Mark Prati

Senior developer, neuroinformatics, Rotman Research Institute.

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@realMaalouf Archaeological evidence has musical instruments dating back to 40,000 years.

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@PolitiReality @wholemars False , @Grok fact check the information I provided in this post.

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@ZacksJerryRig @ILikeE17 @kdelko @Tesla @elonmusk Stupid response from someone who knows he is wrong but is too cowardly to admit it.

Grow a pair.

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@Richard02956645 @DwightVoeks @DamiDefi Anyone with a brain could build it. A single lone individual in there basement.

Try building a reusable rocket and launch system in your basement 🤣

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@UziCryptoo The Ontario Teachers Pension Fund invested $220M in SpaceX in 2019, next week that investment will be worth over $11 billion. Pretty sure those lefty Elon hating teachers aren’t going to donate that money to build roads.

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Are you looking at the video 😂😂, if you can see the barrier on the video screen then the cameras are just fine.

Secondly sensors like LIDAR is almost useless in that situation. They have an effective 3D model frame rate of 5fps. It has visual gaps of 20ft between frames at 60 mph. That doesn’t include processing latency and synchronization of 5fps models with 32fps camera frames for decision processing.

Waymo does very few highway runs and limits speed for this reason.

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Take an honest deeper look into BYD. Without its CCP subsidies and its ability to draw from the Chinese slave labour supply chain. That includes everything all the way down to the food in its factory cafeterias. It would not be able to compete.

It’s only non Chinese facilities are in third world low wage countries.

It employs 7 times the number of workers as Tesla to generate roughly the same revenue.

I’m not saying their vehicles are bad, they are not, but if it was a level playing field their vehicles would be priced 50% higher and they are not nearly as good as equivalent classed Tesla vehicles.

There chief sales advantage is offering smaller lower classed vehicles allowing a much larger TAM.

Countries without their own auto manufacturing sector not applying import tariffs are saying they are ok with third world poor labour practices and human exploitation.

It should be noted the Tesla’s China factory average workers salaries are 30% higher than BYD.

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@DriveTeslaca @JasonZanatta @Questrade @TD_DirectInvest ?

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Here is @SpaceX's full IPO roadshow presentation from CFO Bret Johnson, who has been CFO at the company for the last 15 years.

It's worth watching.

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@ZacksJerryRig @ILikeE17 @kdelko @Tesla @elonmusk Explain? The hardware (cameras) can see those barriers, they’re visible on the video screen.

It just an AI model learning issue, which has nothing to do with the hardware in the vehicle.

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@ArkosParakletos @unusual_whales The government already taxes dividends, taxing them further will drive away investors..

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@flyaisleseat Once again, nothing to do with capability. The systems have been put in place to satisfy regulators. Removing them is not a technical challenge 😂

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@DriveTeslaca @gabiaccorinte @Tesla If you’re over 35 your ears aren’t going to know the difference.

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@flyaisleseat Just because regulators have required it. If you put a weighted dummy in the front seat to fool the detection system it would.

Smart summons works with no one in the vehicle, they have just limited the radius.

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Royalties paid to a country by a company for the right to extract resources is different than taking (not buying) 50% stake in a company.

If the government thinks the return will be good then they can buy stock.

Quite frankly most government pension funds buy/own stock in the major technology companies all the time.

@grok list some of the major government pension funds and the top technology companies they hold stock in.

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@cpucfknight @unusual_whales Personally buying equities is a far cry from government taking 50%

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@grok @can_duffman @chiky_handlr Which political party introduced the 2022 inflation reduction act.

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@grok @can_duffman @chiky_handlr Again you still not clear on subsidies. Were sales credits paid to tesla or to individual EV purchasers and were these specific to tesla or to most EV manufacturers to promote the adoption of EVs, also which political party introduced these incentives.

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@grok @can_duffman @chiky_handlr A contract is not a subsidy, rethink your response and also include Tesla. Also cost saving does not equate to economic output.

But more precise in your response.