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Debt Instrument, Fair Value Disclosure, Difference between Fair Value and Carrying Value

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Fair value warrants issued per share basis

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Note conversion obligation fair value

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Liability of the Fair Value of Warrants to be issued

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Fair value portion of probable future economic benefits obtained or controlled by an entity as a result of past transactions or events.

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Fair value portion of currency on hand as well as demand deposits with banks or financial institutions. Includes other kinds of accounts that have the general characteristics of demand deposits. Also includes short-term, highly liquid investments that are both readily convertible to known amounts of cash and so near their maturity that they present insignificant risk of changes in value because of changes in interest rates.

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Fair value portion of debt instrument payable, including, but not limited to, notes payable and loans payable.

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Fair value, after the effects of master netting arrangements, of a financial asset or other contract with one or more underlyings, notional amount or payment provision or both, and the contract can be net settled by means outside the contract or delivery of an asset. Includes assets not subject to a master netting arrangement and not elected to be offset.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Fair value of financial and nonfinancial obligations.

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The estimated measure of the percentage by which a share price is expected to fluctuate during a period. Volatility also may be defined as a probability-weighted measure of the dispersion of returns about the mean. The volatility of a share price is the standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a specified period. That is the same as the standard deviation of the differences in the natural logarithms of the stock prices plus dividends, if any, over the period.

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The risk-free interest rate assumption that is used in valuing an option on its own shares.

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Fair Value Measurements (Details) - USD ($)	12 Months Ended
Fair Value Measurements (Details) - USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2019	Dec. 31, 2018	May 10, 2018	Sep. 25, 2017
Liabilities, Fair Value Disclosure [Abstract]
Warrant liability	$ 383,073,000	$ 203,782,000
Fair Value, Recurring [Member]
Assets, Fair Value Disclosure [Abstract]
Cash equivalents - money market	1,129,000	17,986,000
Derivative Asset	111,000	2,971,000
Total Assets	1,240,000	20,957,000
Liabilities, Fair Value Disclosure [Abstract]
Interest rate swap		(1,138,000)
Warrant liability	(383,073,000)	(203,782,000)
Total Liabilities	(391,310,000)	(204,920,000)
Carrying value, debt	1,484,400,000	1,401,300,000
Fair Value, Recurring [Member] \| Level 1 [Member]
Assets, Fair Value Disclosure [Abstract]
Cash equivalents - money market	0	0
Derivative Asset	0	0
Total Assets	0	0
Liabilities, Fair Value Disclosure [Abstract]
Interest rate swap	0	0
Warrant liability	0	0
Total Liabilities	0	0
Fair Value, Recurring [Member] \| Level 2 [Member]
Assets, Fair Value Disclosure [Abstract]
Cash equivalents - money market	1,129,000	17,986,000
Derivative Asset	111,000	2,971,000
Convertible note hedge fair value		50,000,000.0	$ 50,600,000	$ 56,100,000
Total Assets	1,240,000	20,957,000
Liabilities, Fair Value Disclosure [Abstract]
Interest rate swap	(8,237,000)	(1,138,000)
Note conversion obligation fair value		50,800,000	$ 51,300,000	$ 57,400,000
Warrant liability	(340,767,000)	(203,782,000)
Total Liabilities	(349,004,000)	(204,920,000)
Difference between fair value and carrying value, debt	(2,700,000)	(6,000,000.0)
Fair Value, Recurring [Member] \| Level 3 [Member]
Assets, Fair Value Disclosure [Abstract]
Cash equivalents - money market	0	0
Derivative Asset	0	0
Total Assets	0	0
Liabilities, Fair Value Disclosure [Abstract]
Interest rate swap	0	0
Warrant liability	(42,306,000)	0
Total Liabilities	(42,306,000)	0
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Liabilities, Fair Value Disclosure [Abstract]
Interest rate swap	(8,237,000)
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Liabilities, Fair Value Disclosure [Abstract]
Warrant liability	(206,600,000)
Fair value warrants issued	$ 13.93	$ 13.76
Amazon Warrant AB [Member] \| Measurement Input, Risk Free Interest Rate [Member]
Liabilities, Fair Value Disclosure [Abstract]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Fair Value Assumptions, Risk Free Interest Rate	1.60%	2.50%
Amazon Warrant AB [Member] \| Measurement Input, Price Volatility [Member]
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Fair Value Assumptions, Expected Volatility Rate	35.00%	37.50%
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Warrant liability	$ (176,500,000)
Fair value warrants issued	$ 9.30
Amazon Warrant C [Member] [Member] \| Measurement Input, Risk Free Interest Rate [Member]
Liabilities, Fair Value Disclosure [Abstract]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Fair Value Assumptions, Risk Free Interest Rate	1.80%
Amazon Warrant C [Member] [Member] \| Measurement Input, Price Volatility [Member]
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Fair Value Assumptions, Expected Volatility Rate	35.00%