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by Xixi 7y ago
Not completely sure why you are being downvoted. But many countries in the EU have made similar commitments, with EOL between 2025 (Norway) and 2040 (France). Hence why I specifically said India, China and the EU. I don’t think the Anglo Sa
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by Xixi 7y ago
The market share is small, but my point is that it will converge to 100% within one to two decades, with increasing pressure to move that deadline to the left. Maybe not globally, but at least in some markets (China, India, EU). In the tran
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by Xixi 7y ago
It's incredibly short-sighted to not call the Nissan leaf a serious EV, just because you happen to not be in the target market. I understand there is some frustration and venting in your post, but there is no reason for being derogator
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by Xixi 7y ago
Expected top 10 electric car makers in 2019 (in no particular order): Tesla, Nissan, Renault, Hyundai, and 6 Chinese brands that I don't know [1]. Where are the German carmakers? The latest EU elections have seen an unprecedented rise
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European Electric Vehicle Market Up 28%(cleantechnica.com)
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by Xixi 7y ago
The context of the quote from [1] is also well worth the read, in my opinion: "While it is certainly true that a central objective of for-profit corporations is to make money, modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporatio
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by Xixi 7y ago
I don't know in the UK, but in France the most sold cars (Peugeot 208, Renault Clio, etc.) start around $16k (all taxes included). The best selling electric car [1] (Renault Zoe) starts at $19.5k (all taxes included, and including subs
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by Xixi 7y ago
Very interesting link. Here is the part relevant to this discussion: "Third, corporate directors are not required to maximize shareholder value. As the U.S. Supreme Court recently stated, "modern corporate law does not require for
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by Xixi 7y ago
I was in Paris until yesterday, and just got back to NYC. Being stuck in the heat wave without AC made me realize one thing: given the choice of no AC, or NYC-style "it's winter all year long" AC, I take no AC any day. I&#x27
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by Xixi 7y ago
Audi belongs to Volkswagen Group. That makes Volkswagen Group ultimately responsible for everything it ships, whether it's done internally, by Bosch, or by an outsourcing firm in Elbonia.
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Dassault/Airbus Next-Gen Fighter Gets Lift from Spain(ainonline.com)
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Airbus leapt ahead of Boeing in an untapped market by launching A321XLR(businessinsider.com)
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by Xixi 7y ago
AoA sensors are not required for Airbus FBW systems to function either. But they are required for the flight enveloppe protection system to function.
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by Xixi 7y ago
Your post made me want to check the rules of the "particule" in French [1], with regard to French names, as in: Charles de Gaulle, Jean de La Fontaine or Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu. Turns out, capitalization depends on th
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Airbus Extends Range of A220 in Bid to Dominate Regional Market(forbes.com)
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by Xixi 7y ago
An easter egg: the result page showed by Google for "askew" is slightly tilted to the right. In other words, it's askew...
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Google Search: Askew(google.com)
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by Xixi 7y ago
Traveling to U.S.A. is a pretty unique experience, depending on your visa/status. And I don't mean it in a good way... With my E-2 visa crossing immigration at JFK is anywhere between 20 minutes (very lucky) and 1 hour. To be fair
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by Xixi 7y ago
I have no idea how reliable it is, but quoting wikipedia [1]: "Testing has found that overall "input lag" (from controller input to display response) times of approximately 200 ms are distracting to the user. It also appears
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by Xixi 7y ago
My understanding is that these short positions were opened before the stock was listed, so they would not put any downward pressure on the market. However it did allow MS to buy more shares of Uber after open to try to support the price, wi
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US warns against European joint military project(ft.com)
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by Xixi 7y ago
To be technically correct, Elixir is compiled into "Erlang Abstract Format, which is a standard representation of an Erlang AST using Erlang terms." [1] From there it compiles down to bytecode using Erlang tool chain. So saying th
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by Xixi 7y ago
The A350 has 4 AoA sensors: I suspect it is a lesson learned from an A320 that had 2 AoA sensors froze in the same position, outvoting the only AoA sensor that was still working. In other words: failures are not always independent.
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by Xixi 7y ago
A little technicality: persons born in France are automatically granted French citizenship at 18, providing that they are living in France at 18, and have lived in France for at least 5 years previously. These criteria tend to change a lot
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by Xixi 7y ago
You are entirely correct. My sentence "The main difference between async calls and threads is that threads remove the distinction between synchronous and asynchronous code." is pretty weird: I wasn't talking about threads in
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by Xixi 7y ago
I'm far from being an expert at Go, but I will try: goroutines are green threads (very light threads, if you prefer). The main difference between async calls and threads is that threads remove the distinction between synchronous and as
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Goroutines and Async-Await are two very different takes on the same problem. In that regard, preferring Go over C# is an incredibly good reason to keep using it instead of switching over to C#. Choice is good, I prefer more languages than f
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by Xixi 7y ago
> we do not have the digestive tract of herbivores to synthesize proteins [...] The goal of the digestion is not to synthesize proteins. Quite the opposite actually: it's supposed to break down proteins into amino acids. Amino acids
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by Xixi 7y ago
I used to feel that way, until I built several services (the latest being tomotcha.com). Turns out, once you've built something, you need to advertise its existence out there. I mean "advertise" in the largest meaning of the
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by Xixi 7y ago
Most Japanese people seem very uneducated to me when it comes to politics/history, so I would not be surprised if they don't really have an opinion on the subject. [1] But I also know quite a few Japanese people in their early thi

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