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by sandofsky 808 days ago
He found the infinite money hack.

If you get caught lying, it will eventually cost you $X in penalties. However, it will take years for you to pay that fine. Just lie in such a way that your stock growth outpaces the inevitable penalties.

This doesn’t work for promises with concrete deadlines, but the beauty of self driving cars is that they’ve been “a few years away” for about 30 years. So when the penalties come, he can get a slap on the wrist for merely being optimistic.