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Exercise price per share or per unit of warrants or rights outstanding.

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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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Number of securities into which the class of warrant or right may be converted. For example, but not limited to, 500,000 warrants may be converted into 1,000,000 shares.

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Fair value, after the effects of master netting arrangements, of a financial liability or 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 liabilities not subject to a master netting arrangement and not elected to be offset.

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Financial Instruments - Warrants (Details) $ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands, shares in Millions		3 Months Ended	9 Months Ended
	May 01, 2017 day $ / shares shares	Sep. 30, 2021 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2021 USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2021 USD ($)	Mar. 31, 2021 USD ($)	Jan. 01, 2021 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2020 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2020 USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2020 USD ($)	Mar. 31, 2020 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($)
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Equity reclassification		$ (857,495)	$ (857,495)	$ (873,888)	$ 68,667		$ 31,067	$ 24,407	$ 40,237	$ 27,540	$ 12,130
Fair value adjustment		(900)	8,100
Reclassification Adjustment
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Equity reclassification							10,290
Derivative and warrant liabilities						$ 10,300
Non-Public Warrants July 2019
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Fair value adjustment			(1,400)
Non-Public Warrants December 2019
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Fair value adjustment			(6,100)
Non-Public Warrants December 2020
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Fair value adjustment			4,700
Additional Paid-in Capital
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Equity reclassification		$ (1,504,254)	$ (1,504,254)	$ (1,499,371)	$ (425,224)		(434,917)	$ (434,246)	$ (433,589)	$ (433,136)	$ (432,577)
Additional Paid-in Capital \| Reclassification Adjustment
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Equity reclassification						$ 10,300	$ 10,290
Common Stock
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Number of securities called by issued warrants (in shares) \| shares	20.9
Share price of warrants (in dollars per share) \| $ / shares	$ 11.50
Common Stock \| Private Placement
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Number of securities called by issued warrants (in shares) \| shares	7.5
Common Stock \| Public Investors
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Number of securities called by issued warrants (in shares) \| shares	13.4
Share price of warrants (in dollars per share) \| $ / shares	$ 0.01
Notice period	30 days
Share price required for redemption (in usd per share) \| $ / shares	$ 18.00
Trading days threshold for redemption \| day	20
Trading day period for redemption \| day	30