Re:Everyone Despises SolarCity Deal, Except Tesla Shareholders
by eridius on Thursday August 04, 2016 @07:18PM
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When you say "they lose $20k per car", why would anyone interpret that any differently than "if they sell another car, they'll lose another $20k"? You're completely changing your argument with this comment into something radically different, and then pretending that's what you were trying to say all along.
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Re:Everyone Despises SolarCity Deal, Except Tesla Shareholders
by semi-extrinsic on Friday August 05, 2016 @02:47AM
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No, I'm not changing my argument. "Spending $X per Y" inescapably means "you get Y of something and you have to spend $X". It is division, it's not taking a derivative.
Analogy: say going to the zoo costs $50 for your family of 4. But it's a family rebate, so anywhere from 3 to 5 family members costs $50 total. The cost per person for you is $12.50. But the cost of one more ticket if you were to have another child, the marginal cost, is $0. That is, however, irrelevant to you today, because you can't have another child today.
Re:Everyone Despises SolarCity Deal, Except Tesla Shareholders
by eridius on Friday August 05, 2016 @04:00PM
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But what you did was the equivalent of telling a friend "Oh yeah, going to the zoo costs $12.50 per person". It's disingenuous at best. Your friend will quite rightly believe that if they go there with their family of 5 it will cost them $62.50 instead of costing $50.