's the better path.

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-martin-tripp-case-tslaq-financing-revealed Always drama..

Two-in-one acquisitions: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200812005411/en/

They still prioritize essential goods, I think, so yes, other things may still be slower in some places.

“ Liberty Global plans to take over Switzerland's Sunrise Communications in a surprise $7.4 billion deal”

Cutting corners on the science is dangerous both because it can lead to people getting exposed and dying when they think they're protected and aren't, and because if there are safety or efficacy issues, it can cause long-lasting backlash against vaccines in general, leading to more deaths and suffering over decades. You already have crackpots making stuff up about vaccines, if you give them something real because you don't do things right, it'll be bad. From what I've seen, Russia is talking about a phase 1 vaccine that has been tested on hundreds of people... That's pretty bad science. Is the concern with the Russian vaccine: 1. Safety? 2. effectiveness? Safety: If the virus kills 0.6% people and the vaccine has dangerous side effects 0.6% of the time, you haven't really gained much at the population level. Effectiveness: OTOH, if its not truly effective, you will start being spikes in cases as people get infected. Its a loss of resources and credibility, but for a poor country it might be worth the shot that it does actually work well. Agreed it's not unto the usual standards, but in the current scenario everything is now a risk-reward decision in real time with limited information. Safety would probably worry me the most here. So Putin's injected his daughter to allay those fears. Not the right way to look at it. You don't gamble with whole populations by injecting them with unproven medicines. This kind of callous thinking is what got the US and Russia in their messes in the first place.

Well, the market cap is now $220k CAD, so you can probably buy it whole and run it how you think it should run.

Short 6-minute interview with Tomas Pueyo:

Cutting corners on the science is dangerous both because it can lead to people getting exposed and dying when they think they're protected and aren't, and because if there are safety or efficacy issues, it can cause long-lasting backlash against vaccines in general, leading to more deaths and suffering over decades. You already have crackpots making stuff up about vaccines, if you give them something real because you don't do things right, it'll be bad. From what I've seen, Russia is talking about a phase 1 vaccine that has been tested on hundreds of people... That's pretty bad science.

Do the demographics, land mass size, population, population density etc too. NYC has a population density of 38,424 per square kilometer NZ has a population density of 15 people per square kilometer. Complete waste of time even looking at this comparison. Why dont you post a twitter link on the data from Antarctica to really hammer the point home. Hold on there just a minute. You make accusations of cherry picking the data then you do exactly that. Instead of comparing population density of the U.S., you use NYC. And you do that because the comparison between the two countries doesn’t support your argument. NZ population density: 15 people /sqK US population density: 36 people /sqK NOT 38,424 / sqK Pretty dishonest trying to compare the country to NYC. How about sticking to the facts for a change. Yeah, and while some countries like NZ have factors that help them, they can't explain the difference, by far. they are doing well because they did the right things, had leadership and followed the science. If they had not done these things, they'd be doing badly, their population density or whatever wouldn't save them. And as I posted above, highly dense places like Taiwan and Singapore did pretty well too. I mean, Europe had really bad outbreaks (Italy, Spain) and worse demographics and density than the US, but did the common sense scientific things and now Florida has more cases and deaths than the 450m people in the EU.

More vaporware: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/11/lucid-makes-a-run-for-tesla-with-luxury-ev-sedan-with-a-record-517-miles-of-range-per-charge.html

It's like living inside The Onion: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/10/trump-urges-americans-to-stop-politicizing-the-coronavirus-blames-china.html "Trump urges Americans to stop politicizing the coronavirus, blames China" ???