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Goldman Sachs has agreed to pay roughly $2.25 billion to take over Neos, a company that uses covered calls to generate 25% cash returns. Both companies don't expect much to change day to day. Among its holdings are AIPI, FEPI and CEPI.
Neos focuses on high cash returns on its funds.

In 2017, Tesla began accepting deposits on its second-generation Roadsters. You could put down a $50,000 deposit or pay $250,000 upfront to receive one of the first ones.
Nearly nine years later, Tesla has announced it will begin production in 2028. Tesla doesn't pay interest on these deposits, so it has essentially had interest-free loans all these years.
If someone had used the deposit to buy Tesla stock instead, they'd be a millionaire, as the stock has gone up 20X since then.
On the other hand, rumors say the new Roadster can hover and go from zero to sixty in under a second. It claims that if you are driving along and the car in front of you jams on its brakes, the Roadster can leap over it and keep driving.

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In 2017, Tesla began accepting deposits on its second-generation Roadsters. You could put down a $50,000 deposit or pay $250,000 upfront to receive one of the first ones.
Nearly nine years later, Tesla has announced it will begin production in 2028. Tesla doesn't pay interest on these deposits, so it has essentially had interest-free loans all these years.
If someone had used the deposit to buy Tesla stock instead, they'd be a millionaire, as the stock has gone up 20X since then.
On the other hand, rumors say the new Roadster can hover and go from zero to sixty in under a second. It claims that if you are driving along and the car in front of you jams on its brakes, the Roadster can leap over it and keep driving.
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did you miss the live demonstration of the 'leap over' ? Amazing. Must be on youtube

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In 2017, Tesla began accepting deposits on its second-generation Roadsters. You could put down a $50,000 deposit or pay $250,000 upfront to receive one of the first ones.
Nearly nine years later, Tesla has announced it will begin production in 2028. Tesla doesn't pay interest on these deposits, so it has essentially had interest-free loans all these years.
If someone had used the deposit to buy Tesla stock instead, they'd be a millionaire, as the stock has gone up 20X since then.
On the other hand, rumors say the new Roadster can hover and go from zero to sixty in under a second. It claims that if you are driving along and the car in front of you jams on its brakes, the Roadster can leap over it and keep driving.
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did you miss the live demonstration of the 'leap over' ? Amazing. Must be on youtube
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I saw a clip but have no idea if it was real or more Musk nonsense.

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In 2017, Tesla began accepting deposits on its second-generation Roadsters. You could put down a $50,000 deposit or pay $250,000 upfront to receive one of the first ones.
Nearly nine years later, Tesla has announced it will begin production in 2028. Tesla doesn't pay interest on these deposits, so it has essentially had interest-free loans all these years.
If someone had used the deposit to buy Tesla stock instead, they'd be a millionaire, as the stock has gone up 20X since then.
On the other hand, rumors say the new Roadster can hover and go from zero to sixty in under a second. It claims that if you are driving along and the car in front of you jams on its brakes, the Roadster can leap over it and keep driving.
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did you miss the live demonstration of the 'leap over' ? Amazing. Must be on youtube
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I saw a clip but have no idea if it was real or more Musk nonsense.
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It's real, but it's not going to be available for the public to drive. The acceleration is over 7 g's which will cause many people to black out and probably everyone to be unsafe to drive. Also probably an FAA problem if it leaves the ground. Good for James Bond movies, I guess the studios will be buying some.

I'll bet $1,000 that this car won't be available in 2028.
Is this really what the world's smartest man should be working on? He took people's money almost ten years ago and has delivered nothing. They didn't buy a flying car; they thought they were buying a Roadster with a 500-mile range that they'd have had five years ago.

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I'll bet $1,000 that this car won't be available in 2028.
Is this really what the world's smartest man should be working on? He took people's money almost ten years ago and has delivered nothing. They didn't buy a flying car; they thought they were buying a Roadster with a 500-mile range that they'd have had five years ago.
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I'm smarter than Elon so I have it all figured out- how about we try this: Put a smaller, much smaller battery in it, then you can add- get this, a generator to keep the batteries charged. The generator can be gasoline, diesel, natural gas, whatever the engineering and price points call for and it's dedicated to charging the battery. So it's always running at a constant speed, very efficient as it doesn't need to deliver a wide range of torques at a wide range of speeds. We could probably get 1000 miles of range that way and- check this out- no charging or charger infrastructure needed! You can just pull up to a gas station, put the hose in, go in and drain your lizard, and in 5 minutes you're back on the road!

Has anything like this ever been tried before? I think I'll bring this up at the next engineering meeting.

easy to believe it's not real, but it is.

I think it would take almost unimaginably advanced AI to be able to safely, correctly decide that the only way to keep from, say, hitting a stopped vehicle at high death-certain speed is to fly up in the air ... it would then need to take over completely for blacked out drivers, not allowing them to take over while half conscious

I'd say we might see that in yr 2525

The James Bond franchise is on high alert though

current headline:

Man asleep in Tesla crashes into California cop car, injures 2

Dude needed the latest Roadster!!