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2mo ago
Polestar was kicked out from the US market and is now practically giving away their vehicles. Look at their lease deals.
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2mo ago
The real question then is how quickly export ban can be implemented?
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2mo ago
End-users don't have much agency here, network needs banks. In Iran, they simply don't have much choice, so banks use the only network available to them. It just happens to have been built in this century, so it's not as arch
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2mo ago
I struggle to understand how is this relevant. Alipay is closer to paypal than to VISA/MC
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2mo ago
Each of those networks carry a lot, a lot of ancient stuff. Gov is better off building a brand new network from scratch and promote it as a standard for banks to join. There are plenty of great examples from this century all over the world.
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2mo ago
If someone owned all the highways, building an alternative would be difficult as well.
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2mo ago
Limiting progress by letting only select corporations access the stuff is how you fall behind China, UAE and in a few years even Kazakhstan. Whoever wants to have access to (A) will have it, but letting only few select corporations provide
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2mo ago
No, that's an illusion, that's the thing. You can't physically have (C) without the (A). Large corporations will spend billions trying to convince the population it is somehow possible, but the reality is different.
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2mo ago
If and I mean IF it will be a (A) "hack anything" button, it as well will be a (B) "find a vuln in my site" button too. And a (C) "harden my site" too. And limiting such buttons to a few corporations does not m
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2mo ago
Is this "think of the children, think of the hospitals" argument? Really?
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3mo ago
I can recommend looking up Yanis Varoufakis and his Technofeudalism.
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3mo ago
Plenty of reviews on youtube already.
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3mo ago
Uzbeks do say "non".
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4mo ago
Both of your statements are not true. Freezone LLCs do not require Emaratis. Even if the company is owned by an Emarati one absolutely can bring legal action against the company.
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4mo ago
Apologies, you are right.
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4mo ago
My apologies. I must have confused them with someone else.
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4mo ago
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4mo ago
An open window means kilowatts of energy wasted. All the air I spent money cooling will just leak out. It also means all the pollen will be let in.
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4mo ago
Cheap thermal camera lets you literally see the studs. Does not work when ambient temperature inside is the same as outside though
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5mo ago
USB anal probe can be integrated the same way.
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5mo ago
Centrifuges dont need to be mechanically sophisticated and, frankly, do not require tech which did not exist in the 50es.
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6mo ago
This looks as a benefit on the surface, but it is not. In the end everybody loses -- the bank, the network, the customer, the merchant.
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6mo ago
Well, at least such pressure will be well documented and there will be legal avenues of controlling those.
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6mo ago
There should be a national payment processing operator as an alternative to VISA/MC. Just like they do it in many other countries.
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7mo ago
I believe EFF did address the yellow dots but got nowhere. Yellow dot problem is decades old.
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7mo ago
Not really. Starlink can be turned on and off over certain territories.
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7mo ago
Such radar would be a game changer.
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7mo ago
Infrastructure is laughable in northeast. And no, we do not have competition here in NJ. Yay "free market"
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8mo ago
Yes, but they still approach in just a few seconds.
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9mo ago
Air drag energy losses are tiny comparing to other losses when burning petrol so you don't notice the difference.
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