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Likely not. It seems to be more of a supply practice in order to promote lot turnover and prevent previous model years from sitting on the lot rather than help the company's finances directly. There's a perception that if an older
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It's a used but not common practice in the North American car market. Toyotathon happens in December in order to dump old stock and increase sales during the last possible part of the year. Same with the December To Remember sales even
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The original LLV was designed as a custom body atop the Chevrolet S-10, including using the original drivetrain. Everything aside from the body comes from the S-10, hence why they were able to keep them on the road for so long. Even as simp
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Perhaps the fee would be a base per times renewed plus the worth of a portion of the total reported wealth that the IP has generated over it's lifetime, instead of just since the last renewal. So if you've made sixty thousand doll
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Most culture throughout human history has been iterative instead of anthologic. Often times the stories, myths, legends, and folk tales we have are because multiple people added to the story after the original author ended it to add a piece
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DeJoy and a few of his peers have shares in Oshkosh. It makes sense that he would award the contract to Oshkosh, a military contractor, to build even more vehicles for the government. The more immediate problem putting aside the obvious fav
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There was a combination of factors. I suggest reading the book "On A Clear Day You Can See General Motors" for some starting information. But for some information upfront, in the 1950s GM had become the largest automotive company
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There's a tag system and data metrics matching system. Based on your comments, watch history, audience crossover between channels, watch time, and subscriptions, and data collected from your Google account (searches, apps opened in And
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As far as I know, not any longer. At least publicly facing. The changes to Youtube in 2021 broke some of the functions, and he decided not to keep maintaining it and instead to move on to another project. The website was called EDM Engine,
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A large reason that manufacturers have jumped onto EVs with such enthusiasm has nothing to do with regulations or wanting to get ahead of them. It's entirely because EVs sans batteries are extremely cheap to manufacture at scale and ar
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The eventual plan as was announced was that power consumption would reduce once a majority of vehicles were EVs, since the EVs could charge at night during minimal demand and discharge to the grid during the day at peak demand. There's
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As someone who was initially very excited about the switch to EVs, a lot of the incentives to push towards EV ownership were seen as good in my eyes. However, as a car enthusiast, the full swing towards banning anything but EVs is an overre
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A few years ago a friend and I were debugging a website he'd built that scraped data from Youtube, reorganized it, and built a web page that automatically categorized and assigned metadata to it. It was quite effective, and got more tr
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The big problem it seems like is Windows Vista dropped legacy support drivers and 16-bit support fifteen years ago, and Windows 10 dropped even more legacy support drivers. So they keep the ThinkPads around because they can't find the
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There's a large web of insurance companies, hardware and chemical companies, provider networks, and universities that benefit too greatly from the current inefficiencies to ever move away from private insurance. Hardware and chemical c
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There's a couple of reasons why. None of them are particularly pleasing. For one, it costs more money to dye the plastic or paint/anodize the metal. Everyone except children are going to buy the product based on function or need a