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- chneu 11mo ago[flagged]
- idiotsecant 11mo agoYou're apparently the only one saying this. Maybe it's time to opt out of the outrage pornography cycle and contribute to the discussion in a more thoughtful way.
- chneu 11mo agoI'm contributing with comedy by making fun of Americans for not realizing the rest of the world caught up and is passing them. A lot of Muricans are blinded by patriotism so it's helpful to make jokes.
- CalRobert 11mo agoOne thing I realised after emigrating from the US is that ignorance and the desire to view your own way of doing things as superior is universal.
- georgefrowny 11mo agoThe Germans and British are certainly not immune to it!
- kortilla 11mo agoA lot of pretty much any citizen population of a somewhat stable country is blinded by patriotism.
- themafia 11mo agoThis totally won't work. The infrastructure isn't built. Truck stops are built to store fuel. They're not built to deliver electricity. Cheap electric trucks solve the wrong problem currently.
- chneu 11mo agoTotes bro. Nice backwards hat with a flag on it, brodda. We patriots gotta stick together. There's a war against the American way. These commie Chinese EV semis have no place in the great red white and blue. Here in the land of stars n stripes we only have Erl at our truck stops. It'll never work with electricity! /s clearly?
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- seanmcdirmid 11mo agoAre you just talking about the USA or are you also including the rest of the 7.8 billion people that don’t live in the USA? If the former why should the rest of the world care about whatever hangouts the USA thinks it has?
- strken 11mo agoIf they're cheap enough that you can swap the tractor unit or its batteries out at a truck stop, does that not solve most of the problem?
- jmward01 11mo agoSeems like there is a lot of dislike of this comment but not a lot of discussion about. Is it not true that china is dominating here? Or that this is becoming the norm? Isn't the instant negative reaction to this comment the exact problem? Maybe if we decided to get better instead of get mad we would see articles about the west dominating more often.
- cwillu 11mo agoComments often follow a u-curve, where immediate downvotes are countered after a few minutes. I suspect the cause is at least in part people directly downvoting from the https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments page
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- beeflet 11mo agowhat was the mistake? it seems like the cards are stacked against anyone trying to build in the USA vs China.
- tomhow 11mo agoThe guidelines ask us to avoid commenting like this: Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. Besides, I can't see many mentions of the word Tesla in this thread. Just seems more of a (false) stereotype than reality. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Mistletoe 11mo agoIt’s apparent that the USA is falling deeply behind on all of these things. I look at the rest of my life now as the final days in Babylon and try to still enjoy going down in the sinking ship. I vote to stop it, but my votes haven’t mattered in a long time. It’s important to still do them anyway.
- chii 11mo ago> my votes haven’t mattered in a long time you vote mattered. It's just that there are more people who didn't vote the way you wanted them. But that's OK, because this is how it is supposed to work. At least, in theory.
- aixpert 11mo agoin theory the probability of your vote mattering is about as high as winning the lottery
- chii 11mo agomattering doesn't mean you get what you wanted/voted for. Mattering means your vote was counted among the hundreds of millions, and the ultimate consensus reached, and the minority voters have accept the result of the majority voters. I think people have (recently at least) mistakenly believed that democracy means your vote is a demand to be fulfilled, and if it isn't, then democracy is failing.
- beeflet 11mo agoThere isn't a major political party in the USA willing to undergo the reforms needed to compete. I don't know what voting does, other than produce a false air of approval around the administration. I think that if voter turnout was low enough, it would speak for itself and encourage more radical political strategy.
- euroderf 11mo agoOne party is more open-minded about it, and ready to use their brains.
- themafia 11mo ago> intelligent investment I would not call highly disposable and cheap heavy duty vehicles an "intelligent investment." It's headline chasing and there's always very little tying their touted efforts to any actual improvements in the environment our economic outcomes.
- cyberax 11mo agoWhy? Heavy duty trucks are often disposable, they wear out quickly. Mining trucks are probably the worst example.
- darkwater 11mo agoI would not know, here were I live I see most of the heavy duty trucks (owned by small companies at least) with 10-15+ years of service, looking at the license plates.
- cyberax 11mo agoThat depends on how you define "heavy duty". Cement trucks and dump trucks rarely last more than a few years before they need major repairs of transmission and suspension. The frame itself might last more, around 10 years.
- darkwater 11mo agoI define them as trucks that go and move/carry rocks, dirt, bricks, sand, heavy construction material around, generally to build houses. I'm in Europe, so houses are made of bricks and concrete.
- jonasdegendt 11mo agoI agree that mining is probably the worst of it, but trucks usually last a decade and a couple million kilometers, after which they’re shipped off to Africa or the Middle East where they’re kept on the road for much longer.
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- monero-xmr 11mo agoThe USSR was considered by many prominent intellectuals a valid counterpoint to the Western capitalist structure, up until the moment it collapsed, and then it wasn't true socialism. Some humbleness should be in order when considering imperfect knowledge
- beeflet 11mo agoPerhaps competition in the cold war reinvigorated the USA or expedited the fall of Soviet Union by forcing them into expensive competition? Imagine a boat has a hole in it, and is sinking. Some of the crew-members make a big deal about it, and run a campaign to plug the hole and bail the water out. In the end, it does not sink and the remaining crewmembers conclude that it was not a big deal and that the campaign was unnecessary. It is a survivor's bias. Even a small hole, if left unplugged, will eventually sink a ship. Likewise, some types of systematic problems in a country (that are not self-solving or naturally limited) will eventually ruin it if not addressed directly.
- raducu 11mo ago> expedited the fall of Soviet Union by forcing them into expensive competition? Nobody forced the Soviet Union into anything. I think the soviet leaders knew that the system in the West AT THAT TIME was simply better in all ways imaginable and the comunism utterly failed at its mission -- the workers in the West were enjoying a much much better life that those in communism, and having lost that ideological space, they thought they could override common sense on the battle field -- surely, if you win the space race, more olympic gold medals or on the battlefield, then communism actually won?
- p_l 11mo agoCold War involved a lot of imperfect knowledge - until Gorbachev, soviet leaders were utterly convinced that USA plans to attack first. On one hand, it was paranoia, on the other hand, US intelligence actions including gleeful setup of mass scale murder in Indonesia reinvigorated that belief.
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